The 90s Nostalgia Thread

Is it bad that I can tell that's a late 80s / early 90s ad from the color palette alone?

And from the Pastels!

Are Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen doing some Early-Bird Cameo just in that image?

Also, I never liked Seinfeld

edited 23rd May '14 3:03:20 AM by MrsRatched

lolwut?

Me neither, it was funny, just not funny ha ha...

A quick way to get the 90's Sci-fi nerds to fight:

Babylon Five or Deep Space Nine

Even OvertheHedge did a gag on it...

~dons flame resistant Elegant Gothic Lolita dress~

I always throw a spanner in those arguments: Red Dwarf.

Neither, Quantum Leap was better!

Anyways lets talk about 90's video games!

Everything from Mario to Mortal Kombat!

OK, I didn't played videogames in the nineties, I was quite the analogical guy out of Pokémon.

I liked street fighter though

Also, I never really watched Dragonball, but along with the street fighter series, I think it had some effect on mi future (current) homosexuality and Gym Bunny tendencies

I would say the most enjoyment out of all my collection would be my jam packed demo discs for the sheer variety.

Speaking of Pokemon, this is my profile picture for work on our code repository/ticketing site. It gets a laugh every time.

Computer Shopper: ah 3-7 pounds of computer ads...such bliss...such damage to my wallet...

Oddish was a Pokemon that I really wanted and I couldn't catch the first time I played

Humorous as you might think that is... The original will always be the most SQUEEEE!!!

edited 25th May '14 1:54:39 AM by Paktra

I might change my picture to that

I was born in '92 which makes me feel to young for this subforum even if I'm not the youngest here. Anyways late 90s I guess, YTV (well it's still there obviously) was the first season of Pokemon late 90s or early 2000s? We (my brother and I) had pogs, and Power Ranger toys I had a pink ranger (or is it yellow?) doll, my brother had a power rangers call thing which went "go go power rangers" which I probably ran down the battery on a lot. Our big brother showed us how to play lemmings. Also I was too young to know the economy was bad where I lived at the time, so I have fond memories.

went as Rufio to Dragon Con last weekend. Operation nostalgia bomb on all 90s kids was a resounding success. Like people would start chanting "Rufio Rufio Ru-fi-ooooooooo" whenever I'd walk into a room (and I would crow back, obv), and I couldn't get around anywhere because I'd keep getting stopped for pictures.

I don't understand cosplay.

Ah the 90's. The economy was good, optimism was high, and the future was looking bright.

Then came along the events of late 2000 and late 2001.

And is it me or did animation quality take a drastic nosedive after the 90's? Compare the animation quality of 90's cartoon shows like Tiny Toons, or Animaniacs, or Batman, to Teen Titans Go, or Phineas and Ferb.

But don't you know? It's "stylized".

@Xplasma Maybe it's true maybe it's the Nostalgia Goggles

@phantom 1 You may be right at least partly. Computers in the 90's were a joke compared to now, and now we have things like 3D printers, Netflix, Youtube, this wiki...

Then again we also have... well maybe treading into politics is a bad idea so I'll leave it at that.

@Xplasma Yes and you don't have to share these ones with the rest of your family either ;).

@phantom 1

Hah. yeah.

First PC we had was an IBM Pentium 1 system, that ran at 75 Mhz. (This was by the time the Pentium 2's were out) They couldn't get the system to boot, so I asked to take a look at it. Turned off virus detection in the BIOS and Win 95 began to boot, that old Connor HDD grinding away nice and loud.

Since that day I've been the PC repair tech in the family. It's a blessing and a curse. Blessed with suck I guess you could say.

When we first got it, it didn't have a sound card. However I found a driver that turned the PC speaker into a rudimentary sound card. The motherboard had jumpers to connect an external speaker, so I rigged up an old 16 ohm bookshelf speaker (placed well away from the HDD... even then I knew about magnets and computers), and had something that would play WAV files.

Then later I put an SB 16 sound card in it.

Then an ATI Rage video card with a whopping 8 MB of VRAM.

Then later I realized the flash cartoons on joecartoon.com played too slowly and upgraded the CPU. Then I ran into the motherboard's CPU multiplier limits (100 Mhz was as high as the multiplier went)

Then I persuaded my family to buy a CPU upgrade kit which was supposed to upgrade the system to a 333 Mhz K6 II (got the system to 233 Mhz, how I do not know. Then finally I gave up on it and we got a cheap Compaq.

Man I thought being the computer guy was awesome, and that I'd get rich by fixing computers... I wasn't the only one with that idea, to say the least.

edited 20th Sep '14 1:53:14 PM by Xplasma

Oh cool I spent the 90s being under 8, and have never had the patience(?) for computer repair, but still interesting.

My first computer was an 8088 XT from Price Club. Daddy got it to play games and we kept upgrading it. From a 80 MB, (yes megabyte) HDD to a joystick. Then the 486DX 33Mhz came out in 1992. I got Doom and Doom ][ a few years latter. A Sound Blaster card, an ATI video card to better handle color, those CD-ROM things were all the rage and we got one in '95. Printers went from Dot Matrix to Ink Jet in 1995. I wallpapered my room with pin-ups of Seven of Nine, Susan Ivanona, the pics of a Cool Plane, Cool Ship and nature. Ah dial-up, my old friend. Many a good session on Telnet or on the web was interrupted with "Mija, I need to use the phone!"

I got to build my first compy in 1997. I remember 'cus when UPS delivered the case, Princess Di passed away. She was a Pentium 166, the card was an ATI PC 2 TV at 8 MB, a 5 GB HDD, a CD-ROM and a zip drive that was internal (Ooooh! Aaah!). Modems were now winmodems and mine was slow as a snail on downers. Windows 95 fixed the plug and pray issues so I gots to play my games without IRQ problems or moving jumpers with a needle-nosed pliers set.

Then in 1999 I gots my 400Mhz Pentium 2. a 32 MB Ati RAGE card, a TV-card, a CD-burner (first a 2x then a 4x burner), zip drives and a 10GB HDD. A Sound Blaster card, USB modem and printer rounded out the mix.

Poor thing died because the company that sold my mobo sent me a bum one. In 2002 I had to upgrade. But I still remember those comps fondly.

edited 20th Sep '14 3:12:32 PM by TairaMai