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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Pokemon not only went on to have like 20 more films released after the first one, but is still on TV to this day. I think the first movie was the absolute pinnacle of its mainstream success, though; Pokémon 2000 was the last one to get a theatrical release in Europe and America, as far as I'm aware, and it wasn't as big a hit as the first one. The franchise is probably as successful as ever but that was its high point. It's still inexplicably bizarre to think back about how huge it was, to be honest.
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The first pokemon movie was quoted by a presidential candidate, so there is that.
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Someone else earlier in the thread had success on rediscovering an old piece of 90s software, so I figure I might as well try and see if anyone remembers this program that's been bugging my nostalgia lately. I don't remember much of it, but it was a sort of graphical encyclopedia that focused on space exploration. I remember the main menu being a sort of library and you could go to the blackboard or something and cycle through significant dates in space exploration. One such article that's burned into my memory was about the cold war, and featured some EGA art of a multiple rocket launcher truck in a snowy forest, with some ominous Sound Blaster music to complete it. As for content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqAB5xhOA Everyone seems to have forgotten about this king of dapper after he made a few mediocre movies.
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May 5, 2013 02:52
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Daria's only weakness is that the best episode (Boxing Daria) is the very last episode. I don't know. I thought it started going to "very special episode" territory towards the end of its run.
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Jehde posted:As for content: "This video contains content from Base79 TV (Base79/2), who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:"This video contains content from Base79 TV (Base79/2), who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." It's Mr. Bean.
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Overbite posted:I don't know. I thought it started going to "very special episode" territory towards the end of its run. It wasn't that bad until the movie, the movie was full to the gills of that stuff. But at least it handled it better than most TV episodes about your friend being an alcoholic.
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DrBouvenstein posted:The day this game became available on PSN was one of the greatest days of my adult life. melon cat has a new favorite as of 04:50 on May 5, 2013 |
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Jehde posted:
I only recently figured out that Mr. Bean did the voice of ZaZu (Sp?) in the Lion King and it totally blew my mind.
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Christmas of '93. I was five. And it was the beginning of something beautiful: I swear I had every drat one of these that came out between '94 and the '98. Gobs of them and they were all so drat COOL.     Some were fuzzy, some had magnets, some changed colors with water, some had little levers, some whistled. They'd wag and jump and wiggle and run and grab and it was sheer bliss! Their playsets were equally awesome with things like clear plastic ice caves, bamboo jungle lairs, sea-themed aquariums and elaborate burrows complete with garden. They lost steam in the late 90's and returned as demented-looking bobble heads, but I still have an affinity for miniature bits and pieces because of them. I was also a massive fan of Polly Pockets and never once did I slap one in my maw. I was decked out to the nines with Lisa Frank gear, had copious amounts of My Little Ponies and Barbies, collected stickers and Beanie Babies and even had a few Sky Dancers. I was the girliest girl to ever girl. One of my first memories is opening an electric TMNT toothbrush on Christmas eve and the sewer playset my sister got the following day. IT CAME WITH SLIME, YOU GUYS.  And not sure how old these fellas actually are, but everyone had one: 
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melon cat posted:I still remember how Colossus' "AARRGGGHHHHHHHH!!!" was always the loudest sound in the arcade. Ahh, a chance to bridge these topics and finally impress people with this particularly useless piece of knowledge (1m53s, should be linked): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gti_EXe7LQY&t=113s I like to think that they tried to edit out the ambient noise of the arcade, but the bellow of mighty Colossus won out!
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Das Boo posted:And not sure how old these fellas actually are, but everyone had one: When I was a kid I figured out that if you took the lid of one of these things in the pool with you and caught just the right amount of air in a bubble under it, it would be juuust buoyant enough so that you could stand on it and it would hover a few feet under the surface. Then you could "surf" around very slowly while standing on your new HoverShell, half out of the water. It probably looked loving stupid if you were watching but it was the coolest goddamn thing to me and my friends.
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Leon Einstein posted:None of the things you posted are specific to the 90s. They had all those pens and stickers and poo poo when I was a kid in the early 80s. The spirograph is from the 60s. My mom would do this, but you can just buy the toys by themselves without buying a meal (or maybe she just went to a crooked Mcdonalds).
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OMG that Littlest Pet Shop stuff brings back so many memories. I think I had every single one you posted! Awww. I loved those things.
