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burtonos posted:Two of my all time favorites, late night Sunday night: Tales from the Darkside was definitely from the 80's but I think it lasted until 1991, but Monsters was it's successor. Speaking of stupid 90's hair, I was at the gas station on the way into work and I saw no less than three fat white kids with shaved sides, with designs in them. Is that stuff making a comeback? 
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Nastyman posted:Escape from Horrorland. Oh poo poo, was this the Goosebumps game? 11 year old me read every single Goosebumps book I could get my hands on to the point where my parents would sometimes use Goosebumps books as bribes. I remember that game as actually being fairly creepy (although I'll plead being 11 years old on that) and especially hated when the game made you go down into the sewers. 
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Did anyone else's school library ban Goosebumps after everyone started using them for book reports?
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scorpiobean posted:Oh poo poo, was this the Goosebumps game? 11 year old me read every single Goosebumps book I could get my hands on to the point where my parents would sometimes use Goosebumps books as bribes. I remember that game as actually being fairly creepy (although I'll plead being 11 years old on that) and especially hated when the game made you go down into the sewers. Yeah we stayed the gently caress out of the sewers. I can't even bring myself to go down there now as a grown man.  Also the werewolf in the butcher shop and the ensuing chase was traumatizing. e: I think I learned more from this guy than I ever did at school.  I remember being an hour early to watch the show one time and I just sat in a chair and stared at the TV, not really watching anything. Longest loving hour of my life. Nastyman has a new favorite as of 19:16 on Mar 26, 2012 |
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Mighty Max! I loved the HELL out of that ridiculous show, it made getting ready for school in the mornings bearable. Smartass kid with a magical teleporting baseball cap goes on a mission to defeat the evil Skullmaster (Tim Curry), alongside a Viking bodyguard and an oversized bird voiced by Tony Jay. No one I know remembers it, which kind of amazes me. Opening intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Q7a6SxIBk "Booger-eatin' spaz" is still as funny to me now as it was ten years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvrszkjmiE&t=93s
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RagnarokAngel posted:I probably would put The Matrix at the very end of the 90s for me. It came out in 1999 and it had this vaguely 90s style to it. Things were dirty, and it was about a dystopian future and of course everyone had trenchcoats. It came out in '99 but it's a very "90s" movie to me because, apart from the trenchcoat dystopia thing you mentioned, there are phone booths.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I still see people in Malaysia who make their kids have that I go to school in the midwest, I see these everywhere when I leave my little town. 
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Greetings from the Street Boyzz! I loving love
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This is kind of an obscure one, but it's something I thought I had dreamed for the longest time: Marc Summers (of Double Dare fame) takes a bunch of kids to a haunted house of sorts, and encounter a bunch of creepy stuff and Lance Burton - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NvZ-MoUDws Anyone else remember this one? There's also another Nickelodeon show from the early 90s which I thought I dreamed, it was kind of a Ripley's Believe it or Not style show, with tales of unbelievable occurrences such as spontaneous combustion. I can't find any evidence of this show online, so maybe I did dream it. I seem to remember seeing it early (like 6am) on Saturday mornings, around the time they showed Mr. Wizard's World. Cromulent has a new favorite as of 22:03 on Mar 26, 2012 |
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This thread has inspired me to shoot a 90s throwback video when I get back from Africa, scribbling ideas down like crazy. Now how to acquire Zubaz in wholesale quantities....
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Anyone remember that one drink Pepsi Co made around the time the Macarena was popular? Josta I think it was called.
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Sarah Barracuda posted:Mighty Max! I loved the HELL out of that ridiculous show, it made getting ready for school in the mornings bearable. Mighty Max was tight. Mighty Max spoilers: Both Virgil and Norman die in the last episode
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Iron Crowned posted:Anyone remember that one drink Pepsi Co made around the time the Macarena was popular? Josta I think it was called. Josta was the greatest thing ever, and it was around for all of 3 seconds.
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Speaking of sodas, I think this is the only norwegian soda that actually survived the 90s and is still popular. (Though lately they've released a lovely "energy drink" and now that's all people under 20 buy). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZntK1UcPK3o "With carbos!"
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Iron Crowned posted:Anyone remember that one drink Pepsi Co made around the time the Macarena was popular? Josta I think it was called. You just reminded me of the tons of Pepsi commercials made in the late 90s with the little girl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LnJskwydvM And only a few months ago did I learn that she's Jesse Eisenberg's little sister.
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I was in a Half Price Books a while ago, and found out there was an Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The illustrations were actually photographs, and it was one of the most '90s things I had ever seen. The colors, the pictures, even the all-over-the-place text. I looked inside the cover and, sure enough, the book came out in 1994. Sadly, I did not buy it. I haven't seen it since, and I can't find anything about it on the internet. Has anybody else seen this thing?
