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Pentaro posted:Everything in that Bonk ad is accurate. I don't know how I've never seen this before, but this is going to be extremely hard to top as Most 90s Thing. e: awful snipe; here, have a very 90s thing: a t-shirt with a sex joke based on a short-lived ad campaign 
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ultrafilter posted:That makes way more sense than Super Mario Bros. Not really, The SMB are just eating shrooms left and right.
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Oct 15, 2020 16:47
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DrBouvenstein posted:I can't tell you the number of times I saw this ad for Bonk's Adventure when reading comics in the early to mid 90's: Bonk is a weird fuckin' game series but it rules
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This dapper child's edutainment levels are reaching a worryingly unsafe threshold.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:23
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There could be a whole thread about video card boxes.
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Oct 15, 2020 21:36
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This was my first real video card and it was loving amazing.
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Oct 16, 2020 01:01
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Unperson_47 posted:There could be a whole thread about video card boxes. I've always wanted to see a game jam based on making the nonexistent games whose art was on the box of 2000s graphics card packaging      
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My first job out of college was doing customer support at VisionTek. One day a customer called and complained to my co-worker about the box art on one of our video cards. I believe it was on the back where a couple of teenagers were depicted, a boy and a girl, and if I remember correctly with spraypaint cans. The customer was complaining because the girl's top button of her pants was undone.
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Oct 16, 2020 03:33
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16-bit RDRAM posted:I've always wanted to see a game jam based on making the nonexistent games whose art was on the box of 2000s graphics card packaging Even in a field as warped as GPU boxes... "Dobby, but he's a Latin Lover and he fucks" is an especially precious gem 
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Oct 16, 2020 03:42
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Not 90s but remember gun ram?   I know none of the parts are ram but "gun ram" captures how stupid and funny this trend was
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Oct 16, 2020 03:59
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the PCIE slots are all hosed up on this one because the owner tried to take his computer on a plane and TSA saw that gun on the x-ray and then tried to find it
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Oct 16, 2020 04:48
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Oh god I remember PNY having a series of just weird cyberfaces on their boxes for some reason.
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Oct 16, 2020 08:24
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Artist: Yeah i'm just gonna draw my Beetlejuice ICP alopecia fetish art Marketing: Fine, as long as you make the tits big
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Oct 16, 2020 13:44
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I think that's just a character from unreal tournament.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Snip.... I believe it was on the back where a couple of teenagers were depicted, a boy and a girl, and if I remember correctly with spraypaint cans. The customer was complaining because the girl's top button of her pants was undone. I have to admit, I am now complaining but only because I don’t know the reason????? Why would the top button of her pants be unbuttoned??? Was it the style at the time??? Should I have been unbuttoning my pants in the 90’s? So many questions...
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Sweevo posted:Artist: Yeah i'm just gonna draw my Beetlejuice ICP alopecia fetish art Oh I get it, it's Radeon, so they put a Radeon the box
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namlosh posted:I have to admit, I am now complaining but only because I don’t know the reason????? I can't even remember which video card it was, but this was 2004 so perhaps wearing pants like that with a cropped tank top (I think) was the style at the time.
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Sweevo posted:Artist: Yeah i'm just gonna draw my Beetlejuice ICP alopecia fetish art Said artist went on to design Jack from Mass Effect 2.
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 Behold, Ruby. Something something redhead ninja something. Centerpiece of ATi marketing and box art cover girl for official brand manufacturer Sapphire for years, from at least 2002 until well after AMD bought them. Star of Radeon tech demos. Hell they even produced a figurine in Japan. Star of an astounding amount of bad fanfiction and even worse hentai. e. Some dude got paid a salary by ATi to draw his OC anime waifu for some six years. I almost want to applaud for the sheer cheeky gumption of pulling that off. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 09:51 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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16-bit RDRAM posted:Not 90s but remember gun ram? We get sh&#^*t done. I guess what I’m trying to say is: DON’T. MESS. WITH. US.
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A Japanese 3D Demo reel for a very obscure console. Full of 90s 3D insanity. (25:15 timestamp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM04vH2et5A&t=1513s
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Sir Lemming posted:Oh I get it, it's Radeon, so they put a Radeon the box God drat it. 
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I dunno if it's just that I have very limited tastes, or the YouTube Music algo sucks, or what, but I always end up hearing Two Princes, followed usually really quickly by Flagpole Sitta, at least once a session. Which is the more 90s White People Problems is up for debate, but jesus is there a more 90s sentence than "I want to publish zines, and rage against machines"? Edit: Also, a few pages back, there was talk of VHS board games, and it just brought up memories of when I worked in Classic Cardboard at PAX Unplugged a few years back, ten feet from the Star Trek: TNG VHS game. I think one guy beat it, and we cheered for the dude, cus from what I saw, that MF was hard as poo poo. Neito has a new favorite as of 04:07 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Neito posted:I think one guy beat it 
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For some reason (cultural cringe I suppose) it was really uncool to like Silverchair in Australia, at least where I grew up it was. People would call them Nirvana in Pyjamas. But hearing it now it's kinda nuts how good they were for 15yos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZD982yrmx4 Funky See Funky Do has a new favorite as of 14:01 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Lol I just posted a Silverchair update in my Beavis and Butthead thread in post my favorites. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3945511 
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Nice, I"m saving that thread for later.
