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I read through this whole thread last night and got so loving angry over the fact that a lot of the American Girls dolls from my childhood are no longer being made. Over the span of several Christmases, I had 3 of them- Samantha, Kirsten, and one of the make-your-own. My best friend got the Felicity doll when I got my Samantha doll and there is even a picture of us wearing matching flannel outfits while both of us hold our dolls. My dolls (and books) are long gone, but the dolls wouldn't be worth poo poo even if I still had them because I actually played with them and took their hair out.
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That picture does it no justice. The actual video of the show is just so drat creepy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4__NWrfejTg Jesus Jesus Jesus aaaaaaaaaa Jesus Jesus Jesus aaaaaaaaaa Jesus Jesus Jesus aaaaaaaaaa Jesus Jesus Jesus aaaaaaaaaa Jesus Jesus Jesus aaaaaaaaaa I'm tired! I'm hungry! I'm thirsty! I'm hot! No! We must PRAISE JESUS.
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Ringo Star Get posted:That picture does it no justice. The actual video of the show is just so drat creepy. I had this one on cassette as well, and I think it's much creepier.  Look at that creepy-rear end bastard on the right. I know he was the villain of the story, but good grief...
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Feb 1, 2013 22:28
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Ringo Star Get posted:That picture does it no justice. The actual video of the show is just so drat creepy. "Can I call my mom to pick me up?" "I'm sorry, Jeff. There's no phone out here." pospysyl has a new favorite as of 23:33 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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The first thing that comes to mind of the 90s with my childhood were Pogs and the first ever Now CD. God how badly that franchise has become... 
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Feb 1, 2013 23:52
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I had the first Now CD and its amazing how few of those artists I can recognize now.
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Ringo Star Get posted:That picture does it no justice. The actual video of the show is just so drat creepy. Motherfucking Psalty. EIT loves that creepy talking book so much. That and Colby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKxMLbdbbwc EIT has a ton of material appropriate for this thread, actually.
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Feb 2, 2013 00:08
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Ringo Star Get posted:That picture does it no justice. The actual video of the show is just so drat creepy. It's pretty funny (and telling) that Everything Is Terrible left the video pretty much unaltered, and didn't try all that hard to make it any creepier. Probably because there's very little you could do to make Psalty any more creepy.
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Ringo Star Get posted:That picture does it no justice. The actual video of the show is just so drat creepy. What the gently caress were all of your parents thinking, exposing you to this as children? I'm a grown-rear end man and I'm finding this poo poo incredibly disturbing. 
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Quiksilva posted:The first thing that comes to mind of the 90s with my childhood were Pogs and the first ever Now CD. God how badly that franchise has become... This was probably the first CD I ever owned, although it's actually from 2001. 
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Feb 2, 2013 00:41
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Metal Loaf posted:This was probably the first CD I ever owned, although it's actually from 2001. It also amazes me how it can make it to Now 48 in only about 3(?) years... Though I will admit I feel like the earlier part of the Now series were pretty decent to listen to. Nowadays the CDs just seem like trash.
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the2ndgenesis posted:What the gently caress were all of your parents thinking, exposing you to this as children? I'm a grown-rear end man and I'm finding this poo poo incredibly disturbing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpQvyOMO3ZE Some creepy sexual harassment PSA
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Quiksilva posted:It also amazes me how it can make it to Now 48 in only about 3(?) years... Though I will admit I feel like the earlier part of the Now series were pretty decent to listen to. Nowadays the CDs just seem like trash. Nah, in the UK the Now! series started back in the early 1980s and its been running continuously ever since. My brother has Now! 83 on his iPhone.
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Quiksilva posted:It also amazes me how it can make it to Now 48 in only about 3(?) years... Though I will admit I feel like the earlier part of the Now series were pretty decent to listen to. Nowadays the CDs just seem like trash. I think that's a different country's Now!. Every country they're sold in has a different number they're up to because they started selling them at different times. That one's probably from the UK, which started them in 1984. Wikipedia: quote:The U.S. series of Now! albums began in 1998. The most recent album in the series, Now That's What I Call Music! 44, was released on November 6, 2012. e:f,b
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Metal Loaf posted:Nah, in the UK the Now! series started back in the early 1980s and its been running continuously ever since. My brother has Now! 83 on his iPhone. This makes a lot more sense, probably should have wikipedia'd that beforehand. Thank you!
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Then there was that time in 1990 when Oprah devoted an entire episode to interviewing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Terrible audio and weird aspect ratio on that video, but I'm just so excited to learn that this actually happened and it wasn't actually a childhood fever dream. Note the gradually increasing look of "what the hell did I get myself into" horror on Oprah's face.
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Christoff posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpQvyOMO3ZE You know, this is creepy, but it's also amazing. A lot of kids are scared to report sexual abuse because of guilt they feel over it not making them feel "bad" enough. I don't think I've ever seen a more realistic or honest depiction of sexual abuse in recorded form and I hope it really did help some very damaged kids a lot more than the "stranger danger" BS ever did. Most abuse is done by friends or family, and it can cause pleasurable feelings against the will of the victim (just ask Billy Connoly) and it's really good that someone addressed that. Still awkward as hell though!
