You know you loved the 80's when....

**Betamax** · June 18th, 2004

You remember: "Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo".

Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken.

You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby".

You wore one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat (Global Hypercolour).

You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off".

You can remember watching Saved by the Bell

You could break dance (ok, you wished you could)

You remember M.C. Hammer.

You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"....

You can remember when he was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince NOT just plain Will Smith!

You own cassettes

You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET lunchbox.

You can sing the song 'Where are you all coming from'

girls) You loved My Little Pony.

girls) You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the "Care Bear stare."

boys) You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"

You ever had a Swatch Watch.

you spent hours in the basement building and re- building Lego cities.

Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go.

With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to Kylie and Jason!

girls) You ever made Ken fall in love with Barbie.

You know what " Psyche" means

Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.

boys) You knew that Transformers were "robots in disguise". >

You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good film.

You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in space.

You had a pair of leg warmers or a shell suit.

girls) You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish.

You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box.

Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's "Big 80s"

You can name all the characters on Sesame Street.

You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces.

You still don't like going in the sea because of Jaws.

You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank.

Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite programme.

Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow featured heavily in your wardrobe.

Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings were like a shield of steel.

You still remember when the A-ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology and you can still sing all the words.

girls) Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt.

You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front the car - so it looked like KITT.

You've ever seen a girl, a clown and noughts and crosses on your TV.

You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word "Exterminate!".

Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie boots, generally worn with leg warmers.

Boys) You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally worn with white towelling socks.

You tried to do the splits while jumping in the air singing you were going to live forever.

You remember Fingermouse

You loved Dangermouse (not forgetting his trusty sidekick Penfold!)

You know all the words to "Hey Mickey" (well, nobody knows past the first verse anyway).

You remember Wagon Wheels being a lot bigger

Your best mate had a Soda Stream at home and you were jealous.

You remember crying on the beach building sandcastles in the rain.

Hide and seek in the park, the corner shop.

You thought pong was state of the art

You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly.

You got up extra early, especially to watch Saturday Morning cartoons

You were occasionally allowed to stay up late for Howard's Way, Dallas,Dynasty or Minder.

Using the bed as a trampoline.

Pillow fights.

Hong Kong Fuey was a number one super guy

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.

You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.

Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"

Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

UK Specific ones
-------------------------

You wanted Jim to Fix It for you.

You wondered why a popular kids TV programme told you to "Turn off >your TV set and go and do something less boring instead".

You've ever had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up.

You remember watching a house inhabited by a jester, a pantomime horse and a woman who sneezed, and thinking that this was perfectly normal.

Ooh, you could crush a grape!

You've ever held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose.

Trains in Wales went "Pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf".

You remembered Look In magazine, and when it was only 20p and Monster Munch when they were 10p.

Any elderly Scottish lady sounds like Supergran

Hopscotch, skipping, handstands, football in the park/street, British Bulldog, Beano, Twinkle, Hula Hoops,

and finally:

you own a betamax VCR !!!!!
:thewave:

**Prafull** · June 18th, 2004

One more: If you read all the above lines.

**cooliscool** · June 18th, 2004

Who here remembers Duran Duran?

Good stuff. (don't tell N1ghtw0lf this

)

MaZa · June 18th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arjun

One more: If you read all the above lines.

WHEH! I Didnt read past halfway...

Quote:

boys) You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!"

Wasnt it, By The Power (poser?) Of Great Skull?

**Betamax** · June 18th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by cooliscool

Who here remembers Duran Duran?

Good stuff. (don't tell N1ghtw0lf this

)

Well I remember they were named after a character from barbarella, but enough said about that

Ghale0n · June 18th, 2004

He-Man owned!!

the new He-Man series are just pathetic

MaZa · June 18th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ghale0n

He-Man owned!!

the new He-Man series are just pathetic

YEAH! True He-man 0wnZ! God, why they dont show originals again on TV...

I have been wishing that for years...

**I-Chan** · June 18th, 2004

Man, the A-ha video was great! When i saw it i was like

They've entered the comic's world!

Sweet childhood, i Remember. How is that "The Goonies" isn't mentioned there? Or "The NeverEnding Story"? What about "Labyrinth"?

**Kane** · June 18th, 2004

Oh ****e. I can identify with.... all of those....

>Wasnt it, By The Power (poser?) Of Great Skull?

'By the power of Greyskull'
Then as he's changing he yells:
'I have the power!'

