A Time Machine to the 80s: Croissants, Atari, and Venezuelan Minitecas

This is a publication based on the suggested topic proposed in the Hive Learners community through their discord, which on this occasion is "BACK TO LIFE".
"The 80s weren’t just a decade—they were a state of mind."


Leonardo AI
Welcome my frequent readers and new visitors to this blog.
The subject of this occasion is "Bring to Life," and it refers to what we would bring back to this era if we had the opportunity—whether it be an animal, a person, a product, or a way of life.
This is a difficult decision.
I have been reading several publications from participants in the community, and they have had quite interesting choices.
Most of them bring back a way of life, while some bring coins because the way they received the benefits of purchases in past years gave them a lot more money.
For a moment, I come to think that it would be a good idea to have the value of what was the Venezuelan bolívar previously, to be able to buy a number of things and meet a number of needs that are required today—not only for me but for a lot of people.
I think that would really make a difference in quality of life. But I decided that I'm not going to talk to you about that.
I'm going to talk to you about a way of life.
If there is a time that I long for, it is the 80s. Life in those years was different. I remember that during those years, I was in my high school time, attending what was the third year of high school, and I was in a Catholic priesthood school, the School Santo Tomás de Aquino.
I remember with a lot of affection how I always went to the canteen to enjoy my croissant with ham and cheese that had yellow cheese—delicious, melted with ham—and the croissant had a very exquisite flavor.
I clearly remember that the money they gave me from the canteen was enough to buy one or two croissants and a juice, and I could enjoy them quietly at recess time.


Leonardo AI
I also long for those times because I remember how spacious the school was.
I was in a school with a building that was four or five floors and had a quite large area. Next to it was the church where the priests held mass, and several of those priests taught us.
I remember that time because it was very evident the treatment that each of the priests gave us—it was quite interesting because they taught us and educated us according to the tradition of the Dominican fathers, and they were traditions that were culturally very interesting.
I remember above all that in those years, I was very attached to the learning of computer science.
Computing caught my attention a lot—computers and the Atari 2600, which was in vogue in those years, had only recently come out in the time of the 80s.
Also in vogue were the minitecas, the discotheques, those ambulances discos that became very famous here in Caracas.
I long for those times because I remember precisely how you exchanged music tapes—the cassettes of music from brands like TDK—with the recordings of the fashionable minitecas.
I remember how on many occasions, I exchanged cassettes of a miniteca that was called Sandy Lane for cassettes of another that was called Betelgeuse, which were the ones that dominated here and were fashionable at the time.
The interesting thing is that these exchanges were original cassettes by the DJs who recorded the music in those minitecas, and they came with the card of the miniteca—something very exclusive—to have the card with the stickers and the colored cassette with the case and everything of the miniteca was something that was really a privilege and very particular of the time.
That is, one lived that time of the pixel art of the Atari 2600 games that were in fashion—Asteroid, Missile Command, and E.T. the Alien was in fashion, both the video game and the movie in those years.


Leonardo AI
It was a really beautiful time, marked at a local level where I live for some parties they did in clubs that were exclusive.
In this case, I remember and bring to light a party that was made in the Caracas Hebraic Club, which is in a place called Los Chorros.
I remember that there was a band of motorized individuals called the Gladiators at that time—people who were characterized by being bodybuilders and fighters, very strong men, a group of men on motorcycles who lifted weights.
They were characterized because they were the security in these events of these minitecas.
I remember that in the Hebraic Club, they were there, and they stopped—they avoided a fight. I still have recorded in my mind the scene where all of them got into a great brawl and made fly one of the handrails of the wooden stairs, which were very thick.
With a single blow, one of these Gladiators, these bodybuilders, left almost half of a ladder broken.
These were very exciting times, and even though it seems something dangerous, it was something very much of the time to participate in these parties and these minitecas.
So I would bring back those times because I am sure that would really change the world—to experience that emotion of the Atari 2600 and to participate in these parties is something that is a unique feeling, one that I have not seen again and currently do not enjoy because the parties now are in a completely different way.
They do not have that pixelated air and the music of the minitecas that they had previously.
It is something very beautiful, very particular, that I would be delighted to bring back to life, and I am sure that many people of my generation and from that time would enjoy it 100%.

