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As someone who grew up during the 1990s, I am enamoured with all the tacky-cheesy stuff I remember. The bright neon colours, flannel, unnecessarily edgy reboots of old series, and all that good stuff. The entire decade feels like '80s 2.0, but I'm unsure whether its campier or not. I mean this was the decade that gave us Nirvana, but it was also the decade that gave us Eiffel 65. It's one big mess. Some of my favourite threads on this forum have been things like "old stock in stores" or "Best Buy ads from 15 years ago". I'm sure I can't be alone right? To get the ball rolling, have these:    You can really smell the old musk of the 1990s in commercials that even today air. I don't know if companies just think nobody notices, or don't think it's worth it to redo them, but poo poo like this still runs rampant on television where I live. So what's your favourite stuff from the 1990s?
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My life peaked when I was like 11 and went to one of those Nickelodeon concert things. N*Sync flew in on a helicopter and handed out pizza slices.
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Mar 22, 2012 23:48
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Ah the 90's. Early 3D games, which retain a certain magic because back then 3D was new and developers were excited and passionate about what they were programming. And the neat things you could do with a bit of game hacking...
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Mar 23, 2012 00:04
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Motherfucking pogs. My brother had like five shoeboxes full of the poo poo. I'm pretty sure he still has them.
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Mar 23, 2012 00:07
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 The Pizza Head Show ads put out by Pizza Hut, which were nothing but Mr. Bill homages. These commercials put me right back into the mid '90s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agok_TVaDms
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Mar 23, 2012 00:17
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 These guys are the Alpha and Omega of the campy 90's, and I will still remember them fondly when I am a shriveled old man.
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Mar 23, 2012 00:19
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^^^It's not your fault. They were Teenagers With Attitude (was that the line?). -Snap Bracelets -Rob Liefeld -Magic Eye Pictures My now-favorite 90s memory is probably the Atari Jaguar. The year that this "SIXTY FOUR BIT" beast came out, I was dreading going back to school after Christmas break, because everyone would be bragging about their new Jaguar. Yeah, never heard of anyone actually having one.
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Mar 23, 2012 00:21
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The Street Fighters show
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Mar 23, 2012 00:23
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crrh6cKHcig Turtles in live action. nuff' said.
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Mar 23, 2012 00:50
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Come on and SLAM! and welcome to the JAM!
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Mar 23, 2012 00:53
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  This stuff smelled awesome. Also the "no tears" claim was a complete lie. That poo poo was like acid on your eyeballs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzYEN1lS2Q&feature=related
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Mar 23, 2012 00:53
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Your Sledgehammer posted:
I don't recall their collars ever being that thick in the show. Incidentally, I still have my original Ultrazord. 
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Mar 23, 2012 00:54
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dr. pepper spray posted:
This smelled like angel farts. It was amazing. Not campy, but definitely 90's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqZZgVxnCk Ball Tazeman has a new favorite as of 01:10 on Mar 23, 2012 |
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Mar 23, 2012 01:03
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Two of my fvorite toys as kid: Gak, and the Bumble Ball, which no one else seems to remember. 
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Mar 23, 2012 01:32
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I think pretty much every mid to late 90s geocities website was pretty campy. They all followed a formula which went like this: [Animated flame GIF] Title of website ie "JoEs AwEsOmE SitE!!"[Animated flame GIF] Heres a long list of stuff I like!! Images of cars Images of bands Images of video games Random images Links to websites I like. Half the links are broken. Crappy midi music running in the background "Join my webring!" All you young uns probably dont know what a webring is. Hit counter. *edit: almost forgot the mandatory Internet explorer 3.0 and netscape buttons. That literally describes the majority of Geocities websites back then. Also you can go on the Geocities-izer and geocity-ize any website you want check it out: http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php
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Mar 23, 2012 01:37
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Charliegrs posted:Links to websites I like. Half the links are broken. Not just links, but links to webrings! I remember my Geocities (or was it my Angelfire?) page was part of a pretty sweet AD&D webring 
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Mar 23, 2012 01:45
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Azrael Alexander posted:Two of my fvorite toys as kid: Gak, and the Bumble Ball, which no one else seems to remember. I never had Gak as a kid, because my father was some kind of master alchemist and managed to create his own homemade version. The recipe is on the internet now, but this was before the internet had really taken hold so I don't know where my dad found out about this. What homemade Gak had over regular Gak was that you could make a giant goddamn batch of the stuff if you wanted, I'm talking entire saucepans full, then go to your room and turn your Hot Wheels playset city into a scene from The Blob, then your mom makes you take that game into the living room because your bedroom has carpeting in it. Memories. 
