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Thanks for visiting my Product of the 80s Lists page, chock full of things that are sure to bring back wonderful memories of the AWESOME 80s!!!

WHAT'S INSIDE:


Product of the 80s - Are you one?
Lingo of the 80s
Fads and Fashions of the 80s
Video Games
Popular 80s Toys and Entertainment
Edible Eighties
Television of the 80s
Movies of the 80s
Musical Artists of the 80s

Product of the 80s

What IS a Product of the 80s? How do you know if YOU are a Product of the 80s? Well, read on to find out!

You might be a Product of the 80s IF...

...you remember when McDonald's packaged their products in styrofoam.

...you know the words to the "C.I.T. Song" from Meatballs.

...you remember the song "Pilot of the Airwaves."

...you ever watched the game show "Starcade."

...you know who Elron McKenzie is.

...you hear the words "I don't know" and your first instinct is to dodge the falling green slime!

...you ever owned a "How To Win Video Games" book.

...you know the lyrics to one or more of the following: Three's Company, Facts of Life, Cheers, Family Ties, Growing Pains, Dukes of Hazard, or The Muppet Show.

...you wanted to be one of the kids on Mr. Wizard's World.

...you know who Large Marge is.

...you ever owned, or still own, any 12" remix records.

...you based your choice of convenience store on their selection of video games.

If any of these things sound familiar to you, you might be a Product of the 80s! Thanks for visiting my site, you're sure to get tons of enjoyment and encounter lots of AWESOME 80s memories while you are here!!

Lingo of the 80s

"Like" anything
Totally
Awesome!
Gag me with a spoon!
Don't have a cow!
Radical
Tubular
Omigod!
Gnarley
Dude
Psyche!
Killer
Chill
FerSure
Butthead

Therefore, a conversation of the 1980s might sound somewhat like this:
"Omigod! Last night I met this, like, totally awesome dude with, like, a radical car but, like, his clothes - UH! - like, gag me with a spoon!"
Anything in this format must be spoken as quickly as possible in order to be truly 80s!

Fads and Fashions of the 80s

Neon
The "Don Johnson" look
Guys wearing pastel colors
Puff painted clothes
Women in men's attire
Turned up collars
Sweaters around the neck cuffed together in front
Oversize shirts/sweaters
Izod
Ocean Pacific
Sweater vests
Jackets with numerous zippers
Leg warmers
Lee jeans
Calvin Kleins
Jordache jeans
Guess? jeans
Jams
Vision Street Wear
Short jeans with tight cuffs and zippers at the bottom of the legs
Jeans worn with dressy shoes
Kaepas
Jellies
High tops
Slouch socks
Keds
Tennis shoes without laces
Feathered hair
Crimped hair
Spiked hair
Mousse
Banana clips
Colored mascara
Big earrings
Swatches
Skinny ties
Twist-a-Beads
Parachute Pants
Rattails

Video Games

Beserk
Centipede
Combat
Defender
Donkey Kong
Frogger
Galaga
Gyruss
Journey
Joust
Jungle Hunt
Marble Madness
Moon Patrol
Ms. Pac-Man - Remember the cartoons in between the different levels showing the stages of romance of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man?
Pac-Man - Remember the ghosts' names? Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde.
Pitfall
Pole Position
Q*Bert!
Sinistar
Space Invaders - I remember in the Atari version of this game, if you turned the game on while holding the reset button down, it gave you double fire power.
Spy Hunter
Tempest
Track & Field
Xevious

Popular 80s Toys and Entertainment

Rubik's Cube
Miniature video games
Cabbage Patch Kids
Simon
Merlin
Roller skating
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Quick Jump! It's A Skunk!
Strawberry Shortcake
Transformers
UNO!
My Little Pony
Walkman
Trivial Pursuit
IQ 2000
Legos
Atari 2600
Coleco Vision
Commodore Vic 20
Commodore 64
Voltron Action Figures
Thundercats Action Figures
Glow Worms

Edible Eighties

Capri Sun
Fruit Roll-Ups
Jelly Belly gourmet jelly beans
New Coke
FrankenBerry cereal
BooBerry cereal
Count Chocula cereal
McDLT - One of the commercials for the McDonald's McDLT featured Jason Alexander of "Seinfeld" fame.
E.T. cereal
Reese's Pieces
Bonkers
Fun Fruits

Television of the 80s

Commercials

Wendy's "Where's the beef?"
California Raisins
Domino's Pizza's "Avoid the Noid" campaign
M-M-M-Max Headroom speaking for Coke
Budweiser's party animal, Spuds Mackenzie
Lucky Charms - Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons, Orange Stars, Green Clovers, and Blue Diamonds
Chester Cheetah for "Cheetos, the cheese that goes CRUNCH!"

