If you grew up in the 1980s...you remember this - PART 1
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The best thing about the 80s? No cell phones and no internet! That was awesome.
I agree with this. Kids actually had to go out and do stuff! Ride bikes, boards, skates, swimming, playing in the woods.
It didn't stop people from being know it all's but you couldn't even look it up and call them out, you just had to beat them up
Yes and yet everyone knew where the parties were at.
Amen
They did have cell phones but they were a luxury brick phones
I feel bad for anyone that didn't grow up in the 80s. It was such a fun, innocent time that didn't take itself seriously. The music was the best, toys were awesome, everything was colorful, our families were still wholesome, moms were (mostly) still at home, we could play outside without fear, Book Faires were the coolest, and TV shows always had a lesson built in. We could all do with more of the 80s in our lives.
And how about the After School Specials?
@@ralphrotten9030 Sunday night….Disney and Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
I agree 💯
This is exactly what people say in the 50s, 60s and 70s videos. Everyone thinks their time growing up was the most innocent, idyllic, carefree decade ever. I heard my grandparents say the same thing about their childhoods growing up. What makes any decade the "best" or "greatest" as kids is the unjaded and insouciant vision of life around us, knowing that your parents would take care of anything that life threw at us.
The 80s and 90s seem like amazing times to be alive
Best decade to be a kid. The music, movies, toys, MTV…can’t beat it
1990s standing in the doorway like “ahem”
The 60s, 70s and 80s were the best years ever. The 90s were the end of the good times…
The 90s were epic. I'd say 2001 was the end of the good times. The 90s was the last great decade
The 60s were awesome....For white people. I'm black but I can recognize that the 60s were pretty great, and finally civil rights were really taking off and the nation gained a conscience.
The 70s were a worse version of the 60s, lots of modern social problems start appearing.
The 80s were the dark ages. Of course kids still had a great time, I love 80s movies and TV and *SOME* of the music that's now iconic. But the amount of death from disease, drugs and skyrocketing crime outweigh the positives, and culturally that decade was pretty tacky. Think coke-addicted wall street suits, Tacky real estate a-la-Trump, the start of rising inequality, and the style...gosh.
I'd argue the 90s was the best of them all, the peak of the pre-internet era while also living through the excitement of the internet. 90s kids watched the same cartoons 60s and 70s and 80s kids did but also had new and exciting cartoons that are now iconic. We played outside but lived through the golden age of console gaming. Crime started INSANELY high in the early 90s but dropped throughout the decade and felt safer. Society was becoming more inclusive and this was reflected on TV, and in music, without it feeling like it was being shoved in your face. THe 90s were really the good times.
@@Styxswimmer100% 2001 stands out at the last year of the good times. It's certainly been a steep decline from there.
This was 100% my childhood. Now 47 and watching the world tear itself apart.
ww2 and ww1 same
It always did tear itself apart I am same age and now we have Media that scours the earth and anything that happens is transmitted to us in seconds. Even if someone farts the wrong way. We did not have capacity to know as much and as they say ignorance is bliss.
80's were better than today, 70's better than 80's, 60's better than 70's, and 50's better than 60's. I think 50's were the absolute best time to be a kid.
Same here except I’m 45. Everyday I miss the 80s more than ever. And yes, the world is falling apart. Sad 😢
You are so right. Was born in 72
The 80s truly was the last decade that young people could call a good life as a child, at least here in the U.S. yes,there was many bad things that took place, but most Americans hadn't lost their sense of community, and empathy for each other, music, movies, and TV series were at the top of their game
I think we had it pretty good growing up in the 90's !
Any time before before Political correctness came along was a good time.
2000's was a underrated decade I think that was a great decade for childhood, I was born 1998 I had fun as a kid in the 2000's early 2010's I had great memories as a teenager as well every decade have good and bad.for the older generation who like to trash generations after them remember every generation is a product of the previous generations not that you guys take the full blame but you guys take a large part of the blame for whatevers bad after you guys generation.
I agree. It seemed a simpler, happier time.
@@06BIBOI Since I grew up in the late '60s/Early 70's, It's hard for me to judge, But seeing how more negative (and "edgy") American society has become since 9/11, The 1990s may have been the last really great decade to be a kid. It kind of reminded my in subtle ways to the 1970s. Tech WAS abundant and rapidly changing, However traditional, basic and decidedly non digital fun could still become huge: "Pogs" for example, I could see where that would have been a "hit" in the '70s! Now kids have to be aware of their "social media presence" Doesn't sound all that much fun to me. And No, I'm no "Luddite" I have always "dug" technology, and would have passed out in joy of the concept of digital cameras, Music recorders/players ETC if those had been around in 1973, It's the "social" aspect of being constantly posting one's life (real OR fake) That would have caused me NO END of anxiety issues as a kid/teen. (hell, it's a problem even with "Boomers" and "Gen Xers") 90's kids seemed to have a lot of good fun though. If you are familiar with the RUclips channel "Brewstew Films" a lot of it is about growing up in the 1990s, It's damn funny, and 90% of their experiences were VERY similar to what I experienced 25 years earlier.
I graduated HS in 1984 and have vivid memories of the mid-late 70’s and 80’s. My formative years cut across two of the best decades ever. I hate the fact that I’m old now but wouldn’t trade my childhood for anything…except maybe youth!
Your not that old. Now is the time to start working out if you want to be a healthy 60 year old tho. I still jump bmx bikes and play sports like when I was a kid. Just have to stretch for 30 mins minimum. It keeps me feeling young. Class of ‘88 forever!
