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Croccers posted:I got this today when trying to install a game from 1999 I am the half track being blown up during the bank robbery mission.
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Taste the Rainbugh posted:Roundhouse I'm sure that show was horrible and yet I loved it when I was a kid, just thinking of the theme song makes me feel like I'm 7 years old. All I really remember about it was that the backdrops for the sketches were part of some big rotating centerpiece on a stage, and one of the cast played some dad who was always sitting in a recliner that they wheeled out. What the gently caress was that show and why did I like it? I guess it was just on at the right time of day for me to watch it and not care what I was watching. Can't play Sonic 2 all the time, and sometimes Salute Your Shorts or Are You Afraid of the Dark weren't on.
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ryonguy posted:Wow that's a lot of wet t-shirts to not be marked Yea, way more nipples than I remember. That reminds, me, late night movies on tv. You'd stay up late friday or saturday nights, hoping you wouldn't walk your parents and turn on tv hoping it would be showing some T&A movie. Sometimes you'd strike out, sometimes you'd hit the jackpot, and sometimes you'd see some really good movie you'd never watch intentionally. I saw stuff like Brazil, Naked Lunch, Blue Velvet and others that way. Eastern Canadians, there was always the Blue Nuit on the French Channel. Who knew there was so many Emanuele movies?
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Dec 27, 2015 04:47
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Good ol' Bleu Nuit. It amuses me that Wikipedia has a list of BN movies.
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Wilford Cutlery posted:Good ol' Bleu Nuit. It amuses me that Wikipedia has a list of BN movies. The funny thing is TQS is still around. I live in Toronto now so we don't get it, so I wonder if they still have it.
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Dec 27, 2015 05:13
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twistedmentat posted:Eastern Canadians, there was always the Blue Nuit on the French Channel. Who knew there was so many Emanuele movies? *raises hand* uh...I knew. But then, I'm a connoisseur of crap film. If they spell it "Emmanuelle" in the title, it's not an "official" sequel. But there's probably more unofficial ones out there than legit.
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King Vidiot posted:I'm sure that show was horrible and yet I loved it when I was a kid, just thinking of the theme song makes me feel like I'm 7 years old. All I really remember about it was that the backdrops for the sketches were part of some big rotating centerpiece on a stage, and one of the cast played some dad who was always sitting in a recliner that they wheeled out. As I recall Roundhouse was in the very original SNICK lineup, along with Ren and Stimpy and Are You Afraid?. I don't think anyone really remembers much of it to be honest, I barely recall anything other than it existed and I feel like every episode dealt with a serious issue in a comedic way? Here's something interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcFTDL9V4M This is an old What a Cartoon! short from 1997. The interesting thing is that it that's basically aearly, prototype of what would become Family Guy. You can see the basic outlines of the show there, the dog is pretty much Brian and the guy is kind of a mix of Chris and Peter. I remember watching this as a kid and then seeing Family Guy years later and being struck by Deja Vu.
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Choco1980 posted:*raises hand* uh...I knew. But then, I'm a connoisseur of crap film. If they spell it "Emmanuelle" in the title, it's not an "official" sequel. But there's probably more unofficial ones out there than legit. Yea, there was the origonal series, then the so called Black Emmanuel (who I think was actually part Malaysian) , and then there was the 3rd series which was more like an anthology rather than a movie, with a space framing device.
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Dec 27, 2015 07:14
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Wheat Loaf posted:I'm always interested in that kind of thing - do you mind me inquiring about the title? http://www.amazon.com/Slimed-Oral-History-Nickelodeon%C2%92s-Golden/dp/0142196851
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OldTennisCourt posted:As I recall Roundhouse was in the very original SNICK lineup, along with Ren and Stimpy and Are You Afraid?. Weird, I knew I didn't just pull those two other shows out of my butt. I guess the reason I watched Roundhouse was that it happened to be on Saturday night along with R&S and AYAOTD.
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Dec 27, 2015 16:13
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So I see some people aren't familiar with one of my favorite shows on Nickelodeon. Let's fix that. Oh and just for fun, have some Legends Of The Hidden Temple and some Wild And Crazy Kids.
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Dec 27, 2015 17:42
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Sadly, another Christmas has come and gone with no evidence besides this little clip that there was such a thing as a (barely) animated New Kids on the Block Christmas Special. Though I did finally find their insane Oprah episode.
