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Does anybody in the UK remember those puzzle books where you were given a few options on what the solution was and you had to turn to the page no. given? The pages were about A4 size with big-rear end pictures on and your companion was a monkey. There was one set in a fairground where on one page you had to solve a puzzle because the monkey was on a roller-coaster that led into a big vat of acid.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 23:13 |
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Lovie Unsmith posted:Anyone remember this guy? Cool Spot > Fido Dido forever, scrub. How about some ultra-hyped nonsense that went nowehere? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJkfE1M9wA
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 01:32 |
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Z-Magic posted:Does anybody in the UK remember those puzzle books where you were given a few options on what the solution was and you had to turn to the page no. given? The pages were about A4 size with big-rear end pictures on and your companion was a monkey. There was one set in a fairground where on one page you had to solve a puzzle because the monkey was on a roller-coaster that led into a big vat of acid. I'm in the US, but that sounds like the one of the puzzle books from Usborne Publishing.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 01:50 |
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Pseudonym posted:Not only did we not mind a playing game created purely for product promotion, it was actually a very good game.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:04 |
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The talk about Animorphs earlier (which I sadly never got into, despite the awesome covers) reminded me of this series (which I absolutely LOVED): Each book was a collection of mini-mysteries, with Mr. Boddy always being killed in the last story (only to explain how he survived in the introduction of the next book). Most of the mysteries dealt with which one of the guests managed to get away with Boddy's latest treasure (all while trying to kill each other), usually through process of elimination, such as deducing each character by what weapon they have or their own unique personality quirks (Col. Mustard always challenged people to duels, Mrs. Peacock was extremely prim & proper, etc.). Heck, one of my favorite things to do was to get out our family's CLUE game and act out each story to aid in figuring the mystery out. I can still remember how bummed I was when they stopped producing them (there were 18 books total, and I still have them on my bookshelf).
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:04 |
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madlilnerd posted:I don't remember which song it was, but I swear he did one with the best line ever: "Respect to the man in the ice cream van". Indeed Scooter, respect that Mr Whippy. Given the genre of music and the time period that is probably a reference to the KLF who, among other things, drove an ice cream van for a period. KingBoy D and Rockman Rock do deserve your respect. More can be learned about the teachings of the KLF by following this fun and informative thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3472948
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:04 |
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I'm probably the only person who remembers Boogies Diner but I'd recommend it. This thread is perfect for remembering things about the nineties that inevitably fell through my mind's bullshit filter. Thanks for helping me sully my mind with pointless idiotic nostalgia! (I'd buy Commander Keen... but it wouldn't be the same anymore anyway. Saturday mornings are so much different now.)
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:10 |
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Son Conan posted:The talk about Animorphs earlier (which I sadly never got into, despite the awesome covers) reminded me of this series (which I absolutely LOVED): I loved these books too! Then again I grew up watching the Clue movie so I always pictured the movie cast as the book characters.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:14 |
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madlilnerd posted:I don't remember which song it was, but I swear he did one with the best line ever: "Respect to the man in the ice cream van". Indeed Scooter, respect that Mr Whippy. It's Weeeeeeeekend! I couldn't remember off the top of my head so I had to listen to 3 songs to find out which one it was... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPz65lR5abQ
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 02:25 |
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Slavik posted:I seemed to end up with a pack of Yikes pencils every year and always disliked that they used to snap so drat easy. They wrote very smoothly thoughly. The Australian equivalent of these kids games shows would be A*Mazing. It was a routine for me to watch it every afternoon at 4 when I got home from school. So many Nintendo references. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtroHjPhd-Q
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 06:47 |
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Living Books! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqql0_ZyusM&feature=relmfu I played this one every single Friday when I stayed at my grandparent's house.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 08:57 |
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The single most important demoscene video ever made: http://youtu.be/XtCW-axRJV8 All done by hand in MSDOS, this predates Quake by about a year. For reference this is a video from the same competition that that video won, 19 years later: http://youtu.be/8MMwO8Mvqfs And yet somehow the first video impresses me more. El Estrago Bonito has a new favorite as of 09:29 on Apr 2, 2012 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I'm in kuala lumpur. Sup fellow ASEAN. Why hello there fellow Malgoons! I don't really remember that one, but when it came to exams all the cool kids went to Kasturi tuition centre. I think more people went there to watch the lecturers monkey around than the tutoring. As a kid in Malaysia back in the 90's you would definitely remember all the random poo poo that TV3 would throw on during the school holidays to keep our curious young minds sated. They would dredge up all sorts of retro flicks, b-grade drivel, foreign mindfuck films... At least sometimes they dropped one or two gems in there like Transformers the movie. Also, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68IuqSiABSs The sea! Aliens!
