Missing 90's thread

[Guest Lady Luck]

man i missed 1994-1998 where ciggaretes cheap ,Levis Fashion still have one of them skinny female jeans, music created by the singer originally , internet doesn't exist back then just newspaper , whenever i want a walkthrough i had to buy magazines , that's when i started my dream to be a video game journalist back in 98 when i know that job is pain on the ass even when you speak the truth back then ninentendo power always had that one troll " hey why don't the game haz lazurs " lmaoo well not specially spelled like that but u get the meaning.

 

i think this thread should be enjoyed to all of you without argument share your thoughts what you missed on 90's beside video games .

[AgentChicken]

I missed the good music and TV Shows. Now days we got stupid shows like Geordie shore and Some artists that can get famous by not understanding a single word he is saying or having the artist say the word "Baby" over and over and over again.

 

What ever happend to the days where artists acutally had to Do something entertaining and have a song that actually appealed to the public. Old music like songs from Johnny cash, Duran Duran, Nirvana, Vanilla ice and many other will easily beat any type of music today. MTV use to be a Awesome channel to listen and watch music videos and now its filled with people cosplaying as carrots

 

Fresh Prince of Bel air anyone?

[Guest Lady Luck]

I missed the good music and TV Shows. Now days we got stupid shows like Geordie shore and Some artists that can get famous by not understanding a single word he is saying or having the artist say the word "Baby" over and over and over again.

 

What ever happend to the days where artists acutally had to Do something entertaining and have a song that actually appealed to the public. Old music like songs from Johnny cash' date=' Duran Duran, Nirvana, Vanilla ice and many other will easily beat any type of music today. MTV use to be a Awesome channel to listen and watch music videos and now its filled with people cosplaying as carrots

 

Fresh Prince of Bel air anyone?

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LOL , this is best comment i heard in a while " duran duran " who can't not miss that band XD.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Come on guys, who cares about what happens today or what happens tomorrow. You've got to believe it will be all right in the end.

[Guest Lady Luck]

Come on guys' date=' who cares about what happens today or what happens tomorrow. You've got to believe it will be all right in the end.

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true but you know thinking about the past is fun , the future just sucks really.

[CanShield]

Married with Children

 

I enjoyed that show, Alf, Fraggle rock just to name a few. " yes some before the 90's.

[Guest Lady Luck]

wait how about brady bunch thats another good one

[Queen Bee]

Come on guys' date=' who cares about what happens today or what happens tomorrow. You've got to believe it will be all right in the end.

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true but you know thinking about the past is fun , the future just sucks really.

 

I've noticed a general air of nostalgia across the board in the US. It started in the early 2000s, with those pre-faded shirts boasting Thundercats or TMNT logos, as if the 13 year old wearing them grew up with the thing and was a die hard fan. A lot of recent movies are based on 80s cartoons or TV shows (Transformers, The Smurfs, Miami Vice, 21 Jump Street, The A Team), and a lot of popular modern games utilize a retro feel (Hotline Miami, Bit.Trip Void, Minecraft). Even modern music, normally the voice of the current generation, leans heavily toward the nostalgic (number one on the charts is Bruno Mars' Locked Out of Heaven, which sounds so much like The Police I had to check to make sure Sting hadn't reformed the band). Add to that the tendency toward retro critiquing (AVGN, The Nostalgia Critic). It's like we as a nation are constantly looking back, yearning for what we consider better times and searching for answers as to how it all went so horribly wrong.

 

I'm not saying everything from today sucks. The Internet is far more versatile and prevalent, not to mention a thousand times faster. We have some impressive technology that the 80s and 90s didn't, with the ability to carry an entire library in your backpack or purse and access to GPS so as to never get lost. We have some great video games and movies. Music isn't all bad, with some noteworthy entries both on and off the pop charts. But trust me, I in no way exaggerate when I say things are definitely worse than they used to be. Looking back, I could list a thousand things the 90s had that today doesn't. Cheaper gas, better job market, better schools, better TV, better politics, better music.