😆For me it was about the same(late 70's through 80's). In 85 I signed up for the Navy as I had experienced I was not really made for the college experience.(just 1 semester) I had just turned 18. by 89 I was out of the Navy and was an electronic tech in a company by 91, but even though I served, I still enjoyed probably the best decade in my life. The 90's was a very nice transition. It was a great time in my life, and I believe America as well. Today's America would make anyone want to tap their shoes and wish them back to 'There is no place like the 80's', in spite of tech advantages and advances.
the days of age once told us that we are not as old as we think, because it's our bones that go so far to convince us of age - without the wear and illness of the outside world, our brain could likely be alive for so much longer than we may know...
you sell a good point, with youth - if we are products of an impure, modern world (most of us are), then, to that make, we are what we eat & think as we have been taught..
when men of power become the inclusive keeper about everything, they also cohort the people, along with - if the mongers of war & deceit are put into such a rank, they take their old strategic stance and the results wear on everyone much like the troops or workmen who got old playing such games as "please the moguls" , "how froggy, high go?" , or "corporate clone"
Blockbuster on Friday nights, Saturday morning cartoons, and weekends at the arcade were the best times of my life as a kid in the 80’s.
I've always said, If I could re-live one decade, it would be the 1980's.🙂👍
Same here.
Back when MTV actually played music. And there was only one MTV.
I had a crush on Martha Quinn
@@peterbelanger4094 I always liked Nina Blackwood.
NO! I want MY MTV! :D
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I remember all of this. I miss the slower pace of life and the innocence we all had.
It was a normal and healthy time to be a kid. Lots of fun stuff.
I do too the innocence and down to earth people I love to daydream about the fun of those years malls,movies,music and cruising when I was in high school. Staying outside til it got dark we didn’t have the freaks that run rampant these days. It’s a shame we can’t go back so much fun
Amen to that and also we tended to care about others more too in every aspect of life back then products where built to last with pride. businesses did everything they could to not fire mass people because they care more for the little people than the all mighty dollar. parents actually disciplined us kids when we did something wrong. we were not aloud to scream through out the stores. life was so much better back then
TRUE TRUE 👍
I was 10 in 1983 and to me the 80s seemed to last an eternity.....
Saturday morning cartoons still one of the best feelings I can remember being a kid then
I lived in the 80’s. I could be wrong, but I truly believe that the 80’s was the best era ever! Everything was so big and epic! It was almost like the peak of humanity and discovery. Even the movies and music itself had a life of its own. It was simpler times but cool. I wouldn’t even be able to describe or put it into words to explain to kids today of just how awesome the 80’s really was! Simpler times, better food, better people, more common sense. Class, masculinity, and dignity was celebrated more. Yea there was some bad during that time, but I would take the bad from during that time over the so called “good” of today’s corrupt society. The moral compass is at an all time low in these weird modern times.
No, You are not mistaken! 80's was the best era ever!
I’d say 1970-90!
@@revolvermaster4939 I'll second that, always seemed that everyone got along much better and everything just felt better. I'm not trying to look back through nostalgia lenses I genuinely remember it like that.
Everybody has been desensitized by having the world in their hands in the form of an electronic device in some form or another
Everything before 2000.
I finished 8th grade in 80, high school in 84 and college in 89. It was an absolutely glorious decade and could never be replicated!
Me too.We hit at the right time!!
I graduated high school in 80. That allowed me to party at the best concerts.
Same exact times/dates for me,as well.
I graduated in 91; but I was a teen in the middle of the decade and it was fun.
Class of 1982! Best times ever!
My best memories of the 80s had to be the whole mall experience, it had everything. Movie theater, Hotdog on a stick, Spencer's, wishing coin fountain, escalators, the gnarly arcade & music store when u could put on a pair of headphones and listen to an album before buying it. Then all the cool clothing stores & sneakers shops. Those were the days.
I miss the mall.
Even the malls that exist today are not what they were when we were all growing up in the 80s. There’s lots of high-end shops and it’s just not the same. I can remember going to the mall as a kid I need hang out with your friends all day. A lot of times during the summer when we get those super hot days have your parents or a friends parents take you to the mall and drop you off. No cell phones you had some quarters in case you needed to call home otherwise you were just supposed to look at your swatch watch or maybe your calculator watch you know what time you were supposed to be back at the entrance.
@@streamone1183 the good ol swatch watch 🤣🤣. Remember the Lil rubber guards on the face lol
Mall culture was everything
The best!!! I also miss 80’s Christmas memories at the mall. Seeing it decorated the day after thanksgiving. Now it’s decorated the day after Halloween
Yeah the Mall was great back in the 80’s. You could literally spend the whole day there. Now the mall is just a disaster. It’s dirty. It’s full of Punks and hooligans. The food is horrible. The stores are crappy. Sad. My kids don’t even wanna go
Just bought tears to my eyes The 80s were so magical it's hard to explain and so simple yet so fun
😂😂😂 So much the same here! It was so magical and eye opening! Best dec' of my life! 😢😭 The early 90's was a nice transition too.
@@robvegart Yes agreed! The early 90s were also great as well
My son is 15. He recently told me he greatly envies me for growing up in the 80s. He's been listening to 80s music lately and adores it. My son was born in 2008 and says he was born in the wrong decade. He wishes he had been born in the mid 70s so he could come of age in the 80s. I have been so nostalgic for the 80s lately
@@Styxswimmer that is so amazing that your son who is only 15 wished to have been born in our era! i think alot of poeple can see the fun, simplicity, and magic of the 80s by just looking at teh videos , movie and music. i miss it so much. i love videos like wher ei can feel i am back in the 80s! i also noticed they are making lots of new movies potraying the 80s era. stranger things did a great job!!
