Saturday morning cartoons were the best!

I grew up in the 80’s. Definitely an amazing time to be a kid! I really miss the 80’s

Maybe missed how we travelled? Lying across the back window, floorboards. We drove everywhere, had dinner every night at home. Going out for dinner was a huge treat.

MTV had actual MUSIC for a little while in the 80s!

More than just Madonna and Michael Jackson in the ‘80s for music: MUCH more than just those two!

Mowing lawns was the go fund me thing back then.

Born in ‘75 and no one can convince me that the 80s kids didn’t have the BEST childhood ever! 🎉🎉🎉

The 1980s will forever be an iconic time throughout history

In 1980, I had a college roommate whose major was computer programming. I thought that sounded interesting, but wondered if he could get a job with such a degree. At that time, I had never used a computer and didn't know anyone who owned one! I never imagined, just a short time later, EVERYONE including toddlers would use them for almost everything. It really is a different world.

I was in my late teens and early '20s in the 1980"s. We had the best music, the best fashion, and the best entertainment. There will never be another decade as awesome as the '80s.

I miss the 80's so much, I would gladly give up some of the technology we have today to go back to that time. Also love when a rainbow was something beautiful , a sign from God.

I'm so glad I was a teenager/young adult in the 80s 🙂

I’m so glad I grew up in the 80s….

I was a teenager in the 80’s. My friends and I always talk about what a great time it was. No cellphones, no internet, no texting and we were always hanging out together. Kids today are content with being in their rooms, by themselves, communicating electronically, f… that!

Growing up in the 80’s, it was not only a time but a feeling. Hard to explain really. Wish it was still around! What a great time to grow up!!

These are the worst of times. Thanks for the memories of far, far better times.

My 10th bday 1981 i woke up and saw at foot of bed a brand new atari console. What an awesome time to be a kid. I rode my bicycle to school which was about 3 miles away. That was a big deal. I was "latch key" kid and i loved everyminute of it. So much freedom and no one thought twice about it😊

When trying to hurry my 14 year-old niece to leave the house with us this morning, she explained that she couldn't because she was busy "posting". I thought about how when I was 14 that would have meant *having* to leave the house to take an envelope to the mailbox at the end of the street, or the post office. And while kids today (and frankly, most adults) get a kick out of receiving likes, social media notifications and DMs, there was nothing like the feeling of getting a letter in the mail as a kid addressed to YOU. Nothing.

I would give up everything to go back to my childhood and a simpler time

Throwing a handful of maple seeds up in the air and watching them gracefully helicopter down. Wonderful nostalgia.

So glad I grew up in the 1980s...great times!

I miss the 1980s! Great memories

i was born in 57 and the 60s and 70s and early 80s were the years i enjoyed the most.

I miss the 80s it was a great time to grow up

To me I believe that not having a Cellphone was actually better for humanity. A landline was the way to contact anyone when they were at home.

Most of us were so free as teens and young adults that they had to remind our parents with a TV tag line that would come on that simply said; "It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?" 🤘🤘

I turned 13 in January of 1980. So I am officially an 80's kid. They were the best of times. Hanging out at the mall on the weekends. Going to concerts, parties. Best of times. They ever invent a time machine, I am going back. Really enjoyed this video. Thank you for the great memories.

How i miss the 1980s. Such a simpler safer time. I was 8 in 1980. Started the decade in a strawberry shortcake bedroom and ended the decade in a New kids on the block bedroom. Graduted high school in91.

I grew up in the '80s and miss it so much! Thank you for the great memories in this video!

The cartoons from the 1980's were the best.

Life was simpler but fuller..80s was the complete package..norms, music, movies, fashion and the gizmos..but why it felt more futuristic than today

I was born in the 60's but grew up in the 80;s , Life was in general much better back then !

You should have an entire video about all the fantastic television shows during the '80s!

It was Christmas 84’ when my 8 year old eyes saw the Nintendo underneath the wrapping. It was GLORIOUS!

Drive-in Theaters were huge in the 80's as I fondly remember seeing E.T and crying my eyes out as my older brother teased me.

My boys grew up in the 80’s 😊. Great times

Ahhh, the wonderful memories of being a little kid in the 80's. Saturday morning cartoons while eating Rainbow Brite or Strawberry Shortcake cereal, playing with my Cabbage Patch dolls, and the McDonald's Play Ground was so fun. Dang I'm so nostalgic for that time. ❤

You left out Phil Collins as the most dominant musician of the 80's. Between Genesis and his solo career you couldn't get away from him.

My girls grew up in the 80s the oldest room was deck out in "New Kids in the Block", the youngest room was "Rainbow Bright". they had curtains, sheets, bedspreads, the youngest had a toy box and desk, the oldest had a record player and lunch box. We lived in Base Housing at Myrtle Beach AFB, so they spent most of their time riding their bikes to their friends, at the youth center, watching a movie at the base theater, at the park, at the pool on summer afternoons, or at the bowling alley Saturday mornings. I knew they couldn't get into trouble without someone calling me. Base housing was like a day care center for all the tweens and teens. Of base there were amusement parks, attractions and the beach. It was a great place to raise kids in the 80s.