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Whispering Machines posted:OMG that Littlest Pet Shop stuff brings back so many memories. I think I had every single one you posted! Awww. I loved those things. Me too. They were the last toys I had before I 'grew up' and got rid of all of them. I'm sure I had almost all of them, but the one I loved the most was the chameleon. Sometimes I debate buying one off of ebay but I just can't spend $30 on an old toy.  I also had a green one, but all of the ones I find are orange. 
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Oh yeah, Littlest Pet Shop was one of my last childhood toys too! For some reason the concept of a tiny dog in a tiny dog carrier was absolutely thrilling to me. I used to draw my own little play mats on paper for those things, with 'beds' and 'pools' and stuff. Granted I also used to assign personalities to crayons so my imagination was a little overpowered I think.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Me too. They were the last toys I had before I 'grew up' and got rid of all of them. I'm sure I had almost all of them, but the one I loved the most was the chameleon. Sometimes I debate buying one off of ebay but I just can't spend $30 on an old toy. Oh man, as soon as I saw the pics, that chameleon popped into my head immediately. I mean yeah, it only turned from one shade of green to a different shade of green, but that was some mind-blowing poo poo. I also remember the fish tank one was what every girl had to have, but it was impossible to find (I eventually got one because a friend got two for her birthday, and my mom bought the second one off her mom).
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Mourning Due posted:Ahh, a chance to bridge these topics and finally impress people with this particularly useless piece of knowledge (1m53s, should be linked):
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Fun fact I just learned : if you were one of the pioneers who watched anime back when it wasn't cool (early 90s), at least if you lived in europe, your source was probably a company called Manga Entertainment. Their videos always had this intro which played clips from all of their current releases, backed up by a totally kick rear end metal song. Well that song is actually an edited version of : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqMx3h_zKyg And here's the extended intro version : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIk6exZczFo
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Metanaut posted:Fun fact I just learned : if you were one of the pioneers who watched anime back when it wasn't cool (early 90s), at least if you lived in europe, your source was probably a company called Manga Entertainment. Their videos always had this intro which played clips from all of their current releases, backed up by a totally kick rear end metal song. Well that song is actually an edited version of : Holy gently caress poo poo, that trailer owned so hard. I kept telling my friends, "This is how every anime should be!". I just re-watched it, it still holds true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Afjo0ICoT0 Sensory overload is GO!
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Shoes with slime? Did I have a pair? Does the pope poo poo in the woods? For about a day, I was the slickest motherfucker in 4th grade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKkN6cIvcxM
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This thread reminded me of a cartoon I had completely forgotten about : Fish Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6D5C1C7Nso Watching this made me feel like such a grown up at age 10.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dhk3wdEQok I think this is the first and last serialized show I enjoyed watching on CBC. Was such a bizarre post-apocalyptic fantasy tale. My only clear memory of it was the last season where the main character is arguing with the comic shop owner about how much a zero issue should be worth. Will have to make time to rewatch it. More CBC nostalgia: Watching this at 3am on the lovely little black and white tv your grandma gave you for Christmas.
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Lee Harvey Oswald posted:Shoes with slime? Did I have a pair? Does the pope poo poo in the woods? For about a day, I was the slickest motherfucker in 4th grade. Thank you. I've been trying to remember what these things were called for years. I had a pair, grew out of them, and couldn't get a new set because they vanished almost immediately after they came out.
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Kuikka posted:This thread reminded me of a cartoon I had completely forgotten about : Hey, I remember this! Didn't it only manage to get half of its episodes broadcast before it was cancelled? A real shame. While it probably dates from the 1980s, I remember when we got Sky TV and Cartoon Network had this animated double-feature which featured the adventures of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. The henchmen in the Robin Hood stories were pretty much the Eco-Villains; they'd steal a chest full of gold and plot to deliver it to Prince John while cackling, "Let's get this money to our "good" king! Hahahahaha!"
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Did anyone else have those retarded rubber alien egg toys that were full of goo? There was always a rumour at my school that they had babies inside and I spent forever trying to figure out how to get them out. I guess I was just gullible.
