1980s

The very first ‘Video Game’ was invented by Edward U. Condon in 1940, At first it was a simple game called ‘Nim’. In nim players try to avoid picking up the last match. Thousands of people played it, although the computer won at least 90% of the games. Around ten years later in 1950, a new computer program was created by Claude Shannon for the game of chess. In autumn of 1972 the first gaming console was released by ‘Magnavox’ and they called it the Odyssey. Three years later, the next big gaming console arrived when Sears sold the first ‘Atari Pong.’ This was the beginning of a long partnership between Atari and Sears. This relationship lasted multiple years, and Sears sold several successful games. Multiple years later in 1985, Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System. This new gaming console dominated the Gaming Industry and grew Nintendo’s Company. Nintendo created several gaming console legends, such as the Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo Gamecube, Gameboy Advanced SD, and Nintendo DS, all of which made a huge impact on everybody’s childhood from 1985 to 2005. In the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Playstation and Xbox also started releasing consoles. They are still to this day making successful Gaming Consoles, and individual games, as well as Xbox and Playstation.

The 1980s culture illustrated both the positives and negatives of American society at that time. From the many movies, to the toys, new technology, fashion, music, and sports, all of these reflected the decade. As a matter of fact, most of these examples listed did have a huge impact on today’s culture. To begin with, the 80s had memorable moments such as the famous movies at that time. Science Fiction or Sci-Fi, an expanding and unique form of movie genre, was incredibly popular.

The 1980s were the years of big change. Women became more independent and cared more about their careers, music shaped the fashion industry, and computers altered the American lifestyle. The "go-go eighties" caused a substantial revolution in fashion, entertainment, and technology. To fully understand how the 1980s shaped America, one must review the details of fashion, entertainment, and technology of the "go-go eighties."

    The 1980’s was a time of prosperity throughout America. From the Calendar that went from January 1st to December 31st to the increase of jobs. This decade was full of good changes socially, economically, and politically.

The events that are affected by the 1980s decade was music, music has influenced the 1980s so much with Madonna and Michael Jackson. Madonnas hair was all the rage, big curly hair with ratted bangs as high as you could get them she was the queen of the 1980s her fashion influenced so much of the 1980s, girls were curling there bangs just like Madonna she was an icon everyone looked up to her.

This essay will explore the effects social and political changes had on fashion in the 1980’s. This period was chosen because the new romantic fashions were so different to the punk fashions that had been before, this essay will therefore identify the changes that had taken place to influence this change. Primary evidence used to support findings will include interviews and photographs which will show a firsthand account of the period.

MTV galloped through the '80s as a factor of musical taste, style and fashion. During the early '80s, the network helped introduce an entire stable of new music stars.

The first console was called the Brown Box and was mad by a TV maker, Ralph Baer. The Brown Box was made in 1967. Nolan Bushaell bounded Atari in 1972. Atari then had its first big hit with the infamous Pong. In 1980 Mattel releases the Intelivision which is the first challenge against Atari’s rule. Nintendo wasn’t always the video game we know, it was originally a Japanese playing card company. In 1985 Nintendo releases the Nintendo releases the Nintendo Entertainment System, Wow what a creative name that is. Then in 1989 they released their second smash hit with the Gameboy, to compete with other companies such as Atari, Who released their Atari 2600. It included the newly released Tetris which would grow to become a massive hit to top off the huge sales of the Gameboy. In 1991 the super Nes is released. Then the original PlayStation is released in 1995 becoming extremely popular. To combat this popularity Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 in 1996. It includes favorites such as Mario 64, Zelda, and Metroid. The PS2 is released in 2000 marking the beginning of a new era of game consoles. It is the first console to include 128 bit graphics. A problem with original game consoles such as the Atari 2600 is they had little memory. With such little memory Graphics could only be up to 160 by 228 pixels. The normal today is 1925 by 1080 pixels. Some of the earliest adventure games used text instead of images to create the world you’re in. The first of these “text” games was

The 1980s was full of so many important events and extravagant sports. There are a variety of historic and sport events that influenced what was popular in that time period. The 80s was filled with new advancements in television broadcasting sports for women and many other important historical events.

Over the past decades, America has grown and changed tremendously. For instance, the new knowledge on behalf of society empowers more female rights in the modern days. The advancement of technology has made connections of the social network possible throughout the world in seconds. And new science researchers allowed humans to travel to Mars and other planets. The TV mini-series 80s: The Decade That Made Us by National Geographic claims that 80s are the official decade that created the modern world. The decade touched base from sports heroes, computer development, video games, and many more. Tired of the beat from Afghanistan war, economic downfall, and bad news, America was in desperate time for a positive change. It is the 1980s that made it possible for people to feel good and filled many hopes on the American people. I agree with the National Geographic’s claim that 1980s played a key figure in influencing the current generation with the introduction of cell phones and technological developments.

The 1980s was a time where a lot of change took place. Some of these changes were pretty quirky including the movies, music, fashion, and politics of the time. Most people were ready for something different and that is what the 1980s presented. It became eccentric with music and fashion from Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, bands like Guns n’ Roses and Metallica, Reagan’s changes to the economy, Nintendo, and bright colors and big hair. The impact of this decade continues on in today’s society.

Although the 1980s was a wonderful decade, there were some negative events. The 1980s contained many assassinations, such as John Lennon, Anwar Sadat, Marvin Gaye, Indira Gandhi, and Olof Palme

In 1983, Nintendo launched the Family Computer, also known as “Famicom” alongside ports of its most famous arcade titles. In 1985, the Family Computer was remade and launched in North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System, or the NES. The console’s success led to the help of creating Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling and popular video games of history.

1980s: The Decade of Introduction The word “introduction” means to introduce, or present something for the first time. As in life when people are introduced to other people, they are also introduced to other things. Likewise, the 1980s decade can be seen as the Decade of Introduction in which there were an abundance of new and interesting happenings.

Even though the 80’s are in the past it still has some influence today and can be seen in music fashion and other things. Michael jackson’s famous moonwalk can still be seen emulated by people around the world as well as his musical influence on future musicians like Usher and Justin timberlake. Tv shows like MTV which is still ongoing with the latest trends in music and fashion. Movies still have some 80’s style in them as well to fancy outfits, odd hair styles and special