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Frankston posted:Ugh that poo poo was such a disappointment when I finally got some. I don't think I ever blew a bubble as big as the first pic, but I never had trouble getting modest results with bubble plastic. That said, the absurdly detailed balloon animal-esque designs they'd show in the ads were pipe dreams. Though honestly for me the disappointment came down to "You blow a bubble and then...um...it stays there. Until it inevitably deteriorates from its semi-fragile state into a sticky mass of chemical.". It's like all of the worst qualities of balloons, bubble gum, and soap bubbles with very few of the positives.
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Anyone remember those small (I'd like to say about 2-3 centimetres tall but I could be way off) robot-looking thingies that combined to form bigger robots/vehicles/monsters? There were some non-robot-looking bits too like cockpits and wheels I think. Two or three of my friends had them in the mid-eighties but I have no idea what they were called. E: Oh, sorry, this is the 90s thread but I'll leave this here in case someone knows what the hell I'm talking about.
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Molentik posted:It looks like that 'S' made it all the way to the Netherlands, because I remember drawing that stuff in the late '90's. We thought it was a super secret Satanic symbol I remember seeing it in the UK and associating it with a clothing brand. One that teenagers who went to raves wore? All that stuff seemed kind of runic when I was a kid. Did Eclipse jeans have more power than a Dready jacket?
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Anybody else remember Z-Bots? My brother and I loved the gently caress out of those things. And godDAMN if we weren't going to look through every single back at the toy store to see if any of them contained Neptoon. I think we finally got him by trading a bunch of the lamer ones to a friend of mine.
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Dis posted:Anybody else remember Z-Bots? My brother and I loved the gently caress out of those things. And godDAMN if we weren't going to look through every single back at the toy store to see if any of them contained Neptoon. I think we finally got him by trading a bunch of the lamer ones to a friend of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woL9mHC4WHY Z-bots commercials. "There's a million of them! They're robots that fit in your hand!" Take my parents' money!
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Jehde posted: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. Not sure if this is it, but I remember playing around with this when I was a kid.  Orbits was a DOS program that had similar features to the one you explained, but I believe had more astronomy and less history. Oh and who remembers that Encarta program that was on all the mid 90's computers running windows 95? I still remember the little maze game that would ask you trivia and had these voice overs. One that my brother's still talk about is this girls voice who says "The world is your oyster!" when you are asked a question and if you get it right she says "You found a pearl!". This was misleading because you actually have an inventory so we bother figured that we got a pearl which would be the answer to some other little puzzle or something...stupid kids I know.
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DoTheEvolution posted:Not sure if this is it, but I remember playing around with this when I was a kid. Unfortunately this isn't it. Thank you very much for the attempt though! The program I'm talking about is more so Windows 95 era than DOS era. Orbits does look neat though. And you're right in that the program I'm thinking of focused more on history than scientific facts.
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DoTheEvolution posted:Oh and who remembers that Encarta program that was on all the mid 90's computers running windows 95? I remember one of them had little educational example mini-games of sorts. One was to show off how the moon's orbit worked and it left a little trail so there resulted in some cheap amusements finding the right angle to create repeating spirograph patterns.
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Sizone posted:It's Batman!: I never tried Red Dog but I used to drink Red Bull 40 oz all the time. joshsboringlife has a new favorite as of 09:30 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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the black husserl posted:Me too buddy. The religion is gone but I still have a soft spot for cheesy radio drama. And they still make them! Maybe I should catch up a little bit, I never did find out if Novacom brainwashed everybody.