@@rehanrassi9410 he has been listening to a LOT of 80s music lately and his favorite is Bon Jovi (shot through the heart). My son despises modern music. He listens to 80s music, 60s music (like the doors) and some 90s music (nirvana). He even admitted tv programming peaked in the 90s (and he was born in 2008). He said 80s music and movies were the best but tv shows peaked in the 90s. I have to agree
With each year that passes in my life, I MISS the 80's more.
OMG yes😢
@ConwayTwitter Its more than that though. I miss the CULTURE of the 80's / 90's --- it was far more positive than today.
The 80’s were the most awesome ❤
I wouldn’t trade growing up in 80’s for anything. The amount of music being turned out was fantastic not to mention the movies. There was also this underlying energy in society for the most part as well. It was awesome!
Born in 1975 here, so I remember the '80s well. All of this stuff strikes a nostalgic chord with me. I was 14 when the decade ended, so I clearly recall that there was an intangible, dynamic optimism, with perhaps a little sense of dread beneath. I think the show Stranger Things kind of gets it, but kids today will never know what it was really like back then.
Remember when there was nothing on TV except sports or reruns on the weekends and we all played outside? If it was too hot, we'd play in the sprinkler, go to a public pool, or stay in and play Atari or Nintendo.
The decade started with the Soviets invading Afghanistan and then the Berlin Wall falling. It looked so optimistic in 1989, but little did we know the challenges ahead.
U could do no wrong
There was a sense of the possibility of a good future. Now it’s just dystopian crap.
@@stockinettestitch Reagan brought optimism. Demholes bring dystopia.
Clinton years were good too but ya loved the Reagan years. A real Republican
There’s NOTHING I wouldn’t give to relive just one of those days. There’ll NEVER be another time like the 80’s. I miss those days.
The 80’s were some of the best years of my life, and life was so much easier back then. I also still had my loved ones here with me.
My fav decade for sure, yea many people still around then
I still miss the way life used to be
it was the best. because everyone we loved was still alive
@@moshesett8580 exactly! I miss so many of my family and friends that have passed away.
@@bwalker8252 me to, life used to be more simple
The 80’s was my era. One thing that wasn’t mentioned here was roller skating. I use to go to a roller rink called Skateland practically every weekend in the mid 80’s. That was a big thing for me and my friends.
I miss that peculiar stale smell of the roller rink. We use to have a rink in my rural SC town. It closed due to pandemic and asshole kids who started fights there and did drugs
I lived behind a skating rink, the owner let me ride my bike around the rink in the off hours. Very cool old man.
Did you live near S. FT. Myers?
@@billmadison2032 No. The Skateland I went to was in Northridge, California. They recently closed it down after the pandemic. I literally cried. So many fond memories there.
Our town had a roller rink called Skateland too. In northern California. My home away from home. Lol
Miss the 80's, last of the good ol' days. Looked forward to Saturday morning cartoons, Sunday funnies, books, and playing outside. Now it's all social media and smartphones.
If you were an adult, the first 5 or 6 years sucked.
@@robertd9850 Why do you say that?
@@nikkibest5010 Because they were. High unemployment, inflation, high gas prices but mostly a kind of dismal outlook. The home PC came online in 1980 or so but it took a few years for it to start transforming the economy and outlook in a meaningful way.
@@nikkibest5010 , because those were the years of consequences of electing Jimmy Carter. It took the great one Ronald Reagan to clean up his disastrous mess he created. Just like joe Biden is doing right now!
@@dmzabo3914 You bringing politics into this subject is what totally destroys the nostalgia we get from these videos. Republican's politics were and are trash. Ronald Reagan, both Bushes and Trump were all bad for the country. Thank God they are out of office.
I spent last night driving around in an old jeep while listening to 80's music. No matter the genra, 80's music is still the best!!
I am stuck in the 80's wish it never ended.
I was 15 when the 80's started and 24 when it ended, absolutely the best decade ever, miss those times so much, we simply did not know back then how good we had it. Does anyone right now wish they could go Friday after work or school to blockbuster to pick up a couple movies, big bag of popcorn and 2 cokes for $5 or $6, then stop to get a pizza on the way home?
I do. I miss going to blockbusters
I loved to eat junk food with my BFF while talking about boys haha
MTV Aired in 1981, I had my MTV button on the pocket of my Levi Jean Jacket. My buddies and I would come home from school and sit around the TV and wait to watch our favorite videos...The Video Jockeys (VJ's) included Curt Loader, Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson etc....If only we could dive back into those early 80 years again. Flock of Seagulls, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Devo!
Yes!
I was 10 when the the 80's started. I remember babysitting after school and on weekends. Then, buying books and gum with babysitting money.
I say it all the time. These kids have no idea what it's like to have to wait for the date and time your show came on. It might sound irrelevant now but that was a way of life for everyone.
I remember going through my TV guide and making sure I circled all the good shows and movies for the week to watch. Also we had to wait for our favourite songs to come on the radio (if we didn't already own the record).
I liked that because it was a type of structure in my life lol
@@brijor6ff7 agreed
Ah yes…my dad would not have survived without the weekly TV guide.
It's time to stop saying it, dude. Everyone gets it
Born in 71’ …. Growing up in the 80s was the best times ever ! 😊
I was born in '74, so I was a teen in the 1980's. It was great! I wish all of these things still were around! Thank you for reminding me of my childhood🥰
I was a little kid in the 80's. I had a cabbage patch kid. I remember playing arcade games. Watching Saturday morning cartoons. Riding bikes around town. I had the giant boombox. The malls were always packed and a fun place to just hang out. I miss the 80's when I was a child and into the 90's when I became a teenager. Those were the best years of my life. Sometimes I think back and wonder where all those years went.