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Dec 27, 2015 22:53
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WeX Majors posted:So I see some people aren't familiar with one of my favorite shows on Nickelodeon. Let's fix that. I always felt bad for the Wild and Crazy Kids contestants. Wild and Crazy kids mostly took place out in an empty grass field. Or maybe a lake. Meanwhile all the other kids on gameshows had actual gameshow props. So you just know they felt like they got the cheap summer camp to the Disney land of the other shows.
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Dec 27, 2015 23:46
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That's kind of why I always liked the show more than other game shows. While there were episodes that had them make a Human-Sized Battleship game where they used what I think were water balloons as missiles, most of the episodes were the same sort of games you would come up with on a random Summer Saturday, just scaled up for TV. Just looking at the intro from episode 3 there was: A normal game of T-ball, but everyone has to spin themselves around their bat five times before they go up and swing. Which team can get their house the most covered with Toilet Paper? A massive pillow fight. Ya gotta figure, from a television perspective, this was the cheapest drat show to ever air.
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Dec 28, 2015 03:04
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, way more nipples than I remember. There's a reason Cinemax was called Skin-emax. Speaking of Blue Nuit I lived far enough north in Ohio that we could get a Canadian channel to come in pretty good, especially at night. I was bored one night and happened to catch Lipstick On Your Collar which had a surprising amount of nudity for broadcast tv, at least compared to the states.
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ryonguy posted:There's a reason Cinemax was called Skin-emax. Thanks to Skinemax, I have a rather robust knowledge of crappy high brow 90s softcore films like the Wild Orchid series. (which is why I was disappointed with the horror film American Mary that everyone loves, they literally took a Mad Libs of one of those type films and replaced every instance of the main character "stripping" or "prostitution" with "back alley cosmetic surgery". Literally no other factors are changed.) Also yeah, I live outside Detroit, so I get a CBC affiliate on normal broadcast (maybe the same one? Windsor?) and I learned by experience that they can show pretty much whatever they want after like, 11pm. Queue stumbling across a Quebecois film about a prostitute including scenes of her showing off her strap-on. 
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Dec 29, 2015 03:05
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Performing for softcore porn has got to be the worst. At least in hardcore you don't have to hide anything.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:28
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I spent a year in the US at 11, in 2000. I recall watching MTV and catching that Weezer song "Half Pipe", and thought it was a pretty weird song. I got back to Canada that summer, started watching Much Music here and caught it again, except it was "Hash Pipe" and made wayyyy more sense. Right after that I got broadband and got my music from the internet, so I guess I was right at the tail end of MTV/MM playing actual music, and having shows featuring videos from obscure sub genres. After that I always made a weird mental note when watching or listening to stuff in Canada, amused at how much more lax we were at with swears/nudity on TV. Teletoon brought anime to an entire generation of Canadian kids late at night and they timed the best marathons for our holidays, often too. And something that SHOULD have gone away with the 90's, but has somehow clung on until the nearly the eve of 2016, bundled cable packages. quote:
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, way more nipples than I remember. Only 90s kids remember tuning to a high number channel and squinting at the really fuzzy HBO porn (or whichever channel it actually was).
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Choco1980 posted:Thanks to Skinemax, I have a rather robust knowledge of crappy high brow 90s softcore films like the Wild Orchid series. (which is why I was disappointed with the horror film American Mary that everyone loves, they literally took a Mad Libs of one of those type films and replaced every instance of the main character "stripping" or "prostitution" with "back alley cosmetic surgery". Literally no other factors are changed.) There was a point where Softcore movies tried to be, you know movies, but with way more butts and boobs (and sometimes a little more). Eventually they just turned into a series of softcore scenes that were framed by a bunch of women sitting around talking about sexy things they either done or heard about. The funny thing is you can tell that the clips were from other films because the quality of the video and the costumes/hair.
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I still remember discovering softcore porn one night when my sister and I were channel surfing. I was like 13 and she was 11. We knew what was going on but we were just surprised to see it.
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ryonguy posted:There's a reason Cinemax was called Skin-emax. I was in the Appalachian part of Ohio, so we didn't get cable until I was in middle school. We spent summers at Lake Erie and would watch Who's the Boss/Married with Children in French and all the great shows Canada had to offer. Occasionally we could get the Toronto station in at home. Canada had better cartoons.
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Added NWS tags to the Captain Jack video. Whoops!
