|
This thread has unearthed so many things I thought I'd forgotten from growing up in the '90s. The posts about Kid Pix and Humongous Entertainment games practically made me OD on nostalgia.  Then I remembered another game that I don't think was too popular but which my friends and I played the poo poo out of in the late '90s: Lords of Magic.  Some gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgyhbE3jYN8 Even for a kid who was never too into RTSs or strategy games in general, this game was the fuckin' poo poo. Building a civilization from the ground up and marshaling a gigantic army to conquer a Tolkienesque world made me feel like the biggest badass around. The oh-so-dated sound and 2d graphics (except for the  3d cinematics) bring me right back to the days when we'd play this game for hours on end after school.Lords of Magic was pretty mediocre compared to the much better RTSs that were coming out at the same time (and about which I'd only learn later), but man was it awesome for us.
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2012 19:02
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 03:02 |
|
|
I've played Lord of Magic way too much and still have a poster with all the units on it I got with the game. Good memories. It was pretty difficult, if I remember correctly, or maybe that was just me being 10 years old.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2012 19:57
|
|
|
Holy poo poo I totally forgot about Lords of Magic! I found it in a bargain at a Staples in just the jewel case because for some reason I thought it would be like Warcraft II.
|
|
#
?
Jun 14, 2012 21:59
|
|
|
Haha, my friend's grandmother took us to Walmart one time and bought us both video games, which was not something my own grandparents ever did. I got Lords of Magic and Heroes of Might and Magic III for like $10, and he got some kind of Everquest installer disc for the same price not knowing that it was an MMO that you had to pay money to play. Lords of Magic seemed really cool at the time but I could never figure out how to do anything in it.
|
|
#
?
Jun 15, 2012 21:02
|
|
|
 Julliard Music Adventure. Taught music theory. This was my favorite educational game as a kid, after Amazon Trail and SuperMunchers. I never beat the last dragon one though. Those were the hardest by far  .  I schooled the gently caress out of Bumptz Science Carnival, though. Heh! 
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2012 00:55
|
|
|
Pick posted:
Now I'm remembering this game 
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2012 07:34
|
|
|
Pick posted:gently caress you. That book is the best. All the aliens are kind of dicks and take a wonderfully cavalier attitude about drawing the main character kid into dangerous situations and/or shooting him. Bruce Coville forever. Hey, now, let's not be hasty. I'm just taking issue with "pooper mucky". Don't hate me. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 16, 2012 09:23
|
|
|
This is glorious in all the horrible ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3iBLpVSmNs I don't even know, man. It's like Metalocalypse and Reboot had a drunken brain-damaged baby together. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 17, 2012 02:03
|
|
|
Bertrand Hustle posted:Hey, now, let's not be hasty. I'm just taking issue with "pooper mucky". Don't hate me. You're forgiven. Because the Things really are the most pointless part of the series. But I am watching you! (Really, after book 1, I wish Rod hadn't even been in it. Just the aliens, doin' space things.)
|
|
#
?
