World tradegy strikes when Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up. The Rubik’s cube craze was running at full steam. See here for more details. The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, launches. Charles, Prince of Wales decides to take a bride – Lady Diana Spencer or ‘Lady Di’. 16 years later […]
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Blonde Jokes of the 80s and links to even more
Blonde jokes of the 80s Click for Google +1 Blonde jokes, formed the last chapter of an 80s phenomenon – themed joke telling. As shown in the Baby Jokes section of this site, themed jokes were quite a peculiar trait of this decade. Depending on your country, Baby jokes started the decade, but Blonde […]
Academy Award winners by year
Click for Google +1 The Academy Award winners by year for the 80s presents an interesting list. While there are around 20 award categories in total, here are the big three: Best film, Best actor in a leading role and Best actress in a leading role. Each year the Oscars are presented as the official […]
Bomb Jack – tips and history of a classic 80s video game
Click for Google +1 Bomb Jack was released in 1984 by Tehkan. It looks a cross between Centipede and Joust. Your objective is to clear the screen of all the bombs. This is done by hopping over the screen with the controller. A longer press of the jump button will send you about three-quarters of […]
Moon Patrol – tips, download, history of a classic 80s video game
Moon Patrol – tips and history Click for Google +1 Moon Patrol was released in 1982 by Irem (whose other notable game was 10 Yard Fight). Despite the fashionable 80s colours, it was not too successful but it does have a few devoted fans. The main frustration with the game was generally little variety, […]