The 80s Club

We’ve been borrowing my sister’s PS2 and her Dance Dance Revolution. The game has a pretty good mix of songs to “dance” to, some of them from our favorite decade. (The 80’s, in case a few of you are new here or just aren’t paying attention. ) A few of them even have the videos to go with them, including Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, and Lipps Inc.’s Funkytown.
Here’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun via YouTube. Annie Potts’s character of Iona in Pretty in Pink always reminds …read more

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I remember when the Rubik’s Cube came out and how unexcited I was to get and solve one. Seriously, it looked like absolutely no fun at all to me. My brother got one, and I think he was able to solve it, without even taking the stickers off and just replacing them. I tried it, I couldn’t get it, I didn’t care.
Now a new generation of kids, and an old generation of middle-aged people who still think they’re kids, can try to solve a new version of their favorite old game. Head on over to Hsien’s …read more

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I know, I know, you just have too much time on your hands, don’t you? You look at your week’s schedule and think, “Wow. I just don’t know what I’m going to do with myself this week. There are just tons and tons of big white spaces indicating huge blocks of time with which I don’t know what to do!”
Well, do I have the solution for you. The b5media forum arcade. Oh yes. What, you ask, is the b5media forum arcade? Thank you for asking. It is the most monumental time waster, …read more

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Have you seen these joystick games? I was so excited when walking through Target (I think it was) and saw the cute joystick with Ms. Pac-Man’s likeness pictured on it. I pointed it out to my friend and she said, “Oh yeah. I have a couple of games like that. All you do is plug it into your TV and there are several games that you can play.” Crazy. Apparenly, a few of my friends have these and are enjoying hours of 80’s reminiscence and fun and are not inviting me over to join …read more

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I mentioned earlier that I was going to be playing the Trivial Pursuit: Totally 80s game. Last weekend, I got my chance. I’ll tell you what, there’s a whole lot of useless information pertaining to the 80’s! More than I could have imagined. Yeah, I probably did better on it than I would have done playing the original Trivial Pursuit game, but still ended up feeling like an idiot when all was said and done.
I really thought I’d read somewhere that one of the game pieces was a Rubik’s Cube, but no. In fact, this …read more

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I can’t believe it! Trivial Pursuit 1980s is out. Yeah, now I’m feeling a bit old.
But check out the game pieces! A Trapper Keeper, Care Bear, a CD, and what looks like a TRS 80 (though I could be wrong there). Too fun!
Go here and you can even try out a few of the sample questions, as well as see some of your favorite 80’s celebs as they look today.
Thanks, Jack, for the heads up! Now, who’s up for a game?
BTW-One way you can tell you’re still stuck in the 80’s: You …read more

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Are you up for a little 80’s trivia? Head on over to VH1’s Online Arcade to test your 80’s Trivia memory. I seemed to retain more as the 80’s went on. Let me know how you do!
And don’tcha just love the joystick? Ahh…memories….of having to try to seperate it from my mother’s hands when she got addicted to Pac-Man….

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The year: 1985
The obsession: Duran Duran
The collection: a miscellaneous assortment of fan magazines, posters and music; and most impressively, a board game.

You read that right- there exists a Duran Duran board game, and I own it. My friends had more music albums than I did, and more posters; but I had the game. I felt pretty dedicated, let me tell you.

‘Into the Arena’ is a hard-to-find board game. You might be lucky and stumble upon a complete game on Ebay, or at a yard sale or used goods shop. Somehow I doubt it, …read more

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I got a spiffy new PlayStation 2 for my birthday last week, and the first game I ran out to purchase was Singstar 80s. Singstar, for those who don’t know, is the greastest game ever. Essentially, it’s a karaoke-style competition game where you and a few of your drunken friends get together and sing along with your favorite artists. You can read me going on and on about the game here and here and I think here, too.
Now, depending on your geographical location, the song choices are different. If you’re in the United States, for example, you …read more

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As an 80’s child, one of the games that left the biggest impression on me was the Leisure Suit Larry series. On my old XT with the EGA monitor as a 13 year old, Leisure Suit Larry was the naughtiest thing I’d ever done, and of course it was addictive. Back in those days the “reality” of the porn was nothing compared to some of the more recent reincarnations (the latest of which was banned in Australia). The goal was 222 points, and you did this by interacting at various levels.
From Wikipedia:
“The “Larry” games were one of Sierra’s most …read more

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