Fun FactNo. 01
The Jamaican bobsled team
Jamaica sent a bobsled team to the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. It later inspired Cool Runnings.
📷 M. Smelter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commonscowabunga.exe
Time capsule of the day
1988
Cowabunga! Ninja Turtles and Super Mario Bros. 2.
MovieNo. 02
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Cartoons and real people in the same movie. "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."
📷 Poster via TMDBTV ShowNo. 03
GameNo. 04
Super Mario Bros. 2
Came out in the U.S. in October 1988. Pluck turnips, throw them at Shy Guys.
📷 Cover via IGDBSnackNo. 05
Teddy Grahams
Bear-shaped graham crackers, introduced in 1988.
📷 AccurateZoomer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsFoodNo. 06
30-minute pizza delivery
Domino's promised your pizza in 30 minutes, and kids timed every order.
📷 MultiEditor03 · CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsToyNo. 07
Ninja Turtles figures
Playmates' figures arrived in 1988. Everyone needed all four brothers.
📷 Lsapbonipp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJokeNo. 08
Why don't Ninja Turtles ever get lost?
📷 Calvin Walton from Ottawa, ON, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commonshow_i_grew_up.exe
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Top of 1988
The most watched movies that yearTitles and posters from TMDB.
What everyone was into in 1988
💡 The Jamaican bobsled team · 🎬 Who Framed Roger Rabbit · 📺 Garfield and Friends · 🎮 Super Mario Bros. 2 · 🍬 Teddy Grahams · 🍕 30-minute pizza delivery · 🧸 Ninja Turtles figures
🎵 Biggest songs of 1988
Play the top 100 →- Faith · George Michael
- Need You Tonight · INXS
- Got My Mind Set on You · George Harrison
- Never Gonna Give You Up · Rick Astley
- Sweet Child o' Mine · Guns N' Roses
- So Emotional · Whitney Houston
- Heaven Is a Place on Earth · Belinda Carlisle
- Could've Been · Tiffany
- Hands to Heaven · Breathe
- Roll with It · Steve Winwood
Top movies of 1988
- Die Hard
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Beetlejuice
- Rain Man
- Grave of the Fireflies
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Akira
- Cinema Paradiso
- Coming to America
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- Big
- They Live
- Rambo III
- Child's Play
- The Land Before Time
- Twins
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Bloodsport
- Willow
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Top TV shows of 1988
- The Wonder Years
- Red Dwarf
- Garfield and Friends
- Roseanne
- A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Count Duckula
- The Storyteller
- Mission: Impossible
- Freddy's Nightmares
- Choujuu Sentai Liveman
- Unsolved Mysteries
- Jack the Ripper
- The Bourne Identity
- RoboCop: The Animated Series
- Murphy Brown
- Gunbuster
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes
- Dulce Desafío
- Home and Away
Top video games of 1988
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Ninja Gaiden
- Altered Beast
- Super Contra
- Double Dragon II: The Revenge
- Ghouls 'n Ghosts
- Final Fantasy II
- Battle Chess
- Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
- Blaster Master
- RoboCop
- Cabal
- Ice Hockey
- Leisure Suit Larry 2: Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
- R.C. Pro-Am
- Silk Worm
- Splatterhouse
- Wasteland
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
- The NewZealand Story