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DeusModus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UFg2GpMFKY What makes this particularly wonderful and, I suppose, heartbreaking (at least to me) is that if I lived in that world, Pirates of Dark Water would be on in an hour. Noy jitat! Tin Miss posted:
You know, I really don't think there had been. For whatever reason, it's still on my go-to list of movies to watch when I'm getting that nostalgic feeling.
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SouthLAnd posted:When I wasn't watching Northern Exposure, I was up in my room listening to some sweet music like La Bouche or Hooverphonic on my sweet Sony Discman. Man, that thing was expensive and I don't even think it had Anti-Shock. It's odd you should bring that up. For years, I was searching for a song that was featured in a commercial for "Tim & Eric" and the only lead I could possibly find was that it was also used in the DVDs for Northern Exposure because, as you said, there were legal issues. (As it turns out, it was "Time Stood Still" by 5 Alarm Music.)
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Mar 30, 2013 03:40
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Tin Miss posted:The Carmen Sandiego computer game. See, this has now reminded me of horrible things. When I was in sixth grade, which would have been around 1995, they had Apple IIs (or something very much like them) in the math room. And that drat game. I must have played that thing at recess every day for a month. I had almost hit the rank of "Detective." Came in the next day and somebody had goddamn deleted the save. I can't imagine why I was so angry, but I definitely was.
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Apr 11, 2013 19:53
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Pens were my ultimate weakness. I got completely sucked into the gel-pen hype of the late 90s, but even before that, I had a bright red pencil box (adorned in holographic Pokemon stickers, duh) that was filled to the brim with a pen from every pack of interesting pens I had used since kindergarten. There was probably a pen of every color. I used to love those clear neon pens that came in hot pink, blue, purple, and green (the best one), because neon was everyone's favorite color in the 90s. I had these swirly clear ones that I loved looking at. I can't find any evidence of them online, but I remember they were Bics and they came in red, green, blue, and maybe purple. I remember the exact Bic pens you are referring to, at least if they were in the style of Bic "crystals" but in awesome colours. The problem is, I also remember all sorts of other Bic pens from the same era. And I, too, can find zero images of them online. There was a period in the 90s where Bic was releasing series after series of "themed" pens. Tribal. Aliens. Zebra stripes. There were so many I don't even remember them all. What I do know is that, for no reason I can explain, I NEEDED to have ALL OF THEM. Jesus. I carried around a ball of such pens in a rubber-band when I was in fourth grade. There were at least fifty.
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Apr 19, 2013 02:01
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I found a half-used solid black pad of post-it notes specifically for use with gel pens and those neon pens in the far back of the supply closet at work the other day, but no matching pens. I've just been using them to confuse coworkers with invisible notes since I don't have any proper colors that would show up. Ooh. I know what you're talking about there too? but the pens that would write on black paper were an entirely different animal from the ones I was talking about in my last post. Those were just your basic bics with WILD AND CRAZY thematic elements to make you seem all unique or something. I'm going on another google-hunt.
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Apr 19, 2013 02:47
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Daria's only weakness is that the best episode (Boxing Daria) is the very last episode. I completely agree. I always felt cheated by it in the sense that it opened some things up that we were obviously never going to get to explore. Goddamn. I didn't even realise I was still annoyed about that until you reminded me. Well done?
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May 4, 2013 02:32
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Shoeonhead22 posted:I completely forgot the name of that show but yeah, it was pretty amazing. Kid was in a coma world and attempts to leave the coma world would destroy it/his coma friends, so he stayed in it. His parents should have pulled the plug that poo poo went on for like 4 years. I remembered the name and it still took me years to find it. The only other details that I could recall were a) the plot had something to do with the main character's father's telescope and b) BRAD IS RAD and you will be brainwashed into thinking that's true while in some sort of ball pit. I live right on the US/CA border, so when I visited my grandmother, I would watch it via the ol' rabbit ears at any and every opportunity. Then she got satellite. God drat it! No, wait, that was also excellent at the time.
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May 13, 2013 23:01
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Anybody else remember Z-Bots? My brother and I loved the gently caress out of those things. And godDAMN if we weren't going to look through every single back at the toy store to see if any of them contained Neptoon. I think we finally got him by trading a bunch of the lamer ones to a friend of mine.
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Jun 5, 2013 03:51
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Retail Slave posted:In the early 90's the absolute coolest legal substance an 11-year-old could obtain (at least in my area) was a can of Jolt Cola. If you had Jolt, you were the poo poo. Then the rumor was they discontinued it because some kid drank 3 and his heart exploded. Man, I think I lived on that stuff for awhile. Although, to be fair, I think that was '99-'02, so I'm not sure that it counts. Way, way better than Surge, though.
