What Happened to Overachieving Child Movies?

Sometimes I enjoy watching campy 80s films that I liked as a kid. For some reason, the 80s were filled with movies of middle school children who do ridiculously spectacular things, like going up in space (Space Camp), developing a military-grade laser weapon (Real Genius), nearly starting World War III (WarGames), flying an F-16 fighter jet (Iron Eagle), flying a UFO (Flight of the Navigator), or saving the galaxy in a space warcraft (The Last Starfighter). I kind of miss those movies, even though it really bugged me that in Space Camp, the kids' hair doesn't float around while they're in orbit.

And now, your moment of zen: