Arise, ARISE! Children of the 80's! MWAHAHAHAHA!

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2003-10-30 08:46pm

SAMAS wrote:In Gradius II(SNES)... I forget. I think the original code killed you, but a variation gave you the powerups.

Gradius III was the SNES game, actually. Gradius II: Gofer's Ambition was never released in the U.S., and came out in Europe as Vulcan Venture. Otherwise, you had it right; substitute crosspad L and R with the appropriate shoulder buttons to get the code to work.

The Konami code also worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, which gave you nine lives. Not that it helped in TMNT: The Manhattan Project, though.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-10-30 09:29pm

I was alive for the eighties! Well, six months of the eighties, anyway...

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-10-30 09:43pm

I was born in early July of 85, so I lived through half of the 80's...My mom played that music a LOT around the house. I love it. Tonight, tonight, tonight! Whoa-ohhhhh!

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-31 12:22am

Shinova wrote:The 80s also had the STRANGEST music.

Bohimian Rhapsody by Queen comes to mind.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-10-31 12:41am

otter wrote:[Q]-You actually bought and listened to Weird Al tapes.[/Q]

He-heh

Guilty! I had the "Dare to be stupid" and "Weird Al 3-D" cassettes

i had weird al 3-d on VINYL!!!

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-10-31 01:06am

Every kid that survived the 80's has one thing in common: they all owned the original Star Wars action figures.

Collectors these days have all the mint-condition, unopened originals in their cardboard sleeves. They sell for hundreds of dollars. How can that compare to the scratched, cracked and marred figures of Luke, Han and Leia that brought every 5 year old priceless amounts of happiness? I still have my old Landspeeder--one of the fins cracked off and the front hood-piece mysteriously missing--,all of my old figures (ROTJ Luke with half of his facial paint scratched away from age, the mysterious Prune Face that everyone had, OB1, Han and Wicket the Ewok), and what remains of my Death Star playset. Hell, i still have my read-along ROTJ audio tape, with R2 beeping every time you had to turn the page. Star Wars and Childhood During the Eighties are synonomous.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-10-31 01:08am

Blacktron legos were the shit

Word. They were the ones that would come to Legotown to loot and plunder. Buncha little badasses.

You knew all the words to Labrynth, and thought that you would have made it through much more easily than she did.

check.

The Real Ghostbusters (the cartoon series) was shit and you knew it but you still watched it.

I'll kill you!

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-31 01:10am

Vertigo1 wrote:
Shinova wrote:The 80s also had the STRANGEST music.
Bohimian Rhapsody by Queen comes to mind.

Bohemian Rhapsody's from '75.

zombie84 wrote:mysterious Prune Face that everyone had

The one with the hard plastic hair over one shoulder? That's a Weequay. I've got that, 2 R2-D2s, C-3P0, Chewbacca, Endor Leia, Wedge, and ROTJ Luke.

-You constantly wondered how, despite all their shooting, no one in GI Joe never got shot.

So true. They were all horrible shots.

-Anyone you knew could gain instant prestige if they could beat Mike Tyson on Punch-Out.

Mike Tyson wasn't that hard. I remember the big ruckus it caused when they removed his name from the game, though.

-You wondered what Jawas looked like under those hoods (and you still do.)

-You still have that huge bucket of Legos somewhere.

Three buckets...

-You have ever broken a Transformer in teary frustration trying to transform it.

Nope, mine are all still in good shape, except one rusted Optimus Prime. Although the Starscream I bought at a garage sale is missing one wing...

-You would have given everything you own if you could live in that Tron world.

Hell YEAH!!!

-You envied the kid down the street who had all six Constructicons.

Nah...I had the beast one (with Hungrr as the torso) and the military vehicles one (with Onslaught as the torso). Plus I had Fortress Maximus. I was the one the other kids envied

.

-If you can punch in "up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start" in less than 3 seconds.

Yep. Only way I ended up beating Turtles II.

