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If you're interested in this stuff, a book called Console Wars just came out a few months ago. It tells the behind the scenes story of SNES vs Genesis from both sides (but mostly Sega.) Also shows why Sega went to poo poo so quickly. Its Japan's fault. Supposedly Seth Rogan is making a movie based on the book.
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I always loved the color scheme of the Famicon: Dat white, red, and gold.  And while the original North American NES was pretty "bleh," they released a top-loader version at the end of its life that looked at least a little better: 
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Galsia posted:How they got away with having African American and Chinese actors play the Black and Yellow Rangers I have no idea... I think that may have been an unfortunate coincidence because originally the Asian girl was supposed to be the Black Ranger and the African-American guy was supposed to be yellow. Now for content: I remember this safety PSA that had those crash test dummies (I forgot their names) and Ray Charles singing about keeping kids buckled in the backseat, had those two crash test dummies dressed like the Raylettes (look it up), and it ended with Ray Charles saying, "They'll stay alive even when I drive." I know it sounds like some sick parody that would be at home on 1990s Saturday Night Live, MADtv, or In Living Color (especially In Living Color because that cast had more black people and Jamie Foxx was on that show before he actually would play Ray Charles in that movie), but it was real and it played on a local TV station in Pennsylvania that aired these cartoons that weren't good enough for the major networks (that Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon that wasn't the dramatic, action-packed one known as "SatAM Sonic," Extreme Ghostbusters, an unaired season of The Mask: The Animated Series, Street Sharks, and Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys). I don't even know if it's on YouTube, as this is the kind of stuff that YouTube would eat up like a cheap buffet that never runs out of food and gives you unlimited refills on all drinks, not just water.
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Kevyn posted:If you're interested in this stuff, a book called Console Wars just came out a few months ago. It tells the behind the scenes story of SNES vs Genesis from both sides (but mostly Sega.) Also shows why Sega went to poo poo so quickly. Its Japan's fault. I think it's either before or after the Disaster Artist. Not too sure about that however.
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Penny Paper posted:Now for content: I remember this safety PSA that had those crash test dummies (I forgot their names) and Ray Charles singing about keeping kids buckled in the backseat, had those two crash test dummies dressed like the Raylettes (look it up), and it ended with Ray Charles saying, "They'll stay alive even when I drive." Yo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1n5mxIJaLo Weren't that hard to find, really.
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Remember "Hey Dude"? Some of the cast had a 25 year reunion:  I know 25 years ago puts it as starting in the 80's, but it's still a "90's" Nickelodeon show to me, along with Salute Your Shorts, Welcome, Freshman, and such. And man...a few members of that cast did NOT age well.  Christine Taylor (Melody, i.e. Ben Stiller's wife) still looks amazing. And the guy who played Ted seems to have taken care of himself. Hell, even the woman who played Lucy looks pretty well considering she was already middle-aged when the show was on the air and must be in her early to mid 60's by now. But the guys who played Buddy, Kyle, and Jake? Whew, doggie. Johnathan Galki (Ted,) looks like a crazier version of Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And it looks like Mr.E married crutch-doctor from ER. Good for him.
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That picture has really made my day, thanks! Also Mr E is a playa for marrying Laura Innes agreed!!
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DrBouvenstein posted:
I had/have this version of the Nintendo. It was always a pain in the rear end because there was some wiggle room in the top slot that let the cartridge wobble back and forth. So you'd be playing and if the console got even the slightest bump, the game would crash. Some games wouldn't even work unless you turned it upside-down and force the cartridge pins to touch the contacts on the inside. Still played the poo poo out of it though.
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Some posted Mighty Max much earlier in this thread, which reminded me of something. I was always sort of "counter-culture" as a kid (in the sense that I was all against "mainstream" things because my dad was and obviously my dad was right about everything) and would avoid shows that were based upon toys/games, like Transformers or Power Rangers. One morning I watched Mighty Max expecting it to be total poo poo and remember thinking that it was unironically really good. Pseudonym posted:Yo. I always found commercials with crash dummies really morbid and hosed up.
