I remember....

[NissanXEPilot]

So I'm talking to my youngest daughter about things I saw and had at her age and it got me to thinking.

I remember......

MTV (when it really was all music videos all day, every day!)
Parachute pants
Net shirts
Cassette tapes (and God... 8 track tapes)
Vinyl records
Smurfs
Atari pong
Atari 2600 (which I still have, and yes it STILL works)
Video arcades
my KISS radio
and Drive-In movie theatres.

[JRock]

there's a drive in theater on US 92 in Lakeland... I remember tapes, hammer pants, parachute pants, hypercolor shirts, gotcha guns, crystal pepsi, all kinds of shit.

i'm old.

[Mrs.Ryan]

dude crystal pepsi! wow.

i remember having an 8-track player, my parents ALWAYS had MTV on... i had a rush 8track.

i remember my first cassette player....and my first cassette tape was Joey Lawrence. lol

and most of all i remember the NEW KIDS!!!!!!!!!

[nisrod]

lets see,,,fraggle rock,,,fat boy shoe strings,,coca cola shirts,,return of suspenders,,and what ever happened to saturday morning cartoons???

[O.G.Tierdrop]

reel to reel...the moon walk...jams shorts...b/w tv...uhf...chuck taylor allstars(i still own a pair)thunder cats...ok ill stop now before i remember to much stuff

[JRock]

the original ninja turtles...

vanilla ice...

run dmc...

graffiti...

mcdonalds food in styrofoam boxes...

[iceechix]

ok i remember

smurfs
alf
The Snorks
thunder cats
speed racer
Johnny Quest
fraggle rock
Eureka's Castle
The Jetsons
Flinstones
Scobby Doo




can you tell i love cartoons...yep still love them
oh oh oh what about Bugs Bunny cartoons and all the old loony tunes cartoons.....god i miss those....beep beep.....Road Runner kicked ass.lol I miss Saturday morning cartoons get up at like 6 go in the living room before my parents got up and turn on the tv and watch cartoons like or what seemed like all day long.... those were the good ol' days...

[JRock]

alf!

WILLIE!!!!!!

my fave was the mr t cartoon

[pugz girl]

i loved the sat morning cartoons w/ looney tunes. they don't play those anymore. and i loved tom & jerry. remember garfield the cartoon along w/ the farm animals u.s. acres (orsen's farm). and the after school cartoons animaniacs w/ pinky and the brain!! and we had intellivision before the original nintendo. we had to fight our parents in order to play super mario bros. and DUCK HUNT!! lol. i feel old now.

[Mr.Ryan]

yeah when you guys were gettin your Nintendos' i was gettin my atari 2600, i've always been behind the times, crystal pepsi was awesome do yall remember the WWF cartoon? or even heathcliff?

[low96hb]

GI Joe, The origional Transformers, Star wars, NES with The Legend of Zelda, airwolf, dukes of hazzard, Fall guy, and this list could go on forever...:bug:

[layedoutnissan]

reel to reel...the moon walk...jams shorts...b/w tv...uhf...chuck taylor allstars(i still own a pair)thunder cats...ok ill stop now before i remember to much stuff

jams, I loved those shorts. Hey anyone remember the name of the shirt that changed colors when you put your hand on it?

[Monster2TG]

Wow, you guys took me back! Anybody remember Turbo Teen or The Mask(cartoon)? What about the original Transformer cartoons..... Go Bots, Robotech, The A Team, The Fall Guy, etc.....

[Mr.Ryan]

jams, I loved those shorts. Hey anyone remember the name of the shirt that changed colors when you put your hand on it?

Hypercolor shirts i had a ton of em, yall remember skids too! the big ass weird printed pants

[layinframe]

Everyone forgot POWER RANGERS... Not the new stupid ones. Pop rocks. Push pops. Flinstone vitamins...coke bottle glasses.

[NissanXEPilot]

Toons...
Felix the cat, Betty Boop, Rocky & Bullwinkle, & Yogi

G.I. Joe action figure, and I aint talking about the pint size "go joe" prima donna crap either. The full size, mop the floor with Ken and Barbie's pansy asses dude who has a sub, plane, tank and jeep.