 

I know I sound like the proverbial old lady shouting at the teenagers how "It was so much better back in my day!" And maybe there is a bit of that, I have to admit. We do tend to gloss over the bad in our memories and cling to the good. But we normally do that when things are bad in the present, and I just think it's interesting how much we're doing that these days. It has to come from somewhere, after all.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Come on guys' date=' who cares about what happens today or what happens tomorrow. You've got to believe it will be all right in the end.

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true but you know thinking about the past is fun , the future just sucks really.

 

Awh man... did nobody see what I did there?

 

I've noticed a general air of nostalgia across the board in the US. It started in the early 2000s' date=' with those pre-faded shirts boasting Thundercats or TMNT logos, as if the 13 year old wearing them grew up with the thing and was a die hard fan. A lot of recent movies are based on 80s cartoons or TV shows (Transformers, The Smurfs, Miami Vice, 21 Jump Street, The A Team), and a lot of popular modern games utilize a retro feel (Hotline Miami, Bit.Trip Void, Minecraft). Even modern music, normally the voice of the current generation, leans heavily toward the nostalgic (number one on the charts is Bruno Mars' [i']Locked Out of Heaven[/i], which sounds so much like The Police I had to check to make sure Sting hadn't reformed the band). Add to that the tendency toward retro critiquing (AVGN, The Nostalgia Critic). It's like we as a nation are constantly looking back, yearning for what we consider better times and searching for answers as to how it all went so horribly wrong.

 

I'm not saying everything from today sucks. The Internet is far more versatile and prevalent, not to mention a thousand times faster. We have some impressive technology that the 80s and 90s didn't, with the ability to carry an entire library in your backpack or purse and access to GPS so as to never get lost. We have some great video games and movies. Music isn't all bad, with some noteworthy entries both on and off the pop charts. But trust me, I in no way exaggerate when I say things are definitely worse than they used to be. Looking back, I could list a thousand things the 90s had that today doesn't. Cheaper gas, better job market, better schools, better TV, better politics, better music.

 

I know I sound like the proverbial old lady shouting at the teenagers how "It was so much better back in my day!" And maybe there is a bit of that, I have to admit. We do tend to gloss over the bad in our memories and cling to the good. But we normally do that when things are bad in the present, and I just think it's interesting how much we're doing that these days. It has to come from somewhere, after all.

 

I've looked up this "phenomenon" and apparently it is a pretty common occurrence throughout history. It's almost something of a human trait. The Romans looked back to a time of Republicanism, the successor states all looked back to Rome as did pretty much everybody else in the middle ages, Victorian England seemed to think things were better in the seventeen hundreds, hell, even in the 1900's (including both wars and between) people thought things were better before, though in those particular years I can't say I blame them.

 

Hell, I'm only 25 and I pretty much hate eveyrthing about today. I hate touchpads. I hate, HATE touchscreens, and these PDA like devices they now call phones. The music REALLY sucks. The world is actually, not figuratively, not philosophically, not make believe... going to shit. We're destroying our ecosystems, fish reserves, spawning fanatics and nuts of every colour, creed and religion. The state is crumbling, our economies are failing, our rights and liberties being eroded...

 

And I'm 25! This is just going to get worse... "damn kids with their music" ...

[Guest Lady Luck]

Come on guys' date=' who cares about what happens today or what happens tomorrow. You've got to believe it will be all right in the end.

[/quote']

 

true but you know thinking about the past is fun , the future just sucks really.

 

Awh man... did nobody see what I did there?

 

I've noticed a general air of nostalgia across the board in the US. It started in the early 2000s' date=' with those pre-faded shirts boasting Thundercats or TMNT logos, as if the 13 year old wearing them grew up with the thing and was a die hard fan. A lot of recent movies are based on 80s cartoons or TV shows (Transformers, The Smurfs, Miami Vice, 21 Jump Street, The A Team), and a lot of popular modern games utilize a retro feel (Hotline Miami, Bit.Trip Void, Minecraft). Even modern music, normally the voice of the current generation, leans heavily toward the nostalgic (number one on the charts is Bruno Mars' [i']Locked Out of Heaven[/i], which sounds so much like The Police I had to check to make sure Sting hadn't reformed the band). Add to that the tendency toward retro critiquing (AVGN, The Nostalgia Critic). It's like we as a nation are constantly looking back, yearning for what we consider better times and searching for answers as to how it all went so horribly wrong.

