What's /co/'s honest thoughts on the 1980s?

>>94275626
better than the 70s, not as good as the 90s or any other decade for that matter

>>94275626

I was a toddler growing up in a creepy ass old New England town.

It was fucking awesome.

The only good thing to come out of it was me.

Good

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Great fucking decade for comics.

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Overrated
Dull
Uninspired
Hackneyed

>>94276345
How?

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>>94275626
It was nostalgic.

Most of the userbase of /co/ wasn't born until the mid 90s

>>94275626
hell on earth.

a cultural wasteland where children were marketed to nearly from birth with nothing but targeted half-hour toy commercials, the leader of the most powerful nation on earth nearly incited nuclear armageddon until a fucking movie talked him down, and everyone was taught to worship the wealthy and let them stomp all over everything if it made them even wealthier.

But hey at least [itemized references helpfully listed in full for your wiki browsing convenience] was cool amirite???

>>94275626
Great time for comics. Marvel and DC were in great shape and indie comics really took off which added an extra dimension to the comic world. I was buying and loving so many books back then.

Cartoons were basically shit but with moments of coolness, Transformers was awesome for instance and Real Ghostbusters

Movies were awesome, the best decade for the 'action blockbuster' and horror films

Music was basically garbage. There was a reason the only bands anybody cared about were leftovers from the 60s and 70s. The Stones, ZZ Top, Van Halen and Tom Petty ruled the radio. New Wave had brief influence and flashes of creativity but it got old really fast. REM and some metal bands like Maiden but that's it. You could look to the underground to find stuff too but it was a lot harder to find obscure music back then. My town didn't have college radio so if it wasn't on the 24-7 Stones and Tom Petty station I didn't know about it.

It seems like the height of commercialism in all media, and people actually didn't hate it, they got into it.

Almost all cartoons were toy commercials, but they are the most nostalgia driven series out of everything one can be nostalgic for.

Comics evolved a lot in this time,

Video games were something one did away from their house.

Music kept bouncing from great to shit to great to shit over and over again. But it was all about the stylize over the actual music. What they were playing was distant second to what they were wearing.

Movies were great, the best comedies came from this era. The best summer blockbuster flicks came from this era. The teen comedy was invented here.

Every sitcom dad had a sweatervest, and all cop show officers drove Italian sports cars. Ferraris and Lamborghinis were just really popular for existing. They sold more posters and toys than cars or car even car related merch.

>>94277100
cont.
Oh yeah, and it was also the last time Baltimore won the world series. I was there with my dad for game 5. Jim Palmer and Cal Jr. good times.

The peak for comics.

idk I wasn't born then yet.

>>94276344
>>94277562
We need to bring superhero comics back to the 80's

>>94275626
As overrated as it may be, it was leagues ahead of the 90s

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>>94275626
>>94277339
It was the best music ever!
Everything was super 80s and super awesome
EVERYONE was on cocaine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqL_SO2thsE

>>94275626
Possibly the peak of pop culture. Movies and music were at their finest, possibly comics, too. RPGs were probably a bit behind the 90s.
Cartoons had a lot of amazing moments, anime were maybe behind the 90s. I'm just not sure about tv shows.

>>94278781
Oh yeah, fashion and architecture were pretty great, too.

>>94275626
The transformers movie was good the rest is shit.

>>94278781
>music was at its finest
Did I time warp back to the two months after GTA Vice City came out? What other time in human history did anybody ever like that shit

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>>94276344
Hell yeah it was

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>>94278781
>Movies and music were at their finest
>Cartoons had a lot of amazing moments

>>94278781
>>94279384
I can agree that the 80s had great music and gave us John Carpenter, but 90s/00s cartoons are better

>>94279454
Well yeah, I couldn't honestly say cartoons were at their finest. A lot of it is just nostalgia, the 90s had great stuff, and even the 2010s do, but can't forget like, 40s/50s animations.

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>>94279514
40s/50s have better animation quality, it isn't even fair to compare but the 90s/00s are more entertaining

>>94279592
I'm having a hard time remembering a lot from the 00s, though. Not a huge fan of Cartoon Cartoons or a lot Nick Toons , for instance.