Did not want a cabbage or any doll
I had a cabbage to my grandma's made ours
The boombox was key!
I couldn’t be the only one teary-eyed watching this. This actually hurt a little.
its okay brodie.
@@skrapelotto You were a mistake and your parents don't have the guts to tell you. When you gonna move out of mom's basement and lose your v card? Never? That figures.
@@jerm2011 Lol Im 21 & A home owner brodie😂 & I just had a girl spend a night 2 nights ago. I understand your anger tho ❤️
@@skrapelotto "Brodie" Dude you sound like an idiot. And just because that neighbor kid let's you do that shyt to him doesn't make him a girl.
K "Brodie"? Whoa, you gonna go surf some gnar gnars now, brocephus? Totally righteous! I'm a "homeowner" Brodie, totally dude! 😎🤙
@@jerm2011 Lol i feel u folkz 😂
The 80's were the best! If you got to grow up anytime in the 50's through the 90's with all the golden classic, music, movies and concerts, YOU were very blessed!
Being a kid in the 80s was the absolute best!
Yes I totally agree with you, some of my greatest memories of my life were from those days.
This brings back so many memories. The 80s were an amazing time to grow up.
Teenager in the late 80s myself! Damn it was the best….music, dancing, movies, arcades and just being a kid. No social media and engrossed on the cell….like I’m doing right now 😂
Derrick Thomas! Man what a player.
i agree! but each times have their + and -
I'm 53 yrs old now...I graduated in 1988...I am especially proud to say that I got to grow up in the 80s!!!
The 80s in my opinion will always be the GREATEST ERA/DECADE TO EVER COME AROUND!!!
The music from the 80s will never be forgotten & will still today be heard on radio stations around the states!!!
Much love from Mobile Alabama.
Class of '88 here too! There's not so many of us, '69-'70 was a low in the birth rate.
❤️!
I'm 52 born 69 BEST TIMES EVER TO BE A KID IN 80S TO BE 52 NOW!!
Also 88 grad
Class of 86 and I agree!!
Hard to believe those of us who grew up as teens in the 80's are now in our late 40's to early 60's. It feels like yesterday and is full of amazing memories. Too bad I took it for granted and wanted to turn 21 "like tomorrow duuuude, Duuuuh"
YES❤❤
I can’t begin to tell you how magical it was to grow up in the 80s . I was born in 73 so I was an 80s kid from the time I was 7 until the time I was 17 . It was awesome !!!!
The 80’s was a fantastic decade, ESPECIALLY FOR MUSIC!! Im so glad I experienced it, real time!!
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Totally agree! The best music just exploded all over…hard rock, pop, New Wave…❤️
@@stellamartin1145 No pop.
No new wave.
NO GRUNGE!
METAL! 🤘
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@@waspbitch6014 A lot of 'metal' in the 80's was grade A crap... and it got worse towards the end of the decade. Give me the more extreme stuff like Death metal and Black metal that popped up in the 90s any day. A lot of the hardcore type fusion that was happening at that point was great too. So many harder based bands that weren't exactly metal, primarily influenced by hard rock proto-metal like Black Sabbath, like Alice n Chains and Soundgarden were also shoved into that 'Grunge' category, so I'd also have to disagree with you on that one.
@@Fiveash-Art Then I'm afraid we will have to agree to disagree.
Not into Death metal.😝
Never did it for me.
🤘 W.A.S.P. FOREVER 🤘
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The 80’s was the last decade where kids would go outside to play
Not true, I grew up in the 2000s and I was outside all the time with my friends, not just playing video games. These days kids are always indoors
@@ndhickson3599but it is important to remember that is not just purely because of video games. It is for multiple reasons, such as:
A. There are a lot more people today, meaning that there are more cars on the road, so kids can’t play on the road.
B. People are a lot more educated about potential risks such as kidnapping, p3dos, etc. As these issues are taken more seriously today than in the 80s, no parent would be comfortable with their 6 year old leaving the house, not telling them where they are going and not coming back until dark.
C. There are many laws in place preventing parents from allowing their kids to do this kind of stuff. For example, a 6 year old leaving the house by himself to go to the other side of town to meet up with his friends. A parent would lose custody over their kid and be charged with neglect if they were to allow something like this to occur.
I grew up in the 90's,... spent more time outside than in.
Its true..... Now some may say the 90s or whatever so the exact cut of date is a gray area.
What I will say is that being a child of the 80s, I can relate more to childhoods of the 40s and 50s than to modern day childhoods.
Drinking out of a garden hose; not necessarily your own, riding your bikes around, walking to school with your friends, repeats of older comedies on after school (WKRP, Happy Days, etc……)
I'm 45, born in 1978, and so much of this video are so relatable. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Born in 1976, raised in the 80's. Best decade in this countries history!
Agreed I was born in 75
Born in '56 and raised in the 60's. Wish I'd have been able to do my school years back in the 50's though, the very best time to be a kid.
76!! 🎉❤
Born in '79, this is so accurate. I'll never forget the first time I played Nintendo...was Christmas Day of '86 or '87. My cousin got it that morning and he was beside himself with excitement. We pretty much spent the whole day playing Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. I didn't get my own Nintendo until about a year or two later.
Born in 77 here and I remember Nintendo like it was yesterday! But Atari! Now that was the shiz! Frogger!
@@masterofwit339 Oh yeah, Atari ruled as well!
Same here on New Year's Eve to be exact. My parents and all of us kids played Nintendo. Super Mario Bros mainly. 😂
@@will.a.benjamin Sure did!
‘78
It was the best times
Born in 76, throughly an 80s kid, although I remember the late 70s. Damn, the 80s were awesome! Loved the music, movies, cartoons, playing outside, arcades, Nintendo, squirt guns that looked real (no one got shot), going to the library to read choose your own adventure, etc....man it was fun. Birth of the computer revolution, wow, just wow.
