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One thing the 1990s had in abundance was novelty hits: this is one of my favourites.
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Don Gato posted:That's why you left the crap cereal for a younger sibling These are the guys I've seen around http://mechjock.com/ pretty cool bunch. I got some free games one night just because I was the only person awake at 2am in the convention center other than their night shift.
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Nov 18, 2014 01:45
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You have no idea how happy you just made me. Gonna have to go to one of these and rock it like it's 1995.
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Sentient Data posted:Wait, what? Bozo was only a Chicago area thing? I thought it was at least syndicated nationally since "Bozo" became such a common term. A kid in one of my elementary classes actually got to go on the show. I remember that he brought the tape in for a show and tell and it was a huge deal in the class, but he didn't win the grand prize; not sure how far he got on it, but it wasn't poorly enough to be teased by the other kids. Grand prize or not, I'll at least say that it's the only show and tell item that comes to mind, so he's got that going for him He was on WGN, which has been carried by just about every cable company in the US almost as long as cable has been a thing. That's how he became nationally known.
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Nov 20, 2014 17:35
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laserghost posted:Found this games sampler for Windows 95, made by Monolith for Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyi7hGqQ48 it's just great. The games alone are a great mix, but the presentation is what really takes the cake. If I had this one disc back in the day, it would never leave cd tray of my Pentium 133mhz. I miss demo collections. Installing some unknown game just because the title sounds interesting, or because it's one you haven't tried yet. Finding out you love it. Playing it to death. Then getting the full game, not by ordering it online, but because you go looking for it in a store and happen to find it.
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Nov 20, 2014 19:31
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davidspackage posted:I miss demo collections. Installing some unknown game just because the title sounds interesting, or because it's one you haven't tried yet. Finding out you love it. Playing it to death. Then getting the full game, not by ordering it online, but because you go looking for it in a store and happen to find it. This basically happened with Thief for me. Installed it, loved it, stumbled upon it in the store, and bought it. Still one of my favourite games
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Nov 20, 2014 20:41
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davidspackage posted:I miss demo collections. Installing some unknown game just because the title sounds interesting, or because it's one you haven't tried yet. Finding out you love it. Playing it to death. Then getting the full game, not by ordering it online, but because you go looking for it in a store and happen to find it. And the PC games all came in these big square cardboard boxes with a little jewel case in the middle. If you got the various Lego games (Lego Loco was my favourite) it came with a minifigure as well.
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Nov 20, 2014 21:12
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Metal Loaf posted:If you got the various Lego games (Lego Loco was my favourite) it came with a minifigure as well. They still do this. The Hobbit and the third Batman Lego game comes with figurine. I remember wantint Lego Chess so bad, I didn't even like chess, but the presentation was so nice it could interest me into it. And it had tiny little set with Chess King and his throne
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Nov 20, 2014 21:56
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I was really bad at Lego Chess (indeed, any kind of chess, for that matter) but I used to sit and watch my dad play it because I liked the animations at the end of each level.
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Nov 20, 2014 22:11
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Sentient Data posted:Wait, what? Bozo was only a Chicago area thing? I thought it was at least syndicated nationally since "Bozo" became such a common term. I think there were some regional Bozos, if I remember correctly. My area aired different ones on different channels growing up: The WGN version was bright and reruns of another version that felt creepier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyAHYyLQ_9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Q6qbYsDiQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRLPW8RlUvE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PegkGpgHBYk This one is apparently from 90's Philly. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 22:35 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Nov 20, 2014 22:30
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davidspackage posted:I miss demo collections. Installing some unknown game just because the title sounds interesting, or because it's one you haven't tried yet. Finding out you love it. Playing it to death. Then getting the full game, not by ordering it online, but because you go looking for it in a store and happen to find it. I remember the demo that came with my PS1 that had Spyro in it, and if you tried to go on the balloon in the first world the guy says something like "This balloon wont work till <release date>" Little me back then eagerly awaited for the release date, popped the demo back on and was very confused as to why the guy wasn't letting me on the balloon 
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Nov 21, 2014 00:24
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Might be a little young for most goons, but does anybody remember Gullah Gullah Island? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-szmuT1P1I I mostly remembered it as a discount Barney the Dinosaur, but later realized it was basically all about my hometown. I even went to high school with the youngest son in the show and acted in a few plays with him. It's just bizarre to think this show was shown across the country to show off Gullah and the Lowcountry.
