You Know You're A True Child of the 80s When... 

I never took the stickers off of my Rubik's Cube ... I prized it open with a screwdriver and put it back together. lol

This video could have been an hour long with all the great stuff from the 80's. Loved it.

We had the BBC Micro Computer, my family. I wasn’t really interested in computers, but now I collect old 1980s computer books for nostalgia.

Being a child of the 60s, this just proves I didn't grow up until I was 30.

The most 80s cereal - Start, as eaten by Steve Cram

the 80's is the absolute best decade for pop music.!!!!!

I was 15 in 1980, but this all still applied to me. What a joy this is. Thanks, Stu. 😊

I fancy a bit of arctic role now.

I'm a true 80's kid too and it's rubbed off onto my grown up children. Their favourite films are the Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller as I've watched them over and over again. My son is at uni studying a degree in music - his band played songs from Live Aid a few months ago - he even bought vintage stonewashed jeans to wear on stage 🤣. The 80's were the best ❣

Schools never closed due to snow in the 1980s. The only time the local school closed during the 1980s was after the Great Storm of 1987.

Yes to every single one of those, I did watch E.T. for the first time on pirate video it was like watching a snow globe in an earthquake

First ever computer we had was a Commodore my mom bought it out of the catalogue xx

Love everything 80s been 80s night just recently and wore all the clothes had a banging night grew up in my teenage years during 80s had the best time ever great music great food great holidays x

best decade ever

Remember getting the ZX Spectrum plus as the first ever computer to play games on, and i always woke up in the morning to play a football game. Loved going out with friends in the evening knowing there wasn't going to be problems because there were police on the Streets in my area.

I’ve been listening to it and it takes me straight back to the 1980s - who remembers It’s All Right by Sterling Void? (1987), also covered by the Pet Shop Boys. I bet nobody remembers that song, but it is a timeless masterpiece, still sounding as great now in 2024, as it did in 1987 when it was released.

Another great decade thanks Stu. Acorn on the computers, a poor man's BBC.

I was in my 30s in the 1980s, but still loved this video. Happy memories! We were Team Commodore in our house. 😊

80s was the best

Great video love watching these brings back so many memories especially the shandy bass and candy cigarettes great memories and also wasn't our price a record store as well

100% nailed it

Team Spectrum all the way. Didnt drink shandy bass but drank Top Deck. 110% agree re the Woolies Xmas ad, it signalled xmas was coming. Daley Thompson killed keyboards and joysticks.

Brilliant!! love it!! i'm a true 80's kid.

Yup, I’m an 80’s kid

Team Commodore!

I think that you have just about hit my youth on the head. Fantastic video today loved it all so many memories

I used to finish school at 3.20 and run home for sons and daughters for 3.30 😅

I still do the shake n vac dance

Lol really enjoyed that. Great stuff. I still do the shake & vac now 😅

Bit of a mix between 70's and 80's

The final qualifier is if you ever wore odd fluorescent socks! :D

I still use and collect walkmans and videotapes.

Hahahaha.... I watched Jacko's "Thriller" video after a night out in "Rotter's" nighclub in Liverpool (it was after all "The hot-shot nightspot that's got the lot") as I'm slightly ashamed to say I was 15/16 years old when I first went in there (being over 6ft as a young lad, and after putting on a deep voice to get in of course) ... I'd got mum to stay up to record it on the Ferguson Videostar when it was first played late night on the telly (obviously I'd not "copped off" that night !!!). I actually now live just around the corner from where "Big Daddy" (Shirley Crabtree) lived in Southport... though obviously in the 80s I never knew that would come to pass. And I was one of the poorer kids... I actually started on the "ZX81" (don't even get me started about the instablility of the 16k "rampak" !!!) before moving onto the Speccy with games cassettes from "down the local market", later after getting my first wages moving onto buying legit games from WH Smiths big store on Church st Liverpool.... but my two best mates both had commodore 64s. Grrrrrr. Christmas began when mum brought the 2 week Christmas editions of the "TV times" and "Radio Times" home, racing through the listings to plan out what we were all going to watch. I was too much of a "bigman" for the "Beano" and "Dandy" and instead read "Warlord" & "Battle" comics (and those fantastic mini "commando" books)... though the REALLY "bigmen" used to read 2000AD. Smiles and happy memories all the way through another of your vids Stu... Thanks once again.

@stuviewtv 👍every single one 100%(except climbing in the car window like the dukes of hazard) I still sing the shake and vac song now as a 52 Yr old bloke🤣🤣 Great trip back to more simpler and more entertaining times and it's got to be the zx spectrum 48k over the commodore 64 for me. Cheers that was awesome ✌️

I preferred Top Deck to Shandy Bass. Really loved the Limeade and Lager one.

