Nostalgia, as we all know very well, is a powerful and bittersweet emotion. It's like a time-machine that brings us back to simpler times. And so, perhaps no group is as vocal about their sentiments towards nostalgia as those who grew up in the '80s, '90s, and early noughties.
From memories of the iconic Walkman CD players that didn't fit into any pocket to the legendary Tamagotchis that we lovingly cared for (but occasionally forgot to feed), many of these relics are hard to come by today. If you listen carefully, you can still hear the 1991 Sonic "Segaaa" soundbite in your head. It's a good thing then, that online communities such as 'The Nostalgic 80s, 90s & 2000s', step in with nostalgia-fueled memes as a way of keeping these memories alive. So scroll down and see which retro-nostalgic memes we handpicked for your journey down memory lane today.
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The first movie that pops up in my head seeing him and followed by Spaceballs
Load More Replies...His wife died in 1991, but it was 1997 when he started a hiatus from film making. He made quite a number of films between 1991 and 1997, including The Flintstones, but it was as the children got older that he found it harder to combine work and family.
Rick! Your kids are in their 30s now. Let go, and make some more movies!
Yeah, his priorities were straight. They were "be rich enough to retire when your wife dies." In the real world this is an impossible standard.
Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. Nostalgia and memes. If you're like us, these two things go so well together that you can't help but let yourself indulge in memes from the eras we miss so much. Whether it's reminiscing about the sweet sounds of dial-up Internet, the TV shows we used to be obsessed about, or the fashion we used to rock - having a little laugh about how cringe everything was is a rare joy.
Then again, why do we love nostalgia so damn much? Well, for one, it gives us a sense of belonging. When we make fun of cringy things from our childhood or teenage years - those baggy shorts, my god - we are tapping into a shared cultural experience that connects us to others who grew up in the same era. It's a way of feeling like we're part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a way to collectively pick on "MTV" for showing how great and punk-rock a TV channel can be and then suddenly turning its back on us.
Twin brothers were born in an American family in 1978. The brother, who was five minutes older, had a healthy heart, and the younger one also suffered from cardiomyopathy and cerebral palsy. However, this tragic circumstance only brought the boys closer. The "older" brother always took care of the "younger", helped him, motivated him. And even when a sick boy at the age of 13 needed the heart of a voluntary donor, a healthier brother wanted to commit suicide so that his heart could be transplanted to his brother. The vital organ was found on time, and the "older" boy went to the studies of a biochemical engineer after school to invent a cure for the disease for his brother and other people. But fate determined otherwise. He became an actor and even a Hollywood star. And the younger brother became a lawyer who defends the rights of children with cerebral palsy. Today, Ashton and Michael Kutcher are active in charity work together.
Likewise. I knew that Ashton had gone to school to be a biochemical engineer but didn't know why.
Load More Replies...Me too. I never thought, and still don't think he is a great actor. But he is a great human being.
Load More Replies...Maybe I misjudged old Ashton. Not the douchecanoe I thought. Happy to admit I was wrong, what a guy
"douchecanoe"! I haven't found a new favorite word in a long time - thanks Roy Briggs. (And kudos to you for admitting you were wrong. That shows character).
Load More Replies...already knew this, but the article i read wasn't written as painfully poorly as this one. seriously, my nose is running and my eyes are bleeding a little
I saw an interview snippet with both of them, it took them years to overcome guilt and jealousy, but now they're very close.
Love this...had read about it before but never stops me from shedding a tear for the love between these brothers
The '90s, for example, were a time when access to pop culture was limited, making everything feel more valuable and exciting. Unlike today, where you can binge-watch a series in a few days and stream music instantly, you had to wait and work for it back then. Missing an episode of your favorite TV show was a disaster of the highest scale, and you'd spend the whole week obsessing over it until the next one came out.
On the other hand, this '80s, '90s & 2000s nostalgia can be cringeworthy for the current generation. Looking back, it's easy to see how inconvenient and frustrating it was to have to wait so darn long for entertainment. It's hard to imagine being excited about listening to a song on a tape that you'd recorded off the radio, or having to quote movie lines from memory because you didn't have access to it whenever you wanted. In other words, the perfect fodder for memes.
you can't look at this pic without thinking, "don't you... forget about me.... don't don't don't you... don't you.... forget about me" "AS I WALK ON BYYYYYYYY" WOULD YOU CALL MY NAAAAAME"
🎶 I said la la la la la, la la la la, la la la la la la 🎶
Load More Replies...We were the first kids video games were marketed to. The world would probably be quite a different place if we didn't force our Boomer parents to buy computers. We learned DOS to access all that pixalated goodness. We were the generation that truly started shattering tradition and rebelled against all authority. We were told we were slackers who would Never amount to anything but now we run the world from behind the scenes. On the downside that rejection of government authority is what put Donald Trump in the White House. So remember, people who are poor students and fail to get a proper education grow up to make mistakes of ignorance and put people like Trump in power. Education is an imperative in a democracy.
Boy, ain't that the truth... and Chuck Palahniuk was right, we are history's middle children (for this minute snatch of time )
I'm in the 2 year period where you're neither a boomer or Gen-X so I've got even more generations to be annoyed with !
