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got some serious flashbacks there. Early 90s were all about DA and nintendo power for me. Wish I still had this one so I could read about super weird dogs:
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I wonder is Wayne was into Ursala. And I meant that just the name sounded sinister, not the actual club.
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Ambitious Spider posted:got some serious flashbacks there. Early 90s were all about DA and nintendo power for me. Wish I still had this one so I could read about super weird dogs: Oh man, Disney Adventures were my jam when I was a kid  . Come to think of it, I might still have mine in a box somewhere. I think might even have that specific issue.
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Iron Crowned posted:I often wonder what it was about translucent plastics that enthralled us so much in the 90's, there was tons of it everywhere. Granted, it's likely not a MAJOR reason it was big in the 90s, but some prisons that allowed prisoners to have access to some things like personal TVs and radios required them to be see-thru plastic. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/prison-inmates-offer-captive-market-gadget-makers-n134191 You can even get a tablet in that fashion from some provider.
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Disney adventures was okay but fox kids was way cooler
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Wheat Loaf posted:One interesting one is the soundtrack to The Last Action Hero because it's like the last gasp of 80s hard rock. The biggest hit single from it was a Def Leppard song. Didn't that movie have "Big Gun" NUMBER ONE in it? I remember seeing that one in the theaters and it that song was EVERYWHERE. AC/DC got beat by Def Leppard?
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hatelull posted:Didn't that movie have "Big Gun" NUMBER ONE in it? I remember seeing that one in the theaters and it that song was EVERYWHERE. AC/DC got beat by Def Leppard? It was a bigger hit on the rock charts; the Def Leppard song was the pop hit.
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The soundtrack also has two of Alice In Chains' best songs, IMO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFJ_AXv7UWM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXIk45pL0o
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Laterite posted:The soundtrack also has two of Alice In Chains' best songs, IMO. Man, I loved Alice in Chains. 
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Laterite posted:The soundtrack also has two of Alice In Chains' best songs, IMO. Agreeeeeed. I just got on a kick a while back. Nobody says 'YEAH' like Alice in Chains says 'YEAH.'
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lord funk posted:Agreeeeeed. I just got on a kick a while back. Nobody says 'YEAH' like Alice in Chains says 'YEAH.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAalL-zK2rQ
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Layne is the only person who can sing like that. Because that's just his voice. Everyone else who sings like that is trying to sound like him. It's harder to listen to their songs now knowing that the lyrics were deadly serious. Like listening to a recording of someone reading their suicide note. Related but unrelated: "Low" by Cracker came up on the shuffle tonight and I thought about how the 90s led me to believe that avoiding heroin would be a much bigger problem for me than it turned out. Imagined has a new favorite as of 01:24 on Jan 4, 2019 |
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Imagined posted:Related but unrelated: "Low" by Cracker came up on the shuffle tonight and I thought about how the 90s led me to believe that avoiding heroin would be a much bigger problem for me than it turned out. It was if you were in the Pacific Northwest grunge scene. It's impossible to overstate how much of a heroin epidemic infested those people in that area; a ton of celebrities got killed or nearly killed by it (most notably Layne Staley and Andrew Wood, but Kurt Cobain was probably the biggest name who was addicted at the time of his suicide). Duff McKagan of Guns n' Roses grew up there and one of the things driving him to move out in the 80s was just how much heroin was going around. Well into the 90s, a ton of his old friends back home died from it. He eventually got himself clean from his vice of alcohol, but still had to help Scott Weiland try and sober up when he was in Velvet Revolver. Just assume that any grunge band or Pacific Northwest band from the late 80s into the 90s has at least one song about heroin.
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After watching the Todd in the Shadows video about the Divinyls, I am really sad that Chrissy Amphlett died of breast cancer at 53. I Touch Myself got me though a lot of pre internet days.
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twistedmentat posted:I Touch Myself got me though a lot of pre internet days. That kind of thing gets us through the Internet days too.
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twistedmentat posted:After watching the Todd in the Shadows video about the Divinyls, I am really sad that Chrissy Amphlett died of breast cancer at 53. I Touch Myself got me though a lot of pre internet days. Yeah, that song came out when I was just entering puberty, so the video was a blessing.
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chitoryu12 posted:It was if you were in the Pacific Northwest grunge scene. It's impossible to overstate how much of a heroin epidemic infested those people in that area; a ton of celebrities got killed or nearly killed by it (most notably Layne Staley and Andrew Wood, but Kurt Cobain was probably the biggest name who was addicted at the time of his suicide). Duff McKagan of Guns n' Roses grew up there and one of the things driving him to move out in the 80s was just how much heroin was going around. Well into the 90s, a ton of his old friends back home died from it. He eventually got himself clean from his vice of alcohol, but still had to help Scott Weiland try and sober up when he was in Velvet Revolver. Isn't Violator entirely about heroin as well? (Besides Enjoy The Silence, that's obviously about heroin)
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Randaconda posted:Isn't Violator entirely about heroin as well? It's maybe roughly 75% about heroin. Songs Of Faith And Devotion, about 85%. Then Ultra is 100%.
