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I was watching some old commercials on Youtube, and I saw an ad for a 1996 Mountain Dew promo where you could send in 10 proofs of purchase and $35 to get an extreme beeper. There was a corresponding website for the promotion, which is thankfully available on the Wayback Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/19970111112135/http://www.dewbeep.com:80/nonmember/index.html
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Holy poo poo lol MOUNTAIN DEW EXTREME NETWORK posted:But what about the cell-phone? The one technical marvel the "experts" thought would make the beeper a museum piece. Well, it turns out, they were wrong. What the cell has done, instead, is help propel the beeper to a new level of mass usage. That's because the cell-phone has become more expensive to use than the beeper.
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May 28, 2018 03:49
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In their defense, I didn't see anything I'd actually want to carry as a cell until the Motorola StarTac. It came out the same year as this promotion though so  guys.
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May 28, 2018 04:05
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Ummm but that's not the baddest so... (Technically 80s but https://youtu.be/KZErvASwdlU)
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May 28, 2018 04:29
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Dixville posted:Ummm but that's not the baddest so...  
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May 28, 2018 09:45
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Lmao when you Google him it says he's an actor and lists his work in that special format Google uses now but his picture is a mugshot.
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May 28, 2018 15:33
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A full episode of MTV's Singled Out, complete with commercials. This show is even worse than I remembered! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPzrkORZ58k
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May 28, 2018 16:16
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ZDar Fan posted:A full episode of MTV's Singled Out, complete with commercials. This show is even worse than I remembered! I'm pretty sure Chris Hardwick's drinking years fermented his blood to the point of being permanently preserved, because he does not look like he's aged a day between that and now.
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May 28, 2018 16:54
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Literally had all of these things  edit: well not all of the McDonald's toys, but I had the cup and fries at least. edit 2: and Mighty Max instead of Polly Pocket Frankston has a new favorite as of 21:22 on May 28, 2018 |
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May 28, 2018 21:18
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Frankston posted:Literally had all of these things I was too old for all of those things, alas, but there isn't a PYF 80s thing thread. I did have a couple of the 80s version of the McDonald's food transformers, though.
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May 28, 2018 21:49
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The weird urban legend about MJ helping out on the music for Sonic 3 turning out to be true was bizarre.
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May 28, 2018 21:55
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Randaconda posted:The weird urban legend about MJ helping out on the music for Sonic 3 turning out to be true was bizarre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6LjERY1MnY&t=517s
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May 28, 2018 22:13
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrEPgrU_8zA
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My mind's blown that that's the singer from Rilo Kiley in that scene. I never drew the connection and figured it was a different Jenny Lewis.
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ZDar Fan posted:A full episode of MTV's Singled Out, complete with commercials. This show is even worse than I remembered! I think the only reason I ever watched Singled Out was because it was on before Beavis and Butthead.
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May 29, 2018 15:49
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Iron Crowned posted:I think the only reason I ever watched Singled Out was because it was on before Beavis and Butthead. The only reason I saw anything on MTV after their swing towards reality TV was because it was on right around Beavis and Butthead or Jackass and nothing else remotely decent was on the other channels. Had to pass the time somehow while waiting for downloads to finish at 33.6k.
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May 29, 2018 16:44
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The_Franz posted:The only reason I saw anything on MTV after their swing towards reality TV was because it was on right around Beavis and Butthead or Jackass and nothing else remotely decent was on the other channels. the local public access would have some interesting things on, "Now See it Person to Person, Kurt Cobain was Murdered, with Richard Lee" was a decent enough time sink
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May 29, 2018 16:47
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I have never lived anywhere where public access was a thing, at least I think I never did. Youtube et al has killed any purpose for it, right?
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ryonguy posted:I have never lived anywhere where public access was a thing, at least I think I never did. Youtube et al has killed any purpose for it, right?  Seattle is the only place I lived that had public access. Until I moved elsewhere I figured it was everywhere because of Wayne's World.
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Iron Crowned posted:
We had public access, but 99% of the time it was just community bulletin board slides with the occasional person rambling behind a podium. Later on a friend of my brother's had a public access comedy show in high school and it was exactly what you would expect a show featuring teenagers doing comedy routines would be (bad). This was in that brief window around the turn of the century when Tom Green was popular after getting his start on public access, so I would imagine that every public access station had kids doing the same hoping to become famous. Nothing quite like  though.
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May 29, 2018 20:41
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The_Franz posted:We had public access, but 99% of the time it was just community bulletin board slides with the occasional person rambling behind a podium. Later on a friend of my brother's had a public access comedy show in high school and it was exactly what you would expect a show featuring teenagers doing comedy routines would be (bad). This was in that brief window around the turn of the century when Tom Green was popular after getting his start on public access, so I would imagine that every public access station had kids doing the same hoping to become famous. We had a bunch of shows that I remember. There was the fat lady who did naked interpretive dances, who was the most notorious of shows on that channel next to Now see it Person to Person. There was a show called "Live Nude Girls," which showed clipped up/remixed versions of weird old movies, it's how I first became aware of the Star Wars Christmas Special, as well as Deathrace 2000. The Mars Hill cult had a show on there, and I only remember it because it came on before "Condemned to the Gallows" which was showed a bunch of horror movie gore clips. Then there was Exit Light which was the last show of some nights. It was a comedy that I remember being funny enough, especially when they mashed up the Kurt Cobain guy and the naked fat lady as a sketch.
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I feel like there's a lot of batshine insane public access stuff that's lost forever.
