Kids nowdays have to understand that the '80's were a completely different time back then. We had the threat of nuclear war, had to tunnel through snow hills to get to our classes, there were cattle grazing on the center medians on campus, we had to sit on hard plastic bleachers bridging four inch gaps in the plastic. Cars with fuel injection wouldn't start when it got ten below. And you could misalign your spine lugging around the portable analog music players that we had.
It was different living on the frontier back then and hence some would say cruder.