I'm totally stuck in the 80s. I loved it. Best time of my life. I have an original unmolested Pac-Man arcade and an original High Speed pinball machine. I miss the 80s every day. Life was as good as it gets.
Yes, I have a couple of full-size arcades as well as a 1965 jukebox where you can actually see the record being played. I also have a slot machine coin up. I pretty much like anything coin up. That’s because of the late 70s and 80s.
@@postersm7141 We're working on a jukebox and slot machine ourselves. We moved from Detroit to Phoenix 5 years ago and had to wait over a year for our house to be built. I wanted a totally original Pac-Man, and I found this one in Pennsylvania and had it shipped. I got lucky with the High Speed, found that one locally. We're doing the whole basement in an 80s theme except for the 2 bedrooms. I'm going to hang the 4 guitars on the wall I got in the mid and late 80s but quit playing 25 years ago. People that didn't live through the 80s just don't get it. If you ask someone about culture in the 80s the list is endless. Hair bands, arcades, loud clothes, jukeboxes, roller rinks, wood paneling all over the house and on and on. What's culture about the 90s? Um .. Nirvana and the Gulf War I served in? Can't think about much else. The 2000s? 9/11 is the only thing that comes to mind. But the 80s.... What an amazing time to live through. The only other decade I would have liked to be a part of is the Roaring 20s.
That's so cool. I'll be 43 in May and still have an atari 2600. And being left handed makes it a struggle, but worth it lol Pardon my English, but f c k modern life
@@mattiemcmicker4360 I'm 54, and we drove cars from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I currently have a 66 Lemans and a 70 Chevy Wagon. I've had more gen II F body cars than I can remember. Next project will probably be another bandit Trams Am. But I like the IROCs. Those were extremely popular when I was in HS. A few students had them because cars weren't stupid expensive like they are now and if you had a decent job in HS paying 6 dollars an hour you could actually afford it.
@@JackStrap-dx5gf you are assuming a lot and I would argue that you are the bitter and hateful person based on your comment. And I do believe you, I don’t think you’ve grown up at all.
OMG I miss the 80's, things were so much simpler! I do love watching UA-cam but would give it all up to time travel back to the 80's. Things suck now!!
YES! We had it so good! I think we took this into the 90's and even early 2000;s with our own kids. I even see my kids now, passing on the simple to my new grandchild. Hands on toys, lots of books, lots of love, and imagination! Full time mom and dad. Dad goes to work, mom stays home and loves baby 24/7. It warms my heart to at least see some of the good o'l days were passed on. We all knew that friends and time were more important than more stuff. We had STUFF, but, nothing beat the time with friends, crushes, and dreams!
The 80s were def the innovative decade. Meanwhile, we were still doing everything the 70s kids did, 80s kids also saw things coming to life like home gaming consoles, we saw wealthy people with car phones, and home computers were introduced. Before the iPad, we had the Walkman. 😂
The 80s were a blast. Toys were actually things you bought and played with (though I did have an ATARI 2600), more time outside, cheap gas, music videos, boom box with your cassette music while we played hoops at the park, arcade nights, our Betamax VCR recording things off cable because I had to work at the grocery store sacking groceries and miss things, riding my bike with friends, and lots more. I even loved doing the card catalog because I got two dates with girls because they couldn't find stuff. And yes, we went roller skating on one of those dates at Skate City. Will say, no more typewriter typed papers, not having to wait for the one copy of a book to be available at the library, or having a picture you took turn out awful but no chance for a redo. But life was simpler and more fun.
Remember spending your time in an arcade putting your quarter (.25¢) on the machine you wanted to play in line with others that wanted to play too while watching an unknown master play a game and figuring out and watching them play a game and trying to remember all the moves they made so you could beat the game too? It could sometimes take 10 to 20 minutes of waiting. TIMES WERE MAGICAL THEN! I miss those times!!!! BIG TIME!! 😢 Will times like these EVER come back?
I didn't always have money to use at the arcade, but i would go there anyway and watch what was happening, and if you're persistent enough and you check the coin trays, you did often find quarters people somehow missed. It was always worth it. There was a particular smell to the arcade in my town, hard to describe it, but when i catch something similar in the air now it brings memories flooding back. It was a mix of fresh paint and new carpeting, then as you walked through, that would fuse with the smell of snacks at the counter, and at the far back there was a pool room area. The teens all smoked back there but a little of that made its way out. It all came together in just such a way.
@@derealized797 you are so right, I would go when I didn't have money...I would just watch the masters at play, you always had that one guy who mastered MS PACMAN so bad, he wasn't done until he was tired...LOL, usually my grandma gave me 50 cents to go...I had no skill, spent that money in all of 10 minutes...LOL.
@@bigbabysld I didn't have cable TV, there wasn't a whole lot else to do around here. So watching the pros i was able to see further in than i would otherwise. Sometimes i purposely waited until someone else was finished to take over that machine, because then i could start my game from a later point, instead of going through the early levels again and again. I remember beating The Simpsons arcade game, it cost about $10 in quarters. Which wasn't that bad compared to others. That was the only arcade game i remember ever finishing. I wasn't exactly rich either so i really appreciated that.
