flux_capacitor.exe

Time capsule of the day

1985

Back to the Future and a gray box called the NES.

📦 Build your 1985 capsule

Fun FactNo. 01

Live Aid

July 13, 1985: concerts in London and Philadelphia raised money for famine relief.

📷 Squelle · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

MovieNo. 02

Back to the Future

Marty McFly, a DeLorean, and 88 miles per hour.

📷 Poster via TMDB

TV ShowNo. 03

ThunderCats

"Thunder, thunder, ThunderCats, ho!" Premiered in 1985.

📷 Poster via TMDB

GameNo. 04

Super Mario Bros.

Came with the NES, which launched in New York in October 1985.

📷 Cover via IGDB

SnackNo. 05

New Coke

Coca-Cola changed its formula in April 1985 and brought the original back that July.

📷 Can: The Coca-Cola Company Photo: w:user:Jetijonez · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

FoodNo. 06

Hot Pockets

Microwave it, wait, then burn your tongue anyway.

📷 Open Food Facts contributors · CC BY-SA 3.0

ToyNo. 07

Teddy Ruxpin

A talking bear that read stories from a cassette in his back.

📷 Worlds of Wonder; Forsse, Earl Kenneth · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

JokeNo. 08

Why can't you trust a DeLorean?

📷 Amaury Laporte · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

how_i_grew_up.exe

Make it yours

Tell us how you grew up and every year gets extra picks from your scene, a music chart for you, and memories from people who grew up like you.

How did you grow up? Pick any that fit.

Where? Pick one.

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top_of_1985.exe

Top of 1985

The most watched movies that year

Titles and posters from TMDB.

What everyone was into in 1985

💡 Live Aid · 🎬 Back to the Future · 📺 ThunderCats · 🎮 Super Mario Bros. · 🍬 New Coke · 🍕 Hot Pockets · 🧸 Teddy Ruxpin

🎵 Biggest songs of 1985

Play the top 100 →

Careless Whisper · George Michael
Like a Virgin · Madonna
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go · Wham!
I Want to Know What Love Is · Foreigner
I Feel for You · Chaka Khan
Out of Touch · Daryl Hall & John Oates
Everybody Wants to Rule the World · Tears for Fears
Money for Nothing · Dire Straits
Crazy for You · Madonna
Take On Me · a-ha

Top movies of 1985

Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
The Goonies
Rocky IV
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Brazil
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Commando
Return
The Return of the Living Dead
A View to a Kill
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Clue
The Color Purple
Come and See
Witness
Ran
After Hours
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
Re-Animator

Top TV shows of 1985

ThunderCats
MacGyver
Moonlighting
The Golden Girls
Robotech
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Dennis the Menace
The Twilight Zone
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
Amazing Stories
EastEnders
She-Ra: Princess of Power
North and South
Growing Pains
Das Boot
Small Wonder
Street Hawk
The Care Bears
Star Wars: Droids
All in Good Faith