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Handsome Ralph posted:Someone found a training video for Sega of America game Testers. It's 90's as gently caress. So many people smoking. What do you do on your breaks? I smoke. Need to use a computer? Head on over to the designated computer area and use one of the shared computers.
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chitoryu12 posted:I remember when some of the earlier Playstation Magazine demo discs also had weird Japanese games that never got a translation. One was a minigame collection based around being a restaurant chef, and it was all in Japanese so I had to try and figure out each game's controls and rules on the spot as an elementary schooler. There's an American spiritual successor called Cook, Serve, Delicious! http://www.cookservedelicious.com/main/
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InediblePenguin posted:otoh if it's 3am you better have a card on you bc gas stations often have pay-at-the-pump even when the shop is closed -- "all I have is cash and I can't find a station with someone actually working to take my cash" has been more often a problem for me than "i have no cash and the card reader is down" I once saw a gas pump with a bill acceptor built in. It said it would take a $50. I remember my mom making sure I had quarters to use a pay phone. I usually spent them on snacks in a vending machine. Coins being enough to buy something worthwhile in a vending machine, that's obsolete.
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May 12, 2018 15:05
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I was in northern Virginia a while ago, and they had lanes that have the change baskets / ez-pass, and the other lanes have cashiers. I thought the ez-pass lane would be faster, but no it's the "cut you off and then rummage around for coins while you wait line". I can't wait for everything to be converted to the full-speed gantries. I drove to college once and then immediately got an EZ pass, screw paying cash. Just seeing that I had one convinced my parents it was OK for them to get one too.
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May 12, 2018 19:23
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Mr.Radar posted:This was posted in the PYF Obsolete and Failed Technology thread but I think it belong here more: I was in an elevator or something that was playing Lily Was Here, and it was driving me nuts trying to think of where I knew that song from. It's on this CD, they play the main riff when the 1-800 number comes up on screen. Had some perfect sync up on our nostalgia cycles.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Courtesy of the early FPS thread: quote:Did you get the disk?
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Sep 20, 2018 16:56
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I make pan pizza at home. It satisfies my cravings for Pizza Hut, without having to taint my perceptions of the real Pizza Hut.
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Oct 9, 2018 15:58
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FilthyImp posted:How do you get the signature crunchy crispy crust? Mostly from oil in the pan. If it comes out of the oven and needs more crisp, you can put it on the stovetop.
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Oct 9, 2018 17:07
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Did anyone ever use DWANGO? I remember it being included on the Doom/Heretic installs, but never used it. I wasn't allowed to tie up the phone line when I was a kid, nor did I have the money to pay for a subscription like that.
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The first time I made a pizza in my cast iron pan, I realized why it was called a personal pan pizza. It's made in a pan, and it's personal sized. It's what I remember pizza hut being like, and I don't have to spoil any memories by going there and being disappointed.
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Dec 19, 2019 21:55
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Neito posted:You know what was super 90s that nobody remembers? Those cars with the motorized seatbelt buckles on a track near the door. There were like three or four years where that was the coolest poo poo ever, and then you never saw it again. The government required either those or airbags. Guess what was cheaper?
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Feb 5, 2020 15:32
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FilthyImp posted:I could see them being a headache with the mechanism breaking and whatnot. And I imagine the attach point wasn't as strong as just baking it into the pillar. I'm surprised that cars have external antennas at all, since embedding them in the window is a thing now. Seems like car antennas changed to the short nub, or the in-window kind around 2000. And with them, antenna toppers disappeared:  These look fancier than I remember. They were mostly just a ping pong or tennis ball on the end.
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TITANKISSER69 posted:All this talk about computer desks & cabinets made me think of this photo: I just realized I have that chair.
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I don't remember my elementary school fundraisers having prizes. I did some kind of reading thing sponsored by world book encyclopedia though. If everyone in the class read enough, we would get a set of encyclopedias for the classroom, and individual prizes. I got an eraser shaped like a shoe. It was nice because one of the cool kids in class had a shoe eraser before, so having one made me cool as well. I don't know if parents were throwing cash at this behind the scenes, or if WB was feeling the heat from computers and the internet. Mu Zeta posted:We had to sell lovely magazines and got these as a prize In high school I must have done the same, but I also got a stopwatch because I sold an sub to ESPN magazine.
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Jun 10, 2020 19:34
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Did Penn always have a Ponytail? I guess on this scale, Teller is the only cool one, which isn't exactly wrong.