-thought liono was bad ass, but thought the the thundercats all had very little thought put into their names

ROFL...I liked Panthro. The series got worse once they added the other three from the Tower and Snarf's nephew or whoever the crap that was.

-think that these new razor scooter are just smaller collapsable mongoose scooters

They're not done by the same company? Dang, guess my old scooter won't be an antique.

-wanted a pair of oakleys

Oh, yeah. Some of my friends brought back cheap knock-offs from Mexico.

-the person who could put 5 Atomic Fire Balls in their mouth at one time was a a minor God.

Does 7 make me a moderate God? Those things were weak. Warheads were much better (though I think those were early 90s).

-the fact Smear The Queer wasn't an Olympic sport was a travesty.

There was one downside to being the shortest kid in sixth grade...Smear the Queer hurt.

-Drew Barrymore was the little girl from E.T.

And she was such an annoying brat. I'm glad to see she grew out of it.

-Blacktron legos were the shit

Still have them. With instructions.

-tuff kids had ducktails

Are those the same as rattails?

-your first skate board was purchased at Kay-Bee toys

Would have been if the guy next door wasn't a semi-pro. I got one of his old hand-me-downs when the top layer peeled and he didn't want to risk shattering it on a half-pipe.

-You wondered why the Airforce didn't just build Robotech planes, because they were so much cooler...

And they look so much like Tomcats anyway...

-You never got sick of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video

Still haven't. I wish I still had that album (yes, the vinyl).

-Once you got the theme song to Denver the Last Dinosaur in your head you would sing it for weeks.

:headbang: I was fine until this one came up. That was the most annoying show ever.

-Danger Mouse is the only British cartoon you know of

Was The Great Mouse Detective British or just based of Sherlock Holmes? The answer to that will determine whether DM is the only British cartoon I know.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-10-31 01:15am

zombie84 wrote:Every kid that survived the 80's has one thing in common: they all owned the original Star Wars action figures.

Bull. I never had any until about 4 years ago, when my awesome uncle bequeathed them unto me while we were cleaning out my grandfathers garage.

And yes, the collection included the Death Star playset.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2003-10-31 01:19am

The Dark wrote:
-Danger Mouse is the only British cartoon you know of
Was The Great Mouse Detective British or just based of Sherlock Holmes? The answer to that will determine whether DM is the only British cartoon I know.

It was Disney. I mean it was set in London, but I don't know if any English people were really involved.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-31 01:45am

zombie84 wrote:Every kid that survived the 80's has one thing in common: they all owned the original Star Wars action figures.

Hell, I've got a Yoda figurine somewhere...

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-10-31 01:46am

The Dark wrote:
-You still have that huge bucket of Legos somewhere.
Three buckets...

Lucky bitch...

The Dark wrote:
-Blacktron legos were the shit
Still have them. With instructions.

Yup they were the shit. I really do miss the old skool Technic sets with the gears and beams with holes and shit. I would make the craziest contraptions with those...

The Dark wrote:
-your first skate board was purchased at Kay-Bee toys
Would have been if the guy next door wasn't a semi-pro. I got one of his old hand-me-downs when the top layer peeled and he didn't want to risk shattering it on a half-pipe.

I was never given a sk8 board. GAWD I wish I had an older brother!

The Dark wrote:
-Once you got the theme song to Denver the Last Dinosaur in your head you would sing it for weeks.
:headbang: I was fine until this one came up. That was the most annoying show ever.

BAH I HATE THAT GODLESSDAMNED SHOW!!! Yech! Hello CACOFNINKMKMMR* Therapy!

* CACOFNINKMKMMR: Corporate Avenger Cradle of Filth Nine Inch Nails Kottonmouth Kings Marilyn Manson Rammstein

zombie84 · Post by **zombie84** » 2003-10-31 02:00am

The Dark wrote:
zombie84 wrote:mysterious Prune Face that everyone had
The one with the hard plastic hair over one shoulder? That's a Weequay. I've got that, 2 R2-D2s, C-3P0, Chewbacca, Endor Leia, Wedge, and ROTJ Luke.

