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Tyson Tomko posted:Yes!!!! I hate to break it to you, but NYC actually has a ton of different zip codes, that's just one.
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zandert33 posted:I hate to break it to you, but NYC actually has a ton of different zip codes, that's just one. Totally, even my little town has several zip codes. And I'm sure Beverly Hills does too, but doesn't change the fact one of them is 90210.
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Scruff McGruff, Chicago, Illinois, 60652
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Kevyn posted:Scruff McGruff, Chicago, Illinois, 60652 Speaking of 90s fellow Illinoisian, see if you remember this classic: 
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I remember the Nickelodeon Flash Screen being a hell of a lot of fun when I was 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idet5CMWWUU With friends over, it usually just resulted in us trying to find the largest and most dick-like thing to hold at crotch level, and hiding the ready-indicator so you could flash an unsuspecting person in the face with the flashy-thing. A toy used exclusively with the lights off probably helped me get over the last lingering traces of a fear of the dark.
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Tyson Tomko posted:Speaking of 90s fellow Illinoisian, see if you remember this classic: Wh... no, dad. gently caress no. What is wrong with you? I can't even... where do I even start, dad?
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I'm not from Illinois... McGruff was nationwide. I always thought it was weird that his address was just "Chicago." No street address.
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Lamprotornis posted:I remember the Nickelodeon Flash Screen being a hell of a lot of fun when I was 10: I recently found mine. The inside of the flashy-thing was completely caked in battery acid from the batteries left inside it. Looks like I can't sell it :/
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Kevyn posted:I'm not from Illinois... McGruff was nationwide. What better place to take a bite out of crime than when you're living on the streets yourself? I heard, though, that his voice actor was busted for drug-related crime.
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Tobaccrow posted:I recently found mine. The inside of the flashy-thing was completely caked in battery acid from the batteries left inside it. Looks like I can't sell it :/ Put on some heavy duty gloves and make a paste out of water and baking soda and give the battery case a good scrub down with an old tooth brush or something similar. You might be able to save it.
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Tyson Tomko posted:Speaking of 90s fellow Illinoisian, see if you remember this classic: Face looks sort of familiar: 
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Kevyn posted:Scruff McGruff, Chicago, Illinois, 60652 
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I haven't seen this thing posted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJA5C_Po4U Motherfucking Battletech Centers. I never lived anywhere that had these, but I remember hearing about them from my cousins and 5 year old me thought they sounded like the absolute poo poo. Gonna be honest I still think these are loving awesome and kinda wish that they caught on. Closest version of these that I've seen are those Gundam Pods I played when I was in Japan, but good luck finding anything similar in the States. And even though it has been brought up already, gently caress it, Toonami is always relevant when talking about the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lotTngXQwDQ I was probably 7-8ish when I saw that and it was the first time I wrote a letter because I really didn't want Moltar to go away and take my favorite shows. I like to think that it worked, seeing as Toonami lasted until 2008. They also had the coolest bumpers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv-EA3WEImk And the coolest ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcCB4fze94 IIRC that one was used as an official ad for Gundam Wing at one point, no idea if that's true or not but I remember that ad is what convinced me to sneak downstairs and watch it on the Midnight Run. Also Gundam Wing technically counts, it came out in 95 in  Glorious Nippon.
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Lamprotornis posted:I remember the Nickelodeon Flash Screen being a hell of a lot of fun when I was 10: I WANTED THIS THING SO BAD. I had completely forgotten about it. From your description, I thought it might be this other toy I have been trying forever to remember the name of. It was a black and green plastic thing with a vaguely gun-like shape, but bigger and much more rectangular. It had a couple different colored lasers inside that bounced off of a kinda spring-loaded mirror or something, which would make AWESOME  DESIGNS on the wall in all different colors. I swear to god I didn't dream it up, but it's been like 20 years and I never could find any info on it.Who all remembers String Thing?  I loved String Thing.
