20 Things Only Nerds Will Remember About The 1980s

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20 Things Only Nerds Will Remember About The 1980s
Prepare for a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s with this video made for all the nerds out there! We're diving into 20 things and aspects of '80s life that only true nerds will remember. From iconic movies and TV shows to classic video games and tech gadgets, join us as we celebrate the nerdy side of the '80s and all its quirky, geeky goodness!
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Apple Lisa
1:38 Vectrex Arcade System
2:46 Max Headroom
3:55 Laser Disc
5:08 The Adventure Games
6:15 BBC Micro
7:20 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
8:24 The Oregon Trail
9:27 Speak & Spell
10:42 The BBS
11:46 Colecovision
12:49 Quantum Leap
13:51 The Sinclair ZX Spectrum
14:54 Garbage Pail Kids
15:59 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
17:02 The Handheld Electronic Game Revolution
18:00 The Rise of the Graphic Novel
19:03 HyperCard
20:11 MIDI
21:14 Halley's Comet Last Perihelion

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@mikesol1162 8 дней назад

When I think of computers of the 1980s, I don't think of the freaking Lisa. I think of the Commodore 64.

@KimPossibleShockwave 5 дней назад

1990's too, even when IBM clones were rising in popularity. I was in the single digits in the 90's and we had a C64 before we got a x386 with Windows 3.1, heh.

@winstonslone2797 5 дней назад

I always think of the IBM PC when an 80s computer comes to mind. You could buy a few IBM computers for the price of one Lisa

@jgsimonian 4 дня назад

There was a “Ford vs. Chevy” mentality with Commodore vs. Atari. I was in the Atari camp; I had the Atari 400 and then 800 and then the Atari ST. They seemed to fall apart after that. I do remember the BBS’s…good times! Eventually I switched to DOS and then Windows, until I bought my first Mac. Now I’m mainly in the Apple “eco-system.”

@michaelarighi5268 2 дня назад

In the early '70s, in grad school, I had used an IBM mainframe that took up most of a building. A 360/65 that had put us on the moon a few years previous. It had 64K of "scratchpad" (RAM) memory. When I found, in the early '80s, that I could get a C64 for ~$250, with the same amount of memory and it took less space on my desk than my typewriter, I was sold. Switched over to a 486 and Windows 3.1 in about 1992. Got disgusted with Micro$oft's consumer-hostile attitude by the end of the decade, then started running early Linux on a Pentium in 2003 and never looked back. (Current system is an Intel I-5/13th gen with Debian 12 and more RAM than my first 120 Mb hard disk).

@winstonslone2797 2 дня назад

@@michaelarighi5268 nice, I wish I could of lived then. I'm only 42 but been into computers since I was 5.

@reinatycoon3644 9 дней назад

Some things I remember of the 80's was that there were barely any AI art or synthetic voices like in this video and many other YT vids these days.

@80s_Gamr 10 дней назад

I have two Vectrex consoles now. One of them is my original from 1982.

@psciotto 13 дней назад

Only nerds will remember GI Joe? One of the most popular toy lines and cartoons of the decade?

@BigFunnyGiant 10 дней назад

Obviously. That’s clickbait.

@psciotto 9 дней назад

@@BigFunnyGiant ya think?

@barbaric3547 8 дней назад

Knowing is half the battle.

@psciotto 8 дней назад

Yo Joe!

@jimmicrackhead12 2 дня назад

This video is made for wanna be nerds

@KeritechElectronics 11 дней назад

"VECTREX: Preferable to its predecessors, superior to its successors." Nice video. As a nerd born in 1986 in Poland, I experienced some of his stuff only in the '90s when it became available after the COCOM embargo went down. People were fascinated with Western pop culture and tech, after long decades of being cut off and under Soviet influence. He-Man, G.I.Joe and - to some extent - 8 bit computers like C64, ZX Spectrum or Atari became a thing, later on almost entirely replaced with PCs. No Oregon Trail here, and Laserdisc never really took off apart from some real enthusiasts, because at the time it could reach the Polish masses, VHS was gaining traction for a good reason: the ability to record TV shows to watch later. Cassette rental shops boomed and we had one literally under our window. Handheld games made in the USSR were somewhat popular, they've become collectibles that can insanely go up in prices on secondhand markets.