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I liked this post, good memories of times spent with friends and so with these little things we were very happy at that time too.
Unforgettable times that really strange too much.
Los juegos de los 80 y 90 tuvieron un gran impacto. Ahora la gente ya no valora los nuevos lanzamientos con el mismo aprecio que antes. Quizás ese fue el caso de muchas innovaciones tecnológicas que hemos vivido hasta ahora.
Las nuevas generaciones valoran mas la inmediatez y el recibir el placer de forma rápida, mientras recuerdo perfectamente bien como yo contaba los días que faltaban para que saliera a la venta el cartucho de "centipede" y de "defender" de atari 2600. Disfrutaba mucho la espera, nos reuníamos todos en la puerta de la tienda donde iban a vender el cartucho todos los días, y esperábamos noticias. Cuando el proveedor le traía a la tienda los posters, stickers y demás cosas del juego antes de su lanzamiento , recuerdo que el dueño de la tienda los compartía con nosotros. Y eramos muy felices!. Yo quiero que vuelvan esos tiempos, esa emoción!.
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Old times never die as they say, but the present must also remember those days as this would bring us some smiles into our faces.
Anytime we remember those days, so many things kept running into our head. We may be thinking it's if it's possible to bring it back, but it cannot.
The old days are the best, especially because they remember and long for nostalgia, and remember is living!
I am not your fukin oppressor. Do not fukin come having a go at me for something you said you will do fuk all to change.
Do not give me excuse after excuse why you will DO NOTHING.
Doing nothing is that nothing worth talking about.
Do not tell me the things I do not know.
I know very well the state of affairs in Venezuela.
The fact you do not want to even entertain the chance of change is evident.
Ever imply I am a dumb fukin Paddy again and I will use all my HP to down vote you.
You are not aware of what I have had to live in this country, you don't know what I have lived or cross through, you dont know it at all. And regarding change, we have spent 25 years trying to change the country's situation, the old ones have no strength to fight, do not talk about what you do not know.
Saying that you know about the sanctions does not represent that you know what happens here, there is a lot of more, but of course you have no idea of all the suffering of this country, you do not know what we have had to suffer seeing our relatives, neighbors and loved ones being tortured, people eating garbage in the streets and many more things.
Regarding the Downvotes, you are free to do what you please with your HP, as well i will do with mine. 😀
Oh and from now on you are muted in discord and in my profile, so I dont Give a Fuck about you.
I do not know what the word "Paddy" means nor I am interested in knowing it. But if you are threatening me, you can really go to hell, I'm not afraid of you.
And you do not know the life I lived to say that your one is any harder.
But you will just not accept there is someone out there who might have had a harder life than you.
Of course there are thousands of people who have had a difficult life, I do not talk about their lives, I speak of mine and the struggle that represents life in this country.
And still what happens there is something you told me that you do nothing to change.
Do you not even realise how stupid that sounds.
You will never do anything to change what is in the things you do not like. But you will bitch about it all day.
Complain...
Long bloody list
Do you want to do something to change it.
No.
Then why are you crying?
Crying? No, is it simply not agreeing that the strongest press the most weak to continue perpetuating themselves in power.
It's your words, not mine 😀
Fear of me is never a thing that would happen. You live in fear of yourself. You will not raise a hand to defend yourself.
The words still hold true. The only way to change things in the world is to rise face it and overcome.
You do not know how, I can understand that.
That you do not want to know how I do not understand.
But you go do you the impoverished little South American wholives in a 3rd world country run by corrupt communists. Pity me and give me money. I will do nothing to change things in this country. But you guys here on Hive. Keep supplying the Hive and HBD.
I got ye.
