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Alien Ship Lands on Voyager 2 Record, by Bruce Bond (1981?)
Young space cadets in the 1980s learned about space exploration in Odyssey Magazine, very difficult to find today on the secondary market. This cover image for their August 1981 issue tied in to the issue’s Voyager spacecraft Nasa launched in 1977, in the hopes that an alien species will discover it and decode its messages inside. This is a depiction of such a possible encounter.
Car Wars: The Original 16 Cars (1980)
Steve Jackson Games introduced its Mad Max style board game with RPG elements, called Car Wars, in 1980, which puts players on the road with armored, armed vehicles. The game included sixteen unidentified cardboard counters. Initially, they were to represent any vehicle. As the world and backstory developed, however, they all acquired names. Here is an annotated list of the original 16 Car Wars vehicles, for those who needed help identifying them.
Car Wars can be purchased at http://sjgames.com, or more directly at http://www.warehouse23.com/products/car-wars-classic-2
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Spuds McKenzie Ad (1986)
Budweiser ran an extensive ad campaign through the second half of the decade featuring Spuds McKenzie, the original party animal- literally. Like Sean Penn in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Spuds characterized the party attitude of the decade, where we was seen living life, often surrounded by revelers, including beautiful women. However, this male character was portrayed in print and television advertising by a female dog!
This ad features one of the more popular slogans associated with Spuds McKenzie: “He’s the guru of good times!”
Spuds McKenzie, or his ghost, returned to a Bud Light ad which made its debut at Superbowl LI on February 5th, 2017. Longtime fans were excited to see his return, while the younger generation sat puzzled, not knowing who he was or why he was significant.
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Designation of Martin Luther King Day as a National Holiday (1983)
February is Black History Month. In January, 1986, Martin Luther King Day was first celebrated as an official American National Holiday, celebrated on the third Monday in January. Before that, President Ronald Reagan signed the measure into law on November 2nd, 1983, designating the holiday. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., an outspoken but peaceful equal rights advocate, was born on January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated for his beliefs on April 4th, 1968, but his legacy and dream will live on forever in the hearts of freedom-loving people everywhere. Before it was a national holiday 1986, millions everywhere unofficially honored the Reverend King on or around his birthday every year.
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MicroRave Cakes by Betty Crocker (1987)
Microwave ovens were one of the technological rages of the 1980 today’s generation take for granted. We slowly discovered that some products weren’t made for microwave cooking. Eggs, for instance. And cake. Fortunately, food companies found ways to make impossible-to-microwave foods reality. Among them was Betty Crocker who gave us the MicroRave cake in 1987.
The MicroRave cake came in four flavors and baked in the microwave in only four minutes. They weren’t the same as an oven-backed cake, but were reasonably well-textured and had a taste close to Betty Crocker’s “box cakes”. Still, the novelty of microwaving anything that could be baked subsided as people preferred to do their baking in conventional ovens. Apparently a good cake is worth the wait, and there wasn’t a desire to improve on confection perfection.
Here is a magazine ad promoting the line of MicroRave cakes.
Betty Crocker’s official web site is
http://bettycrocker.com
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Swatch Blue Jet GS104 Watch (1989)
Swatch Watch company struck gold with the popularity of its designer wind-up watches midway through the decade. Their color schemes and designs were always on the cutting edge. This numberless watch picked up the Nike property and emblazoned its trademark name at the 9 o’clock hour. This is from the 1989 Fall/Winter collection. It is water-resistant to 100 feet.
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Donkey Kong Cartridge for the Atari Computer Series (1983)
This is the cartridge for use with Atari 400/800/XL and XE series computers. What was unique about this home edition of Donkey Kong was that it was the only version released in the whole decade that featured all four board styles.
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Original Transformers: The Movie Poster (1986)
Today, August 8th, 2016, is the 30th anniversary of the release of Transformers: The Movie. People who respect the series consider this the one and only Transformers movie, disregarding the horrible live action “Transformers” films by Michael Bay.
Something unusual about its release date is that it is a Wednesday, and not a Friday. This unusual release day prevented many theaters from carrying the movie, and it was not successful at the box office. However, it has a cult following which grows with each new generation of fans.
The movie sported an all-star cast, including:
Judd Nelson
Eric Idle
Robert Stack
Lionel Stander
Leonard Nimoy
Orson Welles (his final film)
In addition were some big names among the series’ regular voice talent: Susan Blu, Casey Kasem, and Scatman Corothers.
The story takes place in 2005, twenty years after the events in season 2. Season 3 resumed after the events in the movie,
The soundtrack was composed by Vince DiCola, noted for the soundtrack to Rocky IV. Also featured were Stan Bush’s now famous anthem “(You’ve Got) The Touch, not to be confused with the song with the exact same title, parentheses and all, by country-western contemporaries Alabama. Several underground hair metal bands, who invaded the second half of the decade, were also showcased. And of course, it was all spiced up with “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Dare to Be Stupid. It helps that “Weird Al” was on CBS’ Scotti Bros. record label in the 1980s, the same company that released the soundtrack.
The movie saw the death of Optimus Prime and several other season 1 Autobots: Brawn, Prowl, Ratchet, Ironhide, Wheeljack, Windcharger, and Huffer (implied), and also Decepticon Starscream. Other Decepticons cheated death: Megatron, Skywarp, Thundercracker and various Insecticon clones became Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, and his huntsmen, The Sweeps. Many third-wave characters were introduced, other than the new Decepticons: Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, Springer, Arcee, Ultra Magnus, Wheelie, Wreck-Gar and his tribe of Junkions, various Sharkticons and assorted natives of planet Quintessa, Citizens of Lithone, including Arblus and Kranix, and the monster planet Unicron. We also saw a new cassette for Soundwave: Ratbat, and Blaster gets some as well: Rewind, Eject, Ramhorn and Steeljaw. Let’s not forget that Hot Rod realizes his full potential as Rodimus Prime! And yet an awesome story complete with the giant robots, ship-to-ship combat, and heroic acts was also squeezed in!