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Added NWS tags to the Captain Jack video. Whoops! Don't worry. Somehow music videos often get over looked with stuff like that. Now it seems like every video from Europe is nothing but tits or more. Man, I miss music video channels. Even if they weren't playing stuff you liked, it was still interesting. Maybe Canada's MuchMusic (later, Much) was better, because it was done very informal. The VJs would sit in the studio where you can see people working at consoles and stuff behind them and yak about the videos just off the cuff. They'd give us neat factoids and jokes, gossip and goings on. When I went to the states, MTV felt so manufactured and slick. Also, the rotation on MTV was horrible. I remember seeing March of the Pigs 3 times in an hour, each time it was said to be a "world premier". The best thing about Much is when they had a guest on in the summer they'd have the studio windows open and you could watch from the sidewalk. That was super cool. Total Request Live straight up stole the format. It's amazing how fast the video channels died though. It's funny to think that radio has totally survived while video has not, so the Buggles were wrong. Though i think the idea of the radio star of the 70s would not work now, because some average looking guy who was a talented musician could not really get ahead like back then.
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Total speculation, but I think part of the reason is that it's much easier to put the radio on in the background and do other stuff, especially in the car. You can't really do that in the same way with a music video channel on TV, hence why they've more or less died out.
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I don't think that's why music television has died, I think the fact that youtube is still free has MUCH more to do with it.
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Choco1980 posted:I don't think that's why music television has died, I think the fact that youtube is still free has MUCH more to do with it. Thing is, a lot of videos are made just to advertise stuff. Drake pulls out his sweet new iPhone because Apple paid for it. But yea, you can just go watch Hotline Bling or Marry Me Archie on youtube when ever you want and not have to wait for it come around in rotation again. Though that has the advantage of introducing people to new stuff. It's a paradox now, you have access to more music than ever before, but you actually have to put effort into finding it. 1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Total speculation, but I think part of the reason is that it's much easier to put the radio on in the background and do other stuff, especially in the car. You can't really do that in the same way with a music video channel on TV, hence why they've more or less died out. That's very true. I know I as a teenager used to just turn on muchmusic and let it run while I was doing homework and stuff, but yea, in a car, or out walking, you're better off with a radio. I'm completely in love with google play.
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:Only 90s kids remember tuning to a high number channel and squinting at the really fuzzy HBO porn (or whichever channel it actually was). Only 90's kids will remember sneaking out at night and removing the filters in the cable box.  And having a parent be surprised the next morning at the free play weekend the cable company didn't mention because you forgot to replace them. 
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This is Cyberdillo. It was an FPS that came out on the 3DO and DOS in 1996, and it retailed for a full $60.     It's exactly as painful to play as you'd expect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0adivXujmQ
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All the Doug chat makes me want to inform you that Doug is on Hulu, I like to put it on when I'm painting up my fantasy fightmans. I used to wait until my parents went to bed, and sneak upstairs to watch Beavis and Butthead as MTV was verboten in my house, and B&B was apparently worse to my parents. I knew exactly how to step down the hallway and avoid all the creaks, then walk on the edges of the stairs to watch TV (with headphones). I also watched Liquid Television come 1am, and it introduced me to Aeon Flux (it was still a bunch of shorts at the time) which was loving awesome. I seem to remember at the time MTV attempted to make another animated show, I don't remember what it was called, but it had something to do with some zombie brothers. It was really bad, and to compound it, they attempted to pad the episodes with videos like Beavis and Butthead, but since they only communicated in grunts, it consisted of them dancing and grunting over the videos. I suspect that it didn't even make a full season order. When it comes to cable scramblevision, the channel was a PPV channel called SPICE, and it was always glorious when you got those 3 seconds of clarity. Strangely enough, come, I think it was 1am on one night a week in the Seattle area, there was a free program that would come on SPICE. There was just some goober dude hanging out with women with blatantly fake tits, showing really bad softcore poo poo. I'm talking some topless lady riding around on a jet-ski, it was weird and kinda boring, but I was 15 and hey tits! We did get CBC in Seattle, but the few times I ever tried to watch movies for boobs, it was always some kind of artsy movie where you'd see one for like half a second getting out of a bath or something. I deemed it not worth my time.
