Fauci was in his career infancy, career wise,
The author is a whiny little twink, commie.
At least we didn’t have grown men dressed as freakish drag queens waving their genitalia at us.
The author of this is nuts.
That Mr. Homophobic to you, little limp wrist tolerant twerp.
Gameboy came out in 89
1972 was perhaps the perfect year to be born. You were growing up during Reagan's America and came of age just as home computers and the internet were getting started.
I was born in 1962 so I missed that by about a decade.
of course the ‘80’s was bad for kids.
all the fun exciting things were for consenting adults only!
technological explosion, adult playtime explosion,
among other things!
If the first thing on your list tells everyone you are an ADHD, device addicted nincompoop who can’t sit still and enjoy life, I don’t think the rest of the list will get any better.
Listened to AM and FM radio a lot, transistor radios early on, then boomboxes, walkmen. Took five years of Latin in Jr./Senior H.S., incl. Horace, Catullus, Cicero, Vergil, Caesar. Aced geometry. Worked different local jobs. Bought albums and built a collection, turntable/amplifier, big speakers with “woofers”, “tweeters”. Played an instrument, member of bands. Parties, high school dances, junior/senior proms, shot pool, played baseball.
Video games were not needed, plenty of real life things to do.
What a bunch of crap. Life in the 80s was 100X better than today.
This seems like some Millenials’ attempt at humor. yawn
Actually, Sixteen Candles is improved with the VCR and later the DVD player. All you do is skip over the scenes that do not have Molly Ringwald or Anthony Michael Hall and it is still a very decent and watchable movie. The Breakfast Club was that bit more better, IMHO.
Your radio station played crap like “Lady in Red” and your oldies were disco.
This guy obviously did not try arcade games like Defender. Also, he obviously missed out on Haunted House or other great pinball games by Gottlieb or Bally. There is a pinball museum in Las Vegas that I’d love to go to so I could play those classics again.
Nope, loved every minute of my years in the 80s.
Kickk ass time to be a kid.
Didn’t you just get done knocking the 1970’s as the worst decade?
I was going to say this article has to be sarcasm but it’s Buzzfeed so it’s probably serious.
Went to Basic Training in 83, and the fondest memories of my misspent youth were 80-83.
There were some hand held simple LED games to waste time with. Walkman cassette players were everywhere.
This whiner seems to be a spoiled brat type who bitches about everything and anything.
NHL hockey was in that good number of respects much better. You didn’t have players wearing suits of armour (many grandfathered helmetless players) and routinely acting like the Knights of the Round Table with their cheap shots and stickwork like nowadays. Also, the games (including the playoffs) were not the boring neutral zone trap soccer matches that became commonplace later on, You had Gretzky and Lemieux and others piling on goals without the goal horns and other loud and obnoxious sound effects and music.