I had almost every Maxell style

what do you remember and miss from the 80s?

YAAAAASS GAWD! I still have a few cassettes around my house. Also, the very first album I bought on cassette that was a clear casing was Prince's Around The World In A Day. It was the first time I ever saw the new clear case.

Miss? Though I still have all of my cassettes from back then, I don't miss the cassette at all. I do have very nostalgic and fond memories that revolve around 'em though...taping Casey Kasem, taping homemade radio shows on 'em, etc...but fuck, I loved my jam box more than the cassette it played .

Snap, did someone say jam box?!! Fuck yea, I miss my early and mid 80s jam boxes. When I graduated to detachable speakers, I thought that I would never need to buy another, well, anything, again. It was all I needed.

2XL was a bit of a cusper for me. During my childhood, they did produce the machine until '81 and I can't say for sure if I had one from the late 70s or early 80s, but I loved that dude. Educational and fun.

White Castle fries only coming in one size.

Little Caesar's used to give TWO pizzas with every order. And they were good, not that bubbly no-cheese havin' bullshit they fell into during the 90s.

Shakey's Pizza! No longer available in my area.

Better get lunch, my mind seems to be stuck on food.

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My fave was TDK 120 - High Resolution

TrivialPursuit said:

YAAAAASS GAWD! I still have a few cassettes around my house. Also, the very first album I bought on cassette that was a clear casing was Prince's Around The World In A Day. It was the first time I ever saw the new clear case.

I got that Around the World in A Day cassette too.

TrivialPursuit said:

YAAAAASS GAWD! I still have a few cassettes around my house. Also, the very first album I bought on cassette that was a clear casing was Prince's Around The World In A Day. It was the first time I ever saw the new clear case.

HAAAAAA love em

left 2 right top 2 bottom

I had tape 1 2 3

1 2 4

1 2 3 4

I bought the album of ATWIAD first and then the cassette

My first walkman was the Sony WM 10. It was gold, sleek, had Dolby noise reduction B, and ran on one AA battery. It was $99.95 at Service Merchandise. My grandma gave us four grandkids $100 each at Christmas. That is what I spent mine on. The cool thing about this was when you take the cassette out, it pushed together on itself and was basically the size of a cassette jewel case, which means it stored well most times in a cassette carrier. They later had another model with a red accent on it and it had an FM radio built in. It came with a belt clip that actually screwed in the back of the player, one of the first (if not the first) to have the in-ear type headphones seen below.

It was all that and a bag of chips.

from the 1980s i miss the music, the general air of cultural optimism, the b-movies and a lot else. i definitely do not miss the big hair and shoulder pads out to here. fashions were a bit hinky back then

I love this movie. It so feels like when I grew up in the 80s...
There are some things that hit me about this movie vs now... how if this movie was 2018 all the kids would most likely have Ipads and cellphones

The engaging probably would not have happened.
It is so weird when I see movies from pre-cell phone days, and don't see people detached on cell phones

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Saturday, March 24,1984. Shermer High School, Shermer, Illinois, 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us - in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We were brainwashed.

XxAxX said:

from the 1980s i miss the music, the general air of cultural optimism, the b-movies and a lot else. i definitely do not miss the big hair and shoulder pads out to here. fashions were a bit hinky back then

I'm with U, LOL I don't mind the hair so much. But those shoulder pads are funny looking back on them.
Hair was still big in the early - mid 90s though, it was just different

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I miss the parties...too bad I don't remember much of them. ..I do miss the cassettes, Walkmans and "boom boxes"....I keep hearing rumors that they may comeback, but I doubt it.

I must have had some Maxell casettes but these Memorex stand out in the memory. I used to buy a 3 pack from Woolworths with my pocket money and tape the best songs from UK Top 40 Chart each week. Remember how you had to have that skill to pause and unpause the record button at just the right point at the start and end to cut out the DJ's talk. Not the greatest casettes but they were cheap and fun.

Mixtapes were relationship builders...

Then this commercial informed us all why we need this brand...



I'm old.

SPYZFAN1 said:

I miss the parties...too bad I don't remember much of them. ..I do miss the cassettes, Walkmans and "boom boxes"....I keep hearing rumors that they may comeback, but I doubt it.

Boom boxes never went away. They're in Best Buy, and other stores. They went from boom boxes to "portable speakers". Frankly, boom boxes are huge these days, but they are still around.

I once used mine to catch my little brother fucking around in my room. I knew he would steal my tapes and record over them. I used to put a handkerchief over my boombox to keep dust off of it. So once day, I pushed record when I left for school. Within a minute, he went into my bedroom and started fucking around. When mom got home later, I played the tape back. He tried to talk over it, but it was clear when I left, and then you heard him walk into my room and take my stuff. That was the day the boom box became God in our house. And forever "stop stealing my tapes" became our family mantra.

ARCADES ARCADES ARCADES on the street @ amusement parks bowling alleys malls etc

Pac Man

Ms Pac Man

Super Pac Man
Pac Man jr

Dig Dug

Joust

Frogger

Galaxian

Galaga

Donkey Kong

Mario Brothers
Popeye
Centipede

I'm not a big video-gamer...although in addition to the above, also enjoyed...

Track and Field (hurdles was excellent!)
Double Dragon (for all my pent up Bruce Lee moves)

Oh and the 1985 Snooker Final...after 2 days...35 frames...it went down to one final black ball.

