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If you grew up in the eighties, post here! - The Raven
Okay, so who else here grew up in the eighties?
I see that there are quite a few members of the Raven who are in their thirties, and thought it would be fun to start a thread, so we can all post our stories or memories here.
One of my memories relates to videocassette.
For those of you who didn't know, if you wanted to buy a movie, you couldn't just go in a store and get one.
You mainly hired out movies and if you did want to buy one, you had to pay megabucks!
Back in 1985 when I was twelve years old, I saw and fell in love with Back to the Future in the cinema.
Some months later, a friend of my sisters said that she knew someone who had the movie and would happily lend it to me!
So a few days later, she comes to the hose with the video tape and I'm jumping up and down...until I realise something
...the video tape is a Betamax and we only have VHS.
I was devastated to say the least.
There were no i-pods, mp3's, no internet or the ability to watch a movie on cable when you wanted.
As some of you know, it was a whole different world to the one we live in now.
Oh yes, and lastly, post your age also.
I'm 36, BTW.
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80's kid here.
I remember tape cassets and VHSes.
Hell, we even had a record player.
I also remember how cool alot of the songs in the 80's were.
I also remember little figures such as MUSCLE.
Damn..
I feel old.
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Quote: :
One of my memories relates to videocassette.
What about laser discs?
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Quote: : What about laser discs?
You mean these?
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...CDE/_LDISC.GIF
I had a friend who owned one.
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I remember our first vcr.
It was a magical experience that teens of today wouldn't understand.
The power to watch the one movie we owned--"The Karate Kid"--over, and over, and over, and over
Hell, I remember our first color TV.
And our first tv with a remote.
They had these things in stores, but my folks pinch a penny so hard that lincoln takes a crap in the palm of their hand.
So options like color and remote had to be pretty much standard options before my parents would give in.
Oh, and our tv had to pretty much wear out, too.
I also have fond memories of envying my best friend's Commodore 64.
I will be 38 in September.
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Our first VCR was a monumental occasion.
December 1988. The Lost Boys and A Nightmare On Elm Street all weekend...
I'm 31.
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Thanks for the replies, guys.
Quote: : What about laser discs?
We didn't get those in the UK until the 90's.
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Hell, we had those turn dial cable boxes back then also.
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Watching the evolution of video games through the course of my life has been interesting, too.
I remember my dad and my brother returning from a fishing trip to Canada.
All they could talk about was something they saw in a truck stop.
Something called Pac Man.
Apparently they had spent about 10 bucks (that's 40 games) playing it.
At the time I had no idea what they were raving about.
All I had seen up to that point was Pong on a black and white tv, which seemed more like a novelty than anything else.
Now I have a psp, psone, ps2, gamecube, xbox, xbox 360, and a wii.
Technology as a whole has leapt so far ahead since the 80's that my familiarity with ancient tech makes me sound like more of a dinosaur than I consider myself to be.
I remember when call-waiting was a luxury.
Then came caller id.
Then cell phones.
Now I don't know many people with a land line in their home.
Saying the words "I remember when there was no such thing as the internet" sounds like I came out of the dark ages.
My 2 1/2 year old son will never read a newspaper or use a phone booth.
Not that it's important that he does, it's just weird to think about.
Of course, being a child of the eighties meant growing up on the cusp of the information age, which allowed for more of a sense of wonder than can be afforded to kids today.
Finding the answer to every question that crossed my synapses in my childhood would have required spending all of my spare time sorting through the Dewey Decimal System and wandering through a library, whereas now, my answers are a mere click away.
In short, I am glad to have been able to have a foot in both worlds within one life.
Growing up in the 80's has made me better appreciate some of the same things that I find myself taking for granted most of the time.
Cool thread, Canyon.
I'm rating it 5 stars.
Thanks for helping to remind me that growing up 80's style was pretty great.
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I was born in 91 but might as well be considered an 80s kid in spirt.
For godsake I used to have a micro cassete player!
We even had a Betamax
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