Give Your Inner Child a Nostalgic Trip With These 32 Snapshots From the 1980s

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 Axe that we would play all the way to the final boss on the same coin, while a group of kids would form around us, waiting for their turn but at the same time cheering on and shouting (useless) tips. Somehow I would always die at the last boss at least once. I don't know if he was really that hard or if I would just get nervous, But I was never able to complete the entire game on one coin.

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"Ocean Pacific"

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To go with the OP shirt

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This seems perfectly reasonable

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"We all still cut up our plastic rings to save the dolphins and turtles, right?"

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80s Playgrounds: Where only the strong survived!

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This one made you hit every bar on the way down

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This one made you puke and fly off

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This one made you fight your friends for dominance

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This one would hit you in the chin

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This one would burn you

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It somehow tasted better when it came in this container

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They turned down buying Netflix and died

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They changed the flavor, didn't they?

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Probably the worst candy I have ever tried

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"Before the internet, we had...the woods!"

Today this would be considered a drug den

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I never got this as a kid :(

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This was a thing?! I want it!

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One of the first robots ever - The HERO 1

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I miss slamming a phone on someone

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This setup is amazing

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21
Oh wow

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Pitfall was the second game I ever played (The first was pong)

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Kids today just aren't that cool

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24
This is like a GenX test

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I would usually go to sleep with Pink Floyd

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Perfect afternoon

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27
Sit UBU sit *woof* Good Dog

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"That moment the teacher rolled this into the classroom"

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Great Album!

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"Sorry guys… weekend is over"

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Back when there were basically 4 video games to choose from

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What, Me Worry?

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