Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.

[sextus the crazy]

Anime... on VHS!!! I still look back with some nostalgia, but thank fuck for DVDs and subtitles.

also 90s English anime dubs. There were only 3 types: "bad by modern standards", "bad by any standards", and "so bad, it's hilarious".

Well, Dragon Half was very good dubbed.

The only anime on VHS I could find that was subbed, was more obscure stuff like Urusei Yatsura and Kimagure Orange Road.

So was Ranma 1/2, and (was this done in the 90's?) Lupin III. Not to mention the streamline dub of Akira, which was technically '89, but what the heck, let's count it. I honestly prefer the dubs from the 90's to the early 2000's, because there was more variety in the voice actors. The market has shrunk so much in recent years that it seems like there's five male actors and five female actors in the entire industry, and they all have one voice a piece.

I only ever saw 5 minutes of the original Akira dub, and that was enough for me to run away screaming like a little girl. I think the exact moment was when I heard Masaru talk like a midget. Though oddly, in hindsight I actually enjoy the dub of Ghost in the Shell ('95) more than the original Japanese version, which is almost completely devoid of emotional delivery. A lot of 90's dubs had the annoying habbit of excessive swearing though.

As for the recent years, it might be because anime dubbers have become quite the celebrities so that the same voices are being used constantly. They've become fan favourites. I'm not familiar with many if any dub voices, but if you've seen any of those anime reviews by JesuOtaku, you'll notice that she spends roughly half the review talking about the voice acting. Meaning that these famous dub voices are apparently a big deal to the fans.

They are. I watch the Dub version of most of the shows I watch, so I know a variety of English VAs and none of the Japanese ones. We've got lots of famous VAs and some people will watch shows based on who's VAing it. (I'm a big chris patton fan myself because he tends to get roles for either humorously insane characters or deadpan snarkers).

Granted, I don't tend to watch stuff based on who's VAing in it, but rather on show itself.

 

[renegade7]

The 'cool kids' with the backwards hats and skateboards that schools and TV shows always talked about. Because they were totally common and interesting people.

And dial up. Fuck dial up. WRRR BOOPBOOPBOOPBEEP KRZZ KRZZ. Still better than most dubstep though.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

Dialup.
Crystal Pepsi.
The agonizing death of Saturday morning cartoons.
Adam Sandler.
The futile U.N. interventions.
Floppy disks of every description.
Life before Google.
Every comic by Malibu.
Dave Sim's descent into dementia.
Movies based on old TV shows.
The increasing obviousness of the fact that the writers of X-Files really didn't have a plan for where it was all going.
Newspapers without The Far Side, Calvin & Hobbes, or Bloom County.
Seconded: The Phantom Menace, Rob Liefeld, Limp Bizkit, anime on VHS. Anything at all on magnetic tape, actually.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Funny I thought some of the 80s and most of the 2000s were far worse comic wise than the 90s.


Dial up was horrible ><

 

[elvor0]

I can't really remember 90s specific stuff from my own experiences due to being dirt poor and never being allowed to go the outside world.

I mean, this was and still is super cool, right?

See, while that's bad, it's still actually better looking than some of the head wear these days. Like those bizarre faux cone gnome hats that gangstas wear. (Speaking of which, a most hillarious moment in my life was when my mother came up to visit me in my new flat, walked past a "gangsta" trying to look all hard with one of them on, queue being heckled by my mother. Queue red face and removal of said hat) Or the baseball caps that make your head look like it's mutated to bulge at the top, ironically enough given the intelligence of people who wear said hats.

OT: The music. Dear god the music. Being born in 91, I missed Nirvana and was constantly exposed to the spice girls, Steps, S Club 7, S Club 8, S club junion, fucking S fucking club fucking something, etc etc. I flat out stated that I didn't like music until I was about 12, being unaware of the existence of Rock N Roll until then.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

I loved Crystal Pepsi..........

 

[Aris Khandr]

Car Styles: Seriously the nasty boxy car style had to go.

Cars, the 90's had practically no good cars.

What are you people on? I would happily take the mid-90s Mustang over that blocky piece of junk they're putting out these days.

 

[Quaidis]

I don't miss doctors from the 90's. Now doctors are humane in their approach to things. The 90's?

"This kid has a staff infection, let's hold them down without numbing and lance that sucker!"

"Oh, does this hurt? Well maybe you should BRUSH MORE OFTEN!"

"You appear to be sad. It's Manic Depressive Bi Polar Crazykins Eating Sleepless Disorder. Let's increase the dosage!"


Can't say my trust hasn't been damaged when it comes to hospitals these days.



Don't kid yourself, the rest of the 90's was pure unadulterated awesome. We should go back.

 

[DRTJR]

Bill Clinton as president. 90's anti-heroes, Bad 90's anime dubs, lack of good cartoons that weren't Transformers.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

I kind of miss the sound of dial-up. But my current connection isn't much better. I miss proper internet, but that's not a 90s thing.