I absolutely loved the 80s! How I wish I could live those days again. Loved the fashions the gals wore, loved the music ( still my favorite) loved cruising around in my 79 Chevy Z28 Camaro. I bought that car, after seeing Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and loved Jefferson's car so much, went out and found one. It was one of the best cars I ever owned. I survived just fine without a smartphone and social media, and honestly, I was much happier then, and not just because I was younger.

Loved the 80's. I forgot about those helicopter seeds!! They were everywhere!!

Rewinding the VHS movies had a sticker that said " Be kind. Please rewind." Aw! Memories!❤

Life was still tough but we had more freedom, and a lot more expectation of consequences and responsibility. Technology was not as advanced but we were closer to the nuts and bolts of what a computer really is (and still is) inside.

Be kind, please rewind 😂. Everyone from the 80s remembers that one. Aside from that, everyone who owned an Atari, a Nintendo, or a Sega can recall the cartridges that were very sensitive to dust collecting in them and having to blow them out.

I miss the 80's.

Growing up in the 80’s for me was, riding our non electric bikes to our friends house unannounced, ringing the door bell(no camera on it) asking to play “man hunt” in the cemetery, going home to find my plastic model kits parts glue had dried, and watch my Mets win the World Series!! Oh and I didn’t learn about run on sentences. 🤣

I was born in 83, so I really only had 7 years of memories, but they were some of the best ones I have still to this day. From unwrapping an NES system (that came with Super Mario/Duck Hunt), to the original Nickelodeon shows, to spending every holiday through family get-togethers, it was an awesome time to be alive! I build computers today (a feat that today is now just something you do when you're bored), but it all started (for me) with the Tandy 1000 computer mom bought, which had NO hard drive, only MS-DOS, and used 5 .25 in. floppy disks...paperweights today!

This reminds me of when I racked up my parents phone bill talking to my boyfriend who was one town over, but it was considered long distance then, even being only 30 miles apart. Boy, my mom was mad!

Lates 80s early 90s for me indeed I seriously miss those days a lot 😢

My solution to solving the rubiks cube was either taking the plastic cover off the center space and unscrew it to take it apart, rearrange the squares in the right order then screw it back. The other method was taking the stickers off and replace them in the right place. Lol

Be kind Rewind

I was a kid in the 80s. That was the best life ever.👍. Love to be back there ❤️

Born in 78 here. Such good memories. A time of real toys like Kenner’s Star Wars action figures and veicules, GI Joe, He-Man which we jealously kept and cared. Really well made cartoons like Robotech, Galaxy Rangers etc. it’s pointless to say our childhood was better than today’s kids I only hope I can give my little daughter a good one in the current time we live.

Original Nintendo with duck hunt was awesome totally awesome 😂😂😂

the 'helicopter' seeds had a dual role. not only could you toss them to watch them fly, they made a pretty good kazoo when they were still green.

A lot of great 80's music missed!

All of these bring back great memories. I also remember the childhood tragedy of finding out your parent's Sunday TV movie was two parts, and knowing your Monday viewing plans were ruined. Heaven forbid one of those classic 4 part series were on. Waiting for one of them to be over was like waiting for Christmas morning.

labyrinth is my favorite 80s David Bowie movie 😊

The last best decade. Graduated in 1987.

Rainbows 🌈 still don’t reflect my gender identity or sexuality… for me, they represent hope and appear right after rainstorms!

Even though I was born in '83, I started growing up during this awesome time, and it was definitely fun!!!

I was 15 years old in 1980. I remember how exciting it was to see "Star wars" at the theater. Compared to today movies, the original Star wars is pretty crude! I had a portable 8 track player, and cassette tapes were pretty expensive! We listened to music on 45s, or the your favorite radio station. You made phone calls on a rotary phone, and memerized important numbers. No cell phones, no computers, and no 24/7 entertainment.

I am so glad I grew up in the ‘70’s & ‘80’s. Those are some of the best memories of my life. I often tell my children I wish y’all could have grown up in my generation. The mall trips, arcade moments, skating rinks, and bicycle freedom will never be matched again.

The last great decade! My teenage years.

Random memories from growing up in the 1980s: I remember the phone ringing and you didn't know who it was. 'Hello?' If a friend moved away, they were basically gone from your life forever. I remember my moms friend making delicious homemade pretzels while we played the latest Atari 2600 hit. I had my grandfather drive over and take a picture of our record 'Missile Command' high score so we could win a prize. Going to the mall was the thing to do. Orange Julius and getting quarters for the arcade. Seeing Footloose and then hearing Van Halen's Jump in the parking lot from someones car stereo. Def Leppard playing in my friends VW Bug with his endless cigarettes. Girls with really high hair hairspray to the moon excited about seeing Motley Crue. The future in movies was always scary, 1999 was when the world ended or some dystopian nightmare. But Prince made it cool. There was a feeling of we were living in end times a little bit. The world was USA vs USSR. Rocky IV tried to bring us together. The nuclear war movie The Day After movie on TV scared us to death. And lots of great TV shows, Cosby, Family Ties. We always quoted the A Team and Mr T. I mowed lawns all summer to purchase a Radio Shack TRS 80 color computer and it was the best thing ever to make my own programs.