@DavidAllen682 13 дней назад

my first job when I left school in 83 was repairing and upgrading ZX Spectrums

@DeltaSol3 9 дней назад

Damn, that was a great start in the industry

@simonochana3189 13 дней назад

Sorry to correct you about the BBC Microcomputer, but in the UK 🇬🇧, the BBC Model B retailed for £399.99, unsure about it’s cheaper version the BBC Model A, think it was £299.99, but had some features removed. Looked identical to the model B and could also be upgraded to the model B. The budget Option was the Acorn Electron, priced at £199.99.

@seraphinberktold7087 11 дней назад

The ZX Spectrum in its original form had a worldwide influence which is widely unknown. Preceding the Commodore 64 by roughly half a year in 1982 it was a rather simple computer featuring a Z80 CPU, some RAM and no special chips. Well, the ULA exists but this chip only wraps up some circuitry and thus can be replaced, the Leningrad board does just that IIRC. With its huge software library and simple to reproduce hardware the ZX Spectrum spawned a lot of clones around the world, especially in Eastern Europe. More than 100 clones exist(ed) and the impact of the ZX Spectrum on the home computing world can hardly be exaggerated. Only those North Americans may never have heared about it due to poor market entry strategies. Say hello to Timex.

@airspeedmph 13 дней назад

I know now about most of them, but don't actually remember them from back then. I didn't had the chance, I was on the other side of the iron curtain. I wish I wasn't. So many many fascinating things to experience as a young person.

@JesperSP 13 дней назад

you completely left out commodore 64 and amiga ;)

@marcusfridh8489 12 дней назад

And the allways overshadowed C Vic-20

@UndercoverScambaiter 10 дней назад

Yes I came here to say the same thing. The C64 is the best selling model of all time. How can it be left out?

@kurisu7885 10 дней назад

Only been a nerd since the 1980s, since I was born in the mid 80s

@marcusfridh8489 12 дней назад

Why wont anyone give some love for the C Vic-20, i had one and i loved it. Totally overshadowed by the C-64, and often forgotten in nostagia reviews and retrospections

@6581punk 9 дней назад

William Shatner even did the advert for it.

@Agnarian 9 дней назад

The vic-20 was the one you messed around with at KMart not own! I kid!

@tarstarkusz 6 дней назад

I had one. I even bought it myself saving up money mowing lawns and the like. Luckily I was able to talk my parents into buying me a 64.

@alysdexia 4 дня назад

write properly

@MGForums 3 дня назад

The Commodore 16 too :)

@retrogametech1626 8 дней назад

The mister fpga is a great way of checking out those great consoles and computers of the 1980’s and 1990’s

@bubblegumgun3292 9 дней назад

Max Headroom original Giga Chad

@JamieStuff 3 дня назад

When those "expensive" $30 Laserdisc movies first came out, movies on VHS/Beta were selling for $100. (Which is why nearly every little town had at least one video rental store.)

@jackgilchrist 13 дней назад

Well, you covered two iconic British computers of the '80s. Would've been nice had you thrown in the Commodore 64 for us Americans. I'd never even heard of a BBC Micro or ZX Spectrum back then. Probably also should have covered the Mac, which did far better than the Lisa. I think maybe 3 or 4 people bought a Lisa.

@Joreel 13 дней назад

The Commodore and the TRS80 here in the US. The TRS80 came out in 1977 or 1978 if I remember correctly.

@davidstone1293 13 дней назад

TRS80 came first but was more accepted in schools as a “real” computer for education. I remember them being both in my high-school and my university. The Commodore 64 was one of the iconic home computers here in the US.

