British Couple Reacts to GROWING UP IN 1980s AMERICA!

[@realisticthought1781]

Born in 77. Growing up in the 80s was great. Saturday morning cartoons. Indoor malls. MTV actually playing music

[@sikksotoo]

The Breakfast Club is definitely worth putting on a movie reaction poll.

[@juliearmfield2634]

Oh that one helped Define the 80s

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

Go in order...start with Sixteen Candles

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

Yessss

[@michaelrue1400]

I preferred St. Elmo's Fire, but they were all good.

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

It’s ok..overrated as hell

[@jasonlmeadows]

I grew up in the 80’s, born in 73, and absolutely LOVED IT! The music, the movies, the tv, it was just an amazing time. Sure there were negatives but that goes with any era.

[@michellemiller2118]

Me too! March 1973. I LOVED growing up in the 80s. I miss it.

[@atrumphasmatis6719]

Jan ‘73 here. It didn’t seem so great at the time but looking back now….

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

May 67 for me I was 13 as the 80s started and 23 when they ended the greatest decade of my life the from the music to the movies the cars the parties every weekend no BS social media it was great time to be a teen/young adult

[@rockymountainrussian2540]

71 here and I loved the 80s it was just fun. Every Era has its bad. Come home when the street lights come on is never going to be that way again

[@victorwaddell6530]

I was born in 1966 . The early 80s were my adolescent years . I remember when MTV played music videos and not the crap they play now . I enlisted into the US Navy in 1985 .

[@MontanaGMama]

born in 59......grew up in the 60's, was a teen/young adult in the 70's !!! AMAZING times, great childhood!!!!!

[@pvdogs2]

That little guy eating cereal was 'Mikey'. A famous line came out of that commercial 'Give it to Mikey. He'll eat anything'. The girl with the Cabbage Patch doll is Candace Cameron Bure who started her TV career on the TV show Full House.

[@robertherring9277]

Breakfast Club and Ferris Buellers Day Off WAS the 1980's. Miss them every day.

[@GinaPressley]

I was a teen in the beginning of the 80's, born in 64, I was married at 16 in 1980 and we were raising our daughters all through that decade. So I was still young and loved all this stuff. Still married to the same man by the way. 😊

[@franciet99]

Wow! Married to the same man?!? That’s great! I was born the same year.

[@jp7147]

Good for you. Rare breed.👍

[@GinaPressley]

@T F yeah, we have 3 daughters, 8 grandkids and 3 great granddaughters. 👍

[@jp7147]

@@GinaPressley 67 for me. Thank God there are people like you around. Continued luck for you and yours. 😎

[@franciet99]

@@GinaPressley so lucky! Congratulations!

[@chrispruett81]

Oh.. and YES.. You should watch some John Hughes movies for sure!! You would love em!!

[@chrispruett81]

I was a kid growing up in the 80's... sooo much fun!! Actually.. Kid through the 80's and teen through the 90's.. In America ... Best time ever!! I feel lucky about that!! This video is soooo nostalgic!!

[@TheMtVernonKid]

this was like yesterday for me Im a 80s brat born 1982 I miss the 80s alot for kids we had the best of all worlds

[@kimberlyholt2241]

Same!!!!! Born in '81

[@peensteen]

I feel bad for all the kids who can't go outside hardly at all. When I was a kid, you could wander all over, as long as you came home before the streetlights came on.

[@Diadin22]

Same! I think we got the best of both being born in the early 80s and we got the good 90s too imo

[@QWERTY-ov9tm]

Same here. I look back at those times with such fond memories. I feel like those times were the last great period for kids to grow up in. Just my opinion.

[@DebraAnnYadda]

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, born in 1969, and graduated in 1988. Loved it! Wish things were like that again. ❤ of course there are negatives, but I still think the 80s were one of the best decades of the 20th century ❤

[@juliearmfield2634]

Me to it was so much simpler and so much fun. The best memories I have from that time was cruising in my first car a 68 Impala cruising down Main Street listen to 38 Special on my cassette deck. 😎❤

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

Same here born 71 grad 89. Miller lite commercials were the best.

