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nostaliga porn/90s kids/etc: what were the most sought-after electronics as a kid
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whitemex88
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This tactical nuke would've shaken the dingleberries off ur ass blame space
this fucking thing weighed like 50 lbs.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Totally forgot about the Sega Nomad.
Also, lmao at the microwave milkshake what else did the rest of us poor kids miss out on?
Also, lmao at the microwave milkshake what else did the rest of us poor kids miss out on?
This tactical nuke would've shaken the dingleberries off ur ass blame space
... I still own this
and it still works.
retailed at like $300, it was my birthday and my parents had recently gotten divorced.
I had one of these.
Yeah you can be jealous it's okay.
No, it wasn't really that fun.
Still have mine. Amazing little thing.
A neighbour had one of these, I wanted it so bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Lock-On
wanderingprostheyltite
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One of my fav things I used as a kid was a portable tv with a built-in vcr, sat that bitch on the bed many a time watching and rewatching movies.
I think the only electronics I didn't snag at that time that I always wanted was prob either 32x or Sega CD, remember seeing the latter being demoed in Circuit City's back then.
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.
Holy shit never thought that I'd see this thing again.
Stallion Dan
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And when these things were all the rage.
Lyrian
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I actually sold these in my first job at a department store.
This beast was the craziest "Tim the Toolman Taylor" piece of portable audio equipment ever designed for a mass consumer audience, at the height of the boom box craze. Sony's Xplod competitor model didn't even come close to raw power levels of this machine.
Fun facts:
-- It did retail for $300 back then (in today's dollars, thats ~$550 for a portable radio).
-- It was portable, so it had to be able to run on battery cells. Can't remember if it ran on 8 or 12 D cells. Still, that was a seriously expensive hour of portable radio.
-- It had a full blown amplifier in it.
-- On each side, there is a full-sized sub-woofer. That's right, 2 full 10 inch sub-woofers in a portable radio.
-- Good luck carrying it around (it was seriously **not** portable).
-- This thing could shake the foundations of buildings at not even half power. I had much so fun "demoing" the product, only to get phone calls about "earthquake tremors" from people on other floors of the building I worked in.
Awesome, awesome times for electronics. Companies built the craziest contraptions because they could without a care in the world for the consequences.
old manatee
Banned
I always wanted a GameBoy. I eventually got a GameGear for Christmas which was awesome except it chewed through batteries super quick so I basically never played it.
This tactical nuke would've shaken the dingleberries off ur ass blame space
I always love how JVC used to constantly try to one-up Sony
Colonel Mustard
Banned
The only weird thing I remember having, is a ton of Indiana Pacers stuff when I was growing up in the mid to late 90s.
I don't even like basketball. Were the pacers good then or something?
I don't even like basketball. Were the pacers good then or something?
Emerson's Essentia
Banned
translucent game boys
Speaking of Mountain Dew, the "Livewire" flavor was easily the best thing the brand ever did, and blew their "Code Red" out of the water. I'm flabbergasted that it never came to fruition as a standard flavor.
I literally developed diabetes from that shit.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Aw man. I'd have loved to have either one of those colors back then. I only had a Red Play-It-Loud brick GameBoy. And later the translucent GameBoy Color.
translucent game boys
Dude! NSFW! Seriously though, I remember those days. Hoping the picture would straighten up enough to actually see something. Then there were the rare nights when it was accidentally unscrambled and you just could not change that channel until it did or you fell asleep. It would keep me up late and I hated it. Also, in before Friends reference.
This was the only console I envied. I was a Nintendo kid but damn, I was so jealous that Sega kids had the option to play all their Sega games anywhere. Genesis on a portable. Master System and GameGear on a console. It didn't matter. You could do it anywhere. So I was jealous. Nintendo never let me have a portable SNES player. (GameBoy Advance doesn't count since it's not actually a SNES and most of its SNES ports have many quirks or unnecessary changes.)I always wanted a SEGA Nomad because the idea of a portable Genesis was amazing to me as a kid.
Of course, you can have that entire generation of consoles and games in a portable now, so we're way better off today.
However, I only wanted a Nomad until I got one. The screen is terrible. Well, it is now. They really wore out. I saw a Nomad that had no pixels anymore. (On a GiantBomb Mailbag episode someone sent them one. Just audio. The pixels were completely faded away.) Just sound and the screen lit up black. Mine is so faded it's unplayable. Even when you can see the picture, the Damn, color LCD technology in the '90s was horrible. So glad we've pretty much perfected it now. But damn. Those color LCDs were sad.
I had a talkboy, my sister broke it though.
The original gameboy was complete garbage, the screen could display about 3 shades of green and that was it, unplayable in most light conditions. The game gear shit all over it, even if you had to carry around the AC adaptor too because the batteries would only last 2 hours. But then the gameboy color came out and shit all over the game gear...
The original gameboy was complete garbage, the screen could display about 3 shades of green and that was it, unplayable in most light conditions. The game gear shit all over it, even if you had to carry around the AC adaptor too because the batteries would only last 2 hours. But then the gameboy color came out and shit all over the game gear...
He would know?! Fuuuuu
Bubba_Sparks
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remember when headphones went from something that went over your head to something that went behind your head
shit was a game changer
My friend had a set of those with some sort of vibration/sub-woofer feature built in along with a model of that Panasonic CD player when I was in Grade 7. Thing looked so futuristic for the time lol!
