The nostalgia thread or "Do you remember?" or All things old.
 

The obscure old tv thread got me going on a nostalgic timewarp so, I created this thread to talk about everyting and anything from your past.

Ok, here's the rules.

Post a little something about something that you remember from back in the day. It could be a favorite toy, like jack in the box, or tv show like thundercats, or even a song that you haven't heard in a while but you used to enjoy when you were in a simpler time.
It could even be a memory of something you used to enjoy doing when you were a kid, like climbing my apple tree when I was younger.

I'm expecting this thread to vary signifigantly in the content as it reflects people of many ages.

Just post something that you used to enjoy before the stress of robotics and more importantly (gasp), "the real world", got it's grip on you!

I'll start off.

Does anyone remember that toy car called the "animal"? It had tiger claws that came out of it's tires when it got stuck or it was trying to go aover an obstacle, more often than not at my house, a pile of books. It was the coolest thing, and I don't see it around anymore. :( They should put that back on the market.

Re: The nostalgia thread or "Do you remember?" or All things old.
 

Haha. I had one of those...well, actually, I still have it :) I was going to find it and take a picture of it, but it is most likely lodged away in my basement. It was wicked...but insanely loud.

Anybody remember Crash Test Dummies? Maybe they still make them. I used to have the big crash arena thing...the crash car, the motorcyle, and about 5 guys. Actually, I still have those, too :)

Ah yes, the Crash Test Dummies. The only Public Service Annoucement to become part of a marketing blitz. Test Track reminds me of those good ole days.

Anyone remeber Fun House on TV and the computer game?

anyone remember when every show on Nickelodeon was good? like "Round House" and "Clarissa Explains it All" and "Hey Dude".
also...remember the G.I. Joe cartoon series? that was the best.

http://www.yojoe.com/
THE best GI Joe site, ever! ;)

Kiloblaster and Jill of the Jungle. Old School computer games, ran them on my dad's $3000 486, from the command prompt and all, as a 4 or 5 year old. Now those were some good computer games... :p

Lemmings is the best old school computer game. I remember playing that at computer camp and getting so far and having a notebook full of passwords to the next level.

Wow. 486's are old-school? Bah. *pets commodore 64* Man...when I got that pack of games meant for the big Sega arcade systems, I was so happy. I had a teenage mutant ninja turtle game...I loved it :)

Who here remembers Duck Hunt?

Old?

What about Dave?

shrug...
/me goes back to webcast


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Dude, FUn House!! lol My dad used to make fun of the announcer when he announced the prizes "Gitano and Gitano Jeans." lol Remember the obstacle, "The Pressure Cooker"?

Another thing I recall from my past is what was a tradition when I went to one of my friends house every week. Do you remebr the genesis video game "Shaq Fu"? That was an awesome game, and the only fighting game I actually once knew all the secret codes for for special moves.

Also, Does anyone remember Lazer Tag??? I had the Gun and the vest, my cousin had the Helmet with the sensor on top and I think a gun too.
Yay to lazer tag!!!

Thank Goodness for places like laser quest on the Berlin Turnpike now to keep me in the game.

...the days when robots were tether-operated...

Now in all fairness, I personally can't say I remember that, so my earliest FIRST memory would have to be when robot-tipping (or "flipping") was legal.

I remember when Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario had competing cartoons. How about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Classic cartoonage (if that's even a word).

What about the Double Dare game? It was so cool! It came with plastic cup things you had to put on your head and you had to try to catch balls in them and stuff. What a crazy game!

Classic Nicklodeon. I also liked Rocko's Modern Life (as far as cartoons on the station!) Now they have stupid shows like Spongebob Squarepants. :rolleyes:

How 'bout Gloworm? Anyone ever have one of those? I still have mine, in my room somewhere. :)

- Katie

::braces self for the wrath of oncoming Spongbob fans::

first of all...don't worry 'bout those Spongebob Fans..I'll protect you, my fellow female robo-fan! And second of all... I still have my glowworm mirror...the glowworm actually glows in the dark! and I think I have the hairbrush somewhere too..just gotta find it.

I have a disorder where I have to make it known how much I appreciate things, and if I replied to everyone's posts on this topic at once, I would explode, between the Double Dare DOS game and the Duck Hunt (still play it) and the Rocko's Modern Life...and so much more. I would just die.

If Classic Nick were a channel it would be flooded with high-school aged fans like me who miss the shows like Nick Arcade and The Adventures of Pete and Pete (both on Noggin now).

As for me? Well...besides 90% of the stuff people already mentioned... *restrains from comment*

I remember... ... renting Sega genesis games like Sonic Spinball and Bubsy for $2.11 (1.99 plus 6%) at Albertsons.

I would mention hundreds more but I still enjoy them today. I'm staying a kid as long as I can.

