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screenshot from the 1983 Atari 2600 video game

Do Anyone Else’s Wrists Still Hurt From Playing ‘The Activision Decathlon’ 40 Years Ago?

Early ’80s computers and home consoles had cool Olympics-inspired games, including ‘The Activision Decathlon,’ which left sore wrists and broken joysticks in its wake.
Randy Bruce Traywick, better known as Randy Travis, performs at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo grounds on July, 1987 in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A country and gospel musician, singer, songwriter and an actor, Travis won six Grammy awards prior to a massive stroke in 2013. The image is an in-camera triple exposure

Randy Travis Releases Touching New Song With Help of AI

Listen to his new song here!
screenshot from the 1983 Bally Midway arcade video game Journey. It depicts video game versions of members of the rock band Journey with black-and-white digitized photos of their actual faces on top of their computer graphic-created bodies. The band is performing onstage in front of a wild audience, with a bouncer attempting to keep them from reaching the stage.

Remember Those Early ’80s Video Games Featuring Journey?

Journey Escape, a 1982 cartridge for the Atari 2600, and Journey, Bally Midway’s 1983 arcade game, both starred classic rock group Journey and featured synthesized versions of some of their songs.
black and white image of a teenage girl writing a letter to her boyfriend in 1942. She is lying on her stomach on a blanket outside on some grass as she write this, wearing a 1940s bathing suit, with some open books in front of her.

How Did You Meet/Date Your Crush/Steady Before Smartphones?

Rotary dial landlines, letter-writing, passing notes in class, hanging out where you thought the person might be and more old-school tactics for meeting and talking to that special someone.
image from the commercial for Apple's new Macintosh commercial that aired during the Super Bowl on Jan. 22, 1984. In the center of the image is a blond-haired woman wearing red shorts and a white tank top that has an artistic illustration of the Macintosh computer on it. She has a determined look on her face as she runs down an aisle in a dark, dystopian, '1984'-like world, with helmeted stormtroopers behind her in the distance in pursuit. The woman is clutching a hammer in both hands as she runs, preparing to throw it at a giant screen (not seen here) on which Big Brother is giving a propaganda speech.

Remember the ‘1984’-Inspired Commercial That Helped Launch Apple’s Macintosh?

Directed by Ridley Scott, the commercial aired just once, but made quite an impact and remains memorable.