 

I'm not saying everything from today sucks. The Internet is far more versatile and prevalent, not to mention a thousand times faster. We have some impressive technology that the 80s and 90s didn't, with the ability to carry an entire library in your backpack or purse and access to GPS so as to never get lost. We have some great video games and movies. Music isn't all bad, with some noteworthy entries both on and off the pop charts. But trust me, I in no way exaggerate when I say things are definitely worse than they used to be. Looking back, I could list a thousand things the 90s had that today doesn't. Cheaper gas, better job market, better schools, better TV, better politics, better music.

 

I know I sound like the proverbial old lady shouting at the teenagers how "It was so much better back in my day!" And maybe there is a bit of that, I have to admit. We do tend to gloss over the bad in our memories and cling to the good. But we normally do that when things are bad in the present, and I just think it's interesting how much we're doing that these days. It has to come from somewhere, after all.

 

I've looked up this "phenomenon" and apparently it is a pretty common occurrence throughout history. It's almost something of a human trait. The Romans looked back to a time of Republicanism, the successor states all looked back to Rome as did pretty much everybody else in the middle ages, Victorian England seemed to think things were better in the seventeen hundreds, hell, even in the 1900's (including both wars and between) people thought things were better before, though in those particular years I can't say I blame them.

 

Hell, I'm only 25 and I pretty much hate eveyrthing about today. I hate touchpads. I hate, HATE touchscreens, and these PDA like devices they now call phones. The music REALLY sucks. The world is actually, not figuratively, not philosophically, not make believe... going to shit. We're destroying our ecosystems, fish reserves, spawning fanatics and nuts of every colour, creed and religion. The state is crumbling, our economies are failing, our rights and liberties being eroded...

 

And I'm 25! This is just going to get worse... "damn kids with their music" ...

 

 

lol wait till you get 27 years old and everything you hear is shit shit shit.

[El Sparrow]

I miss only having a single digit in my age. Also BBS RPGs. I wonder if BBS's still exist out there? Probably not... Repton was good too, on the BBC Micron from Acorn... didn't even have a hard drive, and I was blonde for some reason... probably genetic reasons.

Also Ocean Colour Scene! <3

[CanShield]

If everyone person today believed that everything would work out to be ok in the end nothing would get done. No magical event will take place to resolve the current status of the world we reside in.

 

Nostalgia is mere a reflection of a moment be it, an image of a TV show with positive emotions to a smell or sound.

 

The past reflects neither better, or worse circumstances just a different way in which how social; and mechanical functions changed.

[El Sparrow]

I... don't think anyone thinks nostaligia is a miracle solution for current events. It's just nice to remember things. For one thing, I'd miss all my appointments if I never remembered anything.

[Captain Cobra]

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[Tasha69]

as for music, 80's/90's mostly all I care for. Annoys me when some kid talks about ACDC/Pantera/Nirvana/etc. being "old stuff".

 

Technology wise, I'd rather go without all the friggin ipods, iphones, i this, i that...blah blah blah blah fuckin blah. Back then we had something far more entertaining... it was called "A Life".

 

I gave up completely on TV, takes 2 hours to watch a 1 hour movie with all the commercials... and even then, it's edited and cut for time so they can cram even more commercials in...

 

So I went to Netflix... but even they're getting annoying by cancelling/not renewing leases on all my favorite older shows (like SG1 for instance)... and the media wonders why we all resort to more... "illegitimate" means like bittorrent to download our favorite shows/movies instead...

 

Gas prices? when I was in highschool, I had a 87 Chevy Sprint Turbo for a run around car. (more or less a souped up geo metro/suzuki swift), 40+ mpg, could run all week on $5.

Now It takes $5 just to run a weedeater for 10 minutes...

[Queen Bee]

"I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was. Suddenly what I was with wasn't "it", and what was "it" seemed weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you..."

 

-Abraham Simpson, The Simpsons

 

Edit: Though I will say, today's stuff isn't weird and scary to me. If anything, it seems bland and boring by comparison. Say what you will about living in the past, we had shock rock that scared the piss out of old people. These days, I look at what kids call shock and say "D'aw, they're trying to be scary! Ain't they just so pweshus?"

