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

[Elgin Clock]

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!!!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

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

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...

[shyra1353]

Originally Posted by Kiwi_queen

Who here remembers Duck Hunt?

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 :

[Marc P.]

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

[Allison K]

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>

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Marc P.

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

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?!?!?!?

[Marc P.]

Originally Posted by Allison K

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

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.

[sanddrag]

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.

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.

[kpugh]

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!

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

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.

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

[MathewSmith]

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.....

[Elgin Clock]

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?

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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?

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

[Marc P.]

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.

[Meredith Rice]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

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?

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.