I was born in 1976 also.
76 baby here. Bmx bikes big league chew malls with arcades I LOVED choose your own adventure books
Friendlies restaurants soccer practice
Lazer tag playing gi Joe in the yard
When the nerds candy came out…
@@jayrober4834 MacGyver
Nate you remember the late 70's when you were walking around when you were 2 haha
@@monolithgeometry3221 I was born in 82. I remember the 80's. Maybe it's blurred now from the internet and social media. SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS NO DVR OR PAUSING THE TV. GREAT CONTENT! 🇺🇲 👍
I was in my 20's in the 1980's.... living in D.C. and in college.... what a GREAT time to be alive! The music, the clubs, the style. Punk and new wave was the rage and we were
dancing the night away..... it's a wonder I actually graduated LOL! Love this time of my life, and now I'm in my 60's! How the heck did that happen?
Remember Captain 20? Lol dc and pgc were cool
How about Captain Chesapeake (channel 45)
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9:30 Club
I was born in 67 , The 80's will always be in my heart! Can never be replicated but love the movies that try ❤
In 1981 I was 11 and now a 52 year old man. This decade couldn’t have been more important in my life. The video is exactly everything I remember. Thanks for this. It made me smile happily yet sadly emotional to see my teen-years on screen of gone carefree days. 🇨🇦👍🏼
in 1981 i was one.... some might argue i grew up in the 90's (going from 10 in '90 to 19 in '99) but the 80's left such a mark and have more vivid memories from that era then anything else..
Ain't it astounding how teenagers today have all the stuff we dreamed would make life cool and easy, but turns out ours was cool and easy, fun, freer, than now, they have a computer in their pocket, a phone you can see who you're talking to, autonomous cars are here, equality is the best ever though they act like it doesn't exist, even if we felt bored we were twice as active as today. They have what we wished for, and they're miserable. Maybe we messed up...I knew it would end, just didn't know I'd want it back so bad. Oh, I was 12 in 80, 22 and already headed to war in 90.
@@masterofsparkshwy6974 facts💯
i know how you feel. I was 9 in '81. A great decade in which to grow up. I remember the excitement of waiting for my favourite songs to play on the radio so I could record them. Also, Pac Man and Space Invaders in the arcade and the first home computer we got around 1984.
Barry we are the exact same age
I was 19 when the Eighties began, the same age as Matthew Broderick and Michael J Fox...now we're all 60 year old men! Man, time flies! 😮
Same here, 19 in 1980. What a decade to be in your 20s, huh?😎
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~ Groucho Marx
@@SMac-bq8sk Haha!! Great quote!
Yup same here.. good times those truly were the days. Anna In Ohio
@@dougmorris9317 lol that’s depressing. I’m getting to close for comfort to my 30’s and feel like graduation in 2012 was just yesterday. Time does indeed fly.
Hi. I'm 59 so I know how you feel 😌 😏
Oh my gosh....what a fun childhood. Born in 1970 I experienced all the 70s and 80s music, toys, t.v. shows. What a magical time to grow up. I so miss the family values, the patriotism, the close knit neighborhoods. Saturday morning cartoons, home cooked family dinners at the table, playing outside until the sun went down. Such a simpler time where people seemed happier and more connected. Today's culture is so artificial and cold and people seem to isolate themselves more than ever before. So sad.
Grew up in the 80’s. Best decade ever!
I hit 21 in the early 80's and what a fun and wild time it was :) . Malls were always the place to be and the fashions were so much fun
So true
Who knew malls would go downhill, right? Back then, it was unimaginable that malls could lose steam.
I wish I would of been 21 in the 80's after the 90's things started to suck
The 1980s was such a colorful and phenomenal decade! It was the peak for pop culture and the best ten years of human civilization. We have gone downhill ever since the '80s ended. I wish I was a teen or in my 20s during this era. Long live the '80s!
I was 16 in 1980, so I was young in the 80's but a kid in the 1970's.... Nothing compares to, the terrific 1970's !!
Similar with me - I was 18 in 1980. So the 60s, 70s, and 80s were special years to me.
The 70s were terrible. Vietnam, gas rationing, high unemployment, high inflation, the cold war at its peak, and worst of all, disco music. No. The 80s and 90s were the best
@@Styxswimmer every decade had really bad stuff happening politically and otherwise but no I grew up in both the 70s and 80s and the 70s were the best
@sleepingwithcats5121 and what was bad about the 80s? In the 70s the economy was terrible whereas in the 80s and 90s we had an economic boom. Everything was better.
@@Styxswimmer what a kill joy. Not everything is about the economy. Woah
Well I was born in 1988 so I grew up in the 90's, but I can still appreciate most of the things in this video. I like a lot of things from the 80's to this day.
90s were still alit better then the current few decades we've been through.
Going to Blockbuster was an event! I was in high school and college in the 80s and my husband and I would have date nights at Blockbusters! Always hated when you would see that the movie you wanted was not available but you always could get lucky by going to the front desk and seeing if the movie you wanted was just in a stack to be rewound and placed back in the cabinet. This is where the term "Be kind, rewind" started.
Blockbuster was love/hate. They had all the movies,🤗 but were pure evil to your bank account if you were like 17 seconds late returning a tape.😠
I do have to admit the music of the decade was fantastic, though.🤙🤙
@@gillboardman8998 Oh ya I remember that! It was like a sprint to the Blockbuster to make sure you get the tape back in time or it was expensive! And it was not like I had a lot of spare $$'s at the time.
same here.. we loved Blockbuster. And it was always the best gift to give to friends and family gift cards in a basket with treats like bags of popcorn, cookies, candy huge hit. Anna In Ohio
Oh I totally remember that. Going to a video store was an event often done Friday night to get ready for the weekend
I always thought the drop box was awsome... dont know why.