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Ytlaya posted:One morning I watched Mighty Max expecting it to be total poo poo and remember thinking that it was unironically really good. Mighty Max was great because it had really hosed up episodes like a carnival turning kids into freakshows and alien parasites that latch onto the back of people's necks and turned them into zombies but at the end of every episode there was always a bit that encouraged kids to go to the library to read more about the stuff they just watched.
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Not to mention that the ending was pretty hosed up in which Norman and Virgil both die and Skullmaster actually kinda wins. It really was a surprisingly great show.
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Traditional business cards not xtreme enough for you? Try Business Pogs!
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KERNOD WEL posted:Traditional business cards not xtreme enough for you? Try Business Pogs! Oh. My. God. I want these more than I can possibly express.
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KERNOD WEL posted:Traditional business cards not xtreme enough for you? Try Business Pogs! Lowtax you need to make SA Business Pogs
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I like how to complete the 90'sness of their business, the example pog is naturally for the main character of Saved by the Bell.
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Rickycat posted:DBZ was the absolute poo poo when I was younger and if you didn't watch it you weren't cool. My brother and I spent one summer watching the poo poo out of Ronin Warriors, which was for cool badasses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvfX1JJpxF0 The power's in the armor.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I like how to complete the 90'sness of their business, the example pog is naturally for the main character of Saved by the Bell. If you watch the video it has examples with "Bob Sagget"(sic) and "Tony Clifton" as well. Edit: Yeah, it was a bit of a weird feeling to be watching a youtube video in the middle of what looked like an excavated geocities page. Like, I knew it was perfectly acceptable but it just didn't belong. the future is WOW has a new favorite as of 19:25 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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psydude posted:My brother and I spent one summer watching the poo poo out of Ronin Warriors, which was for cool badasses. I seem to remember this show using "And I Ran" as its themesong for a while?
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Heath posted:I seem to remember this show using "And I Ran" as its themesong for a while? That was the US dub of Saint Seiya. Used the title Knights of the Zodiac when it aired on Toonami or some such. ETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpxrsEAIMT4 It was pretty much the most 90s dub anime to not actually be released in the 90s.
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I found this webpage (pretty sure it's circa 1998 or so) inviting visitors to contribute to a letter writing campaign to save the noted Doctor Who rip-off and bastion of cheesy 1990s genre television Sliders from cancellation.
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Metal Loaf posted:I found this webpage (pretty sure it's circa 1998 or so) inviting visitors to contribute to a letter writing campaign to save the noted Doctor Who rip-off and bastion of cheesy 1990s genre television Sliders from cancellation. I loved the poo poo out of that show as a kid, but being in the UK I only ever seemed to get episodes from the first two seasons. I grow older, and manage to pirate the remaining three seasons. I wish I hadn't  It was never great, but gently caress if they didn't manage to utterly ruin it with alien rapecamps and most of the main cast leaving.
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DesperateDan posted:I loved the poo poo out of that show as a kid, but being in the UK I only ever seemed to get episodes from the first two seasons. I grow older, and manage to pirate the remaining three seasons. One of my best friends met the guy who played Remmie at an airport once. He said his hair was gleaming a mile away and is still pissed he didn't get the balls up to say something to him. Sliders kicked so much rear end. Looking back on it it is pretty drat Dr Who-ish, but I guess it's a pretty simple reset every episode friendly formula so it doesn't bother me too much. The combined Quinn and his brother (new actor of course) was awful and I couldn't stand him. Thankfully ol Cryin Man was still around at that point
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Tyson Tomko posted:One of my best friends met the guy who played Remmie at an airport once. He said his hair was gleaming a mile away and is still pissed he didn't get the balls up to say something to him. Sliders kicked so much rear end. Looking back on it it is pretty drat Dr Who-ish, but I guess it's a pretty simple reset every episode friendly formula so it doesn't bother me too much. I've heard that one of the reasons Fox passed on pursuing a new Doctor Who series in 1996 after the TV movie starring Paul McGann was because they decided to renew Sliders for a third season instead. I actually own all five seasons of Sliders on DVD (I also have all the Highlander sequels  ) because when I became interested in the series, I found a guy on eBay who was selling the entire series for about £20 and got the lot at once. Seemed like a pretty good deal to me.Actually, I've recently been watching a whole lot of Highlander: The Series. It's got to be one of the ultimate campy nineties genre shows: I think only Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess are campier and nintieser. I recognise more guest stars than I have on any other series. There's an episode where Anthony Stewart Head is using an American accent and it's a bit  to be honest.
