Kids in 80s movies had the best adventures, from space travel to stealing planes.
Here are 10 examples of their envy-inducing exploits…
Since time immemorial, kids have been getting into all sorts of mischief and adventures.
Three kids were whisked off to Neverland inPeter Pan,and got into a breezy confrontation with Captain Hook.
Alice enjoyed a dreamlike and occasionally sinister odyssey through Wonderland.
The kids ofSwallows And Amazonsenjoyed lots of outdoor adventures, including boating and light acts of piracy.
They may have gone on adventures in far-off places.
They may have forced adults to walk the plank on occasions.
But they were still essentially regular, ginger beer-drinking, sandwich-eating youngsters.
They started to fly planes.
Save democracy from communist invaders.
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Possibly.
We thought we found one once, but it turned out to be a mangy and very angry fox.
We still have nightmares about the encounter.
Davids abilities dont just extend to starting nuclear wars, either.
He hacks into an airline computer and orders free plane tickets to Paris.
The mundane reality:unless you were supremely rich in the 1980s, the internet simply didnt exist.
Most of us had to make do with playingDizzyon the ZX Spectrum instead.
Were still awaiting a reply.
The mundane reality:we once went on a road trip to a videogame tournament.
Well, we say road trip, it was a bus to the amusement arcade in the next town.
