If I had to choose a favorite arcade game soundtrack from the 1980s, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment. It would be "Magical Sound Shower" from Sega's classic 1986 Out Run driving game.
Composed by Hiroshi Kawaguchi using FM synth tech, it's such an uplifting tune. I love it, and it brings back childhood memories of spending more cash than I should have in order to race around in a Ferrari with a blonde bombshell sitting next to me. 😎
As I work today I'm listening to the soundtrack from the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film that was composed by Basil Poledouris. Things are feeling fairly barbaric at the moment here in the Arizona desert
Apparently, this coffee-making Commodore 64 peripheral actually existed, produced in Italy in the mid-1980s, to be plugged into the cartridge port of the C64.
Andy Warhol holding a mouse next to an Amiga 1000 with a tilted monitor, around its public introduction in July 1985. Such a magical time of the digital revolution. ❤️
My all-time favorite game is the original arcade version of Centipede. This 1982 commercial is for the Atari 5200 version, but it's epic and really nails the weird, frantic feel of the game.
Back in the 80s and 90s there were the punks, the goths, the ravers, the grungers, the hip-hoppers, the trip-hoppers, etc., and each of these genres was powerful enough to become a creed and give a really large number of people a sense of integrity and belonging. And today? Seems to me that on the one hand there's the painfully inconsequential and mostly manufactured pseudo-mainstream, and on the other an ever-increasing number of micro-genres and niche communities... 😔 @music#1980s#1990s
Paul Crenshaw says there was a pervasive sense of fear for kids growing up in 1980s America, born of stranger danger, the murder of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh's son Adam, and the Satanic panic. He explores these ideas in this essay for Salon; he has also written a new book of essays, "Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils."
The A-Team from the 1980s is my favorite TV show, and they had these big hardcover 'Annual' books they'd put out for it. I just discovered the one from 1984 is at the Internet Archive, and if you log in, you can 'borrow' it for an hour (and every hour it resets) and flip through all the scanned pages. It's totally wild.
This 1989 Apple prototype, designed by Apple's Industrial Design Group and Matrix Product Design during Macintosh LC development, features a unique vertically-oriented screen, deviating from typical Mac designs.
When I was a 16-bit game graphics creator, I got accustomed to thinking in multiples of 16, for sprite dimensions, game scenery patterns, image resolutions, RGB color values and more.
That became a lasting habit. Even now, long after using multiples of 16 was necessary, I'm still entering 16, 32, 48, 64, et cetera, when numerical input is required. Does anyone happen to recognize this? 🙂
Emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X. Right after, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition
William Michael Albert Broad, known as Billy Idol ❤️