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Sometimes I'd wake up so early for Saturday morning cartoons that it was still the test symbol on the station and it pissed me off! So I'd pour myself a mixing bowl of cereal while I waited for cartoons LOL
Saturday morning cartoons in the summer was the only reason I kept track of what day of the week it was. I wish I could go back to relive those days. Honestly didn't appreciate how special that time was since I was just a dumb kid who thought it would keep going forever.
Absolutely spot on, I'm from the UK, a teenager thru the 80s and to see this and know what you guys felt, we did over the pond. Everything just the same, from Saturday morning cartoons, to mix cassettes, the pencil fix, Video recorders (VCRs), etc....... its a generation I'm so happy to have experienced. Then, everything was a joy, today, its too expectant. Cheers for the reminders.
Nicely done, I was born in 69' a kid in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's, Gen X , we were the last ones to experience and live life before mind numbing technology took over 👍👍👍 and yes I did subscribe,.. very well presented
Nice. I'm from England and whilst I was still a kid in the 80's, I was officially a teen in 1981, a lot of what you show here applied. Being a kid in the 70's in England? No VHS until right at the end of the decade. Rotary phones were the norm. Video games? - although they were about in maybe the mid-70's, very rare - once again, late 70's. Around 77 they would be getting common - in arcades, slowly replacing pinball etc. Into the 80's, there's so much more universal stuff, that crossed global boundaries. Chewing gum (bubble gum) was still hugely popular - having been around for decades. YoYo's - they kept making a come-back, didn't they? Often part of the marketing of soda companies - branded with Pepsi or CocaCola or Fanta - YoYo's were HUGE in the 80's. Frisbies came back into fashion for a while in some countries. I guess they never really went totally out, more that they got re-invented in terms of marketing. Overall, though, it was the advance of tech that marked the 1980s - in every sense. There was a feeling that you were living in the future. Back then, though, the USA and England (UK) were MILES apart in so many ways. The USA for us was seen as some kind of impossible land of riches, but it was also fashionable to deride it - "damn yanks" - the US was very unpopular even in England at that time. England looked toward Europe for modernity - electronic music etc. Whilst the US was still in "Big Hair Rock" territory, Europe was going through a fashion and music revolution. We were modern, we were happening - the US looked old fashioned and stuffy - screw the USA! - Down with Reagan! Fantastic time to be a kid, for sure - even better time to come of age.
Kids can experience wall of these things on youtube, and reproductions. Better yet, kids have access to better, newer technologies. Kids of the 80s did not get to experience many long dark nights under the bright stars, nor did they usually get to experience life long relationships with their horse.
A lot of televisions back then ... they didn't have remote controls, either. If you wanted to change the channel, adjust the volume, or turn it on or off, you literally had to walk up to the TV and adjust things from there. One dial changed a channel. Another adjusted the volume. And the volume dial also turned the TV set on and off. There was also a Tint dial, and it was usually located below the screen, and could be moved left and right. Babies or kids who didn't know better ... they'd adjust the tint to change the colors of the TV, setting it to all sorts of colors it wasn't supposed to show. It was a hassle for adults, but the kids got a kick out of it. It made TV feel more interactive for us.
I remember playing NARC when it came out in ‘86 or ‘87 with my best friend at the time. We eventually came in with like $ 40 each to try to beat the game, and it was so weird… At first the game presented itself as a “COPS” tv show analog, but with the added fantasy of “shooting the thugs and drug dealers”, etc. (It was Government funded Propaganda). However when you get to the end of the game it gets so over-the-top ridiculous you realize the guys who wrote it might have been on an 80’s style coke binge themselves. The final boss is just comic gold.
I remember those fucking rabbit ears! They were the bane of my childhood! Whenever they needed holding, in our family us 3 kids had to play rock, paper, scissors and whoever won that game got to hold the rabbit ears. And I just couldn't lose that game! I was a permanent rabbit ear holder.