I dont remember tethered bots cuz i was still in elementary school... but they sure are funny to look at..... this is a pic from 1992.....

the robot in the middle is Team 45 (old school)





Gotta love Duck Hunt and all those old Nicklodeon shows...

Pete and Pete was the best! I was such a fan of Artie..strongest man ..in the WORLD! woohoo!

I remember also watching David the Gnome.
and there was this one show..where in the beginning, this guy would be walking through fields and crawl through a large hollow log and get into this really cool hang out place in the woods. but I don't remember what it was called...anyone know what the heck I'm talking about?

Fred Penners Place? [i think]

Yes...Fred Penners Place! That's it! You're so totally awesomely amazing!

I think I either had one, or just remember it because my little sister has one. Maybe both.

Remember Colorforms?? They were a fake way to make art. The vinyl pieces stuck to a cool background and then you could do it all over again.

Or how about "Wooly Willy", the cardboard base dude with the magnetic shavings for hair, mustach, sideburns, etc.

and don't forget LiteBright. still have mine down in the basement.

and what about Shark Attack!..that was a crazy game.

Ooo boy, shark attack was sweet, with that giant shark that kept going in circles trying to eat your fish.

My favorite was "Hungy Hungry Hippos" heh when my brothers and I would play as young kids we would get so violent with that the game "board" would shake and then it would turn into a Fluck Bros fist fight/wrestling match. ahh the good ol' days ;)

you know what would be cool? if we could have a place during nationals to just get together and play all our fave old games...like...Don't Break the Ice. or even Candy Land (the ultimate of games!)

Speaking of fist-fight...

Anybody remember that game with the two fighting robots(?) where you hit a button, and they punched each other. The winner popped the other robots head off. I don't remember the name .. but it was pretty fun, I guess :)

Not really a pasttime, but remember when fast food places actually had shakers at your table instead of prepackaged salt and pepper?

Speaking of computers, I remember my first one. Got an old IBM that ran at 33 mhz on turbo mode, 13 on normal. It's up in the attic.

I miss old school Power Rangers. None of that In Space, Roam the Galaxy, or Romping through the Daisies crap. Just straight up Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. All the way up to the end of the Green Ranger.

Not many kids at my school remember Pete 'n Pete. It's depressing, really.

I miss Eureka's Castle on Nick Jr. I remember the dinosaur's blanket with dots that moved. I always used to wonder why the dots on my blanket wouldn't move. :(

And the board game Sorry! That ruled. It was like Parchisi with cards.

...and a time when Michael Jackson was actually cool. Those were the days.

It's a THRILLER! THRILLER NIGHT!

Wow sonic was a great game... all of them brought back memories of not being able to get past the third zones in any of them...

just recently i found my old gensis and games... there no chalenge any more...:(

... but they are still fun...:)

even "The Lion King"!!!

thats a great idea... count me in

I still have my glowworm, and quite a few of those afformentioned games... I also miss some of the older shows on Nickelodeon, but some of the newer stuff is cool too. Spongebob is still EVIL!, but The Rugrats are still cool.

I'm suprised nobody has brought this one up yet: remember Pogs? I still have tons of those sitting upstairs somewhere.

Pogs, ah yes. I have many, many, many boxes of those. How about Beanie Babies? I have drawers full of those in my room! I really should look into selling those.

Vincent Chan: I think the guy who played (the older) Pete is in the movie 40 Days and 40 Nights as "the bagel guy". We were watching the movie at Chelly's last night and I said, "Hey! Isn't that the guy from Pete 'n Pete??" and everyone just gave me this weird look. ::sigh:: They don't know what they're missing! ;)

- Katie

I used to have the Pog maker. And someday i have to get a picture of RAGE's practice facility... Wait no that is right RAGE's Toy Store. Yeah we decided that we would sort toys for the Connecticut Toys for Tots program and we thought they would be out by end of December. Well we still have all couple of thousand of them. Many are games previously mentioned here. Such as Don't Break the Ice and Cooties. Along with Candyland, Sorry, Monopoly and a whole bunch of others.

Dude, you ought to make team pogs to give out at competitions... and maybe charge other teams (though not too much) for pogs with their team designs on them.

It'd be a good fundraiser, stealing other teams' money and only giving them cardboard in return.

Rock'em Sock'em Robots

I remember one of my brothers had this toy in the 80s. It was a lot of fun! It sure beat the stupid dolls I always got... :rolleyes:


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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- Mark Twain

ahh...Sonic the Hedgehog. It was because of that wonderful cartoon that my brother and I became obsessed with chili dogs. mmm....chili dogs.

Since most of the kids in robotics now are from the 80's the best song for this is "Babies of the 80's" because it pretty much describes all the things from the 80's, which brings back nostalgia.

I'd have to say "Are you afraid of the dark?" or back when MTV showed music videos, the good kind.

Ah, Are You Afraid of the Dark. Great show. Guts was newer, but also a great show to watch. The crag. Heh.

