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A more obscure song reference, but I kept the long dead trend GOEing, dammit.
Anywys, I was thinking of how ridiculously old and crab Rastilin is and I decided to bring this up -
I want you all to post a rant about the good old days, your good old days. Young people, post about power rangers or Pokemon. Just something about your good ol days, and what made them awesome. Then sulk over your age, and the fact that you will be to old to enjoy anything in a few decades.
i miss how nintendo was awesome and unparalleled and dominated video gaming. i miss how every kid loved ninja turtles no matter who they were.
i miss how a dollar could buy you a :skull::skull::skull::skull:load of candy and riding your bike was fast as hell, and an hour seemed like a helluvalong time
i miss how every summer seemed so long too, and i miss not measuring time in decades. i miss the fact that kids had to be smart or they were held back a grade.
The only thing I miss is Jurassic Park and Pogs.
I miss the days when Pokemon didn't look totally gay. I mean, I know it's hard to design 150 of them each time, but seriously, it won't hurt to make more of them look cool!
I moved into my college dorm today. I prettymuch miss everything about my childhood.
Childhood is overrated.
whoever said youth is wasted on the young isn't having enough fun being an adult...'tis true.
I don't miss Jurassic Park because I watched it recently, but yes to pogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
I had an asston of pogs.
omgosh, pogs. xD Man, I remember those, those were great.
And tamagotchis in middle school... <3
I bought one of those recently.
It wasn't as fun as I remembered so I gave it to my sister.
A facebook friend has this in her profile. ;_; Oh memories.
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We are the kids of the 90’s. The kids who are still terrified of ET, and still excited when they see a My Little Pony or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Who still sometimes treat themselves to Capri Sun’s or Lunchables. We said, if you like it so much why don't you marry it!? We are the kids who know every character from Saved By the Bell and can sing the entire theme song to the Fresh Prince. We used to wake up and run to the only TV in our house to see Eureka’s Castle or Fraggle Rock. Snap bracelets, Skip-it's, curly shoe laces, side pony's, crimped hair, recess! We remember when our first computer weighed more than we did and had a solid black screen and yellow type. The first Gameboy was a genius technological invention to us and playing it was usually saved for car rides only since 90’s cartoons were far more interesting and we still had Nintendo. We grew up with Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone 1 and 2. We crushed on Uncle Jesse. We idolized Donna, Kelly, and Brenda on 90210 if our parents allowed us to tune in on Wednesday nights. We got in trouble in school for wearing Bonne Bell lipstick…AND for having Tamagotcis hidden in our desks. Talk to the hand! We hosted nightly rounds of Ghost in the Graveyard and Freeze Tag with our neighborhood friends. Knew every passage way through every backyard on our block, just incase our neighborhood bully would pull up on his bike, with his Mohawk hair, just to put worms in ours. We lived through the technological revolution… we were the last of the innocent youth. We are the junk generation.
I miss the days when Nickelodeon was actually good and Nick-at-Nite ran 50s and 60s shows a lot. I loved All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and watching I Love Lucy and Munsters marathons during the summer. Now that I think about it, I used to watch a lot of tv as a kid :p
My late 1980s childhood toys I only had one doll, TAKARA barbie and some plastic beach shovel and pail.
My 1990s consisted of watching out for the Jetsons-- and Yogi bear, also getting hungry at the thought of what's inside yogi's picnic basket.
And boo. I never had tamagotchi.
I just watched ET with my kids and it was hard to explain to them what was so special about it...
I feel old :(
I was born the year ET came out. :love:
Hell yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rengori
Pokemon will never be "old days".
I miss watching SM:TV Live religiously every Saturday morning (9.25 on a Saturday, don't be a jiggly puff, ah yeah~). The days when girls idolised Barbie, not a slutty Bratz doll, and lads wanted to be Action man. The days when you'd play with a tamagotchi, a gameboy colour! and furbies. When Nintendo > all.
Im not even 'old'; I just loved the 90s.
I loved Pogs so much. That odd brown furry guy that was on all the pogs was so cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
Thank you. Of course, not all of this is true for all of us, but yeah. I remember a lot of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jojee
As for Pokémon and pogs: What I want to know is how did Pokémon last and pogs die within a week? Pokémon was the annoying fad and pogs were one of the best things in the '90s. I spent years telling people Pokémon was just a fad and would never last while hanging on to my binder full of pogs insisting they would come back. They will. They're just too cool not to. I still have that binder.
