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DrBouvenstein posted:Man, it's weird how much Nickelodeon loved do-wop, dinosaurs, and do-wopping dinosaurs. You mean you don't? 
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This is my car IRL. Same color and everything. Full Disclosure: Bought it from an old lady for $700. It only has 20,000 miles on it. It owns. Firstborn has a new favorite as of 21:47 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 21:41
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The Repo Man posted:Did anyone else get the Mortal Combat album by The Immortals in '95? If you have never heard this before, it's where the classic MK theme came from. At least listen the the Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Rayden ones. It's so bizarre. This is amazing, thanks!
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May 8, 2015 22:17
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Firstborn posted:This is my car IRL. Same color and everything. This is my exact car as well except mine has 125,000 more miles on it than yours 
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May 9, 2015 00:07
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DrBouvenstein posted:Related: Let's talk Branding for a second. It's 1985, and Viacom is done having Nickelodeon be this channel with a bunch of silver balls that no one ever watches. They want it to be big, they want it as game changing as MTV was four years ago, they want every child ever to associate Nickelodeon = Kids. So do how you do that? Well the marketing dudes who they hired had two main ideas, approaching this idea from two fronts: Visual and Audio. The Visual Strategy, we all know. That particular pantone of orange is STILL being used on that channel. But audio was interesting because you still have to somehow drill it into kids heads that "THIS IS YOUR CHANNEL, NICKELODEON IS FOR KIDS". But you also have the added difficulty of having this somewhat weird name that no one under a certain age is even sure is a Real Word. How do you get kids to remember Nick El O De On? Using doo wop bands to record the jingles just made all the sense in the world when you think about it. For a fascinating read on this subject, turns out you can go to the very people responsible for all of us having "NICK NICK NICK" stuck in our head til our dying breath. http://fredalan.org/post/69620536/the-doo-wopping-of-television-1984-1992
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May 9, 2015 00:27
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Watching those bumpers were crazy to me. A weird mix of things I never think about and things that will be forever implanted in my memories.
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May 9, 2015 02:18
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I'm from Canada where nickelodeon was a thing at the end of Ren and Stimpy and all of those bumpers are embedded into my subconscious.
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May 9, 2015 02:38
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That really was some genius promo work. I was already a little too old for Nickelodeon at the time, but my little sisters watched the gently caress out of it and 20+ years later that jingle still pops into my head every now and then.
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May 9, 2015 04:41
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The Repo Man posted:Did anyone else get the Mortal Combat album by The Immortals in '95? If you have never heard this before, it's where the classic MK theme came from. At least listen the the Scorpion, Sub-Zero, and Rayden ones. It's so bizarre. Yes, but only after 2000, when I would use it as something to put on as a gag. It's amazing. There are black divas singing about how "Raiden. He's never gonna die," and the idiot from Lords of Acid making the worst techno imaginable.
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May 9, 2015 08:45
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It's weird seeing nostalgia for show like Hey Arnold and Doug because everyone i knew at the time thought they were the most boring kids shows on T.V.. I especially hated Rugrats both because it tried so hard to be cute and the fact that the art style looked like rear end. Myself, I was a Cartoon Network man. hope you got six hours to spare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrvU2OctIA
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May 9, 2015 11:03
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I was into the Disney Afternoon stuff like Darkwing Duck ( ) and TaleSpin. I remember the Disney Channel in Britain had this sort of "all day Live and Kicking" set-up, where there'd be stuff with presenters in the studio in between cartoons, who'd run competitions and take viewer calls. Then there was always a movie at 7pm.
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May 9, 2015 12:07
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Right beer company. Wrong commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-yGp4l8B8 Sundays on ESPN watching racing of some sorts always brings back this commercial for me.
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May 9, 2015 23:59
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Hey, remember 90s cartoons about DINOSAURS? Running around shooting people? Those were pretty Xtreme right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvtasDCXsw Wait 90s what are you doing, that's not Xtreme at all. God help me why do I remember this silly thing
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May 10, 2015 00:51
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I was into dinosaurs in the 1990s, but I think I may have clearer memories of this than I do of Jurassic Park.
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May 10, 2015 14:23
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was into dinosaurs in the 1990s, but I think I may have clearer memories of this than I do of Jurassic Park. I was 100% expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWU0OjliAs
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May 10, 2015 15:09
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was into the Disney Afternoon stuff like Darkwing Duck ( The theme to that and Goof Troop have been taking up very valuable, very limited space in my brain since at least 1996. Let's-get-dangerous.
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May 10, 2015 16:41
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Dr. Chainsaws PhD posted:Let's-get-dangerous. When there's trouble you call DW.
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May 10, 2015 18:39
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Dr. Chainsaws PhD posted:The theme to that and Goof Troop have been taking up very valuable, very limited space in my brain since at least 1996. Yesterday I saw two 30 y.o. men recite the lyrics to Stand Out verbatim after seeing the cover to A Very Goofy Movie on Vudu.
