Name: Fighting Fantasy Publisher: Puffin (now Wizard Books) Year: 1982 Country of origin: UK Category: Books, Comics, Mags Notes: These roleplay books were very popular in the 80s and it was the Fighting Fantasy ones that were the big guns. Written by the co-founders of…
Name: Pencil Toppers – Star Wars Manufacturer: Unknown Year: 1983 Country of origin: USA Category: Toys & Games Tags: Star Wars Notes: I used to love licensed stationery when I was in school. Sharpeners, erasers, rulers and particularly pencil toppers. These Star Wars ones were…
Name: WarGames Year: 1983 Studio: MGM/UA, United International Pictures Director: John Badham Country of origin: USA Category: Movies Notes: WarGames is my all-time favourite movie. I just love the sense of excitement there was at the time around getting online and the very basic early…
Song: John Parr – St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion) Album: John Parr Year: 1985 Label: Atlantic Country of origin: USA Category: Music Notes: This is probably in my Top 10 songs that bring back 80s nostalgia when I listen to them. Such a good…
Name: Cobra Made by: Ocean Software Ltd Year: 1986 Country of origin: UK Category: Video Games Tags: Ocean, Cobra Links: World of Spectrum – Cobra Notes: Great film and a great video game to go along with it. Quite a fun game with cartoony graphics…
Name: Show Beam Manufacturer: View-Master Year: 1980 Country of origin: USA Category: Toys & Games Tags: View-Master Notes: I never had one of these but I always loved staying overnight with my friends who did have one. We used to stay up having midnight snacks…
Name: Marbles Category: Toys & Games Notes: One of the classic playground games. We use to play this in the dirt flowerbeds in our primary school. You’d bring in your bag of marbles and make up various rules for basically how much you can hit…
Name: Waterfuls Manufacturer: Tomy Year: Mid/late 70s Country of origin: USA Category: Toys & Games Tags: Tomy Notes: There were loads of these Tomy Waterful games out from the second half of the 70s and then well into the 80s. This blue whale one was…
Name: Videomaster ColourScore Manufacturer: Videomaster Year: 1977 Country of origin: UK Category: Computer Hardware Tags: Pong Notes: This video game system (the actual one in this picture) is the very first one that we had in our household when I was a kid. It was…
Song: Queen – Radio Ga Ga Album: The Works, Greatest Hits II Year: 1984 Label: EMI / Capital Country of origin: UK Category: Music Tags: Queen Notes: This is one of the main songs that totally takes me back to my childhood. The opening few…