>>4423598Sure. I'll give a few scattered and stream of consciousness memories from the UK during the 1980s.
One of my earliest is how everything seemed brighter after the drab and colorless 1970s (as a young boy, I still remember how B&W TVs were common).
When we got our first video player, one of the places we used to rent films from was a converted front room in an old terraced house. These were definitely not all 'official,' as I watched ET before the UK cinema release. Later there were rental shops everywhere, including in paper shops. When I was a little older, I would often rent horror films (including the so-called 'video nasties'), and no one cared.
The TV in the photo was with me for many years and Is where I watched some of my favorite films and shows. I have vivid memories of watching the mini series 'V' and becoming somewhat obsessed (I read many of the spin off books and still have the VHS boxset). Moonlighting, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Automan, Manimal, Bring em back alive were some of the TV shows. Later on Alex Cox's 'Moviedrome' I watched for the first time The Terminator, Trancers, Night of he Comet' and many other cult 80s movies. This TV also served as a monitor for my microcomputers - the earliest of which was the C64 where I spent many hours writing software and loading games from a slow cassette player. This all eventually led to a 'career' as a computer programmer (until I got disillusioned some decades later).
I saw many classic 80's films at a cinema that still had a small stage and velvet curtains in front of the screen and a fairly large smoking section. Wargames, Teen Wolf, Rocky 3, and a Star Wars triple bill, just to name a few. There were no booking seats here—it was first come, first served, and the queues would often stretch down and around the street.
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