God I miss the 90s

[oakraiderz2]

I love it when 20-somethings talk about the good old days.

We're getting old...:rockon:

 

[Master Bates]

I love it when 20-somethings talk about the good old days.

I have vivid memories from two decades ago, and things were incredibly different back then. It's not like I'm a kid anymore.

 

[Ken785]

The 90's were good but the 80's were even better.

I would have LOVED to live in the 80s...well since i was born in 83 i did but to be a teen in the 80s must have been awesome...and that was when music was actually music!!! I loved watching "The Goonies" and listening to the Cyndi Lauper song...i think it was called "Good Enough"...that song is awesome.

 

[Ken785]

Alright, if nobodys going to say it...im going to say it.... early-mid 90s MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS!! IM THE GREEN RANGER B!TCHES!

 

[Ken785]

Even if you like modern video games more, you have to admit no fighting game will ever top Mortal Kombat II or Street Fighter.

you forgot the lord of all fighting games KILLER INSTINCT.

 

[Master Bates]

I was never a fan of the fighting game genre, with all the "memorize super-long combinations of buttons to pull off a move" nonsense, but I liked 16-bit fighting games more, before the era of ridiculous combos and sh1t. Oh man I'm getting all nostalgic for my SNES now.

 

[meitenesrigas]

Nothing more annoying than seeing spoiled suburban kids worshipping a boring sissy like Kurt Cobain. Sorry if I don't shed a tear for spoiled suburban American brats. The 90's killed America. Emo is just grunge with makeup.

 

[MikeYikes122]

I love it when 20-somethings talk about the good old days.

I love it when I make 40-somethings feel old. :yawn:

 

[MikeYikes122]

Emo is just grunge with makeup.

Not really. If you remember, literally the week before Smells Like Teen Spirit hit the charts, Michael Jackson and hair bands like Poison dominated the mainstream. Things weren't the same after Nirvana hit. Nirvana and all those other grunge bands ushered out the corniness and bad musicianship that were all those glam rock bands.

Emo and pop punk are more akin to the hair metal and all those forgettable 80s bands that were in the mainstream before Nirvana hit. There's no comparison at all between emo and grunge. Could you ever see a Soundgarden song or a Pearl Jam song playing during an episode of Laguna Beach or O.C.?

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

I love it when I make 40-somethings feel old. :yawn:

When you do let us know, so far you've only been amusing us like a puppy chasing his tail. :yawn:

 

[DJDamage]

I remember being a kid in the 80's and growing up as a teenager in the 90's those were the good times. Here's a good joke that applies to these times:

"Back in 1988

When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up. What with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average. Despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it But....Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so firkin easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned Utopia! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet-we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves!

And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen!-- and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the firkin' mailbox and it would take like a week to get there

And there were no MP3s or music sharing websites, You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself! Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and fvck it all up!

You want to hear about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! It was either that or jack off to the lingerie section of the JC Penney catalog! Those were your options!

We didn't have fancy sh1t like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

And we didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed!

And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on and there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning... ...D'ya hear what the hell I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1988! "

 

[meitenesrigas]

Um Boy bands started in the late 80s early 90s dude, and I happen to like their music quite a bit. DO you realize the early 00s punk groups are actually just the boy band reaction to male teenagers. They are the exact same thing but for males. Its called Punk Pop. It happens to be good also. I think alot of guys just had massive insecurity issues where the BSB and NSYNC were pulling HUGE amounts of pvssy, alot more than any DJ will probably ever see.

I think the crappy part of the 90s was Alternative rock, and late 90s gangster Rap. Also Nirvana (who's sound completely sucked)

Some other good stuff to come out of the 90s (Commercialized Rave Music, ala Robert Miles and Paul Van Dyk) , Terminator 2, Batman, Episode 1

The 80s definitely has to be the golden age for all things music, movies, style toys and video games. I remember pumping quarters into Galaxian, Space Invaders, Battlezone and Pacman all day long at the arcade... oh and especially that Star Wars game where you sat inside the ****pit. Arcades were also 'The Place to go' after school which continued into the mid part of the 90s where the ps1 began to takeover the scene. The toys were also some of the best, I mean probably every person with at least one friend on here owned star wars guys, GIJOEs, M.U.S.C.L.E.S, Transformers, Go Bots, Star Trek, Battle Star Galactica, Micro Machines, He-Man (the slime castle), Hot Wheels, Dungeons & Dragons, Comic Books, War Hammer 40k, Green Army Men, RC Cars, Care Bears or that strange pencil case that was all compartmentalized and had buttons on it that would shoot out little drawers..

