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Avshalom posted:Let's Play: Computer Classes (in 1997!) To show case my own primary school's (kindergarten through to grade 6) computer classes. We also had some form of typing program, it wasn't special enough to warrant me remembering it, however, I remember having to do typing tests and people would get awards in-front of the WHOLE school showcasing their words per minute. "oh ho ho ho you could work with the ladies in the office with these skills oh ho ho ho" However we then got to learn maths under the guise of alien wars and intense action. Enter Mega Maths Blaster:   This was basically the poo poo of our computer classes and was pretty drat hard to complete at our level of education (and our lovely school too). I remember my best friend(we both loved Pokemon) beating it one time during computer class and everyone crowded around him and gave him a pat on the back and such glorious praise that I could only sit there seething at the attention he was getting. But that's for an E/N thread in another time. Like your lovely computers, we also had a game that everyone wanted to play but only limited numbers could.  We also had a game that everyone could play at any time.  And of course for some reason everyone loved that drat pinball game that came with windows.  I remember we had to have our parents permission and a special 'internet licence' in order to dial up and browse the world-wide-web. (I was maybe one of two in our class  ) So after making everyone super jealous from the dial up tone, all I would do was ask jeeves about Pokemon...Just for good measure, I remember an older game I used play on the N64. Blast Corps  Which looked as amazing as it sounds. 
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Metal Loaf posted:
I would have called it "Pew Pew Pew Holy poo poo Lasers!" Look out Luke, that tiny TIE fighter is headed straight for your face!  My brother had a bunch of those lovely expanded universe books. I tried reading Shadows of the Empire once, but I just couldn't do it.
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Feb 8, 2013 13:57
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Avshalom posted:
I played through the demo about seven times, then my friend pointed it was a kids game and ruined it for me. We were 12 at the time, so kids games with no blood or guns like Mario were considered "Gay." Now I'm an adult so kids games are OK again.
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Feb 8, 2013 14:26
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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... The weirdest part about renting NES/SNES games was sometimes you'd get a weird, not original, manual in the plastic case. And I don't just mean a photocopy, I mean someone not in any way involved with the producers of the game just made a half-assed manual full of misleading, and flat-out wrong information. If you were really unlucky, you'd just get that sticker on the back of the case that told you the controls of the game (again, usually with several errors) in blue ink. From what I gather, other people often had this guy:  But I never saw him in my little podunk town in New England. Always the sticker with the blue ink on the back cover of that plastic case.
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Feb 8, 2013 14:43
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"SPERMASTRUCT - Here's your instructions, bitch, with some of the pages glued together!" (I wonder if I've ever managed to buy a second-hand game that didn't come with suspicious hairs.)
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Feb 8, 2013 14:54
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Metal Loaf posted: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. That's still true of Command & Conquer
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Feb 8, 2013 14:59
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DrBouvenstein posted:From what I gather, other people often had this guy: Holy poo poo that brings me back. There was another one, I'm pretty sure, with a character who sort looked like Kid Vid from the Burger King Kids Club. Can't find that guy, but here's Kid Vid. 
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Feb 8, 2013 17:19
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Perry Normal posted:Holy poo poo that brings me back. There was another one, I'm pretty sure, with a character who sort looked like Kid Vid from the Burger King Kids Club. Can't find that guy, but here's Kid Vid. Oh, man, the Burger King Kids Club. Pretty sure they were designed by the people who did Recess. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to call the one kid in a wheelchair "Wheels".
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Feb 8, 2013 18:07
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Bro Nerd Alpha posted:you stayed up late and watched scramble porn. gently caress scramble porn, I'd stay up until 1am and watch scrambled Raw is War or Monday Nitro. If I was still in my old house, I could tell you which direction the transmitter was by which direction I'd have to turn the aerial to.