I'm 45 years old. Met my best friend to this very day in 1985, first grade. We experienced these things well into the 90s. We are still very close and will be friends until we croak.
DJs talking over a song you're trying to record is definitely one of the greatest sources of rage in the 80s. Then when you finally get a perfect recording, the tape player eats the tape. THE STRUGGLE WAS REAL.
Awesome comment because it rings so absolutely true and clear. In ways we had to use ingenuity to get pleasure and a sense of reward from our own initative. We were lucky. Nay sayers will say otherwise but they can whinge if they wish. We know just what a community of friends in the street was and we all had FUN TOGETHER.
We had a DJ that would ramble so much that my brother and I would take turns calling him and requesting songs like: "You suck!" and "Quit your job!" followed by the sound of a flushing toilet. He would cuss us out and hang up. It was pretty fun! The DJ's name? "Slammin'" Sam Jackson. He thought he was some kind of basketball star.
It's okay, just grab a pencil and your mom's eyebrow plucker...use the plucker to pull the tape out so you can set it the right side up, then insert pencil and...after 45 minutes give up, go get a job sacking groceries so you can buy the cassette tape and enjoy it until it then gets stuck in your self-installed cassette player in your very used car. Ugh! Do you remember when they briefly had cassette singles to match the 45 singles?
For 90s kids we had to keep listening to songs on the radio til our favourite song came on. That was the highlight for us. The Ipod Nanos were awesome too.
I'm 55. No kids. No grandkids. Still feel young and adventurous and still hold so many fun memories of childhood in the 70s and 80s in my heart. They say I never grew up. Hahaha! That's fine with me. Peace. 👍 😊
The recording on the cassette tapes is something I remember dearly. I love it and used to listing to all types of music. I had soo many of them. Back in the 90's I was doing all of this in the 90's and even early 2000's. Don't even get me started on the bikes lol.
When I think about how good we had it as kids in the 80s, Compared to now! We were living In a fantasyland. Life was so great back then especially for us who were kids And young teens.😊
Everyone seems so lonely and depressed these days. I remember going to the beach with family and hitting the arcade and trips to the lake with friends every Saturday.
And , we wonder why kids and adults are so unhappy, fat, and lonely. (Humans have always needed physical contact with others, and we are losing that more and more each day).
Born in 1972, it is unbelievable how times have changed. I got lucky my son born '98' didn't get into video games until he was almost 16. And we lived in a closed off neighborhood with his cousins and grandparents down the road. I remember I had to stop the neighborhood boys from digging a hole it was getting to deep afraid in would cave in. Bikes and toys litter my yard. Ran through the sprinkler during the summer. ❤
THIS IS AWSOME! LOL. Perfect timing. Going down memory lane. After 32 years, getting divorced. Weirdly, I find myself returning to my life before marriage. Even though 52 now, my mind reverts to being 18-19 ish. IT's like a reset! You wake up and your like, WTF just happened? 30 years ? How? Now, alone, just some friends, looking for new love, very much feel like I'm a young stupid teen again looking for love and life, hope and happiness. Except this time, I have money, no parents, and no one to answer to. Let the games began. LOL.
56 here, us that were young in this era were truly lucky, I'LL àllways cherish the memories of my youth. Polar opposite of today's world. Peace..........
@@tommcdonough6086 It was that late Postwar world we lived in back then. Nothing but positivity and great expectations for the future. The 90s eroded it a bit, but 9/11/2001 ended that period completely. Seems like the period between 2001 and 2020 has all been about dismantling every good socio-political and economic advancement.
We didn’t come home till the street lights came on. Drank water out of a water hose. Cereal boxes were entertainment. A pizza and a game of glalaga were considered big time.
What I miss the most on this list is getting a movie at the video store. I remember being annoyed so many times when I had to take a family member to get a movie but now I really miss that experience. Funny how time plays with memories.
In the 80's I grew up with a Commodore 64 computer. They had these huge disks that were 5" x 5" and had big holes in the center. I still have mine and the disks STILL work!
Wow, that was like watching my childhood flash before my eyes. Literally running to the Truck Stop a mile away to play some midnight PacMan when I was 11. Skateboarding on my neighbors paved driveway. Going roller skating every weekend when I was 14-18. Playing Atari at my friend's house while listening to Def Leopard. Riding my bike all over the trails in the woods when I was 13. Flying kites at the beach and watching them go so high, you had to have 2 rolls of string tied together. Life was just amazing back then.
Would it be considered sad that I still have some cassettes i made back then? I like to think that they bring back the times I listened to them with friends, and in making them.When I can remember ;)
Thank You for showing everyday pleasures back then!!! The best time of my life in the 80s!!! Loved every bit of it!!! From The Motor City....🌲🌲🌲...😊😊😊...
I lived all those wonderful experience. I have a son who is 4 and I want him to enjoy his childhood and remember it as fun, so he let him play outside for hours, he rides his bike and scooter or play in the mud with his toys supervised of course. It sucks that there aren't many children outside playing enjoying theie childhood.
I had all the Star Wars toys when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. My mom bought me all the action figures. I remember throwing my little Han Solo down the laundry chute and pretending it was the trash compactor in the Death Star lol. Ah! The joys of childhood back then.
