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[blame space]

you know, the shit the really rich kids' parents got him for Christmas..

one year somebody brought this in with Devil Without a Cause inside it and I swear you could smell the jealousy in that lunch line.

showed us how it didn't skip even if smashed it against the wall.. god I wanted this CD player so bad. post gaudy shit you wanted in grade school.

 

[blame space]

like look at this guy with fucking 20 second anti-skip protection.. like that's even going to help. elevate yourself.

 

[Username1198]

atari jaguar

I remember a kid in my class had it, he finally invited us over to check it out. I was so excited.

But we didn't even get to play it. He invited us over just to literally look at it lol. It was his dad's so playing it was a no go.

Never went over there again.

 

[blame space]

remember when headphones went from something that went over your head to something that went behind your head

shit was a game changer

 

[John Kowalski]

a nintendo

 

[Krejlooc]

this

 

[blame space]

I mean, people had Nintendos. the kids I'm talking about had a fucking game genie.

 

[captainpat]

No having a gameboy was the worst.

 

[Sanjuro]

I have more memories of the toy spectrum.

For me it was probably a Laserdisc player (which I would eventually steal from high school class room).

Is there certain criteria for this? I mean, Talkboy?

 

[blame space]

you stole a laserdisc player from your high school?

 

[DMczaf]

.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Various game systems, Discman, pagers. That's all I got.

 

[Supast4r]

Back when I was a kid, I had 2 other brothers and the only way to watch porn was through this channel called cinemax that showed it super late at night. It was a STRUGGLE to sneak and watch that while hoping that no one would wake up from it. And holy... the porn was bad looking back at it. One of the parodies that I remember being super bad was this parody of Spiderman called Spiderbabe.

 

[Violence Jack]

I read this as 90s porn and came in expecting a discussion about Red Shoe Diaries.

I remember as soon as I got a Game Gear, I got offered 10 times by other kids what I saved up to pay for it.

 

[GamerJM]

remember when headphones went from something that went over your head to something that went behind your head

shit was a game changer

I still have my pair of these, and used them a few years ago once when every other pair of earbuds/headphones in the house were broken. They're awkward to wear by today's standards.

 

[blame space]

idk, it's hard to quantify. CD player->that abomination I posted or VCR->laser disc is close. I want the high end shit that no parent in their right mind would buy for their kid because it was more expensive.

or if not more expensive, just exorbitant in its design.

 

[Joe]

minidisc players

 

[Sanjuro]

you stole a laserdisc player from your high school?

Yeah. This was well beyond its lifespan. However, it was one of the later models prior to death with component outputs. It also fit snug in my backpack.

Was senior year, figured why the heck not! Picked up Robocop Laserdisc from the flea marke shortly afterwards.

 

[blame space]

hell yeah, my girlfriend stole her clarinet and then sold it. I guess it was a really nice clarinet.

 

[Krejlooc]

.

But then you tried it and you were like "Oh."

 

[Syriel]

Yeah. This was well beyond its lifespan. However, it was one of the later models prior to death with component outputs. It also fit snug in my backpack.

Was senior year, figured why the heck not! Picked up Robocop Laserdisc from the flea marke shortly afterwards.

How big was your backpack?

LD players are not small.

 

[Sanjuro]

I read this as 90s porn and came in expecting a discussion about Red Shoe Diaries.

I remember as soon as I got a Game Gear, I got offered 10 times by other kids what I saved up to pay for it.

I had a Game Gear with a TV tuner. I was the coolest kid in school watching the morning news and Regis.

Absolutely garbage, but at the time...

 

[blame space]

you guys don't understand, that CD player had shock absorbing clips on the side that you had to LOCK IN for extra stability. unreal.

 

[Sanjuro]

How big was your backpack?

LD players are not small.

This one was. Like I mentioned it was a later model. Maybe the size of an Xbox length, but a tad thinner.

Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. The earlier ones might as well been DJ keyboard size.

 

[Ryaaan14]

This tactical nuke would've shaken the dingleberries off ur ass blame space

 

[Sanjuro]

you guys don't understand, that CD player had shock absorbing clips on the side that you had to LOCK IN for extra stability. unreal.