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Jun 16, 2013 03:24
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Dr. Ohnoman posted:With all that said, though, the Nomad is loving awesome and probably my favorite video game thing that I own. My children somehow destroyed mine. And by "somehow" I mean that they were fighting over it and IF I CAN'T PLAY IT RIGHT NOW NOBODY CAN. It was a sad, sad, angry day. Let's hope the N64 lasts longer in their not-so-gentle hands. At least they can both play that at the same time? (Don't worry. I kept my gold pre-order Ocarina of Time cart safely hidden away. That, at least, will survive.)
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Jul 17, 2013 02:01
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John Murdoch posted:Similar to gawking and squinting at video games over the counter at KB Toys, there was also Sears' posh video game boutique. The heartbreak when it was reduced to a single locked cabinet, half-hidden in the main electronics section, and filled with ancient but worthless Gameboy games. I remember that! Suddenly, I didn't mind so much that it took my mother seven times longer than a human child can deal with to shop for clothings or whatever the hell else I didn't care about at the time. Didn't they briefly have a system or two set up to mess with, or am I making that up? It is not impossible that I'm thinking of another place. Definitely the same era though.
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Jul 27, 2013 04:27
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John Murdoch posted:As I recall, they pretty much always had a GameBoy Pocket and a SNES set up. And the SNES was always demoing Donkey Kong Country. Okay, I'm counting that as confirmation. THe Donkey Kong Country thing seals it. In fact, I think the GameBoy Pocket might have had Donkey Kong Land for awhile as well. I seem to recall the cart was yellow. And back then, that was somehow awesome all on its own.
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Jul 28, 2013 06:25
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Non Serviam posted:Considering how lovely the Virtual Boy was, in your case the phrase "A mother knows best" surely applies. Jesus, Virtual Boy WAS horrible. And yet, for the brief period of time that I owned one, I played the hell out of it. It made me physically ill and I wound up hurting my neck because I didn't have a proper stand for it. I think I only liked it because nobody else I knew had one. Yeah, I could do without having had that experience.
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Aug 12, 2013 17:31
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oldpainless posted:Nerf Ultimator Accurate, no. Powerful, yes. At least, I seem to recall breaking enough poo poo with it to have it banned from the house for awhile. Those were some good times, and I'd completely forgotten them before I clicked the link. I believe it was actually my brother's, but he was (and still is) younger by nearly five years. That made temporary acquisition of coveted toys a fairly easy feat.
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Aug 15, 2013 18:46
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Solar Winds haunts me and I can't really explain why. My brother and I convinced our parents to buy it for us out the shareware rack at a Faye's drug store. What I remember about it can be broken down into the following list: 1) The combat seemed awesome. (I'm pretty sure it wasn't.) 2) There was an elusive sequel we obsessed about for years but never played. (I still wonder how it was.) 3) Part of the game involved flying in one direction for about twenty minutes. 4) When you got there, the ships you had to fight were way too hard. (They were the main enemy ships. I think you meet one near the beginning. They're dudes with horns.) 5) It took forever to figure out the point allocation system that let you "customize" your lovely ship. We were convinced we were missing large parts of the game because of what I can only imagine was a glitch wherein, on route to #3/#4, you'd sometimes see stars/ships that disappeared when you stopped. God, I hope somebody else remembers this and can fill me in.
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Aug 24, 2013 06:54
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Tyson Tomko posted:Yeah! I scored the Highlander TV series (probably bootleg) at a flea market years ago along with Quantum Leap and I've watched them both several times so rock on. Speaking of 90s shows, one of the hardest shows to track down copies of that I was finally able to score not too long ago, freaking First Wave. I love love love the Outer Limits-esqueness of it and how dark yet 90s campy everything is, it's great. As in "On the seventh dawn of the seventh day..." etc.? Because If so, where the hell did you find it? I haven't looked in awhile, but I recall having very little luck.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:45
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King Vidiot posted:Also the Stick Stickley address jingle. Ah, Stick Stickley. It's one of those rare things that I really wish I could go back and experience again. I'm pretty sure I didn't appreciate it as I should have when I was a child.
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Nov 12, 2014 07:11
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Otto Von Jizzmark posted:"it's 6 feet of bubble gum. For you not them!" Honestly, I found it pretty overrated even BEFORE I fell into the "them" category. I mean, it was six feet of bubble gum, yes. But it was awful and flavourless after about four seconds.
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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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