 March 27, 2010 - 2:42pm | I found this on another forum and thought it was pretty fun. ___________________________________ 1. If you could bring back one thing from the 80's what would it be? |
 March 27, 2010 - 4:35pm | 1. My 20 year old physique. 2. The Muppet Show 3. Full Metal Jacket 4. Discovering Pink Floyd with their album The Final Cut 5. The fashions (makes me gag just to think of it!) Looking at that list... I'm quite an eclectic fellow.  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong. * Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi |
 March 27, 2010 - 5:39pm | 1. The metabolism I had then. 2. Tough call. A-Team, Knight Rider, Airwolf, I'm not sure. 3. Top Gun. Not because it was especially great, but it influenced a lot of decisions I made later on. 4. Discovering country music. 5. Being a teenager. "Rome didn't build an empire by having meetings. They did it by killing those who stood in their way." |
 March 27, 2010 - 6:56pm | 1. My friends that I lost touch with. Family that was lost. The care free joys of not worrying about things. 2. Wow alot. Dr. Who,V,Night Court,Simon and Simon, Tales from the darkside, Galaxy Rangers ( the short lived live action and cartoon), Saturday morning Cartoons: Dungeons and dragons, Mighty Orbots, Star Blaizers, Spidey and friends, Thundar the barbarin,Then Anime took over my world in 88. 3. Tough one tie, Evil Dead and return of the living dead for personal enjoyment. Red Dawn, the day After for scaring the hell out of me with reality. 4. ELO's Time album, after getting a copy of the Daicon vid I was hooked. 5. Dealing with racial riots in Jr high and high School. Losing my Grandfather and Uncle. Gold is for the mistress-silver for the maid-copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.But Iron-Cold Iron- is master of them all |
 March 28, 2010 - 4:26pm | 1. Bring back my youth. 2. Battlestar Galactica and reruns of Star Trek. 3. Wrath of Kahn!!!!! Actually any even numbered star trek movie (the odd numbered one were either cheesy or stunk) Madd Max Beyond Thunder Dome- lot of fun but I could never find a copy of Gamma World and made do with Car Wars 4. Favorite musical momment- when MTV finally stopped playing Michael Jackson's Thriller video 25,000 times a day!!!!!!! 5. Worst thing about the '80s? Pimples and hair cuts from my father. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 28, 2010 - 5:15pm | 1. Having time to devote to gaming like I did then. 2. Thundarr the Barbarian, D&D, Flash Gordon (filmation) 3. Hellraiser, Empire Strikes Back, Wrath of Khan 4. Discovering Ministry 5. Being stationed in Jersey |
 March 29, 2010 - 2:29pm | I don't remember too much from the 80's any more. I might remember some of the stuff but have no real memory of it happening in the 80's. In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same. |
 March 30, 2010 - 11:39am | wait, wait, wait... WAIT!! when did we leave the 80's?   |
March 30, 2010 - 8:21pm | I feel that way about the 90's, working three jobs and little sleep did it for me, but I got my student loans and bills paid off. Gold is for the mistress-silver for the maid-copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.But Iron-Cold Iron- is master of them all |
 March 31, 2010 - 3:53pm | 1. Chris Eschbach (The guy who taught me and my brothers roleplaying and who died "cleaning his gun" in his army baracks). 4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (Though Slayer's Sacred Reich was just as phenominal). 5. Every ounce of fashion and car design. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
March 31, 2010 - 3:53pm | wait, wait, wait... WAIT!! when did we leave the 80's? ROFL! Classic.  View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
March 31, 2010 - 4:26pm | 5. Every ounce of fashion and car design. Gotta agree on the cars. Even the Corvette ended up looking like a sub-compact. Fortunately it was offset with a slew of awesome motorcycles...I'd love to go back in time and buy a brand new 84 Harley FXST (first softail/first EVO motor), an 85 Yamaha V-Max (V4 musclebike, high tens in the ¼mile out of the crate), or an 89 VFR750 RC-30 (limited street legal track bike based on the Interceptor that was winning every race back then). And I'd also pick up a 1980 priced copy or two of Action Comics #1...they were actually affordable back then and a little more readily available. |
March 31, 2010 - 4:49pm | And I'd also pick up a 1980 priced copy or two of Action Comics #1...they were actually affordable back then and a little more readily available. Hah! I'd make sure to not lend my first edition Frank Miller graphic novel, "The Dark Knight Returns" so some knuckle head who didn't return it. Actually I'd make sure to buy 2 copies of all four issues in the series. What a great story! I loved every panel of it from the Jokers final act to the show down between Batman and Superman and the serious can of whoop A-- that got handed out! that was a classic. and a president that strangely looked like Reagan! I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
March 31, 2010 - 8:03pm | Of course the problem with going back in time --- you can't bring your Y2K+ dated currency with you to buy anything  |