@bryanobrien2726 11 дней назад

Hence the title of the video . They're supposed to be obscure things though near half are pretty mainstream and not just for nerds .

@sorphin 7 дней назад

Never had a C64, had an Atari 800XL. Honestly in the 80s growing up, never heard of (or knew anyone who had) Commodore stuff. Still have never messed with a C64. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Different things for different people.

@bryanobrien2726 7 дней назад

@@sorphin I had an Atari 400 and later a Commodore 64 . My high school used Commodore 64s and 128s in the computer labs .

@VulcanOnWheels 10 дней назад

9:20 I had one of those. 13:45 I remember when our school had a PC and a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Everyone wanted to use the PC because it was hard to enter BASIC commands into the other one. 17:00 I've had one of those. Someone had an accident with the one he borrowed from me, so... I don't really remember if he bought a new one for me or offered to pay for one of my choosing. Be that as it may, I ended up having another one with solar cells.

@JKVisFX 7 дней назад

Oh man, did that take me back. I did a lot of work in Hypercard back then, mostly multimedia card stacks. Remember the first, full-color, 3D rendered CD-ROM game, Myst? That was authored in Hypercard. The had to do a lot of work to get that game to fit and play on one CD. MIDI is something I use to this day extensively. Only now, except for a MIDI keyboard controller, Arturia's, Keylab 49, my entire studio: music creation, audio mixing, video editing, 2d and 3d graphics and animation, are all virtual, all of it is "inside the box." Software packages that I use on a regular basis include: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects; Modo, Cinema4D, and Maya; DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro; Logic Pro, and Ableton Live; plus a whole lot of additional apps in the form of plugins for the main apps along with numerous large sound FX and sampled instument libraries. To think where we are now vs. 40+ years ago in terms of computing capabilities, it really boggles the mind sometimes.

@Dlf212 10 дней назад

Put the price of the Lisa in an inflation calculator, $10k in 1980 would be 38-39k today, 1989 would be 25-26k today. Sheesh.

@6581punk 9 дней назад

That and the fact the machine was a little slow to run its software was why it kinda failed. The Mac was a pretty stupid solution though. I'd moved from a 8 colour computer to a 4096 colour computer in 1987 while the Mac was mono.

@yntenseinfo 10 дней назад

i'm from 2000s but I do remember these things

@troyh3628 3 дня назад

Even among the nerds, no one had a Lisa. My dad was the biggest nerd you would find, but nope, he got a TI-99/4A with every single bell and whistle it came with. Yep, I could play PARSEC with the voice, "Press fire to begin".

@rcash3625 10 дней назад

I had a vectrex I miss that thing. It was ancient by the time I had got it when I was like 7 or 8. I was born in 89

@dongeraci8599 10 дней назад

I wasn't a nerd but I remember all of this stuff. oh..... wait....

@JRod-zr8qk 4 дня назад

All this tech....How we were so amazed back then with every advancement .Now we're so numb to it the wow factor is practically gone.Maybe that's why old school gaming and arcades made a come back. We needed to take a step back to retro gaming,too simpler days.

@JustMyFish 7 дней назад

I remember most of this stuff because I'm 55 years old I'm not a Nerd just have a brain where memories are stored. 1980s, is not that long ago.

@martin1b 11 дней назад

BBSs were amazing. Definitely a precursor to the internet. Community was really great. Like the Coleco, but prefer the trash 80. Still have both.

@tarstarkusz 6 дней назад

I have a Colecovision as well. The library has grown greatly. It's probably 3 times the original size when Coleco discontinued it. There are at least 100 new games for it. The only problem is they are generally in limited runs and so it's hard to get them, at least in cartridge format. But you can also get a everdrive type SD based cartridge. Much of the modern stuff is way better than anything released back in the day.

@alysdexia 4 дня назад

The internet is older than BBS.