Oten · June 18th, 2004

yah....HE-Man, i'm not alone in my childhood momories...
i can't say i love the 80's but almost all the senteces made sense to me and made remmeber sommeting about my early years

....
....
the scary part is that i remeber the time a tought duran duran rocked on par with queen...two of my childhood musical idoles....

i had a strange childhood.....

Esturk · June 18th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by I-Chan

Man, the A-ha video was great! When i saw it i was like

They've entered the comic's world!

Sweet childhood, i Remember. How is that "The Goonies" isn't mentioned there? Or "The NeverEnding Story"? What about "Labyrinth"?

Yeah, Take on Me was a great song too.

**Betamax** · June 18th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaZa

YEAH! True He-man 0wnZ! God, why they dont show originals again on TV...

I have been wishing that for years...

Broadcasting rights. Without going into all the details, when filmnation went bust, the rights to the original series somehow ended up in hallmarks hands, and they aren't the type of broadcaster who would normally run such a series

. Wierd thing is how they haven;t sold them to anyone else though (or maybe they did for the creation of the new series.... I dunno

)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kane-Sama

Oh ****e. I can identify with.... all of those....

Wot? Including the my little pony one?

Grv · June 18th, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Betamax

You can remember watching Saved by the Bell
..
You remember M.C. Hammer.
..
You can remember when he was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince NOT just plain Will Smith!
..
You own cassettes
..
you spent hours in the basement building and re- building Lego cities.
..
You know what " Psyche" means
..
boys) You knew that Transformers were "robots in disguise". >
..
You loved Dangermouse (not forgetting his trusty sidekick Penfold!)
..
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
..
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
..
Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
..
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.

..

Still, I can assure you I did not love the 80's as much as I did the 90's.

**fivefeet8** · June 18th, 2004

-You watched every episode of Robotech on TV.
-You like watching Rainbow Bright
-You collected Garbage Pail Kids cards
-You watched both Voltron cartoons on TV(Lions and Cars)
-You watched Godzilla movies
-You pretended you were Liono of the Thundercats and screamed
"thunder, Thunder, thundercats, Hoooooooo!!!!!"

Ah.. Voltron, Robotech, and godzilla. The precursurs to what is now on TV for kids.

hellmasterx · June 18th, 2004

-You watched Thundercats

i still remenber the theme song.

ShadowDancer · June 18th, 2004

This is embarassing but since I don't know anyone here personally, I'll tell ya.

When I used to watch Voltron, I used to imitate the lion forming sequence with the growls and everything.

"And I'll form the head"

**fivefeet8** · June 18th, 2004

We use to have a whole bunch of Voltron Toys. I loved being the Black Lion.

Damn, we should've kept those toys cause they are worth tons of money nowadays.

My brother recently got those Metallic Voltron models. All 5 Lions. He keeps it safely aways from kids though since it's worth so much. I just want to play with the damn thing, but he won't let me.

ShadowDancer · June 18th, 2004

Voltrons were super cool especially when the pilots and their lions came out of their unique tunnels and stuff. OMG I loved that part.

http://www.glacius.net/index2.htm

Go to the cartoon section to see the openings of some shows.

I even remember lame shows like Jem. I loved the opening though.

Oh yeah, I used to love the opening music of Transformers and Visionaries.

**Kanodin** · June 18th, 2004

mwhahah Thundercats rocked..... snarf snarf snaaaaaaaaaarf.... man ET was the shiz... and I loved my Gremlins lunchbox... ahhh yes the good ol days...

Keith · June 18th, 2004

heh I am an oldie .. 28 years old and I remember all those. Great lists guys.

