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The 1980s Retro Movement was a period in the 2000s when certain aspects 1980spop culture swung back into mainstream as many people who were between their 20s and early 40s in the 2000s became nostalgic for the now-20 year old era and tired of the 2000s similarity with the 1990s.
The movement is also popular among the younger generation: children born in the '80s and early '90s appear to have nostalgia for the era, albeit in a more "retro" way since they were too young to experience it or were not even born yet.
References were often made to the 1980s in the popular Fox Network shows Futurama and Family Guy.
Also many guest stars from the 80s appeared on the show.
In the two shows many of the references dealt with common fads, trends, music videos, commercials, humor, news and events of the 1980s.
The Suburbans was a 1999 drama that satirized the 80s revival hype of the time.
I Love the 80s a BBC produced series, it documented many of the fads, movies, television, news & events, and trends that happened during the decade.
It also featured many appearances by popular celebrities sharing their opinions on each topic.
It had the highest ratings of all the other "I Love the..." series and had two major sequel versions, I Love the 80s Strikes Back and I Love the 80s 3D.
The return of the gross-out comedy, a la Porky's, as viable in film following American Pie in 1999.
American Pie 3 aka American Wedding features a dance off to 1980s hits.
Big hair, including the Mullet returns slightly, and an excess of colorful makeup and rouge becomes popular again.
The hour-long television drama and primetime soap become popular again.
1980s-inspired motifs and designs have become fairly regularly used in popular culture.
Overprocessed, loud, slow music has come increasingly into fashion, echoing 1980s hair metal.
Napoleon Dynamite featured a community stuck in the 1980s.
The fashion, hairstyles, decor, and appliances were all of Eighties-vintage.
The character of Uncle Rico was constantly expressing his nostalgia for his high school days "back in '82."
Hit Movies from the '80s like The Breakfast Club are released as a High School Reunion series along with other hit movies of the '80s.
MTV also honored The Breakfast Club on the 2005 Movie Awards.
Retro Future, an album containing all sorts of remixed hits from the 1980s will be released in 2006.
Eric Prydz samples Steve Winwood's "Valerie" for the song "Call on Me." which has started a trend of dance acts using 80's hit as a sample loop.
Dance acts covering 80's hits between 2002 and 2004 which prior to that many hard rock and metal acts had already done at the start of the revival started by Limp Bizkit covers George Michael's "Faith.".
Bowling For Soup, a popular band of the 2000s, released a song titled "1985", a very popular song among pre-teens and teens in the mid-2000s.
It's also popular among nostalgic fans in their late 30s and early 40s.
The song is about the longings of a bored 40-ish mother of teenagers for the dreamy days of her early 20-ish youth before she settled down.
Its video also parodies many popular music videos of the era
Electroclash, a common trend in 80s music which features very generic computer-like sounds, reappeared in popular music.
Kingdom Hearts 2 features a world on Tron which was a movie released in 1982.
The developers wanted to reach the gamers that were nostalgic.
Tron 2.0 was released in the 2000s along with other remakes of popular 80s videogames including NARC despite being unrelated to the original.
Nostalgia for Old-Skool video games and arcade culture, particularly emulators, particularly the MAME system became popular as a result.
Several well known video game publishers with arcade game background, such as Sega, Irem, Taito, etc during the 80s released compilation games, namely Capcom Generations.
Many of them were released prior to the retro movement, as the retro movement became popular, many of these compliation games' secondhand prices skyrocketed, significantly higher for the Sega Saturn compared with the same title released on the Sony Playstation notably on the 1998 game Image Fight & X-Multiply which commands $10 extra for the former console over the PSX.
Most of the games featured on the Plug-and-Play mini-consoles feature games from the 1980s, some series include Namco and Atari.
Atari even released an old-Skool style console for purchase that has games built-in known as the Atari Flashback.
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The release of The Wedding Singer in 1998, which was seen by many as premature nostalgia.
Slow, escalating return of popular 1980s fashion motifs in popular fashion.
This includes the preppie and new wave styles and their repopularization in the 2000s.
As well, bright and imposing colors, a much more tailored/imposing/composed look, the prevalence of daringly cut jackets and high waists, and the impending (from 2006 February Fashion Week) reintroduction of leggings and the "puffy" look.
Wearing high-heeled boots, specifically tucking one's slacks into them, becomes a popular trend among young women -- which was also a popular trend during the '80s.
Hoop Earrings also make a comeback.
"Fun in the sun" images become popular again.
1980s cartoons shirt designs
In the United Kingdom, a chain of 1980s-themed bars (branded as Reflex) have recently gained increasing prominence in various towns and cities.[671] These bars do serve drinks such as alcopops that only gained popularity in the late 1990s-early 2000s, but the music is entirely 1980s pop with a mix of early 90s pop and the decor is usually indicative of 1980s pop culture icons.
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