80's Pop Culture

1980’S POP CULTURE

What a Decade….

It’s a baffling phenomenon: We just can’t get enough of a decade stereotypically dissed for its excess, its supposed bad taste, and its addictions to cocaine and spandex. But make no mistake the 1980’s, will never really disappear from today’s retro-centric culture.

One aspect of the ’80s that does not tend to be remembered fondly is the fashion—the big shoulders and big hair, the power suits and power suspenders, the pouf skirts and leg warmers and headbands and hot-pink cheetah prints, the whole work hard, play hard, dress hard aesthetic.

Video game consoles released in this decade included the continuing popularity of Atari 2600, Intellivision, Vectrex, Colecovision, SG-1000, NES/Famicom, Sega Master System, PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Boy. Super Mario Bros. and Tetris were the decade’s two best selling and most popular video games. 1980’s Atari VCS port of Space Invaders was the first killer app. Pac-Man was the decade’s highest grossing arcade game.

Speak N’ Spell commercial 1980

80's Pop Culture

The Speak & Spell line is a series of electronic hand-held child computers by Texas Instruments that consisted of a TMC0280 linear predictive coding speech synthesizer, a keyboard, and a receptor slot to receive one of a collection of ROM game library.

1980s Cabbage Patch Kids Commercial

80's Pop Culture

Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of one-of-a-kind, cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982.

80’s Trivia Volume 1

80's Pop Culture

Test your knowledge of the 1980’s with this Trivia Challenge. Visit our Youtube Channel to see more Trivia Challenges and more 1980’s memories.

Mount St. Helens Eruption

80's Pop Culture

It was shortly after 8:30 a.m. on May 18, 1980 when Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state. The eruption would quickly become the deadliest in U.S. history, killing 57 people. The destruction caused more than $1 billion in damage.

Strawberry Shortcake – 1982 Doll Commercial

80's Pop Culture

Strawberry Shortcake is a cartoon character originally used in greeting cards published by American Greetings, but who was later expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products.

Arcade Pac Man Play

80's Pop Culture

A all-time classic arcade game PAC-MAN is a cultural icon whose popularity has crossed the globe for more than 40 years.

Lite Brite commercial -1983

80's Pop Culture

Lite-Brite is a toy that was originally marketed in 1967. It consists of a light box with small colored plastic pegs that fit into a panel and illuminate to create a lit picture.

Super Mario 2 Commercial 1989

80's Pop Culture

Super Mario is a platform game series created by Nintendo, featuring their mascot, Mario.

Hungry Hungry Hippos commercial

80's Pop Culture

Hungry Hungry Hippos (or Hungry Hippos in some UK editions) is a tabletop game made for 2–4 players, produced by Hasbro, under the brand of its subsidiary, Milton Bradley.

Mr. Microphone Commercial

80's Pop Culture

Mr. Microphone: a short-range hand-held radio transmitter that would broadcast over an FM radio. The nearby radio(s) would therefore amplify the sound coming from the Mr. Microphone. Though not the first microphone to broadcast over the radio, it was by far the most popular, remaining on the market for over a decade.