We're content to stay out of the fray and watch the other generations shred each other. Disaster-g...300371.jpg
As someone who has struggled with addiction, RDJ is proof that we can come out on the other side. I’ll be happy with just surviving and being happy, though, I don’t need to become a movie star XD
You freakin' rock, Lakota, and I applaud your courage. It's an uphill climb but the views are spectacular.
Load More Replies...Today, May 10, 2023 marks my 10,000th day sober. We, all of us in recovery, salute you.
PHENOMENAL! Just realized it's 9,259 days here so I'd really like to offer a sharp Navy salute to your achievement. Bravo Zulu, sir.
Load More Replies...You really shouldn't judge someone because of their wild partying past. The only difference between George W Bush and Robert Downey Jr is GB had a powerful dad to cover for him. Addiction, you either live thru it and learn from your mistakes or you don't.
There's an interview where RDJ is being harassed by the interviewer about his past and after giving a few warning shots he just gets up and walks. You can see from his facial expression most of the time that he does not suffer fools.
If they don't happen to be a black man, child or woman. Greatness is in everyone; some need grace, time and space to find it. Guess what. Some people living while black have had that opportunity taken from them. Time we all find this a travesty.
It is a travesty. Some of us have worked against that prejudice all our lives. It's better then it was when I was a kid, but there's a long way to go.
Load More Replies...I'm too poor to get into a proper rehab/detox. And since I'm not on the street, too wealthy as well! I hope it turns out for me, somehow.
Load More Replies...The closest one to you is in Wisconsin. In Madison.
Load More Replies...There is a really funny one here in Denver. It is called "Nickel-A-Play," and the main reason it is so cheap is that most of the games are in 85% working condition and look VERY...patched. Still, for nickels, it gets the job done and they have some incredibly nostalgic titles.
YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! Why is this not franchised!! I am in NE Ohio and we need this desperately. I hope the right person sees this.
Probably because as soon as it gets franchised it would become more expensive. I miss having the arcades in malls. I always convinced my mom to let me spend some time in Dream Machine, even if all I did was walk around listening to the game sounds.
Load More Replies...Check out The Garcade in Menomonee Falls if that's closer. It's neat. I can't go on enough about it and it does the same pay when you enter thingo.
Load More Replies...There's a place like this near Chicago called Galloping Ghost. It's in Brookfield, Illinois.
Ours was called Apollos, and it was on Friday nights, 8til midnight, each week we'd decide what games we'd 'clock' beforehand, and go nuts! Man! Great times! Muss it terribly..society only got worse..
In order to understand better what makes communities like 'The Nostalgic 80s, 90s & 2000s' tick, Bored Panda reached out to the page's moderators who were kind enough to give us some answers. "We created the page to recreate those lost times," we were told in an email by one of the group's several moderators who all come from the '90s.
That's an impressive fort, I'd like to go there and find out it's a bar inside!
I refuse to acknowledge there is any other scooby Doo. The original series is the only series
It started going downhill when they introduced Scrappy.
Load More Replies...Don't watch it. Like, seriously, believe me. Don't watch it, the humor on this is so low Quagmire from Family Guy would have to search for it under his boot.
Load More Replies...It's a parody and not meant for the same audience.
Load More Replies...Inclusivity happened to Shaggy and Velma. Instead of creating new, exciting characters, it means taking established characters and making them inclusive.
Load More Replies...Oh dear god. Is that second photo what they have done to it? Ignorance was bliss
The new Velma show should win the award for “worst written show in the history of forever”
I honestly believe that Thelma started out with good intentions I believe that originally it wasn't going to be diversity for diversity's sake but... DANG did it take a wretched WRETCHED turn like to the point of unwatchablity all it managed to do was get everyone mad at it.
Besides trying to meme some of their most beloved childhood memories, the founders of the page, who are also responsible for the 'Like 'siriusly'' page with more than 200,000 followers, wanted to make a community of like-minded individuals who enjoy looking at nostalgia with humor. "And it totally worked out. It's a delightful experience to moderate a page that brings out vintage experiences and memories from childhood. Each and every meme is related to our [personal] childhood in one way or another."
Dementia of all types is a cruel and heart breaking disease. I wish only the best for him and his family.
It's heart breaking to see this happen. We put our Hollywood stars on a pedestal and some people think it's unwarranted but story telling has always been an important part of human existence. The stress of life would probably crush us into dust without our entertainment. Movies play with our emotions and reminds us that happiness, joy and exhilaration exists. Bruce helped a lot of people make it through dark and lonely holiday seasons. Diehard IS a Christmas movie and I think that will be Bruce's legacy. Life might try to kill you but you should make it hard for it to succeed. Thanks Bruce!
Especially that series of Christmas movies he was in, those are awesome!!
I remember when Moonlighting came out - I knew he was going to be big. Same with Johnny Depp in that old show 21 Jump Street.
Ha ha i had exactly the same thing moonlighting and 21 jump street. These actors will become big actors because they are good.
Load More Replies...My thoughts and prayers are with Bruce Willis and his family and friends.
Does anyone else remember a young Bruce Willis singing about wine coolers for Seagrams? I'm officially old.
