1985
Classic Games – Battleship
I’m sure there isn’t a person that hasn’t played the classic game battleship. How can something so simple be so fun and addictive to play?
I particularly loved blowing my brother’s ships ‘out of the water’ – well it was hard to do with only a board game. The imagination took over there, but the feeling of satisfaction was real enough.
In the mid 80’s, Electronic battleship was released. There we had depth charge noises and the sound of a battleship being blown up. This was the real McCoy – or as close as it could get for 1985.
I recall it wasn’t cheap at the time. My parents couldn’t afford one (or just wouldn’t buy it), so I had to play it at friends’ places.
Found this Gem on youtube. It is the commercial that was played on TV for the battleship game. Certainly brings back some memories….
Microsoft Computing in the 80’s
Believe it or not (depending how old you are will bring back memories), but Microsoft Windows started it’s life in the 80’s.
In November of 1983, Bill Gates showed IBM his new operating system, Windows. It went down like a lead balloon, but Bill realised that a proper GUI based operating system would be the way of the future.
Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985. It wasn’t a complete operating system like today as it was an extension of MS-DOS (which was released in 1981), the ‘command line’ or text based operating system.
From 1985, the selling details were as follows:
Price: $99
Hardware Requirements: 80386 CPU, 256KB RAM, 1MB Storage
Media Size: five 360KB 5.25″ floppy disks
Addicted to Love?
One of most iconic songs from the 80’s was Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love.
The girls in the music video were scantily dressed for the 80’s, and caused quite a stir.
To say they are iconic of the 80s is an understatement as even to this day they are constantly parodied.
For a reminder of the catchy tune, and the girls, check out this youtube video:
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