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Entertainment in the 80's

  • 11-06-2006 6:28pm
    #1
    arctic lemur
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    What did you do for entertainment as a kid in the 80's.

    I lived in an estate so we played tip the can til all hours, rounders, pretend Wimbledon up tthe Back Field (ie a field behing the estate!), swimming in the railway bridge, playing sale (ie each Saturday a person would hold a sale of their old toys/books in their back yard)soapcar racing, red rover.

    Some evenings i'd go over to the neighhbours and play lego/Atari's centipede.

    Watched Famous Five, Emmerdale Farm, The Sullivans (was made by my Granda!) and Danger Mouse.


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  • #2
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    You are strangely obsessed with the 80's...

    I probably just played with a doll or something, seeing as I only lived through 3 years of the 80's.


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Football day and night (even in school!). Never get tired of the old footie.


  • #4
    arctic lemur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭arctic lemur


    Faith wrote:
    You are strangely obsessed with the 80's...

    I probably just played with a doll or something, seeing as I only lived through 3 years of the 80's.

    Yes i suppose i'm a biteen obsessed with the 80's!


  • #5
    Oobie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭Oobie


    The most memorable activities are Kick the Can and everyone from the road skipping with a washing line.


  • #6
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Kiss chase with the girls ;) Cycling around the block (playing CHiPS). Playing Lego and plastic, green armies in the back garden and the flower beds :)

    Reading my famous five and secret seven books. Football in the green.

    Playing marbles during the summer holidays was also a favourite :)

    Happy, happy days where have they gone? :(


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  • #7
    Kolodny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    Lego and my Sinclair Spectrum 48k were my 80s obsessions. I didn't get out much :)


  • #8
    layke
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    Kick the can, ah memories. Rounders in the green round back...

    Sigh*Those golden summers that lasted forever, where the sun was always shining. I remember we used to all head over to templeogue college swimming pool during a hot day, it cost £1.00 for an hour. The trip was a big one from my old home in Orwell but then in tjhose days leaving your estate was outland territory, rife with other gangs of kids.

    I was a lego man.
    I played on my mates Spectrum ZX (we couldn't afford one)
    Eventually in better times I got a C64 :)

    The 80's was fantastic apart from the hideous hair do's.


  • #9
    the little one
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭the little one


    jane rules


  • #10
    Bamboozled
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Bamboozled


    Kick the can :D that brings back memories.
    Skipping with all the kids using a washing line.
    Elastics
    Adventures in the woods
    Rounders
    Camogie
    Red Rover etc

    :D those were the days


  • #11
    Huggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Huggles


    Bamboozled wrote:
    Adventures in the woods

    Fair Enough! ;)


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  • #12
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Kolodny wrote:
    Lego and my Sinclair Spectrum 48k were my 80s obsessions. I didn't get out much :)
    Me too...and still are...but now I can simulate both now on my PC...no more 'boo hoo I've run out of red-roof pieces for me!'. (blockland is a free Lego emulator)

    Although the games I used to play a lot back then are absolute shite when you go back 20 years later and load them up on an emulator now.

    Makes you think that you've basically wasted your childhood.


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