If you could be back you would be

Jul 25, 2022 4:12 AM

mfrybeasley

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#nostalgia #80s #1980s #90s #cool #lol #gaming #memories #movies_and_tv #music #vinyl_records #nintendo

Needs more Rubik's Cube.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wow, that audio, for such a well produced video, they chose that ear poison:

4 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

a RICH 80s kid. One room never had all of those at the same time. That's a price of a car right there.

4 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 1

This is Ricky Stratton's bedroom from 'Silver Spoons'.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

missing brown and reddish tobacco stained shag carpets yo

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

ours were this sort of gold-yellow. Looked awful.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The music is truly terrible. Not music from the 80s just this song - assaulting on the ears.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Yeah, nothing but yelling the same three notes. 80s songs had more complexity than that.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*shows her collection of late 90s boomboxes*

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Where's all the ashtrays and wood paneling? Where is the BROWN.

4 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 1

And the thick wall to wall carpeting

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Oh man the cigarette smell on that stuff when you rip it up. Bleh. It's like permanently locked in

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As someone who was alive back then I can tell you it looked nothing like this unfortunately.

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Yeah. Everything just paraded there cost a metric fuckton in the 80s.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You merely adopted the 80s. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see a cell phone until I was already a man.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Doki Doki Panic

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oh hell no... I lived through the '80s once already, that was more than enough.

4 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Tell us what it was like, grandpa!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pain and nausea inducing levels of pastels, cocaine, and neon.,.. and bad music, not as bad as disco, but a damn close second.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The best part of getting older is every year I get farther away from the '80s.

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

That song is making me ears bleed

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

If you were rich!

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

...but how did she play the NES without the controllers plugged in?

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Also that cartridge booted without her having to blow on the pins?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Something fucky is indeed afoot.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also that controller has no wire and it is not one of the wireless ones.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

you should clean that cartridge sleeve. looking a little nasty

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

This is not what the 80’s were like. The 80’s were kids riding in the back of pick up trucks, smoking in restaurants, and 12 tv channels. /1

4 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 2

Or 2 public service channels if you lived in Sweden...

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

12?! Bitch we had 3.5 channels that would work when the weather was good.

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

The 80’s were playing outside all day, using paper maps, terrible jeans, worse politics, and COCAINE! Oh, and good Coke. Coca-Cola. /2

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

I was the same age as the kids in Stranger Things (class of '89). The freedom and unsupervised time they had were pretty accurate

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I can feel my eye twitching at the memories. That decade was bad enough the first time, even as a kid. Let's leave it behind.

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 3

It was nowhere near as colorful as people make it out to be. Also omnipresent threat of nuclear war was anxiety provoking.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

Do not unmute

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Her hair is not big enougb

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Welcome to the 80s (rich version).

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh God, a Benetar.

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

Hey, whaddya gonna do; love is a battlefield...

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Uh no, Flash Dance. Pat had shorter, feathered hair.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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4 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 3

· Labyrinth, Never Ending Story, Last Starfighter, finding movie theater tickets in candy wrappers. . .

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Throw in Explorers. (Also The Goonies, but everybody knows The Goonies. I feel Explorers needs more love.)

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Was gonna add Goonies but thought same...Explorers had River P. -RIP. Oooh, just recalled other tip-of-my-tongue 1s: KRULL & The Black Hole.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Always upvote Grig.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

"Wait, how many starfighters are left?"

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

"Including you? One"

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

"Hear that, you slimes? I'm famous!"

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

CDs? In the 80s? CDs started being everywhere in the 90s

4 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 8

I had a job I bought one in '85. Expensive and not common. Record stores had a tiny section that sold CDs in long cardboard sleeves.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

CDs were around in the 80s just expensive AF. Family I knew that had one when I was a kid had paid $600 back then for a player (roughly $2K

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

CDs (& players) were still an expensive "niche" market in mid-80s. Also many people made their own cassettes.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

in today's dollars).

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Also records. They were still around of course, but no one under 30 was buying them unless they were a DJ.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

They certainly were in the UK, record shops were everywhere. I also got my 1st CD player in 86, not that expensive by then, or that rare.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At the end of the 80's that was true, not at the beginning

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nintendo wasn’t around in early 80s. Besides, fashion & tech from very early 80s was really closer to what most people associate w/ the 70s.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The 1980s as remembered by someone born in 1995.

4 years ago | Likes 357 Dislikes 2

The same as the kids now "dressing like the 90s" - as remembered by someone born after 2000....