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God, those things had to have been just 100% pure high-fructose corn syrup with food coloring, didn't they?
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Moon Slayer posted:God, those things had to have been just 100% pure high-fructose corn syrup with food coloring, didn't they? They're clearly 100% fruit juice
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I LOVED Lip Gear. I went through at least a couple of the sour apple gloss.  These, however, were where it was AT. There was a mint chocolate flavor in this line that I'd sell a loving kidney for a tube of.
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I had a relative that worked for Hard Candy, the alt/candypop makeup brand from late 99. Have a bunch of their silicone rings (used to come with a nailpolish bottle) and some of their old rear end glitter hair spray.
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https://twitter.com/ProducerBTW/status/1081404168911220737
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Phantasy Star II for $80 holy poo poo. And that's 1990 $80. e: after inflation that's $150 today. Mu Zeta has a new favorite as of 13:32 on Jan 5, 2019 |
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Mu Zeta posted:Phantasy Star II for $80 holy poo poo. And that's 1990 $80. Those big RPGs were insanely expensive back in the day. Anything that required a big memory chip in the cartridge and was expected to sell relatively lower numbers.
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Mu Zeta posted:Phantasy Star II for $80 holy poo poo. And that's 1990 $80. I always confused Phantasy Star with Space Harrier somehow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwa4eaEnmMI A Link to the Past wasn't chump change new either Chrono Trigger too
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Mu Zeta posted:Phantasy Star II for $80 holy poo poo. And that's 1990 $80. Final Fantasy II/IV was seventy bucks brand new. I got my money's worth, though, iffy translation and all. 
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I remember saving my money from my afterschool job in high school to buy FFIII for 75bux. That's 111 bux in todays money. That's like a collectors edition.
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Here's something pretty 90s that I thought about the other day: Oddbodz For those of you who have never heard of them, they were series of collectible trading cards you got from potato chip packets. Only available in New Zealand and Australia from 1996-1998 or so. There were a few different series and they were hot poo poo at primary (elementary) school. Very 90s because of the art style and the gross-out humour. Here's an example:  And a fansite: http://oddbodz.yolasite.com/
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Can confirm, this was literally the funniest sentence of 1996 The fun bit was on the other side though, where you could mix and match them to create silly stories like so: 
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Oh yeah. I think I managed to get all 61 of them as the clerk at the servo knew us from regular trips after school then gave us a ton of packets when they were about to end it. The holy grail was getting both glow and hot (heat sensitive parts that went clear when warmed up to show a hidden image.)
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Jaguars! posted:Can confirm, this was literally the funniest sentence of 1996 You know, I honestly did not remember those cards at all until your followup post with the stories on the back.
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Those look like Garbage Pail Kids ripoffs IMHO.
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That is something I won't miss about the 90s, everything was just about grossness for a while.
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More about, plus various chip-packet fads: https://wayninginterests.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/1996-a-space-oddyssey/#comments He's right about the glow in the dark stuff, they were really well done like that. Some of them virtually the whole card would light up. Dillbag posted:Those look like Garbage Pail Kids ripoffs IMHO. Yeah possibly, there could be quite a lag before stuff made it down here back in those days.
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The 1990s in NZ were a weird mix of "exactly the same" and "1/5/10 years behind" compared to the US/UK. I had to laugh a little at this from the 1970s thread:Khazar-khum posted:7. Most US cities had 3-4 TV stations, so that aspect of culture was pretty homogenous. Just about everyone watched Saturday morning cartoons and Jonny Carson late at night. You generally stuck with a particular network for all your TV needs, though that changed when "All in the Family" came out. Networks had big preview nights where they gave samplings of what was to come that season. Cable existed only where there was no other access to TV. It was a city utility with limited offering. This more or less perfectly describes TV in NZ in the early 90s. The government run TV1 ran the News, Country Calendar, and UK programming. Government run TV2 for kids, soaps, and US sitcoms. Commercial TV3 trying to compete with both, and later on TV4, which was probably a couple of nerds in a TVNZ broomcloset stealing bandwidth to broadcast Sci-fi and ancient programs. All shut down about midnight. SKY TV was something only the keenest sports watchers in your neighbourhood would have but by the 2000s maybe 20% of houses had sky TV. So in 1995, you could have Jaguars! has a new favorite as of 10:45 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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