For Those Born in the 80's...

red04 · July 21, 2010, 4:57am

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

He-man, transformers, gi joe(I could keep listing but the point is made) all aired well into the early 90s. Someone born in the mid 80s with older siblings that took control of the TV would easily have memories of these shows as their own, even if it’s not what a typical 3-4 year old would watch.

Same goes for video games NES and later(so we miss out on very early arcade experiences when having the high score on pac-man or donkey kong made you a local legend, and artari/sega master system/commodore 64 stuff).

Of course if you lacked an older brother to hook you up, well I pity you, you lost, lost, non-80’s experiencing soul =[

Professor_X · July 21, 2010, 4:57am

[quote]Totenkopf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Totenkopf wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

Agreed. Some of these posts don’t even make sense considering they must have been fucking one year old when they “experienced” it.[/quote]
The title mentions “Born in the 80s” not “Experiences during the 80s”.[/quote]

Then why are people listing movies from the 80’s when they were born in 85?

If you were born in the 80’s, unless it was maybe 81 or 82, you don’t remember shit about that decade at all.
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Im pretty sure they didnt watch the video posted in the original post as well. The video mentions “ICQ” and “N64 GoldenEye” products of 90s. It was a misconception of “Born in” and “Growing up in” [/quote]

It doesn’t fucking matter. THOSE were the people I was referring to. So why call me out on it when it WAS going down like that?

If you were born in the 80’s yet are mentioning He-Man, something is off unless you were at least around 8 years old at the time.

Professor_X · July 21, 2010, 5:00am

[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

He-man, transformers, gi joe(I could keep listing but the point is made) all aired well into the early 90s. Someone born in the mid 80s with older siblings that took control of the TV would easily have memories of these shows as their own, even if it’s not what a typical 3-4 year old would watch.

Same goes for video games NES and later(so we miss out on very early arcade experiences when having the high score on pac-man or donkey kong made you a local legend, and artari/sega master system/commodore 64 stuff).

Of course if you lacked an older brother to hook you up, well I pity you, you lost, lost, non-80’s experiencing soul =[[/quote]

He-man wasn’t early 90’s. Transformers were well into OLD reruns by the 90’s if they even aired at all…which is pretty much like claiming Loony Tunes as being from your generation simply because it was still on tv.

He-man started in 1983. It was OFF THE AIR by the 90’s.

red04 · July 21, 2010, 5:05am

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

He-man, transformers, gi joe(I could keep listing but the point is made) all aired well into the early 90s. Someone born in the mid 80s with older siblings that took control of the TV would easily have memories of these shows as their own, even if it’s not what a typical 3-4 year old would watch.

Same goes for video games NES and later(so we miss out on very early arcade experiences when having the high score on pac-man or donkey kong made you a local legend, and artari/sega master system/commodore 64 stuff).

Of course if you lacked an older brother to hook you up, well I pity you, you lost, lost, non-80’s experiencing soul =[[/quote]

He-man wasn’t early 90’s. Transformers were well into OLD reruns by the 90’s if they even aired at all…which is pretty much like claiming Loony Tunes as being from your generation simply because it was still on tv.

He-man started in 1983. It was OFF THE AIR by the 90’s.[/quote]

I’ll cede He-man, I could be remembering watching videos that had all the episodes recorded. I very vividly remember watching Transformers every morning before school until 2nd or 3rd grade though, when I was forced to find other entertainment. It was dark times, but Darkwing Duck helped me through them.

I will clarify that I obviously don’t know if they were re-runs or not, but Transformers was a huge part of my(and every boy my age) childhood because it was still in a very prominent TV spot, not buried at some odd time as old bad tv.

WolBarret · July 21, 2010, 5:07am

For fuck’s sake, take this shit elsewhere or at least post pictures or videos! Jeez…

Except you, X…You’re cool. Don’t hurt me.

Soulja874 · July 21, 2010, 5:09am

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

He-man, transformers, gi joe(I could keep listing but the point is made) all aired well into the early 90s. Someone born in the mid 80s with older siblings that took control of the TV would easily have memories of these shows as their own, even if it’s not what a typical 3-4 year old would watch.

Same goes for video games NES and later(so we miss out on very early arcade experiences when having the high score on pac-man or donkey kong made you a local legend, and artari/sega master system/commodore 64 stuff).

