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Let's destroy each other's minds with obscure childhood nostalgia!

still think the phased out HeRoS In A hAlF sHeLl vocals on the TMNT theme are rad as fuck

the theme song is amazing. in fact, almost all these theme songs rule. the 80s truly was a golden era. there are crappy knock off toy commercial series in this thread with theme songs that are genuinely bad ass.
 
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Scopa said:



Man, kids nowadays have no idea how bad their cartoons are. This was the shit.
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I never knew if he was a native american who moved to that planet or he was native to that planet and acted like a native american.

My contribution is The Secret City Adventures The series starred Mark Kistler as Commander Mark who led viewers through various drawing exercises and examples.

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I just wanted to say, thank you all for making this perhaps my favorite thread that I've made here so far. Certainly one of the most enjoyable. I've been giving a like to anything that brought back some good nostalgia for me personally, but I appreciate everyone's contributions here. Some of the examples are shows or commercials that I either didn't watch, or that didn't air in this country, but those have been fun to see as well.

 
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Mathew Fox pre-LOST!



Jared Leto pre-Everything. If I recall correctly this show ended on a cliffhanger. I just remember something really dramatic happening then show was cancelled.

I loved these as a kid.
 
This thread has succeeded in blowing my mind.

Duellist said:
My fellow Canadian gaffers should remember this gem

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I've never seen YCDTOT, even being Canadian. Oddly enough it seems it never had wide spread exposure here in Canada. The show its self is not what blows my mind. This is.

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You Can't Do That On Star Trek, one of my mid-late 90's web1.0 crawls.

That's it for my blown mind.

KageyK said:
I still get this song stuck in my head randomly from time to time to this day.

Here's a couple more for Canadian kids.

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Yes, The Raccoons!

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Crossfire is sitting in the closet of my old bedroom at my parents. It probably has about half the balls left.

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I'll add this one to the pile.

 






BTW, The Amiga 1000 (released in 1985) came with early ~1990 era hardware. The Amiga 500 was a reduced cost version of the 1000, came out in 86-87. These machines were 1-2 generations ahead of their time....at the same or reduced price vs the competition! Made game consoles and PC's at the time look weak. Very successful in Europe. What hurt them long term was the lack of PC compatibility. IBM clones and DIY PC custom builds took off, causing a huge influx of software and games support for the PC compatibles that Amiga never received. That said it did have a big library of software, just nowhere near as big as the PC. Commodore also had major production issues, as these machines were ambitious and complex to build for the mid-80's. Demand always outpaced supply until PC completely took over in the early 90's. At that time Commodore made some major mistakes (trying to enter the console space, sticking with Motorola Chips) and bankrupted themselves.
 
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Cybrwzrd said:
Really? Noone else has posted this yet?

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I absolutely LOVED Fraggle Rock when I was a kid. No idea how I missed giving your post a like until now. To make up for that, let's go even deeper into forgotten nostalgia than the theme song:

 
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JareBear said:
lol!

What the fuck was the premise of that show?
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The kid had a computer and he and his pals solved crimes. Why? Because he had a computer. Or something.

Because of this show, my uncle bought me my first computer. Check out this bad boy, suckas!

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trikster40 said:
LOVED the NES game!

For me, it was the HBO Short Takes. They were short films they would show between the feature films. I specifically remember this one, it's never left my brain in 35+ years:

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Is that where Hardware Wars came from, too? I seem to remember seeing it on HBO when I was a kid.

 
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Omg yes, I remember that one!!! There was also one singing the Fish Heads song. This song get stuck in my head to this day:

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Damn you! I don't even need to watch that to have the damn song stuck in my head. I played my Dr. Demento tape to death.
 
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Some Saturday Morning rejects for y'all. Remember Saturday Morning Cartoons?!

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Mighty Orbots is easily one of the best animated and directed(From an art and animation standpoint) shows even to this very day. Too bad the show itself stunk.


People remember Thundercats and Silverhawks but Tigersharks seems to have gotten lost to time(Plus it sucked).





And from the realm of forgotten toylines - Air Raiders.



I love the high production value companies would put into their toy commercials back then.
 
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138 said:
The kid had a computer and he and his pals solved crimes. Why? Because he had a computer. Or something.

Because of this show, my uncle bought me my first computer. Check out this bad boy, suckas!

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That awful awful chicklet keyboard. I'm having PTSD flashbacks. :messenger_fearful:
 
What I wouldn't give to get back Amazing Stories ...

I remember really liking this cartoon ..I refuse to watch it now I'll just keep that memory intact ..
 
I liked the rainbow mix, which was like bits of corn with sugar and colouring. And the 99p action figures from Your More Store, and all the candy. And back then, chocolate tasted nice and real. Unlike now. Everything these days has probably got less cocoa in it, and I think now in place of the normal recipe, it has all this palm oil and the chocolate tastes kind of waxy, fake and stale. Also, who remembers seeing The Evil Dead and other cult movies in Poundstrecher for £5.99 each? Oh, those were the days.
 

Power on!


When they tried to make math fun. And, it actually worked. Sometimes.


And to end it with...who was the marketing genius who thought that Pee-Wee would be an excellent person to get kids to not try crack? Did they not see his show? "This is cwaack..wock cocaine..it isn't gwamousss" I mean, he probably filmed it for the free cocaine.
 
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-Minsc- said:
This thread has succeeded in blowing my mind.



I've never seen YCDTOT, even being Canadian. Oddly enough it seems it never had wide spread exposure here in Canada. The show its self is not what blows my mind. This is.

YCDToT_7029.jpg


youcant.gif


You Can't Do That On Star Trek, one of my mid-late 90's web1.0 crawls.

That's it for my blown mind.



Yes, The Raccoons!


Crossfire is sitting in the closet of my old bedroom at my parents. It probably has about half the balls left.

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I'll add this one to the pile.

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As a resident of the show's Ottawa hometown, I was very familiar with You Can't Do That On Television... I even met Les Lye (the doctor/dentist) at a football game once!
 
I still think this version of X-Men should have had a full series. Though I guess I should thank the X-Men arcade game for that.
 
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