Jun 18, 2012 23:22
|
|
|
QuickbreathFinisher posted:Pure Moods! I always liked this commercial when I was a kid. I have no idea why. Holy gently caress, I've been thinking about that commercial for the longest time. I was slightly obsessed with it. It explains the dejavu I had when I watched Twin Peaks. I was homeschooled during the 90s. I didn't see a lot of tv at home, except for my Dad watched Seinfeld religiously, and I didn't hear much modern music. The soundtrack for that decade for me is my Dad's vinyl collection and whatever was on the two christian radio stations that we could get, oh boy! Programs like "Adventures in Odyssey" (Hal Smith is the only true Whit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jdzxiXd128 and "Ranger Bill: Warrior of the Woodlands" were staples of our Saturday mornings. Musical powerhouses such as Rich Mullins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyKz7jTCuE Twila Paris http://youtu.be/-H9JHdsn-EQ Fernando Ortega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmlG6uNXpQ Steve Camp http://youtu.be/VJ5vq6FrlLw Michael Card https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeqLV46NVUk Bruce Carroll http://youtu.be/AZ5nzBtk5D8 Wayne Watson http://youtu.be/KveQ3KsGTg4 Oh, but Chris Rice's "The Cartoon Song" (http://youtu.be/-bOA4ZjxnSQ) was horrible and sinful and stuff. Because it was BLASPHEMY or something. I just thought it was dumb. I remember rollerskating with one of the fellow homeschooler groups we were in briefly to a bunch of these songs. The dj was never happy while we were there. Later in the decade my Mom got a job and we spent a lot of time at our grandparent's apartment. There was a lot of Matlock and other detective shows, but a sometimes we got to watch CARTOONS! We would sporadically get to see Legends of the Hidden Temple, Salute Your Shorts!, David the Gnome, Eureka's Castle, Reading Rainbow, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Nick Jr.'s "Face", Inspector Gadget...I remember the debut of Dexter's Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls, as well as Teletubbies. (My grandparents taped it for us, but didn't realize it was so "babyish") I'm sure I saw Gerbert in there somewhere as well: http://youtu.be/r4g26PBX7ao I remember my cousins had He-Man and Ninja Turtles action figures and a huuuuuuge pink barbie house that they would let us play with sometimes. They would play Sonic the Hedgehog, and Mario Kart, and before we were ushered out of the room, Mortal Kombat. We played I remember SimCity, SimIsle, Oregon Trail, Treasure Cove! Super Solvers Midnight Rescue, and on our old Macs we'd play Jewelbox, The Secret Island of Doctor Brain, Oxyd, Excape Velocity: Nova, Glider PRO, Harry the Handsome Executive, Maelstrom, WorldBuilder games like Twisted and A Mess Of Trouble... I had a sheet of Lisa Frank stickers and a couple of Yikes! pencils, and a tiny Polly Pocket playset without the doll. The Lego sets around that time were cool. Pirates and Islanders, the Knights and Wizards, Space.... I could see glimpses of this other world. It was triangular and colorful. It was brash and silly, and I was sorry I never got to see more of it. I've always liked the "real" music from the 90s. It's the soundtrack I wish that I had actually had.
|
|
#
?
Jun 23, 2012 01:26
|
|
|
Libandano Urfam posted:I could see glimpses of this other world. It was triangular and colorful. It was brash and silly, and I was sorry I never got to see more of it. This. This is the saddest post.As a consolation, here, have this autographed picture of Pauly Shore:  You... you've earned it.
|
|
#
?
Jun 23, 2012 03:09
|
|
|
Tewratomeh posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLh3fetwEZ0&t=64s
|
|
#
?
Jun 24, 2012 05:39
|
|
|
Libandano Urfam posted:Oh, but Chris Rice's "The Cartoon Song" (http://youtu.be/-bOA4ZjxnSQ) was horrible and sinful and stuff. Because it was BLASPHEMY or something. I just thought it was dumb. Thanks for sharing this one because it's honestly one of the strangest things I have ever seen/heard. (Not a single person in the live audience is laughing; it's unsettling!)  For content, here's another unnerving thing involving cartoons.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2012 00:39
|
|
|
Something that feels 90s as hell for me are these drat things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAeV-AWBCKI Call some string of numbers to save money on calling the number you actually want to call, somehow. Wikipedia has an article about this one. There were tons of these though, I seem to recall Mr. T doing one as well.
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2012 06:02
|
|
|
Light Gun Man posted:Something that feels 90s as hell for me are these drat things: The pre-cell phone world was so weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34q8L1eVNA
|
|
#
?
Jun 26, 2012 19:19
|
|
|
I can't believe these haven't been posted yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHuGG_FsC20 I still don't know what either of these songs mean.
|
|
#
?
Jun 29, 2012 21:48
|
|
|
In the early nineties, I attended a couple of school assemblies where they did this flashy PSA thing about staying in school/don't drive drunk/don't do drugs that was interspersed with clips from popular movies at the time. The first one I attended was a whole bunch of stay-in-school stuff, along with the motorcycle chase from T2 and a scene from Backdraft(?!); the effect was quite bizarre. Does anyone else remember these, or have any information about who made them?
|
|
#
?
