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The classic Disney intro

https://youtu.be/ayRlrAtnmlY?si=fLZwMZIAhLOJGwIk

Playing Pokemon Blue by the light of passing street lamps on family road trips.

The Toy Story figures at Burger King.

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Being blissfully ignorant of just how utterly fucked everything is.

Arcades at every mall.

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Reading Nintendo Power. In fact that's how I learned to read.

I also remember various game and system launches, and TV show debuts.

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Hayame_Zero posted...

Reading Nintendo Power. In fact that's how I learned to read.

I also remember various game and system launches, and TV show debuts.

I remember Nintendo Power. Do you remember Tips and Tricks magazine?

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burns112233 posted...

I remember Nintendo Power. Do you remember Tips and Tricks magazine?

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I don't think I had too many Tips and Tricks. My magazines weren't just NP, I also subscribed to GamePro, EGM, Official PlayStation Magazine, and PSM.

Tips and Tricks plus EGM best mags.

Sometimes you just needed all those sweet codes, that was my cheat planet before cheat planet was my gamefaqs

PS1 magazines that came with demo discs.

Payphones.

huffys
vortex footballs
lil huggies drinks
are you afraid of the dark

Nerf guns and super soakers

Renting games from Blockbuster/Hollywood Video

Playing outside after school/on the weekend

Going to the public library to look up codes on this site.

Saturday morning cartoon blocks

Watching Pokemon in the mornings before school
Watching Saturday morning cartoons
Playstation Underground Discs (97 to 2001)

Seeing Lion King in theaters and then getting the soundtrack on cassette tape on the way home.

Hologram/holograph colors on a lot of things (toys, bookmarks, just random stuff).

Goosebumps books

"Adult"-style programming for kids on Nickelodeon (AYATD, Hidden Temple, All That and other shows that typically never had a kid version before)

Also I remember some crazy awesome toy shop in a mall in Southern California that looked like the set of a sci-fi show or something, but that's probably just a false memory. It had a platform you could stand on and spin yourself on. There was also a VR arcade (probably a different mall) where you would put on a VR headset and walk on a treadmill to navigate, that was ahead of its time. I don't remember the game being any good though.

Things had vibrant color still.

Watching music videos on MTv (I got hooked on that Madonna song, Speed of Light or something like that).

The big band and swing revival movement.

https://youtu.be/boEZHYsreFU?si=p78Fn82VJys8tiB3

Braves on TBS

They are my favorite team, so sometimes during the summer they would play a noon game, so I would watch the price is right, then fool around for an hour, then get to watch a Braves game at noon

People were running in the 90s.

https://youtu.be/aDOuFnZnPMs?si=xtx5S5JlH11GSkUX

- Walking/riding/skating to the malls and arcades.
- Street Hockey between 7-9:00 pm
- Hackey-sacking out side of school while some of us were waiting for our rides (I biked to and from so when they all left, so did I. At times I would leave my bike still tied up and just hitch a ride with my friends.)
- Dodgeball, Crab Dodgeball (cutthroat battles that test your friendship)
- Six-Flags/Hurricane Harbor, with the ridiculous Super Soaker water guns.
- Renting games at BlockBuster on a Friday afternoon with the family after eating at a busy restaurant.
- Fighting a lot against the other elementary school kids at the city parks after hours (from 3rd to the 5th grade before moving to another city campus).
- Ding Dong ditching, and prank calling random numbers.
- Diss battles/YoMomma jokes in class while the teacher was out/in the bus on field trips/during lunch where nobody took it seriously.
- Waking up very early in the summers to Deliver the paper, or help my dad or uncles out with fixing their cars or tagging along to their jobsites and hand them tools and mats.
- Detention, lots of detention for talking back, insubordination, and laughing.
- My first kiss.
- Christmas presents. Tons and tons of them.
- Going hunting with my dad.
- My stabbing in my right upper front thigh during the the fourth grade.
- Sneaking into my uncle's shop to joyride his atvs and dirt bikes.

I was a baaaaaad yet a very fortunate kid, but at least I was active.

Vicious_Dios posted...