And Josta. Josta ruled. I recently found some other people who remembered it. If you liked Josta, you loved it, if you didn't, you never heard of it. It lasted for about a month. Then in the early aughts when Code Red came out, I tried it and said, "This will go the route of Josta," and now it's more popular than regular Mountain Dew.
Kids today don't even know who Nirvana is. Nirvana! It's playing on the Wal-Mart PA system as muzak.
And the only Ninja Turtles that matter are the original cartoon series from the '80s and the cartoon movie made from the first five episodes.
I could just keep going on and on, but I don't want this post to be so long no one will read it. Let's just end in this:
I'm only 27, but damn, do I feel old.
I still have my pog maker somewhere.
Kenan and Kel!Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco Potato
Oh god, Fraggle Rock!
Orange soda srsly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergeant HartmanKenan and Kel!Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco Potato
Isn't Raistlin like 19 years old? That's hardly old.
You want old?
What's the deal with technology nowadays? You new fangled kids and your 'photo realism' and you computer rendered garbage.
When I was 3 years old my dad took a picture of me and him together and put it in a computer, and printed it out. It was a dot matrix printer so it was wicked sweet. A series of discrete dots formed close enough together, with sufficient dots of varying sizes create the optical illusion of recognizable form.
Now you just look and see realism. FOR SHAME.
I'm sure it has to do with the fact that Pokemon not only had the best damn Gameboy game pretty much ever, but also the amount of marketing it did too. And it seems to have experienced a revival with the new game, because a lot of people my age remember how fun it was and it's a little nostalgic for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Ceej
I don't know what kids you're talking about because everyone knows who Nirvana is.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Ceej
Untrue, but it would be nice if it were. Nirvana was horrible. Kurt Cobain could not sing to save his life. Heh, that works better than I thought it would.Quote:
Kids today don't even know who Nirvana is. Nirvana! It's playing on the Wal-Mart PA system as muzak.
I have a huge bag of pogs and slammers, still. Probably somewhere close to 200 of the former and 20-30 of the latter. They are awesome. I have one shapped like a sawblade.
I miss Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers of the old days. When they weren't this new aged garbage. I also miss Transformers and Voltron. I miss when the Disney Channel was absolutely, 100% commercial free. I miss the days before an "all Cartoon Network". I miss games that put more into difficulty and story rather than graphics and ad campaigns. I miss being carefree and careless.
The Killers are boo.
so far i miss almost everything everyone said so far.
but things i miss/remember are side scrolling video games (megeman, metroid ect.). good old tv shows on Nick. dinosaurs the show. crossfire if anyone remembers that game. pogs of course as mentioned i still have my binder full of them.
Nintendo is still the greatest in my book infact not long ago i played some old NES games. and i play my super nintendo jsut about everyday working on the metroid speed run of mine.
my old toys. Z bots if anyone knows what they are. my old transformers. grimlock sits in my room still. legos are still cool in my book i jsut dont have time to play with them too busy posting on final fantasy forums :p
I miss watching my slinky go down some stairs and being so totally entertained by it.
I miss the mid-90s when the music being hailed as "new music" on the "popular" radio stations was actually GOOD.
I miss the heyday of the Super NES. I miss the days when Nintendo ruled the world of video games. I keep wishing people would make new games for the SNES or N64. Those systems were the best ever created, with some of the best video games ever made being made for those systems. (All the rest of the best ever made were made for NES or Game Boy. obviously.)
I miss the days when the Simpsons wasn't running out of ideas and becoming completely ridiculous.
I miss Eiffel 65.
And lastly, I miss the days when my local (about 45 minutes away but the best close one) ski resort was more about the skiing than commercialism and condos.
Oh slinkyyyy... and gak! Anyone remember Gak?Quote:
Originally Posted by LunarWeaver
I miss when Lego was more do-it-yourself than all these different series like "Harry Potter", "Bionicles", etc...I bought my Lego by the buckets.
Als tat Ich.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan
The Power Rangers were my imaginary friends :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
Gak was rad. I was totally amazed when I couldn't punch a hole through it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JojeeOh slinkyyyy... and gak! Anyone remember Gak?Quote:
Originally Posted by LunarWeaver
In New Zealand Pogs were rare. I had a tube of them from England, but most kids had Glow Caps which were Pogs with glow paint on them or Tazos which were plastic Pogs with interlocking grooves around the edges. These are the newer Glow Caps, which I never collected. The older ones were so much cooler. I had a bunch of glow slammers too.