He has been a constant favorite of mine since I was a kid. For some weird reason, I adore the movie Hudson Hawk. It has always just cracked me up. Honestly I dont know of one of his movies I don't like. I wish he and his family all the best as they transition to this next chapter knowing we ALL have their backs!
I had conflicting internal feeling watching him in Rocky Horror Picture Show. How can someone look so feminine, yet so masculine, sexy yet weird as hell and downright creepy? He's probably the reason I tried desperately to get the attention of this drag queen when I was 17. We worked together and he was insanely beautiful. Told me he was bi but then admitted he was gay. Ahhhh young puppy love
I love that movie. The scene where he's running around the house explaining everything always makes me laugh.
Load More Replies...You can tell a lot about a person by the movie they know Tim Curry from.
Imagine having a dad who was a dead ringer for him.... my life was a waking nightmare.... Still love Tim Curry tho...
Your dad looks like him?! That would be either the greatest thing ...or the scariest. Depends on his sense of humor 😏
Load More Replies...Snoop Dogg & His Wife Shante Broadus
I'm freaking out that his wife was born in 1971 and was 26 in that 1st photo, she looks 15 at the most.
This together with his friendship with Martha Stewart....... Snoop Dogg is a wonderful splash of seeming-contradictions. I very much like this.
They married in 1997, the first picture is from a prom when they were in high school in the late 80"s.
I love Snoop Dogg. He is a very smart man and seems to be a genuinely good person.
The date on the prom pic is wrong. They are the same age. Fun fact, Snoop and Cameron Diaz graduated from the same high school, Long Beach Poly. Snoop is a couple years older but they were in school at the same time.
Of course, moderating a page with almost 700,000 followers and memes flowing in each day is not an easy task - especially considering how nitpicky Facebook can get. "We make sure that [our memes] are what the members are expecting to witness in the group before giving approval to each and every post," the representative of 'The Nostalgic 80s, 90s & 2000s' explained.
"Anything against the rules," like 'Post in English only' (rule number 5), "will be taken down." Just in the last month, the group's moderators have successfully enriched their already stunning collection of nostalgic memes with over 1,600 posts. We can't help but wonder how many of them didn't make it to the cutting room.
My sons have some of these, you can still get metal ones, we accidentally got a plastic one and you can guess which is the only one they don't play with
Load More Replies...Me me! I can't tell how many times I brained myself or cut myself with those things.... Ahh good times!
I do! I used to be small enough to sit in the bucket of the dump truck!
My cousin fell down the stairs carrying one of the metal ones. Cut him something fierce. 12 stitches to his neck 1/4" from his carotid artery. Sorry...I just always tell that story when I think of metal tonka trucks.
Any that survived in good condition are worth some money.
Load More Replies...They just don't make movies of that caliber anymore. Everything now is either generic, a remake or a superhero movie.
Well that's just not true. There are still great movies coming out. The last two years haven't been good for the obvious (covid) reason but there are still good movies coming out and they've really started ramping up again.
Load More Replies...I saw Lion King and Jurassic Park back to back at a drive in theater.
Shame we don't have this nowadays. You get one big movie for weeks and nothing else really worth watching
Hell, I named our family business after something out of Spaceballs (my favorite movie.) 20 years later, my family STILL has no idea our business name is a Spaceballs reference XD
Might wanna go back a bit more. The 60's show Get Smart was a Mel product.
I loved that show! Max was so snarky & had the best comebacks!!
Load More Replies...When Mel Brooks was making movies people could understand the difference between satire and hate.
They've never been mutually exclusive. Brooks both satirized and hated Hitler, for instance.
Load More Replies...ok now you are really giving your age away. _shuffles sadly away remembering how lewd hill was _
Load More Replies...Because Mel Brooks was always poking fun at the people with power and money. He wasn't being racist or homophobic, he was making fun of racists and homophobes.
Wasn't punching down for cash like Chappelle and others
Load More Replies...Isn't it funny how they developed every logo and yet the saving icon is still a diskette
I'm struggling to think of a good alternative to it
Load More Replies...I learned to code on punch cards and was lucky enough to have access to an IBM XT with dual 5 1/4 inch floppy drives and a 12 inch screen to write my masters thesis. I still use DOS commands from Cntl-A to Cntl-Z.
Lol. I remember when my mum took all of her old floppy disks out of the box and I finally got to see them in person
5 1/4 inch and no hard case in sight. Just a hole where the computer accessed the data and one in the middle to make it spin.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile I'm 25, and just typed a paper on a typewriter.... I think I have at least 40 3.5s, and probably 15 or 20 8s, the 8s are for the commadore 64 😂
The beginning of my distaste for computers. I wasted my student loans learning DOS, Four years before the internet. Raspberries...(thhhphhth).
Yep. I spent most of my childhood in the backyard with my dogs, playing in the dirt, digging for bugs and roly-polies, and catching lizards. And I’m female XD
Being female should have nothing to do with it. Playing in the dirt is good for the immune system and no child should be discouraged from it based on gender roles.
Load More Replies...Same, plus crawdads and baby snapping turtles, little snakes by the creek. Now all the creeks and rivers are too polluted for any of that : (
Load More Replies...Had a sand pit, but the caveat was that it was filled with builders sand (thanks Dad) cut your hands to shreds!
