1980s Items That Failed!

33 thoughts on “1980s Items That Failed!”

1. I had the PXL2000 I used the recorder a handful of times but the TV I used all the time. I would bring it under the covers with me.

2. Interesting things that failed in the 1980's were incorporated into todays tech.

3. I'm confused by what exactly the electric doormat actually did.

4. In the 80's I helped my contractor dad drywall a 'moon dome' home. My dad had to charge the builder a lot more for it due to the waste in drywall materials. I thought it was neat but my father kept pointing out to me all the "wasted space" and he was right. Did not seem like a very livable home. It still exists and I pass it every once in a while when I am going the back way to a friends house

5. Great video. Thank you. 😂

6. My ex-husband, whom I met in 1984, had a watch that looked kinda like that TV watch, except his was just a calculator and alarm. The buttons were so small he had to use a blunted pencil to press them. 🤣 I guess that was the 80s version of a stylus. 🤣

   And not everyone hated New Coke. I've always hated Coke, and drank Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, but I liked New Coke. FAR more than the disgusting original Coke, which tastes more like bitter medicine than a soft drink. 🤮

7. Uhmmm tesla has those doors on the suvs

8. I worked as a Realtor in the 1990s and 20000s.
   The biggest issue with geodesic domes (4:33) turned out to be the fact they developed chronic water leaks along their seams after a few years. Every structure has to deal with the issues of expansion and contraction at the joints in different temperature and weather conditions, but the domes just have such an intricate and extensive network of joints that developing a few failures here and there was virtually inevitable.
   And short of an ongoing program of preventive stripping and recaulking joints it was impossible to avoid the issue. More often than not, the first indication homeowners would have of a leak would be when water damage appeared in the walls or ceiling inside the domes.

9. the doit all device was a great idea as it was not tethered to a satellite

10. The 1954 Kaiser Darrin had doors that slid into the front fenders

11. What a time to grow up, graduated HS in '85, right smack dab in the middle of the 80s. I wish we could bring back the 80s. It was an age of hope new possibilities, transition. We were the crossover between Boomers and the new generations.

    Lets see, there were so many things. Beta max video recorder, that huge record size Lazer disc video players (led to the CD), parachute pants, big hair. Yugos! Too funny, $4,995. Dodge K Cars; the car that saved the Chrysler Corporation. Synthesizer music. Geodesic "dome homes" are making a comeback due to the small/tiny house movement. Lets see… break dancing. Sad thing is is that I still have some of these things! 😅😅😅

12. Gull wing doors were around in the 70’s on cars like the Bricklyn

13. My uncle used to configure blue prints for dome homes. I remember I used to watch when I was a kid

14. core memories unlocked . so wish i could go back and relive the best years

15. OH.. FFS. PLease do not give your bio metrics to anything bimetrick .. they're already trying to find ways to destroy the populaces .. don't FEED these elites.

16. how about the Vectrex games console?

17. Curb feelers on cars

18. fail is a big word. some things that had a marketing fail were still good or fun to play with. the atari 2600 u showing at 5:34 has nothing to do with the touch pad this is for another computer model atari home computer not the atari 2600. the atari 5200 console was a failure with their weird controllers and hardware failures in 1982. it had a limited amount of game and did not sell so well like the 2600.

19. Pepsi am
    Did it have synthetic vitamins or minerals or something?😂

20. I could do about 12 videos of failures in the 2020's and its only just begun! 2010's weren't so great either so numerous video's there too!

21. 😊😊good

22. I would love to see the Capsula "Cool Sports Car" version.
    I had an Atari touch tablet. The advertising was so cool. It looked like using colored pencils. In reality it was like using massive crayons. Broke my artist wannabe heart.

23. There was a really nice V-Link 900Mhz FM walkie talkie with PL tones. It was a type of radio that looked like a Motorola flip phone. It was supposed to be sort of a short range successor to CB radio. The radio transmitted one watt but was far clearer than the 27 Mhz CB radio (CB radio was sort of like a chat room over the air). It was supposed to cover about three kilometers. From the top of a large hill, it actually covered tremendously more! I was achieving 10 kilometers easily. But, on flat ground, with buildings, trees, automobiles, cables, it reached about 400 kilometers at most. Often, a lot less. From the top of the large hill I lived, I would transmit music and I would go out on my old ATV. I had my own radio station! A few of my friends bought them too. But it did not work that way for them. They barely got over two houses distance. The V-Link, "phones," had a phenomenal battery life, but erratic range. My friends gave me some of theirs because they were so bad with things in the way. If you could not see where you wanted to transmit to it, except maybe 300 meters, you could not do it. When I showed my friends just how far the radios worked from the large hill with line of sight, they got upset because it said nothing like that on the box about line of sight. In about a year, the V-Link, walkie talkies vanished from the market. They were around in surplus new until the mid 1990s from time to time. I doubt anybody has them. I may have one in the attic. But I donated about four of them to the little kids that really did not care if the range was only two houses, or not. I kept two for my radio station. But I broke one on one of my trips in the ATV. I had my little radio station about three years and impressed many people with it. But V-Link was doomed from the start. They were probably only manufactured about a year and the surplus ran out completely around the 1990s.

24. Turbo Graphics 16.

25. Electric cars failed miserably. The post office had a fleet of electric mail Jeeps. It was supposed to be revolutionary. There were billboards with a picture of the mail jeep, with the headlamps on, "that said, "Changing the post office today and tomorrow the world!" I doubt there are any of the electric mail Jeeps running at all, or even in pieces. That is likely what will happen to the worthless electic cars of today also.

26. The Grandfathers of modern technology

27. New Coke tasted like Pepsi or RC. I was mildly amused by clear Crystal Pepsi though, but only for the look not the taste.

28. RJ Reynolds also came out with their peppermint flavored Bright cigarettes in the early 80s which were supposed to freshen a smoker's breath.

29. All these inventions in the 80s is what you see today in Smartphones

30. I remember the foam dome home

31. 0:24 Goldwing doors??? Gullwing. Not Goldwing.

32. Just a different era, even though a lot of these items could have paved the way to the Future, I speak for a lot of people when "we weren't ready for all that technology yet" hell I'm not ready now either😢😂

33. Those premier ciggs were so ridiculous!!

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