Being 10 years old in 1985

I think that kids from every generation, be it the 50s,60s,70s,90s,or 00s, will have their own stories and feelings of what it was like to be 10 years old around a certain time... but I have to say that being 10 in 1985 was something very magical.

Let me start with the movies of that era. I am sure that most of us will agree that Steven Spielberg and the people around him (Chris Columbus, Joe Dante, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis) had a huge influence on the movies that were made between 1977 and 1985.
I mean we were able to watch fantastic movies like Close Encounters, E.T., The Goonies, Explorers, Indiana Jones, the three Star Wars movies, Gremlins, Back to the Future, and so much more in the mid-eighties.
Then there was also The Neverending Story, Flight of the Navigator, Young Sherlock Holmes,...the list goes on and on.

I remember how exciting it was to catch a glimpse of the lobby cards in the theatre, the anticipation of seeing the movie with my parents or older nephews, ...
Coming home afterwards and (there was no Internet yet) reliving the movie in your fantasy by looking at a few pictures in a magazine (if you were lucky to catch one).
I have very vivid memories of seeing Gremlins, The Goonies and Explorers in the cinema and being absolutely enchanted by these experiences...

I also remember walking in toystores or department stores and looking at the wonderful movie toys (I am referring mostly to the Kenner Star Wars toys).
And then there were also all these wonderful cartoons and television series like Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, The Powers of Matthew Star, ...
I am sure every generation has its own movies and series, and toys and music, but man oh man it sure was amazing being ten years old in 1985.

Maybe part of the magic was that there was no Internet, and not everything was "one click away". You had to wait for things, wait for a television series to be aired, waiting weeks with high anticipation till you could visit the cinema, ...
Maybe one of the most magical inventions of the 80s was the VCR. I can still remember my father bringing a VCR from work in the weekend, and then we went to the videostore to rent movies for the weekend...

I became a father for the first time this week, and now I have this idea to collect all the movies I mentioned in this post on dvd, so one day when my son is old enough (between 6-10) I can watch those amazing movies with him, and I am sure I will enjoy seeing his reactions afterwards :).

If you have similar experiences of being a kid in the 80s feel free to share them here on this board.
Thanks for reading!