1980s

1980s Archives | Category for grouping a collection of posts for topics covering the years 1980-1989.

Frogger: The family version of the arcade game

Frogger: The board game lid depicting the board and a game in mid-play.

Frogger the board game

Frogger is a very well-known video game from the Golden Age of arcade. The idea of the game is to get your frog safely past flowing traffic on the highway, across a river by hopping on turtles and logs, eventually making it back to your swamp before repeating the process with more frogs. This is a 1982 Milton Bradley (MB) Games attempt to translate that arcade game into a more traditional style board game. The game…
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Grandstand Invader from Space LED Game

Invader from Space: Image shows the bottom right section of the unit containing the power switch, a level selection button and the start button. Toward the centre is the fire button and directly underneath a left/right toggle switch for movement of the player's ship.

I spotted this Grandstand "Invader from Space" game

Grandstand "Invader from Space" is a tabletop LED game dating back 40 years to 1980. Four 'AA' batteries power the unit or, alternatively, the Grandstand 5. 5V@300mA power adapter (or an equivalent power pack) sold separately. The game, licensed to Grandstand, is a copy of Epoch's "Invader from Space"
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Musical quirks and some more T-Shirts

Super Mario Tee: A t-shirt depicting a black and white picture of Mario holding his hands in the air. Above is the text 'Legend' in white caps.

In musical terms, it's been a strange few months

There's usually a variety of musical offerings on my iPhone. Legendary artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen and Bob Marley are usually constants. Lately, the usual playlists haven't been doing it for me and instead I've been craving something different. I've been wanting to listen to some of those mismatched rave compilation CDs* from my youth. *I usually had the cassette tape versions back then so I could listen to them…
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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me

Sonic the Hedgehog T-shirt. A t-shirt showing sonic the Hedgehog about to run and above that the Sonic the Hedgehog text logo from the 1990s.

Happy birthday Dear Munky. I'm now 43.

I don't really celebrate my birthday. Not because I'm shy, or anything like that, I just don't really do the celebration thing now I'm older. I'm not in for surrounding myself with a bunch of people, cheering me on, while I get another year closer to death. I'll still have a happy birthday, but it'll be quietly happy rather than the booze-fueled, party-on birthdays of my youth.
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From Vaping to Spectrum to White Lines…

Spectrum iPhone

RANDOMIZE USR

If anything ever really offered a true representation of the randomness of my life it's been these last few weeks.

Vaping ...

It all started with a loose 510 connector on my Vaporesso Target Pro. The tank kept getting a wobble on so I stripped the base down to find the 510 connector is a "pop-on" type. I wasn't going to open it up every other week to pop the connector back on so I decided to order…
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