Lite-Brite: An 80s Toy Lover’s Dream
The Lite-Brite may as well be one of the greatest toy creations ever. Everything about the Lite-Brite exemplified what it meant to be a kid in the 80s. It was so popular it even topped a couple of Christmas lists. Sure the clown was a little creepy but the commercial for Lite-Brite was so infectious due to that classic jingle that you just had to have one. The creation choices were endless when it came to the Lite-Brite. You could...
Fads of the ‘80s: Jelly bracelets
A search of Google can reveal the answer to anything. Except, apparently, how many jelly bracelets were sold in the 1980s. Our recent investigation was fruitless, quite possibly because infinity is a number that cannot be measured. While we’re still trying to narrow down the number of jelly bracelets purchased in the 1980s, we were able to confirm one fact with a minimal amount of Internet sleuthing: Jelly bracelets, like myriad other...
Is There A Goonies Remake On The Way?
Well it looks like the buzz about a possible Goonies remake is going to be pretty heavy after actor and director, Sean Astin made a statement that could point to a future remake. “Over the weekend at Phoenix’s ComicCon, Astin was a bit more specific in his answer, sending Goonies fans into a frenzy of speculation that the sequel is actually going to happen,” according to GlobalNews. “In the original Goonies, it’s not...
How much does it cost to buy Pac-Man?
Even here in 2016, there’s no shortage of ways to get your Pac-Man fix. The first two pages retrieved by entering Pac-Man in Google are Google’s Pac-Man “doodle” from May 21, 2010, which you can play right on the search page, and a link to Free Pac-Man, which is a site offering many free variations of Pac-Man (and not a page looking to free an imprisoned Pac-Man). But what if playing Pac-Man on your laptop—or your smart phone or your...
What Were the Top 5 Movies This Week In 1987?
If you went to the movies 29 years ago this week, odds are you used your hard-earned paper route or lawn-mowing bucks to see the sequel to one of the ‘80s most iconic movies, or one of the decade’s best gangster movies. You might also have seen a pair of family-friendly films, or one of Michael J. Fox’s first post-Back To The Future vehicles. Without further ado: 1.) Beverly Hills Cop II: The sequel to the movie that cemented Eddie...