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I'm cross-posting this from the "Lost stuff before the internet" thread: I'm looking for an old commercial that aired ALL THE loving TIME in the 90's. It was for a VHS series called something like "Mysteries of the Universe," but that's not the actual title, obviously. One of the biggest things I remember about the series was that it talked about the "Face of Mars." And there was a long, panning shot of said Face from one of the probes NASA sent up in the 70's/80's. I think it also said there were secrets about the pyramids? It's NOT the Time Life "Mysteries of the Unknown" book series. I'm fairly certain it was for a set of videos, not books...though it still might have been books. Actually, it might have been that Time Life series, but the commercial that was posted in the "Lost Stuff" thread isn't the one I'm thinking of. I really, REALLY remember that shot of the "Face of Mars." 
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I think that's a different country's Now!. Every country they're sold in has a different number they're up to because they started selling them at different times. That one's probably from the UK, which started them in 1984. Wikipedia: Yeah, there's several countries where they tried to make the series a succes. The Netherlands was one of the countries where the main series didn't take, but the NOW DANCE! series had a reasonably successful run. Of course when talking about The Netherlands and campy 90s poo poo you have to mention happy hardcore:  and the absolute king Paul Elstak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnq4dO8EdXc DONT TOUCH THE PC has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Feb 2, 2013 |
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DreamingApe posted:Yeah, there's several countries where they tried to make the series a succes. The Netherlands was one of the countries where the main series didn't take, but the NOW DANCE! series had a reasonably successful run. Toronto used to have a pretty sizeable HHC scene.  Shooting Star - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMjz8yEiVZo PLUR!
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Rahonavis posted:Then there was that time in 1990 when Oprah devoted an entire episode to interviewing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Terrible audio and weird aspect ratio on that video, but I'm just so excited to learn that this actually happened and it wasn't actually a childhood fever dream. Note the gradually increasing look of "what the hell did I get myself into" horror on Oprah's face. This led me to the TMNT on Regis and Kathy Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kes8y_S2csc loving Regis. THEY ACTUALLY EAT THAT PIZZA IN THE SEWER?!
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Tin Miss posted:If you were a Canadian kid watching tv in the 90s you will be remember seeing the "Cool Rock" CD commercial all. the. time. It's so burned in my brain now that any time I hear the song snippets on the radio or in a store I immediately think of the next songs from the commercial. Holy poo poo dude, that was a flashback and a half. As soon as the first song snippet played I experienced total recall.
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I remember this television advertisement for some anonymous love songs compilation. It was one of those ones which featured part of the tracklist scrolling up the screen, with a sampling of music video clips which were listed in a different text colour on said list. You know the sort I mean? To this day, I can't hear "The Voice" by John Farnham, "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc, "The Glory Of Love" by Peter Cetera and, to a lesser extent, "Alone" by Heart without imagining one of them segueing into another, just as they did in that advertisement. Another odd recollection I have is being four or five years old and seeing the trailer for Cutthroat Island on TV. I thought it looked pretty cool, but obviously I never saw it. Fast forward to 2003, when twelve-year old me is watching the first Pirates Of the Caribbean movie, and I'm suddenly struck by the thought, "Didn't the trailer for this come out a really long time ago?"
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm cross-posting this from the "Lost stuff before the internet" thread: I know exactly the commercial you're talking about, and my wife did too without me even fully describing it to her. We're looking! I've been skipping through these 90's commercial volumes looking for it, and found this by accident, which totally cracked us up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zanlkkAWngY&t=351s Wanna own that watch.
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DaisyDanger posted:I read through this whole thread last night and got so loving angry over the fact that a lot of the American Girls dolls from my childhood are no longer being made. Over the span of several Christmases, I had 3 of them- Samantha, Kirsten, and one of the make-your-own. My best friend got the Felicity doll when I got my Samantha doll and there is even a picture of us wearing matching flannel outfits while both of us hold our dolls. My dolls (and books) are long gone, but the dolls wouldn't be worth poo poo even if I still had them because I actually played with them and took their hair out. I'm super pissed about this as well, because they left loving *Molly* of all the original dolls, but not Kirsten or Samantha? I wanted Samantha SO BADLY as a kid, but for some reason my mom convinced me to get Molly because "she's the same doll, but she has glasses too!" I don't know why I let her talk me into that. Then I went into a phase where I was terrified of dolls, and Molly went into the closet, along with these dolls (who were manufactured in the 80's, but I didn't get them until the 90's, at least...I'm pretty sure?): Julie Doll: This doll could sense when it was hot or cold, light or dark. She was cool, but looking at her now, she looks terrifying. Cricket: She was like Teddy Ruxpin, with the tape in her back and her lips would move. I think both of these dolls led to my fears of dolls becoming animate when I wasn't looking.
