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Sombrerotron: Aug 1, 2004; Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

It's the 1990s. Welcome to CYBERPUNK.

Slavik posted:

Gamesmaster anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlfaeZZ0tjU&feature=related
If you are unfamilar with the show just watch a bit of the clip or skip to the 1:30 mark for the awesome head of Patrick Moore and why it was the staple of any game lover in the 90's. Also the added bonus for UK goons, boy band East 17 is at the beginning of the same clip

I never saw the program (though I'm familiar with the magazine of the same name, which also proudly featured RoboPatrick), but this reminded me of a computer games show that ran on I think The Children's Channel, and now I'm trying to remember what it was called. It was hosted by this youngish woman, butchy kind of short haircut (spiky, if memory serves), bleached hair, and there'd be this "head-to-head" part in each episode where two kids would square off against each other. Does this ring any bells?

# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 01:56

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 16:34

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DeadBonesBrook posted:

Was it Bad Influence your thinking of? Used to be on Citv? http://bad-influence.co.uk/

This wasn't it, exactly, but you got the presenter - Violet Berlin - right! Apparently, the show I had in mind was rather obscure, because the best I can find on short notice are a few references and this video, which only shows the competitive bit I mentioned earlier. Turns out that it was actually called "Head to Head" (I had some vague memory of this), and was indeed broadcast on TCC. Anyway, thanks for suggesting Bad Influence, I'm sure I'd never have figured it out without knowing her name.

This also puts me in mind of the ultimate in (very) early '90s computergame-related camp: Video Power! That intro is simply astonishing.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 10:59

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Cleretic posted:

I dunno, I think at this point they've changed, become a bit more... familiar. Harry Potter and Twilight are about supernatural and fantastical things, but we know them and they're totally human entities we're dealing with. Supernatural stuff in the 90's had this enormous air of mystery about it, that there are big questions, just waiting to be answered. You can sort of see it both in what we had then and what we have now.

In 90's supernatural fiction, the supernatural elements werent' human, they were supernatural - a mystery or some nebulous foe, just there to be solved by the end of the episode. These days it's, like I said, more humanised and localised, stuff's generally focusing on one specific type of supernatural being (wizards, vampires, demons, whatever) and they're treated as characters in their own right. The exception's Supernatural, which is mostly still the 'figure out this week's enemy, beat them' style.

You may be thinking about this too hard. Harry Potter and Twilight are straight-up modern fantasy - it's not about the supernatural elements being "human" or not, it's about them being treated as a given that does not require explanation. The X-Files qualifies far more as science-fiction than fantasy, in that it is focused much, much more on investigating strange phenomena and exploring the human condition. By contrast, nobody in Harry Potter is particularly concerned with how magic actually works or where all these strange creatures come from, and Twilight's investigation into vampiric society and the way it reflects on humanity in general is largely limited to showing that vampires are amazing and mysterious and way cooler than regular humans.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 15:28

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Slavik posted:

Yeah that was Bad Influence with hosts Violet Berlin and Andy Crane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2A0s0MGNo

I'm afraid you were already beaten to the punch, and it wasn't quite correct, but thanks anyway!

Quentine posted:

To answer your question, it was sort of a Saved by the Bell ripoff, except they were in a band with the lamest songs possible. There was a lot of synthesizer/keyboard in those songs as I recall.

I very vaguely remember that show, but your description immediately makes me think of what I'm guessing was Australia's equivalent of California Dreams: bloody Pugwall.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 23:56

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Palpatine MD posted:

The Netherlands were a breeding ground for the terrible "Happy Hardcore" rave music genre in the 90s. Just listen to this poo poo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DCdm2MYi5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fqGfXEnWI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvkYaldSd0&ob=av3e

Also we spawned the illusive "Gabber", an avant-garde combination of American white trash and British Chavs, who would shave their heads and only wear track suits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1aZq3axgg

I suspect the Gabber still lives on in small numbers even today. Terrible in every way, but ironically enjoyable.

You can't really post this without also linking Hakkuhbar's Gabbertje.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2012 23:29

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Athenry posted:

That video. That video is the 90s.

The rebellious GENERATION X (or is that Y?) undertone says it all. I love the fact that the dance track makes the whole thing sound like something from the demoscene (another quintessentially '90s thing).

# ¿ Mar 30, 2012 11:30

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El Estrago Bonito posted:

The single most important demoscene video ever made:
http://youtu.be/XtCW-axRJV8

All done by hand in MSDOS, this predates Quake by about a year.

State of the Art is the better exemplar of '90s camp, though.

Incidentally, considering that Second Reality came out in 1993, it predates Quake by close to three years.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2012 12:07

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Opera Bitch posted:

You forgot to include th music video for that song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojsLDYr7RY&feature=fvst

Let's not forget about the barely explicable (though nevertheless amusing - at the time, anyway) parody courtesy of Chris Rock.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2012 20:44

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TShields posted:

This thread has almost made me think that I'm the only person on the planet who still remembers "Eek the Cat". I used to love that loving show for some reason..

