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A hat trick of games. Dopewars, that goes straight to another era. It didn't even have a nice interface when my older brother installed and forgot about it on the computer. Back when 'speed' was just a super version of 'weed', right? Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure was way more fun anyway. Or Bio Menace, or Commander Keen. Games are technically so much better now but I can't enjoy them like those little lovely .exes of yesteryear. Also this thread got me thinking about the TV show The Pretender, even though it wasn't that campy at all. Early nineties colors were something else... half of anyone at any time would be wearing three or more shades of 'very fluorescent bright'. The late nineties were pretty tame in that regard.
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Slum Loser posted:Commander Keen Commander Keen is on Steam, if you really want to play it again. It comes with a preconfigured DosBox for easy use on modern systems.
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Athenry posted:That video. That video is the 90s.
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Smelly posted:Kris Kross: I was 10 when Kriss Kross hit and even though my classmates and I were at the right age to be suckered into this poo poo, amazingly enough we all thought wearing your clothes backwards was stupid. A few years later we all thought Boyz II Men was the epitome of cool though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKO6XYXioc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV8vB1BB2qc On a related tangent, does anyone remember that Michael Jackson's nephews formed a group who were one-hit wonders in 1995? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBoX-wYhs-U&ob=av2e Another R&B one hit wonder you might remmeber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFD9lW9PGM4
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oldpainless posted:Here's a show: This gave me flashbacks of another Saved by the Bell clone, Breaker High, featuring Ryan Gosling of all people as the Screech/nerd character.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q_ThaCjZPU After seeing this clip I'm realizing this might have been a Canada-only show? Even though everyone's pretending to be American.
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Mar 30, 2012 12:02
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Smelly posted:Kris Kross will make you jump, jump!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az9SPXR83xg For the Sega Mega CD!! There were also versions for INXS and Marky Mark and the games basically railroad you into creating the "correct" music video. All were a dismal failure. I'm tempted to track this down and see what Wired thought of the future in the mid 90's  I remember it being pretty insane conjecture.
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Mar 30, 2012 12:10
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leidend posted:This gave me flashbacks of another Saved by the Bell clone, Breaker High, featuring Ryan Gosling of all people as the Screech/nerd character. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfpC-HZC3Cg How far he's come.
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Mar 30, 2012 12:12
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I really like how Gosling is instantly recognizable by his hair alone.
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I guess if you're posting that then you should also post these. Xena: http://youtu.be/_dF3VTOcbuo Hercules: http://youtu.be/U-tyFqjfSIA I loved the poo poo out of Xena as a kid. Of course I only really remember the story advancing episodes and not the hundred or so filler nonsense episodes.
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Mar 30, 2012 13:22
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Ahh, two of modern Hollywood's best young actors and their humble beginnings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZMEJ4v2flI And remember those two girls that sang with them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDclvF1v5-U "What a goon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1d6gsKZenE
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Mar 30, 2012 13:30
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I was born in 91, so I spent the entire decade watching Disney cartoons basically. Most of them were in retrospect pretty stupid, but. A Goofy Movie. Best movie ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcqCFva-Gc If you can't quote every single line of this movie you're not rad enough to be a 90's kid  I still occasionally bust out Eye II Eye on my shiny future space-tech iphone.
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Admiral Goodenough posted:I was born in 91, so I spent the entire decade watching Disney cartoons basically. Most of them were in retrospect pretty stupid, but. I was born in 1980, but I still consider myself a 90's kid. Aside from the cartoons I watched as a kid and the toys I played with, most of the pop culture stuff that I hold dear is from the 90's. I guess the 90's is when I started paying attention to the world outside of my neighborhood. The 90's is when I started going to movies on my own, and started buying my own music and listening to my own radio stations, rather than just listening to what my Dad listened to. I still love the old GI Joe, HeMan and Transformer cartoons and toys, but by and large I have more of an appreciation of stuff that came out of the 90's rather than the 80's, as I discovered it myself rather than it just being there. Does anyone remember the Gulf War trading cards? AFewBricksShy has a new favorite as of 15:08 on Mar 30, 2012 |
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AFewBricksShy posted:I was born in 1980, but I still consider myself a 90's kid. Aside from the cartoons I watched as a kid and the toys I played with, most of the pop culture stuff that I hold dear is from the 90's. I guess the 90's is when I started paying attention to the world outside of my neighborhood. Definitely, I'd say if you were anywhere between 5 and 20 when decade ended you are a 90's kid whether you want it or not. More terrible music I hold dear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15oWDh02K4
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I remember in 1993 I had turned 16, got my license and was rolling in my 1987 Ford Taurus with Kenwood speakers, Bazooka Tube in the back, and Alpine head unit blasting this: K7 - "Come Baby Come" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbd2PBO3k6w Awesome.
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Mar 30, 2012 15:55
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WebDog posted:
"Brad Wieners" 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSywtiAirKE In the 90s I wanted to be a Rasta so badly.