I hear MTV2 shows those good ol' music videos from the early-mid nineties.

Rock on! The Green Ranger rocked, after that..it went downhill.

Ya know, I was just thinking about this in the shower... and I realized that watch you watch on TV as a kid has a large effect on how you turn out as you get older.

I know that a lot of you will agree that we've all become a tad like a show many of us used to like. My point, and what we've all become can be illustrated by just two of the greatest lines in television (character names omitted for nostalgic effect):

1) What are we doing tonight?
2) The same thing we do every night: try to take over the world!

<edit>Ya know, I'm spending way too much time in this thread. <grin></edit>

Sometimes when I swing, I remember Are You Afraid of the Dark's opening theme. When I was seven I watched the episode Pinball Wizard (no, not the Who) and didn't watch it again until years later because I was scared. The show still scared me sometimes years later, (that smoking clown!) but not as badly. Submitted for your approval at the Midnight Society...

Let's go to the scoreboard, Mo!

The PB Wizard episode! I still remember that! And the one with the vampires with a basement full of bottles full of blood, that one always scared me.

Man, you kids make me feel old! I guess that means I've officially joined the 'mentors are old people' group of FIRST... (I'll catch some flak for that one.)

I had never even thought of Rock'em Sock'em Robots until Brandon said something about them. When I was a kid, the robots and the game Crossfire were, by far, the coolest darn things ever.

I remember my Atari and my tooth game, which nobody seems to remember. You had to fight the cavities... and no, I'm not insane, this was really a game. I had all the classics, Centipede, you name it. And then, my parents had a garage sale.

I was a Barbie fiend and was obsessed with Pound Puppies. My Cabbage Patch doll was my best friend. I also had a 'Mooseltoe' stuffed animal, that I still sleep with in my dorm room. Anyone remember those? They were HUGE when I was about 2 or 3.. you know, back in the Dark Ages.

Even candy was different. While dropping off one of my students in Knox, Indiana, I went to a gas station that carried Zagnut bars, Clark bars, Zero bars, and even the big bricks of Bit O'Honey. Needless to say, I bought ten dollars worth of old school candy alone.

I just have a few things to say...

Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, cartoons, video games, action figures, comic books, children's books... They're all great. I still have a lot of the action figures.

Every once in a while, I get real nostalgic and play TMNT4: Turtles In Time under zsnes (I lost the SNES cart :()

Z-Bots. Pogs. Transformers. X-Men. Batman: The Animated Series. Saved By The Bell. Doom. My old 12MB Voodoo2 (I'm going to encase it in lucite, eventually). Dial-up internet access (Netcom owned). The time when MTV didn't suck as much as it does now (the first music video I ever saw was Green Day - Basketcase, followed by Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun). Sonic The Hedgehog, Super Mario Brothers (video games, tv shows, etc). Sega Genesis, SNES, Virtual Boy (Yeah, I had one of those :p), Gameboy. My K6-2 300MHz (3DNow! + Voodoo2 + Quake2 = pure beauty). And last, but definetly not least, one of the most sentimentally meaningful things ever in my life, Kiri Te Kanawa's rendition of Blue Skies.

Wwwwwwwwwwwaiit a sec.....Nostalgia?!?!

My main home computer is a K6-2 450MHz.
Dang... I need to upgrade. :eek: :ahh:

Come on now!! Blasphemy!! How about Wolfenstein and Blake Stone? How about Raptor, Duke Nukem, Zone 66? The games that required at least 580k of conventional memory, where we all tweaked the hell out of our config.sys' and autoexec.bat's to squeeze every last kilobyte out to make games run smoother. Anyone remember "Memmaker" in DOS 6.22? How about the days of 2 and 4x cd-rom drives, 386's, DOS IPX games of Doom, Rise of the Triad, etc. My first computer was a Tandy RSX 1000, 25mhz 386sx, 2 megs RAM, 52 meg hard drive, no cd-rom drive, 1.44mb floppy. Great stuff, still have it, still use it once in a while.

Whoa...I miss my younger days. I remember the huge floppy disks..when cd's didn't even exist or if they did they were expensive as heck.

Are You Afraid of the Dark was the best show ever. I was soo scared by some of those. I laughed at the Pinball Wizard one though because I was older when I saw it. I also remember the original power rangers and I must say, I had the hugest crush on Billy. The day him and Kimbrley left..the tv world died for me. I miss them still. sigh..

Snap Braclets! I remember those.

Remember pulling your hair up into buns around your ears to be princess lia (however it's spelled) or wearing a heandband over your eyes to be that one guy from Star Trek (the black one whose name escapes me)

The very first song I ever heard and liked was Kissed By a Rose by Seal. Which I still love to this day.

I miss playing house with my two best friend, both which were girls, and not understanding why my older brother looked at us weird when we said that instead of my friend having one mommy and one daddy she had TWO mommies. We were six...what did we know?

