Shoulder pads.

What else did people love in the 1980s?:lol:

Slasher movies
VHS
cable TV
MTV
Miami Vice

Well was in high school in the 80's (graduated in 86), so I know a lot about this subject....

Duran Duran
Back to the Future
Molly Ringwald
Big hair
Bright colors
High tops
Dark sunglasses
Slam Books
Dallas (The TV Show)

My list could go on and on but I'll have to think about it some more. I'll get back to you! Have to check my yearbooks !

Betamax

Schmoopie and Jim covered several good ones.

I'd add:
Going to the mall
Pastel colors
Not just sunglasses, but even songs about sunglasses ("I Gotta Wear Shades")
Hairspray
Mullets
Guess jeans
Breakdancing
Early rap
Nintendo
Ghetto blasters / boom boxes
Cassette tapes, and mixing songs on them
Parachute pants (very brief fad)
"Where's the Beef?" commercials
Cabbage Patch Dolls, for girls
Garbage Pail Kids cards, for boys
Valley speak
Denim jackets
Rubik's Cube (and other similar games (I still have a Rubik's Snake (https://www.rubiks.com/store/cubes/rubiks-snake))
"Not!" and "Psyche!"
Hubba Bubba bubble gum
Acting like you were going to shake someone's hand, and then smoothing your hair.
Tetherball
Video arcades
Inflatable palm trees
Skateboarding and roller skating
Nickelodeon

Teddy Ruxpin

The Disney Channel

Jimmy Carter

Leg warmers
Big earrings
Giant glasses
Fingerless gloves
Hair bands
Spandex
Izod shirts (the ones with the little alligator)
Fluorescent shoelaces
Velcro, especially on shoes

Neon

Nancy Wilson's left leg (a lot of :heart:)

Boat shoes and "preppy" clothes
Sayings like "Tennis Players Have Fuzzy Balls"
Jim Davis' Garfield comic strip

Synthesizers and keyboards according to musicians

Jimmy Carter? LOL. He was thrown out of office in 1980. And Ronald Reagan became one of the most popular presidents of all time.

I have major beef with Reagan for how he completely screwed up the AIDS crises in the 80's. :mad:

But as part of the very little kids of this decade, I have happy memories of...

Thundercats

Voltron

Nintendo - And the introduction of Super Mario Brothers

Simon the game

Briefly wearing different colored shoes to elementary school because of Punky Brewster

Every board game commercial where the kids are playing it and then the mother walks up and asks, "Can I play too?" And the kids would put their hands on their hips and say, "Mooooommmmm."

Connect Four

Twister

Pac-Man

Commodore 64 Computers with floppy discs - My favorite games were 'summer and winter Olympics,' 'Impossible Mission,' 'Wheel of Fortune.'

Apple II Computers at school and playing 'Oregon Trail.'

Showbiz Pizza, which eventually became Chuck E Cheese.

Happy Meal toys at McDonalds

Recording shows and cartoons with the VCR

The transition from Slip N Slide to Crocodile Mile

Max Headroom

Soldier Of Fortune magazine.

X-Men and GI Joe - top-selling comic book series from Marvel

Keytars

A combination of a keyboard and a guitar

Norinco and Polytech semi auto AKs from China
semi auto Uzis
Heckler and Koch firearms

The 80s were fun. I miss the 80s.

Pro wrestling while they might not have cared much for the WWF allot of people I knew loved the NWA.