@martin1b 4 дня назад

@@alysdexia yes technically. But we didn't have access to it then

@UKCougar 16 часов назад

By "the Internet" you probably mean "the web." I'm signed into a BBS right now.

@martin1b 16 часов назад

@@UKCougar yeah, that would be more accurate. What type of bbs? WWIV, Telegard, wildcat?

@josephwisniewski3673 13 дней назад

Apple Lisa, $9,995 in 1983 money is $32,000 today. And people think Vision Pro is elitist, lol.

@epobirs 9 дней назад

Apple has always been very pricey. One of the reasons my first machine was an Atari 800 was the steep cost of entry for the Apples.

@alysdexia 4 дня назад

@@epobirsApple hasn’t: eMac, iMac, iBook, Mac Mini, iPod nano/shuffle/Touch, iPad, iPhone SE, Mac mini, iPad mini 6 (last two for $100 off from resale)

@glennso47 12 дней назад

Someone hacked into two Chicago tv stations with an image of Max Headroom and interrupting the regular programming.

@JLAvey 13 дней назад

I wish I would have known about the Vectrex back when I was buying consoles (tower of power, 3DO, Jaguar) for under a hundred dollars each including shipping. I would have bought it.

@kh7955 13 дней назад

Good for you!

@jackgilchrist 13 дней назад

The Vectrex goes for a lot more than that now. I regularly see them at $500 in well used condition without any carts. I think I'm about ready to sell mine.

@tarstarkusz 6 дней назад

The beeb is responsible for the ARM architecture. In some way, every person in the world now owns a beeb.

@UKCougar 16 часов назад

Well, yes and no. Acorn are responsible for both.

@tarstarkusz 16 часов назад

@@UKCougar Acorn is the company that created the beeb.

@MarcKloos 13 дней назад

Sinclair Zee Ex ????!!! I have a mini museum at home with dozens of Spectrum versions and clones.

@jackgilchrist 13 дней назад

Very cool. I'd do the same with Commodores if I had the wherewithal.

@6581punk 9 дней назад

Zed Ex of course. I've got a ZX81, Spectrum 48k, Spectrum Plus, 128k (toast rack), two +2s, a QL and a Spectrum Next.

@CDP-1802 9 дней назад

British people will spend 20 minutes explaining why it's important to pronounce ZX the way the Sinclair designers intended then in the same breath say "Zed 80" 🤣

@6581punk 9 дней назад

Yep, I remember most of those. But some of them were very much a US phenomenon. You can add "choose your own adventure books" to that list.

@tarstarkusz 6 дней назад

6:35 The Spectrum is responsible for British programmers from that era. The Beeb had almost no sales outside of the schools.

@MarcKloos 13 дней назад

Clearly you didn't have any BBS footage to accompany your video...

@veganmeatballsareyoukiddingme 12 дней назад

And there's definitely bbs footage out there

@Joreel 13 дней назад

You forgor Elf Quest with came out in 1978 as the first Graphic novels. They preceeded the Marvel and DC graphic novels with came out later.

@flaircraft 13 дней назад

I spent as much time with Cutter, Leetah and Skywise as I did with Oregon Trail :)

@JamesJones-zt2yx 13 дней назад

Aw, shucks. I was hoping you'd say "Now you know about GI Joe...and knowing is half the battle!"

@jonathanwiliams4993 2 дня назад

OMG Vetrek i forgot about this!

@tarstarkusz 6 дней назад

I own 3 vectrexes. But I can tell you it was not high priced. An Atari 2600 was 200 bucks too and required a TV. The Colecovision was 169, a much better deal than the 2600. The 5200 was $269

@natesalomonsky7994 14 часов назад

very enjoyable thank you!