Lmfao! I remember sitting there waiting for the dj to shut up so i can hit record hoping he wouldn't interupt the end of the song as well. 😂 Hell, as a gen xer, i still express my emotions through song choices.
The 80s was the last real social decade, Afterwards, cable TV and Internet keep people from interacting face to face. More so now because of cell phones The encyclopedias were fun to read, unlike the internet, one could go from subject to subject with ease till ones head was creamed full. Also dictionaries were fun, too. Letter writing, pen pals were common. Putting an ad in personals from a newspaper form a different part of the US was a good way to find pen pales. Before the internet, people,, sometimes strangers would talk about something that was on TV, sometime news or even some TV show. Mix tapes, great way to make a new fried, just give someone you don't know a mix tape. Today,, it seems to me that social behavior is in a downward spiral.
The Doctor Demento Show...the full three hour version you needed two 90 minute cassettes for. Some malls had " courtesy phones" you could use for quick calls ( like getting a ride home)... Those weird oval plastic coin holder things that held coins for the pay phone, and most had a bead chain for keys.
A lot of that freedom was due to socioeconomic necessity. You had broken homes, working single mums and latchkey kids. Still, it was a great time to be a kid. Lots of individual freedom outside of school.
Just be happy we got to explore it and look back at it with joy. Everything has to come to an end. So we have to find ways to make it just as joyful for ourselves in the present and future. ❤❤❤
50 year-old here. This is a fantastic video. Many years ago I concluded that the late 80s - early 90s contained the optimal amount of technological convenience in daily life. And many times I have told younger generations how privileged I feel to remember life before the internet .
Just found your channel and I am really enjoying your videos! I would love to see a video similar to this one for what kids did in the 1990's. That would be great! Thanks for your entertaining videos!
I was cleaning out the attic and found my old tape recorder. For old times sake i decided to plug it in to see if it still worked, I was then reminded that waiting for a tape to rewind was very boring.
I remember punching the correct series of numbers on a pay phone to get it to spit out coins and then scurrying away on BMX bikes, coins falling out of our overstuffed pockets and racing to the nearest arcade, weaving in and out of traffic to the orchestral sound of car horns! Like ferrrr sherrrrr dude!
Blackbox tones in the handset tricked the payphone to think quarters were inserted in the coin slot for free calls. That was cool for a while before they got smart and started muting the handsets. I would stuff tissues up in the coin returns on payphones, so I could come back later with a coat hanger to remove em and collect all the coins that got stuck on top of em... Then go blow it all at the arcade playing video games and pinball. Good times I'll never forget.
I remember the kids would beg everyone going by the arcade for a quarter so that they could play the video games i felt it made them humble and they were always thankful when i gave them quarters. I miss those days.
Same here! I was in typing class and my last time using one was 5/14/1995, which was my last day of my freshman year. I remember the date because I had an emergency surgery on the 15th and didn’t finish the school year. 😂😂😂
Last time I used one was for high school reports in the early 90s. After that, I just used my computer. We were introduced to the internet in May of 95, right before graduation.
I'm not buying any of this I graduated in 94 and all of my typing classes were on computers they even started calling them "computer" classes only used the typewriter at home for reports except for you 87 electric typewriter
Even though i wasn't born in the 80's (91'er), living in a 3rd world country allowed me to experience these in the 90's. From encyclopedias, pay-phones, mixed tapes, typewriters, bikes, etc. i got to enjoy these growing up here 😂
I could have sworn the last time I was at the mall, there was a video arcade in there. You talked about mix tapes twice. When talking about floppy disks you mentioned the 5.25" size but instead showed the 3.5" version. Alot of those activities like roller skating, date back to the 50's. I would watch a few TV shows from the 50's and would be amazed how many things still existed. The internet and related technology changed everything in the new millennium.
I still have a Deluxe Scrabble game. Always played Monopoly or Sorry on game night though. Spent hours on NES. Watched and listened to music on a Curtis Matches Stereo TV. That was huge upgrade from BLACK& WHITE to COLOR TV. Used those Floppy PC's, Typewriters, and Diskettes. Went to Malls for window shopping. Some minor ARCADES. really there for Family Portraits. Hated that so much! Even went to BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO for movies. Lucky to get any PIZZA or SNACKS. Also had that BIG WHEEL. Had so many cool 80s toys. I was spoiled on Transformers G1!
I did so much on this vid ! had a TRS 80 computer in the early 80s had all the expansion cards for it including the modem had one with a cradle for the phones handset 3 inch floppy 5 inch ones and the cassette drives ;later came zip drives was quite the machine back then .upgraded to a IMSAI it was like 6K !! If I remember it had just a 12 Meg hard drive . but was state of the art Yes riding our bicycles everywhere !! and Mopeds ! even after getting a car . could go bar hopping on the bike or Moped no getting a DUI LOL did so much out side if you look the kids were not overweight today they just sit here at the keyboard and turn into zombies wish more discovered the free range lifestyle and interacted in person with one another .
These videos are fun but I do think it a bit silly tom include footage from the fifties,sixties and seventies in a video about the 1980's. Of course what has been included is true but a lot of it came before the 1980's. Maybe that;s being a bit picky of me but I just would use footage from the decade itself. What a great time to be growing up. Never will children have such genuine interactions again.