[layedoutnissan]

The movie tron and the coke ads with max headrum

[Ice]

hell yeah, the Fall guy!!! and knight rider, and the greatest american hero , wonderwoman, incredible Hulk the series , Quency (sp?) , the 6billion dollar man, real cartoons. i remember the damn hand held football game that was just - - - lines, that you had to run 3-4 screens to make a touchdown.
atari , comador64 computer . b/w tv that you had to use a vise grip to turn channels and tune each snowy channel...

i remember the pizza shop we went to called Nobal romans , where they had a big screen tv, that played all the old black and white shows, like 3 stooges, superman and etc...
the twilight zone was the bomb....
cars with power windows was the shit.... and classy...
people wore there pants around there waist , except women they had there pants above there belly buttons ?!?!:crazy: ..

the movies ninja 1 ,2,3 and all the other stuff, rambo and stuff...

i remember the first microwave at our house....

i had a kick ass pioneer cassette deck that had Auto reverse...

[Monster2TG]

Anybody remember The Glove that Nintendo had? Lol! I feel old as fuck right now..........I also remember alot more minitrucks ridin around back then.

[nisrod]

hey ice my kid dug that football game out the other day when we were going through some boxes,,if i can find what he did with it ill take a pic and post it..what about local motion stickers,,airwolf,,,bloopers and practical jokes with edmcman and dick clark!!

[SkinnyG]

Anyone buy KISS bubblegum cards other than me? Buy enough packs, and you piece together a big bubblegum card KISS Poster...

G

[jdoe44]

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Reebok "The Pump" shoes

Bazooka Joe comics

When rap was just funny stories about life instead of reading a list of expensive things that you own.

[Jokr]

my town still has a drive in

[Monster2TG]

^^Good call

You guys remember British Knights and LA Gear shoes? Cant forget the Shell toe adidas made famous by Run DMC.

Onething I remember quite a bit of people did back in the days when I was growing up, taking the subwoofers from the home stereo systems and hooking it up in the car. :rofl: I dont know if that was a hood thing or alot of other people did it, but I will never forget watching some dudes hook them up.

[Jokr]

Anybody remember The Glove that Nintendo had? Lol! I feel old as fuck right now..........I also remember alot more minitrucks ridin around back then.

hehe i still have a glove
i remember these ads
http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc308/jokrreapr/powerglovead.jpg

[steadywestcoastin]

lets bring it back... ghost busters, voltron, thundercats, rambo (the cartoon), heman, g.i. joe (when they had sgt. slaughter), ultimate warrior, kung fu shoes, american ninja (movie), labyrinth (movie), the dark crystal (movie), nintendo (excite bike, town and country surf/skate, zelda- gold cartrage, ninja gaidan, double dragon),
turbo graphix 16, michael jackson thriller on mtv, berry gordy's the last dragon (movie)... "whos the master? sho'nuff" "now kiss my converse", ozone and turbo from breakin and not to leave out electric boogaloo, a christmas story (classic movie)stevie b, timmy t, newcleus, debbie deb, the fats boys (rap group), biz markee.... the wizard (movie with fred savage)

[02GreenFronty]

i remember when dually truck owners would put those huge metal spoilers on top of the cabs

[Ice]

talking about shows...
original Battlestargalica , buck rogers, mork and mindy, i spy, buck rogers, i dream of jennie (i still do, she was hot back then), bewitch . 3'scompany,
oh hell who remembers the muppets!?! Johny Carson , the Beny Hen show (i think that was the name, dirty comedy show) . HEE HAW ! hahah

i remember when Stone wash pants just came out...
also remember when Metallica was hard and heavy .
when zz top was cool with the long beards , i use to dream of having there 35 ford ... back then i called the ford a ZZ top ... lol
i remember when the brothers walked around with "the boom box" on there shoulder and pulled out cardboards to break dance...
i also remember when Michael Jackson was black too...
i remember when Choppers motorcycles was just few parts off the bike and the forks raked out 10 feet! hahah...

Nisrod, love to see that pic... i think wallmart still sells the game...
speakin gof Wallmart, i remember there thing was "import is junk , buy American" when they had nothing but American stuff and supported American jobs....

i remember the cool thing was to say "go ahead, make my day" clint estwood movies.. but every tv show had to plug the line somehow...

