Instead of sipping panda pops and eating cheese and onion crisps whilst stationary, kids were now snacking on wheels!
Roller skates had yet another revival in 1984 - it might have had something to do with the film Rollerboogie being shown on summer-holiday telly.
The roller disco very quickly became incredibly popular. It gave the girls the excitement of being chased and the boys a chance to accidentally-on-purpose land on top of the girl they fancied.
For some reason roller boots were always blue and yellow in 1984, and had leatherette go-faster stripes on the sides. Except, of course, the ones you rented at the rink, which were white and scuffed.
