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Deacon of Delicious posted:I'm in the US, but that sounds like the one of the puzzle books from Usborne Publishing. I was pretty crazy about these books when I was in middle school. I only had a few, but I read them to pieces. Oh, and Day of the Tentacle isn't campy, it's awesome  (love me those lucas arts games)
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Me and my brothers loved this show so god drat much. We still have VHS copies of a couple seasons. Hell, my older brother even has Petunia tattooed on his arm(granted it is the original Mucha version, so it looks slightly different than the one on the show). Thanks to this thread I am about to buy a bunch of DVD's from amazon of 90's kids shows. I think Hey dude! is gonna be first on the list. Also, netflix just recently added Saved by the Bell to streaming, so I have been spending way too much time watching that. I know Eerie Indiana was mentioned already, but my girlfriend has the entire series on DVD and I spent the first few days after we moved in together watching the entire thing. Such an amazing show. Rahonavis posted:
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In regards to the Mighty Max chat a page or so back: Skull Mountain   I loved the hell out of this playset, I think I played with this thing until it literally fell apart.  This was quite possibly the most fun board game I ever owned. You could even play by yourself. Unfortunately, my little brother got a hold of it, and that was goodbye game. I also own the Dark Tower board game, but that's the 80's. This was the 90's equivalent. Draven has a new favorite as of 22:57 on Apr 3, 2012 |
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   youtube Part of my 90's nostalgia comes from my family's fortune swinging into the "not so desperately poor" income bracket in the middle of the decade; a position where I could actually afford new or newer things. I suddenly found myself being able to stop wearing hand-me-down Zubas and fabric-painted sweatshirts and start wearing clearance Jncos with included wallet chains.   That being the case, my only consoles prior to the Playstation were a NES and an Actionmax (VHS-based Lightgun console,) so when I managed to receive a Playstation within a year of its launch my brain literally ripped itself out of my skull and exploded all over the place upon seeing a controllable 3D dinosaur.  I'm very happy that 'elephant' style pants haven't shown up near the US coastlines for roughly a decade (Hulk Hogan notwithstanding).
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My grandparents bought this game, and my cousins and my sisters and I would play it every Christmas, without fail. We went back to visit last Christmas, and even though all of us cousins are 25 - 35 years old now, Omega Virus is still just as fun as always.  My grandparents now claim it was the best Christmas purchase they ever made, since it provided twenty straight years of entertainment. "15 minutes until *I* take over....mwah ha ha ha...you fool!"
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Ishamael posted:My grandparents bought this game, and my cousins and my sisters and I would play it every Christmas, without fail. "HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME YOU FOOL" That Virus was pretty drat scary.  It's not all that expensive to pick up again, apparently $125 for a sealed copy. I'm thinking I might grab a used copy that's missing maybe some of the weapon pieces, since they're just visual cues and not exactly a neccesity. "Red..Hurry..We..Are..Running..Out..Of...Time..."
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Hey now I happen to like those pants, because they're easy to move around in. Then again I've liked oversized clothing long before it became a fashion trend.
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VoilaIntruder posted:I'm very happy that 'elephant' style pants haven't shown up near the US coastlines for roughly a decade (Hulk Hogan notwithstanding). Fashion is (for the most part) cyclical, I just hope that I've been dead a long time when baggy pants come back into style. They can pry my slim fit jeans from my cold, dead legs. edit: however, I welcome the return of Blossom's awesome hats. Coffee And Pie has a new favorite as of 22:09 on Apr 4, 2012 |
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  I remember in middle school, girls had whole binders of these doll things printed out. There used to be a chat room kind of thing where you could make your own and I would spend *sigh* hours there after school.
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Masonic Youth posted:The Secret City Adventures and later Imagination Station, with "Commander" Mark Kistler. Thank you so much. Goddamn I loved that show. I have my evenings booked for the next few days.
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    That's right, it's Math Blaster!  MPlayer. I used to play SCARAB and QuakeWorld on this all day.  Pogs. You were only cool if you had an awesome slammer though.
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FetalDave posted:Pogs. You were only cool if you had an awesome slammer though. The poor kids at my school would put stickers on cardboard and cut a circle around it. 
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FetalDave posted:Pogs. You were only cool if you had an awesome slammer though. I never even knew these things existed until the 90s were long over. Were they more of a thing in the early 90s when I would have been in kindergarten and poo poo? I suppose I just could've just been living under a rock when it came to fads until Pokemon came along or something (although I do remember yo-yos being really big around 1996 or so).
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ProperGanderPusher posted:I never even knew these things existed until the 90s were long over. Were they more of a thing in the early 90s when I would have been in kindergarten and poo poo? I suppose I just could've just been living under a rock when it came to fads until Pokemon came along or something (although I do remember yo-yos being really big around 1996 or so).
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Cromulent posted:They were popular from mid 94 until late 95. Then everyone stopped giving a poo poo about them. I guess Finland was the place where 90s fads went to die several years after everyone else in the world stopped caring.
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Cromulent posted:They were popular from mid 94 until late 95. Then everyone stopped giving a poo poo about them. All this talk of Pogs made me remember this unaired cartoon pilot, which contains all of the campy '90s poo poo. All of it.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Fashion is (for the most part) cyclical, I just hope that I've been dead a long time when baggy pants come back into style. They can pry my slim fit jeans from my cold, dead legs. They've made a sort of comeback here in the UK. The current trend is ridiculously baggy crotches combined with tight legs. The bagginess is slowly working its way down the torso Z-Magic has a new favorite as of 23:33 on Apr 4, 2012 |
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Z-Magic posted:They've made a sort of comeback here in the UK. The current trend is ridiculously baggy crotches combined with tight legs. The bagginess is slowly working its way down the torso Also Palazzo pants have been in on and off for the last couple of years. Trousers with legs so ridiculously wide that they look like a granny skirt.