Graduated high school in 1985 and wouldn’t change those years for anything! So many wonderful memories and genuine happiness! Wish my 19 year old son could have experienced the same!
Graduated in 1984...and you are right, those were good memories!
Sad kids today won’t experience what we had
The 80s were the best. There was a freedom to the 80s that there isn't today. Especially as a kid. I remember running around with the neighborhood kids all day without any supervision. Riding our bikes to the arcade, penny candy store, and playing capture the flag. I remember wearing a pair of Punky Brewster tennis shoes with different colored laces and being really proud of them. My sister and I would record ourselves like we were a radio station, singing the songs lol. I guess we had to get creative, not having the internet.
Miss the ‘80’s and the magical atmosphere of the malls!
One of my best memories of the 80s was playing Ms. Pac Man at Pizza Hut on those table top machines they had. I wasn't very good at it at all back then, but it was just as fun to watch others play it who were good. Everyone else would gather around and watch too.
Man, those joysticks were so freaking greasy. Hunched over, with your breath steaming up that glass top. Trying to take a drink from your soda between levels. Awesome.
Sounds like the cocktail cabinets those were neat to play on since you didn't have to stand up.
So you’re the one person who liked playing Ms. Pac-Man, instead of just Pac-Man.
@@spankynater4242, no. I did, too. Also @ Pizza Hut, with the rest of my quarters in the jukebox.
Pizza Hut was even better back then. The dough was still mixed in the store. Frozen discs are used now, and it’s just not the same.
My favorite part of the 80's was the music that is now called "hair metal". I went to so many concerts back then, with my big hair, fringed leather jacket and acid washed jeans.
Did you write in to Metal Edge and say how thrash metal was garbage?
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@@hmpz36911 Yes! And had their posters of my favorite bands taped all over my bedroom walls!
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@@waspbitch6014 Hahaha Thrash vs Glam, fun times
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Phones that hung on a wall with a cord. Cable boxes that had an a/b switch. Djakkar and polo cologne. Blue jean jackets with rock groups on it. Concert tickets for 20 bucks. Boom boxes with homemade straps on it. Book covers with crazy artwork on it. Atari and intellevision. And tons of time outside playing sports going to meet friends and camping in wisconsin. I really do miss the 80s.
Not enough room to write all the wonderful things about this time of our past. Seemed like the perfect balance of technology and old school values.
It was such a simpler time in the 80’s. This video brought back so many childhood memories for me. It was like a walk down memory lane. I truly miss those times
I was about 8 years old in the mid '70s. My dad ran a youth group with the local church. I loved hanging out with the "big" 14 and 15 year olds. Getting some old canvas army tents and pitching them in a national park and cooking on fire for a week was an ordinary thing.
I cant imagine it happening now.
Well, you have to move on and make sure you do it right! Not many people even try to make the best of the present anymore because they’re lazy!
Let’s not forget some of the other excellent TV shows from the 80’s; Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Airwolf, and who could ever forget Miami Vice.
Exactly what I came here to type but you bet me to it!😂👍🏼
Knight Rider? 👍🏾👌🏾💯
Dallas. MASH. Little House. Love Boat. Fantasy Island.
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The A-Team, Air Wolf, Knight Rider, Auto-Man, Dukes of Hazzard, Magnum PI, Dallas, Dynasty, Knotts Landing, Incredible Hulk, Hawaii Five-0 were my favorites.
Born in 1980. 80’s & 90’s were the greatest time in all human history folks.
Thank you for taking me down memory lane. So glad I grew up in the 80s.
I remember going to the all-you-can-eat buffet at Pizza Inn on Tuesday night. The place was packed and the waiting line was always out the front door.
Pizza Inn was the best back then.
I lived in Lewisville,tx and it was every Thursday at pizza Inn for us.
Blockbuster wasn't really big until the very late 80s. It was really more of a 90s phenomenon. If you grew up in the 80s, you were still going to the local, neighborhood video rental store.
Totally, was going to say the same thing. The local video shops were so much better than Blockbuster.
They also had the room where you had to walk through the swinging saloon doors - thats where they kept the golden oldies that required I.D.! 😁😅
The synthesizer music at the beginning automatically put a smile on my face. God, I loved the 80s--best time of my life!
Me too! Where can I find it?
I woke up an hour ago (middle of the night) from a horrible nightmare and immediately put 80’s sitcom openings on. Ohhh the nostalgia. People who didn’t grow up in that era just won’t ever understand how purely amazing it was. No cell phones. You played outside until the street lights came on. Families ate dinner together. It was a literal dream compared to todays society. This actually makes me a little sad. Getting older is scary. That said, I’m among my people in this comment section!
Well said. Kids today will never know the joys of a childhood with freedom and imagination.
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This was the golden age of family sitcoms, Cosby show , growing pains , ALF, who’s the boss, full house and many more, these were inoffensive family friendly shows that once the 90’s started those types of shows gradually disappeared , sitcoms today are more raunchy/snarky
Don't forget the greatest of all time, "Cheers"!🍻
Ah sitcoms! Love ‘em.
I think the crude humor of sitcoms began with Married with Children. Great show!
You obviously didn't watch Three's Company if you thought there weren't raunchy shows in the 80s.
I graduated high school in 1987! What an awesome time I had. Roller skating every Friday and Saturday night then staying at a friends house! Fashion was just fun for both boys and girls. Swatch watches, mini skirts, mesh, neon, parachute pants, you couldn’t wrong! Anyone remember having a tail in your hair? The adults probably thought we were nuts, but as a kid, it was glorious! I miss those days but glad I got to be part of it as a teenager! Great video!