No, the character is actually named Pruneface, and he has a white, E.T.-shaped head and an eyepatch. He's from ROTJ but he's never actually seen in the film; he was a background extra from the Rebel strike force on Endor. If you squint, you might make him out in the background, out of foucs, walking around during the rebel meeting on Home One or something. Anyway, he was one of the more mass-produced figures so everyone had him but nobody knew who he was because he's never seen in the film.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
Every kid that survived the 80's has one thing in common: they all owned the original Star Wars action figures.

Bull. I never had any until about 4 years ago, when my awesome uncle bequeathed them unto me while we were cleaning out my grandfathers garage.

Heresay!! You must berate your parents for robbing you of you're childhood! No Star Wars toys?? Thats like saying "I never had a bicycle when i was a kid"!! There are certain rites of passage into childhood...during the 80's one of them was you're first Star Wars toy.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-10-31 03:19am

-The scariest thing in the world was when Michael Jackson first turned into werewolf and screamed "Get away from me!".

hahahaha! I remember that!

-Your brothers made fun of you for watching Muppet Babies.

hmm, I was too old for that - I was pure muppets.

-Once you got the theme song to Denver the Last Dinosaur in your head you would sing it for weeks.

I STILL HAVE IT IN MY HEAD TO THIS DAY!!1!!!!!

-Danger Mouse is the only British cartoon you know of

hmm, perhaps being in Australia exposed me to more brit cartoons...Bananaman, Super Ted, Sooty (not cartoon but close enough)....

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-10-31 03:28am

I had every Blacktron set. I still have every Blacktron set. Cause Blacktron kicks ass.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-10-31 03:32am

God damn it, now I have that dumb theme stuck in my head...

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-10-31 03:53am

A lot of you children are confusing the 70's for the 80's.

Bohemian Rhapsody was realeased in 1975, and is NOT 80's music, for whoever said that.

Original Star Wars figures came out in '77, anything later than that aren't original. Especially Weequay! Return of the Jedi figures are another world...
BTW, if you don't instinctively call ANH Star Wars, and everything that came after it by it's individual title, you're a whippersnapper!

Claiming to be a child of the 80's because you were born in '86 is like me trying to claim to be a child of the 60's for being born in '67.

Sheesh, kids......

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2003-10-31 05:30am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:God damn it, now I have that dumb theme stuck in my head...

I was just about to make the same post. I could very well have gone another decade or two without that nauseating thing going on and on, and now it won't shut up, probably for days. Fuck

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-31 06:17am

This list is me!

-Jem hooked up with He-Man in the Castle of Greyskull.

(actually, it was the My Little Pony dream castle)

Thought it would be so cool to ride a unicorn or pegasus.

Still do

-Wore stirrup pants with pride.

HELLS yes.

Knew Belle and Sebastion was the name of a cartoon.

yep.

You still have that huge bucket of Legos somewhere.

My parents gave it to my cousin's eldest.

You have ever broken a Transformer in teary frustration trying to transform it.

Sweet Secret, actually.

Knew dorks folded their socks, but awesome girls "scrunched" them.

You better believe it.

You are still wary of eating red M&M's 'cause that red dye number five was a bitch.

Smarties, actually.

You sang the words to "Papa Don't Preach" at the top of your lungs but had no idea what the words actually meant.

Abso-friggin-lootely.
I'd forgotten the song until Kelly Osbourne covered it, then I listened to it and thought "That's what that's about?!

If you can punch in "up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start" in less than 3 seconds.

Yep. My flatmate still has a SNES.

if you knew that judd nelson, robert stack, orson wells, leonard nimoy, and eric idle lent thier talents to transformers the movie

Best. Movie. Ever.

You did gymnastics on the lawn. To Madonna. In a skort.

Actually, it was an ice skating dress. With leg warmers.

thought liono was bad ass, but thought the the thundercats all had very little thought put into their names

Of course.

You wrote your name using a pencil eraser on the cover of your spelling book.

if you ever turned the page at the sound of R2D2

Hubba Bubba.