If you put a beat to the sound of dial-up, you basically have Skrillex

You'll love this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2v32xCD0Y], then.

 

[Quaidis]

Car Styles: Seriously the nasty boxy car style had to go.

Cars, the 90's had practically no good cars.

What are you people on? I would happily take the mid-90s Mustang over that blocky piece of junk they're putting out these days.

I agree. Cars these days are much harder to fix by yourself, and the gas mileage sucks balls.

 

[Falseprophet]

Hmm, let's see:

-Almost all North American and British mainstream music after, say, 1995. E.g. post-grunge, pop punk, boy bands, pop princesses, nu metal, etc. I basically stopped buying CDs between then and 2000, until I discovered a literal world of good music thanks to Napster and started buying CDs again.

-When buying concert tickets, having to go to the ticketseller days in advance of the sale to get a wristband, wear the wristband for 3 or 4 days, then line up early Saturday morning in the hopes of getting good seats.

-It was hard to find good craft beer, you were stuck with shitty major labels.

-Before Google, search engines were mostly shit.

-So were websites. Such joys:
--Having to wait 4 minutes for a website to load a 300 Kb gif banner.
--blinking/flashing headers
--websites that were basically one huge HTML page 40+ screenlengths or longer
--waiting 10 minutes for Flash elements to load
--Half the internet was tiny, dull text on black backgrounds, or worse, busy background images

-High school. Glad that's over and done with. Hand in hand with my awkward adolescence.

-Crappy movies aimed at teen audiences. For every pretty good one like Clueless or American Pie, there were 10 horrible ones like The Skulls and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

-I didn't like watching the demise of North American arcade culture firsthand.

-The revival of flares/bell bottoms

I honestly prefer the dubs from the 90's to the early 2000's, because there was more variety in the voice actors. The market has shrunk so much in recent years that it seems like there's five male actors and five female actors in the entire industry, and they all have one voice a piece.

So now the North American anime dubbing industry has become just like the Japanese seiyuu? Everyone's trying to sound like the same dozen voices in every single production.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Car Styles: Seriously the nasty boxy car style had to go.

Cars, the 90's had practically no good cars.

What are you people on? I would happily take the mid-90s Mustang over that blocky piece of junk they're putting out these days.

Mustangs[footnote]and most other cars; the whole rounded look really came into style in the late 90's. It looks nice, but it makes for ridiculous blind spots[/footnote] looked pretty good by the mid-late 90's, but good lord were the models from the early 90's ugly. Here's a '92 Mustang for reference:

Talk about a blocky piece of junk...

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I honestly prefer the dubs from the 90's to the early 2000's, because there was more variety in the voice actors. The market has shrunk so much in recent years that it seems like there's five male actors and five female actors in the entire industry, and they all have one voice a piece.

So now the North American anime dubbing industry has become just like the Japanese seiyuu? Everyone's trying to sound like the same dozen voices in every single production.

Basically. Except it's much, much worse. Five voices is being generous -- it's more like five people all trying to do the same two voices, with a little bit more variation for background characters.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Get off the internet, I need to use the phone.

My mum still says that.
The clothes my mum used to put me in ;_; I know it was fashion back then but wow. Her cutting mine and my siblings hair too. -_- There's some pictures of my brother when he was a few years old when she cut his hair but completely cocked it up, so had to stick a woolly winter hat on him when she took him to the park in the middle of a hot summer. Lulz were had.

Having to watch this show when I was off school when I got poorly. Bored me to tears.

Spoiler

You people are weird, 90s pop and dance music was the shit. Everybody, backstreet's back, ALRIIIGHHT.

 

[The Funslinger]

Being born in 91, I missed Nirvana and was constantly exposed to the spice girls, Steps, S Club 7, S Club 8, S club junion, fucking S fucking club fucking something, etc etc. I flat out stated that I didn't like music until I was about 12, being unaware of the existence of Rock N Roll until then.

I was born in '95, and I went through the exact same thing.

What am I doing in this thread, then?

Well, my village, at least technology-wise, was caught in a bit of a stasis field in that time.

I do remember dial up, and old websites. I remember the pop up ad control was so bad my mum was letting me on the pokemon website (which constantly froze, and took a solid minute to load another page) and porn started popping up.

My sisters would bombard me musically with Britney Spears, and such like.

In consolation, the 90's were a very good time for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

 

[Darren716]

Seeing as I was only around for 4 years of the 90's I will say dial up since it's about the only thing I can remember from the 90's. Also gak because it's returning and is ruining my Saturday morning MLP livestrams.

 

[Jake the Snake]

Definitely Dial Up, Aaron Carter, and all of the denim. Jesus, Levi Strauss crazy, Christ, never again with all of the fucking denim.

 

[Colour Scientist]

Hair and clothes, no question.

Fuck you mama jeans

Especially when they were teamed with a denim shirt.


Oh, I forgot stonewashed denim.