Saturday, March 20, 2010

When You Were Young



Last weekend, your old pal baggedmilk was doing some inventory counting at a retail store, and it got me to thinking. Firstly, I will tell you that the store I was counting product at, is an electronics shop, and they was some old shit in there. I'm talking, mid 90's shit, that had no right being for sale anymore.

After seeing all these old, outdated, electronics I got excited about a walkman. So naturally I send jeanshorts a text telling him to buy me a Walkman. Then I started thinking, we all wanted something at one point or another. What were the "must have" items that you remember most? We're all greedy bastards, so I know you have a list.

Remember the days when it wasn't I-phones and Blackberries that we all have, it was pagers and giant cell phones that were bigger than the world? Imagine having a pager now... "Hey man, I just got a page, can I borrow your phone?" Maybe you're still out there saying "no!" to MP3 players, and rocking the forty second anti-skip discman? I want to hear about it.

Hell, I bet some of you assholes are even older, and have sweet "must haves" that we don't even know about? I want to know just how outdated and old we all are, and which toys were must haves in your day. Whether it be a Glow Worm, or a Sega Game Gear, let's discuss...

I bet some beauties come out of this... Let us discuss.

-baggedmilk
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16 Say Your Piece:

  1. I got this thing when I was like 10 years old, and I can't fucking think of the name and it's driving me insane. But basically it was this electronic canvas kind of thing. You hooked it up to your TV and you could draw shit, ON THE TV! You can add these pre loaded graphics to it and you could even crudely animate that shit. It seemed so fucking awesome. And then I got it for Christmas, played with it for about 2 days, and it's been sitting in my basement ever since. I just remember wanting it so fucking bad and being so disappointed by how unfun it actually was.

    Actually that has happened to me quite a few times as a youth: Moon boots, My Pal 2, 5 in 1 wood working kit, Light Bright. Those were all shits that I wanted more than anything in the world, and then when I got them they were such fucking let downs. Also, did I ever mention I was a spoiled only child?

    I still play my Game Gear from time to time. Fucking sweet machine that thing is.

    -js

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  2. When I was a little kid, I had a Colecovision. That was the motherfucking PS3 of its era. What else? I had a Commodore 64, which was awesome because somehow I ended up with 'Strip Poker'.

    I downloaded an emulator a couple of years ago and tried playing some of those old games, and I was a little sad to see that most of them are fucking unplayable. I can't help but wonder if people are going to say that about games like Modern Warfare 2 in 20 years.

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  3. A Nintendo. Still waiting for someone who loves me to buy me one.

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  4. For me the obvious gem in my childhood was the nintendo we got for Christmas in 1988 (I think). But beyond electronics I still remember the ridiculous number of He-man and ninja turtles toys we had. I still can't believe that shit all got thrown out. We even had the castle greyskull. That was a big fuck you to the kids down the street who owned the power wheels. Spoiled shit heads.

    On another note. Does anyone remember Pogo balls? They were shaped like Saturn and you stood on the plastic ring and jumped around like a douche bag? Good times. I also have fond memories of fisher price roller skates. The ones that were yellow red and blue and were the cause of numerous head traumas for many children. Yeah, that's right, I used to strap on roller
    skates. Fuck you too.

    Then of course there were Tonka trucks, and my lurky stuffed animal of rainbow bright fame that my dog tore to pieces. Ah the 80s. When the oilers were gods and the toys kicked ass. The hair pretty much sucked back then. Mullets and flipped bangs. At least I waited until the early 90s to rock a mullet. Sadly I couldn't bring the style back. There's always the 2010s!

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  5. Oh yeah! Centurions toys too! Max Ray with his porn moustache and underwater fighting ability. He was the man.

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  6. I don't know if anyone remembers these things but one year for christmas I got a Dr Dreadful candymaking kit. I used it once and the candy was gross. Unlucky bastard

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  7. I still can't work a pogo ball or a skip-it correctly. And I can't believe those roller skates were even legal. I vaguely remember trying those in an unfinished basement when I was like 5. How I'm still alive is a mystery to me.

    Remember Creepy Crawlers? I wanted one of those so bad, and then I ended up playing with one at a friends house and it was fun for all of about 2 minutes. And then you're left with 900 shitty bugs that all look the same. What a time to be alive!

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  8. The commercials made creepy crawlers look like they were the greatest thing ever. But, yeah, they pretty much sucked. Remember when commercials used to yell at you and tell you that you had to have whatever toy it was they were advertising? I was convinced that the guy who was screaming would come kill my family if I didn't get that micro machines play set.

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  9. Scream at you? Whatever do you mean?

    Oh, right.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om84Zc4-KcQ

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  10. Whoever comes up with these ad campaigns needs to be hired by the oilers next year.

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  11. One of my favorite toys growing up was that "Captain Power" shit. It was some cheesy live action show that had light flickering panels on the bad guys that you shot at with your Captain Power Spaceship/Lightgun. And when they shot at you if you had your Spaceship/Lightgun aimed at the tv you'd register a damage hit to yourself. I think you got 3 or 5 for the 1/2 hour show. Once you took all your damage the spaceship/lightgun would eject the action figure piloting the ship. I think you had to record like 30 hits on the "enemy" to "win".

    You could buy a bad guy ship and a good guy ship and some gun turret looking things. Plus, if your friend had a ship you could fight each other, kinda like laser tag.

    I had a couple VHS tapes of the show as a kid growing up. I wore that shit out. The sad part is once you knew when to not aim a the screen and where to shoot it wasn't very challenging.

    What an awesome toy that was.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M678PVOf5F0

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  12. CAPTAIN MOTHER FUCKING POWER!!!! hahahaha Our parents were too cheap to buy the guns so we just sat and watched that show without.

    I think I was a tad on the old side but I wanted a Teddy Ruxpin with the cassette tape pretty bad.

    Fuck those kids with the Power Wheels. I bought one for my daughter and immediately became jealous of her.

    Everybody loved Transformers and so did we. But we had to settle for the "poor man's" version... The fucking Go Bots.

    As Cory said, we did have an ungodly number of Ninja Turtles and He-Man toys. That shit was incredible but my favourite was definitely the Centurions. Ace McCloud, Jack Rockwell and Max Ray.... AWESOME.

    I never gave two fucks about GI-Joe or Thunder Cats though. That shit was Ghey.

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  13. Edit: JAKE Rockwell

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  14. POWER X TREME!!!!

    That's right bitches. Not just power, but power to the ultimate degree.... X treme

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  15. holy shit I wrote JACK???? I knew it was Jake.... I said Jake in my head yet my fingers typed Jack. My fucking world is falling apart now that I am 30. Jesus.

    Power X TREME!!!!

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  16. Creepy Crawlers and Hot Wheels. That Plastigoop shit was just plain cool. Drove my mom and dad nuts.

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