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Yep, that's pretty much how I remember it.
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Jun 4, 2018 12:47
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popular culture was absolutely crazy for fighter jets in 198X    I mean, it probably still is, but I remember them being a thing back then that they aren't now
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Jun 4, 2018 12:56
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I was never able to beat Top Gun. 
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Jun 4, 2018 13:00
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Video-game arcades in general had their heyday in the 80s; or, more commonly around where I lived, every roadside or seaside cafeteria would have a machine or two from some rental agency (they'd switch them out every so often). Shoved god alone knows how many coins into that drat Star Wars machine.
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Jun 4, 2018 13:05
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Groke posted:Video-game arcades in general had their heyday in the 80s; or, more commonly around where I lived, every roadside or seaside cafeteria would have a machine or two from some rental agency (they'd switch them out every so often). Shoved god alone knows how many coins into that drat Star Wars machine. poo poo, you'd seen them in gas stations around here, too.
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Jun 4, 2018 13:14
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Randaconda posted:poo poo, you'd seen them in gas stations around here, too. They really were everywhere through the early-mid-90's. There were some batting cages about a half-mile from where I grew up, I used to walk there with about $2 and play their arcade games after school.
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Jun 4, 2018 13:29
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Iron Crowned posted:They really were everywhere through the early-mid-90's. There were some batting cages about a half-mile from where I grew up, I used to walk there with about $2 and play their arcade games after school. Yo'd go to the store and see a random SFII cabinet. Randaconda has a new favorite as of 14:44 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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Jun 4, 2018 13:59
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Randaconda posted:Yo'd got to the store and see a random SFII cabinet. It really is the same principal as to why you'll find a few slot machines in every store in Nevada.
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Jun 4, 2018 14:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA
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There are a lot of reasons why you'll never see coin-ops scattered through the wild like you used to, and it's sort of a pity. I had a lot of fondness for the experience of going into a place that wasn't, specifically, an arcade or amusement center, and just seeing a couple of random games I might not have seen before or since. The only place I ever saw an Express Raider machine was in the customer service area of a Sears where my mom was returning something. The Piggly Wiggly near my grandma's house once had a Krull, for god's sake. Here's a very 80s and somewhat related page from a dedicated Putt-Putt magazine. 
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Pastry of the Year posted:There are a lot of reasons why you'll never see coin-ops scattered through the wild like you used to, and it's sort of a pity. I had a lot of fondness for the experience of going into a place that wasn't, specifically, an arcade or amusement center, and just seeing a couple of random games I might not have seen before or since. The only place I ever saw an Express Raider machine was in the customer service area of a Sears where my mom was returning something. The Piggly Wiggly near my grandma's house once had a Krull, for god's sake. That reminds me of this piece of poo poo:  We had Pac-Man for it, wayyy back in like 83 or 84, and it's the only video game my mother has ever liked.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:14
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Pacman really was the video game of the 80's.
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Jun 4, 2018 15:21
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Iron Crowned posted:Pacman really was the video game of the 80's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MONIvP6kI   [
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Jun 4, 2018 18:49
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The music video is an 80s icon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZWSrr5wFI
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Jun 4, 2018 19:01
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:The music video is an 80s icon: you posted take on me twice
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I edited my mistake
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First video showed on Mtv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ Some more 80s music videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oozJH6jSr2U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY
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Jun 4, 2018 20:20
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Pastry of the Year posted:popular culture was absolutely crazy for fighter jets in 198X Waiting in line for this thing: 
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Randaconda posted:First video showed on Mtv 80's music videos, you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg
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Jun 4, 2018 21:01
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I unironically love "Just A Friend." 
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Jun 4, 2018 21:11
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The smell of a video arcade.
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Randaconda posted:I unironically love "Just A Friend." If there are people who don't those people are bad and wrong.
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Shoulder pads in dresses for little girls. I fuckin hated them and begged for them to be cut out of all my outfits.
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Picnic Princess posted:Shoulder pads in dresses for little girls. I fuckin hated them and begged for them to be cut out of all my outfits. Combine those with itchy hip-length sweaters in Pepto Bismol pink that have actual tinsel thread woven into them, and you have part of my childhood.
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Jun 5, 2018 00:17
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Swatch Watches, especially with the watch guards across the faces.
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Jun 5, 2018 01:37
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So, I'm asking this question as someone that wasn't there, but there was a lot of poo poo with really gay undertones back then, like Top Gun and He-Man. Did you guys realize how gay that poo poo was back then or no? (Not saying that being really gay makes things less awesome. There are a lot of awesome gay things, like Freddy Mercury. Gay people are cool, too. I just want to know what the self-awareness level you guys had while wearing cutoff shirts and teeny shorts was.)
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It was a sort of a nod to the gay culture while also being arguably meant for straights. source: i was born in 1978
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DicktheCat posted:So, I'm asking this question as someone that wasn't there, but there was a lot of poo poo with really gay undertones back then, like Top Gun and He-Man. Did you guys realize how gay that poo poo was back then or no? I was there but I was too young to pick up on "gay undertones;" I wouldn't have even known what you meant. I knew the word "gay" as an insult that meant weak, stupid, or pitiful way before I had any ideas about human sexuality. Martial arts had been a source of cultural fascination for a good solid while by the 80s, of course, but the 80s is when ninjas specifically started to blow up. I honestly just did some cherry-picking from memory and with what I could quickly find through image searches: this poo poo was everywhere. I did, even as a kid, find it unbelievable that actual ninjas would wear headbands and shirts with pictures of ninjas and the word NINJA on them, though, despite what was available through mail-order ads in comics and magazines.        When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon debuted in December 1987, the dam was really and truly broken, and anyone with even the faintest whiff of cultural literacy is aware that there's probably an oceanic garbage patch the size of Luxembourg made up solely of plastic TMNT toys, knick-knacks, novelties, etc. Pastry of the Year has a new favorite as of 12:33 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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Jun 5, 2018 12:30
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 contained gay themes and undertones on purpose, from what I understand., no doubt helped by the lead being a gay man.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I was there but I was too young to pick up on "gay undertones;" I wouldn't have even known what you meant. I knew the word "gay" as an insult that meant weak, stupid, or pitiful way before I had any ideas about human sexuality. Martial arts, specifically Kung Fu was definitely a holdover from the 70's. In the 80's it evolved into karate and ninjas. I recently watched The Karate Kid on Hulu, and it was a very 80's movie.
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Maybe they were gay undertones. I'm not sure. The 80's, however, was the point in time when gender roles were really being pushed. In the 70's, kids dressed the same and toys weren't as segmented as they were the following decade. Not that they weren't in the 60's and 70's, but the 80's truly pushed the "This is a boy toy it is for boys" and "girls wear pink and boys wear blue" and "girls wear dresses, not pants". So he-man, top-gun, et al might not have been exactly trying to push a gay agenda but more a masculine one that just went too far and in hindsight looks extremely homoerotic. He-Man, for the record, was loving cool as hell and I still have a bunch that my kid now plays with.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdtcK1Qs2K4 Get some SilverHawks up in here
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Davros1 posted:Swatch Watches, especially with the watch guards across the faces. I went to high school with a guy who had dozens of Swatches, bands, and guards. He kept them in a shoebox labeled "Swatch Supplies". Every day he would construct a Swatch to match his outfit. He also wore those alligator clip stirrups on the ends of his jeans legs to ensure they would stay tucked in his high top Reeboks at all times.
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