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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Animal on March 04, 2003, 11:31:21 AM
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If you lived as a child in the 80's and 90's, how did you survive?
Looking back, its hard to believe that I didnt even break my skull.
As children, we would ride in cars with no child seats! we were forced to wear seatbelts that wrapped around our necks, with each high speed turn my mother made, we faced the prospect of strangulation or even worse, decapitation!
And there were no super-safe SUV, noooooo! we had to brave the first generation of SUV's, driven by our inexperienced SUV driving moms! The ones which would spontaneously explode or flip around, then explode!
And sometimes, we would have to ride in the trunk! this was not a pickup from which you could leap away to safety in the event your mom came to understand the forces of inertia, mass, and momentum as she tried to turn away at 90mph from a cliff!
Our baby cribs were full of electronic dangling toys, at any moment they could detach, fall into your mouth, and electrocute you! and we didnt have the harmless, high inducing lead paint, no, we had to sleep in plastic covered linen!
We didnt have the materials to build our go-karts from scratch, where you could make sure the quality was good before you decided to test the prototype.
Noooooo... we had POWER WHEELS
(http://www.alienvisuals.com/daedalus/pw.jpg)
Power Wheels were built with no quality control or safety testing, no, they were built by cheap Tawanese slave labor, out of the same plastic tampon covers are made of!
As we went down cliffs in the hot asphalt, the wheels would melt and cause the vehicle to steer our of control and flip around into the pavement, where as the molten plastic and the insides of the battery would eat their way into your skin, you would watch helplessly as SUV driving soccer moms would not make the slightest effort to evade your wreck!
We would leave home in the morning, no one would reach us until 2pm, when the bell on the school would ring, and avalanches of bigger students in our overcrowded school would trample their way down the stairs as they ran away from the classroom, to freedom!
Then we would have to brave our way into the parking lot, full of smog and the deafening sound of many SUVs honking in unison, as you looked up at the lumbering giant wheels which crushed everything on their path.
No cell phones, we had beepers! we couldnt talk back. If you were playing away from home and your mom messaged you with "wait till you get back you have hell to pay" you would just walk your way home preparing yourself for the beating for which the reason was unknown.
And lord forbids that your beeper made any sound during class, or the teacher would take it away, and then you would have to explain your caffeine addicted soccer mom why you lost your $250 gadget.
We had fights, and the other kid was a black belt in Karate, Taek Kwon Do, or had really long, dirty nails. And there was no honor, they would try to kick you in the balls and bite your eyes.
We drank soy milk, and other crap new age foods because our parents were adamant that we had to be thin and beautiful, so at 3:00PM when the Karate black belt kid was waiting for you outside, you had no energy to Kung Fu your way out of this one.
We had Super Nintendo, Genesis, and the lucky ones, 3D0. There were no fancy pansy CD's or DVD based games! these were CARTRIDGES! the games would hang and you had to take the cartridge out and blow air at it until you were dizzy! And there were no politically correct characters to choose! it was either the stereotypical japanese girl with extreme agility, the homosexual blond european, or the gung-hu american commandos (the white one was cool, the black one was strong)
Those video games were boring so we went outside and made friends, and SWORDS made out of wood and rusting nails, and we would play swordfighting were if you lose you faced the prospect of gangrene or infected wood splinters pushing their way inside your arms. And if you accidentally hit the other kid too hard, he would either beat your bellybutton with fancy Karate, or he would tell his parents who would force your parents to court and they would take your mom's SUV away and your Super Nintendo!
We would play adventurers in the woods looking for treasure, but all we could find were strange used up syringes and passed out bum hippies from another era!
Watching cartoons there was always the danger of an epileptic attack from all the bright colors and BUY THEM ALL flashing in colors that would hurt your eyes and brain!
Some students werent as smart as others, so they were separated into different classrooms where they were told time and time again that they were special like a unique snowflake of God, and they would grow up to be psychos bringing guns to school and shooting the normal kids!
Our actions were our parents legal responsability, so the was hell to pay if we made a mistake
Consequences were completly unpredictable
We had to hide behind the LIE that our parents would bail us out.
And still this generation is producing some of the brightest individuals and innovations that are ignored and condemned by earlier generations who still can not get over the idea that society is ever changing and that they have to either adjust, or keep whining their way into shadow.
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lmao sweet! :)
special like a unique snowflake of God
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LOL! :D
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Pong Rules!!!
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bah...i was stuck with a c64...wich made me quite patient...waiting 5 minutes for a REAL QUALITY GAME to load can do that...
had a 10 inch tv you had to control with a KNOB on the side of it...1 channel...2 if it was a clear sunny day but if it was we were out PLAYING ANYWAY
yep...90's were a great decade
and its not as if we didnt have the money its just we prefered to extend our creativity...
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go go powerwheels! my friends bigfoot t-boned my jeep. dont forget that we were constantly bombarded in jr high and highschool that at least 1-10 of us would die of aids before we were 25(im not being sarcastic).
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cant forget NOT getting a spanking or soap in your mouth when you did something bad or swore
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pure gold.
WTFG, Animal!
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LOL what kind of ghetto is that :D
aahh Heathcliff, Robotech, G-force, Voltron, Mazinger, Duck tales, Tail Spin, Care be... errr I mean...Wildcats... The 80's were violence in cartoons was key to entertainment :D.
bah Super Nintendo! how about Nintendo and Sega Master the first systems I ever had were those...I never got to finish Super Mario Bros. :D
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Never finished Super Mario Bros?! Damn man, go get yourself a Nintendo, now!
SOB
...Yes, I do still own a Nintendo and play Super Mario Bros on a fairly regular basis. So, what of it?! :D
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just buy a game boy and play it on that, its an exact copy.
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Remember those blow up toys pseudo punching bags that you would hit and they would fall back into place? talk about violence kids would stay for hours punching it
And the plastic sheet that you would put in the yard, wet it with a hose, and slide down it?
I knew kids who had scars because of rocks or glass trapped underneath the plastic.
Oh, and Glasses, you didnt finish Super Mario World?
Get the diddly out of my thread.
P.S: What about the A-Team? those guys would put a mad amounts of bullets in the air and not hit ANYONE. They are the reason we have side firing gangsters who never kill each other, and kids and pets dying by stray bullets
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dont want to fly BA why here have some milk
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HAh! how misinformed you are mister! I did finish it I had a Game Genie Inifinite lives baby!!!
I never finished the Original one though Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo system not the SNES the NES see my little boy,bah sophisitication my ass! 16 bit graphics!!!??!! I had 8bit! up until '92! so how about that
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Mario Bros was for Nintendo
SUPER Mario Bros was for SUPER Nintendo, you traitor...
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You tard Animal. Super Mario Brothers was THE game for the original Nintendo. Mario Brothers was where bugs'n toejam came out of pipes and they had to tap the floor to flip 'em on their backs. Super Mario had the mushrooms and turtles and flagpoles, and the infamous water levels.
Super Nintendo sucked ass...I don't know what it had. I think that was Super Mario World.
SOB
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I stand corrected by our prime geek authority SOB.
Sorry Glasses.
Super Nintendo was 1337, it had Metroid, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, and the best Zelda.
Go play Sega Genesis and your stupid sports games you cock holster.
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nintendo had metroid, snes had super metroid. the second version. and yes genesis sucked some donkeys