Children of today and in the future have absolutely nothing to broaden their horizons. School shootings, violence, Parricide and crime is all they have in today’s world. The innocent times of being a kid has all but disappeared. The 80’s were Incredible and I was glad to be a teenager during that period. There was no other time in history where movies, tv shows, music and malls were at their very best! Long live the 80’s!
I so miss those days. I feel so lucky to have been a tween / teen in the 80’s. That’s why I love Stranger Things… makes me feel like I’m back in the 80’s
In NY where we had nickel deposits on cans and bottles, I spent the morning collecting them from ditches, turning them into the store for the $ and then spending the afternoon in the arcade, GREAT MEMORIES!
Good vid, but two versions of mix tapes and adding Pokemon as a trading card was a bummer (Pokemon cards were first released Oct 20, 1996). I remember the 80's well, since I'm a really old fart. To give you an idea, I remember using 8 inch floppy discs, and loading computer programs with a cassette tape, or saving one I created back to a cassette tape. This brought back a lot of great memories. Thank you.
State of the art with a 486DX66 MSDOS a keyboard and a black n green monitor... Then we get a mouse , WINDOWS 3.1, color monitor, and a modem and were really high tech... 14.4 then 28.8 to 33.6 and 56Kbps dialup mannnnn we're flying now! Hahaha... Had a drawer full of 3.5in AOL floppy's 💾 reformatted and ready to go . Hahaha
I'm totally stuck in the 80s. I loved it. Best time of my life. I have an original unmolested Pac-Man arcade and an original High Speed pinball machine. I miss the 80s every day. Life was as good as it gets.
Yes, I have a couple of full-size arcades as well as a 1965 jukebox where you can actually see the record being played. I also have a slot machine coin up. I pretty much like anything coin up. That’s because of the late 70s and 80s.
@@postersm7141 We're working on a jukebox and slot machine ourselves. We moved from Detroit to Phoenix 5 years ago and had to wait over a year for our house to be built. I wanted a totally original Pac-Man, and I found this one in Pennsylvania and had it shipped. I got lucky with the High Speed, found that one locally. We're doing the whole basement in an 80s theme except for the 2 bedrooms. I'm going to hang the 4 guitars on the wall I got in the mid and late 80s but quit playing 25 years ago. People that didn't live through the 80s just don't get it. If you ask someone about culture in the 80s the list is endless. Hair bands, arcades, loud clothes, jukeboxes, roller rinks, wood paneling all over the house and on and on. What's culture about the 90s? Um .. Nirvana and the Gulf War I served in? Can't think about much else. The 2000s? 9/11 is the only thing that comes to mind.
But the 80s.... What an amazing time to live through. The only other decade I would have liked to be a part of is the Roaring 20s.
Same here. Stuck in the 80s. Listen to 80s music everyday while I am working. Restoring a 86 I-ROC. Sucks getting old.
That's so cool. I'll be 43 in May and still have an atari 2600. And being left handed makes it a struggle, but worth it lol Pardon my English, but f c k modern life
@@mattiemcmicker4360 I'm 54, and we drove cars from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I currently have a 66 Lemans and a 70 Chevy Wagon. I've had more gen II F body cars than I can remember. Next project will probably be another bandit Trams Am. But I like the IROCs. Those were extremely popular when I was in HS. A few students had them because cars weren't stupid expensive like they are now and if you had a decent job in HS paying 6 dollars an hour you could actually afford it.
Literally a 1980 baby. I remember doing all this and it made childhood magical. I miss simpler times, but I’m just glad I got to experience them!❤❤❤
As an 80’s kid, this video brought back some great nostalgia. It also made me very sad for how the world is today.
Sad, I never grew up since the 60s. Kids have it made now. I'm having the time of my life because I'm not stuck in the past being bitter and hateful.
What a time to be alive!
@@JackStrap-dx5gf you are assuming a lot and I would argue that you are the bitter and hateful person based on your comment. And I do believe you, I don’t think you’ve grown up at all.
OMG I miss the 80's, things were so much simpler! I do love watching UA-cam but would give it all up to time travel back to the 80's. Things suck now!!
YES! We had it so good! I think we took this into the 90's and even early 2000;s with our own kids. I even see my kids now, passing on the simple to my new grandchild. Hands on toys, lots of books, lots of love, and imagination! Full time mom and dad. Dad goes to work, mom stays home and loves baby 24/7. It warms my heart to at least see some of the good o'l days were passed on. We all knew that friends and time were more important than more stuff. We had STUFF, but, nothing beat the time with friends, crushes, and dreams!
The 80s were def the innovative decade. Meanwhile, we were still doing everything the 70s kids did, 80s kids also saw things coming to life like home gaming consoles, we saw wealthy people with car phones, and home computers were introduced. Before the iPad, we had the Walkman. 😂
The 80s were a blast. Toys were actually things you bought and played with (though I did have an ATARI 2600), more time outside, cheap gas, music videos, boom box with your cassette music while we played hoops at the park, arcade nights, our Betamax VCR recording things off cable because I had to work at the grocery store sacking groceries and miss things, riding my bike with friends, and lots more. I even loved doing the card catalog because I got two dates with girls because they couldn't find stuff. And yes, we went roller skating on one of those dates at Skate City.