Jul 4, 2012 11:11
|
|
|
Scroto Baggins posted:The pre-cell phone world was so weird. The really odd thing about those ads was the total lack of collect-calling going on those days. I remember just being kinda mystified as to who they were targeting. Who was making so many collect calls that they needed all these dozens of numbers to call collect with?? Also, it's pretty amusing that the entire concept of collect calls is now just gone.
|
|
#
?
Jul 4, 2012 14:11
|
|
|
By the time I learned what "collect calling" actually was, it was an obsolete concept. This thread makes me hungry for Taco Cabana. It's been years since I've gone, but I still remember the counters and menus still rocking the neon triangles and squiggles and irregular fonts.
|
|
#
?
Jul 4, 2012 21:12
|
|
|
This was always my favorite seasonal burger, and I'm still looking forward to its return.  I ate the whole combo when I was 9, and I wonder why I was fat during my adolescence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXstS2Ps3w
|
|
#
?
Jul 4, 2012 22:17
|
|
|
My elementary school had a computer class where they taught us how to type, and made us use these orange rubber sheaths that sat over the keyboard so you couldn't see the letters. I mostly remember the class for the awesome games on the computers that they would let us play when we finished our tests. Anyone else play Spit Wad Willy? I was the cool kid in class because I was the only one who beat it all the way through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYfB7n7pO-8 I got my first computer in 96 or 97, some lovely eMachine. Our family wouldn't get dial-up until a few years later, but I still spent all my free time playing Commander Keen and all the free games that came with Windows 95. It's all about Rodent's Revenge! 
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2012 00:44
|
|
|
I found Rodent's Revenge to be immensely frustrating. For me, it was all about Rattler Race
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2012 00:55
|
|
|
This thread reminded me of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and lo and behold season 1 is on Netflix. Man some of this is still some CREEPY rear end poo poo. I think this episode here launched a million fears of clowns.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2012 02:10
|
|
|
Yeet posted:This thread reminded me of Are You Afraid of the Dark? and lo and behold season 1 is on Netflix. Man some of this is still some CREEPY rear end poo poo. I think this episode here launched a million fears of clowns. 15 years later amd I still have vivid memories of the muck monster in the public swimming pool  Way better than the Goosebumps show.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2012 02:59
|
|
|
nooblord posted:
SON OF A BITCH. I had an abusive relationship with that game.
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2012 03:00
|
|
|
Ran across this today. It's pretty much every_childhood_birthday_party_i_went_to.jpg
|
|
#
?
Jul 5, 2012 22:48
|
|
|
nooblord posted:I got my first computer in 96 or 97, some lovely eMachine. Our family wouldn't get dial-up until a few years later, but I still spent all my free time playing Commander Keen and all the free games that came with Windows 95. It's all about Rodent's Revenge! OH GOD You just opened the floodgates on so many repressed memories. I think I'm going to have to go lie down for a bit.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2012 15:27
|
|
|
I can't be the only girl who loved Hanson, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE I was afraid to mention that I liked them because people would make fun of me. Then again I did listen to their tape well past their prime. I remember early 90's, sitting in my dad's lap playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, he'd steer and I'd press the "shoot" button. Later I played Duke Nukem, all healthy games for young girls to play! 
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2012 15:56
|
|
|
Widget Workshop was a lot of fun, even for the dumb as hell kids like myself who couldn't get anything with more than three parts to work the way we wanted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m5iooep4Eg Edit: Dead Pikachu posted:I can't be the only girl who loved Hanson, right? Considering that girls born around the early to mid-80s were Hanson's prime demographic, I seriously doubt you're the only one. (I listened to their tape for a long time too, as did all my friends) Sarah Barracuda has a new favorite as of 16:17 on Jul 6, 2012 |
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2012 16:07
|
|
|
Dead Pikachu posted:I can't be the only girl who loved Hanson, right? No you're definitely not the only one. A good friend mine is obsessed with Hanson, to the point of having several Hanson tattoos and a ridiculously comprehensive back catalogue collection.
|
|
#
?
