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macgyver.. he was a sexy beast back then..

full house... bob saget.. lol..

bed bugs game

popples

pound puppies.. i've still gone mine

Mouse trap board game.. - best board game ever.

sweet secrets.. i had that exact one in the picture..

Operation board game

voltron doll.

That game show where the people had to run around a makeshift supermarket and collect certain things.. cant remember what its called. .. (maybe it was don't forget your toothbrush.. i cant remember)

Those ball things with a plastic hoop around it.. (looks like saturn) you had to stand on either side of the ball and try and bounce along on it.. bloody hard.

Mr Doobie - punch punch punch a ball.

FAT CAT!

Those big balls with two handles sticking out you sit on and bounce along on them.

Teddie Ruxpin - a talking bear with a tape in its back.

Sylvanians- Miniature animals, such as rabbits, beavers, bears, and racoons that lived in a town called Sylvania. (I fcukin loved these things..they were pretty expensive though i remember so most of the time i got cheap rip offs...I did have the house though.. and a fire place whcih had a light in it and would light up... mad sh!t.

Polly pocket.

anyways check out www.inthe80s.com heaps of sh!t on there..

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This thread has had me smiling all the way through remembering how much fun I actually had as a child. Top work, its been good therapy lmao.

Cant beleive how great peoples memories are, kept on saying "oh yeah" as someone mentioned things such as nick knocking, army, fat cat, voltron, he man, BMX ghosties etc.

Have no idea how people remembered cordial in the supermarkets lol.

Great point on kids not playing in the streets anymore but I guess the world we live in is not the same anymore with the amount of kidnapping, molesterers, murderers etc.

Things I remember not mentioned already:

The local milk bar had:

Barney Bananas, "the foot", rainbow paddle pops, SUNNY BOYS FOR 20 CENTS!!, Bubble o Bills, "mates" lollies, racing car lollies, love candy, sherbet bombs and Sherbet straws. And smokes were under $4.00 and a note from Mum was good enough to sell a packet to a five year old.

KFC was called Kentucky fried chicken. McDonalds sold chicken as well. People went to Red Rooster.

If you had a Redline, Mongoose, PK ripper, diamond back or Haro BMX you were god. Anybody see a BMX movie called RAD? Or skate movie called Thrashin?

Magazines were full of cigarette ads.

Pinball games to play were Galaga, hyper olympics, double dragon, Wonder boy and then onto Street fighter and Mortal Kombat.

Tv has been mostly covered but I will add Astro boy, the A team with Mr. T, WWF wrestling with Hulk Hogan, King Kong Bundy, George the animal steele etc and Different strokes, oh and Romper room.

Friendship bands, Skeg bands.

40 kids gathering around the playground to watch two people "tongue" lmao.

Run DMC, beastie boys, public enemy,Guns n Roses, Poison.

Shaving stripes in the side of my head.

LA gear, Reebok pumps, Jordan fives, Brittish nights, Cons

Peter Brock, Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansel, Tony Lockett, Warrick Cappa, Diego Maradona, Pat Cash, Stefan Edberg, Ivan Lendl, Navratilova, Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabitini.

Gee, it all comes flooding back when you think about it. Great thread.

frosty fruits

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tab soft drink

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new kids on the block

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21 jump street

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building your own billycarts

bmx's (mentioned before)

the crazy 80's stackhat tv ads the one where the lady cycling along gets like reflectors added to the bike, and a stackhat and rear and front lights and fluro orange vest thingy while she is riding along, some bike safety add i think

the life be in it fitness and health programs on tv (norm was the guys name)

the life education vans (go harold the silly girraffe)

agro's cartoon connection with crikey the crown. crickey voice -> "hello boys n girls, today were going to molest some children and lure them into my car with some candy"

test drive 3 pc game

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this game was a classic, abolsute pisser. hit a rock. game over your dead

wizball on the commodore 64

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psycho fox on the sega master system

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merry go round ice cream treats

the mac tonight promo for mcdonals - $4.95 large big mac meal

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that stupid ridgey didge tv show

there's a white wings cake im thinking of, its like green and has purple icing, it was some sort of bubblegum cake in a box / packet mix. best cake ever but cant think of the name. anyone know ?

I am probably of the younger segment of this forum, being 18 and all, but this is what i remember about being young.

Tamagotchi

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Yo-yo's, specifcally "the brain"

- Napster

- Analogue mobile phones

- Drinking EVERY weekend friday/saturday (though, some at this age still do)

- Fads (the lollies...i was smoking!)

- The macarena

- Shoes with lights in them (later in chemistry i found out some had mercury in the switches....)

Found this website, http://www.crazyfads.com/

hey does anyone else think that mountain dew is very similar to mello yello?

I remember the Dukes of Hazzard and Daisys shorts.

Night rider

all those John Wayne cowboy movies

all those 2nd world war movies

maradonna handballing the goal

the space shuttle actually getting into space - it was brand new back then!

mountain bikes that weighed 50 kg

jumping off cliffs into the local river.... and nearly drowning a few times

my first attempt at rallying in a MK2 Cortina - all 60 - 70 hp of it!

camping at the local beach - Uretiti - thats its name and no prizes for guessing what type of beach - an no the name is not related to it either

school where the teachers scared the shit out of you with big sticks!

and it goes on..

I remember when Wagon Wheels were about 6" (15 cm for you younguns) across

Dragster bikes

Licorice blocks were 4 for a cent

TV's didnt come in colour (B&W only)

Cars didnt have seat belts

Mum used to get $2 of petrol actually pumped into her car(no self serve)

Coca Cola only came in glass bottles

I was 6 or 7 and could safely walk through the South Melbourne market

Deadly Earnest on tv (used to frighten the shit out of me but I had to watch it)

Lost in Space

Prince Planet (one of my favourites)

Hot Big M's (they used the steam from a coffee machine)

HK Monaros

Toranas

Butter (whats margarine)

Hippies

Record players that you could stack 6 records on and it would play them in turn or if you left the arm across it would play the song over and over.

TV Ringside

World of Sport.

Playing poker with the family

This is a great thread. I'm going to add to my list as I think of things.

Best game ever -

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Yeah we used to have that game. Excitebike I think it was called. Kung fu was another game we had and we had the robot that was an add on on the Nintendo.You had to spin the shit out of these gyro top things and put them in the robots hands to open or close doors in the game

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