I miss yoyos, trading basketball cards, chatter rings, Oddbodz, the original Funfax with all the detective stuff and I miss building dinosaurs with those weekly magazines that came with one piece of a dinosaur skeleton that I tried so hard to convince my parents to let me buy. And I totally miss my Dr. Dread edible chemistry set. :p
Alien Autopsy
Oh, the alien theme reminds me: Alf.
When I said kids today don't know who Nirvana is, I was getting it from a reliable source. My brother is a high school teacher and none of his students know who Nirvana is. None of them now. None of then when he was student teaching. He was surprised. He told me and I was just as surprised. How could kids today not know who Nirvana is? Apparently they don't. And the fact that it's muzak at your local Wal-Mart pretty much seals the deal.
But yeah. Gak made a farting noise when you stuck your finger in it. That was back when you were young enough to think a farting noise was funny.
Anyone remember You Can't Do That On Television? When I was a kid, I thought that was a great show. However, recently on reading some websites, apparently a lot of people thought it was great when they were kids, then had their childhood memories ruined for them by seeing it as an adult. Kind of like what happened to me with The Super Mario Brothers Super Show. I should have just kept my memories. Never should have bought that DVD.
And one final thought in this post:
'80s music will never be oldies. If '80s music were going to be oldies, it would have been oldies by now.
Where on God's green earth do you live where people don't know who Nirvana is?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Ceej
I think I figured it out. You're reading me wrong. I didn't say people don't know who Nirvana is. I said the kids don't know who they are. Because the kids are too young to remember them. Which makes me feel old because I remember when they were popular and it doesn't seem like that long ago. But think about it. That was fifteen years ago. Well...almost. Now I really feel old. Using phrases like "fifteen years ago."Quote:
Originally Posted by Rengori
I'm 14, kids are people to me. Like I said, I don't know where you are but everyone here knows who Nirvana is.Quote:
Originally Posted by The CeejI think I figured it out. You're reading me wrong. I didn't say people don't know who Nirvana is. I said the kids don't know who they are. Because the kids are too young to remember them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rengori
Tons of highschoolers know about Nirvana here, and they wont shut up about them either. I hate them.
I remember when All That! was on tv. And how all the shows on Nick were like game shows. My entire childhood I wanted to be on Legends of the Hidden Temple, but when I got old enough to possibly go to it they canceled it.
I remember singing the my little pony theme everytime it came on. I collectedd the my little ponies :P. And when the first power rangers, and the movie, were the best of the series.
I feel old now and I'm only 17. I hate you Bip.
At this point I have two options:
1. Turn this thread into a thread about Nirvana
Or
2. Just let it go and stay on topic.
Hmmm....
Anyone remember the movie Killer Klowns From Outer Space? That movie was funny in a way that I don't believe many movies ever tried to follow. Completely straight while the humor is in the ridicularity of the plot.
People are buying record players now because they have more "feeling" in the music? Hell, I had a record player when I was a kid. I know how a record sounds. Scratchy. I have one now, but only to play the records I still have from when I was a kid.
All For Leyna by Billy Joel and Died In Your Arms Tonight by The Cutting Crew start with the same tune played by different instruments. Don't believe me?Download themBuy the albums. They even came out the same year, so who copied whom?
I linked that segment to a whole post about that I wrote on another forum last year. It's a lot more appropriate than getting into it here. I remember when kids' songs actually were kids' songs. Now they're just remakes of popular songs of the day sung by kids.
Remember when they used to rerelease the classic Disney movies every seven years in the theaters? Now all they do is release a sequel or remake of said movies.
Yeah. The '80s and '90s. That was a time when there was actually stuff worth watching on TV. Now television is crammed with all these reality shows. I know there were a few before it, but if it weren't for that piece of crap, Survivor, television producers wouldn't have realized that they can pay pennies to get crap on the air and people would watch it almost as much as if they paid a decent amount for a quality show that may or may not succeed.
Anyone remember those hollow half-balls? You know. The ones you turn inside out and set on the table. Then you wait a few minutes and it jumps off the table. What were those called?
Well. I could go on, but I'll just come back later with more.
EDIT: I confronted my brother when he came home from work. It turns out he just told me that so I'd repeat it and make an ass out of myself. He denies he ever said it. I know he did because I don't know any other highschool teachers. Now he's telling me that kids today don't know who Alanis Morrissette is. I'm not going to fall for it this time.