When America was great
Economy was skyrocketing, jobs were everywhere, I can't get enough from people telling me they walked into a place and got hired on the spot. The last era where America had some innocence. The drugs amplified and crime grew because of it and it all went down hill from there until 9/11 made it irreversible. Media was BOOMING, talent was everywhere and everyone wanted to consume it all. Characters had professions.

Now we have people rioting for free wages, the default of a romance movie is some 20 something single mom who isn't striving to be a professional of anything so it can relate to the women who were fed into the hook-up yolo culture, people have 100% bought into the NYC lifestyle and pretend living in apartments longer than a year is normal, and cartoons almost have to reference the 80s AND anime because of a quality gap.

>>94279751
The 00s had great cartoons but adult swim was the pinnacle of it all
https://youtu.be/Pkup4zo97E0

>>94279828
>The last era where America had some innocence
It's time to feel
https://youtu.be/RYbe-35_BaA
https://youtu.be/YoV7xS3QYG0

>>94279751
Nicktoons was mostly shit in the 2000's, CN doesn't replay their stuff as much because they're Constantine churning out new shows, but there's more than a few gems in the 00's like Chowder, Flapjack, Lazlo, MegasXLR, AtlA, Zim, just a ton of stuff to choose from without even touching Adult Swim's offerings like ATHF, Venture Bros, SL2021, etc.

>>94275626
Only thing the 80s has going for it is music.

>>94279941
Fair enough, I can definitely vouch for MegasXLR and Avatar.

>>94279894
>Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Yup, Adult Swim had great stuff, but I'm not even sure if this is supposed to qualify as a cartoon. It sure was a lot of fun, though.

>>94279951
And horror/adventure/action movies

>>94275626
In retrospect, the start of the rot and fall of American prosperity and prestige.

>>94279894
Anon I absolutely forgot about that first vid but you could not have illustrated it better.

>>94279894
>https://youtu.be/RYbe-35_BaA
God dammit anon it looks like my youth, it looks like my innocence

>>94279951
It was the height of Pop music, but I hate "le epic glam rock/hair metal" wankery that is so glorified in media today. 70's did Rock better.

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>>94275626
Good Music, nice comics and cartoons, Smurfhype
Bad economic times with budget cuttings on everything.
At the end of the decade the glasnost, perestroyka and fall of berlin wall felt like a worldwide release of political tension

>>94279951
>not liking the movies either

Honestly the 80s/90s were the last time Hollywood had balls to invest in blockbusters instead of "we got the movie rights to X" or "let's reboot/rehash this movie."

>>94280379
Glam rock and hair metal suck, yes. I was less referring to the straight pop music too. Stuff like electro, the not-quite-disco of the early '80s, Italian dance music, good punk and alternative stuff, etc.

>>94275626
awesome decade for comics.
Shit decade for cartoons.

Comics were great.
Cartoons were mostly pretty shit that have a strong legacy today due to nostalgia. It's honestly hard to watch most 80's shows today.
Movies were actually pretty great for the most part. Dated but in a charming way.
Pop music was alright but I don't think it was particularly great. Better than the disco phase of the 70's for sure but worse than the 60's 70's exempting the disco phase, and early 90's. It had its moments but was super inconsistent like >>94277339 said.
Vidya was pretty good to great most of the time, especially in arcades.
TV was honestly pretty damned bad for the mostpart, but not really worse than the 70's per se.

>>94275626
I can't have any honest thoughts on times before my birth.

>>94278781
>80s
>good decade for movies
Especially after the 70s, Jesus no.

>>94282902
>Cartoons were mostly pretty shit that have a strong legacy today due to nostalgia. It's honestly hard to watch most 80's shows today.

I've heard a whole lot more nostalgia for 90s cartoons than 80s ones.

Totally tubular dude

>>94276994
>>>/npr/

>>94283207
GI Joe, Transformers, TMNT, there's plenty of nostalgia for those shows from people that grew up with them. While they're all interesting concepts with occasional moments of quality, their original cartoon incarnations were pretty damned mediocre on the whole. I know the ebin 90's kids are more prevalent online but in pop culture that 80's shit still has a lingering presence.

>>94275626
It was just like now,but with less nerds, bigger cellphones and no internet. Take it from me , I was there.

>>94279828
This post could only have been written by a Millenial who didn't actually live back then.

