Ben1981
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Hey. I decided to try something unusual and quite out-there. In theme with the fact that the 2012 London Olympics will be starting towards the end of this month I am going to put every decade since the 1960s to the test in various aspects of pop culture. The single best representative from each of the decades will be chosen and the top three will earn gold, silver or bronze for their decade. The goal is to determine how the decades stack up against each other when it comes to pop culture. I've already made a start, but plan to add more as time progresses:

MEDAL TABLE (current standings)

	Rank	Decade		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
	1	Noughties (2000-2009)		7	4	3	14
	2	Nineties (1990-1999)		6	4	5	15
	3	Eighties (1980-1989)		1	4	3	8
	4	Tenties (current decade so far)		1	2	1	4
	5	Seventies (1970-1979)		1	1	0	2
	6	Sixties (1960-1969)		0	1	4	5
				16	16	16	48

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Ben1981
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Note: All entries have had satisfactory commercial success for qualifying. There is also opinion involved, this is not an "official" truth.

BEST BOARD GAME:
Gold to the Seventies for Headache
Silver to the Eighties for Guess Who?
Bronze to the Noughties for Sudoku

BEST BOOK:
Gold to the Noughties for Ghost Hunt
Silver to the Nineties for Calculator Annie
Bronze to the Sixties for To Kill A Mockingbird

BEST CHOCOLATE:
Gold to the Noughties for Cadbury Dream
Silver to the Tenties for Marvellous Creations
Bronze to the Nineties for Time Out

BEST CLOTHING FASHION:
Gold to the Nineties for 90s fashion
Silver to the Noughties for 00s fashion
Bronze to the Eighties for 80s fashion

BEST ELECTRONIC INVENTION:
Gold to the Noughties for USB Stick
Silver to the Eighties for the Compact Disc
Bronze to the Nineties for PlayStation

BEST MUSIC STUDIO ALBUM:
Gold to the Tenties for Last Night On Earth
Silver to the Nineties for OK Computer
Bronze to the Noughties for Black Gives Way To Blue

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antonnalan
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Board Game: Sudoku is a Noughties thing? I haven't heard of Headache.

Book: I've read To Kill A Mockingbird, but I haven't heard of the other two either? I'm not a book person though.

Chocolate: Surely Time Out beats Marvellous Creations

Clothing Fashion: No comment

Electronic Invention: I think I agree

Music Studio Album: No comment

Ben1981
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Hi Anton. The Sudoku PUZZLE is actually a LOT older than the noughties however, it's commercial success, and more to the point, release of the BOARD GAME, was noughties.

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antonnalan
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Ah okay

Ben1981
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BEST ENERGY/SOFT DRINK:
Gold to the Nineties for V
Silver to the Seventies for Lift
Bronze to the Sixties for Sprite

BEST VIDEO GAME (NON-PC):
Gold to the Nineties for Crash Bandicoot
Silver to the Eighties for Super Mario Bros.
Bronze to the Noughties for Yugioh: Forbidden Memories

BEST VIDEO GAME (PC):
Gold to the Noughties for The Sims
Silver to the Nineties for Lego Island
Bronze to the Eighties for Battle Chess
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savagegrant
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Massively subjective competition you got going here Benners.

BEST DECADE FOR MUSIC IN GENERAL:
Gold to the Nineties
Silver to the Noughties
Bronze to the Eighties

Ben1981
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Yes, it is subjective and I like I said opinion is involved otherwise you'd probably see things like Harry Potter or Connect Four here. But that's the beauty of it. I really welcome the feedback and also have no problem with anyone else here doing their own thing like this, like you have with "Music in general"

BEST MAINSTREAM FILM:
Gold to the Noughties for Tokyo Drift
Silver to the Nineties for Bean: Ultimate Disaster Movie
Bronze to the Sixties for To Kill A Mockingbird

BEST TELEVISION COMEDY:
Gold to the Nineties for Mr. Bean
Silver to the Noughties for Malcolm In The Middle
Bronze to the Tenties for The Cleveland Show
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antonnalan
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I really don't like V, but I do love Lift and Sprite.

Crash Bandicoot! Yeah! Super Mario Bros.! Yeah! What's Forbidden Memories

Meh on The Sims, but I can appreciate how people like it.

Ben1981
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@anton Forbidden Memories was a game for the original Playstation released in 2002. Very good card-themed strategy game.

BEST MAINSTREAM MEDIA FRANCHISE:
Gold to the Nineties for Mr. Bean
Silver to the Eighties for Mario
Bronze to the Sixties for Spiderman

BEST TELEVISION CRIME SERIES:
Gold to the Eighties for Knight Rider
Silver to the Noughties for SVU
Bronze to the Nineties for Walker, Texas Ranger

BEST TELEVISION GAME SHOW:
Gold to the Noughties for The Weakest Link
Silver to the Sixties for Supermarket Sweep
Bronze to the Nineties for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

BEST TELEVISION HOST-HELPS-OUT SERIES:
Gold to the Noughties for Pimp My Ride
Silver to the Tenties for Big Angry Fish
Bronze to the Nineties for Harry's Practice

BEST FAMILY FILM
Gold to the Nineties for Home Alone
Silver to the Noughties for Harry Potter And The Philosphers Stone
Bronze to the Eighties for The NeverEndingStory


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Ben1981
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Side note: A few categories will work under a "mainstream" basis. My definition of "mainstream" is that if a product can aesthetically appeal to a teen/adult audience (the general audience of pop culture), then it is "mainstream". In particular, franchises typically with large appeal to young children but substantially little to no appeal to anyone older are excluded from the listings unless otherwise stated.
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