[@vincewilson1]

Born in 65. graduated in 84. I can confirm the moon landings happened and that the Earth is roundish. Truth be Earth is an oblique Spearoid.

[@DebraAnnYadda]

@Julie Armfield my first car was a 72 Plymouth Duster and I listened everything from Guns and Roses to Duran Duran lol

[@juliearmfield2634]

@@DebraAnnYadda i don't think there's special coming of age memory as the one of your first car, your first true taste of freedom. I don't know what it was about the music back then but it was unlike nothing else

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

Choose your own adventure books were so much fun to read for me as a kid

[@javierestrada8249]

What made the MTV Channel no longer popular was when they had stopped providing music videos and concentrated on reality life tv shows such as ther first hit "The Real World" ( Tv shows that followed people living together for a certain time.) They even made reality game shows where the winner end up dating the host. Example the old school rapper Flava Flav had his own reality tv show. P.diidy a hip hop rapper also had his reality show called making the band . These types of shows is what killed MTV.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Didn't they also have the Kardashian show or nah?

[@kelliehatch1712]

I totally agree!!! If they would have stayed in their lane and stuck to MUSIC VIDEOS things would be different

[@fangtasiadreams9108]

Agreed.. although I did kinda like Remote Control and Liquid Television.

[@armelind]

1986 was an amazing year for Metal Music!! Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax all came out with their best albums. I was in middle school and it was amazing hearing all that music for the first time. Oh yeah and back then, you bought cable tv programming to pretty much end commercials. In the beginning of cable tv there was no commercials. Eventually everything got commercials. It's exactly how streaming is going now. You paid for a subscription for a few years without ads, then they come out with a more expensive subscription to avoid ads. Then the channel throws in ads anyways.

[@BTinSF]

"The California Raisins" were claymation raisins that initially were in a commercial singing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" to sell, literally, California raisins (dried grapes) which are a huge industry in the state's Central Valley. The tune was so catchy the whole schtick went "viral" (even though the term didn't really exist then).

[@michellesmith6558]

I graduated in 1989. I absolutely loved the 80’s. Simple times, a decade of freedom, great fashion, great music etc

[@rx7dude2006]

What killed MTV was switching from music videos to reality shows and then just random programs that had nothing to do with music.I had MTV when it first aired and loved the music videos.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

I'm sure they saw the success of TV shows on TNT FX and the CW and thought it would be a smooth transition for them but it wasn't and now they're laying off staff.

[@betsydykstra6408]

you definitely need to watch 16 candles, breakfast club & pretty in pink all three are awesome in there own ways but definitely a MUST WATCH!!!

[@jasonmorrow9019]

I actually remember watching the very first video ever played on MTV by the Buggles named Video Killed The Radio Star.

[@zachparade2791]

James, easy on the “old school!” You’re talking about my childhood and making me feel way too old! 🤣

[@juleskauppila6118]

As a teen in the 80s, we did spend a lot of time at the Arcade, but we also hung out at the Mall or at the Roller Rink. I was surprised that the Record Store wasn't mentioned in this video. It was a very important part of growing up in the 80s. The Record Store was the place to buy the latest album of your favorite band, hear new stuff, get posters (or even bootlegged polaroid's) of your idols, pins, bumper stickers, black-light stuff, incense, all the stuff you needed to make your room a 'cool' space.

[@Cypress078]

Grew up in the 80s, the best tv and movies came out in that decade

[@sunniertimer598]

Here in the U.S., it was the Reagan era and everything seemed possible. The video is right about a lot of fun things to do. Friday night with blockbuster, pizza, popcorn and treats was definitely a thing we enjoyed doing. I did roll and tuck my jeans and I had big hair. I also had white 'high tops' tennis shoes, and tied my t-shirt in a knot on the bottom to shorten it. On another note, I really think people were nicer to each other back then. Sure, there were cliques and different groups, but that won't change. Americans have begun to lose the sweetness and innocence that once prevailed .

[@Momsbasement354]

Yes! I was born in 1973 and I remember all of this. Definitely watch some ‘80’s movies! The Breakfast Club, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off and Planes Trains and Automobiles is a great start.