Slash from Guns n Roses was the coolest man ever

Still is.

if you thought that any band heavier the guns 'n roses was satanic

*hangs head in shame*

You were a fool if you didn't know how to get 99 free guys by jumping on the turtle shell in Mario Brothers.

the song that garnered the most enthusiasm at Skate Junction was "Walk Like an Egyptian," where everyone would do that thing with their arms

You never got sick of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video

Hells no.

Every time you watched Dungeons & Dragons the TV show you thought, "this will be the episode they get home".

When are they going to make that episode?

The Real Ghostbusters (the cartoon series) was shit and you knew it but you still watched it.

Danger Mouse is the only British cartoon you know of

Bah. There was also the spinoff: Count Duckula!

IB's Additions:
Ghostbusters was the scariest film ever
You never feed anything after midnight
You can bounce on that ball with the plastic footrests
You got Silly Putty on everything
You wore a Global Hypercolour T Shirt under your shellsuit.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-10-31 06:25am

I have no memories dating to the eighties, the only thing I have from that period are baby photos of me. The earliest things I could remember are from the early nineties.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-10-31 11:23am

Shinova wrote:Hey, at least most of the stuff in the 90s and 70s at least sounded like something! A lot of the stuff from the 80s sounded like a collection of sounds put together with some over-done electronic mixing and lyrics added in.

And this is different from the 70s and 90s how??????

This is not to say that there were indeed some really good pieces out from the 80s, but in general, blaaaahhh.

IOW, business as usual for the entertainment industry.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-31 03:56pm

zombie84 wrote:
The Dark wrote:
zombie84 wrote:mysterious Prune Face that everyone had
The one with the hard plastic hair over one shoulder? That's a Weequay. I've got that, 2 R2-D2s, C-3P0, Chewbacca, Endor Leia, Wedge, and ROTJ Luke.
No, the character is actually named Pruneface, and he has a white, E.T.-shaped head and an eyepatch. He's from ROTJ but he's never actually seen in the film; he was a background extra from the Rebel strike force on Endor. If you squint, you might make him out in the background, out of foucs, walking around during the rebel meeting on Home One or something. Anyway, he was one of the more mass-produced figures so everyone had him but nobody knew who he was because he's never seen in the film.

Huh. I've never seen that one. (oh, and I forgot the Scout trooper figure I have. A little battered, but still good). I think my cousin (who gave me most of the ones I have) only bought figures he could recognize.

innerbrat wrote:Yep. My flatmate still has a SNES.

I still have one of the original front-loader NES systems. Something like 30 games, two working controllers, and a Zapper. I'm just sad that the Atari Super Pong broke when I was about 11. That was fun.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-10-31 04:01pm

InnerBrat wrote:
if you knew that judd nelson, robert stack, orson wells, leonard nimoy, and eric idle lent thier talents to transformers the movie
Best. Movie. Ever.

You're damn right it is. *Grumbles as he once again tries to find The Movie on on DVD or VHS...they only had the movie on Beta...the machine broke years ago. *

Oh and Frank, I was pretty much raised by my teenage siblings and their friends who did live through the 80's. So I'm ALMOST an 80's child.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-10-31 04:38pm

Captain_Cyran wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:
if you knew that judd nelson, robert stack, orson wells, leonard nimoy, and eric idle lent thier talents to transformers the movie
Best. Movie. Ever.
You're damn right it is. *Grumbles as he once again tries to find The Movie on on DVD or VHS...they only had the movie on Beta...the machine broke years ago. *

I have that on a DVD somewhere, I think. I know I have it on VHS, though, from ages ago. Wasn't it re-released a few years ago?

I remember a VAST quantity of the 80's, naturally. And I can associate with a lot of the toys that you probably wish you had, like random rare Star Wars toys (I have Prune Face's HEAD in an old box). I was still buying Lego up until a few years ago. I have truckloads of the stuff.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-10-31 05:20pm

NEAT 80's THINGY!!! You'll LOVE IT!

god, I miss the 80's. FH is so right. you MUST call ANH Star Wars, then theres Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.