Yeah, the 80's was the best, most mystical, energetic and 'shining' era I have ever lived through. Everything seemed to go from colorful joy to dark depression after that particular decade ended. The latter part of the 90's was already a really depressing experience in comparison.
But I want to correct some mistakes in your post.
"Just watching the movie and I really miss the days of going with friends to play video games right around when atarai came out.."
That's Atari, not "atarai". Please use capital letter in the beginning when you are typing a name, and especially a name that you seemingly respect.
But yeah, Enduro Racer is pretty cool - I just played it some time ago, and it's still just as fun as ever. Good games are timeless.
" The movie just made me think of how great the 80's were.."
You can really feel it from the music and general atmosphere in the movie - the movies have captured some of the 'shine' of the era, and it radiates through. If you are sensitive enough, you can feel the 80's "vibes" beaming from these movies.
" Now everyone is a computer owner,"
Hardly. Look at the world beyond the western, first-world area. You will see lots and lots of people that are not computer owners. Look at the older people even in the western world. Many don't even know how computers work, and those that have them, have obsolete ones that they don't ever really even use. And so on. So not everyone is a computer owner. But what's wrong with that? What's so cool about not having a computer? I had a computer in the 80's, and it was great! So what was your actual point about computers and their ownership? How is it worse that everyone is a computer owner? That's not the problem. There are other problems about mainstream's interest about computers, but that, specifically, isn't one of them. Why shouldn't everyone be a computer owner? It's only natural, and it's only a good thing. What computers have become instead of what they could have evolved into is another matter altogether..
" nobody seems to play sports on the streets these days,"
Sports on the streets? Isn't that a good thing? Sports do not belong to the streets! I mean, there are dedicated places for sports. Streets are meant for traffic, and the less it's used for sports, the safer it is for everyone. No more baseballs through the windows or basketballs or skateboards damaging property.
" the movies are all computer special affects...."
Nothing wrong with that, if it's done properly and with 'soul'. If an artist channels his finest self into it, the art format doesn't matter. It's the darkness/depression-aspect I talked about earlier that makes it all so repulsive. If 3D rendering tech and CPU power had been the same in the 80's as it is now, you probably wouldn't be saying that, because the "computer special effects" (you mean 3D rendering or some other type of computer graphics integration, right?) would be so beautiful, exciting, wonderfully done and 'radiating' that good 80's vibe that it would be just a pleasure to watch.
There are some good "computer graphics" movies, like The Incredibles and AntZ. But as with everything, the bad ones form the majority. That's capitalism for ya.. capital is more important than the quality of the art, let alone soul.
" ..I yearn for the days of Thundercats, Tranformers, GI Joe, Vultran, He-Man, etc.."
Well, you can still watch all of those - they are available. So why yearn, when you can watch?
" Atari, nintendo, game boy.."
You can still get and use those. What's stopping you? Stop yearning and start acquiring! But it won't make you happy.. My point is, that you can still play all Atari games, all Nintendo games and all Game Boy games (why did you only write "Atari" with a capital letter, but the others with a lowercase letter?). You can even buy the real equipment and hook it up and use it. Nothing has changed in that area.
To nitpick a bit - a Game Boy _IS_ a Nintendo system, and there's really no system called "nintendo" anyway.
Nintendo is the name of the corporation that manufactures game systems and games. The game system you probably meant to refer to is called "Nintendo Entertainment System", or "NES" - but it also has other names. In Japan, it is called "Famicom", which is short for "Family Computer".
"Great bands like Guns n roses, and everything from the hair generation.. Motley crue, etc.."
You got to be kidding. "The hair generation"? Is this an official title? Hrm.
As much as I despise your musical preferences, I want to remind you that you can still listen to the songs from those bands - nothing is stopping you. You seem to "yearn" for mostly things that you can still do. Lucky you, because you can thus satisfy your yearnings.
I, on the other hand, yearn for the actual ERA, the 'time', the 'feel', the 'atmosphere' of the 80's, and I can only have very tiny servings of those by watching movies made during that era.. and sometimes I am not in a sensitive enough mode so that I can't satisfy my hunger for the 80's.
No amount of listening to 80's music or watching the 80's movies is ever going to be even nearly the same thing .. as there were so many other aspects to the 80's, that I really miss a lot, but which most people do not even seem to realize were there - making it impossibly difficult to explain.
Lucky you - your list is pretty straightforward, and your yearnings easy to satisfy even in the modern times.
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9 years ago
That's Atari, not "atarai". Please use capital letter in the beginning when you are typing a name, and especially a name that you seemingly respect.
Jeez, really.
You then go on to bash the rest of it. You "90s'd" his post.
You must be a real delight at parties
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