I graduated in 88 yes I remember going roller skating and mini skirts🥰 I do remember seeing some girls in high school with tails in their hair it was so totally cool. I loved making mixed tapes to listen to on my Walkman or just buying anything by Teena Marie who I still love to listen to and always will. The 80s was a beautiful time the best of times so glad I had a chance to be a part of it!
Yes! My brother had a "rat tail". The longer the better. Lol
I did the 2 lines shaved down each side of my head. I also must confess even as a dude I was into the jelly bracelets.
Fellow 1987 graduate. Nothing can touch those days man! If we could throw the kids of today in a big time machine and land them in the 1980’s …they’d get a great taste of pure adolescent FUN! No helicopter Moms & actually playing touch football, whiffle ball, frisbee, hide and seek, jamming with a boom box on the local corner, having a corner store (that was a Ma & Pa owned shop) riding BMX bikes, & countless other things to do physically! These millennial kids either would see what they missed out on or cry for their Mommy’s because they may actually have to sweat a bit! lol yes the 1980’s was the last decade before the social media madness took over peoples brains 🧠. And not in a good way LONG LIVE THE KIDS OF THE 1980’s.
I miss it! When I think of the coolest and best dressed people I've ever seen I still think of middle school in the 80s. Everyone had their own style. One girl would wear long johns under her Jams with a military jacket and spiked hair. Others would be decked out in colorful Esprit. But we all still worshipped the LL Bean catalog -- you could be all over the place and it all worked! I passed my old high school the other day- everyone- boys and girls- all in giant, hideous sweatshirts and sweatpants or giant jeans. You can't tell the difference between the sees. I'm predicting a giant decline in our birthrate in the future!
I can’t watch too much of this cause it will have me in tears. Damn I miss those days. Family friends were everything.
Saturday morning cartoons, never wanting to be in the house but rather hanging with many friends outside. No cell phone or computers. Rocking to the best music. Dances. Community sports, arcades, pool halls. The BEST years ❤
Spot on. I'm 50yo and often think of those days. Probably too much. Glad you're paying attention to the details. Those little details were why the 80's was such a uniquely great time to grow up. Keep up the good work.
I'm 50 too, feels unreal to be this age. The 80s weren't perfect, but it was a great time to be a teenager and am grateful to have lived it. I think of those days all the time.
@@walkingthepath4964 Yep. Me too. Everyday I remember something that was unique to the 80's, making it such a great time. But when they made the kids stop cruising on a Saturday night, I knew real troubled change was coming.
i'm 52 so you must be my age.
@@walkingthepath4964 Unreal, indeed. I have to remind myself all the. LOL I just hope some old days ways, will come back around....at least in part.
@@karlhelm875 I am in the same age group. I had the permed hair with the big bangs, tied big pom poms to my rental skates at the roller rink, wore shoulder pads in my sweaters, owned jelly shoes, remember Debbie Gibson, and remember Teddy Ruxpin when I babysit for people.
I was 4 in 1980. I remember cartoons after school like he-man, g i joe, and thundercats. Then the family shows came on like Brady bunch, what’s happening, different strokes, etc.
I remember that Brady Bunch was in reruns on TBS. I also remember watching ThunderCats and he man She-Ra, G.I., Joe, maybe even my little pony or Care Bears. I’m definitely an 80s girl. Yes, even I was into he-man. I still have my two action figures the only ones I ever had - Prince Adam and Man - E - faces.
Literally everything here applies to me growing up in the 80’s in So. Cal. For me it was also skateboarding, slip and slide, roller skating with neighbors, Castle Golf, Atari, riding in back of trucks, Movie viewing parties(Grease, Purple Rain, ET, Beverly Hills Cop, Poltergeist),Transformers, Lakers Showtime Basketball, BMX Bikes(GT) and so much more. 80’s were the best times!!!
The best part of the 1980s was everything! Truly. The toys, movies, music.! Clothes, hair. People were happy then! I had fun then & loved it!
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I graduated high school in 88.
The 80’s was such an awesome decade . I wish I could go back.
I also graduated in 1988. Wish we could all get into a time machine and never come back to the 21st century!!
@@QueenAlexis556 y’all all lucky man
I wish time would froze & we all be stuck in the 80's forever. All the shows on Tv like A-Team, Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazard, saturday cartoons. My parents would take us 5 kids to the mall twice a month. I would hang out at the arcade for hours. Miss my boom box with its dual cassette & detachable speakers. Life was fun, simple. There was not a lot of hate or crimes like today.😒😔
Awesome !
An '88 Senior grad here too. Now, we're all about to be senior citizens 😒
This was great!
He left out the part where you had to REWIND the cassette tape to hear your song again or when you played it so much the machine ate the tape🤣😂🤣
The good days...
How about using a pencil to fix the cassette tape?
I learned to become a tape surgeon.🤣🤣 Just give me plenty of light, 2 paper clips and a cotton towel. I saved many if mine and friends tapes eaten by tape players. My fee: Can you record a copy of a tape for me.🤣🤣
Only a couple things made me think he wasn't there. He said "They would have to wait for hours for their favorite video to come on. Not really lol They usually played the same ones over and over, we usually played the "who could name the video first game" we would usually be able to name it within a second of it coming on. I mean I guess, maybe an hour, but, usually it wasn't "waiting for hours" same with the radio thing, we would usually just call in and request it, hoping the DJ would air us asking, usually along with who we were requesting them to play the song "to" "Hey can you play Take on me? for Brian at XWY Sr high from Secret admirer" lol Those days were fun
@@Dropla how about waiting then giving up then turning the station back on later to catch the end of the video😂😂😂
Yeah, I ruined my Def Leppard tape rewinding PSSOM. LOL. The first cassette I ever bought!
growing up in the 80's was an absolute blast! What an era to be a kid! Even met my wife of 32 yrs now in 86, great times
I was a teen in the 80s. My little sister had a Cabbage Patch Doll. I remember seeing them in a department store in August at $30 a doll and people walked by because they were too expensive. By Christmas that year, those same people were paying $200+ a doll as it was the first time a toy went that ‘viral’ 🤣
barbie best
RIP John Hughes
The voice of a generation!!!