Pretty Pretty Princess was the best board game for little girls and I must say that Checkers will never die.

Does anyone remember Ghost Writer? I saw it recently on Noogin in the morning on Nick (at like 6:30 est a year ago) but havn't seen it since. I loved that show.

Maybe I was a weird kid but does anyone remember making mud pies and/or playing in the mud puddles before your mom yelled? I miss those days.

I sometimes wish I was younger again so I could throw a fit and actually get my way.
Student:"I don't want that homework! Waaah!"
Teacher: "Ok Ok Ok..shhh...we'll just do it tomorrow"
(Do I ever wish!)

marble rollers... the thing where you build the big tower of tubes and slides and dump like 20 marbles in it and watch them roll down... and "key force" the cars and motorcycles you put the key in and they transform into planes and helicopters...McDonalds had little toys of them for awhile...

*sniff* i miss the good ol days the best part of it all was the afternoon naps in kindergarten but thats just me

I actually have plastic sunglass type things that look like the vision-wear the Star Trek guy wore (I had to wear it for a play in sixth grade where I was an alien from outer space).
And I loved Ghost Writer. I actually bought a pen on a rope so I could be like them.

...anyone remember the show Land of the Lost....or even Dinosaurs? and who remembers when T.G.I.F. actually consisted of entertaining shows?

Eh, you're not so weird. I seem to remember getting into trouble for bombing our neighbors' house with mud pies... but they really were mean people and deserved every last drop of mud coating their windows and siding...

And there was a big field at the end of our street that would have great big mud puddles after it rained. We would place plywood in the middle of the biggest puddle and pretend it was a boat and we were explorers or pirates... If it was after a really heavy rain storm, we could even get our "boat" to move around!

You know, I would never want to live my childhood over again, but sometimes I would like to go back for just a day.

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Tom Sawyer had his raft, we had ours

Yes. Family Matters and Boy Meets World (which is still the best show ever)

Who's house did Eurkel crash into when he tested out his jet pack in the Wilson's house after they replaced the roof there?? Did he crash into the house from Step By Step or another show? Also Remember the show "Perfect Strangers"?? That was a good one!!

Back to some cool toys, remember pillow people??? I think I had one and my cousin had one that looked like a window.

amandabean, I remember Mooseltoe, and do you remember spree and whatchamacallit candies???

What about stompers??? Those were little AA battery controlled cars that would go anywhere, even in the bath tub, (Wait a minute, electric toys in the tub???? What were we thinking?)

I remember the first "grown up" movie I saw was The Breakfast Club when I was like 7 or 8. I went to see ET at the Drive in when my power at my house went out one night.

I remember playing zaxxon and carnival on my coleco vision and seeing THIS MESSAGE almost every time I "forgot" to turn it off before I put in my game.

I remember the FIRST Video game system I owned had 8bits of power, Nintendo Power!!! My first game I had was RC Pro Am and <icky>Q-BERT<icky/>.

I remember playing games with my cousins like "My mother went to the store and bought, (Insert a product here that begins with A, then repeat and Insert B product, etc.)

I remember when Tonka Trucks were my whole life, then I graduated to GI Joe and the Aircraft carrier and all the cool toys that came with it. I never did get The Bridge Layer or the Special Edition Sgt. Slaughter though.

I watched Ghost Writer religiously, it was the best show on tv for soooo long, especially the episode about the girl who was a hacker, that was so awesome.

And TGIF, who could forget, does anyone remember the original lineup, i'm having trouble remembering.


Also, did anyone watch the math show Square One?

Yeah... see the 'Obscure TV Show' thread in the chit-chat forum...

actually...here in Jersey (or at least North Brunswick) Spree is still a common sight....though Watchamacallits are a rare treat only to be found in the Dollar Tree store on occassion. <sigh> I miss Watchamacallits..those were the best.

and what about Oh Henry bars?

I still run a K6-2 400MHz, as a server, running Debian.

ROTT ruled. I had a pair of CrystalEyes Simuleyes shutter-style stereo glasses. Playing Descent 2 with those ruled. X-Wing, Tie Fighter, my Logitech Wingman (two button, three axis), and a pair of high-quality headphones... Those were the days...

TGIF was awesome, when it was awesome. Family Matters, Boy Meets World... the rest of the shows escape me... But I definetly do remember loving those shows.

Ghost Writer was awesomely awesome, too. I remember watching the first episode, with the gang of video game playing, double face wearing, flashlight carrying punks, who stole either Jamal's, or the girl's, backpack, which was later recovered.

Oh Henry! bars, Whatchamacalit bars, and Spree are all common occurences here, but we're right by Chicago.

The fact that I have to drive 80 miles for some Mallo Cups... ridiculous.

Duuuude! Crossfire! I got that for my best friend down the street as a birthday present as a kid. That game was rockin!

Jurassic Park in theatres... I just remember seeing ads for it.