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Yeah, I also had Sega Visions and my sub was changed to Gamepro. When we upgraded to a Playstation, we started the Playstation Underground. My Dad, Brother and I had our collective minds blown when we got the first issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIoOZuoGd8 It goes straight into MST3k, and then some interviews about Net Yaroze homebrew and upcoming games like Gran Turismo. Then they had demos of Japan only releases. And the whole second disk with more demos and trailers. It was such a different and unexpected experience. MST3K is pretty 90's on its own, but the whole thing is great:  The type and border around the black square are great.  I feel like "frozen thing" was pretty popular then too. There's a synopsis of all the issues here: https://www.giantbomb.com/playstation-underground/3015-993/
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I remember as a kid having a special ice cream at christmas time. It came in the normal ice cream box, but you were supposed to slice it, instead of scooping. The middle was green, mint flavored, nad in the shape of a christmas tree, and the outside was white and vanilla flavored. There were candies of some kind (m&ms maybe) to look like ornaments. It was also kind of cool that you ate it on a plate instead of in a bowl, so it felt like a lot of ice cream. I haven't seen it since the 90s. I don't think I've seen ice cream come in a box like that, instead of a tub, since the 90s. Trabant posted:^ exactly! It's being served in glasses. Meant for booze. My Mom got some dessert glasses like that and was pretty excited to show them off and uses them for any dessert that fits. It's not just TV, those glasses are cool IRL.
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You can't see the custom cursor or hear the midi soundtrack. It seems to be missing the custom status bar message scrolling, along with the "Hover over this to temporarily hide the scroller" and "Click here for a different scroller message" links.
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Jan 15, 2021 17:32
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Those juice packs look like the "popsicles" they had at my school cafeteria. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same juice inside and one is served frozen and the other thawed.
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Feb 8, 2021 14:07
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Trabant posted:FYI about Pringles: if you're ever in a market where they offer them, paprika Pringles are wonderful. In my experience limited to Yuropland, but they might have them elsewhere too. Not just pringles, any paprika chips are great.
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Feb 11, 2021 23:07
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, because we don't deserve them.
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Looks like SimCity TCG is available in Tabletop Simulator https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=341692129 I kind of want to try it out. Rules are here: https://web.archive.org/web/20001002025603/http://www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/wisco/simcity/simdetai.htm
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:Sim ant loving owned and I would love to play it again. https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimAnt_-_The_Electronic_Ant_Colony_1991
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Aug 5, 2021 20:48
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The carving station guy shows up in this subway video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW3-gwCQK6o&t=423s
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mlnhd posted:I was always disappointed when I saw markers like that. Usually when they diverge from the typical crayola markings, it’s because they had some extra gimmick. My set came in this red plastic suitcase. Seems like everything came in suitcases:  I had a vinyl case sort of like that, I remember the plastic trays. But more importantly my great-grandma knitted a case with plastic canvas.
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AAA triptik was the thing we used through the 90s. Preprinted pages bound into a comb bound booklet. Then a highlighter and stamps to show the route and known construction projects along the way. You can get a PDF simulation of the booklet on their site.
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You mean the non-smoking section of the Perkins. You had to walk through the smoking section to get there.
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All the (now unmanned) security desks at my old work had the glass top and monitor mount underneath. I assume they had camera feeds shown on there. The ergonomics of that must have been awful, you can't see what's in front of you while looking at the screen. They had moved all security operations to a central office at some point. The control panels were still in place, so they could post a guard for special events or something.
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90s Solo Cup posted:What can be more 90s than 90s mall store decor? I know this list is selecting for the wild designs, but I'm impressed at how bold and complicated the designs are. In the 90's even the K-Mart had some neon lights on the wall, and Walmart had the smileys up around. The GTE Contact Center reminded me of an office I worked in that was last remodeled in the 90s. I feel like most stores today have minimal design. They have some shelves and racks and they might be nice shelves but that's it. However, Stew Leonard's has their animatronic funscape. I can think of one Banana Republic that has this train station design to it, but their other stores don't have much design interest. Wegman's has the fake streetscape in the Cafe/Bakery/Deli section of their flagship stores, but most have the "is brown" aesthetic. Maybe I'm just too old to appreciate some of the design?
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https://archive.org/details/nickelodeonmagazine
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Dad I hit a home run tonight to win the game. Call me later. gently caress they had a target demo for this poo poo.
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I hope that the company who made all the paper vendors made literally anything else. And not cigarette vendors.
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What monorail line is it connected to?
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Looks like they used the "modern" aesthetic items from the sims. Is this Will Wright's house?
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