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There's nothing wrong with that, she's appreciating our time at her age, which is an awesome homage. ?‍♂️

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Rofl, i was born in 92 and this honestly looked like what i envisioned.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

She actually just graduated HS so she's not even from that decade.

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Was a teen in the 80s. This is not what the 80s was like. This is more like looking at a museum.

4 years ago | Likes 611 Dislikes 0

Yeah I grew up in the 90s, it wasn't all Spongebob and Rugrats. There was a fair amount of AIDS needles in car gas handles

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've seen her videos pop up on TikTok/IG and she just graduated HS apparently so...yeah she doesn't really know the 80s firsthand.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You know that fake wood panneling, that EVERYONE had too :D

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, no way this person was born before mid 90s.

4 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 2

well she looks like she was born after 2000 so she probably did get her ideas from a museum

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Her 80’s references started and ended with the Back to the Future movies.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

lol @ the stack of CDs. imagine how RICH you had to be to have a collection like that in the 80s

4 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

Hell yes. Most of my recorded music had the damn DJ talking over it.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just send 99 cents to get 12 cd's for free, cancel any time.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Plus, In Utero came out in 1993.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I didn’t see In Utero. I did see Dr Feelgood by Motley Crüe.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What she's doing here is like how when people would try to be like the Beatles or the 1950s or something in the 80s

4 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 0

It was in the 70s too thanks to things like Happy Days, but I do agree. As much a fiction then as it is now.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

To be authentic 80s it’s got to be placed over a still visible and very present layer of 70s. Also as another poster mentioned, more brown.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Also, a lot of booger green

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Accurate and poetic. I have pictures of me as a kid in the 80s wearing bell bottoms. The decades bled over into one another more back then

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Meh, Mario 3 was far superior to Mario 2. Mario 2 had a very weird vibe to it.

4 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 3

Mario 3 is one of the best video games ever made. Once I accepted Mario 2 for what it was I started to enjoy it. But I never finished it (1)

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That says a lot because I finished pt. 1 I don't know how many times and pt. 3 even more (2)

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is why: https://youtu.be/2EUYSN5aFcE

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mario 2 is still my favourite Mario game...

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

IIRC it wasn't originally s Mario game, but another game that got modified a bit so they could release it as a Mario game.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That makes sense as it's missing most of the classic bad guy characters.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was another game that Nintendo "reskinned" to make it look like Mario. The real Mario 2 game was deemed too hard & was only released 1/2

4 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Well that explains everything. Mario 2 didn't seem like Mario to me.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There is also the Mario 1.5 aka The Lost Levels that was also “too hard” for westerners. Made in 1986, it wouldn’t hit the US until 1993.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The Lost Levels is the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 they mentioned.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It was like 3 am when I read the comment and I completely misread it. Insomnia is a bitch.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Never heard of that. Watching it now. https://youtu.be/5apu4ML9Wto

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Spoiler alert. I beat that shit, and it was just Mario's fuckin dream.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I still remember the entire audience losing its mind during the Wizard when they showed SMB3.

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Jesus, after SM2 and it's insanity, I lost my mind when I saw that game. I remember some dick of classmate would lie about everything¹

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

said SMB3 in that movie wasnt going to be the same as the one we would be able to buy. Like the retail version was going to suck. He also ²

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

claimed to the point of tears that his dad had a winning McDonalds Monopoly piece that woulda got them seadoos, and that Independence Day³

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the movie was ONLY going to be shown in theaters for one day, that day being the 3rd (he thought that because at the bottom of the poster ⁴

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I loved that movie as a kid! And the spoiled little rich Assholes who had the power glove…ugh.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Aye. They just took Doki Doki Panic and made it look more Mario. This being said, Miyamoto was a designer on that game as well.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Explains enough of the similarities to be repurposed into a Mario game. Like DDP still having POW blocks even though it's not related to-

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

-Mario at all other than that at the time! Maybe Doki Doki Panic was always meant to be a Mario Game and they changed it to suit a-

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

-completely different IP to bank in on some carnival and an anime related to it. Then they forgot about the POW blocks.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mario 3 was the number 1 game of all time until, unsurprisingly, Super Mario World

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Yeah, the yoshi parts were cool. It was a pretty elaborate game. I liked the cape flying too.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'll appreciate this then. It's a long watch but worth it https://youtu.be/s2bTQK6vbKI

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Welcome to the 80s, here's a 90s mac

4 years ago | Likes 213 Dislikes 3

THANK YOU. The Classic came out in 1990.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yup - way too much 90s stuff in there

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 3

80's laptop...