Notable toys of the 90s: Bucky O Hare.

Boy Bands have been around since at least the 50's. Probably earlier than that. The Jackson 5 were probably the most famous Boy Band of all time. That was the 70's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgObIx5bihQ

Here is some REALLY old school Boy Band action. This dude defines smooth. Good looking and masculine. Not like any of these sissy boy rappers or pop stars that are out there now. Ricky Nelson and the Four Preps! Like all Boy Bands one of the members took off and the rest were never heard from again. Ricky Nelson was one of the smoothest entertainers ever. He had that special something that you rarely see. And don't tell me that he wouldn't or couldn't be a huge hit these days. These were the days when America was tops! I would have LOVED to have lived through this period. Now America is best viewed from a distance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv49idP_OfU

 

[MikeYikes122]

When you do let us know, so far you've only been amusing us like a puppy chasing his tail. :yawn:

Damn man if you don't like the thread then don't read it.

 

[Deep Dish]

I was born in the 1970's and THAT, my friends, was the decade to be alive... the decade of disco... even if I was born in the last few days.

 

[JackBauer24]

X-Files was on, though I didn't start watching it until I caught re-runs on TNT a couple years ago. What surprises me is it doesn't look outdated at all except for the first few seasons.

 

[Ever onward]

Great thread,

The music was WAY better. The list goes on and on. Nirvana, Green Day (in their prime), Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Everclear, SemiSonic, Third Eye Blind, Stone Temple Pilots, Silverchair, Beastie Boys, Porno for Pyros, Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, The Verve Pipe, Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM. Even hippity hop was good with hits from Bone Thugz and Harmony, Boys II Men, and Kaci and JoJo. Rap was the best it will ever be with hits like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog's 'Nuthin but a G' Thing'.

The movies were GREAT. Terminator 2, Tommy Boy, Happy Gilmore, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Jurassic Park, Face Off, Independence Day, Armageddon, The Waterboy, Dazed and Confused, American Pie, The Cable Guy, Dumb and Dumber, Men In Black, Ace Ventura, Trespass, Assassins, The Scream Trilogy, True Lies, End of Days, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Crow, As Good as it Gets, Twister, The Matrix, Son-in-Law, Encino Man.

Video games were awesome! The early 90s still had arcades worth going to and people hung out there. I remember people would line up to TRY to beat me on Street Fighter 2 and no one could knock me off the machine. The home games were great too. Super Mario World, Tetris, Zelda a Link to the Past, Final Fantasy 2 & 3, Sonic The Hedgehog, Goldeneye, Super Mario 64, Duke Nukem, Super Star Wars, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, NBA Jam, Donkey Kong Country, Mortal Kombat 2 (with blood!), The X-Men Arcade Machine (6 player!), Resident Evil 1, Bubsy.

How about those tv shows! Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Cosby Show, Blossom, Beverly Hills 90210, Party of Five, Saturday Night live (with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Farley ect), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tiny Toons, The Tick, Spiderman, Batman the animated series, Animaniacs, My So Called Life, Sliders, The Young Indiana Jones Series, The Wonder Years, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Quantum Leap, Macguyver,

Those were the days...

 

[Master Bates]

Did you just list Encino Man as an example of why the 90s were better?

 

[reset]

And there were no MP3s or music sharing websites, You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

:crackup:



Yeah, we had it so hard.

 

[Ever onward]

Did you just list Encino Man as an example of why the 90s were better?

Yep

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Damn man if you don't like the thread then don't read it.

Aw grow up.