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So lets say that you're an eight year-old, and you really, really want to play Doom but your deeply religious parents won't let you because violence and demons and guns, etc etc. What do you do? You get a copy of Chex Quest. It's basically the same thing, right?  I also played the poo poo out of Jump Start: 3rd Grade for some reason. I think they still sell it, too. (Bonus: weirdly long-winded and spergtastic wikipedia page about a 17 year-old educational game) I also remember those early Jump Start games coming with this psuedo-online "learning adventure" game called KnowledgeLand. I never played it with other people, so I couldn't do anything in it except run around as a freaky cat screaming "DO YOU WANT TO RIDE ON THE GON-DO-LAH" in equally-freaky mid-90s robot voices. This playthrough video is making me nostaligate like a motherfucker. Also, earlier in this thread someone touched on the Yeah!Woo! break, citing it as the most influential 90's drum break. The Amen Break begs to differ. (Yeah, it's the one from the Powerpuff Girls intro) Squarepusher and Venetian Snares made whole careers out of mutilating that break. Radio Help has a new favorite as of 23:17 on Mar 13, 2013 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:I don't know what triggered this memory, but I suddenly had to find the videos for the early 90's Sci-Fi Channel's "Cartoon Quest." So much of early Sci-Fi Channel programming was awesomely corny 90s camp, totally unburdened with self awareness; like the Anti Gravity Room (or pretty much all the Canadian programming they got for cheap) and that HSN ripoff that concentrated on selling ceramic busts of Spock's head, etc. Or that one show that was ostensibly a panel-based discussion program, but with some sub-Babylon 5 level CGI overlayed over the set so that it looked like the panel of genre writers and b actors were discussing Anne McCaffrey novels while zooming through the universe in a space forum. Or the show that ended with Harlan Ellison ranting angrily about... everything. It really bummed me out when Sci Fi transitioned from cool lame to normal lame in the early-mid 2000s.
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cobalt impurity posted:Holy poo poo I forgot pagers even existed. Even back in the 90s I remember the general thought on pagers being "If someone has a pager and doesn't look like a doctor, they're probably a drug dealer" since by then most business-types had cell and car phones.
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Radio Help posted:So lets say that you're an eight year-old, and you really, really want to play Doom but your deeply religious parents won't let you because violence and demons and guns, etc etc. What do you do? I remember my neighbours giving this to me when it came free with their cereal or something. I'd played Doom before, but I always used the cheat codes (IDDQD!) so I liked having a similar game that I could play for real. Somehow I found those slime monsters to be more disturbing than the demons in Doom.
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Speaking of the Sci-Fi channel, who remembers the show Sightings?  It was a paranormal investigation show where they would look into reports of people seeings ghosts, UFOs, Time Travelers and pretty much any other thing you could think of. I remember that show would scare the ever living poo poo out of me, but I still would watch every episode. The one I distinctly remember was about a house that was haunted by the ghost of a little girl named Sally. The part that was scary was that Sally would attack the people living there by scratching them all over their backs and arms to the point were people would bleed. I remember when the crew was interviewing the home owners, one guy jumped up and started yelling because he had just been scratched. He lifted up his shirt and low and behold their were marks all over it. Cue terrible nightmares for 10 year old me after that. And remember, guys, in the words of host Tim White; "Nothing is closed to an open mind!"
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Radio Help posted:So lets say that you're an eight year-old, and you really, really want to play Doom but your deeply religious parents won't let you because violence and demons and guns, etc etc. What do you do? Good news if you're nostalgic. http://www.chucktropolis.com/downloads/ChexQuest3.zip Charles Jacobi, the guy who worked on the original 2 episodes restored the game to work on modern OSs and released a completed episode 3 that was planned but was never given out in a promotion.
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Radio Help posted:
I think I still own my copy of Mystery Mountain, along with my collection of ClueFinders educational games (the page for this series is also spergtastic). The ClueFinders were your standard late-90's ethnically diverse cast of kids:  They went on trips to Egypt and on boating expeditions and got into all kinds of vaguely supernatural/science fiction-type trouble. The aliens in Secret of the Living Volcano scared the poo poo out of me but I couldn't stop playing. I knew my childhood was ending when I finally beat the 6th Grade Adventures Game  Speaking of 90's computer games, did anyone else have Barbie Magic Hairstyler? You could give Barbie a makeover to give her a wicked mid-to-late 90's style. Being Barbie, nothing was ever too outlandish but you still got accessory options like these chokers:  A rose choker is the 90's-est Barbie fashion accessory I can think of.
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coronatae posted:
I am very jealous. My (female) cousin had this game and I always wanted to play it but I was too afraid someone would see me and make fun of me for playing a girl game. God, even as a kid I was the gayest. I remember you could give her turquoise hair, which I thought was cool as gently caress. Turquoise might as well be the official color of the 90s.
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I remember we had "Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover" for our computer. There were a couple of pre-set models that you could glam up and then if you were lucky enough to know somebody with a scanner in 1996 you could put your own picture in there! I remember thinking that purple lipstick and spiky blonde hair was the best style.
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Boy oh boy do I remember growing up in the 90s! Back when me and my sister were growing up, whenever our mom would take us to the mall we absolutely HAD to go to the Disney store. On every occasion we'd end up convincing our mother to buy us one of these things: Disney printed washcloths!!! Compressed into a small, geometric shape!!! They came in a bunch of different designs that spanned god-knows how much of the Disney catalogue and boy was I a sucker for them. It didn't even matter that they were washcloths, since I'm pretty sure neither me or my sister cared. Instead, it was all about finally coming home, unwrapping them in the sink and then watching the napkin unfurl. I don't know why this was so cool to me as a kid (although I'm not going to pretend I still don't think they're cool) but I still own a million of them back at my parent's place.  And then there were these things- dissolvable capsules with foam dinosaurs inside that you put in water and watch "hatch." Honestly I have absolutely no idea why they're so awesome since you couldn't really do much with the foam dinos once you extracted them, but they are.  This poo poo was so popular growing up and if you didn't have one on your backpack in elementary school, you were a loser. They were big, bulky keychains that had dinosaur dioramas on the inside that moved when you opened it. Of course being a kid and playing in the sandbox it inevitably got full of sand and jammed the machinery so it didn't work anymore, but god forbid you get rid of it.  One of my first video games I remember playing on my computer was loving Monkey Shines. You played as some cool Donkey Kong ripoff in shades avoiding skulls and collecting keys or something. It had a kickin' spooky soundtrack and whenever you died the monkey would let out the most godawful, realistic scream. This game gave me some serious nightmares although it didn't stop me from playing it- not that I ever beat it (or got past the first level.) Now how about some really cheesy novelty board games!  I owned this game and honestly, I have no idea what the purpose to it was. All I remember was pulling a bunch of gooey, damp pieces of "snot" and I think one was attached to a rubber band or something. If you pulled the right string it made his brain pop open- it sounds so boring in retrospect, which is probably why I dont remember it being in heavy rotation during family game night.  Mr. Mouth, on the other hand, was the poo poo. The frog contraption would be placed in the middle of the board, turned on (it ran on batteries!! Woah!!), and then would rotate 360º opening and closing its mouth shut. The goal of the game was to flick these little plastic flies into its mouth and then see who got the most in. The only weird thing about it I remember was the frog being loud as poo poo when you turned it on- nearly deafening, even. Not that you needed to talk, but still.  And then there was Race to the Roof. My mom, for whatever the reason, loved this game and played it with me and my sister a poo poo growing up. I'm pretty sure it was made for kids since the game was really simple (each card has an item on it that's pictured in one of 14 or so "rooms" on the board; using them you effectively climb and descend the house until you reach the roof) but this was the quintessential game for me growing up. I'm pretty sure we still have it somewhere in one of the cabinets in my house. Not sure if anybody's posted it yet, but I still remember the goddamn Skip It Commercial Jingle by heart. The commercial must have been in heavy rotation or something on Nickelodeon because I remember seeing it all the time for years along with "Elefun the Elephant". I actually owned a skip-it and mostly kept myself occupied with it after my sister got older and became too cool to play with me in the ol' neighborhood cul de sac anymore.  The counter was cool but never really worked right- after a while I think it just locked up and remained stuck at the same number until we inevitably threw it away.One more thing: Does anyone remember some weird Honeycomb cereal videogame that came included with the cereal for a very short time? I think you bred or raised "honeycomb monsters" in some dungeon-y cave thing
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MorbidYak posted:I'm sure I'm not the only kid that received this CD-ROM multimedia experience with their new computer. Edit: To contribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5v3SCaML8o Cool Tools. This jingle will never leave my brain. Tobaccrow has a new favorite as of 10:50 on Mar 14, 2013 |
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Someone made a "mid-90s" Game of Thrones intro. Since we are in the topic of campy 90s things, I think that whoever made this was pretty spot-on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fPgIIB67bw
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Hector Beerlioz posted:
Oh my god, my brother had this thing! He and I would play with it constantly; He always stuck me with the pink and yellow cars, since they were "girl colours". I've been going through this thread over the past few days and I'm amazed at how many major things in my childhood I'd forgotten about. Like Big, Bad Beetleborgs; I wonder if the theme song gave me second-hand embarrassment as a kid too...
