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maybe im dating myself but im missing alot of things from back in the day

im not talking about the 90's im talking about the 80's like waking up at 5am to watch transformers (original series) he-man, voltron and those other 80's cartoons that were so great back in the day.

I remember the one cartoon about these creatures that were under the ground and there was a special team that had suits to go there. One of the giant creatures had a skull for a head and he could capture you by opening his ribs and putting you there. I really can't remember

but im also missing the comics,
like the conan the barbarian ones, the old xmen where the drawing of them wasn't the best but the story was awesome, and not to mention that they had more then 8 pages of comic.

Or just playing the original nintendo, where you had skill to do something. The movie The Wizard with the nintendo power glove being introduced.
Or when fighting games didn't have combos and there wasn't only a few special moves you had to remember, and they were easy to pull off.

yea....

well im done my break

back to shift!

I remember the 80s. Hunting buffalo, the new ships made of iron and not wood, women getting all uppity and wanting to vote, oh wait you mean the 1980s...er never mind.

I remember the horrific Norwegian fish-whippings.

Man, the 80s were awesome!

Titus gave us 100 days of games in the Colloseum, that funky Gospel of Luke book was written, Domitian became emperor, Empress Deng Sui was born, the Battle of Mons Graupius was fought, the Capitoline Games were introduced, Trajan started his campaign to crush the Germans, it was great times to be alive!

Johnny 5 wrote:

I remember the one cartoon about these creatures that were under the ground and there was a special team that had suits to go there. One of the giant creatures had a skull for a head and he could capture you by opening his ribs and putting you there. I really can't remember

Inhumanoids I believe. They were a back up strip in the Marvel UK Transformers comic -- which was, no BS much better than the USA one -- for a while, but they never finished the strip, AFAIK the mini series in USA got cancelled/similar.

reds8n wrote:

Johnny 5 wrote:

I remember the one cartoon about these creatures that were under the ground and there was a special team that had suits to go there. One of the giant creatures had a skull for a head and he could capture you by opening his ribs and putting you there. I really can't remember

Inhumanoids I believe. They were a back up strip in the Marvel UK Transformers comic -- which was, no BS much better than the USA one -- for a while, but they never finished the strip, AFAIK the mini series in USA got cancelled/similar.

Yep got canceled pretty quickly. They also canceled the toy line as quickly, meaning a lot of planned stuff never happened.

Inhumanoids were a little past my time. Think I was already in my teens by then.

The Herculoids, however, were a different story.

I remember day-glo, deely boppers, mini-pops and mass amounts of cereal advertising brainwashing my mind on Saturday mornings. I remember seeing Return of the Jedi in the theatre like 20 times or something and thinking Ewoks were cool. I remember ALF. I remember Jr.High and how much like a prison it was.

I remember maxin' and relaxin'.

I remember Quark! in Space!
Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon
One or two room movie theaters
drive ins.
Freaking PONG!
MTV playing video killed the radio star

Frazzled wrote:I remember Quark! in Space!
Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon
One or two room movie theaters
drive ins.
Freaking PONG!
MTV playing video killed the radio star

I remember being pretty young (8 or 9 yrs old) when PONG came out,standing in SEARS watching people gather around the PONG display like the wise men at the manger,"It's a GAME!!..a game you can PLAY ON T.V.!!!",man if PS3 had dropped out of the sky during that time ...our heads would have just exploded.

FITZZ wrote:man if PS3 had dropped out of the sky during that time ...our heads would have just exploded.

man, if they had ps3 back then, by now we'd have CODMW32.

rubiksnoob wrote:

FITZZ wrote:man if PS3 had dropped out of the sky during that time ...our heads would have just exploded.

man, if they had ps3 back then, by now we'd have CODMW32.

By now we would be jacked into the damn tvs and be playing games VR style in our heads! And thats a cheap tiger-helly style of what we would have