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Light Gun Man posted:This one? http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/24831/nickelodeon-laser-light Wow. 6 minutes was all it took to solve a lifetime of wondering. You're beautiful. And yeah, I was probably five, so pretty lights were all I needed to be entertained.  That is not a very cool toy.
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Man, Nickelodeon made the coolest toys in the 90's. My parents never actually bought me any of the Nick branded stuff because they said none of that stuff would work for long and I'd get bored of it quickly, but I still asked for them every year . Anyone remember that magazine that Sony used to publish during the late 90's? I think it was called Playstation Underground. It wasn't really a magazine, it was two discs that they sent out and they were filled with all kinds of cool crap, like interviews with game makers, how to make a game and demos. My dad bought me one "issue" way back in 1999 and I played those loving demos until the disc got so scratched my Playstation couldn't read them anymore. Does anyone have more information on it? I only had the one issue since my dad never bothered actually getting a subscription, but I was the coolest kid on the block since my game magazine was actually a CD with videos  .
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I remember I had this demo disc for the PS1. It came bundled with Spyro the Dragon. It definitely had the demo for the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game on it; it might have had a Tekken 3 demo as well. For the longest time, I was convinced that it was this weird anthology game called Winter Releases '98. 
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Don Gato posted:I haven't seen this thing posted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJA5C_Po4U There's a group that has portable versions of these and they travel the convention circuit. I think it's like $2 for 10 or so minutes in a free for all game. They own. It's especially fun when some guy is running his mouth about how he would win if advanced options were on and then he still comes in last.
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"it's 6 feet of bubble gum. For you not them!" It's depressing I'm now the "them" and can no longer enjoy the bubble tape
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Otto Von Jizzmark posted:"it's 6 feet of bubble gum. For you not them!" Honestly, I found it pretty overrated even BEFORE I fell into the "them" category. I mean, it was six feet of bubble gum, yes. But it was awful and flavourless after about four seconds.
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Dis posted:Honestly, I found it pretty overrated even BEFORE I fell into the "them" category. I mean, it was six feet of bubble gum, yes. But it was awful and flavourless after about four seconds. Now, Bubblicious on the other hand...  That poo poo tight.
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If we're getting into food stuff, then here's one of my favorite cereals from back then. For the longest time I could only vaguely remember its existence and nobody would remember it when nostalgia conversations came up, but I completely randomly saw its commercial on some old clip about a year ago and have been craving it ever since https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEXeF-m69m4 There's a similar mini-wheat based one now, but like everything it's just not the same
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I remember I used to eat that cereal straight out the box, holding each piece up to the light and eating the ones I could tell had the icing poo poo inside. I'd throw the duds back in the box which lead to an altogether disappointing bowl-full later on.
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John Liver posted:Now, Bubblicious on the other hand... That gum was cool, but I remember begging my Mom to buy this for me at the grocery store...and usually I was successful! 
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Tacopocalypse posted:I remember I used to eat that cereal straight out the box, holding each piece up to the light and eating the ones I could tell had the icing poo poo inside. I'd throw the duds back in the box which lead to an altogether disappointing bowl-full later on. That's why you left the crap cereal for a younger sibling  Len posted:There's a group that has portable versions of these and they travel the convention circuit. I think it's like $2 for 10 or so minutes in a free for all game. They own. It's especially fun when some guy is running his mouth about how he would win if advanced options were on and then he still comes in last.  You have no idea how happy you just made me. Gonna have to go to one of these and rock it like it's 1995.
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Tyson Tomko posted:That gum was cool, but I remember begging my Mom to buy this for me at the grocery store...and usually I was successful! Oh man, now I remember having one of these but I can't remember which one: 
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While I wasn't so much a child of the 90s like most here, at the time I was working for Blockbuster so seeing the old signage for the video game championships brought back plenty of memories of my time there. The trailer tapes we had to play constantly on the store TVs would definitely fit the camp definition. Other than that god awful one pushing something Jeff Foxworthy that was like every other clip his doing the 'you might be a redneck' spiel that all the stores ended up boycotting until corporate released a revised one that dialed that back, there was one tape that had a little promo type thing with the Sci-Fi channel that was clips from classic sci-fi films set to the music of Space Oddity. It was amazingly well done compared to the usual drek on those tapes, and I loved that clip and when the tape was supposed to be retired and destroyed, the Store Manager snuck it to me. Over the years I ended up losing the tape and have since searched to try to find if that clip's been uploaded somewhere online but to no joy. I've even asked here on the forums and even goon detectivry's so far not been able to find it if it exists.