Nah - I’m inside doing craft with Clag glue and old computer paper with holes on the sides.
I love record stores. The problem is that all the vinyls cost $60 and I like saving money
I like going to thrift stores because of that! The cases might be beat up, but many of the records are in good condition
Load More Replies...Record store, Game store (DOS 486!) and the arcade. I was such a mall rat. Once my mom had a flat tire and said she couldn't take me to the mall. I figured out how to change that tire and I was a 13 year old girl and I did it by myself. I had to jump on the tire iron with both feet but I got to the mall!
Don't forger Spencer's, Aladdin's Castle, Orange Julius, Brookstone.......damn that s**t was awesome !
Orange Julius... oh man, that's a throwback. There was one next to the movie theater. Busiest places in town.
Load More Replies...I was young in the 70's and never would buy a full-length album if I didn't like at least 75% of the songs. Friends gave me full albums for my birthday and stuff, but I only bought singles. If what I wanted wasn't on a single, I did the wait for the song to come on the radio and record it on a cassette (once those came out).
And you'd find new music by using the listening posts, based on the album cover usually..
I'm just saying though (again) -- Al worked in a SHOE store, owned a home, a car, 2 kids and Peg was a stay at home Mom in all her Lycra glory...damn
Sadly, Christina Applegate will be giving up acting on camera due to the progression of MS.
Remember, when there was a competition in the USA to win an exact copy of The Simpsons house to live in? The people that won it renovated it into a normal home.
The house was built in Henderson, NV (adjacent to Las Vegas) for a promotion. It was originally painted to match the Simpson's cartoon but was changed long ago. It's in an ordinary housing tract, still standing.
Let's take time to all mutually hate the people who won the Simpsons replica house and didn't want it so they took cash value and then it got remodeled into a normal house and sold.... Idiots... It could of been a great rental property for fans to stay at. They could of made so much bank
I seem to remember a contest where this house was the grand prize. Anybody else remember that?
Well tbf many movies could be narrowed down to one single scene
Every romcom: Character 1: Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to bump into you, but you cute. Character 2: Freak Character 1: Again, sorry. I'm not a psycho stalker, so bye.
Load More Replies...The advent of the practical cell phone, or rather the smart phone has made stories which had the premise or at least a key scene relying on an inability to communicate over distance somewhat improbable.
Either the phone goes dead, or has infinite life, or there's a signal or no signal, or whatever, depending on plot requirements.
Load More Replies...Then all the behind the scenes are of all the burglaries Harry & Marv did.
oh come on.... like cell towers don't go down! Ya know, they had phones in the 80s.... that worked even when the lights went out
There was a tab there. If the tab was in place the cassette was recordable. If the tab was missing, you couldn't press down the record button. When you made your ultimate mix tape, you broke out the tab so it couldn't be recorded over. If you got a bunch of pre-recorded tapes, had a mix tape from an old girlfriend, etc. then you put tape over the hole thus making it recordable again.
Load More Replies...It's worse than that: I do remember doing it, I just don't remember why...
Oh the pain of accidentally taping over the song you recorded from the radio after suffering through 6 hours of the happy breakfast show.
Or pausing the recording until the DJ on the radio stops yapping, so you can record the song. Pirating, the early years
Load More Replies...I'm definitely old as I also remember rewinding with a biro or a pencil by spinning the cassette on the end
You snapped off the tab to write protect the cassette as the player/recorder had a mechanical switch that would detect if there was a tab or not. Tab=recordable, No tab=Record button could not be pressed
Load More Replies...I didnt know this trick, but i had many tapes stuck back together after being chewed up.
And the Mother (who has been up since 4am cooking all that) never goes berserk and makes them sit down and eat.I woul give an Oscar to any film Mum whose response is "get the f**k back here and eat this NOW!!!"
Its horrible that society thinks a mom with 3 kids, a husband and a massive house to clean can produce this feast in 30 minutes. Women go into motherhood with unrealistic expectations then spiral into depression and self-loathing when they fail to live up to their own mental image of a "good" mother. I nearly burnt my house down before I realized I was trying to reach a false ideal. June Clever is as fictional as Wonder Women.
I approve! And what about all those movies that promote marriage, seeming to say that if an American woman doesn't get married, her life is ruined!
Load More Replies...And why do they always pour it from the container it came in into a fancy glass pitcher? No one drinks it anyway. I love when the family comes down to a breakfast like the one in the pic and they pick up one piece of bacon and say, "Thanks" and walk out the door. I wouldn't cook for anyone again who did that.
To avoid endorsing a product that hasn't paid for the right to be endorsed.
Load More Replies...I hated the ones where the mother was just being all that stuff to the table and the kids are saying "nope, I'm late". I was always like IRL Mom had that ready an hour ago.
Right? Grandma had breakfast like plated and the dishes done before Mom ever woke me up. Me as a mom on way to the base ... ahhh... "You want your egg sandwich scrambled or fried?'
Load More Replies...I think the prop department said we aren't setting up a breakfast table just shoot the Craft Service table.
That always makes me so mad, though I must admit, I was always late and always threw away the sandwich my mom made me to eat on the go. Sorry, mom.
