Submitted by Elaine S

Suddenly music and mixing became portable and easy with the Dual Cassette Player. You could walk down to the store with your boombox on your shoulder or you could plug it into the wall at home and make your girl some mixtapes.
Any street performer or hip-hop, ska, or rocksteady artist worth their salt knows that they owe everything to a dual cassette player and about 30 D batteries. Without the Dual Cassette Player there would have been no street breakdancing, hip-hop, Sound Systems, reggae, mixtapes, or Soundwave (and without Soundwave there’d also be no Ravage, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Ratbat, Rumble, Frenzy, Slugfest, Overkill, Squawktalk, and Beastbox).
So give it up for the Epic Win Dual Cassette Player aka Boombox, aka Ghetto Blaster, aka Brixton Briefcase.

PS. We realize Soundwave, in appearance, is not a Dual Cassette Player, however, he always had all of those cassettes inside him, so in reality he’s a multi-cassette player.

Submitted by Skippy Kay Jay

“Crack that whip!”

Whether you like Devo or not, it’s impossible not to have the tune stuck in your head right now as you read this. When a problem comes along, we know what to do. We also know what to do when something’s going wrong or the cream is about to sit out too long.

Submitted by Jordan N

Mmmmm… Just what we always wanted Good & Plenty licorice flavored lip gloss.

Even though Lip Smackers are still around, we’re giving them an epic win for going out on a limb during that magical time we like to call the 80’s and providing us with all kinds of wacky lip gloss flavors.

Submitted by katsak

Without Aqua Net the world would be without rocking 80’s hair-styles, perfectly-calibrated spud guns, and a giant hole in the ozone. If Aqua Net was never invented we’d probably be in some weird alternate universe where the 80’s weren’t totally bizarre.

Speaking of fantastic 80’s hair, we haven’t had a nostalgic photos thread in almost three weeks, so send us your totally tubular Aqua Net photos at onceuponawin@gmail.com.

Today’s willing victims are Jeff and Teresa. Thank you both for sending in some deeeeeeeelightful pictures!

First we have Jeff:

Photo via viewfromthecloud.com

Uh, Jeff? Maybe it’s the way you’re holding that spoon like a weapon, but we think Grandma and your brother are scared to death by your GLORIOUS mullet. Did they try to make a break for it after this pic was snapped? Because that is the Hair That Ate Thanksgiving. Really.

Teresa: girl, we feel your pain. There was nothing quite like being dragged off to Olan Mills for the annual family photo, was there?

Love the hat/belt matchy-matchy thing you’ve got going on there! Did that jacket have a peplum? If it did, it doesn’t get much more 80’s than puffed sleeves and a peplum!

Thanks again to Jeff and Teresa for sending in the 80’s trauma. Everyone else: WE WANT MORE! Don’t be shy, send in the pics to onceuponawin+80spics@gmail.com!