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The Internets Reconnect You to your Youth
Loren Michael
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i was just browsing youtube (after clicking the link kindly provided by gundam470 in poldy's incomprehensible thread), which prompted me to take a nice trip down memory lane, as i listened to a song i hadn't heard in a long time. i remembered another song from a long time ago (shima uta (or the japanese version), that a japanese exchange student sang to me a long time ago in the U.S., and later again when i visited her in japan), and had an extremely excellent ten minutes of nostalgia that will fit neatly onto my ipod for future use.
i was wondering what other people have found in the way of artifacts from their childhood, be it media, wiki, or whatever.
raw lists kind of blow, so linkage would be nice, as well as a teeny weeny backstory, if you're feeling contributive.
EDIT: added japanese version of shima uta
i was wondering what other people have found in the way of artifacts from their childhood, be it media, wiki, or whatever.
raw lists kind of blow, so linkage would be nice, as well as a teeny weeny backstory, if you're feeling contributive.
EDIT: added japanese version of shima uta
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A guy is given a suit that grants him superpowers by aliens but he loses the instructions
well, it was cool when I was little
also MUPPETS!
but look how depressing my youth was
and I never knew until now
god, i watched that when i was so fucking young.
i remember stealing a lego that i coveted from the kid's house i watched it at.
i also remember playing frogger at his house. my first exposure to a computer game.
That movie is also one of my early memories, shockingly.
I remember not being able to watch the scene with the...Air conditioner, was it? Near the beginning. Freaked me out.
Good times.
Oh god, I loved American Gladiators. I watched that show constantly when I was young.
Honestly, if they brought that show back, I would watch.
what what
Everything from Beakman's World and Bill Nye to Jelly Rolls and Trapper Keepers. What a simple time.
A duck! you watched Exosquad. hi5
I am pretty much the biggest Exosquad fan ever.
Own over two dozen Exosquad toys. Have the entire series (tracked down the super hard to find VHS).
God I love that show.
This was a big deal to me when I found it (holy shit 9 years ago). I read the whole thing over a week or so, and still retain a lot of the info today.
RetroJunk is great. I managed to track down the name of a show I could never remember the name of (which made it pretty hard to search for info for) with a guy and a kid who travelled through time with a compass or something. Voyagers! as it turns out.
Oh, and Gafoto - read the rules thread. Like, right now.
my personal favorite items:
A video store membership card from as many states as possible. [3 points per state. -2 points per Hollywood Video or Blockbuster card]
A team member's umbilical cord, to be eaten by that team member. [96 points]
EDIT: jandaru, i do not know why the format of the page reminded me of the scavenger hunt.
So was Beast Wars.
Now when I look at them on youtube, the animation is slow and blocky and the plotlines move like molasses.
Casual Eddy: The backgrounds of BW are pretty lame, but that's because of budget contraints, not just the older limitations. The characters themselves were modeled and animated quite awesomely.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Plotlines like molasses? I guess my perspective was skewed by the fact Dragonball Z was on after Beast Wars and Reboot back in the day. Three shows with Ian Corlett voicing the hero in a row was a bit weird, too.
I remember thinking the animation in Beast Wars was amazing in comparison to the first two seasons of Reboot.
Look at the rocks!
It was all uphill from there though.
Take, for instance, this sickeningly long entry for Legends of the Hidden Temple, a mediocre Nickelodeon game show.
Sure, it brings back memories... but damn, some folks just haven't moved on.
Oh good god hambone.
I always wanted to be on that show when I was a little kid. Now I'm gonna go read the whole damn thing.
Bots Master is the only show that can rival it in pure awesome. God I love the intro. Potentially best intro ever.
Wow, I remember that show. Those 3D glasses never freaking worked though.
They got some songs from the game Conspiracy that reminded me how amazing it was, especially when you're 8 years old and aren't that good at reading English. You could do so much wrong in that game that only got obvious later (it had an in game clock), but usually when something went wrong it was not because you forgot to get some item or the other, but because you failed to realise something, like that people lock a building when they leave it for example.
And you could do all kinds of dumb stuff, like [spoiler:7c2a84c152]get drunk on vodka and pass out,
sollicit a hooker,
shoot people in the face,[/spoiler:7c2a84c152] all netting a satisfying 'game over' story, or an interesting experience. Especially the latter is very cool when you're stuck in a really hard adventure game like this and get frustrated with some NPC.
I've been here longer than you. Son't tell me to read the rules, it's downright insulting.
reminds me of double dare, as hosted by marc summers, which, via slime, reminds me of you can't do that on television.
also, damn, i just found X Japan's Art of Life on youtube. goddamn. 35 minutes of epic j-rock.
How can you be here for over a year and not know the line with that type of stuff?
I have been searching for that show for a damn long time.
It kicked ass up until they [spoiler:862dc1656b]introduced those ugly ass cyborg mutant things.[/spoiler:862dc1656b]
man, donkey lips.
...is a "rapper"
And Pinsky is in Rilo Kiley.
edit: oh shit Donkey Rap.
In terms of actual reconnection, my entire high school reunion was organized via the internet, each of us essentially finding out through an email chain. The actual reunion was...it was kind of strange.
I was so bummed that they did not go on with the show. It was set to introduce an alien invader from outside the Solar System and was rumored to start a crossover with Gundam (or Macross or whatever it is, I suck at knowing anime for I never watch the stuff).
It is indeed very good. I'm not much a fan of the sheer amount of 'aliens aliens olol' in the first season, but overall the series is gold.
It's really kind of saddening that they can't even pull off that level of CG in the latest Transformers show, considering the damn thing is ten years old.
Jesus. I can't believe those games were that expensive.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G_zbeX6yoRI
That show kicked so much ass, still think of that show whenever I see a Tauren