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My brother had a massive comic book collection—I'm talking thousands of comics. At some point, his collection got so big that my parents dedicated an entire room in the house just for storing it all. I used to spend hours in that room, skimming through different comics, getting to know all the superheroes and their stories, and drooling over the ads for all the things I wanted but knew my parents wouldn't buy me. Every video game, every bicycle, every toy , and every candy—I wanted it all, but…

I miss arcades! And I'm talking about those real 80s arcades , where you would just have video game cabinets, waiting for you to drop a quarter in and start playing. And as long as you were good, as long as you were winning - you could just keep playing on the same quarter. Me and my brother used to go every day after school to our local arcade and spend hours there, playing "After burner" "Double Dragon" Operation Wolf" and "Metal Slug". But our jam was "Golden Axe". We got so good at Golden A…

This is a story from my childhood that is so classic 1980s it could have easily been a scene from a Rob Reiner movie. One day my friends and I were riding our bikes around our neighborhood (as one does during that decade). Since we lived in a fairly rural area, we came across two fields and decided to investigate a little closer. These were both pepper fields, one had all red peppers and one had all green. We really wanted to eat some but we didn't know what kind of peppers they were. I confide…

My mom was a really good cook, she would make us mouth watering meals on a daily basis and I was always excited when she would call us to come and eat. But since I was growing up during the 80s, every now and then she would see a strange new recipe in the paper or in some weird cookbook and she would decide to make us stuff like ‘Chicken wings in cola’ or “Tuna and olive pasta” and we would collectively smile and eat quietly, trying not to hurt her feelings, but she could tell. For some reason…

We did a lot of things “for the last time” without even realizing it. We had our last visit to Blockbuster , picked our last movie, and it wasn’t some big occasion—we just stopped going after that. We had our last LAN party with friends without knowing it at the time (that one really hurts). We also ate and drank things for the last time without realizing they’d disappear from store shelves, and we rode our bikes to our friends’ houses for the last time without giving it a second thought . We l…

Everyone thinks that their family is the most awkward , and everyone has the photos to prove it—which leads me to just one conclusion: Everyone's family is equally awkward and takes equally awkward photos. Let me get philosophical for a moment and ask, "What is a family?" and then quickly answer—just a collection of people who would never in a million years think about spending all their time together but somehow are required to. What's really funny is that the bigger the family, the more awkwa…

We know that sometimes you feel really old while talking about your childhood during the 1990s ; you feel like the younger generations are looking at you in the same way that you looked at older people talking about the 1940s when you were a child. But there's one huge difference - your childhood was awesome! You see, back in the early 20th century life kinda sucked; everyone was poor, there was no entertainment and you had to boil your food before you ate it. However, the late 20th century was…

I miss arcades! And I'm talking about those real 80s arcades , where you would just have video game cabinets, waiting for you to drop a quarter in and start playing. And as long as you were good, as long as you were winning - you could just keep playing on the same quarter. Me and my brother used to go every day after school to our local arcade and spend hours there, playing "After burner" "Double Dragon" Operation Wolf" and "Metal Slug". But our jam was "Golden Axe". We got so good at Golden A…

This is a story from my childhood that is so classic 1980s it could have easily been a scene from a Rob Reiner movie. One day my friends and I were riding our bikes around our neighborhood (as one does during that decade). Since we lived in a fairly rural area, we came across two fields and decided to investigate a little closer. These were both pepper fields, one had all red peppers and one had all green. We really wanted to eat some but we didn't know what kind of peppers they were. I confide…

As a parent today I am doing all I can to provide my kids with the most comfortable, safest and accident free childhood I can. For some reason I have decided that that is the best childhood I can give them. But when I look back at my own childhood, it was as far removed from that as possible - It wasn't safe, it wasn't comfortable and it absolutely wasn't accident-free. Yet it still was a very happy and fulfilling childhood, and I wouldn't change anything about it. I used to get hurt A LOT; I b…

It's 1984, I'm 8 years old , and my parents have pulled out all the stops for my birthday party. We've got Funyuns, Kool-Aid in every flavor, and a spaceship-shaped cake. But the real surprise is a guy dressed as Bugs Bunny, meant to be the highlight of the day . When he appeared, I felt my excitement turn to dread. This wasn’t the Bugs Bunny I knew from TV. The costume was horrifying—matted fur, lopsided eyes, and a creepy smile that sent shivers down my spine. And then he spoke, not in Bugs’…

I'm not saying that GenX is the best generation , I'm just saying we could kick any other generation's collective a$$. We were (and still are) the most resilient, toughest, no-nonsense generation this world has ever seen. We were left to raise ourselves, and we spent most of our childhood doing things that would make your hair stand on end. These is an entire horror sub genre of 80s kids on bikes going to places they shouldn't be in and doing stuff that would make the devil do a double take. Yo…

32 Nostalgic Magic Eye Images from Our Childhood

Today I was trying to help my 10-year-old find a good movie to watch on TV, and we came across " Gremlins ." I instinctively told him that this movie was too scary for him, and we went on and picked "Inside Out" instead. And as we watched it, I suddenly realized that I was only 8 years old when Gremlins came out, and I remember me and my friends going by ourselves to the cinema and having an absolute blast watching it. Was it scary back then? sure! but what's wrong with being scared while watch…

We didn't know how good we had it back in the 80s and 90s . Looking back, it seems like every year back then was a banger. Timeless classics would hit cinema one after the other and we would go and see them all! and once home video came around there was no stopping us! huge piles of VHS tapes stacked on top of each other, each containing some of the best, most imaginative movies that cinema goers had ever seen. It truly was a golden age of cinema and we were there at the right time and at the r…