I know it isn't really old school, but does anyone remember Nintendo's failure-system, the Virtua Boy? I almost bought one of those things. It was so cool... Wario ruled on that thing!

I remember matchbox cars in a time before all these newfangled tracks and whatnot. Back when they were just cool to play traffic jam with.

And Home Alone! What a great movie.

I really miss old school Doug. And Porkchop. And the nematoads. And the Beets. And Skeeter. *honk honk!*

My friend got Pretty Pretty Princess for Christmas. She forced me into playing it on Halloween, and we have some hilarious pictures of me winning the game, with all the jewelry on. (This was all this... er last... year.)

Ah man, this brings back so many memories.

TV Shows

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are awesome, and they have a new series that aired on Fox Box. Donatello is the coolest! I mean, he makes several gadgets, that awesome blimp jet thingy, and the sewer slider (that huge van with the weapons on it or something). I am still a die-hard fan today.:)

No one can forget about Inspector Gadget. He was such a klutz, but as soon as he busted out with his, "Go Go Gadget Helicopter," it was Game Over for the baddies. Poor chief with the, "This letter will self destruct in five seconds," routine. Priceless.

Pee-Wees playhouse was awesome for one reason: his giant aluminum foil ball (very impressive). Oh and I almost forgot about his awesome scooter.

Yet the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers first season was awesome
!! The series was at its best with the Green Ranger (Tommy). I even has his autograph. His knife that also dubbed as a flute, to call out that huge dragon from the lake of a nearby power plant. Very impressive. The robot vs. monster battles were cool. Each time a Power Ranger (in person) takes a hit, sparks flies off its chest, as they fly in the air with an insane somersault or something.

Transformers had to be one of the coolest series, with the most awesomest toys. The idea that a toy is actually three toys in one is pretty cool. Like one moment it is a jet, then a mech, and then a hand gun, has a great quality to it.

I still have all of my action figures in my room such as GI Joe, Transformers, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more. Oh, and still have all my Nintendo stuff. Mario is still the best.

I actually still have the Shedder and Splinter action figures at home somewhere...and I think I have the turtles too.
hee hee.. I also remember we used to have two pet turtles we named Michealngelo and Donatello ..'cuz they had colored bands around their eyes just like the Ninja Turtles. <sigh> too bad my brother accidentally left the lamp too close to them and fried them.

does anyone remember the Pound Puppies cartoon? I always liked watching Gummi Bears. they got to drink this magic potion that would make the bounce all over the place. it was funny!

thats my high school :) the very very first FIRST competitions were held there...which is crazy.....cause of how huge it is now...

ya definitly the cooooolest show ever....I totally have it on tape in my apartment....the very first episode...lol its great :)



Anyone remember "Today's Special" on nickelodeon, with the store and the guy with the hat, and he would take it off and be frozen and when he put it on he would be alive...that was great!

I don't recall that one off hand, but I do remember "You can't do that on television.

Also I remember back in the day, George Carlin as the conductor on Shining Time Station with Thomas the Tank engine.

Does anyone remember the electronic football game with the red dots as your players??

I remember virtua boy, I thought the graphics sucked back then. Remember the Sega Nomad??

How about choose your own adventure books?

Some of those endings gave me nightmares...

I'd always end up going in circles with Goosebumps choose your own adventures.

Speaking of which, Goosebumps rocked! I still have several Goosebumps tshirts/sweaters... I'm wearing a shirt for Bad Hare Day right now, and if I weren't so lazy I could tell you what book number it was by looking at the back of my shirt.

Anyone remember DinoPark Tycoon? How do you get the Vegasaurus? I can't figure it out! (I have a copy on my computer.)

And Skip It! or whatever it was called. It was basically a little ball with a counter that you'd put on one leg and skip over, and it'd count how many times you could make it around.

And I remember back when pool noodles first came out.

Does anyone have the Super Blaster or whatever the bazooka-looking gun for SNES was called? I need some good games to buy for it.

Ha ha ha!! Skip it, oh man I remember that??

Who remembers koosh balls??? The balls made from rubber spaghetti!!

Oh and in the line of Skip it, remember the toy with the ball in the center and a pedastal mounted on the center of the ball?? Maybe Hop It or something like that. It kind of looked like the planet Saturn. You stood (or tried to stand) on the outer platform and hopped on the ball part. I ruled at that!!!

Still I haven't heard back from anyone that remembers the M.A.S.K. cartoon and the toys.

I hope the heck you already have Hogan's alley!!! That is classic 8-bit fun!!

I remember MASK-not very well, but there was a truck with a cab that came up, right?

And what do you have against Q-Bert? It's no Legend of Zelda, but still, fun stuff.
-and ExciteBike-favorite Nintendo game ever

what about Lincoln Logs......the best toys ever....i found mine the other day and built a house with it...i got pictures too....does anyone remember Boy and his Blob for orginal Nintendo???? i loved that game...i played it the other day though and realized that there was no point to it...or if there was it escapes me now....