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Metal Loaf posted:I remember this television advertisement for some anonymous love songs compilation. It was one of those ones which featured part of the tracklist scrolling up the screen, with a sampling of music video clips which were listed in a different text colour on said list. You know the sort I mean? I hate those. There was one for some kind of 80's or 90's mix CD, and occasionally the cobbled-together cross-faded mix would pop into my head as one song. I don't even remember the name of the mix or what was on it today, but that ad was on TV constantly. Every other commercial break you'd hear something like Right Said Fred melded together with Marky Mark melded together with Ace of Base... and so on.
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Rob Liefeld and Levi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJhoa2SVGNA
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Best insult ever, or bestest insult ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY0bHULptWQ
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Everything was darker and edgier and more extreme in the '90s. Yes, even advertisements for nature documentaries. I imagine Sir Attenborough would need a strong drink after seeing this.
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Rahonavis posted:Everything was darker and edgier and more extreme in the '90s. Yes, even advertisements for nature documentaries. I imagine Sir Attenborough would need a strong drink after seeing this. That's awesome.  NATUREAnother totally 90s nature video, I had all of these when I was a kid. Really Wild Animals! Dudley Moore did the voice for the globe, Spin, who was your host. My favorite one was the ocean one, which I can only find clips of the musical segments. There were a lot of XTREME ROCK N ROLL TUNES and other musical stuff in them. Pretty cool. And then I also had like every Zoobook they made.  My favorite one was a purple one about insects with a big fuckoff black beetle on it. It was awesome. The 90s was the best time to learn about science. 
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:And then I also had like every Zoobook they made. My favorite was the elephant one, because I seemed to be one of the few kids not freaked out by the muscle and skeletal elephants.
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DrBouvenstein posted:My favorite was the elephant one, because I seemed to be one of the few kids not freaked out by the muscle and skeletal elephants. The anatomical diagrams in "Zoobooks" were the poo poo, and I loved the panorama of diverse extinct elephants. Imagine, honest-to-goodness scientific illustrations in a children's magazine! These, "World", and "Ranger Rick" were the best.
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Rahonavis posted:The anatomical diagrams in "Zoobooks" were the poo poo, and I loved the panorama of diverse extinct elephants. Imagine, honest-to-goodness scientific illustrations in a children's magazine! These, "World", and "Ranger Rick" were the best. Zoobooks is still in publication, and it is still excellent.
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Renting SNES games from the local mom and pop place. I can honestly say that there was more decision making in those trips than the majority of my life. Judging a game by the back of the box, it better be awesome... God help you if you rented a bad game. You begged mom and dad for a few extra dollars to buy a 2 liter of grocery store brand soda, a bag of twizzlers and hoped the game was good. You were grown, you had the hand me down television in your room. Worst case scenario, you stayed up late and watched scramble porn.
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:Renting SNES games from the local mom and pop place. I can honestly say that there was more decision making in those trips than the majority of my life. Judging a game by the back of the box, it better be awesome... It's so strange to think back and realize that we bought a lot of stuff, really everything, with no access to reviews of any sort.
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 This book was campy, it was from the nineties and, yes, it was poo poo.
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Let's Play: Computer Classes (in 1997!) Computer class was the shizz when I was in primary school. It went for an hour every week, it was in the only air-conditioned room in the school because the boxy off-white mid-90s computers would overload and shut down if not carefully climate-controlled, and it rocked. There were thirty kids in the class, and twenty-eight computers. If you weren't quick, you missed out. My first fistfight happened in that room; I'm pretty sure that was the reason. We had strict rules. For the first twenty minutes, Mavis Beacon was the queen bee. If you were found playing anything else, you were booted off the computer and someone else got it while you sat on the floor (and cried, if you were me.)   We quickly figured out how to skip over the boring stuff and straight to the racing car game, so they banned it. Sometimes they'd shake things up and we'd get to play with the spellcheck in MS Word instead.  gently caress that thing. Anyway, after we were done with our typing practice, we had to play an "educational" game for twenty minutes. This was torture until I discovered that they counted this as an educational game for some reason:   There was absolutely no reason to be anything except a great white motherfuckin' shark. Eventually they banned the shark too, and we could only play on adventure mode, but that was okay. For the last twenty minutes, we'd practice surfing on the newfangled internet using the very cutting edge of search engine technology:  Except two lucky kids who'd get to play Lemmings. The system could only handle running two games of Lemmings at a time. Why? I have no idea. That's how every single class went until I was in sixth grade, when some visionary installed this:   So we just played that every class and the teachers didn't care enough anymore to stop us. Now I'm a goon, so, job well done guys. In totally unrelated news, who remembers my first-ever game?    These high-quality graphics blew my mind when I was 8. Avshalom has a new favorite as of 13:22 on Feb 8, 2013 |
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Computer game cutscenes from nineties games crack me up. Check out Command and Conquer (especially the first Red Alert game) and Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. They're so over-acted they loop round and become hilarious.
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