[@MST3Killa]

Honestly, at this point I just kinda want to sit and watch 80's cartoons with a bowl of cereal

[@chillthesnake]

Sixteen Candles, Short Circuit

[@loislynncameron9608]

Top Gun Poltergeist was the first horror movie I saw and I had nightmares for a month!

[@Momsbasement354]

@@loislynncameron9608 me too! I watched it around midnight on a windy night and went to bed. There was a huge tree outside my window and I thought it was going to eat me!

[@XRP2020]

MTV had its heyday but dissipated when videos became "obsolete." Enjoyed Real World, Road Rules & still enjoy THE CHALLENGE from 1998.

[@AnthonyJolly-yb1qp]

The Coca~Cola,Panama Jack,Ocean Pacific Shirts.Penny Lofers with an actual copper penny.The Sony Walkman had clear pure stereo sound.The 80s is in a Class All by itself. I ❤ The 80s.

[@michellesmith6558]

I went to an all girl catholic high school. We had penny loafers and put quarters in them to use the pay phone during lunch.

[@BTinSF]

Penny loafers are ageless. They've been a preppy staple since the late 1940s (at least)--designated as de rigeur by the "Official Preppy Handbook" published in 1980. They were a necessary item (worn with blue jeans) when I was in college and grad school throughout the 1960s. By the 1980s I guess it went mainstream (maybe as a result of having been designated an upper class thing). The originals were, of course, Bass We-Juns, made in Maine. I don't know if, by the 1980s, Bass was still the only brand to have or whether the ersatz ones had taken over. I still have a pair of the tassel variety by Bass which were bigger in the South whereas those without tassels were standard in the Northeast.

[@PrettyDeadThings]

Growing Up In 1980's America.... was the absolute best!! So much freedom, so much fun and super simple. This video reminded me of how much I loved Jem & Alf and how much I miss the shows. I also miss the lip shaped phones or even better the clear see-thru ones.. screw cell phones, I'll take a kitchen wall mounted phone with a 20 foot cord that got tangled every other second over a cell phone any day of the week, month and year. "Leave a msg and I'll call you back as soon as I can" = Freedom to not have to text or speak to someone when you really aren't in the mood. The New Kids pictures from Teen & Tiger Beat plastered my walls and ceiling. I fondly remember trips to the mall with my friends, spending all day trying to meet boys. I also recall my mom and aunt getting into a full on fist fight a couple days before Christmas trying to get me the latest Cabbage Patch Kid Dolls, which I ended up getting from Santa, thanks Santa/Mom/Aunt. Later on my love of the dolls was replaced by The Garbage Pail Kids. Circling back to Jem I really need Netflix or HBO to do a live version of the show, period. Sweet Valley High (Jessica) was my girl. RL Stein books (something that even as an adult I'll still read) are love, slap bracelets that would cut you when the aluminum poked out of the fabric, good times, and my obsession with Heathers remains even in current days.... 2023 sucks bad compared to the 80's and even early 90's.

[@vincewilson1]

The 80s just called, they want their fax machine back. 😄

[@reginahernandez7810]

THAT PHONE CORD! YES! YOU HAD TO WATCH OUT YOU DIDN'T CHOKE YOURSELF!LOL

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

How about the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

[@PurebloodedPatriot]

Born in '71, the'80s were the best decade of all time. There will never be one better. 🇺🇸

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

You guys where fortunate to have Johnny Carson alive doing the Tonight show at the time.

[@PurebloodedPatriot]

@Run Rafa Run #THEBESTINTHEWORLD Yep. There will never be another like him.

[@TahschaFinley7061]

I highly recommend Those three movies that they stated… Breakfast club, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty in Pink. They are classic 80”s films. Funny and I think you two might be entertained by them. Cheers love your channel ❤️😎

[@deanbrunner261]

Born in the 58 the 60s and 70s were my generations growing up. It seems like it was yesterday thanks for the memory

[@darrinlindsey]

I wish I could relive the 80s, over and over.

[@vincewilson1]

If Ronald Ragan - Nancy Ragan for that matter -, and Margret Thacher were around today then there never would have been a war in Ukrain as they would have kicked Mr. Putler's arse!

