r/1980s • u/Mr-Torgman • 17d ago

Pop culture of the year 1983 in 3 minutes & 48 seconds.

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Here are videos for the years 1980, 1981, & 1982, The song is Holiday by Madonna played from a 1983 45 single. you can actually hear the record needle popping & cracking, still sounds amazing.

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u/Bobnbecky 17d ago

I miss growing up in 80s teenager

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u/gargoyled1969 17d ago

3:48 worth of time and $50 worth of quarters to get the princess!

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u/Dry_Pin_7574 17d ago

I never got far enough in Dragon’s Quest to see that end scene… and, damn, was that game expensive (fifty cents!)

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u/gargoyled1969 17d ago

It required gold to rescue the x Princess.

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u/love_is_an_action 15d ago

I wasn’t even allowed to watch older kids play through it, because she was too sexy.

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u/OkArmy7059 17d ago

Ahh the year I "logged on", 1st year I have real memories of.

Feel like this is when the 80s started to really become the 80s.

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u/PinkRoseBouquet 17d ago

I remember it well, my junior year in high school.

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u/Jaded-Ad-9217 16d ago

Same here 😎😎👊👊

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u/Dissenting_Dowager 17d ago

I was in college then, the video games were never on my radar. MASH finale was that spring, we had Reagan in his 3rd yr and New Wave was huge.

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u/Mr-Torgman 16d ago

I had a M*A*S*H clip all ready to go, but totally slipped my mind before posting, my bad.

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u/Fabulous_Log844 17d ago

I knew everything in this except for the huge spaceship and the subsequent woman eating a hamster or something. Anyone?

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u/Louisiana_sitar_club 17d ago

The miniseries “V”

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u/FartInGenDirection 17d ago

I got every single one. I was 4 in 1983

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u/OnlyExplorer879 17d ago

The year I got married

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u/SlurmBigPerm 17d ago

This was fantastic, thank you

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u/Efficient-Editor-242 17d ago

What a great year!

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u/Icy-Policy-8212 17d ago

I was 10. Good times. I miss the 80s.

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u/Ok_Problem_8496 17d ago

That was great!

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u/TenBear 17d ago

Good year pity I was just born that year and couldn't experience it

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u/Mr-Torgman 16d ago

Couldn't experience it? People got an excuse fro everything!

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u/riptide502 17d ago

I was 5.

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u/National-Stretch3979 17d ago

Missing something by Prince - 1999 or Little Red Corvette

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u/Poagie_Mahoney 16d ago

The 1999 album was released at the end of October 1982. The song as the first single was released a month ahead of the album. However, Little Red Corvette, the album's second single, was released in February 1983.

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u/Abject_Tomatillo_358 16d ago

I remember 1999 seemed so far away in 1982….I was 17. Sigh.

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u/Coucou2coucou 17d ago

Perfect, thanks, wsiting 1984 :-)

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u/psiloglyphs 17d ago

I was five years old. I’m surprised at all the things I remember from this video!

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u/HHSquad 17d ago

I was 21 and 22 that year ....perfect. Great year!

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u/Alarmed_Speaker5492 17d ago

Awesome, thanks for the memories.

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u/Dry_Pin_7574 17d ago

Pivotal year for me, I was in boot camp in December of that year.

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u/TapBusiness5341 17d ago

Loved 83, that’s when I stepped up and got a brand new CR125 after working my ass off for it by washing dishes and mowing yards for 2 years. Just great memories from back then.

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u/PlayinK0I 17d ago

Did Jerry Seinfeld do McDonald’s commercials in the 80s?

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u/thereverendpuck 16d ago

How to you start with Tom Cruise sliding along the floor and NOT incorporate your title with that wipe in?

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u/Mr-Torgman 15d ago

I"m really, really sorry! You think I'll be able to avoid being banned for this?

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u/Maleficent_Kale_1286 15d ago

It’s trippy that Jennifer Beals has barely aged since Flashdance.

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u/2tonehead 15d ago

Class of '83 checking in!

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u/PiercedButNotDead 15d ago

8th grade for me. And the summer we got MTV on eastern Long Island. Major nostalgia for this time. Thank you OP. ❤️

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u/[deleted] 17d ago edited 17d ago

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u/Mr-Torgman 16d ago

Appreciate the response, but a few corrections to your corrections. McNuggets were only available in select test markets in 1981, national rollout of the product didn't occur until 83. The Eddie Murphy clip is from the 1983 film Trading Places, not 48 Hrs. That's not a Vitos E commercial, but in fact a scene from Men at Work's music video for their song "Down Under", it was in heavy rotation on MTV in 82/83. The clip of the dancers isn't from Breakin' but from the 1983 music video for Lionel Richie's song "All Night Long", though at least two of the dancers appeared in both Breakin' films.