>>94283342
>I know the ebin 90's kids are more prevalent online but in pop culture that 80's shit still has a lingering presence
That doesn't prove anything except that the people in charge of the media are guys like Seth MacFarlane who are 80s nostalgiafags.

Oldfag 80's kid here

Great comics
Some good animated movies
Shit cartoons (at least in the US)

>>94283354
>less nerds
>implying we have any nerds nowadays
Internet killed the real nerds, everyone can be a comic geek nowadays without even reading a comic

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>>94278204
TV-wise the 90's were the best for cartoons
Angry Beavers, Rugrats, Spongebob, Ren and Stimpy, Dexters Lab, Power Puff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Ed Edd and Eddy, Rocko's Modern Life. Animaniacs, Doug, Darkwing Duck, Ducktales, Hey Arnold, Wild Thronberries, Daria, Southpark, King of the Hill, Futurama and more.
Granted there were a lot of shit shows like I am Weasle, Street Sharks or Mike, Lu & Og but the good far outweighs the bad. The only time that arguably beats the 90's for cartoons would be 2000-2007 because you had amazing stuff from the late 90's still going and some good early 00's stuff as well.

>>94283410
It does prove that there are 80's nostalgiafags that hold those cartoons to a higher level than they actually were, which was all that I said. It's also not hard to find people in their 30's-40's that grew up on those shows that defend the shit out of them, whole lotta Gen X has a boner for those shows.

>>94279592
kys John K

>>94275626
Best decade for music

>>94283508
Many of those shows that you listed were either mostly or wholly in the early 00's. King of the Hill, Southpark, Futurama, Spongebob, and EEnE in particular all were far more 00's shows than 90's. Large chunks of PPG, Hey Arnold, Wild Thornberries, and Daria were all in the 00's as well. For some reason a lot of people kinda blend the early 00's into the 90's in terms of cartoons, don't know why.

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Not the best decade for cars, I can say that.

>>94283587
>For some reason a lot of people kinda blend the early 00's into the 90's in terms of cartoons, don't know why.

Prolly just nostalgiababbies whose childhood went into the early 2000s and they're not old enough to remember the first half of the 90s.

>>94283593
80s supercars and muscle cars were cool, but normal cars were too damn ugly

>>94283509
>whole lotta Gen X has a boner for those shows
Gen Xers would have all been teens/young adults in the 80s, little kids watching SMC back then would be early Millenials.

>>94275626
What's your favorite comic from the 80s?

Probably my favorite decade for movies, but I'm sure if I condensed 1990-1999 or 2000-2009 I could also make a list of good movies just as easily. I honestly can't think of a cartoon from that time that I enjoy aside from Transformers.

Sometimes when I close my eyes I still have neon colored nightmares

>>94283593
Better than now where everything is just fucking sameface. And car interiors have never been more ugly and plastic.

Though when a car is good now, it's GOOD.

The decade where personal computers blew up. So break out your 5.25" floppy with your pirated copy of Ultima.

>>94283733
80's cars for the most part were just fucking boxes. The hotrods were good by your average consumer car was fucking shit.

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Worst haircuts ever. They made 20 year old girls look 45.

The fear of nuclear war was pretty fucking terrifying for anyone who lived through it. Most of us just assumed the Russians were these crazy comic book supervillains who would start World War III in the name of world domination. We didn't know they were a lot weaker than it seemed--tell someone in 1986 that the USSR had five years left...they'd think you were fucking insane.

>>94283587
I checked the start date on all of them before posting. Sorry but they are all 90's cartoons.

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>>94283593
1989 bimmer will always have my heart

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>>94283786
>Worst haircuts ever
Gotta disagree with you, big hair and mullets were tha bomb

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80's were shit for cartoons but arguably better than current year desu. Pic related.

>>94283786
second from the right is a qt

>>94283934
That's retarded. If a cartoon aired its first episode on December 31st 1999 but aired every other episode of a 10 season run in the 00's is it a fucking 90's cartoon?

>>94283786
Fuck you. The only reason you say that is because all the chicks who rocked those haircuts were 45 when you were growing up.

The official hair power levels are

40's>20's>70's>80's>90's>50's>60's>30's>10's>anything post 2001.