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RagnarokAngel posted:Good news if you're nostalgic. 
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If you didn't want to win this jacket when you were 12, then I don't want to know you.  
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 Was this the first big game to have a gun peripheral? I don't know, but I do know it was one of the coolest games you could get for the PlayStation when it came out.
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Metal Loaf posted:Was this the first big game to have a gun peripheral? 
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Also the ZX Spectrum had a lightgun. That's more 80s though.Metal Loaf posted:
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Saint Seafoam posted:
Holy poo poo.  I had a dinosaur one. My sister had one with dolphins. I think my brother had one with gorillas. My God, I haven't thought of those in like twenty years but it's all coming back.
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OneEightHundred posted:Duck Hunt. Something an 80s kid will never forget 
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Metal Loaf posted:I don't think anybody I knew actually played the game. We all enjoyed the "trading" part, though. As I'm sure many can appreciate, it was all about getting your favourites. That's partially because whole game was basically just a simplified version of Magic: The Gathering, which already had (and still has) the entire market of collectible card game enthusiasts. Plus pokemon was no exception to 90's obsession with "collectible" things that would be magically worth millions on some unspecified future date, so everybody was afraid of their cards not being in perfect condition (thus ensuring none of them will ever be worth anything). Everything from baseball cards clipped off the back of a cereal box to a lovely Mr T comic were HOLY poo poo COLLECTIBLE GET 30 OF THEM.
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Kalos posted:That's partially because whole game was basically just a simplified version of Magic: The Gathering, which already had (and still has) the entire market of collectible card game enthusiasts. The funny thing is that the "collectables" had absolutely no chance of becoming valuable. The entire reason certain comics are so valuable is because back in the early days Comics were disposable entertainment similar to a newspaper - a shitload of copies of Action Comics 1 were printed, but the majority of them were thrown out, allowed to deteriorate, or otherwise destroyed. Contrast the "collectable" Death of Superman issue, which had a print run 100 times as big as AC1 and was immediately put into plastic comic holders or otherwise properly stored by most of the people who bought it. Action Comics 1 is worth millions depending on condition. I can buy a copy of Death of Superman with the special edition black cover for $10 on eBay. Another example is Beanie Babies - the only ones that are actually worth anything are the factory errors - all the other "collectable" ones can be had very cheaply, usually in bulk lots.
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Kalos posted:That's partially because whole game was basically just a simplified version of Magic: The Gathering, which already had (and still has) the entire market of collectible card game enthusiasts. I remember I used to cut out all of the file cards from the backs of my G.I. Joe dolls and kept them all together. Had the Joes in a big rack that was intended to house different types of screws and fasteners and things in your garage each with all of their accessories neatly sorted for posterity.  If I had it to do over again I just would have bought and stored them in their original packaging to sell during the height of the dotcom bubble but they were fun to play with. Not sure what I'll be doing with all my old baseball and basketball cards up in my parents' attic.
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Kalos posted:Plus pokemon was no exception to 90's obsession with "collectible" things that would be magically worth millions on some unspecified future date, so everybody was afraid of their cards not being in perfect condition (thus ensuring none of them will ever be worth anything). Everything from baseball cards clipped off the back of a cereal box to a lovely Mr T comic were HOLY poo poo COLLECTIBLE GET 30 OF THEM. I suppose that's true. Personally, almost all of my Pokémon cards ended up almost Pringle-shaped from riding around in my trouser pockets.
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Argh, some of the things I've seen in this thread take me back.Leelee posted:Does anyone remember the series Ocean Girl?
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bobkatt013 posted:Something an 80s kid will never forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mx9dO3BxI Because this isn't too widely known about.
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I sell Camera equipment for a living. A friend of mine sent me this video the other day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVSlynIBzr0
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Buzfeed is clearly a fan of this thread: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/pictures-that-should-be-left-in-the-90s   Daniel Craig with long hair does not compute! 
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DrBouvenstein posted:
He nearly looks like he's wearing a wig.