@memorysurge 11 часов назад

Make sure to subscribe :)

@ChozoSR388 13 дней назад

You forgot that Quantum Leap spawned a sequel series. It's currently on its second season, I believe

@Joreel 13 дней назад

It was cancelled 🥺

@epobirs 9 дней назад

A bit odd the emphasis given to home computers that were nearly unknown outside of the UK. I worked in game development in the US and most of my co-workers only knew of the BBC systems because of the import magazines I had around. We had UK distribution for our C-64 games but never heard any requests for licensing a port to BBC or Spectrum by local devs.

@GeekCulture101 3 дня назад

I remember most of these. But then I was born in 83

@leonardvicari2857 5 дней назад

I remember the Atari video game in 1980s and the empire strikes back figures

@tarstarkusz 6 дней назад

Apple learned the wrong lessons from the LISA failure. They hobbled the Macintosh extremely by only installing 128k. It should have had a megabyte, 512 at the least. Every single review complained about the price and what you got. Even DOS PCs had more RAM at the time. The Mac needed at least 512k preferable a megabyte.

@UKCougar 16 часов назад

Those screenshots from Mystery House are from two different games. The in-game footage is from an Apple ][ game by a company who would later become Sierra On-Line. The title screen is a wholly unrelated Japanese game from a couple of years later. #80sNerd

@jameslocke1416 4 дня назад

One thing you left out was the correct pronunciation of Halley’s comet.

@lesliegibson5964 11 дней назад

I love your videos can you do one on the complete of consoles and computers as well as handhelds

@JustMyFish 7 дней назад

Colecovision is the 1960s Intellivision 1980s to 1988 They relaunched it in the 1990s under the name Colourvision but it flopped.

@NightSprinter 11 дней назад

MIDI not only was for music, later down the years, even things like stage lighting and even OBS Studio can be controlled via MIDI.

@epobirs 9 дней назад

It was also used as a very basic network on the Atari ST line, where it was built-in. This notably lead to Midi Maze, the first networked first person shooter. This was later ported to the Super Nintendo as Faceball 2000, though without support for more than two players in split screen.

@luisreyes1963 7 дней назад

There's a new version of The Oregon Trail for iOS? I'll be damned. Now if they only made remastered versions of those Zork games. 🤓

@theotakux5959 13 дней назад

I own two laserdiscs and no laserdisc player. And a beta player but no beta tapes.

@jackgilchrist 13 дней назад

My parents bought a couple of laserdiscs back in the day, with the idea they'd eventually get a player when they came down in price. They never got the player.

@avolow 5 дней назад

Fire your sound editor. The dialog is so low you cant hear it without cranking it up only to be deafened by the bumpers between each item on the list.

@onkelhiphop 13 дней назад

I just realized that I’m a nerd

@ThomasWinders 3 дня назад

DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs today? in 2024? Really? I'm not touching a plastic disc since... I don't even remember: the last time was 10-15 years ago...

@Scarflix 10 дней назад

Nice video and channel. Make sure you normalize the volume levels before posting. That volume spike during the garbage pail kids introduction scared the f*** out of me

@dodgydruid 10 дней назад

I was both a nerd and a pretty well known hooligan back in the eighties, was quite a competent coder back in the day and I started gaming in the 70's and fixed my first computer in the last year of the 70's, in between all of that I worked down my uncles scrapyard and decided school wasn't for me then one thing led to another and the powers that be decided my delinquency could not be tolerated any more so they locked me up til 3 months after my 16th birthday and I did 3 years hard... I was actually in 84 on the telly when UK's Channel 4 did a documentary on how 'orrible I was back then and no one could work me out as I had brains but also a lot o' brawn and a gypsy's one shot punch that saw me barred from the local boxing clubs so I turned my sights on joining one of the Millwall firms and got me jollies that way instead hehe Funny thing was, if any of me mates ever found out back then about my computers and gaming they would have flayed me alive...

@Krendall2 7 дней назад

I have a rather powerful gaming PC, and it was less than a 1/5 the price of the Apple Lisa.