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Feb 8, 2013 18:13
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The scrambled channels were sometimes really relaxing to just have on as background noise during the night, too. I remember one night just having the audio to American Pie playing from a scrambled signal all night long while I worked on other stuff and remembering enough of the visuals of the film from seeing it in the theater. One thing about the 90s for me, though, is that it really felt like the last gasp of TV being pretty cool in general with things like the B-grade and classic late-late shows on TNT, TBS and WGN, syndicated SF series on local broadcasters at 1AM. I still remember out of the blue one night TBS decided to show the original, non-MST3k version of Mitchell out of nowhere. Shows like Up All Night, Monstervision, Joe Bob Briggs, etc. DrBouvenstein posted:The weirdest part about renting NES/SNES games was sometimes you'd get a weird, not original, manual in the plastic case. To go back in time a bit more around these, I seem to remember that when these sort of gaming things were all over the place it was during a period of time when the game industry was trying to get rid of video store game rentals. I think the popular reason was that they felt it was stealing sales. As a tie-in to this, it seemed that at the height of this that stores were being told that they couldn't even xerox replacement instructions in case of loss or damage, since that was violating copyright. So, these started to come out more and more. Then, I think, there was a game company that threatened to sue the makers of one these things for saying they were stealing and selling copyrighted content from the manuals by putting "B=Punch, A=Kick". Here's some articles from almost 25 years ago on some of it (the only links I could find all come from the same source, though.) http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-08-13/business/8902250572_1_nintendo-blockbuster-video-games http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-08-16/business/8902260327_1_blockbuster-entertainment-nintendo-blockbuster-video (This one seems to be more an editorial piece, but the guy is on Nintendo's side for this.) http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-08-10/business/8902250177_1_nintendo-blockbuster-manuals edit: A quote from one of the articles on Nintendo's stance on the matter: "Nintendo, the Redmond, Wash.-based subsidiary of the Japanese toy company, said that Blockbuster`s move to stop photocopying manuals ``only takes care of the future. But we intend to recover for damages already sustained by Blockbuster`s illegal actions,`` said Lynn Hvalsoe, Nintendo`s legal counsel." JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 09:35 on Feb 9, 2013 |
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Feb 9, 2013 09:26
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I'll raise you Mavis Beacon c.a 1988!   Also anyone from Australia remember getting this?  There seemed to be a glut of shovelware games based around promoting products during the 90's at the height of the CD-ROM boom. It was pretty much a run of the mill platformer where you jumped around collecting tins of Milo and trying to get up onto platforms. I recall getting frustrated at one point by some insanely difficult jump and gave up. And speaking of the fun days of FMV - I still love this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clu47yvBllA
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I was at a thrift store earlier and found a Pure Moods CD in the CD bin, and I instantly thought of this thread and the commercial since both were previously mentioned. However, I also came across another old "as seen on TV" CD compilation that I hadn't thought about in years. FREEDOM ROCK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio This thing ran for years from the late-80s into at least the early-90s, and I always laughed at the drat hippy every time. "WELL TURN IT UP, MAN!!  " "Turn it down, man.  "
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Feb 11, 2013 21:51
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I immediately want some BK, like right now.
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Feb 11, 2013 22:13
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Does anyone remember the series Ocean Girl? I loved this series so much! A girl who could talk to a whale? YES! Trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwye-JIW3SM
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Feb 11, 2013 22:45
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 Oh, 90's fashion.  Thank God I was never "cool" enough to wear anything other than regular jeans and a t-shirt. Yeah, I'm sure I'd be a little embarrassed over a few of the t-shirts (nothing too nerdy, but I know I had at least one Big Dog shirt) but nothing so loving stupid as that poo poo, or "skater fashion" that was pretty big at the time. Though in a twist of irony, one of my most used pair of shoes currently are Airwalks. Did you even know they still exist?! They're a Payless brand now, but drat, they are some of the comfiest shoes I've ever worn, and were only like $15.
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Feb 11, 2013 23:22
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 For some reason, space aliens became a cultural touchstone in the early-mid nineties (probably because of the popularity of the x-files?). That poo poo was everywhere.
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As a boy who loved aliens and animals, I was patently jealous of girls having Lisa Frank stuff, and that boys "couldn't" have them because they were for girls. I just wanted a bright colored notebook.   I had this trapper keeper, which, while pretty BA, meant nothing to me compared to how much I wanted a Lisa Frank binder.  I have no idea how my parents were surprised at all when I came out to them...
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I think it's pretty sad that, as that image loaded slowly on this slow internet connection, I knew that it was Darksaber as soon as the "from the best-selling author..." part loaded. I had a shitload of those between about 1993 and 1998. Painful Dart Bomb posted:My brother had a bunch of those lovely expanded universe books. I tried reading Shadows of the Empire once, but I just couldn't do it. I occasionally recommend the three Timothy Zahn books to other relatively geeky people who aren't Star Wars fans, because they're the only ones that hold up on their own as decent science fiction. If you feel up to it, try those out, then never read any of the other novels.
