+ Multiple spread across the kids in the street + A few hundred meters of street circling around the neighborhood + No safety gear (+ Ice in winter) = EPIC STREET RACES FOR KIDS!
Yes, I spend a lot of my time as a child on one of those things. Peddling my guts out trying to get pole position and first at the first turn, just to stay alive! That turn was really fricking dangerous for what we did, at least four kids with these huge peddle powered 4 wheeled machines of heavy duty off road fun all just at top speed, still huddled together due to just having started, trying to get through that turn all at once in of course the most optimal way we could. IF YOU DID NOT DRIVE ON YOUR OUTER TWO WHEELS IN THAT TURN YOU WERE SLOW!
Eh, cause it was like...reallly late 90s when I got around to it. My neighborhood friends had one, so I played theirs all the time.
Come to think of it, I have a LOT of good memories from it....last second green shell victory in MK, playing insane rounds of Mario Golf, SSB, Goldeneye (the one FPS I'm good at), beating all my neighbor's high scores in wave race.....damn those were good times.
Eh, cause it was like...reallly late 90s when I got around to it. My neighborhood friends had one, so I played theirs all the time.
Come to think of it, I have a LOT of good memories from it....last second green shell victory in MK, playing insane rounds of Mario Golf, SSB, Goldeneye (the one FPS I'm good at), beating all my neighbor's high scores in wave race.....damn those were good times.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ocarina of Time yet. My brother and I poured so much time into that game, and it was so awesome...
Well, I was going to say that I really had nothing from OOT to talk about (honest to God, I'm not a big fan of the LOZ series in general, I've never beaten one, and the only one I've played like 80%+ in is link to the past)....but then I remembered all the fishing me and my neighbor did. It was so sweet....
Oh Man, Ocarina of Time. I played the crap out of that game, good times. Speaking of which: The Hylian Loach (the large eel thing in the pond). I swear that I tried everything humanly possible to catch it. I think it was the thing in that game that I did not complete
Dammit, now I can't stop watching Gargoyles clips on YouTube thanks to seeing the opening in that video Viga posted. Thanks a lot for robbing me of my precious sleep, Viga. :P
But seriously, I can't believe my hazy, rose-coloured memories weren't just exaggerating how great Gargoyles was, as I've found to be the case with other TV shows I liked when I was little. It really is as good as I remember it, possibly better. o_o
Boy Meets World and Sabrina pretty much used to rule my Friday nights circa 1996-97. And I actually liked You Wish and Teen Angel, too, though those two are definitely not that good looking back on them with older eyes. Teen Angel was still the funnier of the two, though, and it was where I first saw Ron Glass, before Firefly!
The early 90s cemented in me a love of pseudoanime, like the oh so keen Pirates-of-Dark-Water-probably-animated-in-Korea mentioned above. By the late 90s I had discovered real anime, but my fondness for the other stuff remains.
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Multiple spread across the kids in the street
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A few hundred meters of street circling around the neighborhood
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No safety gear
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Ice in winter)
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EPIC STREET RACES FOR KIDS!
Yes, I spend a lot of my time as a child on one of those things. Peddling my guts out trying to get pole position and first at the first turn, just to stay alive! That turn was really fricking dangerous for what we did, at least four kids with these huge peddle powered 4 wheeled machines of heavy duty off road fun all just at top speed, still huddled together due to just having started, trying to get through that turn all at once in of course the most optimal way we could. IF YOU DID NOT DRIVE ON YOUR OUTER TWO WHEELS IN THAT TURN YOU WERE SLOW!
Also...
A shit load of 90's cartoon openers. Ah!
Another good memory is waiting the Evangelion tapes to come out. That and watching Sailor Moon on 28k modem.
Come to think of it, I have a LOT of good memories from it....last second green shell victory in MK, playing insane rounds of Mario Golf, SSB, Goldeneye (the one FPS I'm good at), beating all my neighbor's high scores in wave race.....damn those were good times.
Edit: I didn't see viga's video when I made this post. My jorb blocks youtube.
Jean jackets and good cartoons. Also when they said it snowed outside it was 4-6 feet not 1-2 inches.
Whoa!
But seriously, I can't believe my hazy, rose-coloured memories weren't just exaggerating how great Gargoyles was, as I've found to be the case with other TV shows I liked when I was little. It really is as good as I remember it, possibly better. o_o
Also, quoted again for truth.
This is the TS origins movie and is Don Karnage-heavy. Iron Vulture FTW.
I loved TGIF back then. It used to be my whole friday night.
Reliving my childhood.
Boy Meets World and Sabrina pretty much used to rule my Friday nights circa 1996-97. And I actually liked You Wish and Teen Angel, too, though those two are definitely not that good looking back on them with older eyes. Teen Angel was still the funnier of the two, though, and it was where I first saw Ron Glass, before Firefly!