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I had a Commodore 64 back then. It was beige and brown, just like everything else in the room. Good times.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, you need a Commodore, Amiga, or TI.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"Let me show you how not to use a phone."

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't remember CDs being common before the '90s. You'd occasionally get jokes about yuppies having them, but that was about it.

4 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

I bought my first CD in 1990 (Zep box set). I bought my first CD player in 1991.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You mean LASERDIIIIIIIIIISC

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (1985) was one of the first major albums mastered for CD iirc so yeah, it was still new then.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

if you use a pencil on the cassette tape it works better than your finger

4 years ago | Likes 363 Dislikes 2

Pencil or pen with a rubber band or tape around it

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also always wind left reel counter clockwise

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

This. Finger is amateur hour. Pencil is practically designed for the purpose.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And she's turning it the wrong way.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

and wind it the other way

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I can still feel the wheel on my little finger doing it after all this times

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

70s kids know

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Propably she is not born in the 80s, so she doesn't know

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 11

Favts

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

something any 70-80's kid instinctively knows

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Note that most modern pencils needs to be kept at a sharp angle, old school pencils, japanese pencils, and bic pens work the best.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Last time I used one I could fit it on my pinky and spin the cassette around.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

How tiny are you?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm 5'0 with petite hands. Haven't been able to do this trick since I was 8 or 10. Might be able to get just the tip to fit.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey, we found LittleFinger!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This feels more like a zoomer recreation of the 80s than the actual 80s. Needs way more brown

4 years ago | Likes 1341 Dislikes 4

So much more brown.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was thinking the same.. Bit like Back to the Future's representation of the 1950's.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And way more nothing

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Needs more leftover 70s hidden away, like some lovely textured wallpaper

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

And at least one pack of cigarettes and an ashtray somewhere. People keep forgetting how mainstream-accepted smoking still was back then

4 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

Slight haze from all the fucking smokers.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Didn't even blow in the Nintendo cartridge. Just seems uncanny.

4 years ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 2

Give me that beige-egg pattern raised glossy fire hazard wallpaper, oh yeah.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I live in a house that has that 80s brown paneling theme.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They would've been millionaires to have all this shit.

4 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 1

Back when being a millionaire meant something..

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

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4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Or a pink/blue ish bloom

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No shit. She wasn’t even alive in the ‘80s.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 5

And cocaine.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Teak walls

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

There should be a lot of wood paneling, a few crocheted owls, and a couple of neon things, like a school binder

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

This

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not to mention, I'm 99% sure the NES wasn't gray and actually came out of the box with a yellow tinge caused by smoking in the house.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And Aqua Net.. waaay more Aqua Net.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

This def like 1991 at earliest and she got her fashions all mixed up. Like a girl wouldn't wear all those things together clashing cliques

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Also portrait filming (not to mention that final selfie in the mirror) ruined the atmosphere.

4 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 2

Plus… Nevermind. Not 80s

4 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

If it was the 80s she would still be spraying her hair by the time the video ended.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Everything needs to smell faintly of cigarettes.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

At least it’s got the absentee parenting. That’s authentic.

4 years ago | Likes 325 Dislikes 0

Oh hell yeah, I was left unsupervised so much at such a young age lol.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

#Latchkeykidlife

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

So wild to remember actually having a key on a necklace at school.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Wood panel walls, dirty looking carpet, The Couch, some old wood tables you found.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Also shouldn't the NES be under the TV or on top of it?

4 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 3

I've never seen an NES under a TV, it's not really designed for that. On top means controller cords in your way.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yeah cds weren't really popular until 90s.

4 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 2

My college roommate had one in 1983 made by Phase Linear. He also had a cool audio recorder that captured digital audio using VHS tapes

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But vinyl records were cheaper and it took about 5 years before everyone had CD players

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

By 1990, CDs and CD players were pretty common sights in homes. Even a couple cars had factory-installed CD options.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Really popular?, sure - but I got my first CD player in 1986 so they were fairly common by late 80s I'd say.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

4 years ago | Likes 207 Dislikes 0

Who’s that? Brooown!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The 80’s looked like the 60’s because I spent my time in basements filled with used furniture.

4 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

Same.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Same but in the 90's with the 80's furniture.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Had to pick out floor lamps recently. It felt uncomfortably nostalgic looking at brass finishes with off-white fabric shades.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0