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Sagebrush posted:I think it's pretty sad that, as that image loaded slowly on this slow internet connection, I knew that it was Darksaber as soon as the "from the best-selling author..." part loaded. I had a shitload of those between about 1993 and 1998. This made made me chuckle a little. quote:I occasionally recommend the three Timothy Zahn books to other relatively geeky people who aren't Star Wars fans, because they're the only ones that hold up on their own as decent science fiction. If you feel up to it, try those out, then never read any of the other novels. And agreedo. The only other ones I read were the X-Wing series which I didn't finish.
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Avshalom posted: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: For some reason, this has been migrating with my CD collection since 1997 or so:   My computer won't accept the install.exe prompt so I'll have to go find some backwards compatibility program, but your teachers were total dicks because the game's manual explicitly says the whole friggin' point is to become the shark! Odell Down Under Manual posted:Odell Down Under offers four levels of play, with an almost endless
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If you were born in the 80s you have seen this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzKx92QD8Hk
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It's time for a whole bunch of YTV 90s nostalgia! Phil and Snit in The Zone: http://youtu.be/uP8_g8AQ7X0 http://youtu.be/0O_IHOwgW0w http://youtu.be/Z3gpFIK6CIM Short Circutz: http://youtu.be/EFO-VHTODaY (The Bee) http://youtu.be/ipt5GHWHsw0 (The Pyramid) http://youtu.be/FOavf3_e6Ac (The Ducks) http://youtu.be/NYBes8ki3lo (The Birds) http://youtu.be/XMBnD-eT4CA (Styro the Dog) Promos: http://youtu.be/Xio1BYh2jvQ (Fall 1995) http://youtu.be/hrYpdZv_Fbk (Spring 1996) http://youtu.be/RYEmAJ8qbyE (Fall 1997) Shows: http://youtu.be/iF-8mlO44z4 (Student Bodies) http://youtu.be/eLU97sXo8QU (Stickin Around) http://youtu.be/fuEJWmxWkKw (Reboot) http://youtu.be/X6_RZhh44NY (Sailor Moon) http://youtu.be/ayedFamZPGI (PJ Katie's Farm) http://youtu.be/4HuJDOX0IJM (Once Upon a Hamster) http://youtu.be/ogVgj1pevD0 (Freaky Stories) http://youtu.be/kPgZQ1XHtQI (Buffy the Vampire Slalyer, before it sucked) http://youtu.be/OfdSlbJnMFk (YTV Hitlist)
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This quiz was great, not for any particular item, but its perfect pastiche of the 90s feel: http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/which-90s-dreamboat-is-your-perfect-valentine Ok, I don't really know a few of the extremely girl-centric ones, but I stick to my guns. e:  awful typo
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Laser Cow posted:Packard Bell Windows Navigator. Let's put a graphical user interface in front of your graphical user interface. Only poo poo. Compaq computers were full of this sort of stuff as well. Microsoft actually had to take action, either legal or just strong-arming, to stop this poo poo, and that's why these OS-intercepting things went away. MS knew that putting all this junk in front of their Windows products would confuse people as to what Windows was and what it was supposed to do (esp. since in the 90s, there were many first time PC owners who had no idea what a computer was). Say what you will about MS, but stopping this was certainly the right move. Among those things which Microsoft ended, was Compaq's TabWorks, which sorted your applications and files like a paper binder. I have an old Windows 3.1 laptop which has Tabworks, and I can see why you'd need some help with that confusing mess, but Windows 95 doesn't need that.  Now that Windows 8 is here, maybe it's time for Tabworks to make a comeback.
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kimbo305 posted:This quiz was great, not for any particular item, but it's perfect pastiche of the 90s feel: I got my ex g/f's '90's crush, the guy who played Jordan on My So-Called Life. gently caress that quiz, that guy is illiterate.
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Maybe I haven't posted this yet somewhere on SA. 
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Going back in the thread I've been reliving all of my childhood. I had gotten the first few seasons of Are You Afraid of the Dark on DVD a while back and I found out a friend of mine hadn't ever seen the show. After watching several episodes all she could say was it was a bit cheesy with me saying "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND AND YOU NEVER WILL. IT STILL FREAKS ME OUT" I had a huge fear of the deep-end of swimming pools for years because of that Goddamn undead monster that would pull kids under and drown them. I miss that show. They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Motherfucking Psalty. EIT loves that creepy talking book so much. That and Colby: I'll never forget the episode when a older sister goes "off the rails" by getting into rock music. There's a scene where she is listening to really generic punk-pop when she crashes her car. "I don't want to live this lifestyle anymore, Colby!"