Musical Television

Flip Side
Friday Night Videos
Kids, Inc.
MTV, obviously
Much Music
Nick Rocks
Night Tracks
Puttin' On The Hits
Solid Gold
Star Search
Toronto Rocks

Cartoons/Kids Shows

ALF
Captain Caveman
Care Bears
Danger Mouse
Flintstones
Fraggle Rock
Garfield
Gummie Bears
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Inspector Gadget
Jetsons
Mask
Mr. Wizard's World
Muppets
Punky Brewster
Richie Rich
Schoolhouse Rock
Scooby Doo
She-Ra: Princess of Power
Smurfs
Thundercats
Voltron
You Can't Do That On Television - Also check out the Alasdair Gillis Fan Page

General TV

A-Team
Alice
Bosom Buddies
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Dallas
Diff'rent Strokes
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Dukes of Hazard
Facts of Life
Family Ties
Golden Girls
Growing Pains
Knight Rider
The Love Boat
Mama's Family
Miami Vice
Mork and Mindy
My Two Dads
Night Court
People's Court
Silver Spoons
Three's Company
Too Close For Comfort
Webster
Who's the Boss?
The Wonder Years
"Sit, UBU, sit! Good dog." (bark!)

Movies of the 80s

Adventures in Babysitting
American Werewolf in London
April Fools Day
Bachelor Party
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead
Beverly Hills Cop (parts one and two)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Breakfast Club - hands down my favorite movie of the 80's
Bright Lights, Big City
Can't Buy Me Love
Cat's Eye
A Christmas Story
Cocktail
Critters
Crossroads
Date With An Angel
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dream a Little Dream
Eddie and the Cruisers
E.T.
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Footloose
For Keeps
Friday the 13th movies
Fright Night
Funny Farm
Ghostbusters
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Goonies (parts one and two)
Gremlins
Haunted Honeymoon
Highlander
Howard the Duck
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
The Karate Kid
LaBamba
Labyrinth
The Legend of Billie Jean
Light of Day
Like Father, Like Son
Little Shop Of Horrors
The Lost Boys
Lucas
Mad Max
Mannequin
Mask
Meatballs
Micki and Maude
Mischief
The Money Pit
Mr. Mom
My Bodyguard
The Naked Gun
National Lampoon's Vacation
Night of the Comet
Nightmare on Elm Street movies
9 To 5
On Golden Pond
Once Bitten
One Crazy Summer
The Outsiders
Overboard
Parenthood
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Peggy Sue Got Married
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Police Academy
Poltergeist
Porky's
Pretty In Pink
Private Benjamin
Purple Rain
Rainman
Raising Arizona
Real Genius
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Romancing the Stone
Say Anything
The Secret of My Success
Seems Like Old Times
Short Circuit
Sixteen Candles
Some Kind of Wonderful
Space Camp
Spaceballs
Splash
St. Elmo's Fire
Steel Magnolias
Stripes
Stand By Me
Teen Wolf
Terminator
Three Amigos
Tootsie
Top Gun
Twins
Uncle Buck
Vamp
War Games
Weekend At Bernie's
Weird Science
Wildcats
The World According to Garp

Musical Artists of the 80s

Bryan Adams
A-HA
Air Supply
Adam Ant
Bananarama
The Bangles
The Beastie Boys
Pat Benatar
Billy Ocean
Blondie
Bon Jovi
The Cars
Chicago - Peter Cetera
Cinderella
Culture Club
Def Leppard
DIO
Duran Duran
The Eurythmics
Foreigner
Genesis - Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel
Debbie Gibson
The Go-Go's - Belinda Carlisle
Guns 'N' Roses
Hall and Oates
Heart
Whitney Houston
INXS
Iron Maiden
J. Geils Band
Janet Jackson
Michael Jackson
The Jets
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Billy Joel
Elton John
Journey - Steve Perry
KISS
L.A. Guns
Cyndi Lauper
Huey Lewis and the News
Loverboy
Madonna
Megadeth
John Cougar Mellencamp
Men at Work
Metallica
Miami Sound Machine
Mike + The Mechanics
Motley Crue
Mr. Mister
Olivia Newton-John
Robert Palmer
Poison
The Police - Sting
Prince
Quiet Riot
Ratt
R.E.O. Speedwagon
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Skid Row
Slaughter
Rick Springfield
Bruce Springsteen
Starship
Styx
Survivor
Tears for Fears
Tesla
Thompson Twins
Tiffany
Tina Turner
Tone Loc
Toto
Bonnie Tyler
U2
Van Halen - David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar
Wang Chung
Warrant
WHAM! - George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley
Weird Al Yankovic
ZZ Top