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Mar 23, 2012 01:47
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korusan posted:As someone who grew up during the 1990s, I am enamoured with all the tacky-cheesy stuff I remember. The bright neon colours, flannel, unnecessarily edgy reboots of old series, and all that good stuff. The entire decade feels like '80s 2.0, but I'm unsure whether its campier or not. I mean this was the decade that gave us Nirvana, but it was also the decade that gave us Eiffel 65. It's one big mess. Some of my favourite threads on this forum have been things like "old stock in stores" or "Best Buy ads from 15 years ago". I'm sure I can't be alone right? Holy poo poo. They actually called the crippled kid "Wheels?"
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Mar 23, 2012 01:48
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I actually thought the same when I was getting a source for the image, but then I remembered how I have a wheelchair-bound friend from high school who nicknamed himself "Wheels".
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Mar 23, 2012 01:51
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNnCKPeEv0 The music video for Sexuality by everyone's favorite big-nosed socialist goat-herder Billy Bragg is just pure 90's. It features a lot of wacky hijinks, a young and fit Phill Jupitus and some Essex puns.
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Mar 23, 2012 01:52
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 I totally thought this was the coolest looking gadget ever, and the commercials and product placement in Home Alone reinforced my perception that it'd be the best toy on Earth. Never got one. Now, kids can get the same features on their feature phones and get cool voice distortion apps on their smartphones.  Also, I kind of miss when fruit-colored translucent plastic was an appropriate material for expensive gadgets. EDIT: Also, I feel like this 1989 Pontiac concept car embodies the 90's cheese we came to love. TVarmy has a new favorite as of 01:58 on Mar 23, 2012 |
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Mar 23, 2012 01:53
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korusan posted:I actually thought the same when I was getting a source for the image, but then I remembered how I have a wheelchair-bound friend from high school who nicknamed himself "Wheels". I swear back in the 90s any cast of characters for any tv show, or advertisement (like the BK kids) had a handicapped member. I think it was sort of to promote equality to impressionable kids. I even remember a marvel comic I think it was X-force, or X-Factor that had a member on crutches but they were like cool looking crutches and she was a mutant with powers and stuff. But still handicapped.
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Mar 23, 2012 01:55
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TVarmy posted:Now, kids can get the same features on their feature phones and get cool voice distortion apps on their smartphones. Holy hell, my phone can do all that! Makes me wish I had an older sister to irritate.
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Mar 23, 2012 01:57
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Rocketlex posted:Holy hell, my phone can do all that! Makes me wish I had an older sister to irritate. HI KIDS WE'RE HOME EARLY!
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Mar 23, 2012 01:57
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Charliegrs posted:I swear back in the 90s any cast of characters for any tv show, or advertisement (like the BK kids) had a handicapped member. I think it was sort of to promote equality to impressionable kids. I even remember a marvel comic I think it was X-force, or X-Factor that had a member on crutches but they were like cool looking crutches and she was a mutant with powers and stuff. But still handicapped. Every show from the early 80s to mid 90s had a black kid, a brainiac (often mixed with being the black kid), a redhead, a cool kid, and two girls, one of whom was almost always a tomboy. Speaking of inclusion etc., Canadian goons might remember these type of commercials that tried to reach out to kids. The most famous one was the house hippo, for which knowing about is basically a prerequisite for being Canadian in the 90s.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:04
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korusan posted:The most famous one was the house hippo, for which knowing about is basically a prerequisite for being Canadian in the 90s. Oh Christ, I loved the House Hippo. "That looked really... real. But you knew it couldn't be true, didn't you?" Did they ever merchandise that? Cause if not, missed opportunity.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:09
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korusan posted:Every show from the early 80s to mid 90s had a black kid, a brainiac (often mixed with being the black kid), a redhead, a cool kid, and two girls, one of whom was almost always a tomboy. If Im not mistaken I think there was even a few characters in some cartoons who had HIV/AIDs. One thing I remember about the early 90s was the aids hysteria what with Freddy Mercury dying, and Magic Johnson contracting the disease really putting it in the spotlight. And with the hysteria came a lot of misinfo, like people thought you could catch aids by hugging someone and stuff like that. So I think to combat that misinfo there was at least once cartoon character in a show that had AIDS. I cannot remember the character or the show but Im almost certain it happened.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:13
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Charliegrs posted:If Im not mistaken I think there was even a few characters in some cartoons who had HIV/AIDs. One thing I remember about the early 90s was the aids hysteria what with Freddy Mercury dying, and Magic Johnson contracting the disease really putting it in the spotlight. And with the hysteria came a lot of misinfo, like people thought you could catch aids by hugging someone and stuff like that. So I think to combat that misinfo there was at least once cartoon character in a show that had AIDS. I cannot remember the character or the show but Im almost certain it happened. You must be thinking of Captain Planet, which had a Very Special Episode about AIDS. It was just as corny and hamfisted as the rest of the show.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:18
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The Space Jam website is as 90's as ever. It's essentially a Geocities-caliber website Warner Brothers is still hosting. The source HTML is also a nice period piece. (I know, CSS wasn't really around back then)
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Mar 23, 2012 02:24
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Azrael Alexander posted:Two of my fvorite toys as kid: Gak, and the Bumble Ball, which no one else seems to remember. I remember the bumble ball. I don't know if this was a thing anywhere else, but suddenly in the late 90s everyone had to have a fuckin yo-yo. Junior year in high school was the peak (so '98-'99), and my chemistry teacher was reprimanded for yo-yo dealing. Then they were banned because some moron got beaned in the head with one. Also Pokemon had just started to become a thing. Before that though, we had Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tail Spin and there was another one in that block too that I can't remember now. edit: It was Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
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Mar 23, 2012 02:24
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And the Adventures of Super Mario 3! For about two years, you couldn't escape this. At the time, you wanted to scratch out your eyes and eardrums, but now that we're safely (?) past it, the spectacle of it is amusing. Far and away, though, the best thing was the Al Gore version of the macarena. 