Jul 6, 2012 22:59
|
|
|
Man, I'd completely forgotten about  'nother puzzle game.  Nearly '00s but fits the bill.  I remember paying more attention to this than the teacher in class.  Minor derail but any TV show: (1) 11-12 minutes of program (2) 3-5 minutes of commercials, during which you could go to the bathroom, get a snack, etc. (3) 11-12 minutes of program (4) 3-5 minutes of commercials before the next show 30-60 second commercials every 5 minutes drive me nuts  I've completely given up on cable TV. Hulu's have gotten obnoxious, but at least they still give you the countdown timer.
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2012 03:22
|
|
|
ElectricApricot posted:
This motherfucker. I remember I thought it was awesome (god I was so lame) that if you changed the walls, ceiling, and floor to that spotty gold texture, the maze basically disappeared and just looked like random gold static. I must have changed our screensaver a million times in the 90s. I think I had seen every possible iteration of floor/walls/ceiling available on our poor Windows95. I think I just had a screensaver thing when I was a kid. My cousins lived in New Jersey, about an hour away from my house, and every time we visited I just absolutely had to play a "game" they had on their computer. This "game" was called After Dark, and it was actually a screen saver program. It had a bunch of different screensavers, including maybe one that was actually fully interactive. That one you could set up pegs that all did different things when they were hit (I remember an eyeball peg and a plasma globe peg) by falling marbles. It was basically a modified Pachinko screensaver. Others included trippy rear end cow plasma-outlines whose colors were all flavors of ice cream that you could select from a list, a hand that wrote a message in the foggy other side of your screen, a dog that messed up your homescreen in funny dog ways. Probably the most famous was the Flying Toaster screensaver, which I gather was the mascot for the After Dark series. Here is a video. I have known this song by heart all my life despite not having "played" After Dark for probably about 15 years at this point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cm7tv5cM8g
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2012 06:40
|
|
`
|
QuickbreathFinisher posted:This motherfucker. I remember I thought it was awesome (god I was so lame) that if you changed the walls, ceiling, and floor to that spotty gold texture, the maze basically disappeared and just looked like random gold static. I must have changed our screensaver a million times in the 90s. I think I had seen every possible iteration of floor/walls/ceiling available on our poor Windows95. I did the same thing. Plus, I always changed the time you have to wait until the screen saver activates to the absolute minimum (30 seconds, I think) just so that I could see my super-cool maze screen saver as often and as quickly as possible. God, how sad.
|
|
#
?
Jul 7, 2012 09:08
|
|
|
Here's another band that was as late 90s as BNL, Garbage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uDiGAr_WKs
|
|
#
?
Jul 20, 2012 04:38
|
|
|
psydude posted:Here's another band that was as late 90s as BNL, Garbage: Haha that album was the first CD I ever actually bought instead of it being handed down to me by my brother.
|
|
#
?
Jul 21, 2012 03:35
|
|
|
I was just informed that https://www.amandaplease.com is still up.
|
|
#
?
Jul 24, 2012 04:39
|
|
|
Flavor Bear posted:Haha that album was the first CD I ever actually bought. Me too.  When I get nostalgic for high school music, I turn on the local alternative station. 3/4 of what they play is still from the '90s. Before much longer, that stuff is going to be classic rock.
|
|
#
?
Jul 24, 2012 12:28
|
|
|
Deacon of Delicious posted:Me too. For anyone who has it, DirecTV has a music station called "Reality Bites" that I listen to whenever I get nostalgic for 90s high school and college music.
|
|
#
?
Jul 24, 2012 17:50
|
|
|
Deacon of Delicious posted:Me too. A new local station in my town plays "the music you grew up with": 70s, 80s, 90s. It has happened.
|
|
#
?
Jul 25, 2012 00:55
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 03:02 |
|
|
This might have actually been from the very end of the 80's, but it sends me to nostalgia heaven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFfO864g3z4 An ad for children's toothpaste...
|
|
#
?
Jul 25, 2012 09:16
|
|
