We’re taking a break this weekend from our usual format and taking a trip down Nostalgia Lane to revisit the 1980s. Only a couple of us here (exactly two, in fact) actually lived through the ‘80s. We’ve been reminded on several occasions in the last year that the decade has become cool in a retro way. One of our offspring asked if there was anything from the 1980s lurking in our closet that might be borrowed. Another of us had our resident nine-year-old opt to attend a school “social,” the theme of which was the ‘80s. Nine-year-olds channeling their inner Madonna. And you wonder why we sometimes come across as if we need therapy?

We have a look back at the video games and fawazeer, the car (singular) we lusted over and the rise of hip-hop — plus why the ‘80s are suddenly cool again on television, Aly Shalakany’s column on Michael Milken and lots more. There’s something for everyone in this weekend’s edition.

Set the scene by visiting CNN’s The Eighties, snippets of which are scattered across the landing page for the Tom Hanks-produced series. It’s peppered with teasers like this one about mobile phones (runtime: 0:49) and the rebirth of Rubik’s Cube (runtime: 1:56). We loved this recap of 80 moments from the 1980s and this virtual reality videore-enacting the fall of the Berlin Wall. Cherry on top: Test your ‘80s knowledge with this quiz. Are you an advisor to The Donald? Show him this video of him saying he does not want to be president.

Check out the episode guide for the series. Legit copies aren’t available to us here in Omm El Donia due to region locking, but YouTube has bootlegs. (Links below were working at dispatch time.)

• Raised on Television.
• The Reagan Revolution
• The Fight Against AIDS
• Tear Down This Wall
• The Tech Boom
• Greed Is Good
• Video Killed The Radio Star

We ran out of space — literally — for this morning’s edition, so you’ll fund our roundup of some of the best books of the ‘80s (and one grumpy editor’s antidote for them) on our web edition. You can also tap here to go read that section right now, if you’d like.

The best part of the ‘80s? Cairo was less crowded. There was no raging debate about “fake news.” No deification of programmers. The Donald was just a real estate developer. The cops in Western cities hadn’t been militarized. And we didn’t have to wake to find that four people shared this with us — two on WhatsApp, one on email, one on iOS Messages: “Did the Oscars just prove that we are living in a computer simulation?”

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