Were the 80's good or bad?

>The world smelled like fast food and overheated electronics
That's it! The smell of an electronics store, walls of giant CRT TVs, and that smell everywhere. I miss that.

The eighties were the beginning of the Reagan era. Popular culture abandoned civil disobedience in favor of wealth and that was the beginning of the separation of rules for the rich and those for the poor. Everything you see on TV is like mocking minorities for spending on credit... only the White working class WERE expected to pay those debts.

There's your world. Go ahead and love it... It's "quaint".

Just take a look at bars/clubs and arcades from the 80s (especially in movies) because thats how everyone WANTED their stuff to look when they were kids. Now that i think about it skating rinks were neon and blacklight hells so there is that.

As far as the moonrune asthetic people only displayed that when they wanted something to feel exotic because dealing with asian people and products was still magical.

The only reason im pointing this stuff out is ive been doing a ton of research into the current indie game scene and i keep seeing poorly executed "retro" trends over and over. With that said if the goal is to turn the concepts up to 11 then
>neon = fun
>moonrunes = exotic
>clutter = activity
And yea the 80s were like that but very very dialed down.

Oldfag here. The 80s we transformative in the sense that people were patriotic, freedom-loving, and somewhat libertarian. The USSR were totalitarian assholes who locked their people behind an iron curtain. Any threat to our individual freedoms by the government could be shut down with a simple quip, "Papers please." Do you really want to be like the communists? The fall of the Soviet Union should have put the nail in the coffin of socialism/communism. Don't ask me why these retarded zoomers think Bernie is going to save them from poverty. It's got to be ignorance. Nobody who has actually lived under a communist regime supports one.

People were pretty confident in their views. That was blissful ignorance. I remember in the early 90s when the Internet was just spreading to normies. Every fucking wives' tale was being passed around as if it were fact. "Did you know a duck's quack doesn't echo?" The Internet was a disinfectant for this kind of shit. Sites like Snopes were pure fact checkers who stayed out of politics back then. Decentralized knowledge was gaining ground. Remember when Wikipedia strived to be apolitical?

The media spread a lot of disinformation about AIDS in the 80s and 90s. Heterosexual men were just as susceptible, they said. Wasn't true, but how would you hear otherwise? We didn't have social media. All we had were cranks with newsletters and that shit had no fact checking.

After the 2016 election and the current pandemic advice from the "experts" like the WHO, people do not blindly trust journalists anymore. My default position is to not trust ANY news I hear until it's been verified. More times the not, it ends up being misleading or fake. We're not worse off. We're beginning to realize those ideals of the 80's thanks to the technology and tools of the 2020's.

>turn on av/reciever
>thud
>lights dim
>brrrrrrrrrrr
>here comes that smell

The smell is gone, but the cancer remains..

The internet was a fucking mistake. Think about how you life would be without the god forsaken internet and you'll know exactly what the 80s was like

Fpbp.

Firstly, nice digits. Second, you have a good point that current artistic renditions of the 80's are highly stylized and over done compared to how things actually were. I should know, not only did I live through the 80's and 90's, but the lighting was so nice it gave me autism for lights. So much so that I make my own neon and faux neon signs.

t. light autist

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> If we had modern technology with 80's and 90's pop culture the world would be better.
I think this can still be done.

The 80s were either great or terrible, depending where you looked. Urban areas in the 1980s were nightmarish. Dirty, riddled with crime and degeneracy. Whereas the suburbs and country were peak American dream tier comfy.

I was really young back then and only remember bits and pieces but I remember the general tone between downtown and the suburbs.

Nowadays it’s all fucked...

I dunno, the arcades I went to in my small town looked pretty much like the ones in Tron: dark, neon and packed. I had to wait in line to play Donkey Kong, and Pac Man was impossible.
>ok xoomer

There wasn't quite as much neon as you'd think because of all the brown and beige left over from the seventies.

The internet was your way out of the judaism.
Cameras everywhere and federal reserve and public school and listening to the left, now that is mistake.
Yeah the best part of it was anything and everything not mainstream actually. Not the image you get online 95+% of the time. The cool.

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>skating rinks
yeah

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I can practically hear the New Order.

Holy shit, that cute little french girl in the middle of nowhere. Man those looked like some fun and cozy times...

That's not peak 80's, that's a homogenous society. Go to a small town convenience store in a rural farming town and it's still like this. I was just at one 3 hours ago getting coffee and a breakfast sandwich.

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"Alternative" was new and exciting and not co-erced yet by big business. Nirvana put an end to that.

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I just keep seeing motifs where the ENTIRE WORLD is bathed in pink/green/blue neon where you cant see shit as an asthetic. Neon casts light but its not going to wash a 300 foot radius in harsh overbright color like the last stand scene in aliens. Its supposed to be subtle right? Cuz dont remember being able to spot the gas station 3 blocks away by the dome of light cast by the bud light and malboro signs. Also (blue, orange and red) not "i bought an MSI album one time purple"

Herb Alpert - Keep Your Eyes On Me 1987

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You are spot on. Neon never did cast much light, and besides places like Vegas there was not an overpowering presence of neon light. I would describe most bars, bowling alleys, skating rinks, etc as "ill lit" or "dimly lit". The bright, romanticized 80's didn't exist except for the general attitude at the time. People were cautiously optimistic about the future and it showed.

