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Posted:
May 6, 2011

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A Forest, Faith, Lol Tolhurst, Opera House, Primary, Robert Smith, Seventeen Seconds, Simon Gallup, The Cure, The Cure Reflections, Three Imaginary Boys, Vivid, Vivid Live

The Cure ‘Reflections’ playing in Australia for Vivid Live

Woohoo – announced today. The Cure are coming back to Australia for vivid live festival in Sydney. Playing on the 31st May and 1st June, it’s sure to be be pretty special, especially considering ‘what’ they will be playing. They will be playing three albums in their entirerty – namely Three Imaginary Boys (1979), Seventeen […]

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August 1, 2010

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1981, Buggles, MTV, Video Kileld the Radio Star

This day in History – 1st August 1981

On this day in 1981, I think the delivery of digital media changed forever – MTV started broadcasting at 12:01am. The first music video it played was the Buggles – Video Killed the Radio Star. How appropriate! Enjoy the video:

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Posted:
June 27, 2009

Tags:
1981, 1982, donkey kong, game & watch, Nintendo, octopus, oil panic, parachute

Handheld games of the 80s – Game & Watch

The 80’s were the decade that started the trend in what we enjoy today in handheld games – thanks to Nintendo. These very simple games took the world by storm. The size and simplicity made these very addictive to all. It was always a challenge to beat the highest score – even if it was […]

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Posted:
February 13, 2009

Tags:
1981, Arcade, Galaga, Namco

Play Galaga online here

A very popular arcade game of the 80s was Galaga. It was the sequel to Galaxian and was released in 1981 by Namco. I’d call Galaxian a typical space invaders clone but taken to the next level where the aliens have much more movement when flying around. Galaga goes one step further. The aliens fly […]

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Posted:
January 24, 2009

Tags:
Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, NASA, space shuttle

Space shuttle flights in the 80s

Remember when you were were younger and you heard that NASA were going to space in this new aircraft that looked like a plane, and when the mission was finished the craft would then glide bac to Earth and land like a plane? I do, and of course it was the Space Shuttle. It seemed […]

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