We, at onlythe80s.com, are in the final stages of developing a smartphone app to compliment this site. At this stage, the app will be only for Android based devices with iOS devices targetted for 2015. Now for some input from our visitors – What would YOU like to see in the app? Leave a comment […]

The Lynx was a colour handheld game console that was released in 1989 – in fact it was the first colour one of its kind. For the techncially minded, the Lynx used a 65C02 CPU, which was part of the 6502 8-bit family. But it also used a 16-bit graphics chip to achieve all the […]

I have to laugh at this. I was glad to get rid of my brick a longggg time ago but it seems it has returned to haunt. For people that weren’t lucky(?) enough to experience the size of mobile phones in the 80s (I’ll leave the exorbitant running costs for another post), the mobilephone massif […]

The Sony Discman was a portable CD player that took over from where the Walkman left off. Released to the masses in November 1984, it took the world by storm but I remember that there wasn’t a huge range of CDs to pick from – if you were a David Bowie fan then you were […]

I’m currently looking for a new theme for the site. When I initially created it, it was on the list of ‘to do’ things, but I never got around to it (sound familiar?). In the meantime, if anyone would like to design me a new theme for the site, please leave a comment at the […]