You might be a child of the 80's if...

• You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off. Or even when he had those freaky eyes in "Thriller" at the end of the video.
• You wore a banana clip or one of those slap on wrist bands at some point during your youth.
• You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours.
• You have seen at least 10 episodes of Fraggle Rock.
• You'll always hold a special place in your heart for "Back to the Future."
• You know where to go if you "wanna go where everybody knows your name."
• You ever wore fluorescent—neon if you will—clothing...
• You could breakdance, or wished you could.
• You remember when ATARI was a state-of-the-art video gaming system.
• You own any cassettes or albums.
• "Poltergeist" totally freaked you out.
• You had a crush on one of the Coreys (Haim or Feldman).
• You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good movie.
• You have heard of "Garbage Pail Kids" (and perhaps still have a collection of them).
• You owned a Jordache anything, or you remember when Jordache jeans were cool.
• Chevy Chase was really funny in those vacation movies.

• You wanted to be a Goonie ("Goonies never say die.")

Feel free to add more...

 

Oh-My-Gawd......sooooo-true:&

Poltergeist-*cries*

 

hehe, i can remember most of those things, and i was born in 1989

 

oh man i'm getting old!!!

 

**** ***, blooody kids.

 

"You can remember watching Full House and Saved by the Bell for endless hours."

i reject this statement completely.


and poltergeist was my favorite movie, right up until i saw the shining (nicolson).

i'll add: you can remember when they first started selling microwaves for the home and you actually had to read the instructions...

 

I still do

 

...Robots in disguise!!

 

I have this fellow sitting on my amp. Loads of parts are missing or broken, but he's an original, not one of the reissues. I've been thinking about getting a reissue to use for repair parts (Phool_13 and his money )

 

Which brings me to:

You might be a child of the 80's if you're still bitter about Optimus Prime being killed off in the movie.

Extra points if you remember how he came back

 

and-how-did-you-acquire-such-an-item-Mr-Poo-13?

disclaimer:-this-question-is-completely-unstaged

 

There should be one for the 70s. I will therefore attempt to do this meself.

YOU MIGHT BE A CHILD OF THE 70s IF....

You saw the ORIGINAL Star Wars, in a theatre.
More than once.
At least one of your teachers wore some large trinket on a chain, like Mrs. Roper out of Three's Company.
Appliances were in baby crap/pea soup yellow, or that hideous avocado green, or a dusky crap brown.
You've ever eaten anything made with carob.
Gordon from Sesame Street was balding, but in fact had hair.
You've ever spied on your parents (or a parent of a childhood friend) meditating or doing some other freaky New Age stuff.
It was VERY difficult to get in trouble, especially at school (emphasis was on caring, empathy, understanding etc)

 

Cheers, Claire. I did need to have that question asked, explanation at the end

I had a friend in primary school. I'll call him Matthew, because that was his name. He was the original owner of Optimus Prime, but I swapped with him. I got Optimus and Ravage for...umm...I can't remember them all. But I remember swapping Cosmos, the little fat UFO guy that nobody liked and probably had his lunch money nicked by Omega Supreme.



You might be a child of the 80's if you remember swapsies. Mini Boglins, Monsters In My Pocket, Transformers, video games/video game consoles (I regularly swapped consoles with friends for a week or two, just so we could both have a bit of a change)

That's just reminded me, one of my friends still has my Super Bomberman cart. The bastard

 

Hippy-army-on-it's-way-brother

 

I'm always bragging about how I went to school in the eighties, Grange Hill Stylie!!! I pretty much ticked EVERYTHING on that list! Even the crush on Corey Feldman! what a legend.

 

why the hell would you part with a Super Bomberman cart??!! Snes or Megadrive?

 

Megadrive = Genesis for you USian folk

 

you remember when devo, fab five freddie and madonna were heard on the same radio station...

 

SNES. I completed it as well.

Another one for the list:

You remember a day when games didn't have photo-realistic graphics, voice actors or even any voices come to think of it, but you played them again and again. This could also apply to the 70s, I guess...


By the way, it was two months late to be part of the eighties, but I'd just like to cast my vote for Super Mario Brothers III as the best console video game ever