Also hours of snake without worrying about the battery and t9 related meltdowns.
When these first came out I was at a concert. I saw a group of people throwing something on the ground trying to get it to bounce into a hat. That something was this phone. They wanted to see how many times they could drop it and it would still work. I don't think they ever got it to break. 😂😂
pay $5 for a monophonic ring tone that didn't work, then found out it was a subscription but couldn't remember the number to cancel it. then had to dodge parents probing questions as to why you had to top up your phone again and fire off cancel messages to all the numbers before the company could charge you again.
My first phone had a screen like the one on the top left. I feel like I’m a teenager again and adolescence was…. something else!
Yeah- the day my friends 15 year old daughter called TMMT's "vintage" I knew I was old!
TMNT will never be vintage, it is a classic that will stand the test of time.... COWABUNGA!!!!
Load More Replies...I rarely downvote posts, but "Kids today" posts bug the heck out of me. (I'm Gen X, if it matters.)
My granddaughter was wearing a Pink Floyd tee shirt, I asked "Oh, you like Pink Floyd?" She looked at me confused... "You know they are a band, right?" "No, I just like the tee shirt."
The only difference is their "designer" ripped jeans cost $80 a pair.... where as we got used faded jeans from a second hand store (usually under $5) and proceeded to cut the rips into them with a razor blade - usually while wearing them. (We weren't the smartest)
I still have my tee-shirts from the original concerts they were bought at. They are a bit worn but still readable. Probably worth a fortune.
Really though, when my friends and I would wear Beatles or Pink Floyd shirts in junior high, it was in a similar vein.
Bless her heart and make sure to hand these precious heirlooms down from generation to generation.
That probably won't happen. My Grandma makes these, but just solid colors. Just wearing around the house, they wear out quickly. Everyone gets a new pair at Christmas
Load More Replies...I got a homemade bart simpson woolen jersey from my Nan.. I loved it..when it was cold enough
That's nothing. One Halloween, my granny knitted me a cousin It (from the Adams Family) costume. My sister was Wednesday and my brother was uncle Fester. Best Halloween ever!
I told my mom(57) that I (33) was naming my son(4) Brantley so he could grow up and say it's Brant ma (it's Brand ma from the movie) she was not impressed
July 16, 1988: Michael J. Fox married Tracy Pollan. Happy 34th Anniversary to the couple!
Her face appears to say that she has successfully persuaded MJF to drink from the poison chalice!
The flagon with the dragon has the pellet with the poison....
Load More Replies...Michael J. Fox is an absolute legend and so is his wife who has been there watching her man go through it all. I don't know them personally but I really admire and respect them both.
For better or for worse. Thank you for sticking by Michael Tracy and thank you Micheal for letting her. You are an example of what marriage is all about.
I find it beautiful that their love is real & true, because I know many women who would have noped out fast after his diagnosis.
The Niall Horan photo of him yelling "potatoooooo" those that get it get it those that don't don't.
Oi, Teach, there are more than 5 senses, plus some odd ball ones like feeling sound.
A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away. * music* DUNDUNDUNDUN- (music continues) -long as heckll paragraph that you need to read- (music drifts off) *mysterious bg music kicks in* (spaceship/planet) *MOVIE OFFICIALLY STARTS*
If y’all don’t get this, I’m going to be very sad :(
Load More Replies...I remember my Mum taking me and my sister to see something else at the movies and we couldn't get in (might have timed it wrong) and it was like "We're here now, gonna see something" and it ended up being Star Wars cos that was the only thing that was kid friendly.
Load More Replies...Only the original original movies are decent, everything that has followed from the prequels on has been excrement
Disney can't do marvel, star wars..disney anymore..they aren't the same artists/story writers today..a sad shell, that can only try copy the their own best stuff, only to kill all that made the original special.. it's joy now to see them fail. They deserve it greatly..
For some reason I did enjoy force awakens. Not the others tho. Also 3 was not the worst movie iv ever seen
Load More Replies...One of the (very) rare occasions when the sequel was better than the original. Other examples are The Godfather Part 2 and The Empire Strikes Back.
IMO Godfather 2 was too jumbled and not as coherent as 1
Load More Replies...The graphics for the T-1000 were AMAZING!! Still are actually.
T1 was way ahead of its time. And look at us now! What was predicted is coming true.
It was accepted in film class. As was The Godfather Part II.
Load More Replies...We had to hunt down a newspaper from the town the cinema was in lol.
"Thank you for calling Movie Phone, your 24-hour movie assistance hotline!"
Ahyep. If you didn't have a copy of the local newspaper, you had to call. Easier with mall theaters because you could kill time until the next screening.
Better get good, or you must start it all over again! Man! It was so tense back then..modern games don't have that. Infinite lives, save points.. no stakes..
does any1 remember the game Miner 49er? been looking for that for years
I wanted Colt Seavers GMC Pickup Truck. That thing flew and was indestructible!
I just knew someone else on this thread would read my mind!!! Fall guy was required viewing in our house (UK - sat afternoon)
Load More Replies...From what I have heard, this was supposed to be a parody of party Anthems, not celebrated as one.