Finally, someone remembers MASK!! w00t!!!

I have two of the 57 chevy's that turned into a 6 wheeler!!

Oh and my problem with Q-bert is simple, the angle in wich you viewed the sreen was very awkward.

Excite-bike was the best!!!!! Remember the custom track layout? That ruled!

Anybody else play Odell Lake? Between that, Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, I managed to spend almost every minute of elementary school in front of an Apple IIgs.

UM THOSE WERE THE BEST COMPUTER GAMES EVER!!!!

Oregon trail...remember when all your friends would die from like a broken leg....lol that was great

I actually still have all of those games on my ancient Mac. But I don't remember if it was Number munchers or Super Muncher I had. And I really am not in the mood for re-assembling my Mac tonight. Maybe in 2 weeks when I am not busy catching up on school work in the like 2 days I have before Long Island.

Haha, back in school, those were the things to have!
I was in the 'gifted and talented' program in my elementary school, so they would pluck us out from class and let us play Oregon Trail for a couple hours a day. We had a ton of odd old computer remnants everywhere, and we just got to mess around.
My eyes would hurt so bad from the greenscreens... :rolleyes:

You ask elementary school kids nowadays about greenscreens and Oregon Trail, and they're like, "You mean you DIDN'T have DSL back then?" ...sigh...

I'm glad you mentioned atari, amanda.
Pitfall was the best game ever, not to mention how cheap the rest of the games were. We probable had 40 games my grandpa had gotten from Sears (*Its closed now).

I see no one has mention the Care Bears.

With the greenscreens, does anyone else remember a racing game where you moved by solving math equations. If you finish 100 questions you finished the race. That was great.

Oh and there was a computer quiz we took in middle school that was always great. Everytime you got a correct answer it would say neato burrito, or other things.

I believe the name of that game is Math Trax Racer. Yeah I have played most of these old school educational games back in elementary school. Though my favorite was one where you answer simple math problems like multiplication, and division and for each question you answer correctly would give you ammunition (bullets, missiles, bombs) and fuel for a jet. You would have to find and blow up a flag hidden somewhere in the level, and then land safely. There were helicopters, turrets, and battleships that would fire at your jet (one hit and you are gone). I got up to level 4 at the time, but was only given an hour each week to play the game. I cannot remember the name right now.

Probably not as good as this game: click here

I know this isn't that old...but does anyone remember the game ToeJam and Earl on sega? that was a funny game.

and I miss the days of Zoobilee Zoo and even Mia the Bee.

Zoobilee Zoo is still on like the Hallmark channel at like five in the morning.

Zoom used to be a great show. Then they redid it, and it's not nearly the same as it used to be.

YESSS!!!!!!!! Another revived thread from The Clock!!!!!


HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!!!


Remember Nintendo Cereal??? Did you know that Nintendo cereal, not only being so unusual as to have two different cereal's in one box (Super Mario Brothers and Legend of Zelda), but it is the only cereal that was ever packaged in a black box!!!

Re: The nostalgia thread or "Do you remember?" or All things old.
 

Rock-em Sock-em Robots... LOL

Do you know how hard it is to find them nowadays??? My brother has a new one and it took us a few months to track it down!!

And there was the time we were cleaning out a facility (that was used to make animatronic figures) to use to build our robot and we found a life size version of one of the robots...

How cool is that??

But.. like all good things, it wasn't ours to have so it was gone the next day we came in... :(

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DUCK HUNT!!!!!!!!! i love duck hunt .. the greatest nintendo game ever .. definitely better with the gun then the controller .. and thats the only nintendo system we have ever had .. just the simple good ol' nintendo .. i love it ...

: goes and hooks up nintendo to play duck hunt again :

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In the event that you can't find the ole' Nintendo, check this out :D

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TV shows- I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Religously, Also liked Clarrisa explains it all, sAlute your shorts, and Hey dude, and lots of others previously mentioned.

Computer Games- Oregon Trail was my favorite. I also had a sonic the hedge hog game I loved until our computer got to advanced for the game and I couldnt play it anymore

Toys- Anyone remeber tinker toys. And I had tons of legos. And about three sets of marble racers. I got bored one day and wanted to see if it worked with water too. And pool noodles. My grandma has a pool and she bought about 50 of them and my cousins and I would have competitions to see who could make the best rafts out of them.

Food- Anyone remeber eating Dunkaroos?

Wow. I had forgotten about a lot of this stuff.

Allison

<edit>And does anyone remember gak, the nickalodeon slime stuff?</edit>

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Are you kidding... I can play these old school nintendo games on my cell phone the technology has grown so much since then!! lol

Anyways, I need help remembering something.