Will say, no more typewriter typed papers, not having to wait for the one copy of a book to be available at the library, or having a picture you took turn out awful but no chance for a redo.
But life was simpler and more fun.
Remember spending your time in an arcade putting your quarter (.25¢) on the machine you wanted to play in line with others that wanted to play too while watching an unknown master play a game and figuring out and watching them play a game and trying to remember all the moves they made so you could beat the game too? It could sometimes take 10 to 20 minutes of waiting. TIMES WERE MAGICAL THEN! I miss those times!!!! BIG TIME!! 😢 Will times like these EVER come back?
".....Will times like these EVER come back?". Sadly, no they will not.
Laid down my quarter for mortal kombat and killer instincts.
I didn't always have money to use at the arcade, but i would go there anyway and watch what was happening, and if you're persistent enough and you check the coin trays, you did often find quarters people somehow missed. It was always worth it. There was a particular smell to the arcade in my town, hard to describe it, but when i catch something similar in the air now it brings memories flooding back. It was a mix of fresh paint and new carpeting, then as you walked through, that would fuse with the smell of snacks at the counter, and at the far back there was a pool room area. The teens all smoked back there but a little of that made its way out. It all came together in just such a way.
@@derealized797 you are so right, I would go when I didn't have money...I would just watch the masters at play, you always had that one guy who mastered MS PACMAN so bad, he wasn't done until he was tired...LOL, usually my grandma gave me 50 cents to go...I had no skill, spent that money in all of 10 minutes...LOL.
@@bigbabysld I didn't have cable TV, there wasn't a whole lot else to do around here. So watching the pros i was able to see further in than i would otherwise. Sometimes i purposely waited until someone else was finished to take over that machine, because then i could start my game from a later point, instead of going through the early levels again and again.
I remember beating The Simpsons arcade game, it cost about $10 in quarters. Which wasn't that bad compared to others. That was the only arcade game i remember ever finishing. I wasn't exactly rich either so i really appreciated that.
I was born in 1975, and I remember all of these. Those days were so awesome, miss those times.
I'm 45 years old. Met my best friend to this very day in 1985, first grade. We experienced these things well into the 90s. We are still very close and will be friends until we croak.
croak is such an old person word lol
I was thinking the same thing but then again I am old I’m 52
I'm 46 and still wanting a 69 Schwinn... what a bike😢 and my GI Joe aircraft carrier back.. good days😊❤
James thats soo awesome!
@@amandap6278 well thank you sir
DJs talking over a song you're trying to record is definitely one of the greatest sources of rage in the 80s. Then when you finally get a perfect recording, the tape player eats the tape. THE STRUGGLE WAS REAL.
It was the same in the 1990s.
VCR tapes also getting eaten was awful.
Awesome comment because it rings so absolutely true and clear. In ways we had to use ingenuity to get pleasure and a sense of reward from our own initative. We were lucky. Nay sayers will say otherwise but they can whinge if they wish. We know just what a community of friends in the street was and we all had FUN TOGETHER.
We had a DJ that would ramble so much that my brother and I would take turns calling him and requesting songs like: "You suck!" and "Quit your job!" followed by the sound of a flushing toilet. He would cuss us out and hang up. It was pretty fun! The DJ's name? "Slammin'" Sam Jackson. He thought he was some kind of basketball star.
It's okay, just grab a pencil and your mom's eyebrow plucker...use the plucker to pull the tape out so you can set it the right side up, then insert pencil and...after 45 minutes give up, go get a job sacking groceries so you can buy the cassette tape and enjoy it until it then gets stuck in your self-installed cassette player in your very used car. Ugh!
Do you remember when they briefly had cassette singles to match the 45 singles?
For 90s kids we had to keep listening to songs on the radio til our favourite song came on. That was the highlight for us. The Ipod Nanos were awesome too.
I miss those days, now were grandparents. 👋💕🇦🇺
I'm 55. No kids. No grandkids. Still feel young and adventurous and still hold so many fun memories of childhood in the 70s and 80s in my heart. They say I never grew up. Hahaha! That's fine with me. Peace. 👍 😊
You just HAD to remind me!😅😂
Yessss
The recording on the cassette tapes is something I remember dearly. I love it and used to listing to all types of music. I had soo many of them. Back in the 90's I was doing all of this in the 90's and even early 2000's. Don't even get me started on the bikes lol.
Is it live or Memorex?
Oh man .I miss the 80's so much It was such a RAD time of decade to live.
Long live the 80's
When I think about how good we had it as kids in the 80s, Compared to now! We were living In a fantasyland. Life was so great back then especially for us who were kids And young teens.😊
Miss those days....
I would give anything to go back to being a kid in the 80s. Better days
It's much better today, much much better.
@@JackStrap-dx5gf you obviously wasn't there
Everyone seems so lonely and depressed these days. I remember going to the beach with family and hitting the arcade and trips to the lake with friends every Saturday.
Ah the memories...😊
I would agree kids spent lots more time outdoors, We had 3 TV channels, Public TV, ABC,NBC. We did not have a TV Remote.