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Cromulent posted:They were popular from mid 94 until late 95. Then everyone stopped giving a poo poo about them. I suppose this is most likely because, as with every single other fad 'thing', some kid would always invariably gently caress it up by doing something stupid and getting that 'thing' banned at their schools.
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Davfff posted:I suppose this is most likely because, as with every single other fad 'thing', some kid would always invariably gently caress it up by doing something stupid and getting that 'thing' banned at their schools.
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Davfff posted:I suppose this is most likely because, as with every single other fad 'thing', some kid would always invariably gently caress it up by doing something stupid and getting that 'thing' banned at their schools. That kid was named Mark at our school, he flung a heavy rear end slammer at another kids head, splitting it open. Thanks Mark, you rear end in a top hat. We played during lunch. 
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Smelly posted:In regards to the Mighty Max chat a page or so back: I have a friend that I promised when he gets married I will get him Skull Mountain as a wedding gift.
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FetalDave posted:
It's all coming back to me.  FetalDave posted:
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Or had a pog tube that was three feet long. My uncle has owned a successful graphic design company for the last twenty years. In the early nineties they designed a poo poo ton of pogs for various companies and I got a bunch of them for free, I thought I had my little finger on the pulse of the fad to end all a fads. In reality the pogs were probably a low priority project and they were just cashing in on a cheap product while they could. The pogs I got were most likely defective in some way or just an excess over quota.
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FetalDave posted:Pogs. You were only cool if you had an awesome slammer though. Tazo's became popular due to their lenticular surfaces or the techno ones that had notches to build things out of.   TAZO's had a promotion with the Star Wars re releases where you got little ship kits that you built that were only found in larger packets of chips.  I have this assembled somewhere - must have packed it up. But I did find this Tazo promotion in my old box of cards.  Yeah nothing more 90's than the insanity of Batman and Robin. Of course this all went nuts when Phantom Menace cards came out that had a chance to win a free pack of chips. The cards turned out to be thin enough that you could see if they were a winner when held up to the light so a black market was established where people were buying cards at insane markups...just to get free chips.
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I don't think we mentioned this staple of 90's videogaming:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KA9S91A66k Earthworm Jim!
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Remember when breakdancing did a brief comeback? (Bomfunk MCs - Uprocking Beats) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLwZx1hyGL8 He's the Rad Nintendo Kid ten years down the line.
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Criminal Minded posted:I know I'm not the only one who had this: Toy cars were the poo poo. I had multiple mats that I'd almost exclusively use to play out elaborate police chases, I had a "build your own city" play-set I found at a garage sale, I had an entire trunk full of ludicrously-designed Hot-Wheels cars that I would force to race down anything that had gravity to make them go (my driveway, play-sets, hurling them down the stairs).
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Criminal Minded posted:I know I'm not the only one who had this:  I don't know how much bleedover we're allowing between decades, but Megaman from 2 on was my poo poo as a kid. As far as I know, I never played the first one.
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Hand held Pikachu AND the Pikachu 2  Pretty much just tamagotchis with Pokemon inside them. In elementary school my parents gave me 20 dollars for pizza when they went out of town and I was staying at my cousins house so I bought his Pikachu from him for 20 dollars and a boy who had a crush on me had a Pikachu 2, we'd always trade and he'd play the games to buy me food and stuff on mine.  (I'm sorry if somebody's already mentioned these)
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Buh posted:Treasure Mountain! Oh My loving God I was reading this thread trying to remember an old DOS game I used to play with some early 90's stereotype in a red hat in sunglasses, roaming around a... school? there were lockers, that's all I remember... answering questions. THE SUPER SOLVER. And yeah those elves creeped me right the hell out. Edit: Man, 1989? So drat long ago! Makaris has a new favorite as of 03:13 on Apr 6, 2012 |
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Makaris posted:I was reading this thread trying to remember an old DOS game I used to play with some early 90's stereotype in a red hat in sunglasses, roaming around a... school? there were lockers, that's all I remember... answering questions. Ancient Empires was the best one. vvvv Loved Operation Neptune. The two difficulties had entirely different level designs, effectively doubling the game's scope. I didn't have a sound card or CD-rom drive at the time; I didn't know there were voices. Dominoes has a new favorite as of 04:35 on Apr 6, 2012 |
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I never played Ancient Empires, but Operation Neptune was apparently considered part of the Super Solvers line for a while, and that was a pretty kickass educational game (and apparently they cared enough to rerecord the lines for UK audiences).
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My favorite childhood toy of all time. Behold of the wonder of the Power Rangers action figures with flip-heads! You press their belt and their chest opens up and it flips between normal faces to their helmets.
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Sizone posted:That mystery fluid on the bottom right corner sweat or tears? My guess would be that weird fluid soft rubber, used for toys and poo poo like that, seems to exude given sufficient shelftime. My old PS2 controllers analog-sticks has these drops of mystery fluid on them if i dig them out of their crate. Gross as hell.
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pageerror404 posted:My favorite childhood toy of all time. Behold of the wonder of the Power Rangers action figures with flip-heads! I hated these things, even as a kid. Why not just make not-retarded proportion figures and give them removable helmets? It's not like the button turns them plainclothes or something. So much toy-rage. PS who was the genius that made it so there was NEVER a proper Green or White ranger power coin?
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