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43 pages and not one mention of the one thing from my childhood that I actually miss? On this messageboard, of all places? SEGA Channel.   That's right, for anywhere from $15-$20 a month, you got 50 Genesis games a month, with unlimited playtime, through your cable provider. I was the only one of my friends that had it, because my mom figured it saved her money rather than having to spend it on a couple games for my birthday and Christmas. And it was, without question, the poo poo. Here are a couple videos of the menu screens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRLZcBiN-k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEX984dB3l0 Here's a pretty  promo/commercial for your dose of camp, as the thread title asks for:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTcIqsFEQNk
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DrBouvenstein posted:If you didn't want to win this jacket when you were 12, then I don't want to know you. 12 year old me would rather have had a piece of the Aggro Crag.
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ANOTHER SCORCHER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqZZgVxnCk This commercial was on tv for years and years.
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I never realized that Sears ad was such a cultural touchstone for people. I mean I remember it and all, but I've seen it posted like five or six times in this thread. edit for content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddxfSTa9sY I had one of these, along with a few other Aviva toys like a Mongo Bat and a few Vortex Footballs, as endorsed by John Elway. I remember using the Sound Swing Bat more for pretending to crack each other backyard wrestling than I ever did playing baseball, which seemed pretty par for the course with Aviva stuff. mactheknife has a new favorite as of 18:11 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYpuvVeSqO8 This show scared the eveloving bajeezus out of me as a child.
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Rise of the Robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zafl_68PfOo The first combat game to use artificial intelligence for advanced fighter complexity! Opponents actually learn from their mistakes and read your moves making strategic decisions down to the last microsecond! Rise of the robots redefines the fighting genre and raises the ante on gamers with a futuristic motif proven in focus groups! We wanted this so bad, and it was, like, 60$ in 1994. When our parents gave it to my older brother for Christmas we were so hyped. We had to upgrade the computer's RAM just to run it, so it basically cost double. And then it was... not very good. It wasn't, like, beyond bad, but it's just... not goo. There's only and handfull of opponents, the mechanics aren't very interesting (especially since the cyborg you play as doesn't have any special moves), and there's no extra crap to the game like One Must Fall 2097's tournament mode. It sort of became notorious in the house, the super expensive gift that wound up being pretty 'meh.' To this day, almost every year, someone in the family recycles the box and shoves someone's Christmas gift inside. Something particularly hilarious about the AI is that it just cheats. There's no actual learning, just cheating, and its ability to cheat is based entirely on the computer's clock speed. The game became completely unplayable on a Pentium 2 because the computer would "react" with a perfect counter to everything you did, even against the first bot on easy. We managed to button mash our way to the second fight, but then we'd get ripped apart before we could really move. The bot design was kinda cool, though.
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It didn't help that the Pokemon TCG was actually a really good game. Because Nintendo didn't gently caress around when it came to that poo poo, they made sure it was a high quality product that they wanted to be associated with. See also: when they made another very 90's thing the Pokemon Pikachu which was their Tomagotchi type thing, it was way more advanced and pun then a Tomgotchi and the follow up to it was actually a small handheld video game console with cartridges and everything.
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QPZIL posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYpuvVeSqO8 I didn't even have to click that link to remember how the theme song went. scariest thing to hear ever when you were little.
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mactheknife posted:I never realized that Sears ad was such a cultural touchstone for people. I mean I remember it and all, but I've seen it posted like five or six times in this thread. I think it's widely-known because Sears used that commercial for a looong time. Shoot, I remember seeing it on Comedy Central one time in 2007.
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RunFish posted:I sell Camera equipment for a living. A friend of mine sent me this video the other day. *sigh* I worked at Ritz Camera in the '90's. I can't tell you how many poor saps thought they had a Nikon SLR when they walked into the store with one of those hunks of crap. Despite saying "Nippon" instead of "Nikon", despite the big peek-a-boo viewfinder instead of a pentaprism, they thought they had some top of the line gear. Remember Fuji Velvia film and Minolta Maxxum cameras? We would get at least one person a week looking for Velveeta film for their Mylanta camera. Since I'm being grognardy about photos, remember APS film? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Photo_System Kodak's brilliant idea to introduce a new film format died pretty much at birth. I don't remember ever processing any of it while I worked for Ritz.
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Wasn't APS film pretty much only used by graphic design college students with too much money? I thought its only real advantage was recording data on the negatives so you could do easy formatting stuff.
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