▸ the soundtrack of
Class of 1989
Middle School
1982–1984Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1985–1989The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1987–1989Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1989–1993Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1994–1998First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
30-year reunion
2019
Generation
Gen X
You'd be about
55
🔙 The world when you walked the stage
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
Back in 1989, the day could start with Voltron, drift into a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, and end with you about to wander the mall food court with nowhere to be.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe👕 tee →
- ThunderCats👕 tee →
- G.I. Joe👕 tee →
- The Smurfs👕 tee →
- Garfield and Friends
- The Real Ghostbusters👕 tee →
- DuckTales👕 tee →
- Inspector Gadget
- Voltron👕 tee →
- Muppet Babies
📰 Headlines
- Berlin Wall falls (Nov 9)
- Exxon Valdez oil spill
- Tiananmen Square crackdown
- US invades Panama
- Loma Prieta earthquake
💡 Tech & Firsts
- Game Boy launches in US (July 31)
- Sega Genesis launches in US
- Tim Berners-Lee proposes the Web
- Nintendo bundles Tetris
- SimCity released
🏆 Sports
- A's win the World Series (quake series)
- Pistons win the NBA title
- 49ers win Super Bowl XXIII
- Flames win the Stanley Cup
- Michigan wins the NCAA title
🤪 Crazes & fads
- Game Boy / Tetris craze
- Batman merchandise mania
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Nintendo Power Glove
- New Kids on the Block fever
👖 Clothes
- Acid-wash jeans peak
- Hammer / parachute pants
- Bike shorts
- Neon windbreakers
- Hypercolor shirts emerge
💵 What it cost
- Gas: $1.02/gal
- Stamp: 25¢
- Movie ticket: ~$4.45
- New car avg: ~$14,400
- Median home: ~$93,100
🧸 Toy chest
🍬 On the shelf
How well do you remember Class of 1989?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
💬 Memories from the Class of 1989
“getting rickrolled”
— Anonymouson this song →“Oh the good ole days before all the controversy. At least Michael is making a comeback!”
— Anonymouson this song →
📸 Your Class of 1989 card
A neon card of your class's year — post it to your reunion group or tag your class.
👥 Find your class
The people who came up on the same songs are hanging out right now.
🎓 Class of 1989 gear
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