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Oh, man, I drank this stuff a LOT at college parites during the mid/late 90's... It's liquor...with SUGAR crystals grown on the inside of the bottle! I remember taking an icepick and breaking up the crystals once the bottle was empty because I thought the crystals would have absorbed enough of the alcohol to keep my buzz going. CobiWann has a new favorite as of 13:34 on Jun 5, 2013 |
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Jehde posted: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. All I can think of is Nine Worlds with Patrick Stewart. Not actually 90s, since it was released in 2001, but still pretty indicative of the decade. Check that MPEG compression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiIvo83r_Jw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadMjuzfxQA
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Ballin Stalin posted:Here we are, fifteen years later than when this commercial originally aired, and I'm sitting here with my birthday approaching in a week, and if my mom surprised me with this I have no doubt I'd react as if I were six again: I literally just found one of these in my cupboard at my parents' house. It is going to take pride of place on the mantelpiece when I move into my new place this month.
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Tobaccrow posted:Hell yeah. The Christmas I got Megabot was one for the books. Despite being a true "90's kid" (born in 86), only a few things have given me palpable nostalgia trips in this entire thread. This...is one of those things. Holy gently caress. My best friend had more of these than me because I could never decide what I wanted to collect and just stick with it. I hated him for it.
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Sizone posted:It's Batman!: I'm pretty sure this was the '90s mascot for Mad Dog 20/20. I remember getting a promotional glow-button for it at a county fair as a kid. Ah, the 1990s. 
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Darthemed posted:I'm pretty sure this was the '90s mascot for Mad Dog 20/20. I remember getting a promotional glow-button for it at a county fair as a kid. It's Red Dog beer. The same logo is still on the can.
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I played so much Marble Drop as a kid. I still have the CD around somewhere, I should see if it runs on Win7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Drop
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Antioch posted:I played so much Marble Drop as a kid. I still have the CD around somewhere, I should see if it runs on Win7 I got it working as recently as Vista (with lots of tweaking) and wasted several hours on that wonderful game.
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John Murdoch posted:I don't think I ever blew a bubble as big as the first pic, but I never had trouble getting modest results with bubble plastic. That said, the absurdly detailed balloon animal-esque designs they'd show in the ads were pipe dreams. This was only about 7-9 years ago, but the convenience store I worked in at high school sold this stuff along with other lovely 'toys'. It wasn't too hard to create a bubble over a foot in diameter, but any shapes beyond flattened sphere were virtually impossible. The best thing to do with it was fill it with starting fluid or ether. Not coincidentally, my coworkers and I usually had short, singed arm hair if any arm hair at all.
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CobiWann posted:Oh, man, I drank this stuff a LOT at college parites during the mid/late 90's...
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Aftershock is like Fireball Whiskey: Booze for people who don't actually enjoy alcohol but still want to say they drink something that isn't Mikes. You'll find it at any liquor store near a college and pretty much no where else.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Aftershock is like Fireball Whiskey: Booze for people who don't actually enjoy alcohol but still want to say they drink something that isn't Mikes. You'll find it at any liquor store near a college and pretty much no where else. Pretty much, but instead of "Fireball Whiskey," I'd say "Goldschlager." I did see it used in mixed drinks however - Aftershock, Goldschlager, and Peppermint Schnapps was a "Red, White, and Blue." I've only seen Aftershock (cinnamon) and Avalanche (peppermint). Never saw or have seen the other colors. Cromulent posted:Oh wow, I remember stealing swigs of that stuff when I was 14, after my friend's older brother left some out after a party. Didn't it advertise that the proof increased as the crystals grew larger? When I turned 21, I thought I'd buy some just for kicks, but couldn't find it anywhere. From Wikipedia. quote:There is a regular myth that the drink crystallizes in your stomach until the next morning. The crystals were then said to liquidate during the morning, releasing a second wave of alcohol into the blood stream. CobiWann has a new favorite as of 12:43 on Jun 6, 2013 |
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CobiWann posted:From Wikipedia. Man, I miss college. I wasn't there in the 90s...but I miss college.
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Goldschlager has some limited use in cocktails however. I can't think of any cocktail I'd use aftershock in that wouldn't make me want to use something similar but better like Ullr.
