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Starcade was produced by the JM Production Company to air on WTBS and later syndication by Turner Program Services (TPS). Starcade was the first video arcade game show, and set the blueprint for similar game shows like Video Power, Nick Arcade, and Arena.
The Video Game is an American television game show that aired from 1984 to 1985. It was created by JM Production, and debuted shortly after the cancellation of their earlier game show Starcade. [1] The Video Game was taped at Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in Valencia, California.
3. You remember music on MTV . On Aug. 1, 1981, MTV premiered in the United States, and the first video the fledgling network played was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, [2] but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.
Pedro Zamora was a Cuban American gay male who contracted HIV as a teenager, became an HIV activist, was a feature of MTV's television show The Real World, then died of AIDS at age 22 in 1994. [6] He is notable as being a major public figure who contracted HIV and whose everyday life was well-documented in mass media.
The AIDS crisis ran rampant during the '80s. On March 2, 1985, the FDA approved a blood test for the disease. The first test was known as an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay or ELISA test.
5. "Netflix and chill." Netflix obviously didn't exist back then. But even the concept of binge-watching was novel. In order to watch an entire TV show, you had to tune into the right channel at ...
Pac-Man (1980). The 1980s was the second decade in the industry's history.It was a decade of highs and lows for video games.The decade began amidst a boom in the arcade video game business with the golden age of arcade video games, the Atari 2600's dominance of the home console market during the second generation of video game consoles, and the rising influence of home computers.