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[crisdecuba]

What about having two VHS players in the house? Best way to "borrow" someone's porn and have your own copy.

I had this setup (and an audio cassette tape deck) and used it to make longer videos using Mario Paint, like my version of the Lost World made for English class (had to make something creative based on a fictional novel): https://youtu.be/UkFCX3q5JbA

 

[Ramsiege]

I wanted one sooooooooooooo bad

Spoiler

to store DBZ pictures on.

 

[Baron Von Beans]

This was the RC I had. It was fast as hell, once you got it to go straight. Which it almost never did, due to the controls. But man that thing could do some wicked ramps.

Edit- it's called Tirestorm

 

[biggersmaller]

I wanted one sooooooooooooo bad

Spoiler

to store DBZ pictures on.

My college had a Zip drive in every computer on campus so I bought an external drive for my 700 MHz lampshade iMac. Before affordable network drives and USB storage it was pretty sweet when it was the standard everywhere I went.

 

[Mascot]

this rules. what software do you use to transfer stuff to your mini discs?

Just CD to MD on that integrated Kenwood system in the picture. I've never tried dumping anything onto MD any other way because my portable MD player (another Kenwood) packed in just before i got the iPod. I've still got hundreds of Mini Discs though and prefer playing them than the same music on CD or MP3. They are more tactile somehow. I thought it was witchcraft when some CDs would automatically copy the album and track names onto the Mini Disc during copying, although the incredibly time-consuming method of entering individual characters to name album tracks manually always had some delightfully perverse charm to it.

 

[NJDEN]

I had like, 5 of these fuckers. Every kid on the block wanted a slice of me just to snag one.

I had this model. If I recall, it was not in color...

 

[NJDEN]

ignore this

 

[NJDEN]

that was fucked, tried to edit my original post and accidentally quoted myself... twice

 

[blackjaw]

Kids with their smartphones and googles and all that tech shit. Back in the day, we get off from the sounds and our imagination.

Lol, brings me back...

 

[TickleMeElbow]

do you still talk to carlos?

No. He and his family moved.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

ignore this

that was fucked, tried to edit my original post and accidentally quoted myself... twice

Only 90s kids will get this.

 

[Kickz]

My first game boy and pokemon red

 

[Mohonky]

Lawd, you have no idea how much I wanted the Lunchbox. I lusted after it. My mate who's parents were wealthy got the monster beetle and I nearly imploded with jealousy. He let me have a go on it once and I drove it into a car and broke the bumper, at the time genuinely not deliberately but there was clearly something subconscious at work there.

Everything year, birthday or Christmas I would ask for the lunchbox, or at least a radio controlled car at least approaching that level of amazing and every year my mum would fail to understand and get me the smallest, slowest, crappiest radio control car ever.

I really ought to just go and fucking buy one (or the better modern equivalent) now that I'm 35.

Tamiya re-released a LOT of older kits. I believe you can still buy the lunchbox new.

http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.php?product-id=58347

I loved RC stuff as a kid, now as an adult, I have so much of it. It's funny because when I was racing, the racers are usually early 20's and up. Now I'm into flying rc stuff, quads is a broad age group but most plane and helicopter RC pilots are 50 +, I'm 33 and I'm the youngest in our club.

 

[B1gg_Randall]

And then it would get perfect.Good times.lol

This was the shit back in the 90s though especially if you wanted pay per view and free porn lol

My Grandmama had one of these.We watch all the WWF pay-per-view and that Playboy channel. 1995' was lit.

 

[Volimar]

I got busted for shoplifting one of these shitty things when I was like 14. 3 months probation. I didn't even want it that bad, I think I was just sick of being too poor to ever get anything.

 

[dity]

I had this model. If I recall, it was not in color...

I swear I remember a news story about one of these causing a car accident.

 

[Nikodemos]

I got busted for shoplifting one of these shitty things when I was like 14. 3 months probation. I didn't even want it that bad, I think I was just sick of being too poor to ever get anything.

I had a bunch of those videogame gadgets, from Elektronika clones of Nintendo Game&Watch (I even had the Nu, pogodi! Egg clone) to proper tie-ins (like the WCW one featuring Sting versus Arn Anderson IIRC).

 

[AlphaDump]

The NeoGeo was the rich kid console. I never knew anyone who had it, so it was somewhat legendary. They also only sold it in the upper class mall (Tysons 2) that I rarely ever went to.

 

[RS4-]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T21os7Hz2I8

so good

 

[Robot Pants]

haha fucking skip protection. forgot all about that. that was definitely the big thing to have

 

[gfxtwin]

I actually saw the Primal Rage 2 arcade machine in person once. Didn't have any quarters to play though, and kinda didn't want to TBH. The concept of that game was garbage (make the sequel to a Mortal Kombat-inspired fighter that is good because you play as rad looking dinosaurs and movie monsters instead of humans about playing as really bad claymation style human characters...no thanks)

 

[John Rabbit]

Sega Game Gear TV tuner... God I wanted one.

Had this as a kid, honestly it was kind of bad ass especially on long car rides or road trips. We had the car A/C adapter too so the batteries wouldn't die.

 

[kess]

Had this as a kid, honestly it was kind of bad ass especially on long car rides or road trips. We had the car A/C adapter too so the batteries wouldn't die.

Some days... you're just glad they invented this

 

[Liberty4all]

Although technically 80s tech.