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May 11, 2015 03:11
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Kitsch! posted:This is my exact car as well except mine has 125,000 more miles on it than yours if it makes you feel better the older a car is and the less miles it has on it is usually a Bad Thing
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May 11, 2015 05:18
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was into dinosaurs in the 1990s, but I think I may have clearer memories of this than I do of Jurassic Park. 13Pandora13 posted:I was 100% expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWU0OjliAs What, no Denver, the Last Dinosaur?
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May 11, 2015 06:02
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Even though this Macbeth adaption was clearly inspired by Mad Max, it is super 90's. From Macbeth's (played by Sean Pertwee) frosted tips to the Matrix-y outfits and the generic techno music and the horrible CGI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0L5AWDACQ
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May 11, 2015 06:17
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DrBouvenstein posted:Related: It's not the best example of it, but I still know this song by heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfDw619p2Tw
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May 11, 2015 06:33
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For your big fat information, this is our imagination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLU97sXo8QU
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May 11, 2015 06:35
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There was also one on Cartoon Network called Dink, the Little Dinosaur, which is one of the cartoons I saw when I was very young, forgot about completely for about 15 years, then rediscovered via the Internet. See also: Fish Police; The Pirates of Dark Water; The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest; Chris Colorado. There was another one, though the name escapes me, where the only thing I remember was the opening theme, which had the main characters (a team of scientists) with a flying (?) island base who ride these flying discs through the air; I'm pretty sure their cat had an "and starring" credit or something. A likely holdover from the 1980s, I imagine. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:There was also one on Cartoon Network called Dink, the Little Dinosaur, which is one of the cartoons I saw when I was very young, forgot about completely for about 15 years, then rediscovered via the Internet. Would that be Sky Surfer Strike Force? I'm just pulling half remembered 90's names out of my rear end here.
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I don't think so - I think it had a mind of Hanna Barbera aesthetic; sort of like the Godzilla cartoon. Like I say, it may very well have been a 1980s holdover. I have a peculiar notion that the cat was called Julius Caesar or something like that. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 08:26 on May 12, 2015 |
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May 12, 2015 08:22
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13Pandora13 posted:I was 100% expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWU0OjliAs 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't think so - I think it had a mind of Hanna Barbera aesthetic; sort of like the Godzilla cartoon. Like I say, it may very well have been a 1980s holdover. I tried to figure out what you were talking about but couldn't But I did re-discover Eek! the Cat.
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13Pandora13 posted:I was 100% expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWU0OjliAs That music sounds straight out of a Westwood game. Speaking of which, awesome intros + my first soundblaster card = nostalgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tppjzT-su0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBokT0HQ7jk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRNCCkdkMlQ SpaceGoatFarts has a new favorite as of 10:45 on May 12, 2015 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:There was also one on Cartoon Network called Dink, the Little Dinosaur, which is one of the cartoons I saw when I was very young, forgot about completely for about 15 years, then rediscovered via the Internet. Real Adventures was cool because they decided to go all modern conspiracy theory stuff instead of the jungle poo poo. Also Questworld
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Goddrat was The Dig great! They went all out on it and it loving showed. A Spielberg IP, a veteran Hollywood composer, hand-drawn animated cutscenes, and Robert Patrick (who played the T-1000 from Terminator 2) doing the voice of the main character. Fun fact! Brink (the grumpy German teammate) was voiced by Steve Blum, who would go on to be in literally everything ever
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was into dinosaurs in the 1990s, but I think I may have clearer memories of this than I do of Jurassic Park.  thing I've seen. Certainly one effective way to impress the importance of environmentalism on kids.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYiLJlzh6Oc
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Smoking Crow posted:Real Adventures was cool because they decided to go all modern conspiracy theory stuff instead of the jungle poo poo. There's one episode where they fight a Medusa in Questworld; pretty sure it gave me nightmares when I was little. 
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May 12, 2015 16:32
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RagnarokAngel posted:The series finale was still the most gently caress you for bringing that up 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I was into the Disney Afternoon stuff like Darkwing Duck ( It wouldn't be Live and Kicking (or whatever ITV equivilent was going out at the same time) without a near-unbearable half-hour gap between the first and second half of the cartoon filled with "wacky" studio antics that wound you up for the whole time as your patience was wearing thin. "BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO SPIDER-MAN"
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Speaking of which, awesome intros + my first soundblaster card = nostalgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfi3NPVLFJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c9xyryhCqY and most definitely, the peak of my early gaming years, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KljAkCs4YXU Where's my LBA3, you French bastards
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Reakted to Nickelodeon in the 90's, the AV Club just posted an interview they did with a former GUTS contestant: http://www.avclub.com/article/what-d-d-did-you-need-win-nickelodeon-guts-218860
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Speaking of Newgrounds (on the last page anyway) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMDJQ5UlpeQ
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I just remembered that The Fugees were a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIXyKmElvv8
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Nintendo has decided to bring back the 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvzyY1FKr0 
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