@lecrapface5270 10 дней назад

You forgot to normalize the audio

@memorysurge 10 дней назад

what do you mean?

@MGForums 3 дня назад

Zee X sounds so strange. Zed X sounds much better. 😛

@21372745 6 дней назад

I wish I could go back to the 1980s I’m sick of this era we are living in today 😢😡😡😡😡

@alysdexia 3 дня назад

All novels are grafic.

@tortysoft 11 дней назад

Is there a UK version of this? :-)

@jimb4090 13 часов назад

The 80s were a far better place than the present shitpile.

@kh7955 13 дней назад

These comments are hilarious. "Aw shucks" and " i wouldve bought it for sure" made me cringe and laugh..Thank you

@glennso47 12 дней назад

A local supermarket has a display of sweet corn and a trash can for disposing of the husks. The can has a sign that says “Aw Shucks!” 😅

@glennso47 12 дней назад

A speech synthesizer sorta like the one who is narrating the video.

@Dark_eVader 11 дней назад

Too many things left out and how in the world is GI Joe a nerd thing? For that matter, why the heck include BBC micro or the Sinclair Spectrum when they were not even known in most of the world except for British enthusiasts? Also, the proper pronunciation of Halley's Comet sounds similar to Valley and not Daily. Tsk tsk.

@wesleyrodgers886 21 час назад

We was poor. No msmory.

@bigd5090 7 дней назад

The Mac was an awful overpriced and black and white joke whareas the Commidore Amiga was amazing multimedia machine!

@jeffsmith9305 13 дней назад

you are pretty wrong about the lisa.. total failure, Macs were already on the way, and it is of the worst selling computers, ever. apple IIe/c had far more impact, including hundreds of times more sales

@mash2481 9 дней назад

Facts

@AKCFTW 9 дней назад

Yeah, this channel doesn’t seem to know what it’s talking about.

@tessie7e777 3 дня назад

Very true. Never even heard of the Lisa. My first job was programming an Apple IIe to operate an auto-dilution system for a researcher at the USDA. Then I wrote my first resumes on a MAC in college.

@backfandangoX 9 дней назад

you know what was awesome? TV/VHS zapper games like the toy line Captain Power

@michaelmcclintick9541 8 дней назад

Transformers

@TheRetroEngine 13 дней назад

Nice content especially the text adventure segment, but can't help thinking this is AI generated.

@memorysurge 13 дней назад

I don't use AI for my videos

@TheRetroEngine 13 дней назад

@@memorysurge cool. I wanted to see what the reply was. I do like them though

@alysdexia 4 дня назад

not nice < niais < nescius := not-skilled but you are

@dragon1011dk 13 дней назад

I hate this VIDEO ! ! ! Damn, I feel ancient !

@davinp 14 дней назад

The Oregan Trail is also on Android, so don't just focus on Apple

@fr33kSh0w2012 13 дней назад

Androids were NOT a thing back in the 80's

@davinp 13 дней назад

@@fr33kSh0w2012 I know, he mentioned iOS

@Nikademus1969 13 дней назад

Ummmm...Apple started as a personal computer, in the late 70s and throughout the 80s. The Apple you know today did not start really coming into being until Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late 90s.

@ChozoSR388 13 дней назад

This is retro computing. The developer of Android was likely still in diapers when The Oregon Trail first launched on Apple. So was I, actually, in 1985. Hard to believe, though, that Oregon Trail was already 14 years old at that time...came out in '71, originally...

@rockfresh5359 10 дней назад

Calling smart people nerds make people wanna be stupid 😂😂😅

@DeltaSol3 9 дней назад

I remember sneaking out through my bedroom window at 2am and walking 3 miles to watch "Enter the Dragon" on laser disk at a random dude's house. @08:00 can it spell 80085. ZX (ZedX) Spectrum was my first ever so called PC. It was such a pleasure copying code from a magazine and spending the next few week trying to re-write it as the "syntex error" often spoiled the fun