[$krap_IN_flesh]

alright someone says crystal pepsi and NO ONE brings up pepsi cool cans. I have labrinth and dark crystal on DVD. and you weren't kool if you didn't have some snap bracelet and neon color shoelaces with your jeans pegged wearin a vison street wear shirt

[Monster2TG]

turbo graphix 16

You are the fucking man! Me and some friends always bring shit up from the past, and everytime I mentioned Turbo Graphix 16, no one knew what it was. I still have mine in storage.........runs to storage to get it

[stratusrt01]

Most of the good stuff has been covered, but I've got a couple more:

Le Coq Sportif sweatsuits
Kangaroos - The shoes with the little pocket on the side that you might fit a quarter in
Ocean Pacific or OP gear
the red leather jacket with all the zippers

[Monster2TG]

What about members only jackets, Lol!

[$krap_IN_flesh]

What about members only jackets, Lol!

luckily I can say I was never a member. hated their collars

[Mr.Ryan]

lawn darts the real ones with the spear end on them, micro-machines, penny racers, the shows facts of life, different strokes, A-team, and god awe full hip sacks and the black spandex shorts with the neon stripe up the sides of the leg, wearing a pair of colored shorts over top of your Grey sweatpants hahaha damn this brings me back

[mrs.drginazz]

i am not really old but old shit for me is like pogz (those little round disks that you like traded...and the slap braclets...alf...

[Mr.Ryan]

wow mrs.drginazz 19 huh, so to you backstreet boys and limp bizkit was back in the day lol just playin around wit cha, but ya i had an assload of them slap bracelets and i still have an old ALF shirt that i will never ever fit into again

[$krap_IN_flesh]

laser dics, when zelda came out and no one left there house for months, how bad you wanted a hoover board when Back to the future came out, afterschool specials, converse chuckies that were 12 holed so you folded them done, Sk8 tv, gleming the cube ""hum think I was a skater kid"" Radical Rick, before the Internet man we had it ruff huh

[mrs.drginazz]

yeahhh...back when i was a kid...slap braclets were the prize from the basket at the damn dentist office..yeah haha more nsync though..and the dammn spice girls...haha...and those blue dinos ( they made your mouth turn blue )...stuff like that..

[slammed97]

garbage pale kids cards.......hahaha damn....

[KENDIG]

looks like almost all te good things have been covered. i didnt see inspector gadget mentioned or how about T.G.I.F. on abc every friday night.

[Swschz]

heh,guess im a youngin compared to most of you buy back in my day....it was pokemon cartoons(had to go to my mates to watch since we didnt have a tv back then)pokemon toys....pokemon trading cards..well pokemon anything...tonka trucks that were about a foot long,chatter rings,i remember my mate getting an orig ps1 from england,having paid like 300 pounds for it...trying to have a go on gran turismo 1......lego..cant forget good ol lego...love that shit...and no fancy blocks and bits like you can get now days.......goosebump books series...tintin comic books....astrix and oblix comics.

[mrs.drginazz]

looks like almost all te good things have been covered. i didnt see inspector gadget mentioned or how about T.G.I.F. on abc every friday night.


OMG TGIF!!! THAT WAS MY FAVORITE...
i stayed at my grams every friday night and thats what i did.. i loved that shit..step by step and stuff!!..:nana2:

[Mr.Ryan]

what was it? full house, family matters, step by step and what else?

[bagndrag]

ha i watchen tom and jerry last weekend for like 2 hours just cuz it was on and i didnt feel like doing anything around the house.... but there ws also a 4 and 6 year old in the house with me

[Monster2TG]

Anybody mention the Goonies? "HEY YOU GUYS!!!" haha, Sloth was discusting lookin

[Ice]

how about the good ol Yogi Bear ! "hey boo booo!!!" .. hahah

it pisses me off when they took Road Runner off the tv cause it was "too violent" but you watch all these stupid , yes i said STUPID cartoons nowdays , they are way way too serious and Violent !!
i swear once we have kids, im gonna be bying tons of dvds of old as cartoons and pre-watch the movies before i let my kids see anything...

do they even show any kid learning stuff anymore? like school house rock and stuff? why cant they throw little learning in cartoons for kids ?

anyways.... not saying all the old cartoons were good for us either.. lol

but back to being old....

i remember when...... i use to watch all those Kung foo movies from cross seas , lips dont match voices!! hahah

[scr8pnHard]

Gi Joe,The Fall Guy,Duke boys,Night rider, What about the show after Sat Cartoons, What was it call with the boy and the horse? Cant think of it oh well. Scooby doo I still like watching it lol

[nisrod]

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff105/nisrod/game001.jpg
ice this is the one ive got...sorry bout the flash....copyright on back says 1980,,,,how many of you guys were born in 1980???