Same here! We didn't have cable. Only three channels until FOX arrived in like 87 I think. FOX was a Godsend! 😊
My mom used a TV guide every week. Wow I’d forgot about that.
Things today kids no longer do:
Get out and run around, which was a great way to stay fit, not fat
We still do that bro
I'm super grateful for experiencing the 80's as a kid! "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss. Cheers!
"Reading is a.....TRIP!"
-Cap'n O.G. Readmore
They have even made poor dr Seuss racist now😢
@@masskracka REALLY - why - 80s hail from Finland anyway - our childhood ruled \,,/
Thank you, as much I can relate to this video, it was a bit depressing.
I totally love the 1980's, _ possibility the best 10 years I've ever been in.
Blessed to have grown up as a kid in the 1980's. The music. The movies. The fashion. Arcades, roller rinks, and tree forts!
How old are you?
And , we wonder why kids and adults are so unhappy, fat, and lonely. (Humans have always needed physical contact with others, and we are losing that more and more each day).
Born in 1972, it is unbelievable how times have changed. I got lucky my son born '98' didn't get into video games until he was almost 16. And we lived in a closed off neighborhood with his cousins and grandparents down the road. I remember I had to stop the neighborhood boys from digging a hole it was getting to deep afraid in would cave in. Bikes and toys litter my yard. Ran through the sprinkler during the summer. ❤
You CAN go back to 80's technology if you really want to. Most of the devices still exist and work perfectly because they were built with quality.
"quality" 👾
THIS IS AWSOME! LOL. Perfect timing. Going down memory lane. After 32 years, getting divorced. Weirdly, I find myself returning to my life before marriage. Even though 52 now, my mind reverts to being 18-19 ish. IT's like a reset! You wake up and your like, WTF just happened? 30 years ? How? Now, alone, just some friends, looking for new love, very much feel like I'm a young stupid teen again looking for love and life, hope and happiness. Except this time, I have money, no parents, and no one to answer to. Let the games began. LOL.
I'm 54...I was a teen in the 80's...God I wish my kids could've experienced it...I gave them the music at least 😢
56 here, us that were young in this era were truly lucky, I'LL àllways cherish the memories of my youth. Polar opposite of today's world. Peace..........
@@tommcdonough6086 It was that late Postwar world we lived in back then. Nothing but positivity and great expectations for the future. The 90s eroded it a bit, but 9/11/2001 ended that period completely. Seems like the period between 2001 and 2020 has all been about dismantling every good socio-political and economic advancement.
I'm born in 75 and my 17-year-old and her friends are all listening to music from the 80s 90s and 00 saying that there's no good music today
@@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717 Well Said!
We didn’t come home till the street lights came on. Drank water out of a water hose. Cereal boxes were entertainment. A pizza and a game of glalaga were considered big time.
Remember The Wonder Years? Kevin Arnold, Winnie Cooper and so on?
One of my favorites
Danica will be 50 in January 2025 l😅❤
What I miss the most on this list is getting a movie at the video store. I remember being annoyed so many times when I had to take a family member to get a movie but now I really miss that experience. Funny how time plays with memories.
"Have you seen the lastest video or heard the latest song from....." was... The GREATEST!
Bring back Feather Pens!!!
Walkman's Rule!!!
Hindsight will always be 20/20❤
Children use their brains to think and create how i miss those days.
Even the 90s were fun but I always wanted to be born in the 80s. My mum always said I was born in the wrong era.
In the 80's I grew up with a Commodore 64 computer. They had these huge disks that were 5" x 5" and had big holes in the center. I still have mine and the disks STILL work!
Texas instruments here
that's awesome 😊
My brother had a double sided Walkman, played 2 tapes. Coolest thing ever.
Wow, that was like watching my childhood flash before my eyes. Literally running to the Truck Stop a mile away to play some midnight PacMan when I was 11.
Skateboarding on my neighbors paved driveway. Going roller skating every weekend when I was 14-18. Playing Atari at my friend's house while listening to Def Leopard.
Riding my bike all over the trails in the woods when I was 13. Flying kites at the beach and watching them go so high, you had to have 2 rolls of string tied together.
Life was just amazing back then.
I think many of use thought that these times would never end. How nieve we were.
This was very nostalgic. Especially the mix tapes.
Especially since he talked about them twice!📼📼
Would it be considered sad that I still have some cassettes i made back then? I like to think that they bring back the times I listened to them with friends, and in making them.When I can remember ;)
And all the the scenes from the 60s and 40s.
The 1980's were the best.
Thank You for showing everyday pleasures back then!!! The best time of my life in the 80s!!! Loved every bit of it!!! From The Motor City....🌲🌲🌲...😊😊😊...
"Outdoor escapades built resilience, fostered creativity, and thought us about teamwork"
That's all folks
I lived all those wonderful experience. I have a son who is 4 and I want him to enjoy his childhood and remember it as fun, so he let him play outside for hours, he rides his bike and scooter or play in the mud with his toys supervised of course. It sucks that there aren't many children outside playing enjoying theie childhood.
I had all the Star Wars toys when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. My mom bought me all the action figures. I remember throwing my little Han Solo down the laundry chute and pretending it was the trash compactor in the Death Star lol. Ah! The joys of childhood back then.