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Deacon of Delicious posted:I was in a Half Price Books a while ago, and found out there was an Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The illustrations were actually photographs, and it was one of the most '90s things I had ever seen. The colors, the pictures, even the all-over-the-place text. I looked inside the cover and, sure enough, the book came out in 1994. Sadly, I did not buy it. I haven't seen it since, and I can't find anything about it on the internet. Has anybody else seen this thing? I remember being apprehensive about even flipping through it in a bookstore as a kid. I was apprehensive because I was a little too attached to the way I envisioned the characters and other things, as stupid kids are want to do. Then I finally took a look inside after I grew out of that. I saw the 90's as gently caress photomanipulations (Zaphod is a normal dude combined with another normal dude! Wow!!!) and was done with it pretty quickly. Rahonavis has a new favorite as of 21:16 on Mar 27, 2012 |
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Nastyman posted:Speaking of sodas, I think this is the only norwegian soda that actually survived the 90s and is still popular. (Though lately they've released a lovely "energy drink" and now that's all people under 20 buy). I'm both sad and glad Surge is no longer around in the US. Sad because I loved it, but glad because holy poo poo, I'd drink way too much of it...though I'm sure if I tried some now, I would hate it...it's almost certainly way too sweet...perfect for a teenage boy, not so much for an almost 30 adult.
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Just a quick couple to add:  My two favorite things in the early 90's.
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Sarah Barracuda posted:Mighty Max! I loved the HELL out of that ridiculous show, it made getting ready for school in the mornings bearable. Mighty Max felt INCREDIBLY adult for a kid's show. I still remember many episodes where he totally failed to save the civilians that were in harms way. The brain eating aliens... Norman's nemesis character... Cyberskull... LOTS of casualties in that series. Also, you didn't mention that Norman was Richard Moll (aka Bull from Night Court). 
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Cromulent posted:This is kind of an obscure one, but it's something I thought I had dreamed for the longest time: Marc Summers (of Double Dare fame) takes a bunch of kids to a haunted house of sorts, and encounter a bunch of creepy stuff and Lance Burton - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NvZ-MoUDws Anyone else remember this one? No, not at all. Now that you mention it I totally have a vague recollection of that and a segment they had about a big rube goldberg machine or something. I can't really remember much else about it though. I can kind of picture an introduction with floating stuff, little doors that open, and some purple, but that's about the extent of it. I do know that it existed for sure though. I'll see if I can find anything. EDIT: I think it was called Beyond Belief, but one prior to Beyond Belief fact or fiction. My searching for it is being hindered by that other version and also because they apparently had some Beyond Belief Night recently so that's about all that's coming up, but maybe we can find an intro or something eventually. Here's a bio on the creators. http://www.wizardsofweird.com/index.php?s=bios I remember the Lance Burton halloween nickelodeon thing too, but I don't want to watch it because I remember it as being really cool and it will probably ruin it for me. Ninja Toast! has a new favorite as of 00:52 on Mar 27, 2012 |
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Wandering Knitter posted:PICNIC TIME! This is so familiar, what is it from? I can hear it clearly in my head, but I just can't make the connection! Sorry if it's been mentioned in the thread, and I'm just dense.
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 Lorenzo Lamas was pretty much the baddest motherfucker ever. quote:"He was a cop and good at his job. But he committed the ultimate sin and testified against other cops gone bad. Cops that tried to kill him but got the woman he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the Badlands, an outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter ... a Renegade!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kkPK_WSck
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Ninja Toast! posted:EDIT: I think it was called Beyond Belief, but one prior to Beyond Belief fact or fiction. My searching for it is being hindered by that other version and also because they apparently had some Beyond Belief Night recently so that's about all that's coming up, but maybe we can find an intro or something eventually. Here's a bio on the creators. http://www.wizardsofweird.com/index.php?s=bios Melchiresa posted:This is so familiar, what is it from? I can hear it clearly in my head, but I just can't make the connection! Sorry if it's been mentioned in the thread, and I'm just dense. Cromulent has a new favorite as of 01:34 on Mar 27, 2012 |
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MeccaPrime posted:I don't remember all of the enemies from it, but maybe you're remembering Rise of the Triad. Seriously, how can you talk about Windows 95 without mentioning the Windows 95 Video Guide? I mean, its only Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston, along with several other crazy characters, showing off how awesome Win 95 is, all within Bill Gates' own friggin' personal office!. Other 90's things I remember fondly: Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGufyFt6zQc Cybersix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z22seoMxgpI
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It's the 1990s. Welcome to CYBERPUNK.Slavik posted:
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Myst http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVdfgFr2-EU I was always jealous of the people who had it.
