The 80s Nostalgia thread

[Zoraxe 546]

As I was born in the 90s, I completely missed the 80s. But... I think a Nostalgia thread for those that were in the 80s should exist. So here is a thread for you 80s folks to talk about movies and fashion and TV and overall other 80s stuff.

 

Here is the 90s Nostalgia thread.

https://mlpforums.com/topic/125795-the-90s-nostalgia-thread/

 

And the 2000s thread.

https://mlpforums.com/topic/131568-the-2000s-nostalgia-thread/

 

In any-case, I now like some things from the 80s, like transformers and movies so I guess there are things younger people can talk about even if it wouldn't be nostalgia for us.

 

As for me, am planning an 80s themed week, where I listen to 80s music, play 80s video games, and wear 80s fashion. Watching 'Back to the Future' is totally on my list. So any-ponies here have any suggestions for 80s week? go ahead and share some ideas please!

 

Edited July 9, 2015 by Zoraxe

[simba86 1,541]

I was born in 86 so I don't remember much of the 80s

[Overdrive 5,366]

When I think 80's, I think long hair, electric guitars, and street racing. You should go buy an old Trans Am just for this.

[Tao 6,736]

I think of the cartoons like He-Man and She-ra back in the

days...

[Envy 6,000]

I was born in the late 80s, so absolutely no nostalgia for me. I tend to find pretty much everything about the 80s cheesy. Sometimes in an amusing way (the cartoons), but other times it's just really annoying. The 80s is one of those decades I think should be left back where it is.

[FlutterSleep 39]

I was born '98 so unfortunately ALSO missed out on the 80s but it doesn't stop me from living it every day I actually collect different items from the 80s such as cassettes and cassette players, jean jackets and such.. and honestly I love it cause going home and popping in Reign In Blood album or Take on Me by Ah-Ha is just so great :3 every time I find a new cassette I kinda feel like fluttershy when she first found out about spike lol ;P but yea... that's just my opinion of the 80s..

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

I was born in 1982.  My first console was a Nintendo Entertainment System, and the first game I played on it was Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt.  I watched shows like Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Thundercats, and Voltron, and I remember films like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (originally retitled "Warriors of the Wind" for American audiences) and Monster Squad.  VHS tapes and cassette tapes were a thing; bugs would sometimes get into the former and DIE, ruining the tape.  I remember the old computers (I guess they were Apple II's - not certain) in my grade school and hurrying to finish my work so I could play Mario Bros., Montezuma's Revenge, or Spy Hunter.  Floppy disks!

[Guest]

I always think Thriller when I think of the 80's.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHsIcsjtdI

[Skeleton Kin 385]

Nostalgia is a silly thing, it makes people think that the period they were born in is superior to those in the future, though if you went back in time things would actually get worse rather than better.

 

Anyway born in 98, had a SNES at one point but my family gave it away to a kid who basically had nothing in terms of gaming.

[King Sejong 858]

   I was born in 1986, yet I remember the 80's, I remember playing Nintendo, my cousin's NES anyway, for Super Nintendo was my first console. The nostalgic I feel for the eighties, is seldom felt, the nineties are the decade I remember most, a lot of what I do such as playing Pac-Man or Tetris, kind of put me back in time, these are my favourite games, so when I play them I feel like I have gone back in time, when my father played these games at an arcade, then I did the same thing when I matured. I did grow up watching eighties cartoons, like the Thundercats, Care Bears, Dave the Gnome and Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, this is the main attachment I have for the eighties, I also saw Naussica of the Valley of Wind in Japanese, with subtitles, we saw it on a local channel in Kyoto on my first trip overseas, it was my first time seeing Anime, so when I see the film again I instantly feel nostalgic, even when Disney dubbed it into English in 2004, that nostalgic is still there, finally, this was also the decade that gave us MST3k, my favourite TV show of all time.
https://youtu.be/bs0osMzTZQA

Edited April 9, 2015 by King Edouard

[The Professor...8D 823]

Heh....................the 80's were the 80's............some good...........some bad............Mostly Cheesy....Enjoy

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2LVOYQNrxc

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAQu23t19A

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izY2vgfZj-Y

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VS-ZoeMqs

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXZYkZZqMQ

 

 

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

Nostalgia is a silly thing, it makes people think that the period they were born in is superior to those in the future, though if you went back in time things would actually get worse rather than better.

