Me too. It's always been my reason for stating why I'm of a generation who was the last to grow up before technology really exploded and became common place, and not among those who were the first to know only a world with cell phones and the Internet. And there was still definitely a lingering Cold War mentality (it was still going on, after all) that we were raised with then, at least here in America. And I too am heavily biased in calling it the greatest decade ever, just because it's the decade that birthed me. And because the 80s were awesome, I am thus awesome*.
*Inherently awesome things being from the 80s does not apply to all things that actually come from the 80s such as AIDs and Reagan/Reaganomics/Iran-Contra/Crack Cocaine.