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DrBouvenstein posted:My 5-year old nephew got this last Christmas: My dad got me those signed by the author when they were first released. They made a new one about 6-7 years ago that was just different locations and planets done the same way the Stephen Biesty ones were. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Complete...+wars+locations It's still an awesome book.
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Neo Helbeast posted:Netflix only has up to the end of season 2 on Instant; I don't know why they don't have seasons 3 and 4 up. For the longest time, Seasons 1 and 2 were in legal limbo and only 3 and 4 were available, so it's funny to see it the other way around. If I had to guess, maybe they staggered the releases in order to not cannibalize DVD sales? I'd say Netflix always has weird rights and contract issues, but in this case Shout Factory got the rights to the full series. V  VNeo Helbeast posted:So more 90s cartoon shows: Mummies Alive! is always the very first thing I think of when I think of the 90s. It's that pitch perfect sort of rad 90s commercialism designed by distilling leftover essence of Transformers and Power Rangers and then throwing whatever at the wall and hoping it stuck.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypyvcfnu4Gg The 90s were all about cheesy syndicated TV for me (especially Highlander). But also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLNS8yV-u4c and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Budt6ucBIAY
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What I remember most about Dunkaroos is that they always had a problem where there is only enough frosting for three of the six cookies in the tray. Sort of like how Lunchables never have an even ratio of crackers to slices of cheese and meat. 
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CanceledTVShow posted:What I remember most about Dunkaroos is that they always had a problem where there is only enough frosting for three of the six cookies in the tray. Sort of like how Lunchables never have an even ratio of crackers to slices of cheese and meat. I like to imagine that it was to teach children about self-control but more likely it was to save cost and make it look like the nutritional content wasn't totally out of whack so they could market it as a healthy snack..
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Community reminded me that Sophie B. Hawkins' songs would just sound out of place if they were released in any decade other than the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt6r-k9Bk6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq-4vIIJO30
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:What a great loving show. All the timely 90s grunge and college rock got changed to generic guitar parts when it started getting syndicated, which lessened the awesome campiness, but it's still a goddamn amazing show that you should love real hard. There's a reason for that. MTV was able to use whatever music they wanted to for Daria and other shows because they were also showing the music videos on their channel. When it was showing on other channels like Noggin and when the DVD boxset finally got released, all of that music was removed because the rights to all of the music couldn't be secured.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Just found this: Man, the rainbow Times New Roman reminds me of these sheets of "scratch-on" rainbow monogram letters that we had. I don't know if they were a "thing" or if mom just picked them up at a dollar store because she thought they were pretty or what. You'd peel off the back, press the letter down onto whatever you wanted to monogram (your school binder, presumably), then scratch at it until it transferred over. Assuming you didn't run out of the letters you actually needed before you were done, they'd flake off within a week. I never wanted to "waste" them. I think I finally threw them out 15 years later when I found them in a box...
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I didn't watch Nickelodeon very much when I was younger, so I never really saw Ren & Stimpy. However, I did see Cartoon Network's own entry into the pantheon of somewhat "dodgy" cartoons:
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Metal Loaf posted:I didn't watch Nickelodeon very much when I was younger, so I never really saw Ren & Stimpy. However, I did see Cartoon Network's own entry into the pantheon of somewhat "dodgy" cartoons: I used to love that show as a kid, but I tried watching Cow and Chicken a little while ago for the nostalgia and I completely forgot that Chicken talks the way he does - so full of 90's "attitude" as to make every line absolutely silly.
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For me, this was like "Where's Waldo" only instead of a dude in a striped sweater, you look for someone going to the bathroom.
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Cow and Chicken is the cartoon that has the super offensive episode with the lesbian biker gang that breaks into peoples houses and chews on their carpets, right?
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Apr 7, 2013 19:21
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It also has a naked character who is literally Satan, but everyone refers to him as the red guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSqYZYJzGiI
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Metal Loaf posted:My favourite books when I was younger were Horrible Histories. I wouldn't have developed any appetite for reading whatsoever if not for that series. drat near all of my knowledge of world history comes from those books.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:It also has a naked character who is literally Satan, but everyone refers to him as the red guy. He was only Satan in the first episode. After that they gave him aliases that drew attention to his bare rear end (the example I remember is "Clancy Clearbottom"). What more can one expect when the main characters' favourite food is "pork butts 'n' taters"?
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Hector Beerlioz posted:In a smiliar vein: I found this book, in drat near mint condition, in a thrift shop about a year ago. For a two dollars. Best believe I bought it, and then, in a fit of nostalgia, hunted down a copy of Stephen Biestys Incredible Cross-Sections: Man-o-War. 
