They say right before you die, your life flashes before your eyes. This is how I imagined it.

This pretty much covered 1/3 of the first 10 years of my life.

The great thing about being a child of the 80's is that you were too young to understand what materialism was, or what the long-term implications of a consumer culture might be. Because of that, we get to celebrate the memories of our own excesses guilt-free while condemning the very people who made it possible. Thanks for the NES, mom and dad, now FUCK YOU for supporting Reagan at some point!

For a while Memorex was the only media I'd buy until Maxell somehow made it cooler to own a lot of blank tapes with all kinds of crazy metallic materials built into them.

I feel half nostalgic for a pretty shitty decade and half like I'm dying.

It's like a 50 minute Blipvert for the 80's. Caution: playing this with the volume down and your own 80's music in the background may cause overdose.

I can't be the only one who saw the title and thought that this would be a clip of the video game "Smash TV" with the announcer making a Memorex reference... can I?

I was honestly disappointed at first, as I thought the same thing, then I saw Caminantes comment and that made up for it.