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Metal Loaf posted:I've heard that one of the reasons Fox passed on pursuing a new Doctor Who series in 1996 after the TV movie starring Paul McGann was because they decided to renew Sliders for a third season instead. I actually own all five seasons of Sliders on DVD (I also have all the Highlander sequels Yeah! I scored the Highlander TV series (probably bootleg) at a flea market years ago along with Quantum Leap and I've watched them both several times so rock on. Speaking of 90s shows, one of the hardest shows to track down copies of that I was finally able to score not too long ago, freaking First Wave. I love love love the Outer Limits-esqueness of it and how dark yet 90s campy everything is, it's great.
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Tyson Tomko posted:Yeah! I scored the Highlander TV series (probably bootleg) at a flea market years ago along with Quantum Leap and I've watched them both several times so rock on. Speaking of 90s shows, one of the hardest shows to track down copies of that I was finally able to score not too long ago, freaking First Wave. I love love love the Outer Limits-esqueness of it and how dark yet 90s campy everything is, it's great. As in "On the seventh dawn of the seventh day..." etc.? Because If so, where the hell did you find it? I haven't looked in awhile, but I recall having very little luck.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhaWNbDOX9Y I just saw an image of that show today and it took me back, way back. BONUS 90s commercials including YIKES pencils!
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Tamayachi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhaWNbDOX9Y I think of the Boney theme way too often and maybe 1 in 1,000,000 people know what I'm talking about so right on.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:For years I had thought Weinerville was a fever dream I had had as a child because I couldn't remember it's name and every time I described it to someone they didn't know what I was talking about. I saw a live taping of it once. I was featured heavily in audience reaction shots, sadly this did not bode well for me in middle school.
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Iron Crowned posted:I saw a live taping of it once. I was featured heavily in audience reaction shots, sadly this did not bode well for me in middle school. People just can't appreciate good taste.
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Iron Crowned posted:I saw a live taping of it once. I was featured heavily in audience reaction shots, sadly this did not bode well for me in middle school. Was it like the time Doug went on that little kid's show?
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Hector Beerlioz posted:For years I had thought Weinerville was a fever dream I had had as a child because I couldn't remember it's name and every time I described it to someone they didn't know what I was talking about. This happened to me too. No one knew the pain  Also, in that video, there's definitely a board game shaped like a swastika at 13:18
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Tyson Tomko posted:I think of the Boney theme way too often and maybe 1 in 1,000,000 people know what I'm talking about so right on. It's funny that I never really watched that show (as in, never a complete episode from start to finish) and yet I remember that song to this day. I'm Boney, I'm Boney! Leave me aloooone-y! Also the Stick Stickley address jingle. Write to me, Stick Stickley, PO Box 963. New York City, New York State, 10108!
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King Vidiot posted:Also the Stick Stickley address jingle. Ah, Stick Stickley. It's one of those rare things that I really wish I could go back and experience again. I'm pretty sure I didn't appreciate it as I should have when I was a child.
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King Vidiot posted:Write to me, Stick Stickley, PO Box 963. New York City, New York State, 10108! Yes!!!! I will forever know New York City's zip code because of that jingle.
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