You're not the only one, and you used to love it because it was (is) really funny and cool.

Anyway, did anyone mention the following yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A

Everyone remembers Barbie Girl, of course (there was no escaping it whatsoever), but not everyone might be aware that it begat a big-hit parody by Ome Henk - the Dutch "Weird Al" Yankovic, if you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMIkZMkvgmU

# ¿ Apr 11, 2012 20:30

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madlilnerd posted:

There must have been something before that because I have an early memory seared in my brain, pre-pokemon, of a tiny bit of anime.

I'm not sure what the situation was in the UK, precisely, but on the continent at least, there'd been some anime series on TV prior to the big wave of VHS tapes that Manga Video put out around 1993 or so. For example, I remember being on holiday in the Ardennes (I believe in 1989) and seeing broadcasts of Captain Tsubasa au fran�ais. However, I don't believe there was much of an awareness of anime as a major phenomenon until said wave, which probably appealed to few others than (pre-)teen boys who were awfully impressed by all the sci-fi, ultra-violence, and sex. The real breakthrough - in the Netherlands at least - didn't come until the end of the '90s, when less objectionable TV-series, aimed at (exploiting) a younger and less mono-gendered audience, made their arrival.

# ¿ May 5, 2012 23:47

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Nerminator posted:

Love Connection on steroids:

STUDS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJ-RQbDPaM

The word "stud" itself (as a descriptive term for a good-looking man) conjures up vivid '90s imagery in my mind. Do people in the States still use it? How about "hunk"?

# ¿ May 17, 2012 22:35

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I posted:

My Two Dads was an '80s show, though.

# ¿ May 19, 2012 11:36

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All this talk about MTV and strange cartoons put me in mind of those completely surreal Bill Plympton shorts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfgmuPa4uA

He even did a game (if you can call it that) for Win95!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdHzYye5OvE

# ¿ May 27, 2012 19:24

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Let's pay tribute to two more lost '90s phenomena. First up: exotic, cosmopolitan New Age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPK88PA8aE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zJ0yVSSvE

Secondly: unintelligible black rappers from the Commonwealth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tZxmUa2zro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twgArtVqMlM

# ¿ Jun 4, 2012 21:36

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Scroto Baggins posted:

Such bullshit that James Bond was his uncle.

Never understood why he was called James Bond Jr. when James Bond was supposed to be his uncle. Unless Bond had a brother who was also named James, but that seems a little far-fetched even for a '90s cartoon series like this one.

Tewratomeh posted:

Anyway, did anybody else have either one of these?:

'SAYS "RAP"' is surely one of the funniest things ever to be printed on a toy's box.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2012 19:49

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Metal Loaf posted:

This book was (...) was poo poo.

It's a Kevin J. Anderson book, so that goes without saying.

Avshalom posted:

Let's Play: Computer Classes (in 1997!)

Back in my final year or two of primary school (this was '93, '94) we didn't have computer class as such, but there was a computer room and from time to time we'd get to use the already elderly 386s there. A few proper games were actually installed at some point, including the excellent Pinball Fantasies and the ever-addictive Micro Machines (dreadful key mappings, though).

Somehow I never really got to play the actual edutainment games, even though I wanted to. There was one in particular that seemed genuinely cool to me, but I never tried it - until I decided on a whim to find it again a few years ago, and incredibly enough I managed to find it without even knowing the title: Thuis In Het Milieu. Sadly, by that time I had become too disillusioned and contrarian to be particularly sensitive to its environmentally-conscious persuasions. Also it's not much fun to play a game that's all about doing household chores when you're an adult.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2013 21:39

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bobkatt013 posted:

One of the greatest television moments ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c

My early '90s, preadolescent education on drugs consisted of that scene and this C.O.P.S. episode (actually from the late '80s, but I didn't see it until '91-ish). This moment in particular was burned into my memory for years.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 20:21

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KING EGG posted:

Just as I get to the end of this thread, this movie comes on TV.

I only saw Demolition Man for the first time a few years ago, and I'm thankful for it because there is not a doubt in my mind that I could not have appreciated this film anywhere near as much if I had seen it in the '90s. The same applies to Last Action Hero, which - if memory serves - was widely panned when it came out. Somehow these two films are better and more sincere parodies of late '80s and early '90s action camp than anything made for that purpose today.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2013 20:20

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Tyson Tomko posted:

That gum was cool, but I remember begging my Mom to buy this for me at the grocery store...and usually I was successful!

Oh lord, I suddenly remembered the existence of Fido Dido. For about a year in 1990 or 1991, Fido Dido and Fido Dido merchandise - and, along with it, 7Up - were hot poo poo if you were still in primary/elementary school (at least where I lived).

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 16:34

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beato posted:

Also did someone mention 90s novelty songs?

Nothing quite like that brief moment in time when novelty hardcore/gabber tracks were in vogue hereabouts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC0B7bQf12Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz4HfJHxMk4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1aZq3axgg

Those were the, uh, days. Maybe.

# ¿ Apr 6, 2015 15:03

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