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scorpiobean posted:Hahahaha that made me think of Step by Step which was always on just right before dinner time. I had Lisa Frank everything. Trapper Keepers were banned at my school as well, what the gently caress was wrong with having them?
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wildzero posted:
CD-ROM version of Road Rash was probably the pinnacle of 90s "alternative" style caricature art IMO:    Even the 3DO version's cover is some peak 90s design: 
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Sombrerotron posted:It's the 1990s. Welcome to CYBERPUNK. Was it Bad Influence your thinking of? Used to be on Citv? http://bad-influence.co.uk/
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Mtv's rock n jock sports was 90's as hell. The first one was softball coached by Sam Kinnison and Sammy Haggar and had a pretty respectable lineup of musicians, actors and athletes. The last one I remember watching was coached by Bill Belamy and Dan Cortesse and I don't think any of the actors were famous outside of the 90's and I distinctly remember one of the coaches trading a MLB player for Salt & peppa. They also did basketball. Shawn Kemp dunking on Leo Decaprio was cool.
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I have that blue one in a box in my basement next to a dozen others. I'm saving them for a hypothetical future generation that inherited genes that render them intelligent enough not to lose a Polly up one's nostril.  Look at this poo poo. Look at it! This is one fancypants Polly Pocket. That panel under the blue staircase unscrews to hold AAA batteries to light the place up. Of course, you'll leave it on and the batteries will die and Dad won't replace them because AAA batteries are the red-headed stepchild of the toy world and you never have a pile of those laying around the house so you just have to get used to playing with Polly in darkness. See those corners of the star with tables on them? They reveal hidden compartments underneath! (One of mine is stained yellow because I put a robin's egg in there and the yolk leaked out. Shut up, I was 6.)  But if that previous fairyland thing was too bourgeoisie for you, here's the friggin' Polly Mansion. It even came with a special plastic playmat so you could collect a whole set and put them on lots in a neon plastic neighborhood like an urban planner tripping on shrooms. See that shrubbery to the left of the garage? Press it and it ejects Polly's goddamn Rolls Royce. See the brown cobblestone on the far right? That's her stable. It comes with a horse and a live-in groomer. She's got it made. This pic doesn't even reveal all the rooms because this mansion has so many hinges on it. I did so many chores to earn this badass mother of Pollies when I was in first grade. TunaSpleen has a new favorite as of 03:47 on Mar 27, 2012 |
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TunaSpleen posted:
I had this toy. There was also a ballroom on the first floor.
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You know what I loved in the 90's?  MeccaPrime posted:Motherfucking themes! Sound effects for every goddamned click of the mouse!Radical! The startup/shutdown noises for that theme were the best thing. I wish I could just get those sound effects so I could use them on my computer, I don't even need the cougar. PalmTreeFun has a new favorite as of 04:15 on Mar 27, 2012 |
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I wonder how many of these cherished childhood memories are disintegrating out in the Pacific, contaminating the ocean ecosystem right now... But I digress! 
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Did anyone have that toy that was able to freeze your shadows on the wall? I wish I could remember what it was called since I can't find the commercial for it, but at the time it was the coolest goddamn thing I've ever seen. I still don't even know how it works.
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HateTheInternet posted:Did anyone have that toy that was able to freeze your shadows on the wall? I wish I could remember what it was called since I can't find the commercial for it, but at the time it was the coolest goddamn thing I've ever seen. I still don't even know how it works.
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I had the Nickelodeon freezing shadow toy, I got it randomly for Christmas one year. We couldn't get enough of it and everyone I knew always wanted to play with it. I still listen to almost every 90s dance song listed in this thread, I either have them on my iPod or in the car (Jock Jams #1 is in slot 4 right now  ) those songs never get old!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO05NftxXgc Here is one more song I did not see mentioned yet I used to have a lot of the EZ2Do kits (and other craft toys), I guess they fell off the face of the internet since this is the best I could do through Google. I don't think I had this one in particular.  In elementary school, you were a nobody unless you had Christian Reese Lassen school supplies. I recently bought one of the puzzle sets out of nostalgia.  The Incredible Toon Machine! I've had this game since I was 9 and I STILL can't solve some of the puzzles.  
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Does anyone remember the old Sears air conditioning commercial that used to run on every single commercial break of just about every channel in the 90's? Where some guys wife keeps nagging with "did you call yet?" Then eventually the guy caves in and goes "I'll call now." Then the commercial ends with a lame pun about it being a hot day and the wife says "cool." I'm pretty sure there was a thread on SA a few months ago looking to find this very commercial, but I don't think it was ever found. But that commercial is the one thing I think of if I think of the 90's. Also to the guy above me, Incredible Toon Machine was the greatest game ever. I used to spend hours just making the most ridiculous Rube Goldberg machine I could think of.
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