The 90s had fluorescent clothing... I certainly don't miss looking like a highlighter. I mostly don't remember that much stuff from the 90s. I guess that I'm lucky that way.
Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.
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Those fucking things. A whopping 2.4 Megabytes of data for the 3 & 1/2" disks. A drawer full of those things couldn't compare to a fraction of one re-writable CD. I might have been inclined to hate them from the start, though. My first experience with a floppy disk was when I gave the first computer I touched a BSOD when I removed it whilst it was in use.crusador90 said:
Archie Comics. I know they still exist but there's something about the comic when you read it when you were like 9 or 10.
The music
The Internet (or lack thereof) and the dialup needed to get on it
VHS tapes...
But you know what? I could deal with all that again, and I would to if it meant getting the cartoons and video games we got back then. It was like the golden age of creativity.
The Internet (or lack thereof) and the dialup needed to get on it
VHS tapes...
But you know what? I could deal with all that again, and I would to if it meant getting the cartoons and video games we got back then. It was like the golden age of creativity.
The over-saturation of 2D platformers. Seriously, most of those 2D mascot platformers sucked heavily. Not sad to see those gone.
Doom-clones. Thank christ that fad died out. I like Doom as much as the next person, but seriously, it was just too much. I can only go on key-hunts through labyrinths full of monsters so many times before it gets old.
Rob Liefield and his influence. So freaking glad the comics community got over that.
And finally, the boy-bands and divas. I really hated those, I won't lie. They really sucked.
Doom-clones. Thank christ that fad died out. I like Doom as much as the next person, but seriously, it was just too much. I can only go on key-hunts through labyrinths full of monsters so many times before it gets old.
Rob Liefield and his influence. So freaking glad the comics community got over that.
And finally, the boy-bands and divas. I really hated those, I won't lie. They really sucked.
As someone who grew up in the 90's I hated it. That was the time marketing fundamentally changed in 1993. Calvin and Hobbs said it best "How can you tell if you're reading a review, and advertisement or the product itself?"
The Foucaultian fake rebellion also destroyed any sense of resistance or alternate culture.
Also Newt Gingrich.
The Foucaultian fake rebellion also destroyed any sense of resistance or alternate culture.
Also Newt Gingrich.
Archie Comics have been around FAR longer than the 90's. Of course, back then I wouldn't have known that.Christian Friborg said:
OT: Looking back, a lot of the music, stuff from Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, N-Sync. Wasn't very good. Not at all.
Still, I don't think it was all bad.
And 3D platformer collect-a-thons. Sure, some of my favorite games like Spyro, Banjo Kazooie, and Super Mario 64 technically fall under that list, (in fact Super Mario 64 probably helped popularized the genre), but there were a lot of them back then. It's sort of like today where we have an over-saturation of shooters.BreakfastMan said:
Well... maybe not so much now, I really don't remember any AAA FPS's besides Black Ops 2 releasing this year, so maybe that fad is finally starting to die down.
Hoplon said:
As far as the 90's, pretty much all the music and clothing (people, we already got rid of Snapbacks, why are taking steps backwards!!!!).
I'm not really that nostalgic over the 90's anyway, I mean I may have grown up in them, but most of my childhood memories are specific, and not watching a TV show everyday
That's how things go. Whenever you get an over-saturation of a genre you get a lot of good stuff just by sheer number of stuff being released, but you also get a lot a crap.scorptatious said:
I think it has started to die down somewhat, but we still have had many AAA shooters being released this year. You just haven't been paying much attention. ;D
Pagers, or Beepers as some called them, were a mostly pointless and annoying device. I had one for a while that could only relay numbers, wow it was pretty bad. Then after getting the number having to go find a pay phone somewhere to call it, and hoping to have enough change. Also, pay phones, can't even remember the last time I saw one, but they were pretty annoying too. And the actual cell phones were huge back then. Anybody ever have a bag phone? Those were ridiculous!
Non phone related stuff:
Cheap 3rd party gaming peripherals (always wound up getting at least one cheap controller or accessory every Christmas from some relative)
Non phone related stuff:
Cheap 3rd party gaming peripherals (always wound up getting at least one cheap controller or accessory every Christmas from some relative)
This nonsense right here:
The Nineties Anti-Hero. Thankfully Deadpool saved us from them. Praise Deadpool.
BreakfastMan said:The over-saturation of 2D platformers. Seriously, most of those 2D mascot platformers sucked heavily. Not sad to see those gone.
Doom-clones. Thank christ that fad died out. I like Doom as much as the next person, but seriously, it was just too much. I can only go on key-hunts through labyrinths full of monsters so many times before it gets old.
Rob Liefield and his influence. So freaking glad the comics community got over that.
And finally, the boy-bands and divas. I really hated those, I won't lie. They really sucked.
One thing that has never changed about the gaming industry is that many of the less creatively inclined companies will "follow the leader" of the current trend. We have today what Yahtzee referes to as Spunkgargleweewee, or Modern Military Shooters, back then, one of the many irritating trends back then was the Mascot with ATTITUDE! There were some good characters made in that craze that unfortunately didn't catch on (Sparkster and Croc), but many were bad... really bad.
Remember this asshole? I do. I thankfully didn't put down that much money to have this game, as I pretty much got it from a garage sale, but after listening to Bubsy's "witty" banter and getting frustrated with the inane level design as well as being completely confused as to who the character is and what his motivation is, I quickly went back to Sonic.
This character was the absolute worst of that 90s Mascot craze. Take everything horrible about that craze and condense it into this jackass. Now add a very poorly handled environmental aesop to him and you have... Calling this guy a poor man's Captain Planet would be still be WAY to kind. He was obnoxious, the game was unplayable...