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Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,480	You know you loved the 80's when.... You remember: "Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo". Friendship bracelets were ties that couldn't be broken. You know all the words to "Ice Ice Baby". You wore one of those T-shirts that changed colour with heat (Global Hypercolour). You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off". You can remember watching Saved by the Bell You could break dance (ok, you wished you could) You remember M.C. Hammer. You can still sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air".... You can remember when he was Jazzy Jeff and The fresh Prince NOT just plain Will Smith! You own cassettes You carried your lunch to school in a Gremlins, ALF or ET lunchbox. You can sing the song 'Where are you all coming from' girls) You loved My Little Pony. girls) You actually spent countless hours trying to perfect the "Care Bear stare." boys) You believed that "By the power of Greyskull, you HAD the power!" You ever had a Swatch Watch. you spent hours in the basement building and re- building Lego cities. Big wheels and BMX's were the way to go. With your pink (or blue) portable tape player, you sang to Kylie and Jason! girls) You ever made Ken fall in love with Barbie. You know what " Psyche" means Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away. boys) You knew that Transformers were "robots in disguise". > You actually thought "Dirty Dancing" was a REALLY good film. You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living in space. You had a pair of leg warmers or a shell suit. girls) You wore biker shorts underneath a short skirt and felt stylish. You recorded songs off the radio with your boom box. Somehow you still know all the words to songs played on VH1's "Big 80s" You can name all the characters on Sesame Street. You wore those wide, colourful shoelaces. You still don't like going in the sea because of Jaws. You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armoured tank. Dungeons & Dragons was your favourite programme. Cerise pink, electric blue and banana yellow featured heavily in your wardrobe. Your new winter coat was best used to demonstrate that your wings were like a shield of steel. You still remember when the A-ha video was the pinnacle of modern technology and you can still sing all the words. girls) Your best party dress was either a ra-ra or puff-ball skirt. You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front the car - so it looked like KITT. You've ever seen a girl, a clown and noughts and crosses on your TV. You hid behind the sofa whenever you heard the word "Exterminate!". Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie boots, generally worn with leg warmers. Boys) You owned a pair of pale grey slip-ons, generally worn with white towelling socks. You tried to do the splits while jumping in the air singing you were going to live forever. You remember Fingermouse You loved Dangermouse (not forgetting his trusty sidekick Penfold!) You know all the words to "Hey Mickey" (well, nobody knows past the first verse anyway). You remember Wagon Wheels being a lot bigger Your best mate had a Soda Stream at home and you were jealous. You remember crying on the beach building sandcastles in the rain. Hide and seek in the park, the corner shop. You thought pong was state of the art You remember hearing the tune then running out to buy an ice cream cone on a warm summer night - 99's, screwballs or a cider lolly. You got up extra early, especially to watch Saturday Morning cartoons You were occasionally allowed to stay up late for Howard's Way, Dallas,Dynasty or Minder. Using the bed as a trampoline. Pillow fights. Hong Kong Fuey was a number one super guy Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve. Important decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo" Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better and taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors. UK Specific ones ------------------------- You wanted Jim to Fix It for you. You wondered why a popular kids TV programme told you to "Turn off >your TV set and go and do something less boring instead". You've ever had more than 10 sweets in a 10p mix-up. You remember watching a house inhabited by a jester, a pantomime horse and a woman who sneezed, and thinking that this was perfectly normal. Ooh, you could crush a grape! You've ever held a chicken in the air or stuck a deckchair up your nose. Trains in Wales went "Pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf, pshh-t-cuf". You remembered Look In magazine, and when it was only 20p and Monster Munch when they were 10p. Any elderly Scottish lady sounds like Supergran Hopscotch, skipping, handstands, football in the park/street, British Bulldog, Beano, Twinkle, Hula Hoops, and finally: you own a betamax VCR !!!!! :thewave: __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

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I-Chan Ex Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Spain Posts: 3,085	Man, the A-ha video was great! When i saw it i was like They've entered the comic's world! Sweet childhood, i Remember. How is that "The Goonies" isn't mentioned there? Or "The NeverEnding Story"? What about "Labyrinth"? __________________ "I'm living in a dream I can't wake from" Core 2 Duo 6600 FSB 1066 \| 2048 MB DDR2 PC2 6400 800 MHZ \| NVIDIA 8800 GTS \| Sound Blaster Audigy 4 \| Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATAII+WD Caviar 250GB \| Dell 3007WFP-HC 30" Widescreen

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Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	Oh ****e. I can identify with.... all of those.... >Wasnt it, By The Power (poser?) Of Great Skull? 'By the power of Greyskull' Then as he's changing he yells: 'I have the power!' __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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Oten Theoria Poiesis Praxis Join Date: May 2003 Location: Coimbra, Portugal Posts: 170	yah....HE-Man, i'm not alone in my childhood momories... i can't say i love the 80's but almost all the senteces made sense to me and made remmeber sommeting about my early years .... .... the scary part is that i remeber the time a tought duran duran rocked on par with queen...two of my childhood musical idoles.... i had a strange childhood..... __________________ Do you know anyone like this? Long haired Metal fan Anime fanatic Computer geek ................don't think so................ Visit My PhotoBlog, because my evil Overlord demands it! (It's in Portuguese, but it's sayd that a image is worth a thousand words)