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Nov 25, 2014 01:54
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Triskelli posted:Might be a little young for most goons, but does anybody remember Gullah Gullah Island? Wow, sweet jesus. I haven't thought about this show in years. My younger sister watched it every drat morning.
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Nov 25, 2014 02:19
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Triskelli posted:Might be a little young for most goons, but does anybody remember Gullah Gullah Island? I'm knocking on 30 myself and I remember this. I thought it was one of the more tolerable nick jr shows to watch when I was home sick from school. Much better than Barney 
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Nov 25, 2014 02:34
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Nth Doctor posted:I'm knocking on 30 myself and I remember this. I thought it was one of the more tolerable nick jr shows to watch when I was home sick from school. Much better than Barney Agreed. I mean, the pollywog wasn't my favourite? but Barney is just flat-out intolerable.
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Nov 25, 2014 03:49
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Triskelli posted:Might be a little young for most goons, but does anybody remember Gullah Gullah Island? This was literally the first thing I really remember in my life. For some reason my memory turned on when I was watching that little frog hop around and poo poo. I loved that show too. EDIT: I didn't even click on the youtube link and I still started singing the theme song from memory, that's how much I got down on that Gullah Gullah.
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Nov 25, 2014 04:07
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Don Gato posted:I haven't seen this thing posted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJA5C_Po4U The pods are still in operation. Every once in a while I treck on down to Dallas and spend a day killing robits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech_Centers#List_of_BattleTech_centers Not sure how current the list is though. *edit* Holy crap, I didn't realize that the last time Had been to dallas was in 2010. Looks like Gunslinger doesn't host the pods between cons anymore. But Houston looks to still be in operation. http://www.mechcorps.com/ Kilazar has a new favorite as of 15:53 on Nov 25, 2014 |
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Nov 25, 2014 14:47
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Glorious Nippon.
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I used to watch the poo poo out of GGI when I would stay home sick from school or for other whatever reason been off and able to watch Nick Jr. I still clearly remember watching Ranger Mike teach whats his name's son how to put a crab to sleep by waving his hand in front of them. Also cool as poo poo that Ron and Natalie were married on the show and in real life.
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Nov 25, 2014 18:01
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Anyone else put up with the roast beef sandwiches to get all of the Apollo 13 Saturn V pog holder from Hardee's?
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Dec 24, 2014 08:14
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Anyone remember what OK soda tasted like? I sure don't. I remember liking it and drinking it several times.
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Dec 24, 2014 08:32
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Metal Loaf posted:One thing the 1990s had in abundance was novelty hits: this is one of my favourites. ...considering it's Gazza, probably enough to kill an entire family of rhinos.
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Dec 24, 2014 09:14
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Doc Morbid posted:Okay, just how much booze and cocaine led to the creation of this? [in Edward Furlong voice] Uh... all of 'em, I think.
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Dec 24, 2014 09:31
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Otto Von Jizzmark posted:Anyone remember what OK soda tasted like? I sure don't. I remember liking it and drinking it several times. I remember doing this accidentally once and immediately thinking "what the poo poo this tastes like OK Soda?" years after having had any of the real thing, and finding the "correct" proportions online after looking it up later. Apparently the flavor was indeed supposed to invoke mixing the poo poo out of fountain drinks.
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Dec 25, 2014 14:18
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Morn posted:Anyone else put up with the roast beef sandwiches to get all of the Apollo 13 Saturn V pog holder from Hardee's? Hell yes I did! I've still got mine laying around. It's in the same jar I keep all of my fancy/special/rare coins in. It's funny seeing silver dollars, half dollars, special pennies/nickels, then an Apollo XIII coin or a Lucky Charms Olympics coin.
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Dec 28, 2014 22:36
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I had a hankerin to snap into a Slim Jim and got to thinking about Static X. Since the song Push It was released in 1999 and the vid is stop motion, it belongs ITT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0MfBG5-Uo
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Feb 28, 2015 20:09
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Doc Morbid posted:Okay, just how much booze and cocaine led to the creation of this? There's three things I especially enjoy about the video: 1) The very instant Gazza waves and yells, "C'MON!" you know precisely what you're in for. 2) There's one moment right at the start, where Gazza's at the mic in the studio, where he seems to realise exactly how ridiculous this entire enterprise is and sort of glances away from the camera. 3) Gazza having a thumb solo and a leg solo.
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Feb 28, 2015 21:10
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Tyson Tomko posted:Hell yes I did! I've still got mine laying around. It's in the same jar I keep all of my fancy/special/rare coins in. It's funny seeing silver dollars, half dollars, special pennies/nickels, then an Apollo XIII coin or a Lucky Charms Olympics coin. I never understood why they would make a POG holder but sell it with a sandwich only adults would order, if their taste buds were dead.