I remember a cartoon (maybe on in primetime) that had a mouse that moved to Washington DC to visit cousins, and he got lost so he had a note that said their adress was "The White House". He was going crazy trying to find a "white house" till he finally found it...

Then he was living there and was motivated by a speaker in either Congress or the House Of Representatives and he called his family on a cell phone that was in the guy's briefcase cause he got stuck in their and told them how he was so amazed by this man's words.. and then you see the congressman getting busted for fraud by the cops.

Does anyone else remember this (maybe extremely short lived) show???

Or have I completely lost my mind?!?!?!?

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Yep, and I have a number of interesting stories related to it... including the blob of it that was stuck to the cieling in the stairwell going downstairs for over 3 years. We forgot about it until we moved out, at which time we scraped it down with a garden hoe and repainted the cieling.

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Oh my goodness I had never seen this thread before now. What memories what memories.

Games

Virtua Boy - Yep, I think I remember it. It was the one that everything was only in red right? If that's the one then it was supposed to be like the coolest thing, and then people tried it out. :D

Jaguar - This thing had the best graphics of any game system hands down. Then playstation came out two weeks later and this thing was forgotten forever.

Yo Noid for original Nintendo - Remember Noid the little mascot for Dominos Pizza? My brother still has his little bendable figure somewhwere. The game was so cool, you would fling your yo-yo at people.

Oregon Trail - Perhaps the first ever long term strategy game? An educational classic

Dr Brain. - Anyone else play this in elementary school? Really cool puzzles.

ZOOMBEANIES! - Another pretty cool educational game.

Heck, All the Broderbund games. I still have a few of them somewhere.

Toys

Animal car - yep I had one of those. Nothing else like it. And the claws really did work and give it more traction when needed. I played with mine in the dirt a lot and I think I eventually ruined it. I remember it had a cool TV commercial and that is why I bought it.

Stomper 4x4s - Still have a couple. Lots on eBay usually. Very cool. One AA battery, four wheel drive, aggressive tires, and driving lights.

V V Best toy ever V V

Radio Shack Super-Armatron. - I got mine out of storage a few days ago and it still works great. That thing is a marvel of engineering. Did you know all the motors are actually in the base and it is all gear driven up to the claw.

Computer
Macintosh SE - My very first computer. Had all of like four programs. My programming techer still has his. I sold mine for $50 in 1998.

Hyperstudio - A really cool program. I'm not sure what kind of program you call it but if you've ever used it I'm sure you would agree it was neat.

ClarisWorks - Remember this Word Processor for Mac? What ever happened to it?

The optical harddisk - made by 3M it used light to read and write files. I got a never opened 1GB one a couple years ago and still have it.

television
Land of the Lost - yep. one of my favorites back in the day.

Legends of the Hidden Temple - This was a great NICK game show that no one mentioned yet. Remember with that talking wall face Ol Mec

A lot of these nick shows are still on one of the nick channels I get on digital cable.

Well, I think I got all the one's I recognized and remembered from my childhood. Thanks for bringing back those great memories. This is a great thread.

Hey post after me here if there's something I mentioned that you remember or had. Thanks.

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I used to love the Sit and Spin!!!!! My brother and I would just spin and spin on that thing until we couldn't take it anymore and fall off!!!!

I also remember when Tonka trucks were metal instead of the plastic they are now. My dad built us a 12' X 12' sandbox because we had so many Tonka trucks!

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I used Hyperstudio back in 5th grade to make a presentation thing on the Checks and Balances of the Federal government. I've on and off at really random times wondered if that is floating around on a disk somewhere...

Hyperstudio was used to create html documents in a classroom setting before the web took off. In otherwords, stand alone websites.

So cool.


Wetzel

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I think i still have hyperstudio on a CD...it was a great program, i went to a hyperstudio festival way back in gr.8 and my theam won the thing. I think ours was on the toronto maple leafs.
other remembered things.....
-Thundercats!! I have almost every episode! they rock!
-Prince of persia! Great game! (being re-made for the x-box i hear)
-almost any NES game! (blades of steel!!)
-Mario paint....Mario RPG....super mario world.....
-tail spin, bonkers, where in the world is carman sandiago(game show), gummibears, The Legend of Zelda.
soo many more......'tear'....those were that good old days.....

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Speaking of old school computer games, I used a program called Kid-Pix on the apple II E's at school in like 7th grade for every project I did!!

Anyone remember that? Or does anyone know if it still around and possibly available for Windows based computers?

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I still have not only the disks, but the box it came in.
They are on 5 1/4" disks though. The hard part will be to find a 5.25 drive.

Wetzel

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I still have a stack of 3 or 4 of them here. I think only 1 of them is high density though, the others are either double or low density.

I saw a site posted on slashdot a while back that had instructions to turn them into little robots. Pretty neat little things.

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Kid Pix was my fav computer program, prolly my only one too. I had the windows version but dont know if it is still sold. I still have all the software. I personally liked the dynamite that cleared the screen, very exciting.