Happy 30th anniversary, Transformers: The Movie.
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The Original Snausage Commercial (1984)
Snausages were introduced in the mid-1980s, featuring a snickering tawny dog who would name the new snack. Accompanying the introduction of Snausages to the world was an animated 30-second commercial. A few stills are featured here. The advertisement was a huge hit. People were compelled to mimic the dog, repeating, “Snausges” in his distinctive low voice. Not everyone had a VCR at the time, so viewers often would be on a lookout for the ad during the commercial segments.
Snausages looked and felt good enough for human consumption, and it’s certain a few of these canine treats were sampled by some of the 1980s’ dog owners.
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President Ronald Reagan’s Chest X-Ray Negative (1981)
In the 1980s, when we weren’t ashamed of our presidents, history was made on 30 March 1981. A deranged madman, John Hinkley, Jr., attempted to assassinate recently-inaugurated President Ronald Reagan to impress actress Jodi Foster, with whom he was infatuated. This occured outside the Washington, DC Hilton hotel as Reagan was leaving. Secret Service agents protected him, but he took a bullet to his lung nonetheless. Agent Timothy McCarthy was also shot while serving as Reagan’s bodyguard. James Brady, another agent, was injured, and led to the Brady Law, restricting the 2nd Amendment. Another unexploded bullet was lodged dangerously close to his heart, after ricocheting off of the Presidential limo. He was rushed to the hospital where he went unconscious, but still keeping with the light-hearted humor he was known for, even under duress, he quipped to the surgeons, “I hope you’re all Republicans.”
Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush was sworn in as president until Reagan was capable of resuming office capably. Due to a misunderstanding, Secretary of State Haig assumed he was president until Bush returned to the White House.
After a successful surgery to remove the bullet and a 12-day hospital stay, Reagan resumed his duties as president, and fully served two prosperous terms in office. Hinkley was deemed criminially insane and committed to an insane asylum.
This chest X-Ray is an integral piece of 1980s history.
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$100,000 Bar Wrapper (1980)
Nestle’s crisp rice & caramel candy, the $100 Grand Bar, was originally called the $100,000 bar. In the mid-1980s it underwent the name change. Here is the wrapper as it appeared in the first half of the decade, before the change. This wrapper was how it appeared in 1980, after an upgrade this year from its 1970s look.
The official web site for the $100 Grand Bar is http://www.nestleusa.com/Brands/Chocolate/100-Grand
This scanned wrapper is preserved for history courtesy of, and is the copywritten work of Jason Liebig, curator of the online museum Collecting Candy. The museum features images from his personal collection of over 6,000 historic candy wrappers and a wealth of historical information pertaining to them.
The official web site for Collecting Candy is
http://collectingcandy.com
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Madballs- Oculus Orbus (1985)
One of the forerunners of the “gross-out” trend of the second half of the 1980s, American Greetings’ subsidiary AmToy released a line of baseball-sized creepy characters called Madballs, beginning in 1985. Oculus Orbus was a member of the first wave of 8 Madballs. He resembles a giant sentient eye.
The Madballs were popular enough in the 1980s to have their own comic and video game.
American Greetings still holds the license to the property and you can visit the official site maintained by AGKidZone of American Greetings Corporation at http://madballs.com
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Devo: Oh,No! It’sDevo (1982)
Devo’s fifth studio album was produced by Roy Thomas Baker. The band was at its most melodic and colorful with its synthesizers at this point. Their innovative music videos paved the way for the MTV standard. In 1985, “Weird Al” Yankovic recorded a style parody of Devo’s music titled “Dare To Be Stupid”. The song closely resembles Devo’s sound from this era.
The white ellipses around their necks are called spudrings. The spud theme is pervasive throughout Devo’s mythos, a metaphor for people without any mre individuality than a common potato.
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The Rubik’s Cube (1980)
We open casually with something everyone recognizes: the Rubik’s Cube. Invented by Hungarian math professor Erno Rubik, it was originally not a puzzle, but a teaching aid to his students in the mid 1970s. Purchased by the defunct toy company Ideal, it became the biggest-selling puzzle in history. The original TV ad touted, “Over 3 billion combinations, but just one solution”. That was an understatement: there are over 43 quintillion possible positions on a Rubik’s cube.
For the two people in the world who don’t know the concept: the object is to deftly turn the Cube’s movable axises so that each side is one solid color. The Rubik’s cube inspired a generation... no... generations of imitators, knock-offs, and inspired 3D puzzles, and continues to captivate people to this day.
You can purchase your own Rubik’s Cube by visiting http://winning-moves.com
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First Post
Like, Welcome to ALL 1980s! This site is totally dedicated to everything rad about the greatest decade, from January 1st, 1980 to December 31st, 1989! We will take an excursion to a simpler, more enlightened, mega-bulk time! So get on your shoulder pads as we relive, or experience for the first time, the decade of fun throughout movies, music, TV, politics, news events, magazines, video games, advertisements, products, technology, obscuriana, and everything else 1980s!
In addition, we’ll view things from more recent decades, trying to make themselves cooler by imitating or being like the awesome ‘80s! Totally tubular!
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