When I was a kid...

[Speedball]

When is was kid, Darth Vader was a terrifying image that instilled fear and dread in me, and not some whiny 19 year old who hates sand.

 

[DorkyFresh]

great idea for a thread, Poetic...

Gas was 25 cents per gallon.

 

[Erzengel]

We actually talked to people and didn't hit them up on facebook.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Portable phones were the size of your head.
Computer screens were green at all times.
CD's were weirdly futuristic.
The Simpsons were controversial and inappropriate for children.
We had chalk boards in schools. Not even marker boards.

 

[Immortalfire]

When I was a kid...

There was no "Save Progress" in most video games. Very few even had passwords. You plugged in the cartridge, and if you wanted to finish it, you had to do it the hard way.

Cartoon Network actually showed good cartoons. Now they're all on Boomerang.

When my pals and I were rounding up a game of Tag or Hide & Seek, deciding who was "It" consisted of the Horses In a Stable routine..where you put one foot among the others in a circle, and the last horse left after the others jumped out was It.

Excitement for the highly anticipated Super Mario Bros. 3 was the primary focus of schoolyard chats.

The first movie I ever saw in the theater was An American Tail.

The first live action movie I ever saw was Batman.

Toys for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were impossible to find.

The first game system I ever bought with mine own money was a Sega Genesis.

My favorite TV shows were DuckTales, Knight Rider, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I hoped with all hope that someday, maybe Spider-Man would a live action big screen movie.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Superhero movies were seemingly impossible in the mid to late 90's. The road to getting big name super heroes on screen seemed arduous. Thank you Blade for getting the ball rolling.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

great idea for a thread, Poetic...

Thanks, it's always fun to play around with nostalgia.

When I was a kid the Black Ranger was black and the Yellow Ranger was chinese.

 

[PyroChamber]

Portable phones were the size of your head.
Computer screens were green at all times.
CD's were weirdly futuristic.
The Simpsons were controversial and inappropriate for children.
We had chalk boards in schools. Not even marker boards.

And Bart was considered the star of the show.

 

[Grillz]

Disney, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon were in it's primes
When there were fights it's over something actually important
Sitcoms were funny
Black Sitcoms were funnier
McDonlads was the place to be
It was still a taboo to watch "adult cartoons"
Family Guy was starting out
The Simpsons were funny as hell
There was music for everybody
Hollywood actually gave a crap about movies
Everything wasnt so politically correct
If you had $100 you were somebody
There was barley any pants sagging

I miss those days

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

- when you wore a Batman t-shirt, people would sing 'nanananananananananabatman' and laugh at you for wearing it.(edit: actually, i am getting mixed up, this happened to me in my late twenties when i was wearing a batman baseball cap, but you know what i mean)

 

[PyroChamber]

Getting a job was the furthest thing on your mind.

 

[Hobgoblin]

And Bart was considered the star of the show.

Right. I forgot that part.

 

[chamber-music]

Reboot was a cartoon not something Hollywood did to old franchises

Indiana Jones and Star Wars did not have sucky sequels or prequels.

Everything was not in 3D

Justin Bieber was a fetus

Staturday morning cartoons were awesome as was Nickeloden and the Disney Channel

Syfy channel was called the sci-fi channel and showed anime and awesome reruns of old science fiction shows like Captain Power & The soldiers of the future

Peter Engel produced teen shows like Saved By The Bell, City Guys, California Dreams, Hang Time, USA High and Malibu CA that made stuff like Miley Cyrus look like dog poop.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

The name Hilton was associated exclusively with hotels.

 

[Alchemyst]

He-Man was super-popular
video stores were doing great with movie rentals
The Legend of Zelda was the **** because it had a gold cartridge
Pryde of the X-Men (if you ever could catch it due to syndication)
You didn't know **** about basketball except Michael Jordan
Answering machines used tapes
Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis debates
Saturday morning cartoons were great
Bart Simpson was considered a bad influence

 

[Hobgoblin]

People used to drive station wagons when I was a kid. I dont think those kinds of cars even exist any more.
Oh yeah, and we still were nervous about the Soviet Union. Doesnt the Cold War seems like forever ago?

 

[Morg]

when I was a kid:

comic books were 20 cents
candy bars were 10 to 20 cents
I made money returning can and bottles, pop was selling for about 20 cents
I spent Saturdays with friends watching Superhero Host show we were a big monster horror fans
Most shows then were not CC(closed caption) but I did had hearing then until I was 12

 

[POWdER-man]

Beta machines were the way to watch movies at home.
Pong was the video game to play.
Michael Jackson was still black.
McDonalds burgers came in non-biodegradable styrofoam containers.
To change the channel you had to get up and turn the knob.

 

[KALEL114]

When I was a kid:

The "format war" was between VHS and Beta.
The only waty to trade videogames, was with your friends.
He-Man, Transformers, and G.I. Joe ruled all.
You could only record a channel if you were watching it.
Arcades were cool and everywhere.
Be Kind, Rewind.
If you wanted a pizza, you had to get yourself.
Tom Hanks was a sitcom actor.

 

[Immortalfire]

People used to drive station wagons when I was a kid. I dont think those kinds of cars even exist any more.
Oh yeah, and we still were nervous about the Soviet Union. Doesnt the Cold War seems like forever ago?

In 5th grade geography, when I made some comment about that country on that map being "the USSR". The teacher said "Well, not anymore."

I was like

 

[Silvermoth]

When I was a kid we had black and white game boys and I never heard anyone complaining!

When I was a kid when we thought of terrorists we thought of Team Rocket (got that from Facebook)

When I was a kid only one household in the entire town had the internet (I'm from a hick town though)

 

[JStorm]

TBS played Rocky III or IV, maybe both, every other month.
The PowerGlove was WAAAAY before it's time, yet no one cared and everyone wanted it.
Hulk Hogan WAS a real American.
WCW was up and coming.
If you liked New Kids on the Block, you were a 'stupid-head.'
Running was fun.
Eating ANYTHING was not a "concern."
88 miles an hour was bloody fast.
Block parties happened three times a summer.
"Staying the night" meant the guys were sleeping over, and your father would beat that ass if you stayed up after he told you to go to bed. . . . not a lady friend stealing the blanket and complaining that she has a headache and just wants to cuddle.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

I traded Pokemon cards for lunch money.

Yo-yo's were the ****.

I was Hooked On Phonics.

 

[CrashNburn]

Pagers were like cell phones.....#911 meant emergency which everyone paged even if it was just to say hi...#143 meant i love you...#187 meant....i love you (lol)

Ninja Turtles were at their prime!

Plastic halloween masks with those cheesy elastics bands that always &%^3 snapped were acceptable and considered cool.

The coca cola polar beers were great.

Bud-Weiser-Errrr frogs were part of a hit commercial.

Lite-Brite was an advanced toy

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

- I thought for sure my penis would get bigger when I hit puberty, but think god got mixed up with my nose and my pee pee.