Cool things from your childhood that younger people dont know about

The attachable lights that you could put on gameboy colors so you could play in the dark. Now with the brightness of everything little kids will never have to worry about getting pokemon eye strain......pansies.

Books

Books

lostrib

You mean these?

Books

lostrib

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Vinyl. Digital music doesn't come even close in sound quality. Sadly even CD's are becoming obsolete. There's just something about actually holding your Vinyl, Cassette or CD artwork, lyrics, credits, photos, etc in your hands that makes the music that much more personal. This is something the iTunes and Torrent babies will never experience.Murderstyle75

Tamagotchi and Beanie Babies.

Scratch n' sniff stickers on graded schoolwork.

Books

lostrib

Music.Makhaidos

And Biker Mice From Mars.

Not having cell phones.

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8B0PfV2R0I

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Dial-Up connection.

that i am a continental dancing champion (only by technicality because there arent schools in mexico and the USA has no game)

Dial-Up connection.

Bardock47

I actually liked the sound it made.........................

vinyl

that i am a continental dancing champion (only by technicality because there arent schools in mexico and the USA has no game)

ionusX

Hahaha. Nice.

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that i am a continental dancing champion (only by technicality because there arent schools in mexico and the USA has no game)

the_bi99man

Hahaha. Nice.

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that i am a continental dancing champion (only by technicality because there arent schools in mexico and the USA has no game)

ionusX

Hahaha. Nice.

Boss, dude. Should get that video digital and youtube it.

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that i am a continental dancing champion (only by technicality because there arent schools in mexico and the USA has no game)

ionusX

Hahaha. Nice.

Choose your path adventure books. 

Brick cellphones. Getting attacked? Don't call the police with your phone, just bash them with your gigantic Nokia.

Do kids still have black notebooks and gel pens? Those were fun as hell.

The McDLT. The burger was split in half and came in two adjacent compartments (to keep the hot side hot and the cold side cold until the last second), and then you quickly folded them together to turn it into a complete burger. To be fair, the burger itself was pretty shite, but when you're a little kid, it seems like a cool concept. megagene

I liked the McDLT. :(

Brick cellphones. Getting attacked? Don't call the police with your phone, just bash them with your gigantic Nokia.

Do kids still have black notebooks and gel pens? Those were fun as hell.

XilePrincess

Actually liked colored ketchup................................

Actually liked colored ketchup................................

jerk-o-tron2000

purple had a nasty texture to it though

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Actually liked colored ketchup................................

wis3boi

purple had a nasty texture to it though

Blue was the shit though.....................

Tv antennas?

arcade cabinets

speaking of which if anyone here is an avid enjoyer of them or has one of their own. how much would a fair price be for a cabinet of gauntlet dark legend?

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Brick cellphones. Getting attacked? Don't call the police with your phone, just bash them with your gigantic Nokia.

Do kids still have black notebooks and gel pens? Those were fun as hell.

Wolfetan

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internets and retro make younglings today far more initiated with the times that came before them then peoples of other eras. with tenuous culture boundaries and the blitz of stimulus they blunt themselves with over the internet, it must be strange to have such a tentative sense of having something belong to them or even of time. im grateful for having been established in a sweet spot where its easy stand; not stuck in the past, or drowning in the future.

toys today are really compelling, however when i was newer i thought wind up stuff was interesting. perhaps even still a little before my time, there were still plenty of wind up things to appreciate. there are probably even less wind up things around.

i once had a wind up game. in which your rocket dodged space objects. haven't seen anything like it since.

56k internet.... Discovering Google and never having to use the crap search engines that were around back then Gaming magazines that had CD's with game demo's on them, practically the only real way to get them if you had bad/no internet and the biggest bombshell: *drum roll* using the PC without having internetchaplainDMK

My god, the horror! 

using the PC without having internet chaplainDMK

With fiber optics, and "The Cloud"

They'll be confused as to how that would even work.

Space Station Silicon Valley and Kessen II.

They were great games that very few people in general have played, wish I still had them.

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