Many of the things I still enjoy today came out of the 80's.  And it's not really "nostalgia" if they never left you; I never stopped playing classic games.  Super Mario Bros. > Call of Duty.

[Skeleton Kin 385]

Many of the things I still enjoy today came out of the 80's.  And it's not really "nostalgia" if they never left you; I never stopped playing classic games.  Super Mario Bros. > Call of Duty.

 

Meh, it's that most nostalgic folks I've come across have this idea that if it wasn't made in the same period they were born in it is automatically bad.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

Meh, it's that most nostalgic folks I've come across have this idea that if it wasn't made in the same period they were born in it is automatically bad.

Well obviously that sort of thing is silly; good things have come out of every subsequent decade.  Bad, too.  In some ways I prefer looking back, but in other ways...  I'm glad to be precisely where I am at the moment.

[Poetic Stone 1,040]

I was born in1974 so I remember the 80's well best time of my childhood, and yes it was cheezy a little, but it was an awesome time to be a kid.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

There were some pretty messed up toy lines in the 80's; though I honestly miss Food Fighters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08ABhmCSI_w&feature=player_detailpage

 

But Patty Plate Glass was just plain disturbing.

The 80's had some great music.  Some awful music.  And some music that was so awful you had to love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scu81EW4UC8&feature=player_detailpage

 

^ That Lauper song was used in the Goonies II NES game. x )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4YnWcnAg14&feature=player_detailpage

[Jammo 986]

I was born in 1989 so I was too young for absurd hair or studded leather jackets.

There's some good stuff out of the 80s but I must admit I get annoyed by jaded 30-somethings complaining about newer cartoons.  I run into those a lot online.  80s was like any decade.  A few gems shining in mediocrity.    

[Cosmik Vek 764]

I was not born in the in the 80s, but I like a lot of things from the eightees, the most memorable thing for me being the apparition of the first chapters of Extreme Metal music. Genres like Thrash/Old school Death/Old School Black and Prog. Metal defines my musical tastes as for the 80s. I like a lot of classic albums but more in the Thrash departement honestly. Aside from that I don't think there's other thing from the 80s that I could really care about.

Edited April 10, 2015 by ObliveonBr0ny

[Justin_Case001 4,857]

Alright!  Let's get our '80's on!  (I know this says '90's, but it's not.  It's totally '80's.)

[Tao 6,736]

Ahhh the 80's,  how we miss that epic of band hair metal,  the happy

dances and bright colors that blinded our eyes also leggings.....

 

Than you get the  Iconic movies:

ET

Ghostbusters

The Lost Boys

Back to the Future all 3 of em

Star Wars

Star Trek

Dirty Dancing

and sooo many to.....count

 

My favs:

The Last Unicorn

Legend

Labyrinth

 

[Zoraxe 546]

I'm going to have to watch me some 80s transformers and other such cartoons, they have a certain appeal to them.

 

 

And of coarse, 80s Pony.

 

[Kel_Grym 1,917]

Nostalgia is a silly thing, it makes people think that the period they were born in is superior to those in the future, though if you went back in time things would actually get worse rather than better.

 

Debatable.

 

Some things were better, if not all things.

 

For example, there wasn't obamacare.

[Skeleton Kin 385]

Debatable.

 

Some things were better, if not all things.

 

For example, there wasn't obamacare.

 

Well technology is certainly better, social standards has improved (such as views on gays) and medicine has improved. So no, not all things were better.

 

Also, please don't turn this into a political debate, this thread isn't for that.

[PittyPaws 118]

The things I remember best about the '80's were 

Fraggles, G1 MLP, Popples, and Care Bears. 

[Away 2,077]

My parents both grew up in the 80's as teens i think. I wonder what it was like for them xD