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Pick posted:My brother was one of the kids who reviewed for Zillions and by god he took it seriously. please expand upon this
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Pick posted:My brother was one of the kids who reviewed for Zillions and by god he took it seriously. Yea that's badass, I'd love to hear more as well. Did you (he) get all sorts of free toys? Or did they make him pay for them so he would actually feel the sting if he got burned? Nostalgia4Butts posted:please expand upon this Lol great username for this thread om nom nom has a new favorite as of 08:22 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Feb 25, 2016 08:18
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I'm late to the Bubsy discussion, but that pilot looks like a 90s prototype of Foodfight! Yikes. Good thing that Bubsy 3D buried that miserable franchise for good.
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Feb 25, 2016 22:04
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:I had zillions too and it was really cool as a kid I believe they folded in 2000, which is a shame, because yeah, I have a 9 year old, and I think he'd be old enough to appreciate a subscription too.
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Feb 26, 2016 00:26
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Not a magazine - but try Crash Course or Crash Course Kids for the younger ones, if you haven't come across them already. They might scratch that 'learn' stuff itch I remember having about stuff at that age. Burning questions about poo poo the teachers could never answer fully. I would have been 100% a better student if I had these kinds of videos to reflect back on if I was confused about a topic. Ended up going to the library and reading the different science mags, which I guess is a totally 90's thing.
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Feb 26, 2016 06:16
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Frankston posted:8 year old me was so pumped when I opened these for my birthday in 96 Were these the ones that came with a comic book about how the reflective blue ooze was actually a superhero or some poo poo?
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Feb 26, 2016 10:07
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Friday nights watching This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Royal Canadian Air Farce and thinking I was cool for pretending to understand all the jokes. Then asking my parents WHY DOES RITA MACNEIL LOOK LIKE THAT
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Feb 26, 2016 10:58
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Were these the ones that came with a comic book about how the reflective blue ooze was actually a superhero or some poo poo? those were probably sketchers, they even spun off a cartoon for their shoe inspired superheroes in the midd 2000's it felt so loving 90's
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Feb 26, 2016 12:23
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I just main lined fuller house. It was a super nostalgic treat and totally captured the spirit of the original. Way better than the x-files return at any rate. Which to be fair the Darin Morgan episode was a pretty good meta-commentary on why there shouldn't be any more x-files. Could've done without the mild (well compared to the internet) transphobic joke though
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Feb 27, 2016 17:58
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Choco1980 posted:I want to say the Rugrats Movie did that in theaters. I don't think he actually sued for Oderama, because I've seen Waters lament they failed to renew the copyright. insufficient guns posted:Friday nights watching This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Royal Canadian Air Farce and thinking I was cool for pretending to understand all the jokes. I remember a classmate repeating a joke about Rita McNeil and the teacher freaking out about it because making fun of someones weight was not appropriate. Though the joke I think was about boring singing. Weird thing about 22 minutes is that it was very East Coast humor, and I was always surprised that it read outside of it.
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Feb 27, 2016 22:15
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Humphreys posted:A very fun game! Wasn't there some talk of a remake/sequel last year? Yes, "Armikrog" is/was on Steam, and it's almost as cool as The Neverhood.
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First computer my family owned was Windows '98, which my dad got specifically because he wanted to play Age of Empires II.
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A worthy goal though.
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I remember trying to install Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (which was pretty much a pallet swap of AoE2). It required a minimum of 32 megs of RAM, I only had 24 
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Super Waffle posted:I remember trying to install Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (which was pretty much a pallet swap of AoE2). It required a minimum of 32 megs of RAM, I only had 24 Psh, I remember the old Acer P100 my dad bought in the early/mid 90s that had all of 4MB EDO in it (later upgraded to 8MB). Original Quake played pretty well on it for a while after he installed a 4MB video card, Quake 2 not so much. I played that game in almost the smallest window possible because anything higher than 800x600 played like a slideshow  Ah, the good old days.
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ah yes, 90s pc gaming, where by the time you got your new state of the art computer home and plugged in, it was already not good enough to run new games...
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But if you pressed f5 to drop you into Dos some games played better. I remember installing Doom and heretic on my school's library computers, I installed them in the c:\windows directory. Somehow they managed to go noticed until my senior year when my Senior year when my girlfriend ratted me out because I paid more attention to my morning deathmatches than her.
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I wish modern games let you just press the + and - keys in-game to decrease the window size for increased performance.
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Mar 2, 2016 18:42
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Pierson posted:A worthy goal though. I actually got the HD edition on Steam a while ago and I'd forgotten how great the narrator n the William Wallace campaign is. "CREATE TEN MORRRRRE... WOOOOOOOAAAAAD RRRRRRRRRRAIDERRRRRRS!" Super Waffle posted:I remember trying to install Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (which was pretty much a pallet swap of AoE2). It required a minimum of 32 megs of RAM, I only had 24 Speaking of screen sizes, after I upgraded to Windows 10, Steam only plays Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight in a small window now. It was full-screen in Windows 8. 