Most of their songs were meant as parodies. My mom took my Paul's Boutique cassette tape after reading the lyrics & deciding they were disrespectful to women and would NOT listen to me on the subject. Edit: I was perfectly happy to just buy it again when I left for college.
Load More Replies...white claw is trash. nothing but zima and fruit farts in a new can. RIP Adam Yauch
They're not so bad outside on a hot day. Sometimes you want something crisp. They can be kinda dangerous.
Load More Replies...As someone who got hit in the head by one of the Budweiser's Ad-Rock threw into the audience I can assure you they wouldn't have anything to do with that c**p if it had been around.
I am drinking a white claw right now…. MCA was with it, and he’s my ace, so I grabbed the piano player and I punched him in the face!!! #fifthgrade
We're old!!! Let us relax with our White Claws. Got an early day tomorrow.
I mean…they did really. They fought hard and if white claw and vomit and shame is how we do it in 2023 well then…
Yippers, and don't forget my 1974 brown Nova that I inherited from my grandma 1976. I was a junior in high school. When she bought the car, she asked them to take the radio out so she wouldn't be distracted. SMH!!!
You know that Nova is probably worth $50,000 to $100,000 today. I almost cried when I found out my '68 Chevell was worth $65,000! I sold it for $2500 when my kids were born for something more economical!
Load More Replies...The cars from the'60s and '70s had personality. Today, they all look exactly the same.
And most of them are black or different shades of gray.
Load More Replies...Mine was a 1974 Dodge Dart Sport, hood scoop, Cragar diamond spoke mags, 50s and 60s, racing strips. 4 Barrel carb with secondaries the size of pop cans. It was mostly stock but could smoke the tires so much from a stop you couldn't see the intersection behind you. (wistful sigh). I mean, I like all the modern features in my current van but I miss the feel of being pushed back in the seat when I hit the gas.
In 10th grade---1976 green Ford Pinto wagon with wood paneling. That was THE best car I ever owned!
I had a brand new 1972 Malibu a couple years out of high school. I think the sticker was like $5,900.
What magnificent automobiles we had back then. Powerful, V8 muscle cars. I can still hear the roar of the parking lot at 2:30.
I had a 1963 station wagon, red. My friends called it "the boat" but everyone loved it because I could take everyone with me! I loved that car.
My grandparents had a rear projection TV, although it was much wider than this one. I really, really wanted to hook up my NES to it but I was never allowed because they were afraid it would cause burn-in. I don't even know if that was a thing with these sets but they weren't taking any chances.
I had one of these growing up. My family played so many PS2 games on that thing. man I feel old
Back in my day, to fix a broken tv, all you had to do was punch it!
I had to help my brother in law lug one of those up 3 flights of tight stairs at an apartment complex he moved into (2 weeks after he decided to buy the damn tv). Three months later he decided to move into a ground-floor unit and asked me help him move again. My wife told him to where he could shove his effin' tv so he had to hire somebody. Don't miss those at all.
Always had black & white. I was in college when I saw the Wizard of Oz for the first time in color. I was so mesmerized, flames could've been licking the wall and I wouldn't have noticed.
Saw that for one dollar tag at the goodwill half price Saturday sticker about eight years ago... $0.50. Not kidding.
Hmm... Champion was really hot in the late 90's and early 00's and all the popular kids sported the logo if I recall correctly
Yeah, that’s why it says “30 years ago” , in the late 80’s and early 90’s, this statement is correct
Load More Replies...They marketed in all kinds of retailers. KMart got KMart quality. Higher-end stores got top-of-the-line. I bought 6 of their heavy cotton Ts at Marshall Field's in Chicago in the early 90s and still have all of them. The collars have frayed, but the torsos are still in great shape. (I just wear 'em around the house)
You always paired your Champion tees with your Kmart Wranglers for full effect.
It is (unless it's a good lookalike off course), it's a joke about the Face/Off movie they both play in.
Load More Replies...Swizzels double lollies. You can get a giant version of them which is about three times the size but they aren't as powdery.
I don’t mean to be that person but they’re produced by smarties
Load More Replies...Big lolly- you could get them in a massive size in the UK back in the day and the youth club by me did the massive ones for 5p and they were always the first to sell out as they were twice the price in the corner shop!
Same pretty much, my kids still eat them, we call them chalkies
Load More Replies...I never knew what they were called, but we got them from a market where we used to live and we called them smartie pops because they looked like two smarties fused together
It used to be soooo scary to do that.. you never knew what to expect.. now it's just txt or msgr..lame
I hated when that happened. My dad would secretly stay on the phone when i picked up and i would have to yell at him to hang up !
Oh...my...gosh....I had completely forgotten my fake finger ends cos I loved long nails....fms that is full on nostalgia there
I remember a drugstore called Eckerd's that had a very long peg rack with toys like this. I still remember the elation when my parents would let me pick something to buy, after stalking that aisle forever before I worked up the courage to actually ask for a small toy set.
Did anyone else put Bugles (the chips) on their finger tips and act like a witch?
These would never fit on my fingers as a wee child. In unrelated news, I probably should have known I was queer a lot earlier.
OMG! this was how i ended up breaking up with my boyfriend! worst day ever
You had to insert 25 cents per pixel, that's why the pictures from that era look like 8 bit characters.