Laundry shoots were great I'll never forget realizing that not every home had one
@masskracka Yeah, I wonder if people still have them. Literally haven't seen one since the late 70s.
I'm 50 born 74" I really miss the 80s and the friendships.
A beautiful era, 💯👍
I remember before a blockbuster was around, we had to go to a literal zenith appliance store, to rent VHS movies.
@@andersd8956 oh yeah I remember those as well.
Be kind please rewind
Lmfao! I remember sitting there waiting for the dj to shut up so i can hit record hoping he wouldn't interupt the end of the song as well. 😂 Hell, as a gen xer, i still express my emotions through song choices.
god I miss my 80’s childhood! Gen X is awesome!
The 80s was the last real social decade, Afterwards, cable TV and Internet keep people from interacting face to face. More so now because of cell phones
The encyclopedias were fun to read, unlike the internet, one could go from subject to subject with ease till ones head was creamed full. Also dictionaries were fun, too.
Letter writing, pen pals were common. Putting an ad in personals from a newspaper form a different part of the US was a good way to find pen pales.
Before the internet, people,, sometimes strangers would talk about something that was on TV, sometime news or even some TV show.
Mix tapes, great way to make a new fried, just give someone you don't know a mix tape.
Today,, it seems to me that social behavior is in a downward spiral.
I'm going on 58 years old I miss them good old days😢
We didnt know how great we had it.
Sigh….the era of my childhood..it’s so fleeting.
Can’t really say I miss ALL of this but do realize kids today are soft.
The Doctor Demento Show...the full three hour version you needed two 90 minute cassettes for.
Some malls had " courtesy phones" you could use for quick calls ( like getting a ride home)...
Those weird oval plastic coin holder things that held coins for the pay phone, and most had a bead chain for keys.
Man I miss the 80’s, technology sure has changed things. I’m 48 today, 80’s was my childhood.
We had fewer guard rails due to larger family’s and more moms working away from home.
A lot of that freedom was due to socioeconomic necessity. You had broken homes, working single mums and latchkey kids. Still, it was a great time to be a kid. Lots of individual freedom outside of school.
I'm a 1981 baby and remember all this
I’m not sure if this made me happy to remember or sad because it’s gone
Just be happy we got to explore it and look back at it with joy. Everything has to come to an end. So we have to find ways to make it just as joyful for ourselves in the present and future. ❤❤❤
50 year-old here. This is a fantastic video. Many years ago I concluded that the late 80s - early 90s contained the optimal amount of technological convenience in daily life. And many times I have told younger generations how privileged I feel to remember life before the internet .
We've gone downhill since the 80s.
Just found your channel and I am really enjoying your videos! I would love to see a video similar to this one for what kids did in the 1990's. That would be great! Thanks for your entertaining videos!
The 1980s were magical times in MANY WAYS that are gone but still effect things today?
The only encyclopedia still printed today is the World Book Encyclopedia
When we were kids, the World Book is what we had. The whole set on the rack. We even had the atlas. We used them too. That was the 70s.
From the 1970s until the late 1980s, it seemed that every week, a new original song was playing on the radio. Now, those songs are called classics.
Smear The Queer was the greatest kids game 🤣🤣🤣
I was cleaning out the attic and found my old tape recorder. For old times sake i decided to plug it in to see if it still worked, I was then reminded that waiting for a tape to rewind was very boring.
I remember punching the correct series of numbers on a pay phone to get it to spit out coins and then scurrying away on BMX bikes, coins falling out of our overstuffed pockets and racing to the nearest arcade, weaving in and out of traffic to the orchestral sound of car horns! Like ferrrr sherrrrr dude!
Blackbox tones in the handset tricked the payphone to think quarters were inserted in the coin slot for free calls. That was cool for a while before they got smart and started muting the handsets. I would stuff tissues up in the coin returns on payphones, so I could come back later with a coat hanger to remove em and collect all the coins that got stuck on top of em... Then go blow it all at the arcade playing video games and pinball. Good times I'll never forget.
Great video, thank you for sharing. I'm gonna have a bath and put a mix tape on. Peace, love and respect my nostalgic brother.
Born in 1980. Best time in history to be a kid
I’ve very proud of this. And lucky
I can’t wait to go back home when I pass on.
8:24 oh yes, the hair of the 80s
The arcade was a social event. You met your school friends and met new ones; you can have a fun night for a roll of quarters.
I remember the kids would beg everyone going by the arcade for a quarter so that they could play the video games i felt it made them humble and they were always thankful when i gave them quarters.
I miss those days.
The last time I used a typewriter was in high school typing class in 1995.
Same here! I was in typing class and my last time using one was 5/14/1995, which was my last day of my freshman year. I remember the date because I had an emergency surgery on the 15th and didn’t finish the school year. 😂😂😂
Electric typewriter in 1987! After that, I used the computers in the Computer Science Lab at my college!
Last time I used one was for high school reports in the early 90s. After that, I just used my computer. We were introduced to the internet in May of 95, right before graduation.
I'm not buying any of this I graduated in 94 and all of my typing classes were on computers they even started calling them "computer" classes only used the typewriter at home for reports except for you 87 electric typewriter
@@masskracka I graduated in 1996 and had typing classes on a typewriter 1994-95. The computer class had HP computers with DOS.
