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The good 'ol days...

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Calico-Jack Daniels
#1 - 2012-12-28 22:49:06 UTC
For some reason, I am reminiscing about the good 'ol days when Buck Rogers was on TV along with shows like The original Battlestar Galactica, Airwolf, The A-Team, Fraggle Rock, Mc Guyver, Magnum PI, and Nightrider. The days when "Number 5 is alive!" was a common saying among fans of Short Circuit. When many of us dreamers used to try and imitate the various sounds of Michael Winslow as he served his time in Police Academy and Spaceballs. The days of playing Ghost in the Graveyard in the pitch black outside, and wearing shorts with stripes on the side and socks to match. When Velcro was cool on a shoe. Shoes were named after animals like Kangaroo, Puma and the like. It was cool to be into GI Joe and Star Wars with the toys to prove it.

*Sigh* yes, the good 'ol days....

Anyone have any memories from their youth that you care to share?

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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-12-28 23:03:34 UTC
The kid next door had Star Wars toys, lots of them.
I hadn't seen the movies yet and didn't know anything about the story...but when we split the toys to play, I always used to chose the darksiders.
The dark side of the force has the cooler uniforms...

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-12-28 23:22:39 UTC
the raleigh chopper
top trumps and marbles
lego, meccano and hornby 00 gauge

2000AD, commando comics and the beano


airfix !!!!!!
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#4 - 2012-12-28 23:28:28 UTC
I don't know. I recently got to see an episode of Buck Rogers starring Gil Gerard, and tbh it was pretty darned awful. I did like it when I was 13 though, and even got an autographed photo of Twiki from the guy who played him when at an SF convention.

That's what I miss: those Old Skool SF Conventions of the mid-70's through the early 80's.

That is all such a different world now, and more about getting advanced news and buying things, than see things like Harrison Ellenshaw discussing his matte paintngs for Star Wars with them on display ! (He had the painting of the Tractor Beam Chasm from Ep. IV !!!).

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
defiler
Mad Hermit
Wayward Alliance
#5 - 2012-12-29 00:14:36 UTC  |  Edited by: defiler
Kitty Bear wrote:
airfix !!!!!!
Hell yes!

Not sure if I've ever built an actual Airfix, but I suspect it's kinda like Xeroxing, right? I don't even want to think about how much time I spent building all those planes, cars and ships... Still have an assembled but only half painted Prinz Eugen somewhere. All those fiddly little guns and other bits wore my patience down. Think that was my last model... And one of the few I didn't blow up with firecrackers.

People who weren't into that kind of thing always said I'd go crazy from the glue vapours, and... well, I guess they were right there...

Still, good times.

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Commander Ted
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-12-29 01:29:41 UTC
Wasn't pokemon the good ol days?

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ISD Cyberdyne
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ISD Alliance
#7 - 2012-12-29 01:34:27 UTC
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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#8 - 2012-12-29 03:41:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Eurydia Vespasian
i had a much longer and better detailed post but...something happened, it didn't post when i clicked "post" and all my typed out memories are gone and i'm not doing all that again lol. so...abridged version: go!

as a 90's child and millennial teen i like to think that my tv watching was...well, not particularly enriching but definitely entertaining lol.

"barney" was huge when i was little. and cartoons like "doug" and "rugrats." i watched a lot of "are you afraid of the dark?" "goosebumps" and "sabrina, the teenaged witch." show's like "all that!" and "sailor moon." "powderpuff girls" and untold amounts of "spongebob squarepants."

in my teens i started dressing in hot topic clothes. listening to bands like evanescence, korn, lacuna coil, deftones and tool. i had a hand me down SNES from my brother. everyone had playstations and xbox. but i didn't care. super mario world, mario kart, super metroid, mega man x and final fantasy 3 were all a girl needed. screw progress! arrgh!

at 16 i got a job as a clerk at a off road recreation supply store. i bought my own first pc soon after and things were never the same. internet. my own access to glorious internet! so exciting! at first i messed mostly with just single player games. half life 2. morrowind. fable. then i tried multiplayer in a star wars game. i didn't know anything about star wars. i was not into sci-fi. still not, really. lol. but i was, in some strange fluke or another, exceedingly talented at slicing other players up with lightsabers. it was basically all multi-player from there (with occasional breaks for titles like dragon age, oblivion and fallout 3 during their respective times). i discovered mmo's with the release of guild wars. which i played for a few years until deciding to finally try world of warcraft...and thereby signed my soul over to satan for a number of years.

i finally bored of the never ending rabbit race of successive tiers and every expansion being basically the same thing with different scenery. i tried "rift." i tried "age of conan." i tried "aion." none of them satisfied me for long.

finally, i was browsing one of my guilds forums and saw, really saw (i tend to just sort of mentally block out ads), the EvE online advertisement. i'd heard of EvE naturally, it having been around forever. but never thought to play it. it was just stupid spaceships after all. and what do i give a crap about those? but i was bored and thought "what the hell?" and i made and account and d/led the client...and pretty much instantly fell in love. to my great and ceaseless surprise.

ok...so i ended up retyping most of it...not like i had anything better to do atm.

tl;dr

i watched tv when i was little and played some video games.
Petra Alleile
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2012-12-29 05:27:40 UTC
Ah, memories. My brothers getting an Atari for Christmas and my older brother beating my mom on Pong with his back to the television. Playing video games in giant arcades at the mall. Getting the Death Star was pretty cool, as was finding my Barbies folded up in the trash compactor. Playing on monkey bars and swings over an asphalt park, falling, getting skinned knees, and not caring because you didn't want to go home yet. Getting up and having to change the channel by turning a knob. Rest in peace, UHF and VHF.
Jago Kain
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2012-12-29 07:56:39 UTC
Meh.... nostalgia ain't what it used to be.




