1985

"ah sweet, another Warner Bros. AU, as if FoxWarner wasn't enough..." well, let me tell you something… ...this AU is completely different from that one. So... Atari just so happened to get nuked thanks to the video game crash and its licensed E.T. video game IRL. and not only did that crash...

Sometimes people are spared from death by the whims of fate. One example is Yasser Arafat. When the Israeli Air Force attacked the PLO's headquarters in Tunisia in 1985's Operation Wooden Leg, Arafat survived because he'd decided to go out jogging that morning. This raises an inevitable...

As you know, on September 19, 1985, Ronald Reagan the 40th President of the United States met very early with Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid at the National Palace. Where they discussed the situation in the country at the time. The reason the meeting will begin at 7:00 a.m. (Mexico City...

On July 13, 1985 Ronald Reagan had a colon surgery to remove polyps. What if, somehow, the Ol’ Gipper died during his operation, leaving George H.W. Bush as the President of the United States? How would the rest of the 1980’s and the present be affected by this?

This thread will explore an alternative NASCAR universe starting in 1985. This will explore multiple "what if" scenarios and if some drivers never drove in the sport. This thread will be based off of knowledge of NASCAR history and research on YouTube, Wikipedia, and racing-reference.info. This...

In 1984, acting on information received from a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agent, Mexican Army troops destroy over 1,000 hectares of cannabis crop belonging to the drug lord known as “El Padrino”. The next year, on February 7th, that same agent is abducted while on assignment in Mexico. This...

...and rules until his death on May 25, 1992. So he becomes General Secretary of the CPSU in March, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 27 July. He sends Kuznetsov to retirement in 1986 and chooses Pyotr Demichev (1918-2010), his old Moscow party apparatus ally as the new First...

What if Back to the Future part 1 was remade in 2015 so that Marty goes from 2015 to 1985 instead of from 1985 to 1955? What jokes could be added? What jokes would have to be removed? What else would be different as a result of differences between 1955 and 1985 and differences between 1985 and...