A bunch of us bought into it full scale. So much fun in the woods but man those things DRANK batteries.


Edit: I can see I'm lttp in this thread, lazer tag got its mentions already. I liked Photon too.

 

[Liberty4all]

The big Lazer Tag gun.

I had it, white version. That shit was AMAZINGGGGG

 

[blame space]

step not just into the year 3010, but beyond the year 3010.

 

[Abstrusity]

Tomogatchi was IT for like two years.

Never did get one.

 

[Mechanized]

Shaq Attack!
Tiger Electronics

Ballzac I think it was called with the ball inside the ball filled with water.

Rattle Me Bones
Spy Tech? I think it was called that, you'd get these shitty spy sets. With like mirror glasses. Lol

 

[Volcane]

I had a friend down the street that was an only child. Of course he got all the cool Transformers.

[/IMG]

I had those 2, and also Megatron and a load of other ones.

Also had this:-

Which is the same as Omega Supreme in US.

I've still got them in the attic.

 

[paragonpro]

I had a playstation and a snes. I was very jealous of my N64 playing friends. Especially after playing banjo kazooie and super mario 64z

I always wanted more of this.

Oh shit! I remember getting this for christmas in 99! This thing was rad, and insanely detailed. I used to let my pet hamster run around inside of it!

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

These were my first games for my PlayStation back in 1999.

 

[Aquavelvaman]

I wanted a Cybiko so goddamn badly. Then my cousin got one for Christmas and I was super jealous. Then, as it turns out, the thing sucked major ass. I mean, yeah, you could chat with other Cybikos! At least, on the very, very, rare occurance that another one of the 500,000 sold nationwide happened to be within shouting distance.

I had one of these. I thought all of my friends were going to get one and we could chat, but nobody else ever got one. I didn't use it for shit.

The thing had a stupid stylus that was just made to push the buttons on that awful qwerty keyboard. It was a stylus shaped like those squishy keyboard buttons. It was probably the worst keyboard of all time.

Here's the stylus:

It's hard to see in the picture but the stylus tip was angled and oval shaped like the keyboard buttons. The screen was not touch sensitive or anything, the whole purpose of the stylus was to peck at the keyboard, because you basically couldn't do it with just your fingers.

Of course I never typed anything with it because I was the only joker who ever bought one in my school.

 

[Mattlikewhoa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T21os7Hz2I8

so good

I actually had the track, and a few of the cars. MAN I LOVED THESE THINGS!

I used to have my dad record the show every Saturday for me (Soccer/Hockey) so I'd miss it.

 

[Crazymoogle]

My college had a Zip drive in every computer on campus so I bought an external drive for my 700 MHz lampshade iMac. Before affordable network drives and USB storage it was pretty sweet when it was the standard everywhere I went.

I had the Zip drive as well. Worked great until the click error wiped the whole thing out. We used the much bigger Jazz drives at school but the failure rate on those was like 50%. Once CD-R dropped in price we all abandoned Iomega's products in droves.

 

[Reverend Funk]

I had a couple episodes of family guy on a umd for my psp in 6th grade and it made me the coolest kid on the bus.

 

[Regiruler]

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.

That reminds me of an RC car I had that could go up on its hind wheels and spin like a tornado.

 

[Pendas]

Tomagotchi's

Game Boy Link Cables when Pokemon was released.

Good Luck...

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Bought it with my birthday cash was so happy.

Most dangerous toy ive owned and i still cant believe these were allowed to be sold.

 

[GuyKazama]

I had this chess set that could play itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RipEFsQsdyw

 

[BigJonsson]

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.

I had the blue one

 

[bjaelke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ19ixfoJQQ

 

[soxinthebox]

I wanted one sooooooooooooo bad

Spoiler

to store DBZ pictures on.

We had one of those! Came with a copy of Marathon 1 on it which was great since Mac games were a limited commodity for me back then.

 

[MCN]

Back when Beko were very much a budget brand. These TVs were sold in Kwik Save, the most budget of British budget supermarkets, for £50.

It was the first TV I had in my bedroom. Combined with a Playstation and an N64, it was 14" of colourised joy.

 

[Bleepey]

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

Was it good?
Alwaus wanted these:

Underrated:

 

[JZA]

My Nana bought me it as a present... Shit was legit.

She was awesome. Great game

Why is there no Crossfire app yet?

 

[Bleepey]

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but anyone have a Whiz Kid?

It was like the future.

I think I had this.

 

[Trouble]

One of these:

and one of these (DEC Multia, could dual boot DEC Unix and Windows NT 4.0 on an Alpha processor):

Yeah I was that kid. Also, I was an 'adult' for about half the 90s.

 

[Bleepey]

Heh, yeah I loved waterguns growing up. My favorite was the ZX2000, which was a backpack (similar to the SS300) and a hose-like power:

The asshole with the backpack! I remember that dude!

Back when Beko were very much a budget brand. These TVs were sold in Kwik Save, the most budget of British budget supermarkets, for £50.

It was the first TV I had in my bedroom. Combined with a Playstation and an N64, it was 14" of colourised joy.

You know what's messed up? back in the day we would play split screen on these small screens and we were happy, nowadays we have 60" TVs in the home but no split screen.

 

[Speevy]

I wanted a Super Nintendo. I was the happiest kid in the world on Christmas morning.