>>94283379
People born in the 80s are millennials

>>94284040
Semantics

As for the music, the 80s was when all of the 60s groups like the Rolling Stones and whatnot became definitively dadrock and not what 15 year olds were bumping in their bedroom on the stereo. Anyone remember the Traveling Wilburys?

>>94284074
Haircuts from this decade belong in the trash.

>Skrillex crap
>topknots

>>94284191
Yeah no shit, that's what calling a cartoon that premiered in the late 90's but mostly aired in the 00's and is known mostly from that period a 90's cartoon is.

Spongebob is definitely not a 90s cartoon, the peak of its cultural relevance was from 2000 to 2004.

>>94277339
>Video games were something one did away from their house
Did I just imagine all those Ataris, Colecovisions, and NESes?

>>94284340
You seem butthurt.

>>94277339
>Movies were great, the best comedies came from this era. The best summer blockbuster flicks came from this era. The teen comedy was invented here.
You forgot all the amazing horror movies that came out in this decade.

Compared to the 70s, the 80s was a not very good decade for Hollywood at all (regardless of what nostalgiafags like Seth MacFarlane tell you). The movies were mostly just sfx-driven cheese with minimal storylines.

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80s toys were GOAT. 90s had some good toys as well but the 80s had some really cool, original ideas for toys.

I remember playing with these things called Bone Age (pic), they were like dinosaur skeletons you could take apart and build catapults and shit with.

Also the requisite Teddy Ruxpin, M.A.S.K., Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, Transformers, My Little Pony, Dinoriders hotness.

>>94283593
But I like square and brown.

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It had the best version of crimson chin!

>>94275626
Most of /co/ wasn't even born during best decade, so why ask them?

>>94284563
But he was canceled.

>>94278781

>toy commercials
>"amazing"

>>94284591
only because he was ahead of his time

>>94284507
If it wasn't for Star Wars's toy lines we wouldn't have gotten all those toy commercial shows, except maybe Transformers, but it'd be very different, and G.I. Joes would still be a foot tall doll.

Once SW introduced the giant ships and 6 inch figures G.I. Joes shrunk, all toy lines were given crazy machines to ride in, and massive casts of characters were commonplace.

Which makes me think what Gundam would've become if the creators hadn't been influenced by SW?

>>94278272
Was born in '84, never even heard of this show, but holy shit, this is rad even by Shuky Levy standards. Thanks for sharing, bro.

>>94275626
It was a pretty awesome time to be honest. Not for cartoons, but everything else it was great.

>>94283767
Yes, but they were still better looking than today where everything is the same slightly rounded, unimpressive shape. I don't know, maybe it's just overexposure to cars of today, but in my eyes they've never been uglier.

I mean, you take the badges off a modern car and ask someone to tell you the make and model.

>>94276936
>Mid

Try late and early 2000s.

>>94284732
>living in fear of World War III
>great

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>>94284742
I'm sorry, but there's no redeeming value to this car.

>>94283767
>hating on flat panels and sharp corner aesthetics
Oh go drive your New Beetle you faggot.

>>94284753
The crack wars and AIDS were fun too.

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>>94283979
This still really pisses me off. When I can Find more recent data I'll post it.
TTG isn't to blame for the channels decline, but it's sure as hell not helping. There's no reason to justify the constant air time if the ratings have still been declining, or stagnating at best.

>>94284753
Gave some purpose and step to life. Now all we got to look forward to is slowly congealing into a mass of generic human beings.

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>>94284776
I'm not defending that car. But you can point to a handful of cars on the internet as examples and say "Look at how shit." Yet I could do the same thing, and all I would need to do is take you to any street and watch the deflated bubbles go gliding by without even the courtesy of trying to sound good, because they're all built to be quiet.

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>>94284863
You're welcome, son. Had to keep those niggers and fags in line somehow.

But don't thank me; thank my pals at the CIA.

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Please kill me. It hurts to live.

Great for toy tie-ins and commercialisation. You wouldn't get the same level of toys from R18 movies now like you did back then. Even if cartoons were glorifiied slideshows and cheesy as fuck when you watch them back as an adult.

That's about all I remember of it, to be honest.

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>>94284776
Don't pin budget burgerclap cars on dragging down the 80's

>>94284753
The only difference between then and now is that more and more people are living in fear of World War III not happening because everyone is becoming increasingly angry and bored.

