When Max is first seen playing DigDug, the gameboard changes between camera cuts. There are three different board configurations in the scene, suggesting round changes during the filming.
The original Dig Dug High Score table only allows three initials, yet this one has six: "MADMAX, DUSTIN, LUCAS, JKRACH). The 'RND' (round) column is also missing.
Also, all of the arcade games are missing their Indiana Coin-Operated Amusement Tax Licenses stickers, which should have been stuck to the marquee or glass bezel.
Also, all of the arcade games are missing their Indiana Coin-Operated Amusement Tax Licenses stickers, which should have been stuck to the marquee or glass bezel.
When Will tells Dr. Owens that his favorite candy is Reese's Pieces, Dr. Owens replies, "I gotta say, peanut butter and chocolate, c'mon, hard to beat that."
Unlike the regular Reese's peanut butter cups, Reese's Pieces contain no chocolate. They consist of small chunks of peanut butter in a candy coating.
Unlike the regular Reese's peanut butter cups, Reese's Pieces contain no chocolate. They consist of small chunks of peanut butter in a candy coating.
As the van is driving down the alley, a character on the right side of the screen appears to be recording the event with a cell phone.
When Nancy and Steve have dinner at the Holland's (Barb's parents), they are eating Kentucky Fried Chicken and Steve says "I love KFC." While the show is set in 1984 and Kentucky Fried Chicken did not start using KFC as the brand name until 1991, the abbreviation was a common expression among consumers for many years prior to the official change.
When game play for Dragon's Lair is shown it looks different (much better) then how it looks in the home computer and console versions. This leads to the suggestion that what is shown is not game play, but promotional animations.
However, the Dragon's Lair arcade game was unique for its time (1983) because it was constructed from many pieces of prerecorded, hand-drawn animations. These were extracted in real time from a built-in LaserDisk. This also explains the high price ($0.50 or $1.00 per play, rather than the usual $0.25), to pay for the more expensive hardware and to recoup the cost of the animation.
Later conversions for home computers and consoles used cruder pixel graphics. Because of the high cost the arcade games were relatively rare, and many more people are familiar with these conversions than with the original arcade game, leading to this misapprehension.
In the beginning, when Kali and her gang are running from the police in Pittsburgh and she "collapses" the tunnel, her 008 tattoo is shown this way the audience can read it as such, but it should in fact be read 800 to be the correct way.
The Periodic Table in Mr. Clarke's classroom would not have existed in 1984. It lists many elements (Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Livermorium, Copernicum, Flerovium) that were only discovered and named since that time, and it indicates proposed elements (Uuo, Uus, Uup, Uut) that had not been proposed yet.
At dinner with Nancy's parents, Steve says "I like KFC". Kentucky Fried Chicken wasn't widely referred to as KFC in this time period and didn't rebrand until 1991, though the packaging reflects the correct original long name.
Dig Dug (1982), Centipede (1980), Galaga (1981) and Pac-Man (1980) all have LCD screens, which were not widely available or used in arcades until almost 20 years later.
The walkie talkies the police use are modern Motorola HT-1000's that were first used around 1994.
This episode was set in 1984 but features several songs by Oingo Boingo that were not recorded or released until 1985.