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 10:50 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:The single most important demoscene video ever made: Incidentally, considering that Second Reality came out in 1993, it predates Quake by close to three years.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 12:07 |
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How has this thread got to 17 pages and mention UK game shows without this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Maze
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 13:21 |
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devious pudding posted:How has this thread got to 17 pages and mention UK game shows without this: The Crystal Maze had the best out-takes.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 13:33 |
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Yoshi Jjang posted:
Which reminds me: 90s adventure games were pretty campy: A friend gave me this game in middle school (~1999) because his computer was "too new to run it". You can currently run SCUMM engine games on any modern computer. Dominoes has a new favorite as of 14:24 on Apr 2, 2012 |
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Dominoes posted:It was clearly used to create a sentient robot in the 16th century as a product of a failed time-travel quest to prevent the invention of coathangers, who helps root out future Hitler and his legion of mechanized nazi dinosaurs from his palace in Big Ben. Whoa guys this ones just a bit too wacky for me
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Dominoes posted:A friend gave me this game in middle school (~1999) because his computer was "too new to run it". To be fair, Windows 98 was the first version to really start kicking DOS compatibility in the shins.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 15:05 |
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I'm still pissed that The Adventures of Pete and Pete season 3 never got a DVD release. Watching the first 2 season, the show is better than I remember it being (and it was probably my favorite when it originally aired). While The Wonder Years are more "aired in the late eighties early nineties" than "nineties", it holds up really well and is well worth watching on Netflix.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 16:49 |
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thedouche posted:I'm still pissed that The Adventures of Pete and Pete season 3 never got a DVD release. Watching the first 2 season, the show is better than I remember it being (and it was probably my favorite when it originally aired). But there's no Artie in season 3, so what's the point? "Farewell, my Little Viking" was one of the saddest episodes of TV for 12 year-old me.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 16:59 |
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Skeleton Warriors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmkWE6axVo They're bad to the bone! I actually still have a bunch of Skeleton Warriors figures in a box in my closet. I picked up a couple more a few years back and they're still in the package.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 17:28 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:But there's no Artie in season 3, so what's the point? Most of the cast and crew have had a couple of reunions over the past few months. The Blowholes even reunited to perform the classics. AV Club article (with videos). Pete and Pete wikipedia entry posted:The 2011 Los Angeles reunion was billed by the Cinefamily as the "KrebStar Film Festival," a reference to the shows own brand. Additionally many products from the show were available, including Krebex, Kreb Scout Cookies, a KrebStore 24, and Krebgate Toothpaste. Staff members handed out "performance-enhanced" Orange Lazarus. Dammit, an Orange Lazarus would really hit the spot right about now. I've met Toby Huss (Artie) when he was doing improv at a small theater a few years ago and he really is as amazing to be around as you would imagine. He's pretty much a kindly ball of human dynamism and jokes. I've run into famous folk before, but meeting him was the only time I really, really had to fight the urge not to geek out and quote his own words back at him. "Soon you will be like Cheese, boy: melty, melty, melty!"