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Tyson Tomko posted:That gum was cool, but I remember begging my Mom to buy this for me at the grocery store...and usually I was successful! I wondered if I was the only one who remembered this. 5-year-old me loved this and the RC gum.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Wow. 6 minutes was all it took to solve a lifetime of wondering. You're beautiful. Glad to be of help. Poorly remembered things your brain won't let you just forget are the worst.
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Tyson Tomko posted:That gum was cool, but I remember begging my Mom to buy this for me at the grocery store...and usually I was successful!
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Don Gato posted:Man, Nickelodeon made the coolest toys in the 90's. My parents never actually bought me any of the Nick branded stuff because they said none of that stuff would work for long and I'd get bored of it quickly, but I still asked for them every year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOy9rNgUl2g
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Tyson Tomko posted:That gum was cool, but I remember begging my Mom to buy this for me at the grocery store...and usually I was successful!
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Sombrerotron posted:Oh lord, I suddenly remembered the existence of Fido Dido. For about a year in 1990 or 1991, Fido Dido and Fido Dido merchandise - and, along with it, 7Up - were hot poo poo if you were still in primary/elementary school (at least where I lived). While I don't really remember that character, it looked familiar so I looked up the creator. Turns out she created one of my favorite 90s cartoons, Pepper Ann.
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Tyson Tomko posted:Speaking of 90s fellow Illinoisian, see if you remember this classic: Goddam these things. I grew up in a different farm state with a dad that worked in pesticides and I wish I could remember half of the dumb corporate mascots he'd get stuff for at trade shows. Most kids had Cabbage Patch Kids. We had stuffed versions of the mascot for the Florida Citrus Growers Association or the Anaheim Bureau of Tourism. Since he was usually in Chicago for business, we got lots of Chicago poo poo. Anyone with any exposure to Chicago as a kid has one goal: to play the Bozo Grand Prize Game. This one's from Michigan, but it was the same sort of game everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9IMebdCT6s Can anyone else remember all the prizes kids would usually get? I remember UNO cards, the Radio Flyer, a meal at the Burger King at the top of the Sears Tower, and the bike.
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Wait, what? Bozo was only a Chicago area thing? I thought it was at least syndicated nationally since "Bozo" became such a common term. A kid in one of my elementary classes actually got to go on the show. I remember that he brought the tape in for a show and tell and it was a huge deal in the class, but he didn't win the grand prize; not sure how far he got on it, but it wasn't poorly enough to be teased by the other kids. Grand prize or not, I'll at least say that it's the only show and tell item that comes to mind, so he's got that going for him
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De Nomolos posted:Anyone with any exposure to Chicago as a kid has one goal: to play the Bozo Grand Prize Game. This one's from Michigan, but it was the same sort of game everywhere. Yes! I live closer to St Louis but I still watched the Bozo Show every morning before school as a kid. Prizes I remember: - brand new crisp $100 bill (so dope) - mountain bike - COWBOY BOOTS I used to love when a 13 year old boy scout would get on there (normally it was a 5-7 year old) and totally kick the games rear end.
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Metal Loaf posted:I remember I had this demo disc for the PS1. It came bundled with Spyro the Dragon. It definitely had the demo for the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game on it; it might have had a Tekken 3 demo as well. I sold my Megadrive and combined my birthday money and meagre savings for a Playstation in early '95. My Mum was cool enough that she sprung for Doom a week after I bought it, but before that I had a long week of nothing but Demo Disc 1 which brought us this seapunk classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35r002CcA2s
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