>>94284892
Teen Titans Go hasn't even been around since 2008, what the hell is this a capture of?

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Yuck.

>>94284975
I feel bad for car owners who live in the Rust Belt. I'm close to the Rust Belt but I have had no issues with Rust. I have a 00 Millinia and it doesn't have a single speck of rust anywhere with over 100k miles on it.

>>94285063
>>94284975
But don't you see? These cars actually make you FEEL something. Disgust or not, they make an impact.

>>94285027
Cartoon network ratings from 2008 to 2016. I didn't say TTG was around that long, it premiered in 2013. That's why I said "TTG isn't to blame for the channels decline" since that clearly happened before it aired.
The ratings still decline from Spring 2013(14.19) to Spring 2016 (11.65). While that isn't the same drop off as 2010-2011, it' still doesn't justify it's near constant air time since it's only managed to stagnate the decline. And overall it's still failing to do that.

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>>94279454
>I can agree that the 80s had great music

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>>94285149

>>94285204
What happened in 2011 to make the ratings drop to almost half and never recover?

>>94285011
Oh, and this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8syGlAMTKA

This will always put a smile on my face. Always.

>>94284416
they existed, but arcade machines were still vastly more powerful

the standard arcade machine at the time had as much power as a SNES, a home console made in the 90s

>>94277100
>The Stones, ZZ Top, Van Halen and Tom Petty ruled the radio

Rolling Stones were already dadrock by the Reagan years and actually broken up for much of the decade.

>>94275626
Music and movies were great, on par with the 70's but definitely priming for the terrible shit to come in the 90's later in the decade.

Some great TV and Cartoons, but mostly shit. A lot of it only has nostalgic value.

Comics were awesome. Really one of the best decades for comics. Especially considering the tidal wave of awful that was to be 90's comics.

Games were in their prime, the quality of which would carry through the 90's until the drastic drop in quality during the mid 2000's.

The toy commercial cartoons happened after the Reagan administration lifted some FCC restrictions on children's TV programming. Previously, a cartoon itself wasn't allowed to advertise products, only the commercials shown with it.

The entertainment was extremely hit or miss in general but man the coke was great

>>94285250
I'm not sure to be fully honest. If I had to guess that was before the time that the CN real stuff finally died out, since Tower Prep and Unnatural history aired in 2012 before being swiftly discarded. This was also around the time that shows like Problem Solverz, Ninjago, and Annoying Orange were announced.

The live action thing killed it and the bulk of what was announced that were cartoons didn't have much appeal. This probably overshadowed the anything good that was airing at the time. But I have very little to verify this.

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>>94285569
Nah, fuck that shit.

>decade that brought us Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Poison
vomit.gif

>>94285690
>it's coke - all coke
>80s
Alright, that was funny

>>94285766
You don't talk shit about Bon Jovi

>>94285569
>coke
You mean the drink or...

>>94275895
>not as good as the 90s
lol

>>94285374
Ok yeah but their old stuff was still a staple of rock radio because ain't nobody wanted to listen to fucking Def Leppard outside of 11 year olds. Metal and alternative/punk were popular within their respective subcultures but normies weren't into the stuff.

>>94285225
80s had the best mainstream music
If you want to listen to something good nowadays you have to search for it

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>>94285878
>80s had the best mainstream music

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>>94285813
Fuck Bon Jovi

>>94285945
Metallica died with Burton and Megadeth is better, you redneck

>>94285938
Try exposing your opinion and explain why it didn't had the best mainstream music

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Someone posted this in /co/ a while back, and I've been obsessed with E.L.O ever since.

the 80s gave us this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KUsRbMUpEU

>>94285866
The mainstream media back then still had a huge boner for the Stones, Who, McCartney, and Dylan and they got on the covers of Time and Newsweek and whatnot. Music journalists were pushing alternative/punk bands hard. Metal was the target of attacks by groups like the PMRC who blamed it for teen suicides and Satanism.

Michael Jackson was God himself during 1983-85. By the end of the decade though, his star was kind of fading.

>>94286111
Wasn't that when Nevermind pushed Dangerous off the charts?