[@jeffmorse645]

Friday nights were all about going to Blockbuster or Hollywood Video to rent movies for the weekend. I remember it being its biggest in the late 90s and early 2000s. The stores were packed at that time.

[@atrumphasmatis6719]

Headbangers ball was a big thing on MTV when I was young.

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

Yeah, I remember seeing cool stuff on MTV back in the day. Weird Al guest VJ ed once and played Suicidal Tendencies "Institutionalized", I was hooked. This was like 84-85 maybe. I remember the lifetime ban for Dice Clay and GnR being totally wasted at MTV awards. Good times.

[@lalida6432]

Growing up in the ‘80s was very fun. There was so much to do and there was something new going on every week.

[@mikeg.4211]

I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, so I was in my 20’s in the 80’s and remember all of it, MTV was much more of a big deal then, and played all music videos and not much else. There was no KZbin to go watch videos.

[@joelturner6312]

We had text base games back then. The portable football game system used dots for players.

[@bundymccain2642]

Graduated in '86. Hands down the best time to be young! i miss that decade every time I watch current events unfolding.

[@twenty3enigma]

I'd graduated from high school in 1979, so the 80s were when I was unleashed upon the world. Mwahahahaha! 😸 Re: MTV Though the channel itself still exists, it's no longer a channel devoted to music videos and other music-related programming. So, in essence, the MTV that we had in the 80s no longer exists.

[@chrishayes1934]

The thing I remember looking back at the 1980s was it being a time of optimism and hope. The 1970s had so much, heavy soul crushing, rough times, starting from continuing the protest movements from the 60s, Vietnam and the fall of Saigon, Watergate and the Nixon impeachment, the scandals with Ford pardoning Nixon, Jimmy Carter and stagflation, hours long gas lines, the Iranian revolution, the Iran hostage crisis, and lots of other stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting. The 1980s rolled in with a roar and it suddenly seemed anything was possible. In the USA it felt like we finally got our footing again and the future looked bright. And while there were plenty of serious problems in the 1980s it just never felt as overwhelming as the constant morass of the 70s . . .at least that's how it felt to me.

[@castawaykid]

We can't forget power chords and synthesizers in nearly all the music.

[@lemuelcasillas7572]

Born in 60’s graduated high school 1980. Came into my 20’s in 1982. These were the best days of my life.

[@joelturner6312]

I remember how slow and how little memory computers had.

[@juliayoung537]

My children are both from the 80's 😂 y'all are wonderful! Love from Georgia USA

[@aliciasavage6801]

Ah those were the days. I feel bad for the kids who grew up after the 80's and early 90's. Gen X was awesome!

[@renee176]

I was a teenager in the late 70's and a young adult in the 80's. I have to say they were some of the best times of my life, such Great Memories!😊❤ I still have my cabbage patch kid.🙂

[@williammontgomery3979]

Born in 1968 & We had an 8 track player in our family stereo system.

[@donaldpicard7752]

Now where talking when i grew up lol. graduated in 1988

[@GenXfrom75]

Born in 1975! I freaking loved growing up in the 80s! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@travismitchell9637]

Born in 80 and I was a huge He-Man fan had almost all of them. My Elementary School in the 80's did not have many computers. We had a small lab of about 10 PC's and had a fund raiser with the grocery store to save for new ones. They were all Apple II computers and we each had 1 5 1/4 floppy disk which were not cheap in the mid-80's. We played Oregon Trail and Number Munchers was also really popular. That gum in the packs truly was horrible and almost always ruined the last card. Since there was no internet and few people had home PC's. We would play nintendo and then talk on the phone and share our progress. You had all your friends home phone numbers memorized and I can still remember them 30 years later. I'm glad to have grown up in the 80's where we rode our bikes all around town and played outside until dark every day in the summer. Another big thing was Walmart wasn't in every town so alot so small mom and pop grocery stores still existed and that was a much more personal experience then today where most everything is going self checkout. Maybe an 1980's wrestling reaction video is due! Love your content.

[@JoeBlow_4]

"The Breakfast Club" is a must movie watch.

