‘80s Life: A Free-Range Playtime and The Birth of Video Games

This is the third in a series on daily life as we recall it during
a brighter, more hot pink time in America's history. If you
were a kid in The ‘80s, what did you do for fun? We Gen Xers
(roughly those born between 1965 and 1980) were probably the last
American generation to experience a “free-range” childhood. That’s
not what it was called back then of course. It was just called
childhood. Let the kids loose on the streets to figure out for
themselves how to stay entertained. Play outside. Ride your bikes
without helmets until the street lights came on. Or until your mom
called your friend’s house, asked if you were there, and told you
to come home.
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