5 Music Videos You Watched This Week In 1984
Jun08

5 Music Videos You Watched This Week In 1984

To have come of age during the music video revolution means hearing a song on the radio and replaying the video in your head. Here’s five  music videos of top 40 songs you were probably watching this week in 1984 (countdown courtesy of XM’s 80s on 8, which uses the Billboard charts): 5 music videos you were watching this week in 1984 35.) Infatuation, Rod Stewart: The hype back then was presumably about Stewart’s reunion with former...

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How much does it cost to buy Pac-Man?
Jun07

How much does it cost to buy Pac-Man?

Even here in 2016, there’s no shortage of ways to get your Pac-Man fix. The first two pages retrieved by entering Pac-Man in Google are Google’s Pac-Man “doodle” from May 21, 2010, which you can play right on the search page, and a link to Free Pac-Man, which is a site offering many free variations of Pac-Man (and not a page looking to free an imprisoned Pac-Man). But what if playing Pac-Man on your laptop—or your smart phone or your...

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Five things you may not have known about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Jun07

Five things you may not have known about Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

The greatest movie ever made about truancy turns 30 years old this weekend. Most of us have seen “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” at least 30 times, but do you know everything there is to know about the classic film? Test your“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” IQ with these five facts: 1.) John Hughes wrote the movie in less than a week. He had no time for our angst about writer’s block. 2.) The film generated two romances. Matthew Broderick...

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What Were the Top 5 Movies This Week In 1987?
Jun06

What Were the Top 5 Movies This Week In 1987?

If you went to the movies 29 years ago this week, odds are you used your hard-earned paper route or lawn-mowing bucks to see the sequel to one of the ‘80s most iconic movies, or one of the decade’s best gangster movies. You might also have seen a pair of family-friendly films, or one of Michael J. Fox’s first post-Back To The Future vehicles. Without further ado: 1.) Beverly Hills Cop II: The sequel to the movie that cemented Eddie...

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Candy of the ’80s: What happened to Chewels?
Jun06

Candy of the ’80s: What happened to Chewels?

The first gum for many children of the ‘80s was Chewels, the sugar-free gum with a liquid gel in the middle. What it amounted to was squirting gum—the liquid popped out with the first chew—and if we’re being honest, squirting gum doesn’t sound nearly as good now as it did then. Perhaps that’s why it has been off the shelves for three decades. But for a brief time, Chewels was the gum every kid had to chew. Here’s three things you may...

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