Favorite year in general:1984.
Pop culture was just electric around that time - I consider this to be the "peak" of the '80s. 1980 and even as far as '83 seemed to have a little '70s feeling left; and even by 1986, the "Valley Girl/MTV/Miami Vice" '80s was already starting to fade away.

Plus, the music was unbeatable (Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Van Halen, Lionel Richie, Rod Stewart, Foreigner, I could go on forever) and movies like Ghostbusters and the first Police Academy came out.

Favorite personal year:1987
I was still pretty young. Just old enough to be pretty aware of everything I did (playing Nintendo games, going on family trips and having a nice time in first/second grade), but enough in my childhood to not worry too much about life. Both of my grandma's were still alive too. Things would start to get worse in many ways around late 1989, but that's another story.

I was the perfect time and the perfect age. :D

This is a toughy....

It's all basically rolled together in my memory. Though I remember events in the 80s, I don't remember dates very well. Sometimes I have to go to IMDB to see what year(s) a show or movie was on, sports sites for dates of some sports events, etc. My memory sucks and I'm only in my late 20s.

I'll say 1987 (really the 1986-1988 span). Everything just to seemed to come to a culmination that year. Then you started prep for the 90s. Nintendo was getting big, I was watching WWF each week, my older siblings were starting high school, I was in my latter years of elem. school, and just a bunch of other things.

I did like the earlier 80s, but man there's only so much you can remember from the ages of 2 to 9...

^ Hey, glad to see ya around. :)

I basically agree.

Nintendo was introduced in 1985, but I remember '87 being the year it just exploded larger than life, and everybody had it. Like I've said in other posts, some of my fondest childhood memories are playing the first Zelda - where my dad and I would be on the thing until the early hours of the morning (on Summer vacation, of course!).

As far as personal memories go, I'd say the second half of 1986 and up I can remember perfectly, so I connect with it more in that sense.

But 1980-early '86 is like a "catch up with what I missed" era. Maybe that's why I'm the most interested in it. :D

I loved my nintendo...Still do :D

I don't remember much before 86. But I do remember my mom and dad getting me an Nintendo for Christmas in 87. My dad hated it at first.
"Stupid Junk! Why don't kids go outside and play!"

Then I came home from school one day and my dad was playing it. He wouldn't give it back to me! :rolleyes:

Oh well...Good times in the 80's. Boy do i miss the 80's.

we used to have a nintendo mastersystem, in fact i still do. awsum console, wicked games.
i miss the 80s in all. even tho i only lived 4 years innit. im still an 80s child and proud of it.

I was born in 1987, so I don't really have a favorite year.

For personal reasons, I would have to say 1987. Culturewise, though, I can't think of which year is the best. Maybe 1985, simply because that's when BTTF came out - but my personal life situation wasn't the best in that year.

What happened that year? You don't have to tell me.

Just that I was in a foster home in 1985, and the parents weren't very nice. I lived with my mother in 1987, though - but, interestingly enough, I wasn't into rock music during that year. I was actually into polkas, instead.