Even though i wasn't born in the 80's (91'er), living in a 3rd world country allowed me to experience these in the 90's. From encyclopedias, pay-phones, mixed tapes, typewriters, bikes, etc. i got to enjoy these growing up here 😂
I could have sworn the last time I was at the mall, there was a video arcade in there. You talked about mix tapes twice. When talking about floppy disks you mentioned the 5.25" size but instead showed the 3.5" version. Alot of those activities like roller skating, date back to the 50's. I would watch a few TV shows from the 50's and would be amazed how many things still existed. The internet and related technology changed everything in the new millennium.
This was all good experiences back then, but when you get older, it's nice to have all the conveniences today.
Be kind rewind
We have to do EVERYTHING Physically! Things weren't brought to us.
What a great video. Brought back so many memories 😊
I remember payphones randomly ringing. I've picked up one or two of them myself. Usually was a wrong number.
We used to make the payphone ring at our junior high. The same code worked with our home phone too. 😊
I still have a
Deluxe Scrabble
game.
Always played Monopoly
or Sorry on game night though.
Spent hours on NES.
Watched and listened to music on a
Curtis Matches Stereo TV.
That was huge upgrade
from BLACK& WHITE
to COLOR TV.
Used those Floppy
PC's, Typewriters, and Diskettes.
Went to Malls for window shopping.
Some minor ARCADES.
really there for Family Portraits.
Hated that so much!
Even went to BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO
for movies.
Lucky to get any
PIZZA or SNACKS.
Also had that BIG WHEEL.
Had so many cool 80s toys.
I was spoiled on
Transformers G1!
I remember that the sony walkman was sold for $250.00 dollars!!! What??? Now you cant give them any.
I remember all this
The teddy bear at 16:50 looks a lot like mine minus the head wrap. I still have it. 😺
I did so much on this vid ! had a TRS 80 computer in the early 80s had all the expansion cards for it including the modem had one with a cradle for the phones handset 3 inch floppy 5 inch ones and the cassette drives ;later came zip drives was quite the machine back then .upgraded to a IMSAI it was like 6K !! If I remember it had just a 12 Meg hard drive . but was state of the art Yes riding our bicycles everywhere !! and Mopeds ! even after getting a car . could go bar hopping on the bike or Moped no getting a DUI LOL did so much out side if you look the kids were not overweight today they just sit here at the keyboard and turn into zombies wish more discovered the free range lifestyle and interacted in person with one another .
If I had kids I’ll make them read an encyclopedias instead of buying them a $1200 iPhone.
These videos are fun but I do think it a bit silly tom include footage from the fifties,sixties and seventies in a video about the 1980's. Of course what has been included is true but a lot of it came before the 1980's. Maybe that;s being a bit picky of me but I just would use footage from the decade itself. What a great time to be growing up. Never will children have such genuine interactions again.
Children of today and in the future have absolutely nothing to broaden their horizons. School shootings, violence, Parricide and crime is all they have in today’s world. The innocent times of being a kid has all but disappeared. The 80’s were Incredible and I was glad to be a teenager during that period. There was no other time in history where movies, tv shows, music and malls were at their very best! Long live the 80’s!
I so miss those days. I feel so lucky to have been a tween / teen in the 80’s. That’s why I love Stranger Things… makes me feel like I’m back in the 80’s
Remember JADORACH AND SASSON JEANS?
Z cavariccis😂
I always played the racing games for hours and hours now at 62 and retired I have a thousands of dollars racing simulator in my living room:-)
In NY where we had nickel deposits on cans and bottles, I spent the morning collecting them from ditches, turning them into the store for the $ and then spending the afternoon in the arcade, GREAT MEMORIES!
80s best decade ever I'm an 80s baby born 1986
You grew up in the 90s then.
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My kids today would die without phones miss the old days when kids where kids.
The nostalgia hurts my soul. If I could only go back and have an hour long conversation with myself.
Good vid, but two versions of mix tapes and adding Pokemon as a trading card was a bummer (Pokemon cards were first released Oct 20, 1996). I remember the 80's well, since I'm a really old fart. To give you an idea, I remember using 8 inch floppy discs, and loading computer programs with a cassette tape, or saving one I created back to a cassette tape. This brought back a lot of great memories. Thank you.
State of the art with a 486DX66 MSDOS a keyboard and a black n green monitor... Then we get a mouse , WINDOWS 3.1, color monitor, and a modem and were really high tech... 14.4 then 28.8 to 33.6 and 56Kbps dialup mannnnn we're flying now! Hahaha... Had a drawer full of 3.5in AOL floppy's 💾 reformatted and ready to go . Hahaha
Late 80s baby here! I’d love to go back to that era but things would be a little different like there be power ranger toys in that era.
"ARE YOU SEEING SOMETHING ON A '25 INCH SCREEN AT HOME?!!?! YOU MUST HAVE BEEN RICH TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!"
The Walkman in particular. These kids gotta walk 1st
I was born in the early 1960s, and I was growing up in the late 1970s, going into the early and mid 1980s. It was a cool 😎 era.