Okay, some of that was the 70s. I grew up in NZ and only moved to the UK in '86 but I remember watching Big Daddy and Haystack although I thought it was in the 70s on a late Saturday afternoon on my grandparent's telly in NZ. I do know that my cousin had an Apricot computer (still does in fact and it still works) and he had a flight simulator on it at the end of the 80s. I discovered Arctic Roll in 1986 and it was love at first taste, still is. Harder to find but still my favourite dessert by miles. We had Dukes of Hazard in NZ and I think Sons and Daughters as well but it was on well before school was out from memory. My brother had a Spectrum which he hooked up to the telly to play games on and I even remember we had the shake'n'vac add as well (ye Gods, bringing back the memories) and while we didn't have the Woollies adverts I did recognise the Goodies in there. I remember bully as well, watching that at my grandparents in the evening (I lived with them when I first moved back to the UK) and the other one, my favourite, was 3 2 1 with Dusty Bin. I was never a Michael Jackson fan, I preferred Andy Steward and Val Doonican (weird I know) who were on the telly in the afternoons (must watch if I was home ill from school or work) and I definitely remember both the pencil and cassette tapes as well as people not rewinding the videos from the rental shop. I also worked in a nightclub at the end of the 80s and I remember all the dance music, yes you could dance to it in those days which you can't with the modern stuff. Thank you for the memories both from the start of the 80s in NZ and the end of the 80s in the UK, it was a great decade (as was the 70s for that matter, remember that one as well) and I don't think the films or the shows on the telly have improved over the years since then. I still enjoy watching many of the shows and films from that era, great stuff.

I used to have a huge crush on the shake n' vac woman 😮☺️🤭😳

I was team Spectrum, but some years later got a C64 as well. Still have both somewhere.

I can remember playing ZX Spectrum games and talking to all my friends on CB radio. It was a great time to be around in. Love these videos.

Talking of record shops. I recall the first album I bought because I wanted it was Geoff Love's Super Hero Themes LP (Superman etc), for £1.75 in Tesco when it had the Delaware Branding. That came out in 1979 (I googled it ;) ) So, it probably hits the theme of the video.

Team Commodore. To be honest I am not British & don't remember spector or the name of sweeties/lollies before their name change. We didn't have an Atarti however my parents bought one when they thought their reflexes were slowing down. Came for a visit to hear my mother swear for the first time in my life. "Move over. Your reflexes are too blood* slow". Thanks for the laugh 😂🇦🇺😊🩷

I wasn't either team spectrum or team commodore, I had a Dragon 32 - that was a good computer

I still don't know who shot J.R. But i could get the wrappers off Opal Fruits, got a packet of Starburst the other day and had to use a knife to unwrap each chew, they weld them on now.

Brings back so many memories being a 80s child I’m now in my 40s

More simple to exist back then.

I was 8 when the 80's started and yes i watched until the end, do You still get into cars by going through the window 🤔 if so plod wants a word or 2 with you 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Flashback joy! Every one i did,watched and ate,specturm for me and i loved the free gifts in the beno,oh no ive got shake a vac song in my head lol great vid stu and remember...dont cross the streams

Wow! Are you clairvoyant? I was just wondering what had happened to you this afternoon....great to see you again!

I grew up in the 80’s. I couldn’t wait to get home from school and sit glued to the telly for three hours watching my favourite kids telly. Friday’s was a bag of pick n mix and a comic which kept me happy over the weekend. I’d visit my grandparents in Birmingham and then visit the localWoolworths for the pic n mix and maybe buy some Lego our a board game to play with my relatives. I didn’t have a game console, so I loved visiting my mates homes and playing on the Commodore or Atari. And I loved watching 80’s sci-fi movies, my all time favourite being Back to the Future, must have watched that about 50 times since. Good times.

Team Atari! (400 and then 800XL, followed by the ST).

Loved this ❤️ made me smile thinking of all the happy memories 😊

Excellent!!!

1:57, 🙄 too true 2:22 Team Atari 3:23 and when you recognise the stars in the Woolworth Christmas adverts 4:47 nope... we weren't soft back then, and snowball fights at lunchtime

All but one of these on here was 100% true of me. i never would have believed I was so stereotypical lol. My hairspray was called Falcon extra hold hahahaha

Brilliant video (as always)!

