Fans have long devoted cult-like followings to 80s films like Xanadu, Krull, and The Princess Bride. There are so many classic 80s movies that there can’t help but be a few gems overlooked by fandom. So if you’re a fan in search of a new hobby, you could reverse phone lookup every phone number that’s ever called you. Or, you could devote your efforts to raising the banner for these well-known films that have never quite developed the level of fandom that they deserve. Read more »
I think that in most western countries that Saturday mornings was and is for cartoons. As a child of the 80′s a part of the nostalgia for me is remembering the cartoons I used to watch on TV. We had only two channels back then and it was in Spanish, but cartoons are cartoons. Today I still check TV scheduling to see if Boomerang is showing cartoons from the 80′s, I love watching them again especially when feeling nostalgic or having nothing to do. I can’t appreciate modern cartoons nor the modernizations of older cartoons with newer technique and drawings so I never watch them. Here follows an infographic with Read more »
Has it ever happened to you that you thought ‘Whoa this is actually cool but how can I admit that it is to anyone?’. Yes? Great, because I’m really struggling with split feelings for this one. The problem’s simple: it involves a man known from things such as this. Or this and more recently this even. Here at FG we prefer to remember him for his awesome in Knight Rider though. K.I.T.T.’s awesomeness we mean, pardon the lapsus linguae. If this were the early 80s, we would probably all want to look like this and things could always have been worse. So before you go ahead and judge me, keep Read more »
Topps, the company famous for their baseball cards, released in 1983 a series of awesome “Video Arcade Gum’. The boxes were shaped like video arcade games. If these were still available they would be on the shelves among the Pockies, Wispas and Pot Noodles in the indie coffeeshop I _also_ manage. Via Jason Liebig who does an awesome job archiving pictures 80s packages on his Flickr. Read more »
In the 80s we have some great action figures…and sometimes they had great cartoons to go along with them. Transformers, He-Man, G.I. Joe, Voltron and Thundercats come to mind as some of the best, or most memorable at least, of the 80s action cartoons. Then there were the rest…some featured celebrities, some were thinly veiled knock offs of other successful shows…others were just plain crap. After careful consideration, and knowing full well that there this list could spark a debate that could burn as eternally as the Springfield tire fire, I present to you…the 10 Worst 80s Action Cartoons. 10. Dinosaucers Anthropomorphic Dinosaurs that can “Dinovolve” into regular looking Dinosaurs?!? Read more »