>80's futura was absolutely aesthetic
The $$$$$$$$ miami vice beach house 80s was aesthetic. The modern track home in the 80s was this total dog shit huge valance and strange shitty build in look.
Like you have a closet or wall and then a huge mantel that was 4 feet deep and 3 feet wide 8 feet of the ground over your closet..
They also did a TON of build it nooks for tech to make it look all modern.
Like you would have a wall and then a huge build in spot to put a *cough* modern tech will never get better than this 32 inch tube TV so it was flat against the wall.
Same for desks.. Yet in many cases these build in areas were in some of the worst places possible.
Also cars totally shit the bed in the 80s due to USA smog laws and it we didn't get back the horse power until 2010 or so. Even an early 90s Z28 Camaro only had 260 HP.
but the march of tech was great. Every new game or new system was mind blowing, you don't have that now. It's just expected to be +1 better. 80s? Everything was WOW that's soooo much better.. then year later WOW look at that!!

>neon nights of the 80's rusted into the grunge tainted 90's

having lived through both...…..coming out of the barf colored everything that was the 70's, the 80's were just brilliant and fun, the 90's were fun but just felt dirty especially NYC.

I saw GWAR at the fucking Limelight for fucks sake. dirty on so many levels...…..but fun

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Yes, as I have said that's because people either couldn't afford to redecorate or didn't want to because most did during the 70's. Most houses built during this time did not capture that futurism either which is sad.

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>that's a homogenous society.
That sure as hell plays a huge part but I think there are a lot of other factors too. Let alone the internet, smartphones and social medias that are making us (and especially young generations) anti social, we could talk about obesity and drugs which are a huge problem in the US. I've heard american countrysides are getting wiped out by drugs and are full of junkies. Is that true?
When you look at the video all the people look in great shape, no one's overweight and obviously no smartphones so they're just living the moment.

Every house I lived in as a kid, had puke green/brownish orange appliances. My parents had a “south west” modern theme for our living room. Our couch was a light gray with pastel pink and turquoise fibers, and the art work was modern looking desert landscapes, compete with glass cactuses. Most of my friends families had huge sectionals, with fat penises. They would swing them around and make my dress up like a girl. Sometimes they would play the gaym, where they could see how many cocks I can fit in my ass. I always tapped out at 3. It’s was a good ti’me.

Don't even get me started on cute foreign exchange students in the 80s. No one ever thought of importing hordes of pajeets instead.

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It was also a lot more going out and being in the moment - no cell phone cameras at parties - had to be there kind of thing. And there was still rock and roll culture, and genuine college culture before it was a political cesspool. Like a never ending spring break.

>it's another Gen X circlejerk thread

Chris Pratt at 2:02 this truly is the 80s

Every 80s kid knows about the puke green oven

Im not even genx those fags talk about action man and lunchboxes and hanna barbera cartoons

My mom's cope was so bad she called it "avocado" colored.

Although i couldn’t make my own lights I’m a fan of 80s style lighting also. I remember when a new retail park opened near me in the 90s with laser tag, huge arcade section and fucking neon everywhere. Only 3 fast food places which were McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Burger King which were in their full 80s/90s prime. Fuck that place was so comfy as a kid.
Movie first - 90s blockbuster movies, ‘that’ popcorn smell and a movie theatre that had more than 5 people in it. Yeah it maybe cool having it to yourself but it generated an atmosphere of excitement.

Then next door to bowling: book your lane, then off to arcades cos even with 20+ lanes it was so busy you waited over an hour.

Finished off in one of the junk food places.

One of the main things I remember about it all was the lighting, it was ALL neon apart from the ceiling lights, now I’m planning the lighting for my pizza place in a similar style, your pic related light is cool af. Have you got a catalogue or portfolio?

The best thing about the 90s looking back was because you wernt constantly surrounded by anything you wanted, so if you wanted to watch the most recent movies it was either go to theatre or blockbuster (which was a whole different level of comfy). If you wanted to buy stuff you had to go to city Center which was full on 80s/90s bright lights experience.

People were happier and there was none of this stupid political correctness.

We had a puke green bathroom

Could be worse: wood grain walls!

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>no cell phone cameras at parties
No, just actual cameras and Polaroids.

Probably would of been a coke filled little man back then and actually able to work a regular job and buy a house and have a wife and kids back then

>alex p keaton
only thing throwing off the vibe is the SNES crap.

The political correctness was limited to crazy cat ladies as guests on Donahue because people understood crazy people are meant to be laughed at.

All the cars in this pic are from the 70's and some of the taxi cabs date back to the 50's.

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yeah, but I love those cars

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>action man and lunchboxes and hanna barbera cartoons

That's all 70s shit.

Is that Neville Island in Pittsburgh?

meant for

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In the 80s most people didnt want 80s cars. They still dont lol.

Those are something else to drive. It's like driving a boat on a river of marshmallows. The back seats were sometimes as large as the entire interiors of cars from the '90s onward.

Right. When genx were kids.

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>attack of the deranged mutant killer monster snow goons

fuck yeah, kid
(shame about all that post millennium crap tho)

That was what he meant: gen X cut-off is '70s. The '80s brings the rise of the Millennial.

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The 80's were awesome. The 90's showed promise until there was a Leftist wave in the West, starting with the Clinton regime taking power

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Every generation has special and sacred relative moments of Culture and Technology that will never happen ever again, yet manage to capture the air of a previous peak in Being that seems to be lost -

and this is the equation we must solve people!

LETS HUSTLE!

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>best girl got her own anime during the 80s
Based obviously

Yeah, got a friend whose father had some kind of old american car, took a ride on it on the back seats and the thing was a fucking leather sofa, comfiest ride I ever had.

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Wow, no LED screens constantly clamoring for your attention... Quite comfy.

I graduated kindergarten in 1989. I watched the whole neon fashion fad, slap bracelets, American children Kung fu movies, robots that actually looked like sci-go robots that weren’t robots at all, music actually was catchy and easy to remember. We didn’t have Netflix and chill, we had blockbuster and fuck. Times were good, at least for me.

The 70s and 80s, with the late bloomer Generation X kids reaching young adulthood in the early to mid 1990s