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Man, Reggie is great when he's being a big dumb clown who happens to be in charge of NOA. Speaking of Reggie and the 90's, he was pretty high up in the marketing biz for Pizza Hut and is responsible for this piece of nostalgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwbES0MLxo
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DrBouvenstein posted:Nintendo has decided to bring back the 90's: Holy poo poo that is awesome
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May 14, 2015 03:20
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:That music sounds straight out of a Westwood game. This game completely took over our wing of our freshman dorm when I was in college. The only thing that could knock it off the throne was Doom, but even then it still popped up a lot.
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May 14, 2015 15:02
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DrBouvenstein posted:Nintendo has decided to bring back the 90's: I saw this and thought "Hahaha it'd be funny if they made The Wizard II to promote it" but then I remembered that Hollywood is getting ready to release a Jem and the Holograms movie so I won't be surprised if it happens.
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May 14, 2015 15:12
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DrBouvenstein posted:Nintendo has decided to bring back the 90's: I just expected this to be an announcement for some kind of Smash Bros. tournament. It wasn't, but there will probably be one.
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May 14, 2015 23:31
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RaspberryCommie posted:To be fair, TLC games were fun as hell for edutainment. Just found this thread, and it's kind of amazing that the only instance of "TLC" in it so far wasn't in relation to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmH4_pr6mH0
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May 15, 2015 05:42
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Round the Twist was a weird show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBQCVWNbLxQ I quite liked Gogs though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODemD0hsDA For me though, my favourite show of this era was definitely The Big Knights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yvjgUD9UA Sir Boris, finest swordsman in the world! And his brother, Sir Morris, not the finest swordsman in the world, but the most enthu-siastic! (I found out years later that Brian Blessed was part of the voice casting.) Somehow after over 15-20 years I can still recite the intros of these shows off by heart.
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May 15, 2015 10:27
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grittyreboot posted:Myself, I was a Cartoon Network man. hope you got six hours to spare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrvU2OctIA Goddammit. I miss being a kid.
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May 15, 2015 12:51
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ELIMINATOR TS-7, ELECTRONIC SOUND AND LIGHT WEAPON SYSTEM (1) POWER DAGGER is the sound and light source for all the weapons (2) POWER SWORD has unsheathing and clanging metal sound effects (3) LASER SWORD powers up with a "whoosh" and strikes with sound and light explosions (4) ARMY MACHINE GUN will awe opponents with gun and grenade sounds (5) BAYONET MACHINE GUN combines rapid-fire sounds with bayonet (6) CYBER-GUN blasts into the future with sounds of laser fire and photon torpedoes (7) ELIMINATOR TS-7 tops them all with 8 combat light and sound effects
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May 15, 2015 13:30
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Ah-ha! I've been wanting to find the commercial for that on YouTube because it's so ridiculous and dumb, but I couldn't remember the name. I'm pretty sure there was a similar thing out there with eight weapons and it may have been a water gun but I'm not totally sure. edit: jesus christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7E5jRRaXs edit2: I was half right on the other thing, it was called the Power Shooter TS-8, and it was some Nerf kinda thing. The commercial was a different kind of dumb from the TS-7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAglOl8ibOk root beer has a new favorite as of 14:36 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 14:19
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Titus Sardonicus posted:edit2: I was half right on the other thing, it was called the Power Shooter TS-8, and it was some Nerf kinda thing. The commercial was a different kind of dumb from the TS-7: hahahahaha oh my god that kid is turbo 90s   You just know this kid ran around doing somersaults at Miller's Outpost while his mom tried to buy him back-to-school clothes
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Reminds me of THE ULTIMATOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GG57caQDY What the ad does not demonstrate is two things: 1) This toy is loud as hell 2) It has an extremely long range and is fully strong enough to knock a small child over.
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May 15, 2015 16:15
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Some how the "You weenie!" is the most absurd part about that commercial for me.
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May 15, 2015 16:33
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Reminds me of THE ULTIMATOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GG57caQDY And you had to pump the handle like 12 times. I had one and put a laser pen (that cost me over $50 in the 90's) on the little sight thing on top. I wish I still had it because they go for $150 on ebay now.