Stayed up until 12.30am on a Sunday to watch it - thrilling!!!!!

Anyone else missing Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor? Anyone else remember when Pizza Hut was a sitdown restaurant? Ahhh...those were the days! What I miss most is the old $1 movie theaters. When "Breakin" came out, there was a double feature, "Breakin'" and "Beat Street", for $1. When Under the Cherry Moon flopped, it ended up in our $1 theater the week after it was released. They paired it with Purple Rain, me and my buddy Glenn went damn near everyday in the summer of 86. Prior to that, they paired Purple Rain with Krush Groove...those were the friggin days!!!! All the homies in the theater, cracking jokes, talking shit...who cares? We had seen the movies a million times, and it was only a buck! Plus, when they showed the Breakin movies, they let us get on the stage in front of the screen and have breaking battles between the flicks!!!!

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Simple things...anyone else spend their young 80s Friday and Saturday nights flipping back and forth between MTV, VH1, USA (Night Flight) and TBS (what was their video show called?) watching music videos all night? And certain Saturdays we had to check NBC as well for WWF Saturday Night's Main Event. Somebody build a time machine!!!!!

OldFriends4Sale said:

ARCADES ARCADES ARCADES on the street @ amusement parks bowling alleys malls etc

Pac Man

Ms Pac Man

Super Pac Man
Pac Man jr

Dig Dug

Joust

Frogger

Galaxian

Galaga

Donkey Kong

Mario Brothers
Popeye
Centipede

Tempest, Centipede, Tron, Asteroids, Galaga <------ Took all the money I had as a kid, one quarter at a time...

People have to understand, I played PONG, alright! Atari came out AFTER the first Pac Man game took my first quarter. I'm the old man of the videogame generation...not proud...LOL!

This is the last thing I'll mention because I'm getting depressed at how fucking old I am...

As a growing boy, feeling certain hormones for the first time, all I can say is these aerobic videos have never been outdone since the 80s...



Now I'm going to tell those kids to get off my lawn...

purplethunder3121 said:

Jazzercize and aerobics from the 70s-80s was just fun

Even people who might have made fun of it openly, privately enjoyed it

It always reminded me of SOLID GOLD

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Slave2daGroove said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

ARCADES ARCADES ARCADES on the street @ amusement parks bowling alleys malls etc

Pac Man

Ms Pac Man

Super Pac Man
Pac Man jr

Dig Dug

Joust

Frogger

Galaxian

Galaga

Donkey Kong

Mario Brothers
Popeye
Centipede

Tempest, Centipede, Tron, Asteroids, Galaga <------ Took all the money I had as a kid, one quarter at a time...

People have to understand, I played PONG, alright! Atari came out AFTER the first Pac Man game took my first quarter. I'm the old man of the videogame generation...not proud...LOL!

$10 hanging out with cousins at the nearby Mall's arcade and seeing JOUST 2!!! $5 of my $10 was gone

Did people who wanted to play next put their quarter on the 'dashboard' of the game?

UncleJam said:

Anyone else missing Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor? Anyone else remember when Pizza Hut was a sitdown restaurant? Ahhh...those were the days! What I miss most is the old $1 movie theaters. When "Breakin" came out, there was a double feature, "Breakin'" and "Beat Street", for $1. When Under the Cherry Moon flopped, it ended up in our $1 theater the week after it was released. They paired it with Purple Rain, me and my buddy Glenn went damn near everyday in the summer of 86. Prior to that, they paired Purple Rain with Krush Groove...those were the friggin days!!!! All the homies in the theater, cracking jokes, talking shit...who cares? We had seen the movies a million times, and it was only a buck! Plus, when they showed the Breakin movies, they let us get on the stage in front of the screen and have breaking battles between the flicks!!!!

-

Simple things...anyone else spend their young 80s Friday and Saturday nights flipping back and forth between MTV, VH1, USA (Night Flight) and TBS (what was their video show called?) watching music videos all night? And certain Saturdays we had to check NBC as well for WWF Saturday Night's Main Event. Somebody build a time machine!!!!!

Yes Pizza Hut was the spot

LOL Yep MTV VH1 USA BET-Video Soul

and I always had my VHS ready to record videos or interviews etc

Simple Times for Sure

Absolutely I remember cassettes! I loved them!

The biggest mistake I made was selling my Sharp cassette deck:






With those toggle switches, you could stop tape EXACTLY where you wanted. This was invaluable when making mix tapes. But when CDs came out, for some stupid reason I sold that deck. Later, I bought another kind of cassette deck and that's when I found out that the only cassette deck that you could stop with split-second precision was...the one I had sold and could no longer find any more.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Did people who wanted to play next put their quarter on the 'dashboard' of the game?

Not in my neighborhood...you wouldn't have a quarter if you left it. We waited in line...LOL!

We would do that in bars on the pool table to show we were next...

Slave2daGroove said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Did people who wanted to play next put their quarter on the 'dashboard' of the game?

Not in my neighborhood...you wouldn't have a quarter if you left it. We waited in line...LOL!

We would do that in bars on the pool table to show we were next...

lol

Yeah that is what I meant.

We people did that in bar arcades, bowling alley arcades etc

I still have ALL my old cassettes! But sadly I don't have a working cassette deck any longer...

Also - it's a fact that Youtube seems to have every fucking song and indeed, album that I EVER bought! The guys have a ton of storage, eh?

Lotsa Prince bootlegs on dos.