Supongo que si viven en el primer mundo o países desarrollados si que tienen el poder para recibir upvotes , hive y hbd verdad?, es muy gracioso lo que dices. Como tienen alto stake, pues venga, que reciban todos los hbd.
Que buena distribución de las recompensas en hive, el poderoso siempre va a ganar mas y los pequeños menos.
En fin, fue entretenido distraerme un rato con un fanático como tu.
Y este comentario esta en mi idioma nativo, porque así realmente dejo plasmado lo que quiero decir y demostrar lo equivocado que estas, no vives en Venezuela, no conoces nuestras luchas, no tienes ideas de todo el sufrimiento de un anciano que recibe mensualmente una pensión de 3 dolares para vivir.
Ah pero los poderosos en hive solo pueden ganar dinero ellos, ya sea via splinterlands o los circulos de votos que perpetuan entre quienes tienen mayor poder de voto.
Que divertido la verdad, así con el fanatismo.
¿No me ves en el servidor de Hive escuchando los programas en español?
Never did I make a threat.
Oh really? , so how do you explain this ?😀
I see no threat
Well, it seems that warning me with downvotes is a clear threat .
last message that I answer to you.
I dont want to spend my time with bullies.
It's more a thing of respect me. I respect you. We can be disrespectful to each other if you want.
But you knew that cause you didn't repeat it.
Bully. Ha. I added you to a vote for no reason at all.
Taking your BS out on me because I do not live in Venny. Ha. That cost you those pennies not me.
That the loss of those pennies means nothing to you. I can only conclude the loss of finance does not concern you. Therefore You are not as much in need as you say for food or you would power down some Hive like a man and feed your family. Or is that the seeds for tomorrows food.
You will keep the hive here to keep more coming in. But you will do nothing in real ;life to change things. You live in fear. Fear of how you live now or fear of change.
That you do not want to do anything yourself but want others to make changes for you. You are a living hypocrisy.
Good luck with that.
A downvote is not a threat. Saying a down vote may come, Is STATING that. Things are going far here. Maybe they should stop. No But saying one more thing about the poor people the sick people, The diabetics I do not know about. Is just to continue the BS Pity me 3rd world country shite.
Carry on pilgrim.
Ye may one day sit in a saddle.
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Hello!
You've stirred up so many memories from years past that I'm thrilled with!
While we don't have the same experiences here, there are some that evoke similar feelings of nostalgia.
Thank you for this wonderful post!
Hugs!
Hello my esteem!
First of all, thanks for your appreciation to my felt lines,
These were times that I treasure with a lot of passion and that I dream awake with returning to those times, where even the taste of the sodas makes me salivate!
!PIZZA
I totally understand. It's happened to me a few times.
Big hug!
Good morning, @manclar... I can't tell you anything else on this occasion other than that you brought back some very good memories, although I'm not sure I'd want to relive the same thing again.
A hug 🤗
I would like to live those times again, it was the best of my life ... I think I would live locked in that loop again and again.
!PIZZA
pd: tengo un bastardo fanático insultando en esta publicación, lee los comentarios para que te enteres de estas basuras que andan por hive, extremistas recalcitrantes que no tienen la mínima idea de lo que sucede en Venezuela y por lo que atravesamos, e intentan hacer bullying con amenazas, estoy a una letra de mandarlo a comer mierda, amigo.
Estoy por Hive, en un rato entro a indignarme un poco. Por mi parte, salí del bucle... lo pasado es pasado, pero yo no vivo en Venezuela.
a mi me gusta revivir esta parte del pasado como algo bonito, sera porque aun tengo esos románticos recuerdos, o me gusta romantizar esa epoca.
En tu post voy a mostrarte la piedra, la misma con la que quiero partirle la cabeza al imberbe que dice cosas sin sentido en este post.
I was born in the 80’s and those cassette meteorites are still very fresh. The way the use of cassettes faded is painful and there was more communal living, now everyone seems lost in the digits era.
The cassettes will never forget! I remember when I had my first Walkman Sony, it was all metal, dark blue, unforgettable experience to listen to my music there!.
😁