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Mar 3, 2016 10:21
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Wheat Loaf posted:I actually got the HD edition on Steam a while ago and I'd forgotten how great the narrator n the William Wallace campaign is. Check your graphics card settings. One of them defaults to "as big as it can actually go" rather than "fill as much screen as possible".
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King Vidiot posted:I wish modern games let you just press the + and - keys in-game to decrease the window size for increased performance. poo poo I forgot about that. Mashing minus on Doom so it'd play at a million fps.
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Borrowing a game from a friend and they not lending you the manual or thing that has the copy protect on it.
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This popped into my head earlier. I think you will all agree it's pretty fuckin 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-4r6ADlzQ
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twistedmentat posted:Borrowing a game from a friend and they not lending you the manual or thing that has the copy protect on it. Makes me wonder if I ever did look at the back of the jewel case of Metal Gear Solid the first time I played it in 1999.
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om nom nom posted:Yea that's badass, I'd love to hear more as well. Did you (he) get all sorts of free toys? Or did they make him pay for them so he would actually feel the sting if he got burned? I was quite young (my brother is older) so I do not remember everything, but he would get the toys for free. There were forms for testing the items, at least one of which seemed to apply to all toys equally (is it fun/is it a good value/etc), and another which would be to some degree specific to that toy ("Does it really shoot 30 feet like it says?"). There'd always be room for a comment or a final statement about the product. He also got to keep the toys when he was done. Sometimes they made him watch advertisements, also, and give his impressions. I'll see if he remembers more details. I have no idea how they found him, but he was the right kid for it because both my brother and I were voracious readers and cut our teeth on our parents' one regular subscription, Consumer Reports. I think Zillions was from Consumer Reports so the application might have been in there. I think my parents' one complaint about Zillions is it was "too fun and colorful" but they let us have it as well as regular Consumer Reports. Thanks mom.
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Elfgames posted:those were probably sketchers, they even spun off a cartoon for their shoe inspired superheroes in the midd 2000's it felt so loving 90's They were Converse apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnihpUe3AE
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Ambitious Spider posted:I just main lined fuller house. It was a super nostalgic treat and totally captured the spirit of the original. Yeah, it wasn't that bad actually. Overall I thought it was pretty average multicam sitcom stuff, but I liked that they were self-aware enough to throw in a bunch of meta-jokes about the fact that it's a rehash. It definitely completely relies on nostalgia for any attention whatsoever.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5GEdg9nrNg Ska? Check An MTV live concert? Check Shot of a dude in a mullet crowdsurfing? Check Motherfucking rollerblading on a halfpipe? Triple check. I think all I'm missing is some fisheye lenses and more VHS artifacting and I'd have a bingo here
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Spaced God posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5GEdg9nrNg i watched this live i also bought the cassette tape of turn the radio off later that day
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Super Waffle posted:I remember trying to install Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (which was pretty much a pallet swap of AoE2). It required a minimum of 32 megs of RAM, I only had 24 Wait, how is this possible? I seem to remember RAM sticks (almost?) always needing to be in even numbers on the motherboard to be recognized--not to mention they had to be the same size stick or risk problems. I feel like I learned this mistake the hard way when I bought an extra stick of RAM and the computer never recognized it on boot, thus requiring me to return it after I found out I had to get a stick identical to the one already on my mobo.
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dialhforhero posted:Wait, how is this possible? I seem to remember RAM sticks (almost?) always needing to be in even numbers on the motherboard to be recognized--not to mention they had to be the same size stick or risk problems. I feel like I learned this mistake the hard way when I bought an extra stick of RAM and the computer never recognized it on boot, thus requiring me to return it after I found out I had to get a stick identical to the one already on my mobo. You had to install them in pairs, but you could have two different sized pairs. He probably had a pair of 8MB sticks and a pair of 4MB sticks. This was also when RAM was ridiculously expensive, so those smaller pairs were popular upgrades.
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Clitch posted:You had to install them in pairs, but you could have two different sized pairs. He probably had a pair of 8MB sticks and a pair of 4MB sticks. This was also when RAM was ridiculously expensive, so those smaller pairs were popular upgrades. Yeah, I often had odd amounts of ram. Two 16mb and one 64mb was fun. I remember opening loads of tabs in Opera (aww yeah, tabbed browsing, living the future!) and being impressed that my machine didn't instantly fall apart. Nowadays of course, my coffee cup has more than 96mb ram, but the thrill of multi-tasking was still very real in the 90's.
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Was this posted yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0668UNhYjXg
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What I would give for a comprehensive collection of bootleg Simpsons merch from the 90's.
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Don't have a cow, man!
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Tuxedo Ted posted:What I would give for a comprehensive collection of bootleg Simpsons merch from the 90's. Matt Groening enjoys collecting it.
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