I have decided to branch out from my endless talk about computers into another area. It is quite something to see OP (Ocean Pacific) has become popular again in the U.S. Care Bears and Atari as a controller which hooks up to your television to play old games are also back. Transformers have shown up at local stores. Everyone loves the 80's and the music is being played more frequently. One of my favorite cartoons when I was little was Thundercats. Feel free to relive the 80's in this thread. :> LOL ;D
Alf in commercials(or was).
Dew, you made an awesomely perfect post, because now I have a good place to post this. ;)
I was checking out a new gaming store today (well, new to me, anyway), and on display, they had an INTELLIVISION! Like, sitting on the top shelf, in a cool plastic display case, with a bunch of Intellivision games set in a nice row on the side. It was totally GEEK COOL! !!! !!! (I know, that's probably an oxymoron, but I don't care.)
(OK, there's way more I love about the 80s that I'll post later, but I just had to get that out.)
Peace & Luv, Liz
80's had a few good things but for the most part i hope to god it dosent really come back, i dont think i would be able to deal with people dressing like micheal jackson and other people have mohawks everywhere i go.
mmm what I can say here about this is that I like a lot The Darkness they are a recent band but they do sound like 80's style
OMG! NEIL WANTS TO GET A MOHAWKZ :o !!
lol :P
LMAO! :suffer: OMG, first I want a huge afro! :suffer:
Come to my school and see one of the 5 different styles of Afro :o, yeah thats right my school has a few kids with afros and there are 5 different styles :o
Anyway werent the 80s also the creator of the Mullet ;-D
LOL MULLETS :X
ewewewew :P .... and ew... lol :P
i can grow a mullet for you sis ;-D
The 80's were the golden age for all things cartoon related.
GI Joe, Transformers, Go-Bots, My Little Pony....
Er...scratch that last one. :D
I still have Teddy Ruxpin cartoon episodes on tape... in fact, I have a transcript website for the series. :D
Don't forget Jem, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Care Bears, and Rainbow Brite, and all the Disney stuff... Chip N' Dale Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck, Gummi Bears, Duck Tales... and there was Voltron, and C.O.P.S., and "Real Ghostbusters" (I think that was 80's... I get 80s and early 90s cartoons mixed up sometimes. Like Captain N and Captain Planet... were those early 90s?) ...
Peace & Luv, Liz
Anybody else watch and like the Thundercats cartoons?
Also, Voltron was really cool. I remember my friend's older brother had an original metal Voltron and it was really cool. Nowadays, I think that transformers and other robots are all plastic and not metal. I like the feel of metal in things and I think this is a great loss for our children. I am sure it is much cheaper and the manufacturers make more money. Unfortunately, sometimes it all comes down to the bottom line which is profit in this day and age --- at least here in the U.S.
Voltron and Thundercats were great. Everything Silverhawk related should be sent off in a ship headed for the sun though. Has anyone here heard of M.A.S.K.?
Yep, I used to watch M.A.S.K. too. :)
Peace & Luv, Liz
lol. I can't believe that noone has mentioned He-man or She-ra here.
They started He-Man back, I think.
Yep.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331744/
The fact that the guy who voices Prince Adam in the new one is the same guy who voiced Leonardo in the old TMNT series still sounds odd to my ears, though. :P
Peace & Luv, Liz
Top Gun and 2nd and 3rd Star Wars were released in the eighties. ;)
omg omg omg omg thundercats XD <3
Thundercats rocked --- Lion-O with the sword of omens
My favorite episode was when Lion-O went against the sword of Excalibur and even though Excalibur was stronger --- good prevailed in the end because Excalibur could not be used for Mumra's evil purposes -- btw I wish family home entertainment or whoever now has the rights to them would release the whole series on DVD for sale -- I would definately buy them
:> :> :> Yeah I know that I am a 7 year old at heart
!!! ;D :) ;-D 8)
Man, the eighties were the best. I love classics 80s rock music (shame, shame, shame ;]. lol ;P).
And I loved My Little Pony and Care Bears. They're so cute :)
Any reason why someone that never lived in the eighties, can't post here?
Well . . . I was only four when they ended, so I don't see any problem :)
The reason I asked was in case somebody wanted to post, that wasn't around during the 80s.
Im was two when the 80s ended :o
I don't see why someone who wasn't born yet in the 80s couldn't post if they wanted to. :) Heck, I wasn't around in the 60s, but I still like "oldies" music, so someone not around in the 80s could still like 80s stuff.
Although, the oldest someone not born in the 80s could be is 14... do we have anyone here other than Rosella who's that young?
Peace & Luv, Liz
Father Ghostface was younger but he hasnt been here for ages :-\
I know of one other...
who might that be ???
I bought a Classic 80's collection from Time Life at Costco with three cds for $37 and now I am rocking and rolling in my car to the 80's all the time. Oh Yeah!! Life is Awesome! ;D
This looks like a good thread for a trivia game.
What video game platform, was my avatar first released on(video game platform=anything that would play this game)?
The first place that I saw Dragon's Lair was when I was young in the arcade where it cost 50 cents as compared to 25 cents for other games.
Yeah, that's it.
Although, I haven't been around long enough, to have seen one of those arcade machines.
The first time I played it, was in a DOS port. The best thing about it, the price(it probably would have cost me a few hundred $, to play thru it at the arcades).
I don't think Time Warp(2nd in the series) was released for DOS, but I'm considering buying the DVD version.
P.S. For those wondering, I recently tried getting Dragon's Lair working in XP, and it's giving me a lot of trouble. That's why I've mentioned the game a few times on the forum, I'm starting to get VERY annoyed with the inability to play the good/old games in XP. :(
I was never very good at Dragon's Lair but I did not try hard enough to become good. The compatibility issue is another reason to have a dual-boot of 98SE and XP on your computer. It just makes sense. :D
QuoteIt just makes sense.
That it does.
I was just wondering LN if the original Dragon's Lair was your favorite or did you prefer a sequel?
Quote from: dew7 on August 25, 2004, 07:38:53 PM
I was just wondering LN if the original Dragon's Lair was your favorite or did you prefer a sequel?
Not counting cost, I'd say the original's my favorite. I've never played Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, but I have played Dragon's Lair 3D. It did a good job of recreating the first game, and also added a great deal to it.
Dragon's Lair 3D would probably have been my favorite, except it's death sequences weren't near as good(although one part of Dragon's Lair 3D, was almost worth the cost of the entire game XD ). I also prefer the older 2D graphics of the original.
Thanks for the feedback. I remember Dragon's Lair had phenomenal graphics in the arcade when it was fairly new. It blew all the other games away in terms of art. Speaking of graphics, do you prefer the 3d as done in the Shrek movies or the older style 2D graphics like Sinbad and the Seven Seas?