Of course if you lacked an older brother to hook you up, well I pity you, you lost, lost, non-80’s experiencing soul =[[/quote]

He-man wasn’t early 90’s. Transformers were well into OLD reruns by the 90’s if they even aired at all…which is pretty much like claiming Loony Tunes as being from your generation simply because it was still on tv.

He-man started in 1983. It was OFF THE AIR by the 90’s.[/quote]

I know I remember watching Thundercats and Voltron eating a big ass bowl of cereal on the regular. I remember a lot from the 80s, it might be from a child’s perspective but I remember it none the less.

Professor_X · July 21, 2010, 5:11am

[quote]Soulja874 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

He-man, transformers, gi joe(I could keep listing but the point is made) all aired well into the early 90s. Someone born in the mid 80s with older siblings that took control of the TV would easily have memories of these shows as their own, even if it’s not what a typical 3-4 year old would watch.

Same goes for video games NES and later(so we miss out on very early arcade experiences when having the high score on pac-man or donkey kong made you a local legend, and artari/sega master system/commodore 64 stuff).

Of course if you lacked an older brother to hook you up, well I pity you, you lost, lost, non-80’s experiencing soul =[[/quote]

He-man wasn’t early 90’s. Transformers were well into OLD reruns by the 90’s if they even aired at all…which is pretty much like claiming Loony Tunes as being from your generation simply because it was still on tv.

He-man started in 1983. It was OFF THE AIR by the 90’s.[/quote]

I know I remember watching Thundercats and Voltron eating a big ass bowl of cereal on the regular. I remember a lot from the 80s, it might be from a child’s perspective but I remember it none the less.[/quote]

Dude, what year were you born? I was eating cereal too, but I am not going to claim the fucking 70’s as a decade I remember when I could barely walk then.

WolBarret · July 21, 2010, 5:14am

He-Man can eat a dick.

By the power of Grayskull, my ass.

Soulja874 · July 21, 2010, 5:15am

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]Soulja874 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]red04 wrote:

[quote]mattregan wrote:
If you were born in the 80’s then you don’t know the 80’s. You may know of the 80’s and all the cool stuff, the best cartoons, best TV shows and start of the best home video games and actually the best Arcades, which are getting harder to find. You have to be born in the 70’s to have TRUELY experience the 80’s. To be 10, 11 12 yrs old in the early 80’s was the best time because we were old enough to get these experiences. If you were born in 81, 82, 83 you didn’t watch (or new you were watching)he man, transformers etc… The shitty 90’s was your time. [/quote]

He-man, transformers, gi joe(I could keep listing but the point is made) all aired well into the early 90s. Someone born in the mid 80s with older siblings that took control of the TV would easily have memories of these shows as their own, even if it’s not what a typical 3-4 year old would watch.

Same goes for video games NES and later(so we miss out on very early arcade experiences when having the high score on pac-man or donkey kong made you a local legend, and artari/sega master system/commodore 64 stuff).

Of course if you lacked an older brother to hook you up, well I pity you, you lost, lost, non-80’s experiencing soul =[[/quote]

He-man wasn’t early 90’s. Transformers were well into OLD reruns by the 90’s if they even aired at all…which is pretty much like claiming Loony Tunes as being from your generation simply because it was still on tv.

He-man started in 1983. It was OFF THE AIR by the 90’s.[/quote]

I know I remember watching Thundercats and Voltron eating a big ass bowl of cereal on the regular. I remember a lot from the 80s, it might be from a child’s perspective but I remember it none the less.[/quote]

Dude, what year were you born? I was eating cereal too, but I am not going to claim the fucking 70’s as a decade I remember when I could barely walk then.[/quote]

'85…sir

red04 · July 21, 2010, 5:16am

[quote]WolBarret wrote:
For fuck’s sake, take this shit elsewhere or at least post pictures or videos! Jeez…

Except you, X…You’re cool. Don’t hurt me.

.[/quote]

I see you Duck Tales, and raise you Inspector Gadget:

WolBarret · July 21, 2010, 5:19am

My personal favorite:

Soulja874 · July 21, 2010, 5:27am

[quote] WolBarret wrote:
My personal favorite:

Highlander TV Intro - YouTube [/quote]

This trumps Highlander, you know you love it.

Professor_X · July 21, 2010, 5:27am