Lovely video

Stu if you’re ever in Dagenham let me know there’s always a pint waiting for you here

Had a Dragon 64 instead of Spectrum or Commodore and being Scottish instead of Beano or Dandy it was The Broons or Oor Wullie 😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Roland rat saving TVAM and broadcasting Transformers for the first time on British TV

I can honestly say I matched up with every single entry on the list - oh and it had to be team SPECTRUM!! (but did end up with a Commodore Amiga when it all went 16bit)

team zx spectrum 48k all the way. small rubber key keyboard one. 🙂

Another wonderful trip down memory lane ... can remember this all SO clearly ... thanks Stu ... a tonic to watch

By 1981 I had left school (I was not quite 16). Prior to 1982 we only had the BBC and ITV and the viewing figures were still like 13-20 million. The 80’s on TV and films were great entertainment. ❤️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😗👍

Well considering i was born in '73 and British...All of these! (oh, and obviously speccy FTW!) P.s C4's opening night was great, it had Walter (1982) on (starring Ian McKellen as a man with learning difficulties...Truly harrowing)

Fabulous and to have lived it was great. Thanks for posting.

Spectrum, Atari and Commodores??? We had none of those. We had a Binatone and hand me down Ker-Plunk and Buckaroo Banzai.

Johny 5, he's alive 😀

I was an 80's teenager, so a lot of what was mentioned rings true, to a point. There's obviously going to be some discrepancies involved, though. I don't remember ever watching any pirated videos, apart from one, but I won't mention that, as this is a family orientated channel! I remember rushing home from school to watch the opening of Channel 4, due to the sheer novelty of having an extra channel to watch. It lasted until the news came on at 7pm. I never regretted watching the first few hours, though. I don't think I ever had an artic roll, never mind put it at the top of the list as favourite. I started off with a ZX81, (but having got to use a Spectrum of a friend's at the time), soon changed ship and got into the ViC-20 and 64, due to the proper keyboard and sound that came out of the TV speaker, rather than some tiny noise out of the bottom of the computer case. As a teenager, my brew of choice was Carling Black Label, but soon grew out of it. Although, prior to being old enough to drink, I would think Barbican, (which was one of those non-alcoholic lagers), gained a bit of popularity, in that it made you feel a bit more grown-up, drinking it. I would add Andy's Records to the list of record shops that were often frequented during the 80's. Boots had a surprisingly good selection of LPs for what was a shop that primarily a pharmacist, (not all of them, I know), and sold mostly household items. WH Smiths was the one for computer magazines. Woolworth's Christmas ads were different in that they were considerable longer than the usual 15 of 30 seconds allotted. I think they filled in the entire 3 minutes of an advertising break, from what I remember. Only in the early 80's, though. I think they stopped doing them after about '83. I do remember watching, 'Sons & Daughters', but not when broadcast. I would never get home from school in time to see it, as it was scheduled at 3.30pm, (I think), and school didn't kick out till 3.45. Instead, I had the luxury of watching it later on in the evening, thanks to it having been recorded on what was then a new fangled, top-loading, rented video recorder, using the tape that came with it, which must have had at least a 1000 recordings over the first hour or so of the tape, bar the odd occasion when you forget to rewind it at the end of the night. That particular show ran on ITV from about '83 to '87, and was one of the Aussie soaps that started off the craze for them that lasted into the 90's. 'Neighbours', being the one everyone remembers. Not to mention Prisoner: Cell Block H! The, 'Shake And Vac', advert was another very early 80's, even late 70's, thing. It gained popularity for a short while. I was far too interested in the groovy, often quirky music that accompanied the test card to really care too much about it. Although, by the 80's, they opted to show, 'pages from Ceefax', rather than the static picture of Carole playing noughts and crosses with Bubbles, her clown doll. It's true enough to say that the 80's was a decade I remember with a certain degree of fondness. Although, nostalgia does play a role in it, as it wasn't all sunshine and roses.

still waiting for a reference to my hero ''boon'' , michael elphick , otherwise thank yo for the nostalgy...from belgium, west-flanders where we could watch bbc and itv ...

You're a true 80s child if you still can't understand how anyone could possibly want to STRAIGHTEN their hair.

Be kind, rewind.

What is the tune at the end? I love it.

Interesting comparing UK '80s to US '80s Over here, Snickers and Starburst have ALWAYS been Snickers and Starburst..lol

Wasn't there a record shop called 'Our Price' (or something like that) which had a short lived existence around the mid 80's?

Stu... were you born in 1970? All anecdotes resound with me.

My choice of computers were the Sinclair ZX81 followed by the Amstrad CpC 464 and spent the best part of an hour waiting for a game to load then 5 minutes to go you get loading error please try again

Remember most of these but hated the 80s especially the music. Definitley a 70s child when things werent taken so serious. Plus the music was much better