h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is to all of you who grew up in the '80ies. Tell me about the things you remember, you liked or disliked and your typical '80ies adventures...
(A few hints: often include the words "Converse", "Jogging Hi", "Fitness" or "HeMan", also "bad music and haircuts" is allowed...)

yay ! HeMan and Skeletor !!!!

There has to be more than THIS...
TELL us!

I think "Chopper" bikes where an 80s thing - and they were really cool...until you fell onto that stupidly positioned gearshift!

The sound of the cheap synthesizers.

Airwolf, A Team, Saturday afternoon wrestling with Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, the Grifter bike, Manimal, Automan, baggy trousers, leading onto Madness, Adam Ant, Dallas, Dynasty, bad perms for men, the end of skin tight jeans, ripped jeans, Spectrum 48K, Ghostbusters, ET..............
BCNU - Crescent

The walkman...seemed like a good idea at the time, anyway...not so sure now.

Dr. Who, Blakes 7, The Adventure Game (Gronda, Gronda), Transformers, V (the original series), Radio 1 when it had Steve Wright and DLT (it corrupted me at a very early age to put me right off it's current incarnation), Knight Rider, The BBC Micro (only 32K of RAM), Stop Motion Animation (from Ray Harryhausen to Morph) still being a series form of SFX rather than quaint, being safe in the knowledge that flares were dead, AND NEVER WOULD RETURN.

I think I will stop now, I'm starting to rant

Spandau Ballet, haircuts with floppy fringes, Boris Becker, Live Aid, my wedding, the England Cricket team (esp. 1985 Ashes team).

Europe - the Final Countdown. Check out that hair!!!!!

Crap hair in general, really - the genetically modified pineapple look sported by Howard Jones and Limahl from Kajagoogoo.

AT LAST somebody else that remembers the adventure game...a classic of our time BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LO LO Balls....looked like flying saucers, you stood on them and bounced....fingerless gloves, puff ball skirts, Wham!!, cabbage patch dolls, hooded tops, horace goes ski-ing, Frankie Says Relax T-Shirts, oh god this brings back memories!!! now i feel old

my ZX81,Ben Elton,The Jam,Spangles,Sta-Prest. Elite. Dungeons and Dragons. Deely Boppers, school discos. Megablast(Bomb the Bass).

However these days, it seems the coolest thing of the 80's was the end of them.

Elite -a true classic Compact Discs, the classic Sinclair C5, fall of the Berlin Wall, Daley Thompson, good summers, Mr T, 'I am not a Stonker', Miners Strike, football hooliganism, Anglo-Irish agreement, PacMan, Marathons (as in the chocolate bar), Twin Peaks (just), Quantum Leap, BBC MicroComputers.............
BCNU - Crescent

Adventure! Yeah, I'd forgotten! We used to have stacks of flip-chart paper with these maps drawn all over them...we played on an Apple II.
I still have a Commodore 64 in the basement somewhere, too.
Scarves and 'Ice Mist" hairspray were cool too (for guys)
I've got some pictures of me & my band about 1985 playing at a highschool dance; no eyeliner or lipstick (there Are limits!) but we had scarves & bandannas Everywhere and Hair just Shellac'ed with Ice Mist - BIG Hair! Poison/Motley Crue hair... Oh, I was SO cool!
I still listen to my vinyl, though it's getting difficult to find anybody who can sell me a new stylus anymore!
One of the neighbours' kids liked one song and asked me to "play that big, black CD again"...
PLT, Mick.

PS I also have a Mini-Moog. So there.

The only thing I really miss from your lists is Daley Thompson (walks on water) who still holds the Olympic record ( 1984 - 8847 points)

Drought in Ethiopia, Band aid, Live aid (Bob 'give us your f**** money' Geldof), Frankie goes to Hollywood, Greenham Common protests.

Chopper bikes were definitely 70s. I know this because a kid down our road had one. I know I was still at school - it might even have been junior school - and I left school in 1980. QED