March 31, 2010 - 8:31pm | Of course the problem with going back in time --- you can't bring your Y2K+ dated currency with you to buy anything True but that is why you bring along the formula for transparent aluminium! I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 April 1, 2010 - 7:44pm | 1. Dunno about retrieving my teenaged body, it wasn't too great back then, either. I think I'd want the time I had to play games, and the friends nearby. I graduated high school in '86, and college in '90. 2. TV show: A Team is the first one to pop to mind, but I think I might rather have Miami Vice. I spent a lot of Friday nights gaming with the TV on NBC-- Miami Vice, Hunter, V and/or Friday Night Videos. (We had cable, but not in our gaming room). 3. Movie- Top Gun pops to mind first, but the Star Treks 2-3-4 fit pretty well, too. 4. Musical moment-- just about all of MTV, when they played music? 5. Worst thing about the '80s? Well, they ended, and I had to be a grown-up. And I was a lot shy back then. Something I'd like to have be able to go back and do-- one of my neighbors now, whom I hooked into gaming about 4 years ago, went to the all-girls' school just down the street from my (all-boys) high school. She's told me if someone had invited her to partake in our geeky hobbies, she would have tried it. That could have so many results, I wish it could have happened.  Second bit: There's also this guy who has a nifty blog on Star Trek RPgaming (http://groknard.blogspot.com)-- he was lamenting the few ST gamers in Columbus. I said roughly the same thing about my Columbus crew. It turns out we were at the same high school, just 2 years apart! |
 April 2, 2010 - 12:33pm | 1. My teenage freedom from worldly responsibilities. Almost every weekend was started with a Friday movie night and sleep over (we never slept) at my house with gaming through to Saturday night. I also miss the breadth of innovation in computers. Every computer company was exploring different computer architectures. 2. I really miss Amazing Stories. Each episode was like a present to be opened, you never knew what you were going to get. I also miss having a real music video station. We had a UHF music video station called Vusic 21 that played music videos 24 hours a day. It was like a radio station on TV with VJ's in the place of DJ's, call in requests, the works. 3. Wrath of Khan has stood the test of time. I also watched Electric Dreams a lot back then. 4. I wasn't a music guy back then, nor much now. I like music, but never get "into" it. Though I did watch Electric Dreams so much because of the theme song. There were other popular songs I got stuck on as well. 5. Seizing the engine on my VW Beetle right after rebuilding it with my Dad. I really liked the 80's so I'm at a loss here. -iggy |
April 2, 2010 - 2:55pm | Vusic --- we had that out here as well, KRLR-21 |
 April 10, 2010 - 12:18pm | 1. 80's chicks! 2. That's a toughie; I pretty much dropped TV in the 80's. Maybe Family Ties... 3. Dune. 4. All of it. I love 80's music (at least, up until about 1986...) 5. Hair metal. Long live the Frontier! |
April 11, 2010 - 3:04pm | 1. 80's chicks! 2. That's a toughie; I pretty much dropped TV in the 80's. Maybe Family Ties... Based on your answer to #1, #2 should be easy: 20 Minute Workout I just can't explain my fascination with that show, why I had to wake up in the wee morning hours to see it every day. I mean, it was just some gals exercising... |
April 12, 2010 - 2:55pm | Perhaps it was the continuous croch and cleavage shots, or maybe it was just the hot sweaty women in erotic poses.  View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
April 12, 2010 - 8:57pm | Oh, that's EXACTLY what it was: the execution of camera work. That film crew simply perfected the art of using the zoom lens! |
April 14, 2010 - 7:33pm | I'm glad you aren't talking about Richard Simmons |
April 14, 2010 - 9:24pm | Oh, well thanks for ruining that moment! |
April 14, 2010 - 10:11pm | OO, OU, EE, That takes me back to the 70's. -iggy |
April 15, 2010 - 2:42pm | Ban Bilygote, Shadow! That was entirely uncalled for. Might as well have referenced circulartory system man! View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
April 15, 2010 - 6:03pm | Slim Goodbody! It took me 10 minutes to remember that name. Boy, that takes me back... "Rome didn't build an empire by having meetings. They did it by killing those who stood in their way." |
April 15, 2010 - 6:12pm | Let's just say Richard Simmons from the 80s could have been something of a contender to Michael Jackson's wierdness from the 90s! |
April 15, 2010 - 8:14pm | Let's just say Richard Simmons from the 80s could have been something of a contender to Michael Jackson's wierdness from the 90s! Who're you kidding- its 2010 and he's still weird as wacked. and like the king MJ is coming back like a zombie from his thriller video- only a matter of time before elvis and a zombie MJ are seen leaving the building. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
April 16, 2010 - 9:03am | Ya know THEY all live secretly in Beverly Hills having drunk some secret potion that makes them immortal. Just don't put any holes in them. -iggy |