Are we just going to say NOTHING about the payphone in the bathroom here?
Yeah Tom Beregon is still the ‘new host’ to me
Load More Replies...It's not "old" unless it's not Bob Saget hosting it. Like when he was in his 20s 🤣
Ah yes. We pirated signals, got the channel were they had the AFV with bob saget. i dont remember how old i was but i had not started school nor could english but did i sing my heart out in horrible gibberish english? Yes. Mamma & pappa jeg må bare beklage for ørene deres men takke for deres tålmodighet.
But do you remember the two horrible years between Saget and Bergeron with John Fugelsang & Daisy Fuentes?
I remember when it started as TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes with Ed McMahon and D**k Clark!
And even then, I want someone to role my cold, soulless corpse down a long sheet of these, for one last crackle and pop.
Load More Replies...59 and still do. My cat loves it!! When she hears it, she flips and looks/begs me to do again!!
Shut up! I cried my eyes out! That was SO cruel. I am Still traumatized by the year 1986. They did that to us a few months after the Challenger Disaster.
Some skirts for the eve so I can get some funk, Rollin' in my ride, chillin' all alone
Just hit the east side of the LBC, on a mission tryna find Mr. Warren G
Load More Replies...You don't see, what I see, every day, as Warren G! 🤣🤣🤣 I was a metal/grunge kid, I made fun of that line soooo much!
I visited my uncle in LA (from MO) that summer and you couldn't tell me it wasn't the coolest thing ever
I guess you could consider Tom Hanks the perfect antidote to evil impersonated.
My cousins used to have this game many years ago. I used to love playing this game
Mine was Motor Mouth 😑. Apparently I talked alot when I was little...
Load More Replies...CQ, CQ. QRA Lord of the laser printer, QRZ suggest QRY to 16. Over.
i still want 1 of these now. was never cool enough to have my own
Growing up, we had to do it in daylight due to some crime related stuff *if* i remember right. We never had it at night . (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). But we will ran around at night once ToT was done.
To be fair there is a good chance that happened when you had an actual cannibal roaming the streets.
Load More Replies...Shout out to all my Australian contemporaries who feel a bit miffed that we never got Halloween when we were kids (cos it was American) and now have to watch our own kids having all the Halloween fun
the fact that they thought that the back pedal could get miles off... i fell for that
Ordered an "Abe Frohman Sausage King of Chicago" t-shirt from a place that has fictional businesses printed on shirts like "Callahan Auto".
The Ben Rose House in Highland Park, IL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Rose_House
I visited this house when I was in Chicago a couple years back. It still looks the same.
And then you would spends hours circling all the things you wanted but knew you were never going to get
The model section at Toys R us. It was unbelievable. 36 inch space shuttles, F-14 Tomcats F15 Eagles and the working engines. Screw those Barbies buy me models paints and glue and watch me glue myself to the pieces
It was the Argos book in my house, mum had us write out the ID numbers spreadsheet style (before Microsoft office was a big thing)
Still not as good as the Sears Wishbook. When it came in the mail in October, you knew the holidays were right around the corner.
I can’t upvote the screaming in agony enough!!!!
Load More Replies...This apparently happened recently, Nintendo found out and sent them a brand new Super Nintendo, Switch, Wii, and games for all of them lol
I remember these as “freeze pops” and my favorite ones were the blue, and the orange
We called them freezer pops. I have some in my freezer right now
Load More Replies...Same across the board here. We could go halvsies and fight jointly?
Load More Replies...Yes! Though we usually called them Otter Pops, even if they weren’t the name brand ones XD
Load More Replies...Ice pops, ORANGE! don't give the little ones any RED ones unless you want ruined shirts and red dyed chins
I've watched this movie over a hundred times I'm sure...HBO used to play it over and over every weekend...and yes, I watched it over and over every weekend.
When my best friend and I were kids, we rode our bicycles ten miles in freezing weather to see this movie!
Patrick Swayze, Tom cruise, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio & Emilio Estevez.
Load More Replies...My dad used to put them in the freezer before he ate them! It made the cream inside almost like ice cream XD
I stored two in the glove box of my first car. That was my emergency kit for being trapped in the car during blizzards. I ate them within two weeks and replaced them with Twinkies because I abhorred Twinkies and knew I wouldn't touch them unless I was starving to death under a monster pile of snow.
I used to hate The Temple mp map, my friend knew the spawn points so I never lasted 2 minutes, stupid proximity mines...
Yes! So difficult to find multi player games where you can play together
He's still working very regularly. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301381/
Courtney OWNED that Klopek role. The Burbs is an awesome movie, and he made it even more awesome.
Then she married Kevin Kline in '89 and quit the biz to be a stay-at-home Mom. They're still married. She's 60 years old now. :-O
Jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock jingle bell swing and jingle bell ring
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bell Rock! Jingle bell swing and jingle bell ring...
Our TV when I was younger was a wireless single button remote and there were 3 channels
I had one with a remote with 4 buttons. Channel, Vol +, Vol -, and Off. Off fired a solenoid inside the TV that popped out the power button. There was no On. You had to get up and press the power button on the set to turn it back on! Channel was not an issue with only 3 channels to cycle.