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Iron Crowned posted:
Ooh, if you were in Seattle in the 1990s watching public access, did you ever watch the Mike Hunt Get Your Friend Laid Show? After a certain hour, they were allowed to show pretty much anything, so the Mike Hunt show would play midget porn, have naked people in the studio, etc. I didn't generally watch it, but remember one episode where they had some buff guy on naked with a sock on his wang, and they were going to take the sock off when they met whatever goal. And they would routinely invite women callers to just drive down to the studio at 1AM and get naked, though they noted that you had to bring your ID to prove you were 18. I remember there being a show called Deface the Nation, but can't recall anything about it. Another Seattle PA favorite: Bong Hit Championship. It was pretty much what it sounds like: they'd just do bong hits on-air, and have people call in to do bong hits over the phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asoy5ZvZGbc Here's a Seattle PI blog about that wild period: https://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2013/10/09/the-90s-when-seattle-got-weird-and-naked-on-public-access-tv/ Apparently there's a documentary coming out where they'll show and discuss bits from all the above shows.
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I watched a lot of public access when I was growing up. I always had trouble sleeping as a kid and nothing else would be on TV. The only thing I remember is there was a lady dressed as a bee and she would just talk about random crap like her favorite way to eat cereal (soak capn crunch in milk for least 10 minutes before eating it so it doesn't gently caress up your mouth) and how she loved the band Veruca Salt.
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May 29, 2018 23:01
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In case anyone here hasn't had the intro to Sewer Shark burned into their memory for the last 26 years, that poo poo is dead-on: https://youtu.be/aIb3armCCXA
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Randaconda posted:I feel like there's a lot of batshine insane public access stuff that's lost forever. I actually met this guy, he took a poo poo at my parent's place. Also, Nicest fuckin guy ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohWUcHi-Vg
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Ooh, if you were in Seattle in the 1990s watching public access, did you ever watch the Mike Hunt Get Your Friend Laid Show? I can't remember much about Mike Hunt, I somehow managed to miss that one for the most part. Deface the Nation was the local politics, by Seattle area 90's gen-x liberal types. I can't believe that I forgot all about the Bong Hit Championship!
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There was a clip on MTV's Liquid TV show that I've never been able to find or identify. It's a parody in the style of a David Attenborough wildlife documentary, talking about penguins. The art style was (I think) animated crayons or colored pencils, and the only specific dialog I can remember is "...and here we have the so-called 'Fairy Penguin', which is gay" (cue the penguin flicking its wrist limply.) Does anyone have any idea what this was called or where I can find it?
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metasynthetic posted:There was a clip on MTV's Liquid TV show that I've never been able to find or identify. It's a parody in the style of a David Attenborough wildlife documentary, talking about penguins. The art style was (I think) animated crayons or colored pencils, and the only specific dialog I can remember is "...and here we have the so-called 'Fairy Penguin', which is gay" (cue the penguin flicking its wrist limply.) https://youtu.be/-Ho2gJsLlqw
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A paperback for less than $5 new is pretty drat 90's.
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Wait, Lucas is a chomo? Wtf
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Iron Crowned posted:Yes, it was so bad You loving take that back. star Wars CCG owned and if it wasn’t for an absolutely convoluted battle/attrition scheme this game had serious legs. I say this as a clearly unbiased person who doesn’t still have all of his collection from the Premier release to The Second Anthology and special edition 
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Late 90s were awash with CCGs. Besides aforementioned Star Wars, Star Trek and Dune, there was Jihad (based around Vampire the masqurade) and Animayham (based around anime) and a version of Illuminati that was a CCG that I remember. There was also a pretty solid Age of Empires one but I'm not sure if it was a 90s or early 2000s. Problem I remember with Animayhem was that it was put out by one anime company, so it only had stuff from their releases. Oh wait there was a Marvel CCG too, called Overpower.
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Jihad/Vampire: The Eternal Struggle was good. Illuminati was good too, and Steve Jackson Games was like the only company that saw the crash coming and pulled out early and din't get burned.
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I remember Inquest magazine used to have free cards and each issues came with 4 or 5 cards from whichever new CCG arrived on the market that month, so I'd end up with loads of singles of random poo poo like Battletech, XXXenophile and L5R. I tried to get into the Shadowrun CCG, but it died pretty soon after launch if I remember right. I had the Netrunner box too, but I think everyone had that. God, the 90's was a golden era for CCG's. We're doing well now again thanks to the LCG system, but I'll always remember the 90's most fondly for its card games.
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Plavski posted:I remember Inquest magazine used to have free cards and each issues came with 4 or 5 cards from whichever new CCG arrived on the market that month, so I'd end up with loads of singles of random poo poo like Battletech, XXXenophile and L5R. I tried to get into the Shadowrun CCG, but it died pretty soon after launch if I remember right. I had the Netrunner box too, but I think everyone had that. God, the 90's was a golden era for CCG's. We're doing well now again thanks to the LCG system, but I'll always remember the 90's most fondly for its card games. I remember Blood Wars shipping with like half the rules missing. Late era TSR was a loving mess.
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Plavski posted:I remember Inquest magazine used to have free cards and each issues came with 4 or 5 cards from whichever new CCG arrived on the market that month, so I'd end up with loads of singles of random poo poo like Battletech, XXXenophile and L5R. I tried to get into the Shadowrun CCG, but it died pretty soon after launch if I remember right. I had the Netrunner box too, but I think everyone had that. God, the 90's was a golden era for CCG's. We're doing well now again thanks to the LCG system, but I'll always remember the 90's most fondly for its card games.
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