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Without revealing your age, what’s something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?
- Thread starter Dalek
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Just a tiny bit before my time!
Now I'm interested though. Will see if BritBox has it.
I used to love that as a kid! There was that guy who said 'Doogy Rev' whenever someone did something right because he spoke backwards and that vortex thing at the end that chased people around that grid!
I feel really nostalgic for that method.Toys R Us
Pulling the ticket for the game you want and getting it from the front window.
The DK ( Dorling Kindersly) Computer games:
For Example - The Skeleton One
Oh Wait!
The intro is legit!
For Example - The Skeleton One
Oh Wait!
The intro is legit!
Those were such pieces of shit and I never enjoyed them.The old Tiger LCD games lol.
My first television had no colour and was black and white. My folks bought it for me to play my Atari on as B&W tvs were pretty cheap in the 80s.
There is a lot of great memories in this thread. Very nostalgic for me. Almost brough tears ot my eyes cause of some of the memories. Thanks for this one :)
There is a lot of great memories in this thread. Very nostalgic for me. Almost brough tears ot my eyes cause of some of the memories. Thanks for this one :)
Toys R Us
Pulling the ticket for the game you want and getting it from the front window.
The worst was when you got your ticket, paid for it at the register, then took it to the window only to find out they didn't have it and your mom had to yell at the manager.
These guys used to be all over my city. Just so random dude selling pretzels. Middle of street, just pull up to a red light and get 5 for a $1.
Having to get up and walk to the TV to change the volume or channel.
Popping the black plastic tag out of a VHS cassette to stop someone taping over a film or show. Subsequently scrunching a wad of paper into the revealed hole and putting sellotape over it to record on that cassette again.
Being worried by the very real threat of annihilation in a global thermonuclear war.
Popping the black plastic tag out of a VHS cassette to stop someone taping over a film or show. Subsequently scrunching a wad of paper into the revealed hole and putting sellotape over it to record on that cassette again.
Being worried by the very real threat of annihilation in a global thermonuclear war.
My grandparents lived way out in the country and had a party line. You could pick up the phone and hear their neighbor's phone calls.
I remember having to stop pushing the lawnmower every 40 seconds to let it buffer or whatever lol
I would enter it to see what new games came out but I never actually bought any there.
They had a great catalogue. Too bad 3/4s of the shit in it was never in stock lol
0800 mum dad : "you have received a call from Yoit'sScramblewe'reatthepark. Would you like to accept the charges?" "Please say who's calling after the tone: alrighti'llbe5mins"
Or 7 people in a phone box calling 0800 28 29 30 and asking what you thought were funny and crude sex questions.
Here's an unintentionally dark one: Toy guns without the orange tips. I had an awesome battery-powered squirt-gun SMG that fell into this category.
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The people doing the marketing were so old they used a CCR song for the commercial
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That's a great pull. The special edition for the OG Star Trek was fantastic as well.
After Dark was the best thing on my PC.
That reminds me of the first incarnation from the 80s, Pocket RockersVHS. I had a rewinder that looked like a convertible and wouldn't work half the time, but I thought it was so cool.
Getting music off Limewire. Before that, I remember listening to HitClips, which didn't even play full songs.
The people doing the marketing were so old they used a CCR song for the commercial
One and two dollar bills (in Canada).
Sega consoles.
Convenience stores having signs saying "Thank you, come again" and it not being a Simpsons reference.
Adults always yelling at kids that weren't theirs.
New Coke.
Sega consoles.
Convenience stores having signs saying "Thank you, come again" and it not being a Simpsons reference.
Adults always yelling at kids that weren't theirs.
New Coke.
Toys R Us
Pulling the ticket for the game you want and getting it from the front window.
I know a Toys R Us that still had games like that until they closed down around 2016.
Do you need to make a phone call?
Born in '86. What are these?
Okay future-man. I remember when the TV guide came
I loved their catalogue. I used to get it before Christmas and circle all the shit I wanted.