- Walking/riding/skating to the malls and arcades.
- Street Hockey between 7-9:00 pm
- Hackey-sacking out side of school while some of us were waiting for our rides (I biked to and from so when they all left, so did I. At times I would leave my bike still tied up and just hitch a ride with my friends.)
- Dodgeball, Crab Dodgeball (cutthroat battles that test your friendship)
- Six-Flags/Hurricane Harbor, with the ridiculous Super Soaker water guns.
- Renting games at BlockBuster on a Friday afternoon with the family after eating at a busy restaurant.
- Fighting a lot against the other elementary school kids at the city parks after hours (from 3rd to the 5th grade before moving to another city campus).
- Ding Dong ditching, and prank calling random numbers.
- Diss battles/YoMomma jokes in class while the teacher was out/in the bus on field trips/during lunch where nobody took it seriously.
- Waking up very early in the summers to Deliver the paper, or help my dad or uncles out with fixing their cars or tagging along to their jobsites and hand them tools and mats.
- Detention, lots of detention for talking back, insubordination, and laughing.
- My first kiss.
- Christmas presents. Tons and tons of them.
- Going hunting with my dad.
- My stabbing in my right upper front thigh during the the fourth grade.
- Sneaking into my uncle's shop to joyride his atvs and dirt bikes.

I was a baaaaaad yet a very fortunate kid, but at least I was active.

This reads like My dad will sue your dad. behavior.

Um... ok?

Vicious_Dios posted...

Um... ok?

Sorry, I just had a few at my school who got bailed out anytime they did something baaaad and were spoiled nonstop (see: very fortunate). They instigated other kids frequently and their parents always pulled strings to get them out of trouble.

Having real friends

Being the exact right age (16) when grunge hit

LonelyStoner posted...

Sorry, I just had a few at my school who got bailed out anytime they did something baaaad and were spoiled nonstop (see: very fortunate). They instigated other kids frequently and their parents always pulled strings to get them out of trouble.

Oh hell no, my parents absolutely punished me for all of my wrong-doings and mischief but sometimes you just HAD to risk it for the bisque.

Vicious_Dios posted...

Oh hell no, my parents absolutely punished me for all of my wrong-doings and mischief but sometimes you just HAD to risk it for the bisque.

Nice play on words there lol

Kick off internet when the phone rang.

TV Guide (the published books). It was all pre-programmed!

Doing the macarena at school assembly in elementary.

Oh and that big ass YellowPages phone book being a thing

Super Mario 64 being mind blowing to play the first time.

Playing flashlight tag and running through people's property at night and not getting shot.

When the guy at school who had the GamePro or EGM subscription would bring in the new edition and we would all gather around or take turns reading it.

Going to any mall and immediately finding the arcade.

SNES being a great console for side scrolling beat em ups. There seemed to be a new one out all thr time.

Going to the video rental place and seeing what was new and interesting.

Ninja turtles. I still have all of my action figures from the 90s.

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Best chips I ever had and to this day I still miss them, lol.

InTheEyesOfFire posted...

PS1 magazines that came with demo discs.

I got the Pizza Hut PS1 demo and one disc introduced me to Metal Gear Solid. I'm glad it did.

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Mad-Dogg posted...

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Best chips I ever had and to this day I still miss them, lol.

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Heineken14 posted...

Payphones.

https://youtu.be/7JtHWm_cYsA?si=SyDsjhmaUogpADb1

I still remember my mom going "why do you want me to get Chex so bad? You don't even eat it!"

The reason:

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The main one really was how small and immediate the world felt.

You go outside. You either have the folks around to hang out with or not. You interacted with the same folks or not every day. You spent a lot of time just outside, alone. Or inside, alone as a result.

I can distinctly remember dog days in the summer when families liked to vacation. All your friends would be a away at or around the same times. You would just go outside in the sweltering heat and ride your bike down the seemingly kid-deserted streets. It was surreal and felt like time was cold, the only thing frozen despite the relentless sun.

You eventually make it back home. It's late but the sun goes down after dark. You can't retreat to the internet. You might have cable in your room or you share a TV with the family. So it is back to whatever crud licensed SNES game, maybe They're Back!, your silly grandma dropped 80 bucks on for your birthday because you like dinosaurs. Shower and bed not long after just to do it all again tomorrow.

ablegator posted...

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Ah yeah I miss them also.

People walking everywhere. Very common to pass multiple ppl walking to and from the store.

Edit: also the racism. I grew up in very racist area, despite it being pretty diverse.

The horrible exhaust smell from a lot of cars. You still had a decent amount of cars from the 70s and 80s around and a lot of them smelled terrible because of the lack of modern emission standards.

Street hockey.

I can't remember the last time I saw kids outside playing hockey.

I remember being super confused about why the baseball players stopped playing in the middle of the season. That was my introduction to labor disputes.

El_Marsh posted...

I remember being super confused about why the baseball players stopped playing in the middle of the season. That was my introduction to labor disputes.

The baseball strike was a big deal. It is hard to describe now to folks but it was a legit big deal. Baseball has never really recovered from it.