[@cbr1517]

I was born in the mid 60's, high-school in the early 80's. I remember all of these things. The local arcade used to have a TV tuned to MTV. I used to sit there and watch for hours. 😂

[@MQuinn-eb3zz]

Yup, I was a teenager back then. How strange seeing this retrospective - especially since we were looking back at the 50's and 60's back then. Such an excellent time to be young....

[@DV80s]

"Fright Night" from 1985. One of the best vampire movies.

[@JPMadden]

1) I winced a bit inside when James said going to Blockbuster was "old school, innit?" C'mon, I'm only 53, I'm only half old. When we got our first VCR, it seemed like a miraculous invention, especially to kids who want to watch the same movies repeatedly. 2) I'm surprised I had never heard of "The Oregon Trail" video game. 3) I skipped the pro wrestling craze. 4) For years, I remembered the exact date in late November of 1982 when my house got cable TV, and therefore MTV. During the first few months of 7th grade (ages 12-13) at the big junior high (middle) school, MTV was the social dividing line between the haves and have-nots. Likely not coincidentally, my town began wiring homes for cable TV in the wealthy neighborhoods. I had to wait an excruciating three months until I had access. I watched it for hours that first day after school. MTV stopped playing music videos regularly long before online streaming services, and no one seemed to understand why.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

I think MTV just got tired of airing music videos for 30 minutes on repeat and they though they could replicate the success of the Young lovers show and the real world show an also tried to tap into the TV series market like how Bravo and TNT was doing but it ended up hurting them while it was still becoming a success for the other cable networks.

[@williambranch4283]

Had graduated college, finished grad school, had a good job and got married. Great decade!

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

Did you invest in junk bonds? Greed was good....in the 80s. It still is.

[@mikeg.4211]

Same!

[@nicksrandomviews1296]

Growing up in the 80's and 90's was awesome. Back when kids couldn't wait to get out of the house and play with their friends. My how times have changed.

[@toodlescae]

Definitely do Breakfast Club. I grew up 8n the 60's and 70's so I was an adult and then a mother in the 80's.

[@JoeXTheXJuggalo1]

There's a modern music genre known as Retro Wave/New Retro Wave and those types of music just reminds me of 80s and early 90s. There's a song Explorers by The Midnight. The music video to it gives a glimpse of how the 80s was and the different things from the time. By the way Explorers is actually the name of another great 80s movie.

[@karlschmitt6359]

I was born in 1965, started school in 1972 and finished high school in 1984. The early 80's were some of my favorite years, great music, great TV, movies, great food, my high school friends, playing club soccer! Sometimes I wish I could go back!

[@markaveycooks]

I played Oregon Trail a lot, in the library, when I was in 7th & 8th grade in the late 80s. Loads of fun.

[@kimberlyholt2241]

80's baby right here! Born in 81. I had a cabbage patch kid, pound puppy, My Buddy and Kid Sister! All of that! I remember when the very first cell phone came out. We're just a different breed of ppl, than nowadays.

[@lianabaddley8217]

Born in '75! I still have my Cabbage Patch Kid! My 2 daughters did play with her. I still think it's so weird that both her and my MIL have the same name. Also still have her birth certificate!

[@shestillinthekitchen]

I was born in 1986 and in school we had computer class where we played Orgeon trail. Yes! Lol

[@WyattRyeSway]

My dad grew up in the 80’s. We have a trampoline now. I can’t believe they got to play video games at school!!! Wrestle Mania! Hell in the Cell! I’ve watched videos of it. So awesome! You guys should react to that. My dad had a mullet. Old pictures are hysterical. My mom collected the raisin figured. They sit on a shelf in our kitchen. I have been to an arcade museum in an Illinois tiny town but it’s so much fun! They must have been awesome!

[@pamelabennett9057]

Oregon Trail was more of a computer game, and educational, too! Most families did not have a home computer until closer to the end of the decade, or even into the 1990s.