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May 15, 2015 18:24
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Did anyone else have any VHS promos from Nintendo Power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0i_SI63I70 I had that one.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I saw this and thought "Hahaha it'd be funny if they made The Wizard II to promote it" but then I remembered that Hollywood is getting ready to release a Jem and the Holograms movie so I won't be surprised if it happens. 
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May 15, 2015 19:47
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California, obviously  EDIT: I hope Reggie comes out with a Wiimote attached to a glove. Section Z has a new favorite as of 20:28 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 20:18
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This song screams early nineties to me. Plus, I think it had longer radio play than the tv show it came from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csATriX8Ed0
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May 16, 2015 00:42
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Schlinky posted:For me though, my favourite show of this era was definitely The Big Knights. boring flash tweening cartoons mark the end of 90s cartoons for me. i think robot jones was the last to use actual cels.
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May 16, 2015 01:56
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Nope, that was Ed, Edd, and Eddy. I'm inclined to agree with you, but it's hard to argue with the cost benefit of using Flash/Maya/whatever the kids are using these days. Most cel-animated cartoons cost about $500k per episode, whereas a Flash or hybrid show can cost a fraction of that. Yeah, you end up losing a lot of the OG Cartoon Cartoon throwback Hanna Barbera grit (which I grew up on and subsequently adore), but it opened up the world of animation to a lot of people who didn't have the finances or connections to make their visions come to life. Most of the early to mid-aughts Flash offerings were crap, sure, but at least there were a few shows that managed to do it right (like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Venture Brothers, to name a few), and nowadays we're at a point where the seams are pretty much impossible to see. Edit: it's also worth noting that if you grew up watching Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, this guy is the reason why you had good cartoons. Radio Help has a new favorite as of 12:31 on May 16, 2015 |
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May 16, 2015 12:04
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That style of animation bugs me sometimes today, but in general the overall quality level of modern cartoons is way loving higher than it was in the 90s. It's funny you mention Ed, Edd and Eddy as the last cartoon to use cel animation, because WOW that show was a piece of poo poo.
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Hakkesshu posted:That style of animation bugs me sometimes today, but in general the overall quality level of modern cartoons is way loving higher than it was in the 90s. It's funny you mention Ed, Edd and Eddy as the last cartoon to use cel animation, because WOW that show was a piece of poo poo. I loved Ed, Edd, and Eddy *shrug* I thought it was pretty funny and me and one of my friends still use a quote from it to sarcastically describe how something smells. Then again, I was at the perfect age for it when it came out so 
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May 16, 2015 19:40
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13Pandora13 posted:I was 100% expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWU0OjliAs gently caress yeah this game owned.
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May 16, 2015 19:48
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Most of the time Ed, Edd, & Eddy blew, but every now and again they hit genius, like the weird episode where they started doing "experiments" and ended up completely and utterly shattering the 4th wall, doing things like removing Jimmy's cell-shading outline, or playing with the forced perspective. It was a jaw-dropping, amazing episode.
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May 16, 2015 22:14
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DrBouvenstein posted:Nintendo has decided to bring back the 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynGf9-T1UA
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May 16, 2015 22:18
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Radio Help posted:Nope, that was Ed, Edd, and Eddy. and it's not even really they they used software instead of cels. shmorky (for example) has great animations that make me appreciate what can be done in flash. it's just that so much has a paper cutout shortcut style animation that lacks a lot of the charm of a highly animated, dynamic style. i just associate that with the onset of flash
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pfs Write posted:and it's not even really they they used software instead of cels. shmorky (for example) has great animations that make me appreciate what can be done in flash. it's just that so much has a paper cutout shortcut style animation that lacks a lot of the charm of a highly animated, dynamic style. i just associate that with the onset of flash Exactly. I mean, look at Superjail. It's still drawn out frame by frame, cel-style, but assembled in Flash (or whatever they use). Early Flash cartoons relied way to heavily on motion tweens and it's chintzy-looking as gently caress.