>>94275626
Well, it was when I got into collecting and reading comics seriously, nay, obsessively, so I'll always look back on the era with rose-tinted goggles. First issue of Love & Rockets I ever bought, first issue of Nexus, the BEST Batman run in the late 80's with Wagner/Grant/Breyfogle on 'Tec, the market was at it's healthiest, black and white boom, Cerebus was really coming into it's own...what's not to like?!

>>94286044
Not him but I'd argue that the late 60's, 70's excluding the disco era, and the early-mid 90's all had better mainstream music. Some pop hits of the 80's were good sure, but on the whole it was pretty mediocre for pop.

>>94276345
t. millenial

>>94286210
I was 14 in 1992 and honestly nobody gave a shit about Michael Jackson by that point, at least nobody my age. Janet Jackson was way more popular. MJ was cool back when I was a little kid.

>>94277100
Rap exploded creatively in the late eighties.

But, yeah, the 80's was my shit, started reading comics as soon as I COULD read and was keeping my comics (I wouldn't say "collecting" per se) instead of drawing on 'em or letting Mum throw them away by about '84, so yeah, I have nothing bad to say about the eighties. And like you said, great action/blockbuster films. And great cartoons, too.

>>94280379
>but I hate "le epic glam rock/hair metal" wankery that is so glorified in media today
That's just because it's the image normies have of 80s music--Michael Jackson and Poison. That LA fag metal shit was for middle schoolers who had just discovered "heavy" music for the first time.

Do yourself a favor and put on some Replacements or Sonic Youth if you want 80s music.

>>94286426
Never really dug The Replacements, myself. I mean I know why they were musically/culturally important but I just couldn't get into them, same as, I dunno, Big Star, for example. Another epochal band that does pretty much nothing for me.

I like the SST stuff like Husker Du and The Minutemen, though.

>>94284416
Home videogames weren't as much of a thing as we make them out to be. The 2600 was popular yes, but pretty much everything else was niche. Home videogames didn't really catch on again until Ninty hit the market.

For the most part, videogames were still largely known for arcade cabinets, not home consoles.

>>94283786
averagebonjovifans.jpg

If they were a little more white trash, they'd be into Motley Crue.

>>94287104
You misspelled AC/DC. Motley Crue is... well, whatever is below white trash.

Bon Jovi was the little bit cleaner band for white middle class suburban chicks.

>>94287229
AC/DC were really a guy thing, I don't think too many women were into them.

>>94286016
Doesn't change that Bon Jovi is crap. Slayer>Metallica>Megadeth>POWER GAP>Anthrax anyway

>>94286111
And Bruce Springsteen.

Comedies that can actually make me crack come this decade so it's alright I guess.

>>94287773
These are not even the best thrash metal bands around

>>94275626
I was born in 87 and don't remember much of it. I was a kid in the 90's for the most part. From what I remember things just felt more airy and fresh and positive. All the fashion was pretty extreme from pastel preppy clothes to neon workout gear to floofy glam metal looks and then spikey punk shit too. Girls wore poofy skirts and giant bows and chunky plastic jewlery that looked like barbie accessories. Arcades were a thing. Videogames were new. Everything was toxic waste and super powers and dinosaurs and ninjas and skateboards. Seemed like the most fun century to grow up in.

>>94287869
I know, doesn't mean I can't rate the big 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlBua7mfao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yHzfSQKQhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDI8gLRwCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuVnmXkTd_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UmK5gnZ0s

Mainstream rock had become totally pathetic in the second half of the decade. Aside from all the Bon Jovi/Poison crap, all the old 70s veterans like Aerosmith and Cheap Trick came back and emulated Bon Jovi.

>>94286064
>ELO
>Twilight
>The "Time" Album
My nigga.

>>94287967
>born in 87
This. I enjoyed the super Mario Bros film at a local cinema because I was 6 and it was like a 90 minute power rangers episode.

>>94275626
I was born in '82 so I have a pretty good memory of the late '80s onwards (anything before that is in bits and pieces). Watched cartoons like DuckTales, TMNT, Real Ghostbusters, and C.O.P.S. and a game show called Fun House. Also caught my fair share of music videos on MuchMusic when they actually played videos.

Comics-wise, I remember mainly reading Archie comics and those Disney comics Gladstone Publishing put out. I was too young for most other comics.

I had a Sega Master System for my video games needs, and some Commodore computer, and that was pretty much it.