[Mr.Ryan]

I was! November 1st 1980 at 2:12 pm lol

[iceechix]

yeahhh...back when i was a kid...slap braclets were the prize from the basket at the damn dentist office..yeah haha more nsync though..and the dammn spice girls...haha...and those blue dinos ( they made your mouth turn blue )...stuff like that..


see i'm right there with you on that....lol that's what i remember mostly but as said in first post i remember alot on the old cartoons...

[KENDIG]

what was it? full house, family matters, step by step and what else?

at one time it was home improvment but they would change every couple years i think

[KENDIG]

they still do have some cartoons that allow the children to learn. mostly on the disney channel though.

yeah they have the little einsteins, mickey mouse clubhouse, my friends tigger and pooh and some others. nickelodeon has some also with dora, go diego go, the backyardigans and others. cant tell thats all i get to watch anymore can ya lol.

[pugz girl]

what about the original afv (america's funniest videos) w/ bob saget! i still watch that show. i love ppl who do retarded things on camera!

[david29]

Thooooose weeeeere theeeee daaaaaaays

All in the Family TV show.

[KENDIG]

star search haha

[O.G.Tierdrop]

gummy bears...big league chew...ring pops...actual phone booths that took .10 cents to call...rotary dial phones...skid pants...pink mussel men...the days i actually had money...gas under a buck...cigs cost 1.29...29 cent stamps

[Jokr]

what about rescue 911 or mighty mouse
i still remember these shows

[Ice]

Thooooose weeeeere theeeee daaaaaaays

All in the Family TV show.

oh man, all in the family? i remember that.... eventhough it was reruns by time i watched , but i remember Gunsmoke, other one "rife" something...
banaza (sp?) and few other cowboy movies i loved to watch....

Swat , startchy and hutch , haha, i have to say i use to watch Lavern and sherly (sp?) ... and of course Happy Days! ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the fonze .. when he was cool... lol

[OLDSCHOOL]

that would be rifleman

[Jokr]

i remember f troop that is a old one

[pugz girl]

i just ran across this website: http://onceuponawin.com/

it has all of the above mentioned things and then some. i miss a lot of these things. ahhhh childhood!! :)

[layedoutnissan]

nice find.

[entropyyy]

when i was a youngin (not so long ago,17) i remember crazy bones,those little plastic charachters you had to like,line them up and chuck them to knock over other peoples in a line like 10 feet away. anybody remember mullets? elmer fudd was funny as hell...shh be vewy vewy quiet,im huntin wabbits. hungry hungry hippos was amazing. anybody have a lite bright? that was bomb back in the day...

[JRock]

zubaz pants. the fresh prince of bel air. diff'rent strokes. knight rider where it wasn't a piece of shit ford. I PITY DA FOO THAT DON'T EAT MY CEREAL! uh... my first computer used cassette tapes for data storage... uh... hey, the odyssey ][ video game... uh... station wagons... clark w. griswold... gremlins...gremlins cereal... hot wheels with the race track... uh...hot wheels cereal lol... run dmc.... heartbeat graphics, texas tails, truxarossa kits, billy beer, "new coke", the kool-aid man, JOHNNY FLIPPIN CARSON, weird al yankovic, there was no such thing as a pedophile, car phones, and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrSN7176XI

this fucking guy.

[02GreenFronty]

when AOL charged by the hour
rat-tails
when a car that's a POS now, used to be show-room quality
VHS was popular
cassettes were popular
remote controls only had a power button and 4 buttons for the volume and channels
when channel 98 and 99 were porno and you could actually see something through the scrambled crap
floppy discs
we used to have an old Apple IIgs computer that had a 2.2k modem and a dot matrix printer. i remember having to restart that thing every time i played a new game
the Delorean DMC-12
3 words - Ice Ice Baby
The Highwaymen outlaw country supergroup
Mama's Family
Beavis and Butt-Head
when MTV pretty much showed videos 24/7 and not much else
Saved By The Bell
MC Hammer
MC Hammer's parachute pants
Kid N Play
NKOTB
the deaths of Tupac and Notorious BIG
The tragic death of Metallica's bass player Cliff Burton
when Metallica consisted of James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Ron McGovney and Dave Mustaine
when Bill Cosby was the spokesman for Jell-O
Fat Albert
when Shaquille O'Neal rapped