But at least I didn't buy it with my allowance money. That went to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Let's see. Things I don't miss...
Vanilla Ice, Snow, Haddaway, Right Said Fred, La Macarena, the Achy-Breaky Dance, Rob Liefeld, Grunge fashion, dial-up internet, Nu Metal, Paul W.S. Anderson's Mortal Kombat flicks, Orbital, Hackers (the 1995 movie), The Net (also a 1995 movie), Johnny Mnemonic, The Toxic Crusaders (because Troma Films would totally make a nice and harmless basis for children's toons!), Stunt Dawgs, the way the Surfer Dude ethos spread to every corner of the English-speaking world, with every kid in my English class trying way too damn hard to be too cool for school, Smurf candies, dodgeball at recess...
I could go on for quite a while longer.
Here's what I do miss, just to turn things around...
Space's run of the entire "Tales from the Crypt" series. As an adolescent gore hound, this was my special time of the week. It's late at night, all the grownups are in bed, it's Friday night and all my homework has been taken care of. That meant it was time for me to rot my brain! If it wasn't that, it was one of the ton of bootleg VHS tapes I had. I snuck downstairs in the basement with a bag of popcorn and spent as much of the night as I could watching schlocky shit or playing through my SNES collection.
I still pull all-nighters regularly, but they've lost their charm. There's something about playing hooky with your sleeping hours when your parents still care that's difficult to top. When they stop caring, it's then that you start realizing how self-destructive this can be.
I miss my teenage metabolism. When I could convince the folks to go ahead and eat out and leave me twenty bucks, I'd add some extra cash from my own savings and order one of the local pizzeria's Extra Large combos with various other junky extras. I'd eat all that crap up and still feel like chewing through a horse.
Terribad movies and junk food. These were the Best Nights Ever. Now I eat a bambino-sized pizza and I'm stuffed for the evening and the following breakfast. My body's such a pussy.
I miss the VHS Atmosfear board games and being young enough to actually give a shit while playing them. I've passed the torch onto one of my younger cousins, but it's kinda hard to work up a decent fake indignant response when the Keymaster calls 29 year-old me "Old man" because I'm the eldest at the table...
I miss exclusive practical effects in horror movies, and I miss my first reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness". I miss my first Stephen King ever, and I miss a few surprisingly potent Shivers and Goosebumps novels. I miss being affected by these last two.
I miss SCUMM games. I know Telltale carries the torch, but there's just something about pixellated canine shamuses and anthropomorphic rabbitty things that's hard to beat. I miss the horribly awful Roberta Williams horror FMV games. Fuck, I miss the FMV era in general.
There's a whole damn lot of stuff I happen to miss. I'm a nostalgic guy, overall.
Vanilla Ice, Snow, Haddaway, Right Said Fred, La Macarena, the Achy-Breaky Dance, Rob Liefeld, Grunge fashion, dial-up internet, Nu Metal, Paul W.S. Anderson's Mortal Kombat flicks, Orbital, Hackers (the 1995 movie), The Net (also a 1995 movie), Johnny Mnemonic, The Toxic Crusaders (because Troma Films would totally make a nice and harmless basis for children's toons!), Stunt Dawgs, the way the Surfer Dude ethos spread to every corner of the English-speaking world, with every kid in my English class trying way too damn hard to be too cool for school, Smurf candies, dodgeball at recess...
I could go on for quite a while longer.
Here's what I do miss, just to turn things around...
Space's run of the entire "Tales from the Crypt" series. As an adolescent gore hound, this was my special time of the week. It's late at night, all the grownups are in bed, it's Friday night and all my homework has been taken care of. That meant it was time for me to rot my brain! If it wasn't that, it was one of the ton of bootleg VHS tapes I had. I snuck downstairs in the basement with a bag of popcorn and spent as much of the night as I could watching schlocky shit or playing through my SNES collection.
I still pull all-nighters regularly, but they've lost their charm. There's something about playing hooky with your sleeping hours when your parents still care that's difficult to top. When they stop caring, it's then that you start realizing how self-destructive this can be.
I miss my teenage metabolism. When I could convince the folks to go ahead and eat out and leave me twenty bucks, I'd add some extra cash from my own savings and order one of the local pizzeria's Extra Large combos with various other junky extras. I'd eat all that crap up and still feel like chewing through a horse.
Terribad movies and junk food. These were the Best Nights Ever. Now I eat a bambino-sized pizza and I'm stuffed for the evening and the following breakfast. My body's such a pussy.
I miss the VHS Atmosfear board games and being young enough to actually give a shit while playing them. I've passed the torch onto one of my younger cousins, but it's kinda hard to work up a decent fake indignant response when the Keymaster calls 29 year-old me "Old man" because I'm the eldest at the table...
I miss exclusive practical effects in horror movies, and I miss my first reading of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness". I miss my first Stephen King ever, and I miss a few surprisingly potent Shivers and Goosebumps novels. I miss being affected by these last two.
I miss SCUMM games. I know Telltale carries the torch, but there's just something about pixellated canine shamuses and anthropomorphic rabbitty things that's hard to beat. I miss the horribly awful Roberta Williams horror FMV games. Fuck, I miss the FMV era in general.
There's a whole damn lot of stuff I happen to miss. I'm a nostalgic guy, overall.
I suppose I can agree with Dial-up Internet. I certainly don't miss that.
And Boy Bands too. Don't miss those.
And Boy Bands too. Don't miss those.