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Growing Up '80s
Canadian Couch-Sitters Darren and Robin talk about all the great movies, video games, comics, music and other stuff from the 80s that they loved as they grew up and that they still enjoy!
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Listen to Growing Up '80s, a Society & Culture podcast by Darren Foulds. Stream 26 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Piano Lessons to Rock Band? Playing Music in the 80s
Darren and Robin share their memories of learning music at school and in private piano lessons, and eventually buying guitars and drums, rec...
C64 Construction (and Destruction) Games
This time, Darren and Robin talk about our memories of Construction Set games and programs from Electronic Arts and other similar software t...
TRON the Movie
Join your friends, Robin and Darren as they talk about all the things that they love about Steve Lisberger and Disney's 1982 classic, TRON!...
Board Games
Board games! Back when we were little kids, "let's play a board game" might be suggested when we claimed to be bored. But, as we grew up, we...
Slipstream: Temper Your Expectaions
Strap yourself into your Edgley Optica ultralight for 90 minutes of one of Robin's favourite movies ever! Slipstream is an oft-forgotten sci...
Growing Up Garfield
That big fat orange cat was a great source of entertainment and influence upon us as young kids at the beginning of the '80s. After a bit of...
Comic Book Collecting
Collecting Comic Books! How we were introduced to comics and realized that we were collectors. We talk about buying the comics that everyone...
Things That Fascinated Us
Robin and Darren go on a full ramble about things that fascinated us as kids in the '80s. Naturally we're talking about home computers, but...
Songs from the Big Chair
Tears for Fears awesome Songs from the Big Chair gets the spotlight this episode! Darren and Robin talk about their memories of the album, l...
Summer Games on the Commodore 64
No Olympic Games for you this summer? No problem! Robin and Darren talk about the classic Epyx title: Summer Games for the Commodore 64 and...
Shreddies... Breakfast Cereal
Robin and Darren talk about their favourite breakfast cereal memories, and also discuss important cereal history facts, some of those "forei...
Computers At School
Darren and Robin talk about some of the micro computers used in schools around the world, from Robin's experiences with the MicroBee in Aust...
Corner Store Collections
Do you remember going to the corner store when you were younger? Robin and Darren talk about their collections obtained from their local cor...
A Walk Through Our Systems
Robin and Darren take a stroll down 80s lane, talking about all the various game systems and computers they had growing up.
The Last Starfighter
When Darren was a kid, The Last Starfighter movie scared him to the movie theatre floor. But he's ok now! Today, Robin and Darren go deep in...
Computer Camp
It's time to go back to Computer Camp with Robin and Darren. Bullies, mainframes, Colossal Cave Adventure, Disk Copy Parties, Speed Racer, t...
Cartoons
Robin and Darren talk about cartoons as they return to the Growing Up 80's couches after a year's absence! Do they stand the test of time? P...
Space LEGO and Space Video Games
Get Spaced-Out with Robin and Darren as they talk about Classic Space LEGO and some of their most favourite "space" video games from the '80...
Frogger
Dive deep with Robin and Darren as they explore the 1981 classic video game from Konami, Frogger! Sure, there are nibbles, lilly-pads, lady...
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