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

The only things I really miss from then are the cartoons of Steven Spielberg (fuck you, things like Freakzoid! were awesome) and Batman: The Animated Series. You know, the awesome one that was before the shit of the New Adventures, then became The New Batman/Superman Adventures.

 

Fuck that art style.

[Queen Bee]

I miss traditional 2D hand drawn cell shaded animated movies and shows. CGI cartoons have fully taken over, and while I love them, it's still sad to see a great artform die. Oh well, at least stop motion is still going strong.

[Guest Lady Luck]

The only things I really miss from then are the cartoons of Steven Spielberg (fuck you' date=' things like Freakzoid! were awesome) and Batman: The Animated Series. You know, the awesome one that was before the shit of the New Adventures, then became The New Batman/Superman Adventures.

 

Fuck that art style.

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lol i still have freakzoid full vhs season that i record when i was a kid XD i stole my older brother vhs player and boy he was mad XDDd...

but it was worth it , like every sunday when show aired i always watch it on my room and i hit record button, lol i remember mistakes i did was supposed to skip that stupid tampon commercial but i skipped to the end and i cried XD. lmao funny moment...

 

ahhh the 90's how i miss you with all that wonderful memories.

[Tasha69]

Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, etc. Those are cartoons... not this anime/manga shit...=P

[Queen Bee]

Hey, I grew up on anime, I just didn't know it at the time. Adventures in Mapletown, Belle and Sebastian, The Adventures of the Little Koala, The Noozles and The Little Prince were all anime, and I didn't know it until I was older. Then when I "discovered" anime in the 90s it was Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon, and my friends and I would get together and hold our own Anime Saturdays where we'd make Ramen noodles and watch various shows we'd somehow gotten our hands on. Remember, this was before the Internet, so what we could get was usually bootlegged or recorded off late night HBO.

 

As for modern Anime, the market is so saturated with it I completely lost interest. Unless it's Studio Ghibli or porn. Mostly porn.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Ah, I remember The Little Prince from when I was a child... such fond memories!

 

I grew up with the dying art of Disney's classic animation. Anybody who has seen Beauty and the Beast or other movies knows what I'm talking about. The scene right at the beginning is just so beautifully drawn, with the castle and the stained glass telling of the fable at the beginning.

 

After that it was mostly Dragon Ball Z, Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken and Johnny Bravo, and now we have today's animation, which is good... but just a different kind of good.

[Guest Lady Luck]

You all are Young' date=' and I'm too old to post from my time sense this is about the 90's, I grew up on Wile E Coyote and the Roadrunner. Mickey Mouse (toward the end of black and white). Dialup Bulletin Board Services. The 90's are when things really took off.

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aahahahaha no matter how old you are still u experienced 90's what these generations didn't know 1994-1998 the best year that new kids didn't have .

 

you kidding me my grandma introduce me to first raw copy on mickey mouse i think that classic rowboat episode back in 95 when i passed my high school man that was awesome i still have few of them it was rare i wonder if i sell that copy how much it was worth.

[Remy]

Ah' date=' I remember The Little Prince from when I was a child... such fond memories!

 

I grew up with the dying art of Disney's classic animation. Anybody who has seen Beauty and the Beast or other movies knows what I'm talking about. The scene right at the beginning is just so beautifully drawn, with the castle and the stained glass telling of the fable at the beginning.

 

After that it was mostly Dragon Ball Z, Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken and Johnny Bravo, and now we have today's animation, which is good... but just a different kind of good.

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Same here, those were some days...lets not forget the chipmunks, tom&jerry (the classic old ones)!!!

Hell even now when i see the good old looney toons on tv, i always run to watch that show...but only the old ones...those were just awesome

 

Then i see the new cartoons like duck rogers or w/e is it called...it doesnt even come close the the old cartoons.

[Queen Bee]

I loved Rescue Rangers (Gadget was simultaneously an inspiration and a weird girlhood crush), Tailspin, Aladdin, Gargoyles... Pretty much the entire Disney Afternoon. I also miss Saturday morning cartoons. With these 24 hour cartoon channels, kids are missing out on how magical Saturdays used to feel.