When I was a kid...

[redhawk23]

Pluto was a planet.

 

[wiegeabo]

And then there was this one from my teens:

It's sad that Vader's roar of anger in an Energizer commercial was so much better than in episode III

 

[Marx]

When I was a kid...

Hollywood still had original ideas.

It was a shock to learn that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father.

'My Pet Monster' was a hot toy.

Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Beetlejuice ruled the theater.

Kids read books to get free pizzas through Pizza Hut's 'Book It' program.

 

[Hobgoblin]

It's sad that Vader's roar of anger in an Energizer commercial was so much better than in episode III

My thoughts exactly.

Kids read books to get free pizzas through Pizza Hut's 'Book It' program.

I remember that. I think I still have the buttons that we had to collect to earn a free pizza. Little did educators know, but while they were fighting illiteracy, they were adding to the childhood obesity crisis.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

People used to drive station wagons when I was a kid. I dont think those kinds of cars even exist any more.o?

They still exist. They just call them crossovers now.

 

[PyroChamber]

-Thursday nights on NBC were: The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, and Hill Street Blues
-And on Friday, it was Friday Night Videos

I thought I was the only one who remembered that.

 

[wiegeabo]

Holy crap. I remember Friday Night Videos. Haven't thought about those in years.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Were America's Funniest Home Videos and America's Funniest People part of TGIF? I dont remember. But looking back, they really were God awful shows.

 

[wiegeabo]

I want to say they weren't.

The very first season of AFHV wasn't bad, and funny more often than not. And there were a few funny AFP skits.

other than that...

 

[Silicon Surfer]

There were 3 TV channels....but only 2 were broadcast in my area.
Cartoons were only shown on Saturday morning.
If you missed a movie at the theater, you got a chance to see it again around 2 years later when the network showed it....usually once.
Your first look at an image from a new upcoming movie was the trailer for it a few weeks before it was released.
Papers were your main source of news and they put out morning and evening editions.
Gas was 25 cents per gallon.
If you missed a Tv show, it was most likely never seen again until it went on syndication 10 years or so later.

Maybe half the kids you knew had color tv on the single television set they had at home.

None of the kids you knew used profanity because they wanted to live.

The big source of entertainment other than the tv was the record player.

Comic books were sold at the supermarket and the drug store and cost about 10-12 cents.

 

[RustyCage]

When I was a kid, everyone I knew thought the movie 'Hook' was awesome.

Now'days no one I meet remembers it, and the few people who talk about it online bash it.

 

[PyroChamber]

When I was a kid, everyone I knew thought the movie 'Hook' was awesome.

Now'days no one I meet remembers it, and the few people who talk about it online bash it.

That's kind of like what happened with The Wizard.


Speaking of which; when I was a kid, the kid who had the most NES games was considered the coolest.

 

[serendipity]

- Cartoon Network ran quality cartoons
- Sex wasn't so blatant in commercials
- My mother wouldn't let me play Maximum Carnage for the SNES
- You'd be pissed to pick up the phone to realize someone was using the dial-up connection

 

[Marx]

I remember that. I think I still have the buttons that we had to collect to earn a free pizza. Little did educators know, but while they were fighting illiteracy, they were adding to the childhood obesity crisis.

To be fair, childhood obesity wasn't a big problem when we were kids because we actually played outside for hours on end.

 

[Hobgoblin]

To be fair, childhood obesity wasn't a big problem when we were kids because we actually played outside for hours on end.

Kind of. I spent a lot of time inside, too.

 

[Marx]

Kind of. I spent a lot of time inside, too.

I spent alot of time playing atari and nintendo, but I was outside quite alot too. (And I played league soccer.)

 

[Hobgoblin]

I want to say they weren't.

The very first season of AFHV wasn't bad, and funny more often than not. And there were a few funny AFP skits.

other than that...

After a while AFV became all about getting hit in the crotch. It became so damn obvious that we would watch the show and point out all of the times that the hits in the gonads were obviously staged. Its got that obvious.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I spent alot of time playing atari and nintendo, but I was outside quite alot too. (And I played league soccer.)

Yeah I played little league one year but my heart wasnt in it. I was just screwing around and everyone else was taking the game seriously. I think thats when I gave up on sports. I did have a few dozen acres behind my house that I was always tramping around in. Lakes, forest, a prairie like area. It was awesome. t:

 

[Marx]

Yeah I played little league one year but my heart wasnt in it. I was just screwing around and everyone else was taking the game seriously. I think thats when I gave up on sports. I did have a few dozen acres behind my house that I was always tramping around in. Lakes, forest, a prairie like area. It was awesome. t:

That sounds pretty cool man!

 

[Hobgoblin]

That sounds pretty cool man!

It was. Thats probably where I got my love of nature from. God was I depressed when it was bulldozed to make a subdivision.

 

[Marx]

It was. Thats probably where I got my love of nature from. God was I depressed when it was bulldozed to make a subdivision.

That's horrible!

 

[Metamorpho1977]

It was. Thats probably where I got my love of nature from. God was I depressed when it was bulldozed to make a subdivision.

I have 30+ acres of land where I live and there's a few lakes and lots of forest and hills. Lots of fun to run around in. I love living in the country.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

To be fair, childhood obesity wasn't a big problem when we were kids because we actually played outside for hours on end.

I almost predict in 30 or more years from now kids will be inside so much that when they go outside, they'll react like the morlocks from the Time Machine.

 

[Iron_Stark]

When I was a kid

Kids played outside all day in the summer
Nintendo and Sega games were cool, but Arcades ruled all
Speaking of Arcades, we would make a 2-3 mile walk into downtown to go to the arcade room
And at said arcade room, there were actual people there that you talked to face to face, not over a computer.
Stallone and Schwarzenegger ruled the theater and they were manly men, non of this oh I first gotta talk about my feelings crap
And the best action movies were R-Rated
Those same R-Rated movies that showed nudity, violence, cursing and gore would also be made into toys and cartoons.
MTV showed music videos and those music videos were great
The controversy and what had people talking the next day at the MTV music awards were when Slash or some other guy would go on stage drunk with a bottle of Jack in his hand cursing up a storm, not pansy ass crap like Kanye snatching microphones from little girls. such a tough guy.
Saturday mornings were worth getting up early for
I got news from the news paper and movie news from magazines.

 

[Marx]

I LOVED arcades!