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I feel like comparing Classic Simpsons and New Simpsons explains the sort of charm that gets lost in traditional vs computer-aided, or whatever they call it: Frame-by-frame:  I don't know if The Simpsons is done 100% in Flash/computer generated, or if they do hand-drawn frames and just animate them in Flash, but it's not as good, IMO. I know that late-season Simpsons, before they went HD, didn't have as much "smearing" as seasons 1-7/8, but it still retained a little bit of that classic style, and that was pretty much all lost when they went HD.
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May 17, 2015 18:04
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The problem with that comparison isn't a matter of computer vs. cel animation. It's just loving lazy.
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May 17, 2015 18:18
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Star Man posted:The problem with that comparison isn't a matter of computer vs. cel animation. It's just loving lazy. Yeah, if anything smearing should be technically easier to accomplish in Flash. The new animators at The Simpsons are just being cheap/"cost effective."
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May 17, 2015 18:28
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Goddamn, I didn't even know that they redid the intro, and like five or six years ago?
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May 17, 2015 18:36
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Radio Help posted:Yeah, if anything smearing should be technically easier to accomplish in Flash. The new animators at The Simpsons are just being cheap/"cost effective." Pretty much. Anyone could be that lazy even with cel animation. In the case of the Simpsons, that shows problem is that it was more cartoony in its earlier seasons and eventually adhered to being on model too strictly. My only issue with digital animation is that it can look too clean and bright. But that's mostly a problem of not neutralizing your colors a little bit.
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Pastry of the Year posted:ELIMINATOR TS-7, ELECTRONIC SOUND AND LIGHT WEAPON SYSTEM  This looks like someone, at the last minute, realized they were making a sex toy and at the last minute changed their mind.
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May 17, 2015 20:06
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Star Man posted:The problem with that comparison isn't a matter of computer vs. cel animation. It's just loving lazy. Also that's the show's opening, the episodes themselves would rarely have that level of animation in them. Not that I don't think it looked much better before; the way Simpsons has been visually homogenized over the years is definitely a major detractor for me. It wasn't a show you watched for animation quality, but there was still a lot of character to everything.
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Star Man posted:Pretty much. Anyone could be that lazy even with cel animation. Look at George in the Jungle or for the 90's the adventures of sonic the hedgehog cartoon.
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May 17, 2015 22:47
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Bip Roberts posted:Look at George in the Jungle or for the 90's the adventures of sonic the hedgehog cartoon.  To be honest though, this has been a thing for decades. poo poo, 1970's Hanna Barbera used 80% of their operating capital on cocaine used the rest to fart out some of the laziest "walk/stop/move arm/talk" animation that's ever been made. Even Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop, for all their 90's anime glory (gotta keep this semi-topical i guess), blew most of their animation budget on a few detail-oriented scenes and forced the rest of the show to operate on mostly static faces with mouth movements. Maybe it just got more obnoxious in the 90's because it was obvious that companies were spending huge sums on toy R&D and marketing but not putting anything back into the cartoon itself. That was sort of the status quo of the industry at the time, and now we aren't there, and we can have consistently excellent shows like Adventure Time. Radio Help has a new favorite as of 05:21 on May 18, 2015 |
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It isn't the technique used that makes a show good or bad it's how it's used. Traditional cel-based animation was just as capable of being absolute, utter, complete poo poo as flash animation. The difference is that any idiot with a computer can get their hands on Flash and start cranking stuff out. Watch the Star Trek cartoon sometime if you think Flash animation is the low point. Trust me, it isn't. You could probably make a better show by just making GBS threads on a camera and recording it slide off.
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May 18, 2015 12:23
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Star Man posted:In the case of the Simpsons, that shows problem is that it was more cartoony in its earlier seasons and eventually adhered to being on model too strictly. Matt Groening demanded it. He hated the cartoony animation, he wanted the characters to be more solid looking
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hackbunny posted:Matt Groening demanded it. He hated the cartoony animation, he wanted the characters to be more solid looking It seems like every bad decision with The Simpsons gets explained as "Matt Groening demanded it". It's a surprise how well the show has done in spite of its creator.
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