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shade is a good song
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Funky See Funky Do posted:For some reason (cultural cringe I suppose) it was really uncool to like Silverchair in Australia, at least where I grew up it was. People would call them Nirvana in Pyjamas. But hearing it now it's kinda nuts how good they were for 15yos Frogstomp was pretty popular in the U.S. as well when it came out and Tomorrow got a ton of play both on radio and MTV in the last years when they were still heavily playing videos.
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I dunno if anyone else did this, but I have a distinct memory of buying or owning, for various reasons, strategy guides to games I didn't own. Like, I would get the strategy guide almost as a replacement for getting the game; I know at the very least I had a Super Mario RPG OFFICIAL NINTENDO POWER GUIDE for a while before getting the game. I would read it like a book, front to back and then back again. I think my parents ended up buying me a copy of SMRPG that Christmas because I spent so much time with that book. I also remember reading one of those "How To Win At Nintendo" books, but for the Turbographix 16, a system I never owned. I kinda wanna try it now that it's trivially emulateable, but I doubt it'll ever live up to what my imagination said Keith Courage in Alpha Zones was. Also, maybe this is just the magazines I read and my fascination with creepy and the macabre, but didn't it seem like there was a flood of like, weirdly violent games from about, say... Just after the Doom/Mortal Kombat era up until about Half-Life? Like, mostly on the PC, like Postal, but even some console games had that weird kinda x-treme violence motif going on. I remember even Nintendo systems getting in on the act; wasn't War Gods something? IDK why, but otherwise forgettable game Meat Puppet always stuck with me, based solely on it's description in a PC gaming magazine I picked up from the library's free magazine pile. Iron Crowned posted:This comes up a lot actually. We're very acclimated to modern TV, where you have scripted original programming every night, all year long. Up until the mid to late 90's, most programming on the major networks consisted of sports and movies. They all had a sitcom night, and a drama night, but everything else was a movie. I feel like the death knell of that style of scheduling was NBC, which despite being something of a joke now had a really unprecedented run at the top, from basically Cheers up through the end of Friends. I think part of it was that the rise of the VCR, and then eventually DVDs, took the luster off of being able to see a movie in your house, at the same time that TV's becoming something a respectable actor can do and still be taken seriously. I also wonder how much of an effect the transition from analog to digital workflows helped...
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Neito posted:I dunno if anyone else did this, but I have a distinct memory of buying or owning, for various reasons, strategy guides to games I didn't own. Definitely not alone. We couldn't afford consoles but I could check books out from the library and dream about what they must be like to play. This is why I have a soft spot for the not-great-or-particularly-well-known NES title Monster Party.
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:Definitely not alone. We couldn't afford consoles but I could check books out from the library and dream about what they must be like to play. Monster Party always stuck out in my mind (despite again, not having played it) simply because it was such a surreal thing. An onion ring and a fried shrimp as an enemy? The first level turns into a blood-soaked nightmare halfway through? It's straight up the kind of thing that would sound like a creepy pasta if it weren't straight-up real.
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Neito posted:I dunno if it's just that I have very limited tastes, or the YouTube Music algo sucks, or what, but I always end up hearing Two Princes, followed usually really quickly by Flagpole Sitta, at least once a session. Which is the more 90s White People Problems is up for debate, but jesus is there a more 90s sentence than "I want to publish zines, and rage against machines"? The only difference/that I see/is that one is satire/and the other's not supposed to be. Now, if that worked, not only have I made my point, you should have this song in your head, which you have forgotten about for like 25 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFKxWv_Ntpg
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Seldom Posts posted:The only difference/that I see/is that one is satire/and the other's not supposed to be. The only song I remember from them is One Headlight.
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I unashamedly like what the front man for Toad the Wet Sprocket went on to do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_CX9Qlse_k
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Shifty Nipples posted:The only song I remember from them is One Headlight. Yeah that was the big hit, but this was one of the follow up singles. I remember hearing it on the radio a lot.
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Shifty Nipples posted:The only song I remember from them is One Headlight. They also had a cover of Heroes on the Godzilla soundtrack. Hell, I even saw that band live and barely remember anything about them other than those two songs.
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Bringing Down the Horse is actually a great album. If you didn't know, the lead singer is Bob Dylan's son.
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Neito posted:Monster Party always stuck out in my mind (despite again, not having played it) simply because it was such a surreal thing. An onion ring and a fried shrimp as an enemy? The first level turns into a blood-soaked nightmare halfway through? It's straight up the kind of thing that would sound like a creepy pasta if it weren't straight-up real. Thank you, we just wanted to dance.
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