You're right about fast food and inflation. Unless you get maybe the cheapest junk on the menu the prices are outrageous for what you're getting.

Best time ever.

Being in my teens and 20's growing up in the 80's was an experience I'll always remember and wouldn't trade for anything.

I was a young Woman in the 80s and enjoyed life to the fullest!!! Thank you for this fun look back

I didn't grow up in the 80's, as i was already 18 years old. But bring a young man in the 80's was the best time of my life. The music, the night clubs, oh the woman. 😊

The vibe of the mid-80's is what I miss the most, along with the incredible optimism is what I miss the most. It was such a great time to be young!

Dungeon and Dragons , Speed Racer and other animated Japanese cartoons started becoming more mainstream as companies started to outsource animation budgets over seas. Surprisingly, the animation work to " The Simpsons " was outsourced to Korea in the late 1980's.

My memory of 80s kid's are those favorite tv show's we're appointment television, we planned days in advance so we'd never miss them.

I prefer the 70's. Lord what a decade.

I turned 12 in 1980 and wouldn't have wanted to live my adolescent years in any other decade.

I was born in 66 and I loved growing up in the 70s and 80s

The 80’s were like a great dessert, with a stiff drink, after the 70’s.

The 80's were truly the very best years! Thanks for the memories!

I started medical school in the late 80s. Most of our anatomy and embryology lectures consisted of lecture note books we would buy at the bookstore. The professors would project and color in transparencies on overhead projectors that matched our lecture notebooks. We would color in our lecture notes along with the professors and write in our notes.

fun times being a kid in the 80s thank you for sharing these with us brings back so many great memories miss the 80s

I love when RRoad and Rhetty post on the same day.

So true about a simple rainbow being used for something other than what it was intended for. I really miss that innocence about the rainbow symbol

I was born in 1967 ❤

😂 Totally greetings from coastal Mississippi. Ah ,the 1980's. I was in High school in the early 80's. So glad to be privileged to have been a teenager then. The memories. Times were so much simpler.

Oh man... The overhead projector.. 😂😂 Teacher would turn off the lights and it was the perfect time to be in the back goofing off and passing notes.. I always knew something really boring was coming when that thing got wheeled in..

The golden era of arcades😍

The 80s and 90s are the best decades for music and movies.

Thanks for the memories !! I loved the 80's

Every Friday night at video store, getting movies to watch on weekend, then be sure to get them back on time.

You hit on everything I remember about the eighties! This is my favorite one of your videos so far, and I DID die every time I played Oregon Trail. My school was one of the first in the state of Maine to have computers, Apples with nothing but green for color. When I was in fifth grade we got the first one with more colors and it was a huge deal!

The "Do They Know its Christmas" song drives me crazy. The lyrics say that 'there wont be snow in Africa this Christmas'... I hope not! Africa is mostly in the southern hemisphere - Yes, that's right, its their summer in December. I sure hope there is no snow in the countries in Africa, otherwise something is totally wrong with the weather, and we are all doomed.

I thank you for sharing these. I loved the 80's a much better time, I miss it!

Arcade games were EXPENSIVE. 25 cents for as little as one minute of fun really added up. It might cost you $100 to get good at a video game, and that was a lot of money for the time!

Turning over your Big Wheel, spinning the pedals with your hands, and pretended you were making ice cream.

I think the biggest thing kids today will never experience that we did in the 80s is not being prisoner to crll phones and actually talking to people face to face. My wife and I took our grandsons (ages 1 and 3) to a local park over the past summer and there must have been close to 10 other kids there at least 8yrs old and older, and every one of them had their nose in a cell phone, some of which had to be worth over $250, better than ones some adults use, not playing, but texting someone. It's sad how even kids that young have phones, let alone could have a breakdown if they didn't hVe one.

“ Be Kind, Rewind” 😁

When I was a kid in the 1980s, we loved rainbows because wanted more color graphics in technology, like photography, television, and video games! Also fast food advertising in the 1980s was far less regulated, you could have cartoon characters promoting junk food and kids meal toys! Now there’s limits on fast food advertising towards kids. Ronald McDonald and BK’s King mascot have mostly been retired.

Being born in 1970, the best years of my life happened in the 80's! Best music, best fashion, best EVERYTHING!!! Just like Cher sang... "If I could turn back time..."

By 1980, I was already 35. These were my work hard, take care of my parents, and finally start looking to buy a home. Those were my work hard with all the overtime I could years. I'm still going out on weekends. I'm keeping my marriage on track. Late 80's, burying my parents and moving on in life.

0:26 -- Although I was a teenager during the Cabbage Patch doll craze, my aunt made me one for Christmas 1983. The only difference between what she made and the official ones was that she used cloth for the "skin" instead of hard plastic.