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 22:52 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Whoa guys this ones just a bit too wacky for me
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 22:55 |
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VoilaIntruder posted:Losing Artie was definitely a blow to my childhood self, but I think the way they handled his exit was clever and appropriately bittersweet. You see, Pete was growing into a young man that could handle his own conflicts, so he didn't need Artie anymore and
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 23:20 |
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thedouche posted:Did you at least use the word "pipe"? No, but he definitely did in response to another fan shouting out quotes. My initial interaction with him was "thanks for being Artie" and a hug I was plenty happy to listen to him tell crazy stories to my friends.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 23:33 |
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I don't think I've seen any mention of Big Break, the Saturday night snooker-based quiz show hosted by a cheeky cockney wife-beating racist.
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# ? Apr 2, 2012 23:51 |
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I didn't see anyone post this but this took a good chunk of my young life up Pirates of Dark Water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5F1zYQF5M Ren is like a manly Link. Derringer has a new favorite as of 00:15 on Apr 3, 2012 |
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Sombrerotron posted:State of the Art is the better exemplar of '90s camp, though. The most 90s demo is Jesus on E's No, wait, it's Jesus on Cheese (possibly not a good idea if you have epilepsy. Or have strong views about crude drawings of Our Lord J. Christ being cheerfully crucified on a swiss-cheese cross)
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 00:09 |
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Derringer posted:I didn't see anyone post this but this took a good chunk of my young life up
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 00:16 |
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Please help me remember the name of this show, here are bullet points: • Very late '80s early '90s possibly PBS • It taught you how to draw fantasy/sci-fi stuff • There was a huge piece of paper and the host would draw all these tiny flying machines and and whimsical floating tree things. • All the drawings were black marker only Name that show.
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 01:23 |
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Dominoes posted:It was clearly used to create a sentient robot in the 16th century as a product of a failed time-travel quest to prevent the invention of coathangers, who helps root out future Hitler and his legion of mechanized nazi dinosaurs from his palace in Big Ben. This is just like the '90s: been there, done that. Or something to that effect.
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 01:39 |
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thedouche posted:I'm still pissed that The Adventures of Pete and Pete season 3 never got a DVD release. Watching the first 2 season, the show is better than I remember it being (and it was probably my favorite when it originally aired). Dance, Petunia, dance.
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 03:18 |
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Deacon of Delicious posted:This is just like the '90s: been there, done that. Or something to that effect.
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 03:27 |
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This gem.. Carmageddon! Still own it luckily enough
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 10:24 |
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Blood Magnet posted:Please help me remember the name of this show, here are bullet points: The Secret City Adventures and later Imagination Station, with "Commander" Mark Kistler. Taught me everything I know
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 12:23 |
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Nurse posted:This gem.. I have it and the sequel though haven't tried running them on Win 7. I like the sequel for its slightly better graphics and because I could crush cars and split then in half. I even modified the gold Eagle to have a weight of 50 tons and a softness factor of 0
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 14:20 |
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Masonic Youth posted:The Secret City Adventures and later Imagination Station, with "Commander" Mark Kistler. Dammit I'm too late to post this. I'd been thinking of the show lately myself but I couldn't remember the name, but then it just dawned on me with Blood Magnet's post. It's where I first learned about tapering! Here, have a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tK70tHKhME
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# ? Apr 3, 2012 15:12 |
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Anyone in this thread who says they've never put a significant amount of time into trying to either A) take ridiculous measures to find the Triforce in Ocarina of Time, B) left Tomb Raider on for 24 hours to see Lara Croft naked, or C) tried to move that goddamn truck in every way possible to find Mew is a liar. Speaking of, if you want to check out a good piece frozen-in-time internet I reccomend this site: http://vgchat.info/vgx/ Contains every ridiculous urban legend on how to get the Triforce in Zelda 64, a Final Fantasy 7 FAN SHRINE with your choice of frames or no frames, as well as exclusive news on how the Nintendo 64 DOUBLE D is going to be.
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Jesus, I had a notebook filled with ideas and theories on how to find the triforce. On the cover scribbled in gel pen was the title "The search for the triforce" Not only was it filled with every myth on how to find it in Ocarina of Time, but Majora's Mask, theories on where the goddesses would keep it and why, and a bunch of other lore spun in to crazy rants of a preteen kid.
Ball Tazeman has a new favorite as of 21:23 on Apr 3, 2012 |
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