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Mar 23, 2012 02:29
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I'm 25 years old, and this recent trend of nineties nostalgia has been really interesting for me, because it's the first time seeing a decade that I actually lived through turn into a defined period. During the nineties, none of this stuff seemed obviously nineties, but now that's the only word to describe it, even though I would be hard pressed to say what actually defines it, other than high waisted jeans and solid colors. But it's interesting to me that I intuitively have a concept in my head of what the decade was like, but still don't have one for the oughts. Content: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-KMPvgKPo I love how shamelessly fun pop music was in the nineties.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:39
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SpazmasterX posted:HI KIDS WE'RE HOME EARLY! That part of the commercial is creepy http://youtu.be/anjyiO754hU And wow what a cockblock that kid is!
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Mar 23, 2012 02:40
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Benne posted:You must be thinking of Captain Planet, which had a Very Special Episode about AIDS. It was just as corny and hamfisted as the rest of the show. Those cartoons may have been corny, but poo poo considering the way adults were handling AIDS in the political and news sphere it's basically great that there was any voice out there that reminded people that AIDS victims were actually human beings and not freaks punished by God. The atmosphere was loving venomous back then. Anyway, FMV games. Even back in their prime, getting them to run was like smashing your own teeth in with a wrench, forget about trying to get them run on modern machines with actual technological standards. I'd link a bunch of great hokey scenes from Night Trap and Mad Dog Mcree and probably basically the entire Sega Mega CD roster of games, but I think I'll link the only FMV that really matters anymore, the unreleased Duelin' Firemen.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:42
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Mixed Doubles posted:I'm 25 years old, and this recent trend of nineties nostalgia has been really interesting for me, because it's the first time seeing a decade that I actually lived through turn into a defined period. During the nineties, none of this stuff seemed obviously nineties, but now that's the only word to describe it, even though I would be hard pressed to say what actually defines it, other than high waisted jeans and solid colors. But it's interesting to me that I intuitively have a concept in my head of what the decade was like, but still don't have one for the oughts. Holy poo poo I loved that song. I love how European-inspired electro-pop briefly dominated the charts in the mid-late 90's. Obligatory link to the best pop song of the 90's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4
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Mar 23, 2012 02:49
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If you watched kids' programming in South Florida in the '90s, you saw this pretty much every commercial break. Also, here's some poorly manipulated video of penguins reminding you to be cool and stay in school.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:58
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Benne posted:Holy poo poo I loved that song. I love how European-inspired electro-pop briefly dominated the charts in the mid-late 90's. It's like my crappy taste as a child has reared up and kicked me in the face with nostalgia, thanks.
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Mar 23, 2012 02:58
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Mortal Kombat and the theme song to the movie is one of my best memories from my childhood. When I was like 9-10 me and my friends used to blast this song on his basement stereo and pretend fight. We'd put it on loop and do it until someone got hurt, broke something, or his mom broke us up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA&feature=related
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Mar 23, 2012 03:14
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Bitch please http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNdhH0U5U2U IS NOT Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV450il_YZI My cousin got some TMNT airplane (or something, I forget) that created a bubble filled with smoke that was supposed to drop from the device. It was pretty dumb, but at the time it was amazing! nickhimself has a new favorite as of 04:13 on Mar 23, 2012 |
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nickhimself posted:Bitch please Nay nay. The better versions came later. Those let you warp your voice, play it backwards, play sound effects. All good fun.
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