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The decade which produced Rubik’s Cube and the Sony Walkman may seem old-hat, but a new Australian exhibition dedicated to the 1980s is riding a wave of nostalgia for pre-digital days, its curator says.

Peter Cox, who has put together ‘The 80s are back’ at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, says the generation that grew up watching “Dallas”, playing Pac-Man and listening to INXS and Wham! holds a fondness for those day-glo days.

“It was a simpler time,” he told AFP as the show opened.

“It was pre-9/11. While there was a kind of shadow of Cold War and impending nuclear apocalypse, at least you knew where the enemy was.

“It was before the digital era really.” More >