[@MST3Killa]

We didn't play video games at school, it was meant to teach us computer competency more than anything. It was always educational. It was called "Computer Lab" (it was a period in school just like you might have a little art class or music class kind of thing, maybe once or twice a week). Number crunchers was a game I recall where you were given a math problem and had to go chomp the right answer. Whole point was to learn how to use the computer with games that were supposed to be educational too... so math, or history, or whatever.

[@WyattRyeSway]

@@MST3Killa …..I only use a computer game to learn a foreign language.

[@moemoe211]

I grew up in Southern California in the 80s. One of my big memories was crop top shirts for men, short short shorts, and rollerskating on the boardwalk.

[@SRHS83]

I graduated from high school in 1983 and I'm very familiar with all of the things mentioned in this video, with the exception of Garbage Pail Kids. I didn't learn about those until recently. It's become a huge fad with toy collectors. I remember the arcade I used to go to and it was a big deal when we got in Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man machines. I remember watching all those John Hughes movies and also Top Gun when it first came out in theaters in 1986. Also E.T. in 1982. Going to the roller skating rink was a big thing in the 80's and fun too.

[@lockaby1]

i turned 23 just after 1980 rolled around si i do remember it well but i done more hunting than anything i lived in the woods most of the 80s the closest town i lived near if you dint catch a light you could drive thru it in 5 minutes the two largest citys was lexington or knoxville 2 and a half hours away

[@cynthiaalver]

My best friend and I made a stop at the arcade before school to have a round of Asteroids or Ms PacMan or Frogger. The arcade was only a couple of blocks from our high school.

[@maryostiguy8129]

Must watch the 16 candle, pretty in pink ,breakfast club, st Elmo's fire movies. Animal house,also. They are the American classics after the older ones that were great ,too.

[@RicardoRamirez-us7hf]

I remember movie's I loved back then Creaters, House 1+2, puppet master all of them and so on. And me and my friends would watch Tom Baker play Dr.who every Saturday night on PBS. Yeah that was some good memories thank you

[@DV80s]

Of all the wrestlers from the '80s WWF, George "the animal" Steele was my favorite. If you ever get a chance, you should see some of his interviews he does with Mean Gene Oakerland or his feuds with Macho Man Randy Savage and his crush for Miss Elizabeth.

[@gwgux]

I'm a child of the 80s and was a teen of the 90s. These two decades were a very different time than what we're living in now. In the 80s, arcades were the primary way to play video games as the NES and its games were very expensive for the time and the vast majority of households didn't have a computer or a cell phone either. Back then, I was lucky to have an NES, but most of the games I played were rented from the video rental store on weekends. Also, not everyone had cable TV either. I grew up in a house without cable TV in the 80s and the few channels we got over the air with the rabbit ears on the TV were all we had (we did have an antenna put on the roof, but it got hit by lightning and fried the motor so we couldn't turn it so had to switch between it and the rabbit ears a lot). As a kid, I primarily relied on the video rental store for episodes of animated TV shows and movies and got to see many "big kid" or "grown up" movies that my parents watched like Rambo, the Rocky movies, etc., and my parents were very big into Star Trek and Star Wars so we had videos of them on hand too. I actually didn't have access to cable TV at home until sometime in the 90s. I grew up watching many of the usual Saturday morning cartoons as we did get a lot of them over the air, but having to rely more on the video rental store exposed me to a lot more of them as well as the ones from the 70s so I was able to grow up around both decades of shows. Watching analog TV over the air was an experience that is forever lost to time now. We had to move the antenna for the TV for each channel and sometimes if someone was walking by, it could make the video and audio cut out and the effects of static ripping the image and audio apart is something most people will never know unless you can find a recording of it somewhere. Fun times.

[@loislynncameron9608]

Only solid middle class an up to the rich had cable TV.

[@Eijianthony]

1972 baby🎉 it was the best of times growing up in those days. STRANGER THINGS is such a perfect homage to those years 😊

[@blakerh]

I grew up in the 80s. I spent a lot of time at the Electric Circus arcade. My brother and his friend from high school started making arcade games in the 2000s. Their best game is called "Big Buck Hunter." The game is still in places like Dave and Busters and some Walmart stores.

