Growing Up '80s

What Fascinated us as kids in the '80s!

Tears for Fears awesome Songs from the Big Chair gets the spotlight this episode! Darren and Robin talk about their memories of the album, listen to all the songs, talk about how they liked it as kids in the '80s and what makes this album stand up so many decades later.

No Olympic Games for you this summer? No problem! Robin and Darren talk about the classic Epyx title: Summer Games for the Commodore 64 and host a min-Summer Games for you. Are you Team Australia or Team Canada? Check out the bonus VIDEO podcast and watch us play Summer Games: https://youtu.be/SviLqATFquo

Robin and Darren talk about their favourite breakfast cereal memories, and also discuss important cereal history facts, some of those "foreign" cereals, and especially talk too much about that Canadian classic, Shreddies.

Darren and Robin talk about some of the micro computers used in schools around the world, from Robin's experiences with the MicroBee in Australia in 1987, to the excellent BBC Micro series by Retro Man Cave in the UK. Then we focus on our own schooling in Ontario, Canada where we had Commodore computers, and in high school, the ICON computer system. -= Podcast cover art made with the use of AI - Kind of obvious? =-

Do you remember going to the corner store when you were younger? Robin and Darren talk about their collections obtained from their local corner store in the 80s: candies, magazines, Wacky Packages, trading cards and more!

Robin and Darren take a stroll down 80s lane, talking about all the various game systems and computers they had growing up.

When Darren was a kid, The Last Starfighter movie scared him to the movie theatre floor. But he's ok now! Today, Robin and Darren go deep into the 1984 Sci-Fi / Monster movie classic: The Last Starfighter. They talk all about the movie, special effects, computer graphics, the video game, Star Wars connections and all those scary monsters! Yeah, somewhere along the way, our numbers got mixed up... let's call this episode 10.

It's time to go back to Computer Camp with Robin and Darren. Bullies, mainframes, Colossal Cave Adventure, Disk Copy Parties, Speed Racer, the first Amiga 1000 in Thunder Bay, maybe even Canada?! Listen in as Darren and Robin recall their many years of Computer Camp adventures. -= Podcast cover art made with the use of AI - Kind of obvious? =-

Robin and Darren talk about cartoons as they return to the Growing Up 80's couches after a year's absence! Do they stand the test of time? Perhaps nostalgia is better than YouTube? How about those rockin' theme songs!