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fivefeet8 &-)---\|--< Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Smallville Posts: 7,588	-You watched every episode of Robotech on TV. -You like watching Rainbow Bright -You collected Garbage Pail Kids cards -You watched both Voltron cartoons on TV(Lions and Cars) -You watched Godzilla movies -You pretended you were Liono of the Thundercats and screamed "thunder, Thunder, thundercats, Hoooooooo!!!!!" Ah.. Voltron, Robotech, and godzilla. The precursurs to what is now on TV for kids. __________________ Play emulated games online Main Rig\|\|Intel Q6600@3.2 ghertz\|4x1gb DDR2 1066\|Asrock 1600sli 110db LGA 775\|EVGA 8800gtx@620/1450/975\|2x Seagate 160gb SATA150 Raid0\|250 gb Samsung SATA2 HD\|Seagate 7000.10 500gb HD\|NEC 3520 4x/8x DVD+R/RW DL burner\|Antec TP 650 watt\|40" Sony Bravia 1080p\|20.1" 5ms LCD 1680x1050 Native\|Logitec 5.1 Speaker System w/15" Sub\|Dual Boot Winows XP Pro/Vista 64bit\|\| 2nd Rig\|\|Athlon64 x2 3800+\|2x1 gig PC3200\|BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC @450/1250 agp\|60 gig Maxtor IDE HD 7200 RPM\|40 gig Maxtor IDE HD\|Asrock Dual SATA2\|Silver Aluminum ATX\|17" LCD\|\| 3rd Rig\|\|Athlon Xp 2800+\|1.5 gig PC2700\|BFG GeforceFx 5900 Ultra OC agp\|100 gig Maxtor SATA HD\|NF7-s rev2.0\|Nvidia Soundstorm MCP\|19" CRT\|\| Last edited by fivefeet8; June 18th, 2004 at 17:33.

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hellmasterx He's watching you. Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: RD Posts: 1,222	-You watched Thundercats i still remenber the theme song. __________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Boom Boom Dollar!!!!!! pushing all the buttons!!!

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ShadowDancer Heh... Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Texas Posts: 1,899	This is embarassing but since I don't know anyone here personally, I'll tell ya. When I used to watch Voltron, I used to imitate the lion forming sequence with the growls and everything. "And I'll form the head"

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fivefeet8 &-)---\|--< Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Smallville Posts: 7,588	We use to have a whole bunch of Voltron Toys. I loved being the Black Lion. Damn, we should've kept those toys cause they are worth tons of money nowadays. My brother recently got those Metallic Voltron models. All 5 Lions. He keeps it safely aways from kids though since it's worth so much. I just want to play with the damn thing, but he won't let me. __________________ Play emulated games online Main Rig\|\|Intel Q6600@3.2 ghertz\|4x1gb DDR2 1066\|Asrock 1600sli 110db LGA 775\|EVGA 8800gtx@620/1450/975\|2x Seagate 160gb SATA150 Raid0\|250 gb Samsung SATA2 HD\|Seagate 7000.10 500gb HD\|NEC 3520 4x/8x DVD+R/RW DL burner\|Antec TP 650 watt\|40" Sony Bravia 1080p\|20.1" 5ms LCD 1680x1050 Native\|Logitec 5.1 Speaker System w/15" Sub\|Dual Boot Winows XP Pro/Vista 64bit\|\| 2nd Rig\|\|Athlon64 x2 3800+\|2x1 gig PC3200\|BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC @450/1250 agp\|60 gig Maxtor IDE HD 7200 RPM\|40 gig Maxtor IDE HD\|Asrock Dual SATA2\|Silver Aluminum ATX\|17" LCD\|\| 3rd Rig\|\|Athlon Xp 2800+\|1.5 gig PC2700\|BFG GeforceFx 5900 Ultra OC agp\|100 gig Maxtor SATA HD\|NF7-s rev2.0\|Nvidia Soundstorm MCP\|19" CRT\|\|

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ShadowDancer Heh... Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Texas Posts: 1,899	Voltrons were super cool especially when the pilots and their lions came out of their unique tunnels and stuff. OMG I loved that part. http://www.glacius.net/index2.htm Go to the cartoon section to see the openings of some shows. I even remember lame shows like Jem. I loved the opening though. Oh yeah, I used to love the opening music of Transformers and Visionaries. Last edited by ShadowDancer; June 18th, 2004 at 18:15.

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Kanodin Emu author Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Dunno Posts: 666	mwhahah Thundercats rocked..... snarf snarf snaaaaaaaaaarf.... man ET was the shiz... and I loved my Gremlins lunchbox... ahhh yes the good ol days...

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Keith Emulation64's Animal >:D Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: United States Posts: 1,215	heh I am an oldie .. 28 years old and I remember all those. Great lists guys. __________________ Emulation64.com \| EFx2Blogs Forums \| EFx2Blogs - Sign Up For Your Own Free EFx2Blog Today!