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Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


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Polybius91
Jun 4, 2012

Cobrastan is not a real country.

Gridlocked posted:

Holy poo poo is that Journey Man Project?
Hell yeah it is.

The Repo Man
Jul 31, 2013

I Remember...

Gridlocked posted:

Holy poo poo is that Journey Man Project?



It was one of the first games I played on our BRAND NEW PACKARD-BELL WINDOWS 95 COMPATIBLE PC!!! It's also the first time I used a non DOS based system. It was new and exciting. I still have the computer, and would like to get it running since it's the easiest way to get games like Resident Evil 1 and a poo poo ton of old DOS games to work. Got a Sound Blaster Pro and a Voodoo 3 in there.

Poor Miserable Gurgi
Dec 29, 2006

He's a wisecracker!

Pierson posted:

Was there really a period of time where Vanilla Ice was considered cool enough and well-known enough to headline a movie? What possible performance gave people that impression? I'm really asking.

Cool enough to warrant a movie with a director of photography that would do Schindler's List two years later.

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009


Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Behold: cutscenes from a 1995 Star Wars PC game with cheaper CGI than an episode of Babylon 5. Fun stuff.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

The Repo Man posted:

It was one of the first games I played on our BRAND NEW PACKARD-BELL WINDOWS 95 COMPATIBLE PC!!! It's also the first time I used a non DOS based system. It was new and exciting. I still have the computer, and would like to get it running since it's the easiest way to get games like Resident Evil 1 and a poo poo ton of old DOS games to work. Got a Sound Blaster Pro and a Voodoo 3 in there.

A Packard-Bell PC with Windows 95 was our first family computer. I spent probably way too much of my childhood playing Hover, trying & failing to beat Journeyman Project Turbo, and messing around with MIDI Orchestrator. :unsmith:

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
All eight of these videos. They're strangely hypnotic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P1IPc1-LGI

Lotron
Aug 15, 2006

Still clownin'
Ze most 90's

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!


Had this posted outside my door when I was like, 11. Oh my god, I was a hipster all along! :aaaaa:

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!



Every goddamn video game magazine from Electronic Gaming Monthly to Game Pro to Nintendo Power ran this contest every other year, upgrading the systems as new ones came out. Even as a teenager, I thought it was all a bullshit scam because no one has ever come forward saying, "Yep, I won ~~The Ultimate Gaming Rig!!©™~~ back then :smug:"

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You Are A Werewolf has a new favorite as of 02:59 on Dec 19, 2014

Rap Game Goku
Apr 2, 2008

Word to your moms, I came to drop spirit bombs


You Are A Elf posted:



Every goddamn video game magazine from Electronic Gaming Monthly to Game Pro to Nintendo Power ran this contest every other year, upgrading the systems as new ones came out. Even as a teenager, I thought it was all a bullshit scam because no one has ever come forward saying, "Yep, I won ~~The Ultimate Gaming Rig!!©™~~ back then :smug:"

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Apparently someone's still doing this. I wonder how often they have to change their name/move.

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


You Are A Elf posted:



Every goddamn video game magazine from Electronic Gaming Monthly to Game Pro to Nintendo Power ran this contest every other year, upgrading the systems as new ones came out. Even as a teenager, I thought it was all a bullshit scam because no one has ever come forward saying, "Yep, I won ~~The Ultimate Gaming Rig!!©™~~ back then :smug:"

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I was just thinking about this today. I wanted that loving poo poo so bad.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!



Jedi Knight was 1997. Dark Forces was 1995. :goonsay:

mikerock
Oct 29, 2005









Untasid
Jul 8, 2008
Ace of Base....this song actually sounds a lot like some stuff Lady Gaga came out with recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INi7srItF6g

JEEVES420
Feb 16, 2005

The world is a mess... and I just need to rule it

When that came out I remember thinking how real everything looked.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

The Ultimate Gaming Rig isn't an outright "they don't send out the prizes," scam, but it's pretty close.

Jastiger
Oct 11, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

You Are A Elf posted:



Every goddamn video game magazine from Electronic Gaming Monthly to Game Pro to Nintendo Power ran this contest every other year, upgrading the systems as new ones came out. Even as a teenager, I thought it was all a bullshit scam because no one has ever come forward saying, "Yep, I won ~~The Ultimate Gaming Rig!!©™~~ back then :smug:"

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Wait this was a scam!?

I remember thinking it was the coolest thing and I would TOTALLY win all of that if only I was allowed to send in money to random ads i saw in magazines.

I was not. Truly, my parents stole from me the most ULTIMATE GAMING RIG.

Honestly how could they run that thing year after year? Its such an obvious scam.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Jastiger posted:

Wait this was a scam!?

I remember thinking it was the coolest thing and I would TOTALLY win all of that if only I was allowed to send in money to random ads i saw in magazines.

I was not. Truly, my parents stole from me the most ULTIMATE GAMING RIG.

Honestly how could they run that thing year after year? Its such an obvious scam.
Check out the post above yours.

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

KiteAuraan posted:

Jedi Knight was 1997. Dark Forces was 1995. :goonsay:

My mistake.

Come to think of it, I'm fairly sure the cut-scenes for that game are actually the only time yellow and orange lightsabers were ever seen in an "official" live-action production. They had a purple lightsaber (which was also double-bladed, except its blades were parallel to each other :kickinrad:) about five years before Samuel L. Jackson demanded he get one in Episode II.