SpookyFries
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Came here to post this. I had two of these and gave one to my friend in high school so we could chat and play some shitty multiplayer games in class. Thing was awesome for its time but severely limited.
There was also a way for me to tether one Cybiko to my PC and have it act like an access point to where I could chat on AIM wirelessly with my other one. That was pretty rad too
Bubba_Sparks
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What is the sound like? It reminds me of all the crazy iPod docks that came / maybe are still around? I have an iHome iP1 which does a good enough job for me. My sisters fiancee bought a Beats/Monster iPod dock and honestly it really pumps out the music.
EDIT:
That sounds fucking amazing! I remember seeing that model advertised in store and the weekly Futureshop flyers.
Both lived up to the hype.
I almost got this mp3 cd player cause i wanted more than 12 songs a cd. This little baby could record 150mbs of mp3s on a 3.5" cd.
GAMECHANGER
But 150mb was not enough for me so i sprung a bit extra for the full size version. 700mbs of music! that was like witchcraft back in 1997
GAMECHANGER
But 150mb was not enough for me so i sprung a bit extra for the full size version. 700mbs of music! that was like witchcraft back in 1997
darkwing-buck
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I almost got this mp3 cd player cause i wanted more than 12 songs a cd. This little baby could record 150mbs of mp3s on a 3.5" cd.
GAMECHANGER
But 150mb was not enough for me so i sprung a bit extra for the full size version. 700mbs of music! that was like witchcraft back in 1997
How much was that 700 mb player back then? Seems a lot for that time period.
the bass is ridiculous, I could throw it in the backseat of my car and you'd think I had a decent sound system.
MrCunningham
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Super Soaker 50
I had one of these when I was a kid. But what I really wanted was the Super Soaker 200:
Then of course there is the Super Soaker 300, which was absolutely ridiculous:
I had one of these.
Yeah you can be jealous it's okay.
No, it wasn't really that fun.
HOLY SHIT. I had one of those when I was like 3!
bennywhatever
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This game RULED. And had a great theme song.
CarpeDeezNutz
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We need to organize a Neogaf meet up and have a super soaker war.
Just send me all the neogaf ladies.
Bubba_Sparks
Member
I fucking love crazy shit like that! lol I wish they still made sound docks like that!
blame space
Banned
the super soaker 200 is the most overtly sexual children's toy I have ever seen
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
Adulthood gets shittier by the day but I had an extremely blessed childhood. Usually got everything I wanted even if I had to wait a few months to get it.
Thanks mom!!!!
Thanks mom!!!!
CarpeDeezNutz
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This guy.
Stealing Laserdisc players and pizza promo codes.
Blamespace I never knew that player in your op even existed.
Edit: how did parents get their hands on a NeoGeo anyway?
MrCunningham
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In retrospect, this is true.
The Neo Geo is something that I would have loved to own. I don't think I knew anyone who had one back then.
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.
OOOOOMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGG!!!
I got one of these for Christmas (or something, lol). My friend down the street had one so of course I had to beg my parents for one.
This is one toy I played with all the time.
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
Miss it.
Lord of the G-Strings was really fuckin weird
biggersmaller
Banned
I always wanted this specific Discman due to two of my friends with divrced parents providing it to them:
I had one of these with a IR touchscreen remote ap. I seriously used that shit waaaaaay past what would be normally considered its usefulness.
And car stereos. Fuck, I used to just hang at Best Buy with my friends drooling over amps for my 1993 626.
Then manufacturers starting stocking cars with systems that were really good enough for 90% of the population.
Miss it.
I had one of these with a IR touchscreen remote ap. I seriously used that shit waaaaaay past what would be normally considered its usefulness.
Mini systems went full on stupid in the '90s
The more pointless lights on them, the more speaker ports, the stupider they looked the more people wanted them.
And car stereos. Fuck, I used to just hang at Best Buy with my friends drooling over amps for my 1993 626.
Then manufacturers starting stocking cars with systems that were really good enough for 90% of the population.
Got damn kids nowadays with their unscrambled porn.
biggersmaller
Banned
Rich/divorced parents?
SneakyStephan
Banned
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 this:
It was SO fucking awesome.
The battery only lasted about 20 minutes (giant lithium battery pack), but it charged pretty fast in like 2-3 hours.
This sticker does not lie, it spun so fast , it was really fast (for a toy remote control car), much faster than any other remote control car I had before.
Only 4 of the 6 wheels were powered though
I played with this thing for months until eventually I broke off one of the front wheels hitting a curb for the millionth time. Then I played with it some more.
edit: here's the commercial they played on tv for it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwpapacs-G8
Also had got one of these from my grandpa a few years earlier:
idk if it was this exact one but it was very similar if not this (I remember the smiley face headlights and the remote being the same)
I had one of these.
Yeah you can be jealous it's okay.
No, it wasn't really that fun.
I had one of these too, that's from the 80s though isn't it? I think I was like 4 or something when I had this.
Retromelon
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I wanted a game boy color more than i wanted to live when I was 6. I saw a burger king commercial with game boy color toys in their happy meal equivalent and I hounded my mom relentlessly to bring me there. I thought they were real game boy colors.
I open my meal up and its a little plastic replica gbc with a screen filled water, tiny plastic hoops and pegs. Pressing the a button pumped the water around, to make the hoops fall and hang onto the pegs.
I never got a real game boy color
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