One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings - Diogenes.
Elias Greyhand
#11 - 2012-12-29 13:22:31 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
"sabrina, the teenaged witch."


How can you forget Clariss Explains It All, which whilst it did lack a talking cat still possessed MJ Hart.

"That which is done cannot be undone. But it can be avenged."
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#12 - 2012-12-29 13:31:49 UTC
Jago Kain wrote:
Meh.... nostalgia ain't what it used to be.



Wow and no kidding.

Reading these having actually lived through the last half of the 60's and the 70's...........except for specific styles in fashion, music, and art, all from the mid-80's onward is part of the same Culture Blob.

(At least we can now watch the first 4 seasons of SNL whenever we want.)

I'm always reminded of this (awful) band from the late 80's that had a very very true name: Pop Will Eat Itself.

Prophetic indeed.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#13 - 2012-12-29 20:47:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Eurydia Vespasian
Elias Greyhand wrote:
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
"sabrina, the teenaged witch."


How can you forget Clariss Explains It All, which whilst it did lack a talking cat still possessed MJ Hart.


i didn't really see that show much that i remember. some rereuns. i was like 3 or 4 when that show came out. i don't remember a whole lot from when i was that young.
Glimworm Boirelle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-12-29 21:29:56 UTC
When I think of the good old days, yeah, I think of the A-Team, Dukes of Hazzard. But also reading so many books! Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever! All the Dragonlance books. The Pern books. Dune. I think of seeing ep 4 of SW in the theater like 13 times, cause it was there for almost a year!

Those were the days!
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#15 - 2012-12-29 21:32:34 UTC
Glimworm Boirelle wrote:
When I think of the good old days, yeah, I think of the A-Team, Dukes of Hazzard. But also reading so many books! Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever! All the Dragonlance books. The Pern books. Dune. I think of seeing ep 4 of SW in the theater like 13 times, cause it was there for almost a year!

Those were the days!



This.^^

SW:Ep 4 only 13 times ? P

It played at the Galleria in Houston well over 18 months. Unreal.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#16 - 2012-12-29 21:48:19 UTC  |  Edited by: baltec1
space 1999, jason and the wheeled warriors, ulysses, conan, tansformers, sharky and george, banana man, superted, family ness, danger mouse, duckular, the trapdoor, dinosaurs, batfink...
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#17 - 2012-12-29 21:52:05 UTC
For some reason I just flashed on licking the backs of entire sheets of Green Stamps to place in those little books. Lol

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Elias Greyhand
#18 - 2012-12-29 22:01:50 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
Elias Greyhand wrote:
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
"sabrina, the teenaged witch."


How can you forget Clariss Explains It All, which whilst it did lack a talking cat still possessed MJ Hart.


i didn't really see that show much that i remember. some rereuns. i was like 3 or 4 when that show came out. i don't remember a whole lot from when i was that young.


I'm trying to work out how old I was when I first saw it now, so I feel less old lol

"That which is done cannot be undone. But it can be avenged."
Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#19 - 2012-12-29 22:19:03 UTC
Ahh, lots of childhood memories.

I remember all the times I have fallen down from trees because I kept pushing my limits and it didn't make it any better that I had a friend who was much better than me at climbing. And then there were all the war games we played outside :)

When I first saw Star Wars EP. 4 I was about 8-9 years old. We saw it in the school (after the class, it wasn't a part of the teaching). It was one of my first encounters with Sci Fi and even though I didn't understand anything at all but I was amazed by it.

I have always been a huge fan of lego and I still have a huge collection of it. My parrents had a spare room (about 6-8 m2 if I remember correctly) which I sometimes filled up with my own lego city. My sister and I spent countless of hours playing with it. One of the best days in my life was the day my uncle gave me a lego train set. He was a fisherman and they had an exceptional good year, so be bought gifts for me and my cousins.

Eurydia Vespasian wrote:

as a 90's child and millennial teen i like to think that my tv watching was...well, not particularly enriching but definitely entertaining lol.

"barney" was huge when i was little. and cartoons like "doug" and "rugrats." i watched a lot of "are you afraid of the dark?" "goosebumps" and "sabrina, the teenaged witch." show's like "all that!" and "sailor moon." "powderpuff girls" and untold amounts of "spongebob squarepants."


We must be from about the same age, since I remember those shows as well. Did you also watch "Totally Spies"? It was one of my favourite shows.

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Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#20 - 2012-12-29 22:46:54 UTC
Mizhir wrote:
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:

as a 90's child and millennial teen i like to think that my tv watching was...well, not particularly enriching but definitely entertaining lol.

"barney" was huge when i was little. and cartoons like "doug" and "rugrats." i watched a lot of "are you afraid of the dark?" "goosebumps" and "sabrina, the teenaged witch." show's like "all that!" and "sailor moon." "powderpuff girls" and untold amounts of "spongebob squarepants."


We must be from about the same age, since I remember those shows as well. Did you also watch "Totally Spies"? It was one of my favourite shows.


i remember it a little. early 2000's was it? cartoon network lol. shows came and went so fast on that channel. you start liking one and then it was gone. =/

our attention spans are not well trained in this generation rofl.
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