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Cow and Chicken is the cartoon that has the super offensive episode with the lesbian biker gang that breaks into peoples houses and chews on their carpets, right? Every time someone mentions that episode, I get halfway through thinking that no children's network would air something like that before I remember that the episode actually exists. And yes, it's Cow and Chicken. While it was definitely true for the "edgy" cartoons, it's pretty surprising to go back and see what got past the censors in the 90's for a lot of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network programming even for shows that didn't market themselves on parental outrage.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:In a smiliar vein: Hot drat I loved this. My family had the computer version, which wasn't so much a game but man was it fun to explore and learn. I can't find a better quality rip than this though... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4MIVU5i_xE
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Triskelli posted:Hot drat I loved this. My family had the computer version, which wasn't so much a game but man was it fun to explore and learn. I can't find a better quality rip than this though... Hooly gently caress I had that computer version too. In fact, I just checked and I've still got it on my shelf!
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Triskelli posted:Hot drat I loved this. My family had the computer version, which wasn't so much a game but man was it fun to explore and learn. I can't find a better quality rip than this though... Where was this when I was 10? drat! Would have loved that. Oh well, at least I had Myst.
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Kalos posted:Every time someone mentions that episode, I get halfway through thinking that no children's network would air something like that before I remember that the episode actually exists. And yes, it's Cow and Chicken. While it was definitely true for the "edgy" cartoons, it's pretty surprising to go back and see what got past the censors in the 90's for a lot of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network programming even for shows that didn't market themselves on parental outrage. "I'LL PITCH AND YOU'LL CATCH" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUW8hACF7s
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That poo poo is just lazy. At least when Animaniacs did it it was full of bad puns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Q1fPH7ETY&t=233s
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Does anyone remember a Grossology game for the PC that came out mid to late nineties? I spent hours learning about gross stuff in that game.
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I just discovered this: http://youtu.be/zmeqY0TA_tU It's the unforgettable 1991 independent film Star Wars Episode VII: The Quest for Peace. It's performed entirely by two guys voicing action figures indiscriminately, complete with 1970s-quality bluescreen effects, pyrotechnics, a John Williams score, and the 3rd most coherent plot of the series. It's the most amazing thing I've seen this month. It's 32 minutes of your life you
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The Carmen Sandiego computer game. I just thought of it today when the background music for Dar-es-Salaam inexplicably popped into my head. For some reason I loved going to that city in the game because of that weird, slow singing.
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Tin Miss posted:The Carmen Sandiego computer game. See, this has now reminded me of horrible things. When I was in sixth grade, which would have been around 1995, they had Apple IIs (or something very much like them) in the math room. And that drat game. I must have played that thing at recess every day for a month. I had almost hit the rank of "Detective." Came in the next day and somebody had goddamn deleted the save. I can't imagine why I was so angry, but I definitely was.
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 "CREATE TEN MOOOARRRR... WOOOOOOAAAAAAD RRRRRAAAAIDEEERRRRRSSS!"
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This has just been rereleased in hd with a new matchmaking system so multiplayer actually works again.
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Inspired by what I just read about "The Way Things Work", I dug out my old CD version of it and tried to run it, but it sadly doesn't like Win7 x64. Have to try to find a way to work around it for extreme 90s pleasure. e:  Got around it by using the Win XP Mode. Didn't even think about that. And it's just as glorious as I remember, even though the resolution is quite small. Datasmurf has a new favorite as of 00:47 on Apr 12, 2013 |
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Anyone remember the week or so before the Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy) launched in 1991 and that ran this weird rear end test pattern? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bJgFCnINQ
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Here, have some Gak. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iDALjY4QnY
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What is it with the 90s obsession for slime and grossout humor? I mean, look at Nickelodeon, it had shows like Double Dare that were all about sliming people and getting them to dig through stuff that looked like boogers and earwax.
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Ren & Stimpy, probably.
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I'm pretty sure Nick's slime obsession started with You Can't Do That on Television in the late 70's/early 80's, and the gross-outs built on it from there.
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What's it with today and superhero movies and zombies? Or 10 years ago with WWII movies? It's all about hype. It proved to be successful, so everybody started doing it.
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Kids just like gross stuff.
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Taeke posted:What's it with today and superhero movies and zombies? Or 10 years ago with WWII movies? It's all about hype. It proved to be successful, so everybody started doing it. It's also about context. Remember television is really only 30 or 40 years old by the time the 90s hit and cable is literally JUST starting around the same time. Nickelodeon pushed the limits a little to see what they could get away with because it just really hadn't been tried yet.
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Starhawk64 posted:What is it with the 90s obsession for slime and grossout humor? I mean, look at Nickelodeon, it had shows like Double Dare that were all about sliming people and getting them to dig through stuff that looked like boogers and earwax. I got slimed on Nickelodeon when I was seven! High point of my life, it's been all downhill from there.
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