Obviously I have fond memories of it, but then I didn't have to worry about World War III or the economy or anything like that. Though even now I still probably like that decade's music the best, even if the late 70s was the most interesting with so many genres flourishing like punk, new wave, disco, and reggae.

>>94283593
It's ugly but it's charmingly ugly. I'll take that shit over the bland shapeless blobs that cars have morphed into. Even stuff like Lamborghinis are taking on the lame amorphous shape.

>>94283786
It can work but it takes everything being just right for that to be the case. '30s and '50s are objectively the best.

>>94288154
my brother of a darker complexion
I'm new to this stuff, if you can reccomend me music close to the "time" album I'd be grateful

>>94286064
>darth vader has the cliche shocked big white eyes

the hell even is this, if it's a shows intro why is it so long?

>>94290445
It was for a convention. It's Gainax.

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>>94283979
Please tell me that's not real.

>>94290445
The Daicon IV Opening Animation was an animated film produced by the founders of Gainax (before they were even Gainax) out of their garages for the fourth Daicon sci-fi convention in Japan in 1983. It was preceded two years earlier by the Daicon III Opening Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwGIMCYkk4

Both films are of historical significance in Japan because it was really the first time a group of fresh-faced college age nerds got together to produce something so unabashedly geeky. They did it by themselves without the support of any major studios, purely out of passion for all things sci-fi. Together the two films are essentially a birthmark of the otaku culture that began to emerge at the dawn of the 80's.

>>94290879
okay that's actually pretty neat.

>>94275626
Cartoon OPs top tier among top tiers
Comics, mixed bag, but gave us TDKR
Vidya, mixed bag, difficult, shit graphics, but great twitchy games with no load times (except for c64 fans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcGNqrAtsgg

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>>94275626

I barely remember all the things and comment here... but this is a fast and little mentions:

-There was a perfect match with the toys with the toons.

-8bits & Synth music.

-Just...ALF...

-Yep...you know those ones...

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>>94292675
>-Yep...you know those ones...
The spillover into the early 90s was pretty nice.

>>94285862
The 90s were a better decade for animation, the 80s were a better decade for comics.

>>94285233
This is actually depressing.

>>94285233
>and they're all black and white or something in between

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>>94292675
>Dem highcut leotards and leg warmers with waist sahses

And people tell me the 80s had bad fashion.

>>94284416
Fuckoing no one had a coleco, that was something only rich bastard had and it was to show off that their dad bought them something for $200

NES really did not become a huge thing until the very end of the decade. 89-90 was the time it finally started to become normal.

After that everything was all about the arcade, and nothing at home even approached the power of an arcade cabinet until the PSX/N64 era.

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>>94283593
[Sabotage plays in the distance]

>>94289888
Not him, but what about it do you like most? The music itself, the themes, or what?

Off the top of my head I'd probably recommend both Buggles albums, which are criminally underrated beyond Video Killed the Radio Star. Weirder lyrics than Time for sure, but all three are among my favourite albums.

There also seems to be a fair amount of space/science-themed italo disco and euro art rock/prog around but I haven't delved too deep into that so I don't have specific recs.

>>94286064
time album by elo is one of the best fucking things ever made by man

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>>94283593
take that back bitch

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>>94283623
>but normal cars were too damn ugly

It was the greatest decade in American history.

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It's a decade filled with animated shows with wacky and imaginative premises that turn out to be incredibly boring to watch.

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>>94285813
Bon Jovi is lame buttrock for normies. It's the kind of thing you'd see your aunt who never listened to rock before listening to, or little girls who don't even like rock but listen to Bon Jovi because "omg so hawt".

>>94283587
>For some reason a lot of people kinda blend the early 00's into the 90's in terms of cartoons, don't know why.
90s media was massively syndicated into the next decade, thus the culture somewhat lingered across generations.

>>94284424
>>94284191
>>94283934
This was a terrible interaction on your part. You should be ashamed of yourself.

>>94297202
The greatest decade in general.

>>94297254
Somewhat like late 80s for the early 90s.

>>94297266
Yeah that's why I stopped replying to him, once he said butthurt it was obvious he was just being a faggot that couldn't admit he was wrong.

>>94294913
>Fuckoing

>>94291656
>shit graphics