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Every sunday morning at 11 O'clock I would drive my parents insane with the greatest children shows in history; Purno de Purno  http://youtu.be/5aJ_P1CD65Y Beauty on the Beach. http://youtu.be/sMxd3lOG19g Het Homomuseum. and Rembo & Rembo http://youtu.be/PFKnbM6HiMo http://youtu.be/gqDr8x2eqRE Lost Rabbit. http://youtu.be/ueoZcWujxuk Strip poker Growing up in the '90s was awesome 
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Molentik posted:Every sunday morning at 11 O'clock I would drive my parents insane with the greatest children shows in history; These are amazing. It's like they took my culturally unaware understanding of what European children's television is like, and made it real. One shameful thing I miss from the 90's: Cargo pants/shorts being cool. They were so big and had so many pockets and you could cram so much poo poo in there and you'd never need to worry about a handbag. I hate Summer because it means 100% of my outfits will not have proper functioning pockets.
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I don't know if it's '90s (aired in the nineties here) and it's certainly not cheesy but have some Nick Knatterton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR_X9i9zyBE&t=254s
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If I can find my copy of this game, I'd play it now at 21 despite the mega camp (and massive discrepancy in age appropriateness) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05qqs-9KSHc
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FunMerrania posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dhk3wdEQok I completely forgot the name of that show but yeah, it was pretty amazing. Kid was in a coma world and attempts to leave the coma world would destroy it/his coma friends, so he stayed in it. His parents should have pulled the plug that poo poo went on for like 4 years.
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FirstPersonShitter posted:Did anyone else have those retarded rubber alien egg toys that were full of goo? There was always a rumour at my school that they had babies inside and I spent forever trying to figure out how to get them out. I guess I was just gullible. They were popular at our school. Apparently you needed to put two aliens back-to-back (they had a flat rubber bit on the back where they had been cut from the mould or something) and after a couple of days a baby would come out. It never happened with my two aliens 
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Shoeonhead22 posted:I completely forgot the name of that show but yeah, it was pretty amazing. Kid was in a coma world and attempts to leave the coma world would destroy it/his coma friends, so he stayed in it. His parents should have pulled the plug that poo poo went on for like 4 years. I remembered the name and it still took me years to find it. The only other details that I could recall were a) the plot had something to do with the main character's father's telescope and b) BRAD IS RAD and you will be brainwashed into thinking that's true while in some sort of ball pit. I live right on the US/CA border, so when I visited my grandmother, I would watch it via the ol' rabbit ears at any and every opportunity. Then she got satellite. God drat it! No, wait, that was also excellent at the time.
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Metanaut posted:Fun fact I just learned : if you were one of the pioneers who watched anime back when it wasn't cool (early 90s), at least if you lived in europe, your source was probably a company called Manga Entertainment. Their videos always had this intro which played clips from all of their current releases, backed up by a totally kick rear end metal song. Well that song is actually an edited version of : This was the one I used to see all the time. It got me into KMFDM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCbUMEooHhI
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Brick Shipment posted:One shameful thing I miss from the 90's: Cargo pants/shorts being cool. They were so big and had so many pockets and you could cram so much poo poo in there and you'd never need to worry about a handbag. I hate Summer because it means 100% of my outfits will not have proper functioning pockets. There is absolutely such a thing as not-ridiculous cargo shorts. I'm wearing some right now. Now if we're talking like Kikwear or Pipes or Jnco or something, that's another story...
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mactheknife posted:There is absolutely such a thing as not-ridiculous cargo shorts. I'm wearing some right now. No there isn't. No you're not.
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Modern Day Hercules posted:No there isn't. No you're not. Cut above the knee, no more baggy than my regular shorts, just two extra pockets. They still sell them everywhere. Not 90s-exclusive.
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FunMerrania posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dhk3wdEQok I've never seen this show or heard of it, but it jostled my memory and made me remember the 90s revamping of Land of the Lost. I remember I loved that show, but I can not remember a single plot from it now. I think there was one where they could get back to modern times, but decided not to because they would have to leave someone behind or something like that. I remember in the show they all drove around in a Jeep Cherokee and I had a toy of it complete with sound-effect buttons to annoy my parents with and make them regret buying poo poo that made ceaseless noise. Here's the show's intro in all it's 90s glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlUBOzpkjY Speaking of tie-in merchandise that makes noise, one of my all time favorite toys as a kid was this Star Trek Transporter Room toy. It was this little chamber you put your action figures in and when you moved with faders up and down the figure would "beam" down and up a la mirrors. I think I still have it too...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikEyQikFA1A
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I owned this and it perished in a fire. I still miss it to this day. I also owned this and it also perished in a fire. I'm not upset about that.  (The Flintstones Move on Laserdisc)
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