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1. Life in the 80s So what does it mean exactly being fifty and fantastic? First I lived 50 years in perfectly good health. I'm not overweight. I do not have a medicine cabinet filled with prescriptions. I do not look 50. I also have not allowed myself to stop learning...
2. Ghostbusters Appreciation: Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghostbusters is a science-fiction comedy film written by Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, originally released on June 8, 1984. The film and its theme song experienced long-lasting success, becoming a staple in 80's pop culture.
3. The Transformers Series The Transformers: an animated saga released in 1984, became more than a popular television series as it inducted itself as an important part of retro pop-culture history. 
4. The Neglected Art of Claymation and Stop-Motion Claymation is a form of stop-motion animation, typically using plasticine clay, where objects are constantly adjusted by hand and photographed to create movement on film.
5. Retro Swatch Watches from the '80s and '90s Any child of the 80s will surely remember those bold and colorful plastic watches that were everywhere during the decade. I owned a couple myself, "Belvedere" and "Nafea", both 1987 models, pictured below. I loved the pretty color...
6. It should have been Duckie! Did you ever see the John Hughes movie Pretty in Pink? If so, how did you find the ending? Did it feel like there was something amiss? I always thought that Andie (Molly Ringwald) should've chosen Duckie (Jon Cryer) in the end, after all he was t...
7. The Wonder Years: One of the best TV shows in the 80s "Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house, like a lot of houses. A yard like a lot of other...
8. Listen to rock, pop, R&B and electronica cover versions of Wham's Last Christmas Did you know that 80s music duo Wham!'s 1984 hit song Last Christmas has nearly 400 cover versions at last count? No, really! Through the years musicians of various genres have been recording all kinds of interpretations of George Michael's h...
9. Pac-Man Pac-Man was a video game character conceptualized in the the late 1970s by game developer Toru Iwatani. A portion of Pac-Man's design inspiration came from the sight of a pizza missing a slice.
10. Thundercats: The Epic Series Thundercats is a cartoon television series created by writer Tobin Wolf and developed by Rankin/Bass. The series first aired on January 23, 1985 and lasted for 130 episodes.
11. 80s Trends- Girl Bands Let's face it...girl bands and solo artists were a powerful force during the Eighties (as they still are today). Here are some of my all time fave female performers with some of thier best (in my opinion) releases. I know, i know...I have left out a...
12. WHAM! and George Michael-The Ballads Wham! (also written WHAM!) was a pop band formed in 1981 by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. They were first known in the United States as Wham! UK due to a naming conflict with another band. The band's controversial first UK release, Wham! Rap,...
13. Voltron: Defender of the Universe Voltron is a popular animated television series character from the 1980s, produced in Toei Animation Studios. It was an animated saga about a crew of five pilots, whose separately-colored lion vehicles could ultimately change shape to transform into...
14. 80s T-shirts for 80s Enthusiasts Radical! Sift through this collection of personally-selected 80s themed t-shirts - from general slogans, to TV shows, movies, and video games. More will be added as they come along!
15. Jennifer Slept Here: 80s TV series Jennifer Slept Here is an American fantasy sitcom series that ran for one season on NBC from October 21, 1983 to September 5, 1984. In the series, award-winning actress Ann Jillian played Jennifer Farrell, a once-popular movie actress who made the un...
16. 80s Commercials The next best thing to 80s television shows were 80s commercials - imaginative, creative, memorable and sometimes flat out bizarre: this decade of commercials was a menagerie of out-of-the-box thinking combined with a mastery of traditional advertisi...
17. Quiz: How well do you know John Hughes' 80s teen movies? Are you a child of the 80s? Or even if you aren't, if you're familiar with John Hughes' awesometastic teen movies, check out this quiz and see how well you know the characters, lines, and scenarios in his movies. The quiz features 10 ques...
18. C.O.P.S. The Animated Series C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a late 80s' animated series created by DiC Entertainment (now merged with Cookie Jar Entertainment, another company that does TV shows for children) that aired between 1988-1989. This show is b...
19. Rambo: The Original Action Hero Rambo is an action movie series starring Sylvester Stallone, that is based on characters conceptualized by author David Morrell. It is focused on the central character, John Rambo - a former American Vietnam War veteran suffering from post-traumatic...
20. My favorite generation...The 80s! Here is my little space on the web about the greatest generation to me. I love the 80's and I hope you do too. The 80's were super special to me. I grew up in the 80's and it was alot of fun. All the fashions and hair styles and the music, the music...