Take a look at this list. If you can identify with more than half of them, you are a child of the 1980's.

 

"Alternative" music actually was...and not popular Top 40 tunes.

 

"Poltergeist" totally freaked you out.

 

(Girls) You owned a pair of Pixie Boots, generally worn with leg warmers.

 

Conveyor belts regularly carried washing machines, deep-fat fryers and a cuddly toy.

 

If you ever said "I pity the fool". :lol:

 

Leg warmers and headbands alá Pat Benatar once looked really cool to you.

 

Ooh, you could crush a Grape! :cheer:

 

Parachuting Action man was your favorite toy.

 

Partying "like it's 1999" seemed SO far away.

 

Pierce Brosnon will always be Remington Steele, not James Bond.

 

Punks actually "shocked" people.

 

When someone mentions two consecutive days of the week, the Happy Days theme is stuck in your head for hours on end.

 

You actually believed for a minute that K.I.T. (The night rider) actually was real.

 

You can remember Michael Jackson when he was black.

 

You can't remember a time when "going out for coffee" DIDN'T involve 49,000 selections to choose from.

 

You carried you lunch to school in a Gremlins or an ET lunchbox.

 

You cried at Zammo's funeral. :cry:

 

You ever had a Swatch Watch, and a Swatch Guard for it.

 

You ever owned a thin, black leather tie (and were proud of it), or worse it was patterned like a piano.

 

You ever said "It's my ball, and if I can't be Kevin Keegan I'm going home!"

 

You freaked out a little when you realized you fall into the "26-50" category of most surveys.

 

You had a crush on Bo Derek.

 

You held the top score on Pac-Man.

 

You know who Max Headroom is. :w00t:

 

You like the guy who played Freddy Kruger better as Wilie on "V".

 

You never questioned why the A-Team were always imprisoned in places that had sufficient tools to build an armored tank.

 

You owned, or wanted a "Frankie says..." T-shirt.

 

You remember any or all of the following: Echo & the Bunnymen, Cutting Crew, Scritti Politti, or Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.

 

You remember Dirk Benedict as Starbuck long before he played Face.

 

You remember when ATARI was a state of the art video game system

 

You remember when Betamax was at the cutting edge of technology.

 

You remember when cellular phones weighed 15 lbs. and had to be carried over your shoulder.

 

You remember when Keith Chegwin & Maggie Philbin were the hottest romantic couple.

 

You tried to convince your Dad to fit a strip of red lights on the front of his Capri so it looked like KITT.

 

You were led to believe that in the year 2000 we'd all be living on the moon. :lol:

 

Your first computer was a Commodore 64 or an Atari 800.

 

Your first Walkman weighed about as much as a brick.

 

You're starting to believe that maybe 30 isn't so old after all, and it's those people over 40 you have to look out for.

:lol:

 

i was born in '87 so i dont remember much from the 80's, i'm more of a 90's child :P

eh?.... ZAMMO DIDNT DIE! he recovered from heroin addiction..

 

jerremy irvine dies in the school swimming pool

 

danny kendal died in bronsons car (?)....(this was 80's i bet this was the person in mind, not zammo)

 

judi tragically fell to her death off a balcony..... then did so in real life.... spooky, sad.

 

some kid (cant remember) fell to his death off a car park roof (some greek i think)

erm... i can identify with more then half of those.... :unsure:.... but i became a parent in 85!

Make it a ZX Spectrum and you're closer - who the hell had an Atari, twas all C64 and Speccy's where I came from.

 

BTW if you were born in the 80s then you'd never remember any of this - you'd need to have been a teen in the 80s. Just like me!

:lol:

 

I was an 80's child but only just :( Is there a 90's one?

:lol:

 

I was an 80's child but only just :( Is there a 90's one?

 

 

not sure 90's is really retro enough :lol:

I remember all of those...I was an 80s teenager and had legwarmers :lol:

 

Aww i loved zammo bless him...and he didnt die

 

V...great show and the A team.....who remembers chips...american cops on bikes...i also watched Dynasty and Dallas :rofl:

 

Love is a battlefield :dance:

Edited December 29, 200717 yr by Haze

I was born in '77, remember the 80's, but the 90's were my fav. . . so far!