MCMLXXXIV

[Sweet Daddy K]

1984 kicked America in her balls.





MCMLXXXIV









Firsto all 1984 was the king in Rock n' Roll!





Bryan Adams - Reckless
Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
Van Halen - 1984
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.

Foreigner - Agent Provocateur (I want to know what love is)
The Cars - Heartbeat City (drive)









Second... 1984 dropped it on movies too!







Top 15 (minus the suck)
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
Beverly Hills Cop
The Karate Kid
Police Academy
Romancing the Stone
Footloose
Splash
Purple Rain
The Terminator



Shit that shoulda been Top 15
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Bachelor Party
Dune
Friday the 13th IV
Neverending Story
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Revenge of the Nerds
Sixteen Candles
This is Spinal Tap





Third, baby - the games, thegames, the games!





Paperboy's really it.



Oh & Pac-Land I guess. It's like the 1st side scroller o some shit.





and King's Quest

In an era where it was common for computer games to be written by a single person over a matter or weeks, King’s Quest I was one of the most ambitious, risky, and costly projects of its time. In addition to Williams, six full-time programmers worked for 18 months to complete the game at a cost of more than $700,000.

King's Quest I was innovative in its use of 16-color graphics on the PCjr and Tandy 1000; even CGA owners could enjoy 16-color graphics if they used a composite monitor or TV. The level of interaction with the graphics was an enormous leap over the mostly un-animated 'rooms' of previous graphical interactive fiction.

In previous games, each "room" was a static pre-drawn background and text description, and your character was usually not visible. You navigated by typing compass directions, which would instantly transport you to adjacent rooms. In King's Quest I, Sir Graham was a fully animated character walking through the CGA-rendered worlds, which were filled with other fully animated characters.

Pressing an arrow key would cause Sir Graham to begin walking in that direction. You could be southwest of a tree, walk east, and Graham would appear to walk in front of the tree. Then you could walk a few steps north, walk back west, and Graham would appear to walk behind the tree. Compass commands were no longer necessary, you moved to adjacent "rooms" by making Graham walk near an edge of the screen. Typing "OPEN DOORS" when near the castle would not cause a static predrawn image of a castle entryway with closed doors to be replaced with a static predrawn image of a castle entryway with open doors; it would cause the doors to visibly swing open.

The game relied primarily on textual input as its interface. Detractors often say that this way of interacting with games is time-consuming and frustrating, however others would argue that it requires more thought on the part of the player because it requires more than point and clicking.

Then there's the Lords of Midnight...



...if you consider this "groundbreaking."

edit: why 1984 sucked in games





Oh Daddy but wait! How bout's my tv?!?

Sugamamma, 1984 put a sweet lick to yo kisser on the tube too!







Television Debuts
January 4 - Night Court
September 10 - Jeopardy! (syndication, now with Alex Trebek!)
September 16 - Punky Brewster
September 20 - The Cosby Show
September 20 - Who's the Boss?
September 28 - Miami Vice
September 30 - Tales from the Darkside




http://www.darksideondvd.com/





and in Sports! Lary Bird & Magic Johnson meet for the 1st time in the NBA Finals in a match that becomes one of the most watch in television history.





To all the eighties haters, put dat shit in yo pipe & smoke it!

[Josh]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

You're so right. Big Trouble in Little China was the "sequel".

[Grey's Anatomy]

I wasn't even alive and I agree totally.
Well, I mainly agree with the Springsteen and the Purple Rain, but still.

[Rhydant]

I was born in 1984.

'Nuff said.

[Brand X]

I was born in 1984.

'Nuff said.

QFT.

[D_N_G]

84 was an awesome year

Saw in the theater:


Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
The Karate Kid
Splash
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Neverending Story

[ChaoofNee]

1984 is indeed a good year. Nice job, Doc.

[bbobb]

So I guess Orwell was wrong about '84 then.

[Razor Ramon]

I, too, was also born in 1984.

Still, what's the point of this thread?

[YellerDog]

Wasn't The Last Starfighter from '84?