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John Murdoch posted:I don't think I ever blew a bubble as big as the first pic, but I never had trouble getting modest results with bubble plastic. That said, the absurdly detailed balloon animal-esque designs they'd show in the ads were pipe dreams. I was so excited to get that stuff, and the only other thing I remember about owning it was the smell. It smelled loving horrible when you first squeezed it out of the tube, like burning plastic mixed with rotten fruit. Then, after you got used to that, there was this sickly sweet, vinegary bitter ammoniac smell that would seep into your nostrils whenever you tried to make a bubble with it. I remember accidentally breathing in while blowing a bubble one time (I was clearly a very intelligent boy) and my lungs feeling like i had just inhaled a cloud of weak acid. It was impossible to avoid the smell, and since you had to roll it up to make a proper bubble, your hands reeked like industrial runoff and turpentine for the rest of the day. poo poo sucked in retrospect but I loved it anyway because kids are dumb colored bubbles yayyyyyy 
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Oh my god, the After Shock wikipedia page has one of the worst-sounding drinks I have ever heard of:quote:The Grant Mullen: 1oz After Shock, 1oz Jgermeister, 1/2oz Absinthe in a hot glass. Drop the shot into a pint of Strongbow Cider or Miller Lite. Their website is pretty much exactly like you'd expect it to be. Radio Help has a new favorite as of 11:52 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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CobiWann posted:Oh, man, I drank this stuff a LOT at college parites during the mid/late 90's... Yeah that was my drink of choice (the blue one specifically) when I hadn't developed a taste for beer yet. Just looking at that picture makes me feel sick, it was so thick and sweet and syrupy. Bleurgh.
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The only purpose I recall for that drink was making Depth Charges.
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Sizone posted:If you're gonna be ignorant, at least you're ignorant about totally inconsequential stuff. MD 20/20 is MD 20/20, "Mad Dog" is a nickname and not the actual name of the product. As such, there has never, to the best of my knowledge, been a dog on its label.  He just made a minor factual error about a cheapass wine you goon
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I recently rediscovered my favorite TV show that I completely forgot about for 10 years, The Sifl and Olly Show They're even better than I remembered and they had a recent comeback through Youtube even. Here's some eerily accurate visions of the future of the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUcKxVy17Q
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MD 20/20 that stuff was the worst. The first time drinking it wasn't bad and really easy to drink, for a novice teen drinker. Of course rapidly drinking high alcohol% for novice drinkers leads to puking. Every other time I tried to drink it I couldn't finish the bottle.
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Maybe this was posted earlier in the thread, but seeing talk of the Better Blocks infomercial reminded me of MUZZY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9i39GENWU I remember seeing this commercial *a lot* as a kid.
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Read through half of the thread and didn't see a mention of this. Growing up with the NES/SNES in Canada this was how you learned to be a gaming god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5xI1SKySZc My childhood has just been ruined by the way, Nicholas Picholas is indeed NOT his real name.
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I went to a party thrown by a local tech company in the area last night that had an early 90's hip-hop theme. A picture of the specialty drink list:  They had Naughty by Nature, Arrested Development, and Salt N' Pepa perform. It was fun seeing lots of people in costume, and then realizing that holy poo poo, twenty years ago they would be considered to be wearing normal clothes.
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tehschulman posted:Maybe this was posted earlier in the thread, but seeing talk of the Better Blocks infomercial reminded me of MUZZY: I remember those. They were made in the late 80s, but are still advertised and sold today. They were made by the BBC to help people learn English as a second language, and another company bought the rights to it and changed it to teach other languages. Check it out: http://www.early-advantage.com/
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The way they pronounce SNES infuriates me.  S-N-E-S not SNES dammit!
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If you bothered to say each letter people would think you were weird. But then if you said "nes" for the original they'd also think you were weird. People are weird.
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leidend posted:If you bothered to say each letter people would think you were weird. But then if you said "nes" for the original they'd also think you were weird. People are weird. It's always been nez and snez for me, but they were both poo poo anyway because I had a Mega Drive.
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