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twistedmentat posted:Man, I miss music video channels. The Box was loving amazing. My uncle had a bunch of VHS tapes with nothing but Box videos on them, and they were great. A quick sampling of videos I only know from The Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3LKtTUR29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNqIJ3e0OJw (side note: I demanded that my mom do my hair in Afro puffs like every day after I saw this video  )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7vQSPBtwyc
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Wanamingo posted:This is Cyberdillo. It was an FPS that came out on the 3DO and DOS in 1996, and it retailed for a full $60. Goddamn, that looks terrible. Although I always got poo poo for it because my family had Macs, and Doom wasn't available until 1996, I really am glad that Bungie existed to make a drat good although highly underappreciated game called Marathon. One of my favorite things to do was change around and jack up the monster respawn rates on multiplayer maps, and use the level skip cheat to just shoot the poo poo out of everything until I died, I wasted so many hours doing that while listening to the alternative rock radio station.        It wouldn't really fly today unfortunately, because you had to read everything. On the other hand it was the first FPS that used ammo clips, and had a cohesive story years before Half-Life got all the credit. I really do recommend downloading it and giving it a go for seeing what my gaming experience was like in 1994. It's free and open source here: https://alephone.lhowon.org/ The original interface looked like this (the open source version is a re-skinned version of the Marathon 2 interface) :   Also it came in a box that looked like this (except blue) : 
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Iron Crowned posted:I seem to remember at the time MTV attempted to make another animated show, I don't remember what it was called, but it had something to do with some zombie brothers. It was really bad, and to compound it, they attempted to pad the episodes with videos like Beavis and Butthead, but since they only communicated in grunts, it consisted of them dancing and grunting over the videos. I suspect that it didn't even make a full season order. I think that would have been The Brothers Grunt, which I have never seen and know purely for its inclusion on various "worst television of all time" lists. It was the brainchild of the guy who went on to create Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, of all things.
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Iron Crowned posted:It wouldn't really fly today unfortunately, because you had to read everything. On the other hand it was the first FPS that used ammo clips, and had a cohesive story years before Half-Life got all the credit. I really do recommend downloading it and giving it a go for seeing what my gaming experience was like in 1994. It's free and open source here: https://alephone.lhowon.org/ That reminds me of when I watched one of my friends play Duke 3D. Whenever he was just about to get into a fight he'd empty his current clip, then complain that he didn't have enough ammo for the rest of the level. Is that really a thing people care about a lot? I get the realism aspect, it just that realism seems a bit superfluous when you're playing a game involving aliens.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think that would have been The Brothers Grunt, which I have never seen and know purely for its inclusion on various "worst television of all time" lists. It was the brainchild of the guy who went on to create Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, of all things. MTV tried so goddamned hard to make that a thing. quote:The Brothers Grunt were first seen in one of MTV's numerous 30-second promos. This particular promo consisted of close-up shots of the at-the-time-unnamed character's faces who seemed to be straining to do something (veins in their heads would bulge, the characters would squint and grunt) until the scene cut to the MTV logo landing in a pool of sludge followed by a satisfied "Ahhhhh" (suggesting that the characters were suffering from constipation and the MTV logo was the 'turd' as it were). Bless your heart, Wikipedia.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That reminds me of when I watched one of my friends play Duke 3D. Whenever he was just about to get into a fight he'd empty his current clip, then complain that he didn't have enough ammo for the rest of the level. Marathon went quite a bit more toward realism, as you were protecting the colony from alien slavers rather than the you're on mars and demons appear plot from Doom. It could be pretty beneficial to fire off the last two bullets rather than have to wait for the reload animations to play in the middle of a fire fight. Not to mention the concept of the reload key hadn't been invented yet.
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My first FPS that wasn't a shareware copy of Wolfenstein or Blake Stone, was Curse Of The Catacombs (Which I now know was a rerelease of "Catacomb Armageddon"). Now, GOG has a release of all those games, but it doesn't have the most 90s childhood memory part of the game. See, The rerelease was done by a company called Frogman or Legendary Frog or something. In the original release/GOG Release, to the far left of the HUD is the game title and the Softdisk tradmark. But for me?  I basically had Not Diggum The Frog as my wingman as I fought rabbits that turned into rabbit monsters  I also remember being so thankful that the little text bar at the top of th HUD gave hints around destructible tapestries and walls, which was like, holy poo poo. Section Z has a new favorite as of 01:35 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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It's easy to not go for the most obvious stuff, but goddamn is this just the 90s encapsulated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l039y9FaIjc
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Except that's from the movie Moonwalker which came out in 1988 (and the song came out in 1987).
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