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Mar 30, 2012 17:10
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I remember thinking that this was what people in places like Jamaica and Barbados listened to, when as South Park taught me, it's actually what people in Iowa listen to instead. Ace of Base. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJwqDa1QVI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNqPig0Tww Clue II: Murder In Disguise VCR Game. Technically 1987, but damned if all my sibs and I didn't watch this all the way through every time we went up north to a rented house on vacation where this was the only tape on hand. I don't think we even cracked the rules open, just ate junk food and watched this bad boy over and over. WHODUNIT?!  Also the pinnacle of my toy collection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GQToIhqN6s The Mighty Max Skull Mountain playset. If memory serves, the damned thing didn't have instructions, so every time I played with it I discovered some new trap door, or weird engraved thing in it. The detail was NUTS. I miss it terribly. drat you mom and your confounded thrift sales! 
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Mar 30, 2012 18:28
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The MSJ posted:Ahh, two of modern Hollywood's best young actors and their humble beginnings. These kind of made me sad for two reasons: 1) This generation of kids is the first one not to have their own "Mickey Mouse Club". 2) Disney could so easily make a 90's Mouseketeers reunion happen and they just... haven't...
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Did I skip over these two being mentioned? Baywatch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYrRebvFHc I still know every word to this intro. Encarta Encyclopedia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkY-PxyaTuw I could spend hours looking up videos on Encarta. Between this and Mavis Beacon nobody else in my house could use the computer.
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 Does anyone remember a cartoon about Atlantis. I can't remember many of the details, the main human characters lived on this underwater ship thing and the character from Atlantis had black and white stripes. EDIT: Found it. It was called the Prince of Atlantis. Not the longest wiki article ever. Bertram has a new favorite as of 23:35 on Mar 30, 2012 |
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Admiral Goodenough posted:
Hahahaha, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this song still on their ipod/music player/whatever. You are absolutely correct in saying that this was the best movie. I may even have to break it out and watch it again. Speaking of Disney, I'm pretty sure Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck (god I loved that show so much), Duck Tales, and Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers were mentioned. But did anybody watch Goof Troop? Talking about A Goofy Movie reminded me of it. I'm pretty sure all of these shows made up a huge chunk of after-school viewing when I was little. Non-Disney: I probably missed it because I don't understand how anybody could have gotten however many pages of campy 90s stuff without mentioning 90s SPIDERMAN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZaDCEs7EbA
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God Of Paradise posted:Beyond the Mind's Eye. Oh my God, thank you so much for this one. Beyond the Mind's Eye completely blew me away. Even though I didn't really "get" it, the visuals and music were just captivating enough that my brother and I literally wore that VHS out. I haven't seen any of it since. The computer animation is of course dated, but many of the shorts were exceptional for being released in 1993 (though the quality definitely varied) and it had some fantastic designs given the limitations of the time. Still, watching now for the first time in over a decade a lot of it was pretty drat inspired and retains a lot of charm. This sequence was probably my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipt5GHWHsw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCWTS6t8LNw
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scorpiobean posted:Speaking of Disney, I'm pretty sure Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck (god I loved that show so much), Duck Tales, and Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers were mentioned. But did anybody watch Goof Troop? Talking about A Goofy Movie reminded me of it. I'm pretty sure all of these shows made up a huge chunk of after-school viewing when I was little. I absolutely loved Goof Troop, but it was on right before I got home from school, so I almost never got to watch it  But I did always watch Bonkers and the Aladdian series. All of those were part of a block of cartoons on weekday afternoons called Disney Afternoon.
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Holy Cow posted:Thanks for this. They show re-runs of it on Teen Nick on their '90s block and for a goofy kids sitcom it holds up surprisingly well. Same with All That and Salute Your Shorts too.
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Sombrerotron posted:The rebellious GENERATION X (or is that Y?) undertone says it all. I love the fact that the dance track makes the whole thing sound like something from the demoscene (another quintessentially '90s thing). I still don't understand if I'm supposed to be a Gen X-er or not. No wait, I just checked Wikipedia as I was typing this and apparently Generation X ends no later than 1982. So most of us are probably Generation Y.
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Soupe Opera. poo poo was awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhNqmXEopI Edit: found out that there was an episode called The Cabbage Episode that caused children to have epileptic seizures ala Pokemon. magic pantaloons has a new favorite as of 09:54 on Mar 31, 2012 |
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Nunez posted:Nah that wasn't it. Apparently, I was thinking of 1993's Airborne, which apparently had a very young Seth Green and Jack Black in it. I still see some in my town. I saw some in a back alley recently and was ready to get mugged in the most 90s way possible, like they'd demand my Nokia phone and CD Walkman while Orbital played.
