Fun FactNo. 01
The Berlin Wall falls
On November 9, 1989, crowds started tearing down the wall that split Berlin.
📷 Unknown photographer, Reproduction by Lear 21 at English Wik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commonsbat_signal.exe
Time capsule of the day
1989
Game Boy, Batman, and the Berlin Wall comes down.
MovieNo. 02
TV ShowNo. 03
Saved by the Bell
Premiered August 1989. Zack Morris, Bayside High, and a giant cell phone.
📷 Poster via TMDBGameNo. 04
Tetris on Game Boy
The Game Boy launched in North America in July 1989 with Tetris in the box.
📷 Cover via IGDBSnackNo. 05
FoodNo. 06
Lunchables
Oscar Mayer's build-your-own cracker stacks went national in 1989.
📷 Open Food Facts contributors · CC BY-SA 3.0ToyNo. 07
Power Glove
Nintendo's glove controller. Looked amazing, played... less amazing.
📷 Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsJokeNo. 08
Why did Batman go to the pet store?
📷 Ank Kumar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonshow_i_grew_up.exe
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Top of 1989
The most watched movies that yearTitles and posters from TMDB.
What everyone was into in 1989
💡 The Berlin Wall falls · 🎬 Batman · 📺 Saved by the Bell · 🎮 Tetris on Game Boy · 🍬 Bubble Tape · 🍕 Lunchables · 🧸 Power Glove
🎵 Biggest songs of 1989
Play the top 100 →- Look Away · Chicago
- My Prerogative · Bobby Brown
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn · Poison
- Straight Up · Paula Abdul
- Miss You Much · Janet Jackson
- Cold Hearted · Paula Abdul
- Wind Beneath My Wings · Bette Midler
- Girl You Know It's True · Milli Vanilli
- Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley · Will to Power
- Giving You the Best That I Got · Anita Baker
Top movies of 1989
- Back to the Future Part II
- Dead Poets Society
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Batman
- The Little Mermaid
- Ghostbusters II
- When Harry Met Sally...
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Lethal Weapon 2
- The Abyss
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Look Who's Talking
- Pet Sematary
- Licence to Kill
- Tango & Cash
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Do the Right Thing
- Heathers
- Born on the Fourth of July
Top TV shows of 1989
- The Simpsons
- Dragon Ball Z
- Seinfeld
- Ranma ½
- Tales from the Crypt
- Quantum Leap
- Saved by the Bell
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
- Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
- Baywatch
- Family Matters
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Mobile Cop Jiban
- Lonesome Dove
- Beetlejuice
- Cops
- Alien Nation
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie
- Doogie Howser, M.D.
- Dekalog
Top video games of 1989
- Super Mario Land
- Prince of Persia
- Golden Axe
- Disney's DuckTales
- Final Fight
- SimCity
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
- The Revenge of Shinobi
- Batman: The Video Game
- Strider
- Castlevania: The Adventure
- Buster Bros.
- Populous
- Batman
- Adventures of Lolo
- Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
- North & South
- Shadow of the Beast
- U.N. Squadron