Products
- Alphie
- The Animal (toy vehicle with claws that came out of the wheels)
- Baby On Board signs (and similar signs)
- Barbie and the Rockers
- Big Trak
- Bloom County (we don't know where else to put this)
- Boob Tubes (scented hulahoops)
- boom boxes
- Bop and other youth magazines
- Brooke Shields Barbie
- Cabbage Patch Kids (1983)
- Capsela building sets
- Care Bear Cousins
- Care Bears
- Charmkins (toys worn as jewelry)
- Chinese jump rope
- Choose Your Own Adventure books
- Cliff Hangers glow-in-the-dark race sets
- Clue VCR Mystery Game (1985)
- combs with big handles, swirled colors, and names engraved on the handle
- compact discs
- Construx
- Cricket (the doll, not the game or insect)
- Crossfire
- Crystar
- deelie boppers
- Don't Tip The Waiter
- Double Trouble (variation on the classic board game "Trouble") (1988)
- drink boxes (still exist, but were everywhere back then)
- Dressing Pretty (fashion model, bride, and ballerina costumes for little girls)
- Dynamite magazine
- Electric Youth Perfume
- Electronic Battleship
- Fabulous Fred
- Faz
- Fireball Island
- Fisher Price video cams
- Garbage Pail Kids stickers
- Garfield (he was really popular then)
- Garfield car window ornaments
- Get in Shape Girl (Aerobics set for young girls)
- G.I. Joe
- Girl Talk
- Glo-worm
- Go Bots
- googly-eyed stickers
- Guess Who? (the mystery face game)
- G.U.T.S.
- heavy metal magazines
- Hello Kitty
- He-Man and She-Ra action figures
- Hit Stix
- hot loops
- Huffy bikes
- Hug-a-Bunch
- key cars
- keyboards played like guitars (on strap)
- (little) Honda scooters
- Hot Dog magazine
- I Vant to Bite Your Finger (Dracula board game)
- Jenga (1986)
- Jem
- keytar (1982)
- Kid Sister
- Koosas
- Koosh Ball
- Laser Tag
- LaserDiscs
- Lil' Professor calculator
- Mad Scientist
- Madballs
- Major Morgan
- Mangloids
- M.A.S.K. toys
- Matchbox car stunt tracks
- Micro Machines
- Mr. Microphone
- Mr. T action figures
- Monchichis (1983)
- Muppet Babies
- M.U.S.C.L.E. figurines
- My Buddy
- My Little Pony
- My Pet Monster
- Mystery Mansion (1984)
- Nash skateboards
- ninja stuff
- Outliners (those pens that wrote in silver)
- Penny Racers
- Photon
- Pictionary (1985)
- Pictionary Junior (1987)
- Pig Pong (1986)
- Pillow People
- Pizza Party! board game
- pocket hand-held electronic games
- Pocket Rockers
- Pogo Ball
- Poochie
- Popples
- Pound Puppies
- Power Wheels
- Puffalump
- puffy paint
- puffy stickers
- PXL 2000 (B/W camcorder that used audio cassettes)
- Questron video game books
- Rainbow Brite
- remote control cars
- ripcord cars
- Roller Racers
- Rub-A-Dub Doggy
- Rubik's Cube (actually came out in 1979, but we say it belongs here)
- scratch 'n sniff stickers
- Scruples (1987)
- Showbiz pizza (eg Chuck E. Cheese)
- Shrinky Dinks
- Silverhawks
- Simon
- Sit 'n Spin
- skateboards with the fat wheels
- Skip-It
- Smoochies
- Smurfs
- Snoopy snow cone machine
- Snorks
- Snugglebumms
- Speak `N Spell
- Spokey Dokes
- Star Wars action figures
- sticker albums
- Stomper 4x4's
- Strawberry Shortcake (and other food related girls' toys)
- Sweet Pickles
- Sweet Secrets
- Taboo (1989)
- Talking Teacher
- Teddy Ruxpin
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Therapy, The Game (1986)
- Thundercats
- Topple (1984)
- Torpedo Run!
- Transformers (1984)
- Trapper Keeper
- Trivial Pursuit (1983)
- T-Shirt Pals
- Turbo Hopper remote control cars
- TV lunch boxes
- 2XL
- Upwords (1983)
- Verve perfume
- Voltron
- Wacky Pack Stickers
- Wacky Wall Walkers
- Walkman
- Wrestling Buddies
- wristwatch calculators
- wristwatch video games
- Wuzzles