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Another revived (again) thread by yours truely. :D

Ok, so I was looking through a catalog circa 1992(?) and I saw something in there that everyone I knew who owend a car had, but never used.
I actually remember them more prevelent in the 80's but whatever...

It's called the auto blaster, and it would make a noise or something, when you pushed one of the many buttons on it.

Sounds would include, an incoming missle and it exploding, a ray gun sound, a grenade explosion, machine gun and a random emergency wail..
(No matter what brand blaster you would buy, the sounds were the same.)
I guess those were the only sounds available on a cheap transducer (sound chip) back in the day.

Anyone else remember those or still have one?

Also, does anyone remember the keychains that when you whistle would make a noise. My cousins and I used to play with my uncle's keys for hours on eend, hiding them on each other and whistling to find them. Turns out the batteries were pretty good and it lasted a whole week that way. :rolleyes:

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This is a great thread. :) I just read it now and it brought back a lot of memories. I'm glad it's back and didn't die.......yet! :p

I still have my Garbage Pail Kids. I remember wanting to go to the store every week and get more.

Anyone remember My Little Pony? My sister had these and I used to take them and hide them on her. They had different colored mains and tails that you could brush and one thing I thought about but never did was cut them off on her!

One toy of my sister's I always liked and played with was Vultron. It was five different colored lions that could join together into one large one. She had all five lions, black, green, yellow, red, and blue. I don't remember what they all signified but green was forrest (land), yellow was volcano, and blue was water. Vultron had started out as a cartoon.

I had Lionel trains permanently set up in the rec room downstairs to play with. I used to use my Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Corgi cars and even Legos on the train board. These Matchboxs were regular looking cars, no fancy paint schemes like today. I had a lot of "normal everyday" looking cars like station wagons, sedans, pick ups, vans, ect. I still have the trains, Legos, and Matchbox/Hot Wheels. Everything is packed away except for the trains which come out during the Christmas season to run around the tree.
I also used to play with the metal Tonka trucks I had outside. I had a dumptruck I would sit in and ride down the street. I no longer have these trucks, I gave them away to a cousin when I got older. I do have one funny story though with them. You know the sound a zipper makes in a clothes dryer? Well one day I decided to put the trucks in there to dry them off after they got wet being left outside. I'll leave it to your imagination what 3 metal trucks sounded like in there! :ahh: Wow, just think of the things you did as a kid. :D

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Speaking of nostalgia, I got to experience it quite a bit today while we disposed a whole 20 ft long construction dumpster's worth of old school district computers. I was in a quite nostalgic mood so I picked up a Macintosh Classic and brought it home to save it from the junkyard. We also tossed (literally) a bunch of "Power PC" Macs and Mac IIC's and there was even an Apple IIE with integrated keyboard.

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I think it was spelled Voltron if I'm not mistaken. I think I still have parts of that upstairs in my attic. It was basically a cartoon version if Power Rangers. You can even go on to write a paper how film technolgy has changed so much over 10 years between the 80's and 90's based on those two shows alone.


Wow.. that brings me back. I remember playing the coolest games on the Apple IIE called Number Munchers.. Ahh those were the good days.

Just think of the geeks like me you could have sold them babies to on ebay and made a bundle of money.. lol

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i was in the grocery store with my friend the other day (loooong story ... ) and i randomly go "remember Gushers .. and Dunkaroos .. and Soda-licious .. whatever happened to them ??" and later .. we found them .. i was so happy to find out they still make them .. they were some of the best candies ever ... even though my mom wouldnt let me have them ...

on a random note .. when we found them i go "wow .. everything in this aisle is so old-school ... except for all this new stuff .. "

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Me, being a ripe age of sixteen, what's old-school for me is showing me work in science class. (no, that is NOT a typo) It may also have something to do with my geekiness...

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Dude, I remember number munchers!

We had these Apple IIs back in the early part of elementary school (actually, now that I think of it, Harbison West only switched out those computers to IBMs the year after I left for middle school), and I remember the first time that I played.

This kid in my class who was a pain was sitting near me, and I was reading the instructions (a habit I would later shake). He then mashed the start button for me, so here I was in this really weird grid with no idea what I'm doing!

Welcome to my world.

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Number munchers...oh god, I may be young, but I love number munchers. We are thinking of the same thing right? They made me so happy, I went and bought some discs. Almost as entertaining as Dance Dance Revolution. Speaking of old school, were y'all around when 1st mix came out? That makes me reminisce...

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I got the Vegasaurus ONCE. It was random, and he soon broke out of the pens (I used concrete and electrified it).

Anyway....

Yes, I remember Legends of the Hidden Temple, best game show. They still have it on Nick GAS Network, sometimes when I have nothing to do, I sit down and watch it.

As for computer games, my all time classic favorite is Lemmings, especially Lemmings Chronicals.