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Looper posted:Anyway, remember these little motherfuckers? I used to buy one every week with my pocket money. I made sure to keep the tags on at all times because it was thought that they would sell for literally millions in a few decades...pffft. I still have about 80 of them packed in boxes in the loft. Anyway, another mega post ahead...  My cousins always wanted to play Dream Phone when we came to visit, but I was a bit younger than them so I always found it really boring and never got what the fuss was about. 'I don't CARE if the captain of the football team likes me, I wanna play Screwball Scramble!'   These ugly little shits ... I very nearly spent all my birthday money on a furby one year, but my parents persuaded me to buy this amazing playmobil jungle set instead:  The gate dropped down when you pressed a lever, and there was a removable section of floor which had a mummy underneath! Then one of my friends came round and stuck a big bit of plasticine through the mummy's mask and ruined it  The Magic Key with Biff, Chip and Kipper.  Spot, Spot, Loveable Spot, he's fat and cuddly and he smiles a lot, if there ever was a dog to cheer you up it's Spot, Spot, Spot! Except my brother used to be mean and sing, 'he's fat and ugly and he smells a lot'  Weetos cereal used to have a free troll in every box, and they had different themes like 'sports' or 'holiday' or 'rock stars' - I remember for some reason me and my brother were absolutely DESPERATE to get this 'Elvis' troll but we kept getting the stupid Professor Weeto troll. Also they were pencil toppers so we could get away with bringing them into school, because they weren't 'technically' toys 
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I thought of another 90est movie: I'm not sure if Hacking the Gibson or spraypainting their laptops are my favorite part. Also Angelina Jolie's boobs.
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leidend posted:This gave me flashbacks of another Saved by the Bell clone, Breaker High, featuring Ryan Gosling of all people as the Screech/nerd character. I've never seen this, but my mind automatically fills in all the stereotypes just from seeing that picture. From left to right: Spoiled Girl, Friendly Jock, Bland Main Guy, Party Dude, Bland Main Girl with a will they won't they on/off relationship with Bland Main Guy, Clothes Obsessed Best Friend, Sassy Black Girl, Awkward Geek who gets to hang around with all these people for comedic purpose. Mechahamster has a new favorite as of 17:47 on Mar 31, 2012 |
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What about The Net? Almost every movie involving computers had a sinister Bill Gates-like villain (see Anti-Trust). The level of loathing for Gates is quaint in retrospect.
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 I had this when I was in 5th grade. Which one of you stole it?
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Tailwhoop posted:Oh hell, does anyone remember a certain memory toy back in the 90's? There were numbers on these different colored pillar things that were stuck on a blue ball. When the little voice said the number or the color, you had to flip it upwards and such. I played the ever living poo poo out of that thing and I can't remember what the hell it was called. Can anyone help? I know I'm a few pages late (and your question was answered), but god drat did I love me some Brain Warp. It's too bad though that my battery died and we couldn't find another one. And as the battery was dieing it became easier to play, what with the voice slooooowwwiiiiing doooooooown. EDIT: All I remember from Kennan and Kel is that I put the screw in the tuna. Green Puddin has a new favorite as of 18:15 on Mar 31, 2012 |
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Bulgaroktonos posted:What about The Net? Almost every movie involving computers had a sinister Bill Gates-like villain (see Anti-Trust). The level of loathing for Gates is quaint in retrospect. The Net gets points for Sandra Bullock. What's great about Hackers is for everything they get right, there's 3 facepalm moments. Like, most of the terminology is correct, but you also get things like that one eyed headset the main character wears when hacking the gibson.
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Athenry posted:I thought of another 90est movie: Second best part (after Angelina Jolie) is obviously "RISC architecture is gonna change everything."
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NienNunb posted:In elementary school, book fairs ment one thing for me: I remember these! As far as I know the guy is still writing them, but not nearly at the rate he used to. The last one I got was the spinoff book that was a really long comic the two main characters had wrote in detention or something. The last page said that the next book would be coming the following fall. It didn't come for ten years. I want to see if it was worth the wait but I'm also not 12 anymore so I doubt it. My tastes have been refined from fart jokes to dick jokes in that time. Oh, I set up a thing to discuss the '90s in greater detail so that I'm not posting a bunch of words every time.
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Athenry posted:I thought of another 90est movie: I actually love this film so so much. It's cheesy as hell but I love the environments and the outfits and Angelina Jolie looking gorgeous with short hair and just the ridiculousness of the whole thing. blaarghh posted:
 Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat ran over his cat Blood and gore went flying Poor old Pat was crying He picked up Jess and put her in his sack Also Fireman Sam, Pingu, Kipper... the list goes on
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Bulgaroktonos posted:What about The Net? Almost every movie involving computers had a sinister Bill Gates-like villain (see Anti-Trust). The level of loathing for Gates is quaint in retrospect. Its even funnier in retrospect now that Bill Gates has done so much good with his piles of money, and now that Apple is the defacto face of sleek corporate marketing.
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I miss this game so much, math blaster was cool poo poo till the girl showed up as a main character http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4_kzb_vzg
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