[@MST3Killa]

I was one of those kids who never really had money for arcades in the 90s. Parents might give me like 5 bucks and that was it, but I was always so overwhelmed in the arcade that I'd just end up watching others play. That, and I sucked (and couldn't get better since I didn't have money to pump into the machine) so it was maybe one round on Mortal Kombat, one round on the Simpsons game, maybe the X-men game, and then I'm out of money lol.

[@frenchfan3368]

I too grew up as a kid in the 1980s. Yes, I was one of the kids who absolutely adored professional wrestling and all of its silly characters and storylines. I can even remember my parents and some of their friends would occasionally have watch parties where we would watch wrestling shows on something called a VCR. ;) I will always cherish the wonderful memories of the era.

[@NoahFroio]

I was a teen in the 80's (born in 1968), graduated HS in 1988 (took an extra year), but it was the best of times, for sure!! I was older, so, a lot of the young kids stuff, I remember, but, didn't interact with. However, video game arcades, definitely, my favorite game was Tempest, the spinning wheel going around the grid and shooting the invaders, I could play for hours. Fun flash back!!

[@terramorris5188]

I grew up in the 1980's and it was fun.

[@toby43078]

Yes!! You gotta watch the movie Weird Science...my favorite...

[@Kuonji]

Born 79 and grew up in the 1980's. Definitely had a lot of memorable moments.

[@causticchameleon7861]

My little brother, born in 1980, had a ton of garbage pail kids cards. The cabbage patch dolls were originally made here in Georgia. There was a place you could go visit to see them being “born” called Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland Georgia and you could officially adopt one at the end of the tour. They were “born” by being pulled out of a cabbage in a cabbage patch, hence the name cabbage patch kids. MTV, as I knew it, is basically dead. I was 17 in 1980 and watched MTV after school. It was all music videos except for small blocks of time where the VJ’s would discuss the current music scene and new albums.

[@ronlowney4700]

ATARI WAS THE ORIGIONAL "OLD SCHOOL" VIDEO GAME!

[@dks6714]

I was a teenager in the 80s!! The BEST DECADE!!!

[@carlmcclanahan2578]

Definitely watch the films of John Hughes. He made such great movies. You will not be disappointed. Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, eyc.

[@anneboban2002]

MTV came out in 1981. I was 30 years old, at the time, lol. Everyone listened to it.

[@chefchicky463]

My parents never were able to get me a cabbage patch kid so they had mine custom made. I remember playing outside until the street lights went on. When the weekend came people would be outside playing music and remember break dancing battles with the boom boxes blaring. It was great!

[@grimgrinningtracy9157]

I was born in late 60's, graduated high school in 1987. It was a great time.

[@roger3141]

My kids grew up in the 1980's. We bought one of the first Nintendo NES systems and the boys in the neighborhood formed a club where they pooled their money to buy new games when they came out. We rented tons of movies from Blockbuster and saw the first music videos on MTV. It was as much fun for the parents as it was for the kids.

[@vincewilson1]

Maximum headroom!

[@sherigrow6480]

I remember the show Miami Vice being hugely influential. It showed guys how to dress, and had the best music and cars.

[@mikebarnes7746]

All true! This video was a very accurate portrayal of growing up in the 80”s!

[@Mike-og6sn]

Star Wars and GI Joe action figures, Atari 2600 and ColecoVision gaming systems for me. I collect Garbage pail kids, and read Judy Bloom books. MTV was almost all music videos in the 80s none of the teen mom, Jersey Shore, or reality shows. A lot of tv shows from the 80's are being remade today (magnum pi, Hawaii 5-0, knight rider, and quantum leap to name a few. Any John Hughes movie was good. You went outside in the morning to play and didn't get home until the street lights came on and that was anywhere in a 2+ mile radius. 80s were good times. I thought I seen penny rolls (where you tight rolled your jeans) and popped collars everyone did that in the late 80s.

[@heywoodjablowme8120]

ColecoVision was the 💣 bomb, Judy Bloom's "Forever" in the 6th grade gave me wood 🪵, mom fell asleep to Dallas every Friday night and getting your picture in the paper was borderline like being chased by the paparazzi.

[@ReadR00ster1]

Halloween as a kid in the 80s was the greatest.