Lol we had 3 channels as a kid in Northern California and one of them was pbs so essentially we had 2 channels. I can remember using foil balls to try to get better reception. I was the remote because i was the youngest. I remember us kids had bean bags to sit in and a special occasion would be tv trays and tv dinners that took forever to be baked in the oven. Remember the long coiled phone cord that would twist up and get super knotted. Payphones and getting in trouble for collect calls because we didnt save a couple dimes to call for a ride home. Also long distance could get very expensive. People smoked cigarettes EVERYWHERE! Before the rx drug commercials of today there were beer commercials with catchy jingles. I think our tv channels went off the air at 1 or 2 am ending the day with the national anthem. Remember being stoked it was finally Saturday you'd get up and take a blanket to the living room and sometimes you'd get cheated and bowling or golf would unexpectedly rob you of your favorite cartoon... also can remember sunday papers when the comics would be color once a week. Remember sitting for hours with the sears catalog planning your wishlist for xmas. How about sending in that penny to the record clubs to score that 6 or 12 albums depending on the offer. Or being sent to the corner store with a note to buy cigs and they would sell them to you! Lol! So many things have changed...
Speaking of 80s telephony, does America still use landlines today? I'm asking any American that reads this and wants to reply. I'm just wondering because I live in Norway and our landline system got shut down in 2015 so we only have the cellular network now so I just wanted to see if America was still in the Stone age.
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When you explained it, I got a blast of that sweet sugary movie store smell so strong, I almost saw a ET cardboard cut out in my peripheral.
Nice Video. I was 11 in 1980. I used to hang out at the arcade every weekend.
Absolutely correct. I turned 5 in 1980. All of this describes the experiences of my youth. This is exactly how we grew up. Much appreciated.
Sometimes I'd wake up so early for Saturday morning cartoons that it was still the test symbol on the station and it pissed me off! So I'd pour myself a mixing bowl of cereal while I waited for cartoons LOL
I could listen to this all day, bliss.
Saturday morning cartoons in the summer was the only reason I kept track of what day of the week it was. I wish I could go back to relive those days. Honestly didn't appreciate how special that time was since I was just a dumb kid who thought it would keep going forever.
Absolutely spot on, I'm from the UK, a teenager thru the 80s and to see this and know what you guys felt, we did over the pond. Everything just the same, from Saturday morning cartoons, to mix cassettes, the pencil fix, Video recorders (VCRs), etc....... its a generation I'm so happy to have experienced. Then, everything was a joy, today, its too expectant. Cheers for the reminders.
Same from Canada. Digital technology ruined it, for us at least.
Nicely done, I was born in 69' a kid in the 70's and a teenager in the 80's, Gen X , we were the last ones to experience and live life before mind numbing technology took over 👍👍👍 and yes I did subscribe,.. very well presented
83 here & I remember it all. Much of this carried into the early 90s. Great times.
Nice.
I'm from England and whilst I was still a kid in the 80's, I was officially a teen in 1981, a lot of what you show here applied.
Being a kid in the 70's in England? No VHS until right at the end of the decade.
Rotary phones were the norm.
Video games? - although they were about in maybe the mid-70's, very rare - once again, late 70's.
Around 77 they would be getting common - in arcades, slowly replacing pinball etc.
Into the 80's, there's so much more universal stuff, that crossed global boundaries.
Chewing gum (bubble gum) was still hugely popular - having been around for decades.
YoYo's - they kept making a come-back, didn't they?
Often part of the marketing of soda companies - branded with Pepsi or CocaCola or Fanta - YoYo's were HUGE in the 80's.
Frisbies came back into fashion for a while in some countries.
I guess they never really went totally out, more that they got re-invented in terms of marketing.
Overall, though, it was the advance of tech that marked the 1980s - in every sense.
There was a feeling that you were living in the future.
Back then, though, the USA and England (UK) were MILES apart in so many ways.