[JRock]

betamax

laserdisc

kid-n-play (That S-10 was bad-ass and we all know it)....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryS4kgwxOE&feature=PlayList&p=D9EBE0ECA0029614&playnext=1&index=39

[02GreenFronty]

betamax

laserdisc

kid-n-play (That S-10 was bad-ass and we all know it)....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cryS4kgwxOE&feature=PlayList&p=D9EBE0ECA0029614&playnext=1&index=39


naw, bump that...

BAM!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaeNelsAOGo

[Monster2TG]

I dont know if anybody else is into old school hip hop like myself, but does anybody remember the movie Krush Groove or Breakin?

[O.G.Tierdrop]

i think i still got thier tape.

and when cigs costed 1.25 per pack...40oz costed .99 cents,,pay phones

[JRock]

dude!!!! that video is full of Ronal R-9's and Weds GS's! *THAT* is some OLD SKOOL shit, I love it!


and hey monster... Who's the greatest? SHO NUFF!

[Monster2TG]

The Last Dragon! Hell yea, that was a classic.

[JRock]

goddamnit where's our old old-skool youtube video thread at?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKONgfNONU&feature=related

[Monster2TG]

What about Top Gun, Iron Eagle, Three O'clock High, Fast Times at Ridgemonte high, Rocky 3 and 4, Tron......Which they are coming out with part2 really soon

[JRock]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxE_oQBwrdU

Tron?

[O.G.Tierdrop]

what about the movie they call me bruce, and the sequel they still call me bruce

[Monster2TG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxE_oQBwrdU

Tron?

:rofl2:at Dave Chapelle

:eek:You havent seen Tron! Dude, go out and rent it.

[Monster2TG]

what about the movie they call me bruce, and the sequel they still call me bruce


I have not seen that or even heard of it:(

[O.G.Tierdrop]

I have not seen that or even heard of it:(

it was a movie about an asian man, who everyone call bruce...like bruce lee

[JRock]

tron was on tv last week... its not the same w/o drugs though

[Monster2TG]

:rofl: Wow bro

[JRock]

same thing i tell everybody... tell me when i'm wrong.

[O.G.Tierdrop]

what, like what i do? tell them i did to many drugs when i was younger

[Monster2TG]

Come on, you guys are talking to someone who smokes and works in Sandals:D

[JRock]

LOL... it's florida though. i'm the only mf in florida who doesn't own a pair of sandals dude.

[Monster2TG]

Lol! I have stock in Sandals:rofl:

[O.G.Tierdrop]

Come on, you guys are talking to someone who smokes and works in Sandals:D

damn hippie

[JRock]

this is coming from asian jesus lol

[Monster2TG]

hahaha

[O.G.Tierdrop]

yall are gonna end up making me cut my hair off...

[Monster2TG]

You wont do it bro

[JRock]

i don't care if it rains or freezes
long as i got my asian jesus
sittin up drinkin 40's at the bar

[O.G.Tierdrop]

You wont do it bro

you dont know....i just been really really tired of working in kitchen...ive been thinking about cutting it off, and joining society as a clean cut asian

[JRock]

You wont do it bro

lol I saw your before and after pictures bro... lol....

[JRock]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mIiH5W6XI8&NR=1

[O.G.Tierdrop]

cryS4kgwxOE

[Monster2TG]

:rofl: Class Act, I havent seen that shit in forever. And you are right Jrock, I thought that S10 was the shit and wanted one myself:rofl:

[manic_mechanic]

I remeber:
Captain kangaroo
Magnum P.I.
Simon & Simon
A.M. radio
Boston, Styx, and Kansas on 8 track
Jartz (which I found a set for sale her in town.Thought they were outlawed)
I remeber when shag carpet and murals on vans was the in thing.

[Monster2TG]

you dont know....i just been really really tired of working in kitchen...ive been thinking about cutting it off, and joining society as a clean cut asian


Dude, I didnt wanna cut my hair. But after I did it and took a drive with the windows rolled down, fellin the breeze flow through my bald head felt pretty damn good:D But I am actually growin mine out again, rockin a mini frow right now..........