[@dollcf6722]

Oh the anticipation of the beginning of MTV. We were so excited.

[@emmadoggy]

Born in '67, graduated high school in '85. It was a great time to grow up!

[@Shabenn]

I was an arcade kid in the 1970's. Our local one was called the Gold Mine. Captain Fantastic pinball! Sixteen Candles is a great movie.

[@Punk_On_Demand]

I remember everything here and I mean everything I even had collected all the California Raisins. The only thing here I don’t remember is Oregon Trail. Our school did Math Blaster instead.

[@jenniferbush41]

I was born at the end of '75. I don't really remember the 70's too much but I miss the 80's & 90's. I've actually got an early 90's cd in my car player right now, Temple of the Dog. I remember running around outside w/ all the neighborhood kids 'til dark. Riding our bikes to the store to get Cokes & candy. Walking up the Publix (FL grocery store) to get our free cookie from the bakery. Roller skating down the sidewalks or at the skating rink. I still have all my Cabbage Patch dolls stored away. My sister & I were so excited to get them for Christmas in 1984! I was 13-14 in 1989 so I had the giant wave in my bangs & used a lot of Rave hairspray. My mom wouldn't spend the extra money on Aqua Net! Lol! My hair was bullet proof! I love my life now, but I miss those days. Even though we were all scared of Russia dropping the bomb at any moment, it was still great. Sometimes, I'll hear the Scorpions "Winds of Change" & get choked up because I remember watching that wall come down on tv. I remember Reagan's great speech "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!".. Goosebumps man! If you haven't already, you should watch some of the footage from that time. Reagan's speech & the wall coming down 2 years later. You'll definitely cry!

[@jasonross5796]

You guys need to watch THE BREAKFAST CLUB. It’s a great time capsule of what life was like in the 80s in America, but it is also so universal in their themes. I guarantee you will relate to ONE of the characters in that movie.

[@kellywiewall4928]

They totally forgot about the best TV show Married With Children

[@lawabernathy9256]

I miss the 80’s lol. Such great times

[@stephenhelmes8106]

I love these videos! I was born in 1968, so I was 12 in 1980, just starting into my teen years. Arcades, horror movies and Rock N Roll was what kept our neighborhood group rolling. Weekends, we'd get on our bikes, ride the neighborhood till we found each other. The rest of the day was spent sitting on our hidden trail in the woods with a boom box, jamming cassettes like Def Leppard and Motley Crue. Yes, MTV was hit for us because we loved music so much. It was like watching the radio. we didn't have to wait all day for our favorite song to play because we loved almost all of them. Arcades? OH YES! I was young, but I remember when Space Invaders came out. The line waiting to play was long. The next person in line would mark his place by placing a quarter on the top of the machine, pinching it in the lip of the game logo so everybody could see he or she was next to play. Some of my favorite arcades was Funway USA, Timeout, and one in Chattanooga, TN called Edsil's Game Room. When I was 16, 1984, I got my driver's license, and because I was considered a good kid, my mom would let me hang out at Edsil's till their closing time, 2am ion weekends. Then I'd go home from a hard night of gaming. you know what? Today's world has a lot to offer in technology. Video games now compared to then are simply amazing. We used to dream of playing games like we have today. But we have lost a lot of magic over time too. New generations will never know the freedom of riding your bike miles from home from morning till dark, or the smell of a record store. I miss those days.

[@dirkbsilver9260]

The 80s were amazing. There was a small gas station next to my school that had a few arcade cabnets playing Joast, Galaga, Space Invaders, and Kickboxer. We had 4 movie rental spots in town, none were Blockbusters, and one of these sold subs, pizzas, and ice cream. So a latchkey kid could spend a few bucks on a game after school, buy a few packs of baseball or Pale Kids cards, wander over to the video rentals to rent a movie and get a personal pan pizza. Good times and for a boy back then, Molly Ringwald or Pheobe Caites was your crush so the movie rentals were a race to win.

[@Frankie--da-fixer]

I was born in 1970 so i spent my entire teen years in the 80s,and it was the best decade by far!And any John Hughes movie was a good movie!!