The USA for us was seen as some kind of impossible land of riches, but it was also fashionable to deride it - "damn yanks" - the US was very unpopular even in England at that time.
England looked toward Europe for modernity - electronic music etc.
Whilst the US was still in "Big Hair Rock" territory, Europe was going through a fashion and music revolution.
We were modern, we were happening - the US looked old fashioned and stuffy - screw the USA! - Down with Reagan!
Fantastic time to be a kid, for sure - even better time to come of age.
We made a tree house, an underground hut and a boat. We rented a game computer on my birthday and that was great.
With Gen X, at times is like we almost forgot our own history. Thanks for making this.
Kids can experience wall of these things on youtube, and reproductions. Better yet, kids have access to better, newer technologies. Kids of the 80s did not get to experience many long dark nights under the bright stars, nor did they usually get to experience life long relationships with their horse.
A lot of televisions back then ... they didn't have remote controls, either. If you wanted to change the channel, adjust the volume, or turn it on or off, you literally had to walk up to the TV and adjust things from there. One dial changed a channel. Another adjusted the volume. And the volume dial also turned the TV set on and off. There was also a Tint dial, and it was usually located below the screen, and could be moved left and right. Babies or kids who didn't know better ... they'd adjust the tint to change the colors of the TV, setting it to all sorts of colors it wasn't supposed to show. It was a hassle for adults, but the kids got a kick out of it. It made TV feel more interactive for us.
I remember playing NARC when it came out in ‘86 or ‘87 with my best friend at the time. We eventually came in with like $ 40 each to try to beat the game, and it was so weird… At first the game presented itself as a “COPS” tv show analog, but with the added fantasy of “shooting the thugs and drug dealers”, etc. (It was Government funded Propaganda). However when you get to the end of the game it gets so over-the-top ridiculous you realize the guys who wrote it might have been on an 80’s style coke binge themselves. The final boss is just comic gold.
I remember those fucking rabbit ears! They were the bane of my childhood! Whenever they needed holding, in our family us 3 kids had to play rock, paper, scissors and whoever won that game got to hold the rabbit ears. And I just couldn't lose that game! I was a permanent rabbit ear holder.
Man i miss the 80s. I had a great childhood. Not a very good adulthood but a good childhood nonetheless, and I definitely wish that i could go back.
Lol we had 3 channels as a kid in Northern California and one of them was pbs so essentially we had 2 channels. I can remember using foil balls to try to get better reception. I was the remote because i was the youngest. I remember us kids had bean bags to sit in and a special occasion would be tv trays and tv dinners that took forever to be baked in the oven.
Remember the long coiled phone cord that would twist up and get super knotted. Payphones and getting in trouble for collect calls because we didnt save a couple dimes to call for a ride home. Also long distance could get very expensive.
People smoked cigarettes EVERYWHERE!
Before the rx drug commercials of today there were beer commercials with catchy jingles. I think our tv channels went off the air at 1 or 2 am ending the day with the national anthem.
Remember being stoked it was finally Saturday you'd get up and take a blanket to the living room and sometimes you'd get cheated and bowling or golf would unexpectedly rob you of your favorite cartoon... also can remember sunday papers when the comics would be color once a week. Remember sitting for hours with the sears catalog planning your wishlist for xmas.
How about sending in that penny to the record clubs to score that 6 or 12 albums depending on the offer.
Or being sent to the corner store with a note to buy cigs and they would sell them to you! Lol!
So many things have changed...
Hipsters might...as long as it still exists.
Zero privacy bit like Google then 🤣
Dude you forgot the remote control on the vcr had a cord attached
Not having to do active shooter drills at school.
Speaking of 80s telephony, does America still use landlines today? I'm asking any American that reads this and wants to reply. I'm just wondering because I live in Norway and our landline system got shut down in 2015 so we only have the cellular network now so I just wanted to see if America was still in the Stone age.
US landline system still exists but it's held on by the boomer generation.