Dungeons and Dragons
By Julie Anderson It’s 1984. A little girl eavesdrops outside her older brother’s bedroom. Inside, he and three of his teenage friends are clustered around a card table littered with exotic dice, tiny metal figurines and complicated hand-drawn papers. She listens. They talk about “hit points” and “melee rounds” and the all-powerful “Dungeon Master.” They visit the “elemental plane.” They encounter a “water weird” and a “gray slime.”...
The Cootie Catcher – 80s Fortune Telling
Got a burning question you’ve just got to know the answer to like, Will I marry Scott Baio? Use a cootie catcher! It’s all the craze – or at least it was in 1982 when the Like Totally 80s crowd was in the 5th grade. But, don’t let Mrs. Asher catch you with it, or she’ll grab it up and you’ll have to make a whole new one . . . Sometimes called a fortune teller or scrunchie, cootie catchers were the arts...
MASH Game
The fortune-telling game of pre-teen girls in the 80s. Oh, the hours whiled away figuring out just who I’d marry, where we’d live, how many kids we’d have, the kind of car I’d drive and so on. Strangely, this game did not accurately predict that I would live in the South, have one child and drive a Nissan Murano (navy) and work on the Internet – oh well. They didn’t have Nissan Muranos in 1983...
Find Music & Games for an 80s Party
80s Party Songs Your best bet for a well rounded and totally gnarly 80s party mix is to get one of the very good 80s box sets that are available now. Like Totally 80s owns and can recommend whole-heartedly the Like, Omigod! (shown in the middle below) set put out by Rhino Records and the 80s Box series. We have included these great 80s music compilations below to purchase. If you have satellite radio, all you need to do is just tune...