Joe Friday
Oct 16, 2007

Just the facts, ma'am.
Pure Moods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s

Nutsngum
Oct 9, 2004

I don't think it's nice, you laughing.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The Ultimate Gaming Rig isn't an outright "they don't send out the prizes," scam, but it's pretty close.

I reckon that considering the two guys who posted in the comments only got money after basically demanding for months, and then not the full amount, lands it square in scam territory.

I do remember similar ads here in Australia but I wonder if they might have been legit competitions here.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Nutsngum posted:

I reckon that considering the two guys who posted in the comments only got money after basically demanding for months, and then not the full amount, lands it square in scam territory.

I do remember similar ads here in Australia but I wonder if they might have been legit competitions here.

HAAHHAH you think those Channel 10 Video Hits ads to fax through entries to win a sweet rear end Playstation with Crash Bandicoot were real?

I sure did and by golly did I abuse my parents fax machine ($5 per fax) like 50 times in one weekend completely sure that I would win and when my parents got the bill I would claim "No need to buy me a Christmas Present!" I didn't win, and the bill came and they lost their poo poo seeing the charges but tried to dial the fax number and it didnt work - so I was off the hook :D

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Speaking of Crash Bandicoot...

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule



That is loving amazing!

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
I was born in 1991, so I need to ask, was there really a time when Bart Simpson was the edgiest character on the telly?

B.H. Facials
May 9, 2011

"Getting teased is part of growing up. It's no big deal. Just tell yourself, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but a .44 Magnum will tear that bully a new asshole!'"

Yes. I distinctly remember saying, "That sucks!" was controversial.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

B.H. Facials posted:

Yes. I distinctly remember saying, "That sucks!" was controversial.
Pretty crazy to see how much America's morals have declined because of the damage Clinton did.

lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

B.H. Facials posted:

Yes. I distinctly remember saying, "That sucks!" was controversial.

My 4th grade teacher banned all "-uck" words from class because of this. So naturally we incorporated truck, duck , luck , puck, tuck as much as we could.

Creature
Mar 9, 2009

We've already seen a dead horse

B.H. Facials posted:

Yes. I distinctly remember saying, "That sucks!" was controversial.

My mum didn't let me watch The Simpsons for a few years after I started saying things 'sucked'. That cartoon was a terrible influence.

cobalt impurity
Apr 23, 2010

I hope he didn't care about that pizza.
Bart Simpson was quickly outshined by Beavis & Butthead. The Simpsons was something my whole family got together and watched, as were other "outrageous" shows like Married... With Children, but Beavis & Butthead was apparently so vile and without merit in my mother's eyes that she banned my brother and I from watching it for years.

And then like 5 years later South Park came along and suddenly "fartknocker" wasn't such a foul term...

Wheat Loaf
Feb 13, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
My mum wouldn't let me watch Johnny Bravo because it once had the word "sexy" in it and she thought that was inappropriate.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together

Creature posted:

My mum didn't let me watch The Simpsons for a few years after I started saying things 'sucked'. That cartoon was a terrible influence.

Gotta go, my drat wiener kids are listening

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

In Living Color is another one of those shows that pushed a lot of boundaries at the time but is pretty drat tame by today's standards. It also had the best/most 90s intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-EKx4XNxE

Rolo
Nov 16, 2005

Hmm, what have we here?

cobalt impurity posted:

Bart Simpson was quickly outshined by Beavis & Butthead. The Simpsons was something my whole family got together and watched, as were other "outrageous" shows like Married... With Children, but Beavis & Butthead was apparently so vile and without merit in my mother's eyes that she banned my brother and I from watching it for years.

And then like 5 years later South Park came along and suddenly "fartknocker" wasn't such a foul term...

The only 5 seconds my mother ever saw of South Park was Stan telling his parents to kiss his rear end. There went that.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

Rolo posted:

The only 5 seconds my mother ever saw of South Park was Stan telling his parents to kiss his rear end. There went that.

The only five seconds my mother ever saw of South Park was the "Finger Bang" song at the end of one of the early season episodes. Upon seeing a bunch of kids singing "I wanna finger bang bang you every night, girl you like to finger bang and that's alright", the game was up.

Davfff
Oct 27, 2008
jeese, apparently my parents were cooler than I thought, never had an issue with South Park.

I do remember when The Simpsons first started here in New Zealand that it was on at 9:30PM, after Married... With Children on a Saturday night.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Davfff posted:

jeese, apparently my parents were cooler than I thought, never had an issue with South Park.

I do remember when The Simpsons first started here in New Zealand that it was on at 9:30PM, after Married... With Children on a Saturday night.

The Simpsons was on Sunday night at 8.

I asked my parents if I could watch South Park because there was a big fuss about it when it first came out. They watched the first episode and said no. Years later it occurred to me that I should actually watch the first episode. I had no chance.

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Davfff
Oct 27, 2008

Butt Wizard posted:

The Simpsons was on Sunday night at 8.

I asked my parents if I could watch South Park because there was a big fuss about it when it first came out. They watched the first episode and said no. Years later it occurred to me that I should actually watch the first episode. I had no chance.

really? how did you remember that?

and how did I get it so wrong actually don't answer that second one.

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