Rip British rock too
Yes, the 80’s were the best of times. Turned 10 in 81, couldn’t wait to get home from school to watch the after school special. Riding my bike over town, would be gone all day on the weekends, and you got home by dark. Getting a summer job and started to making money at 12 wasn’t much, but it was good. Going to the mall and hanging out with friends. You didn’t get in to trouble, if you did there would be sad singing and slow walking when you got home. The music at that time was great, being a teenager and seeing the hair band like Ratt, Mötley Crüe, and so on. I am grateful to experience and to live in that time.
Yes, I remember the after school specials as well and am year older than you.
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You nailed it.
Sums me up
This brought back great memories. Born in 1980 so I remember all this.
Born 1976, Switzerland. We had all the american movies, music, videogames and sports. God I miss those golden days!!
As someone who grew up mid 90s early 2000s, I grew up basically the same way as most of the stuff 80s did, blockbuster, old horror movies, mtv, Saturday mornings, being outside most of the time, wrestling fan! Was a wonderful time to have been alive.
I was so lucky to grow up in the 80’s and 90’s, such great times.
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I was a teenager in the 80s...some of my best memories include band trips, Prince concerts, summers at the Y, the best music ever, reading, and talking on the phone for hours. Good times! Oh, and Centipede!
PRINCE my very first time seeing him perform 1979 was when he became my true love! 20 concerts after! He was truly my FIRST TRUE LOVE! 💟💜
It was definitely a great time to be a kid. I was lucky enough to be a kid during this time.
It truly was a great time to be a kid back then, I really believe that we were blessed to have experienced those days I miss them now more than ever before 🤔
I was born in 76, but I can tell you this video is exactly what the 80s were all about.
I miss my childhood and the 80s were a great time to be a kid, teenager, and young adult.
OMG! Saturday mornings, I wish there was still hours like that of great cartoons. Yes, Saturday mornings were always something to look forward too, definitely. Cartoons that were just pure fun and enjoyment, they had no narratives to keep up with, nothing, just pure simple childlike entertainment.
I the 80’s I finished nursing school and then the answer to prayer came when my husband got stationed in Hawaii and we were there for 5 years. Best 5 of my life.
My wife and I often tell our kids we wished they could experience how we grew up. Good times
Simple times but the best
We’ve raised ours as close to how we lived in the 80’s
My cats still use old fashion toys ! String shoe lace and bent twister ties
My teen and young adult years. Was 11 1/2 when the decade started, 21 when it ended. I was in Junior high/High school in the early-mid 80's, in the US Navy from 1986-89. I remember everything the narrator described!
Thank you! for military service Elwin38
me too! same age
I loved the big hair. The 80s was an awesome decade!! 🩷
My obsession with trying to reconnect to my childhood keeps me coming back to videos like this one. It's a constant quest to squeeze just a few more seconds of nostalgic euphoria out of my brain, or rediscover one more lost memory from growing up. I can't put it into words, but I have a feeling I am not the only one here on that quest. There's something special about the magic of childhood. As author Robert McCammon said in his book "Boy's Life" - “Don’t be in a hurry to grow up. Hold on to being a boy as long as you can, because once you lose that magic, you’re always begging to find it again.”
I think a lot of us do that. It's sad to feel like the best days of your life are behind you. But the world is so dark and uncertain now. The 80s were the best . We need a DeLorean that goes back to the 80s
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I was only 12 years old the night New Years Eve gave way to the 1980's, and Blondie was performing Dreaming on the Dick Clark New Years Rockin Eve...it was by far the coolest decade. It was wholesomely weird and I loved every moment!
Thank you for sharing this video, it brought back so many wonderful memories.
my absolute favorite New Years Eve was '86 into '87 i was 6 years old.. I was part of a massive extended family of cousins, aunts and uncles.. Everyone was over including neighbors and other friends of the family.. We had chinese food and i sipped champagne.. but the highlight of the night was watching my cousins play Castlevania on my Nintendo in its entirety ( since i could never make it that far) it was all very exciting Good times. somehow nothing will ever top that new years for me....
Pizza Hut in my neighborhood was the place to be, there weren't too many pizza buffets in my small Canadian town that I grew up in. You could get a pitcher of Pepsi and all you can eat pizza for $10
This was perfect! Everything from Saturday morning cartoons with a giant bowl of sugary cereal, to mixed tapes, to Garbage Pail Kids, to afternoons pumping quarters in arcade machines. My childhood in 9 minutes and 20 seconds. I'm in nostalgia overload! Your channel never disappoints!
I was a Mom who gave birth in 1985, I loved all of this stuff with him. I was 27.
You said it
I remember Cookie Crisp cereal, the mixed tapes, putting quarters in arcade machines to play Mrs. Pac Man.
I am so blessed to have grown up in the 80s.... the greatest possible time in human history to grow up.
The 80’s were so great the music the fashion the whole culture of the 80’s everything about that era was great. Nothing compares to the 80’s. No other generation will ever get it. Wish I could just go back in time for a little bit.