I didn't even have a CD player until I bought a Playstation.

 

[Blablurn]

Minidisc was revolutionary.
Sony was ahead of everyone else. Just like with the cell processor. I want a cel powered minidisc player now.

 

[TickleMeElbow]

A kid in my neighborhood had one of these. Made me super jealous. He never let anyone else play with it either.

This one time he bounced it off a curb and hit my friend Carlos in the balls.

 

[Strangelove77]

Having both a SNES and a Genesis seemed like a rich people/spoiled kid thing at the time.

Or having the Genesis with the 32x and Sega CD addons. Madness.

Or having multiple Tiger Electronics games. I only ever had one, SF2.

 

[Krejlooc]

A kid in my neighborhood had one of these. Made me super jealous. He never let anyone else play with it either.

This one time he bounced it off a curb and hit my friend Carlos in the balls.

lol

 

[blame space]

oh shit it could go upside down. I remember that shit.

 

[bananafactory]

A kid in my neighborhood had one of these. Made me super jealous. He never let anyone else play with it either.

This one time he bounced it off a curb and hit my friend Carlos in the balls.

Oh man these were THE SHIT

 

[Muppet of a Man]

this

All 90s kids that appreciated video games were jealous of the super rich kid with a neo geo. It was both Awesome AND unattainable. Never will this ever happen again with a video game console.

 

[Krejlooc]

Having both a SNES and a Genesis seemed like a rich people/spoiled kid thing at the time.

Or having the Genesis with the 32x and Sega CD addons. Madness.

I had a Sega Master System, a game gear with the TV tuner, a Genesis with the Sega CD and 32X, and then like 6 months later I bought a Saturn.

 

[sixteen-bit]

translucent game boys

 

[blame space]

This tactical nuke would've shaken the dingleberries off ur ass blame space

is that a remote in the sleeve of the carrying strap? Jesus fucking christ

 

[TimeEffect]

...this thread would have been much more interesting if it was about nostalgia porn. I still remember my first porn site. I stumbled on it by accident.

Also, stop calling good things [subject] porn

 

[Deadly Joker]

No having a gameboy was the worst.

I actively felt bad for the poor kids in my 2nd grade class who didn't have a Gameboy Color.

 

[Krejlooc]

translucent game boys

that highlighter yellow gameboy pocket is fucking incredible, holy shit

 

[Strangelove77]

I had a Sega Master System, a game gear with the TV tuner, a Genesis with the Sega CD and 32X, and then like 6 months later I bought a Saturn.

You son of a....

 

[blame space]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qM0UWNqxkw

 

[Coin Return]

I had SNES, Genesis, Game Boy and Game Gear.

I was also a spoiled little shit.

 

[Krejlooc]

...this thread would have been much more interesting if it was about nostalgia porn. I still remember my first porn site. I stumbled on it by accident.

 

[foxuzamaki]

A kid in my neighborhood had one of these. Made me super jealous. He never let anyone else play with it either.

This one time he bounced it off a curb and hit my friend Carlos in the balls.

Oh man, I wanted this so fucking bad

 

[nasax]

edit: beaten

 

[Krejlooc]

You son of a....

also, at the exact same time, I had SEGA CHANNEL

Sega channel is factually the greatest thing to have ever existed

 

[blame space]

what did Sega channel even do

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

 

[TickleMeElbow]

what did Sega channel even do

I think it was like Netflix, but for Sega games.

 

[Unicorn]

you know, the shit the really rich kids' parents got him for Christmas..

one year somebody brought this in with Devil Without a Cause inside it and I swear you could smell the jealousy in that lunch line.

showed us how it didn't skip even if smashed it against the wall.. god I wanted this CD player so bad. post gaudy shit you wanted in grade school.

A kid in my neighborhood had one of these. Made me super jealous. He never let anyone else play with it either.

This one time he bounced it off a curb and hit my friend Carlos in the balls.

I had these. I can vouch for the awesome.