Load More Replies...No we only had 3 channels when I was a kid we didn't need anything that big
My grandparents had a "air powered" remote. No power or volume, just one button. It had a tube connected to the TV, you had to turn the TV on, adjust volume, and then push the button, which pushed air through the tube that internally turned the channel dial. The tube was maybe 6 feet, and you had to cycle ALL the way around every channel, to realize it was a waste of time.
Yes! Grandpa had one. He could operate the buttons with one hand from his recliner. This was Boss level living!
I remember when you used the remote, it would manually move the channel knoob one channel at a time
I remember being really jealous of a friend that had a wired remote because meant that, when recording from the tv and starting and stopping the adds, they had less chance of missing it and screwing up the recording.
Remember? Places in Wisconsin still do this, malts/shakes. You drink from the metal cup it blended in and gonna say it: it is sad other way.
They would put it in a tall plastic up, then leave the mixing cup with the rest.
Load More Replies...You can still buy these. I have one and it's a great way to ensure your children will never stop loving you!
I could never make those when I was little. I just watched other people make them instead
This was such an early 2010s thing though? Idk if it was a revival but nobody on the internet should feel old about this. They go crispy after a few years btw and crumble instead of stretch
I did embroidery floss bracelets. There was something satisfying about being the friend in the group who made the nicest ones.
I can see Freddie, so I hope I can wake myself and end that nightmare. Or summon a bunch of copyright lawyers and have them battle it out.
Shout out "Who ever survives a death match between you all can kill me" and then sneak away during the chaos
I'm backing up through the door leading to the floor behind me...and hoping that isn't where Pinhead is hiding.
I'd go up the railing, dodge Michael by kicking Jason into the wall, Then I'd come back on the railing, and kick Michael
If you could choose them in Mortal Combat which one would it be? Readyyy? Fight!
Loved those books! I reread a couple. Jessica was a sociopath.
I completely forgot about these. I used to read them all the time.
Load More Replies...i have the whole sweet valley high set and sweet valley senior year. never letting them go
I have this princess diana bear. And yes I was hoping I’d be a millionaire by now.
By 2000, my grocery store was getting about 3 new animals every week. I bought one every couple of weeks for my oldest (just for fun, not as a save and sell thing). It took an hour or more to put her to bed each night, because I had to help her put all her "kids" to bed first, with each one needing their own individual bedtime chore ("this one needs medicine, this one needs diaper change, this one needs bedtime snack...."). We had fun.
I still have beenie babies they are worth nothing I was totally lied too.
my school would hand out things like those, but only cheap copies sadly
They’re actually from Superman, not Superman II. That’s baby Clark, lifting a car, when his parents first realized there was something superhuman about him. And unless I’m mistaken, the fourth is a teenage Clark.
The first 2 were in both films, being the focus of the main plot in SII
Load More Replies...And a glass thermos that would shatter the insides when you dropped it.
We couldn't afford cable. Iirc, where we lived, only had 5 channels. Middle school years moved to another state and went down to 3. High school, moved again and was down to only 1 😭
My dad was so determined to keep Christianity out of our house he threw out the whole tv till around 84!
Load More Replies...Ha! I came here to say that lol. I still say that anytime someone says 'warriors'...drives my husband crazy lol
Load More Replies...The official Halloween costume of the 80's in suburbia US since every kid had a Little League uniform and bat and all they needed was face paint.
The fact that the whole plot of the third movie was of a rich guy spending all his time and resources to berate an old man and his teenage friend. Actually puts off important meetings just to gaslight poor Daniel.
I always liked the lemon coz no one else wanted them so then you'd get all of them
Demi Moore on David Letterman's sh0w in the 9Os
Tom Hanks at this age I think of Big. Generic Tom Hanks I think of Forest Gump.
The money pit - edit : wow, looks like a lot of people are renovating their homes like we are, judging by the reactions.
Well, upon seeing this one, I started a discussion on my family chat about the long lineage of names our local supermarket had and in what order they were. Well, the conversation got so heated, I think I may have been disinherited, so thank you very much, BP.
Didn't have a favourite, though my parents liked bi-lo as it was basically all home brand stuff
In East Syracuse, New York in the 1970s & early 1980s ... Leo's Big M (next to the bridge over the railroad tracks), The Super Duper (with the bowling alley around the back and a war memorial in the parking lot), and Lou & Bonn's (small neighborhood convenience store on Kinnee Street owned/ran by 2 sisters)
Several of these were around not that long ago and are barely nostalgic? (Others are because my family aren't the wealthiest and we rarely got new things. I still know cassettes and the n64 well, born 2006)
We just gonna act like Stephen Spielberg cartoons didn't run rampant and slay?
Where's Gallagher and his sledge-o-matic? Or the Donny and Marie show? Wouldn't mind seeing an 8 track tape player in a car dashboard either!
Several of these were around not that long ago and are barely nostalgic? (Others are because my family aren't the wealthiest and we rarely got new things. I still know cassettes and the n64 well, born 2006)
We just gonna act like Stephen Spielberg cartoons didn't run rampant and slay?
Where's Gallagher and his sledge-o-matic? Or the Donny and Marie show? Wouldn't mind seeing an 8 track tape player in a car dashboard either!
