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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jun 21, 2011 23:44:46 GMT -5
I missed out on a lot of more 'modern' pop culture ('modern' being mid-'80s onward) due to the 90s being DEBILFILLED...so when he died, I knew who Leslie Nielsen was, while both my roommate and best friend gave me blank looks. Maybe they're just weird though.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Jun 21, 2011 23:57:55 GMT -5
Does anyone else remember staying up late on Fridays to watch Headbanger's Ball? *wistful sigh*
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jun 22, 2011 0:01:10 GMT -5
I hate admitting this, but I was a huge Spice Girls fan back in the day. Tsh. I am a proud Spice Girl fan.
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Jun 22, 2011 0:07:01 GMT -5
I remember in middle school, my math teacher had these really old 80's computers with floppy disk games, and if we all made good grades we got to play the floppy disk games. Oregon Trail much?
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jun 22, 2011 1:09:39 GMT -5
You have died of dysentery.
The crappy thing is that my school only had the first disk for the game, so if you got to the "insert disk 2" point, you couldn't go any further. I didn't get to play the game all the way through until a few years ago, when I found it online.
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Post by rookie on Jun 22, 2011 9:05:18 GMT -5
You have died of dysentery. The crappy thing is that my school only had the first disk for the game, so if you got to the "insert disk 2" point, you couldn't go any further. I didn't get to play the game all the way through until a few years ago, when I found it online. Damn Canukacommies. We only had TIs with the cartridge you had to slide/slam in.
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Post by Jebediah on Jun 22, 2011 9:45:34 GMT -5
I hate admitting this, but I was a huge Spice Girls fan back in the day. I'm still a fan of the Spice Girls.
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Post by Hades on Jun 22, 2011 10:03:09 GMT -5
I remember in middle school, my math teacher had these really old 80's computers with floppy disk games, and if we all made good grades we got to play the floppy disk games. Oregon Trail much? Oh man, those bulky Mac computers with the black and green screen and huge floppy disks. I played Oregon Trail a bit, but my favorite was Number Crunchers. Which I find odd now, because I hate math.
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Post by nickiknack on Jun 22, 2011 11:12:09 GMT -5
Does anyone else remember staying up late on Fridays to watch Headbanger's Ball? *wistful sigh*Headbanger's ball was one of my older brothers' shows back in the day...
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Post by Bezron on Jun 22, 2011 12:34:38 GMT -5
You have died of dysentery. The crappy thing is that my school only had the first disk for the game, so if you got to the "insert disk 2" point, you couldn't go any further. I didn't get to play the game all the way through until a few years ago, when I found it online. Yo skool so poor, you only gots one Oregon Trail disk!
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jun 22, 2011 14:05:32 GMT -5
Oh man, those bulky Mac computers with the black and green screen and huge floppy disks. I played Oregon Trail a bit, but my favorite was Number Crunchers. Which I find odd now, because I hate math. Ah yes, the ones that, as I recall, didn't even have any hard drive space, and had to have one of those giant old floppy disks inserted to do anything. And then there was the one colour computer, which everyone always fought over. In my junior high, the actual computer room had upgraded iMacs (these ones: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg/220px-IMac_Bondi_Blue.jpg), which was a huge point of pride for the teachers at the time. However, the dirty little secret was that we only had those old Apples with the tiny little screens in the library (kinda like this: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Macintosh_Classic_2.jpg although I can't remember the exact models). I also remember there being some math game on the elementary school computers, where you had to solve equations in order to kill the aliens or something like that, and similar spelling games. And if we're doing nostalgia: And then your mom picked up the phone, and you got disconnected.
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Post by tgrwulf on Jun 22, 2011 14:20:48 GMT -5
Oh man, been a while since I thought about dialup. I even remember when my family first got a computer with internet, lol. I'm 23 and I only didn't get like 2 of these. I still remember using floppys and I miss Surge. The Taco Bell dog one made me sad. Also, 29- Holy crap! Seriously? Also, not a single reference to blowing into N64 cartridges? Does anyone else remember staying up late on Fridays to watch Headbanger's Ball? *wistful sigh*You mean back when Headbanger's Ball actually played good music and not crappy Nu Metal half the time?
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jun 22, 2011 14:24:03 GMT -5
About the original list, I note that grown-up Pepsi girl looks a lot like one of my friends.
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Post by shadowpanther on Jun 22, 2011 14:44:46 GMT -5
Deus Ex was 11 years ago in 4 days. Doesn't mean as much to me as it could have since I only got it 5 years ago.
Wait, 5 years? That is actually longer than I thought.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Jun 22, 2011 15:16:21 GMT -5
Now I'm remembering this game we had in the library of my primary school, that looking back is one of the strangest concepts for an educational game I've ever heard. I can't remember the title (although I think it was based off of A Tale of Two Cities), but I remember the concept revolved around collecting census data from a small town and the surrounding rural area. Since we could only play during our lunch "hour" (it was actually 40 minutes) nobody ever got more than one level, and you had to complete the first three in order to advance to the next lot. The first three levels I remember involve driving a car around a suburb going to random houses, fighting your way though The Front Yard of Hell to some anti-government guy's house and then convincing him to fill out the form via a dialogue tree and flying a helicopter around a desert getting data from whoever lives out there. I'm rather baffled that anyone ever decided to make a census data collection simulator, but there you go.
I'd sure love to play it again for nostalgia purposes.
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