Maybe I've been watching to much Back to the Future lately, but let's say you were allowed a few days to go back to 1982, and you were allowed to do and take some things back with you. What would they be?
The first thing I would do was get my hands on a good VCR, not Beta, and TV and tape as much stuff as I could. Particularly Saturday mornings!
Look up some friends in their formative stages.
Got to as many driveins as I could find and watch some classic films.
Anyway, it could be any time in the 80's, stuff that was taken for granted.
Posted by ERIC 31 (Member # 1793) on :
I think I would just take myself and my guitar. I would find my dumb 16 year old self and have a long talk about what to do and not do (Do well in school. Leave all those fake friends alone). Then I would give that guitar to myself with a few instructions on how to play.
A VCR would be good so I could tape hours of MTV when it was actually good and ran videos 95% of the time.
Posted by paulshrimpton (Member # 1022) on :
I'd take back the sheet music to all the great songs that made fortunes for their composers from, say, '83 onwards, patent the lyrics, and then when I got back, start up a gazillion lawsuits. Oh, and the results of all major sporting events between then and now. Posted by Belauan (Member # 1862) on :
I'll tape all those good movies, eat lots of junk...and do those crazy teenagers stuff that today you get sued for it...ha..ha
Posted by turbo84 (Member # 1874) on :
I would save guitar legend Randy Rhoad's Life. I'd keep him from getting on that airplane.
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
Josh Brolin.
Posted by jlp937 (Member # 1877) on :
I think that I would go back to the early 80's and have fun dressing like a punk rocker or a groupie or something. I would love to be a fly on the wall while "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club" and "Clue" were being made.
Posted by love80's (Member # 1878) on :
I would look at more movies, tape even more movies, dance and dance to great tunes...basically do it all over again with more gusto
Posted by Eddie Wilson (Member # 169) on :
quote:Originally posted by turbo84: I would save guitar legend Randy Rhoad's Life. I'd keep him from getting on that airplane.
You are absolutely rigt turbo. Being how I am a guitar player, Randy Rhoads is one of my favs.
My dream would be to go back in 82 and play in a band with guitar solos a plenty. You just don't hear enough guitar solos these days. Mark my words, when I start playing in a band here pretty soon, I will do my best to bring back the guitar solo. If anyone cares, I should have my music website up soon.
Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I would first stop at 1985 and have myself not rip up all the Mark McGwire rookies that I did, yes, this is true, they were USA cards and I deemed them useless, I ripped about 40 of them up.
Break out the tissues.
In 1982, I would keep and collect all the LP's of the artists that thought they were going to be something and didn't make it.
We are DEVO
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Ripped up Mac rookies? Ouch, that's gotta hurt. I think it would be wise to go to every garage sale and look for old sports cards, before the boom happened. Getting some Microsoft and Apple stocks wouldn't hurt either. But taping short lived sitcoms lie it's your move, day by day, Fast Times, ferris Bueller, and a lot of hard to find TV movies would be ideal as well. Plus, play a hell of a lot of Pacman and Centipede!
Posted by eightiesdude (Member # 752) on :
Hmm...
Well in 82 I was hangin out at the local bowling alley playing the arcade games Dig Dug, Joust, Zaxxon, and especially Robotron which all of these came out in 82.
I was either obsessed with finding a way to A. Either ride my bike to another arcade or B. Trying to get a ride to one.
So I guess I would go and do that again. I ate a lot of pizza and ate mcdonalds when it actually still tasted like something. A big mac today is not the big mac of yesteryear those were incredible and bigger in size.
Taping vhs shows yes that would be a must. Getting stock sure why not. But I think I would be a bit sad knowing this isnt going to last and I would find a way of just staying there. In 82 I was a sophmore in high school. Just able to drive. Most definitely i would find my current g/f and go with her to this years and next year Us festival in California. To this day i still regret I couldnt attend.
Now what to do if I run into myself. hmm run? or just have a man to man? hehe this is fun to think about. What would I say to myself? Now i got lots to think about... Well I think I would say live it up these are very special years you are living in.
Posted by retrohpink (Member # 1832) on :
I wouldn't take anything back. I'de stay there.
hm actually that would be weird because if that happened my mom would be like my age? hm.. weird
Posted by isis9968 (Member # 1780) on :
In 1982- I was in 8th grade. That was a fun year for me! But you know what, I have gone back to that year and brought things home with me, it is actually possible. I have brought the Dig Dug marquee and Frogger Marquee's back, and they are on my wall in my game room, I have a Return of the Jedi full size arcade game, but I am not sure of the year- I have a Donkey Kong casino slot Machine. Thank god for Ebay. I have alot of the old tv shows- especially Isis-but that's-70's. I am trying to start a collection of all the coleco tabletop arcade games. I have games from then- The Mad Magazine Card game, and I still have a Rubik's cube. I loved Dig Dug-it's my favorite game, it's cool that it is on Playstation!! I loved going to our arcade, you got soft serve ice cream there- all you could eat for .25! You lived there. I was a flag twirler that year,I would like to go twirl my flagpole in a parade again! I had my first boyfriend that year, we never even held hands, but he wrote notes to me, and we had half coins, remember those????? Those were the it thing for couples, and he did carve my name in a tree. I remember talking to him on the phone, and he always had to go when Little House on the Prairie came on. I remember that was when boys started wanting to sit by me on the bus at camp, or they would let me wear their ballcap or flannelshirt, and I thought I was so cool. I have kept quit a few clothing items of boys from that time period- bandanas, and football jerseys, I am a memento freak, and love reminiscing about how much fun that was!
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Did you own Hungry Hungry hippo! Forgot about that game.
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