Playcast List: 10 Coolest Gadgets of the 80s

Playcast Episode 12: The 80s was a cool decade as well and it saw the birth of the technology we use today. Look back to the 10 coolest gadgets which shaped the way we work, play and interact with one another.

[renwar]

I mostly used The Walkman coz i always listen to FM AM radio during bedtime. that’s the coolest thing I’ve experience during the 80’s Era.

[amandamckern]

I remember owning some of those things-I was a kid in the 80’s. It was a great time, I had a Walkman and it was good to be able to listen to the music I wanted, I even remembered getting a movie soundtrack on cassette as a birthday present from my fav uncle. You forgot to put in game and watches, my brother got a 2 screened colour one and that was such a big deal. I remember he had a calculator watch and yes schools didn’t like you owning them. The 80’s was a great era to live in, it had good music (I’m a fan of most of the 80’s music, I still own some cassettes), not good with fashion-it seemed to be the era of giant shoulder pads, it was a fun era, so different from today.

[tdotsmooth]

80s Tech was fun not all of it was the most useful but it was interesting Concepts being created

[davidcolantuono]

I want a time machine to go back to my favorite decade of my childhood. While I've seen all of these things, I've only owned 5 or 6 of them.

[charchar]

I went to a thrift store today and saw so many cool old gadgets from the 90s/80s some even from the 70s and now I’m here

[kierentari]

That takes me well back to those days classic they were something else.

[Seth_Arkada]

Dude, another RO player? Thanks for bringing back some good college memories from around 2003/2004 with friends. Still hoping one day my old crew and I can get back in, and tackle the Forest Labyrinth near Pront.

Quick correction on the C64, it was just 16-color, not 16-bit color. 16-bit color wasn't until PCs could use SuperVGA cards in the later part of the decade.

[BETTERWORLDSGT]

I still had a Record Player up until I got a Tape deck in 89! Got a Walkman in 90, and a VCR in.93.

[markonedeljkovic]

i have to watch this in english class in small serbia

[oingpla]

I was an 80s kid, kids today are lucky

[noahpartic]

I remember & utilized most of this tech in the 80's.
I've interacted with boomboxes before '87 & were used & shown in many 80's films such as "Breakin" & "Beat Street" to name a few. I myself owned a Tiger Game of Simon's Quest & beat it many times...YAY🥳.
The past really was important...

W/O records=No CD's
W/O cd's=No MP3😭

Need I go on🙄?

[PraveenSr]

1) Sony Walkman
2) VHS 📼 Player/VCR
3) Casio Calculator Watch
4) Commodore 64
5) Polaroid 660
6) Digital Answering Machine
7) Cellular Phone 📱 (Brick Phone 📞 1989)
8) Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Mario Brothers
9) Boom 💥 Box of the 80s and 90s
10) Nintendo Gameboy of 1990

[cassettelife]

It was the era with a lot more varieties. Now, smartphone swallowed most of gadgets in 80's and 90's....

[joenightfury]

dammit.... that calculator watch got me suspended from school because teachers thought i was using it for 🤣

[rmontana]

I owned all the things in this video. Programmed an autodialer on my c64 to find carriers, got into lots of systems, went into the IT business and got out my ghetto neighborhood.

[my.k]

Me from 2021 back to 1980s life. Damn, i feel so old 😭

[burnbern]

You forgot the pager or beeper. It was the next best thing to owning a phone which were widely used in the 80s

[winnetouch]

Not counting the cell phone I owned all of these at some point in time :). I was born in 1988 but where I live the 90s were like America's 80s :D.

[IvanPlayStationLiFe]

The begining sound the PlayStation start up sound

[smalltownMainer]

i had the black casio calculator watch. & the nes.