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Ema Nymton posted:Say what you will about MS, but stopping this was certainly the right move. Now if only we can get Google to do the same with Android! Yeah yeah, the whole point is that's it's open and they're free to poo poo all over it in any way they want.
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Leelee posted:Does anyone remember the series Ocean Girl? The guy is 30 now, ended up directing 30 Neighbours episodes and 38 episodes of H2O: Just Add Water (Mermaids). Apparently quite a lot of 90's Australian Children Children-Show actors ended up doing some directing. Somehow I bumped into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-GaXZcOazE How many bad guys in kid's shows did Mark Mitchell play?! 
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Today I was thinking about how video games were portrayed in 90s sitcoms. Usually you'd see a Genesis or SNES console on top of the TV, yet the person playing was always using a joystick for some reason. And the sounds coming from the game were always Pac-Man-esque blips and bleeps. I don't know why, but the joystick thing drove me nuts as a kid.
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Feb 13, 2013 21:37
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Metal Loaf posted:
Avshalom posted:Let's Play: Computer Classes (in 1997!) Somehow I never really got to play the actual edutainment games, even though I wanted to. There was one in particular that seemed genuinely cool to me, but I never tried it - until I decided on a whim to find it again a few years ago, and incredibly enough I managed to find it without even knowing the title: Thuis In Het Milieu. Sadly, by that time I had become too disillusioned and contrarian to be particularly sensitive to its environmentally-conscious persuasions. Also it's not much fun to play a game that's all about doing household chores when you're an adult.
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Sombrerotron posted:Somehow I never really got to play the actual edutainment games, even though I wanted to. There was one in particular that seemed genuinely cool to me, but I never tried it - until I decided on a whim to find it again a few years ago, and incredibly enough I managed to find it without even knowing the title: Thuis In Het Milieu. Sadly, by that time I had become too disillusioned and contrarian to be particularly sensitive to its environmentally-conscious persuasions. Also it's not much fun to play a game that's all about doing household chores when you're an adult. Holy poo poo, I remember that. Everyone kept failing until someone figured out you should turn off the lights when you leave a room.
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DrBouvenstein posted:
Yes, I had Skidz shorts, Z Cavaricci clothes, Girbaud jeans, etc. What the gently caress. I do look back fondly to the 90s though, as there was a lot more optimism in the air than there is now. The Soviet Union fell apart, the U.S. won the Gulf War decisively, and my generation was going to make the world a better place! Now I just get depressed when I think about the naivete we all had.
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Who remembers this? I still have this on VHS. I thought it was great, but because I was only really familiar with the first half dozen or so games and the British fortnightly comic book series, I hadn't a bloody clue what was going on. That being said, it's probably the best animated adaptation of a video game that was released in the nineties.
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Metal Loaf posted:Who remembers this? That movie is a cinematic masterpiece. When Metal Sonic gets thrown into lava or something in the end, he crackles "THERE IS ON-LY ONE SON-IC". If that's not drama I don't know what is. EDIT: The animation is genuinely good, though. It's just fun to watch. Forktoss has a new favorite as of 22:18 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Also, Knuckles had such a wonderful hat! It even caught fire or something, it was great!
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Tin Miss posted:It's time for a whole bunch of YTV 90s nostalgia! God, the memories. Adam West's Batman, Snit lasting longer than any host, Power Rangers getting thrown off the air by moralists...
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Computer nerds will remember this one: old 3DMark demos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8T149k63SQ It was (still is I guess) a graphics demo that would rate your system using its arbitrary scale called 3DMarks. They used to (still do?) have very fancy little CG movie demos built in which would always amaze me based on their relative high quality compared to current generation gaming. The guys at Mad Onion really wanted to show just how amazing computers could be with a little imagination. 3DMark 2000 in particular is forever burned in my head because my nerd dad actually ripped the music from it and put it on a CD and we'd listen to it on long car rides sometimes.
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DrBouvenstein posted:
Speaking of boy bands, it's Valentine's Day! Here is your present, and I dare you to make it all the way to the end. Even when my friends and I were at peak Obnoxious Fangirl, we couldn't do it. (Other than that, I want to know what long, long string of terrible decisions resulted in Danny's overalls.  )
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