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Mar 19, 2015 00:49
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I have a request for this thread. When I was 5 or 6, so early 90's, I had a toy that I loved but it's long since been thrown out and I can't find any trace of it on the internet. It was a toy where you build robots that are piloted by little yellow men out of modular parts that you can reassemble any way you like, a little like a cross between Zoids and Lego. I had a smaller one and it was a bipedal robot with a shovel and a drill for arms. It was black, green and orange. I don't remember the name or if there was any associated cartoon, but I remember that the packaging was a lot fancier than a typical Chinese knockoff toy so I think they were at least somewhat popular. There was a big picture on the back of some of the other kits in a scifi base/factory setting. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? My Google-fu is failing me on this one.
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Mar 28, 2015 03:03
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I have a request for this thread. My best guess: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Crash_Dummies
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Mar 28, 2015 10:47
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Thanks, but it definitely was not the Crash Test Dummies. I had a Crash Test Dummy as well but it was completely different to what I'm talking about.
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Mar 28, 2015 13:11
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I have a request for this thread. Why couldn't you just have been a child of the '80's? Then it would've Starriors and the mystery could be solved.
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Mar 28, 2015 13:17
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Sizone posted:Why couldn't you just have been a child of the '80's? Then it would've Starriors and the mystery could be solved. Yeah I was thinking that or R.A.T.S. (Robot Anti-Terror Squad), which were made from the same molds as the Starriors for European markets. And I think the Zoids toy line actually started out with toys that were originally designed to be Starriors, or something like that. But like you said that was more mid-80s, although I guess 1000 Brown M and Ms might have been playing with one that was a few years old in the early 90s.
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tacodaemon posted:Yeah I was thinking that or R.A.T.S. (Robot Anti-Terror Squad), which were made from the same molds as the Starriors for European markets. And I think the Zoids toy line actually started out with toys that were originally designed to be Starriors, or something like that. But like you said that was more mid-80s, although I guess 1000 Brown M and Ms might have been playing with one that was a few years old in the early 90s. No, Zoids came first
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Mar 28, 2015 22:44
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It wasn't Starriors or RATS either. It's really bugging me cos every other thing from my childhood is here 
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Mar 29, 2015 01:59
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I have a request for this thread. Robotix
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Mar 31, 2015 15:15
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Okay, this is one hell of a long shot but people talked about the Freehold Raceway Mall in this topic before. Which pretty much is the most 90's Mall out there. Back in the 90's the Freehold Raceway Mall had two toy stores on one side of the mall. One on the top floor, one on the bottom. I remember the bottom floor toy store was a Kaybees. But does anyone remember the name of the other toy store? That was my favorite one (I think it had a better selection of Nintendo Games?) but the name is completely lost to me. And yes, the gyro place is still in the food court. Still tastes exactly the same, too.
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Mar 31, 2015 16:10
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Wandering Knitter posted:Okay, this is one hell of a long shot but people talked about the Freehold Raceway Mall in this topic before. Which pretty much is the most 90's Mall out there. Oh god. I know what one you're talking about, but I can't remember the name of it at all. It was awesome. My parents had to drag me out of there. God, I have to take a ride down there now. Maybe Friday since I have to get something for wear for Easter and I also want to check the Lego store for the Ecto-1.
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Mar 31, 2015 20:26
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screenwritersblues posted:Oh god. I know what one you're talking about, but I can't remember the name of it at all. It was awesome. My parents had to drag me out of there. God, I have to take a ride down there now. Maybe Friday since I have to get something for wear for Easter and I also want to check the Lego store for the Ecto-1. I want to say that the sign or logo was chicken themed? Rooster? Or I could be wrong about that. Also if anyone has any photos of the mini-golf that was there back when the mall first opened that would be awesome. I'm still trying to convince people I didn't imagine the "people horrifically dying in a tea cup" hole.
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Mar 31, 2015 20:48
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Nope, but that's closer to what I'm talking about.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Okay, this is one hell of a long shot but people talked about the Freehold Raceway Mall in this topic before. Which pretty much is the most 90's Mall out there. I think that place sold used video games too, unless this was a totally different store in the Freehold Raceway Mall. I just remember they let me play the games before I actually paid for them, which was cool.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Nope, but that's closer to what I'm talking about. I was thinking Construx, but that doesn't have the colors you mentioned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx
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