When I was a kid...

[Hobgoblin]

That's horrible!

I swear, I still remember a nightmare I had about it twenty years later.

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.

I live in a suburb so finding so much undeveloped land was really neat to me. And it was two minutes from home.

 

[danoyse]

I LOVED arcades!

Me too! I remember we had tried to see Return of the Jedi, but it was sold out, so our folks took us to Friendlys for ice cream and then to the arcade all afternoon instead. Best alternative to Star Wars ever.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

When I was a kid Crash Dummies had a computer animated show.

 

[p4poetic]

- You had to wait 2-3 years for a movie to come out on video

 

[Immortalfire]

When I was a kid...

Just about every other week, some kid at school would break their arm. The next week, someone else broke theirs..then someone broke their collar bone.

Here I am at 28, never broken anything.

 

[Mace Dolex]

-Saturday morning cartoons were actually worth waking up early for
-prime time sitcoms were actually funny
-MTV actually showed music videos
-Michael Jackson was black
-G.I.Joe figures were only $2.89
-comic books were only 75 cents
-it was actually a year or more for a movie to leave theaters and arrive on VHS and Betamax
-having a VCR was a luxury, if you had two you were considered rich!
-having your birthday at a Chuck E Cheese was the coolest back when they had arcade games
-having the major three TV networks and a few local channels was good enough.

 

[Marx]

When I was a kid...

Going to the video store to rent VHS tapes and Nintendo games was a reward and something I looked forward to.

 

[AndThePickles]

When I was a kid...

Going to the video store to rent VHS tapes and Nintendo games was a reward and something I looked forward to.

Yes! And independent/small business VHS rental stores were plentiful.

When I was a kid....

Barbie dolls weren't battery-operated and Mattel wasn't worried about little girls becoming anorexic because of their toys.

My Little Ponies were all the rage and eventually had their own tv series.

Saturday morning cartoons were something to wake up at 6 a.m. for just so you could watch the entire line-up.

You couldn't just play a movie or music; you had to rewind it, first. If you were lucky, you had a separate, faster VHS rewinder machine. Ours was shaped like a Batmobile.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Yes! And independent/small business VHS rental stores were plentiful.

When I was a kid....

Barbie dolls weren't battery-operated and Mattel wasn't worried about little girls becoming anorexic because of their toys.

My Little Ponies were all the rage and eventually had their own tv series.

Saturday morning cartoons were something to wake up at 6 a.m. for just so you could watch the entire line-up.

You couldn't just play a movie or music; you had to rewind it, first. If you were lucky, you had a separate, faster VHS rewinder machine. Ours was shaped like a Batmobile.

I had a Batmobile vhs rewinder too.

I remember when we got our first vcr. The first movies my mom rented were Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, and Walt Disney's Pinocchio.

I was 7 and the only movie that gave me nightmares was Pinocchio.

 

[Mace Dolex]

-after Return Of The Jedi the Star Wars franchise was considered done and finished.

-pronouncing and spelling 'Schwarzenegger' was dificult.

 

[JAK®]

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.

Predictions like that existed as far back as the 18th century, I hope you realise.

 

[Gamma Ray]

Cigarettes were sold in vending machines.
Coke was sold in glass bottles.

Those are still true here.



I will add:

...all of the animated movies were hand drawn.
...music was still pretty good.
...fears of global cooling and other environmental catastrophes were popular. Like man made global warming, they too turned out to be bunk, but surely made companies tons of money from the naive and gullible public.

 

[PyroChamber]

Obesity wasn't as high as it is now, and eating McDonald's was okay.
There were shows about practically anything, like a family with a robot for a daughter.
We never truly knew everything about the wrestling business.
The #1 show on TV was The Cosby Show.
The Simpsons were small sketches on the Tracey Ullman Show.
The Disney Channel was bearly noticable.
FX was a channel that showed old 70s shows.

 

[JAK®]

Obesity wasn't as high as it is now, and eating McDonald's was okay.

Hmm... any connection there, do you think?

 

[Marx]

When I was a kid...

If you wanted to travel somewhere that you weren't familiar with by car, you had to figure out directions on a paper map.

Telephones had cords and were all rotary dial.

 

[Kane52630]

When I was a kid we used to play STICKBALL! [/C.Lee as Bill Cosby]

but seriously anyone remember this?
[YT]955HvOgOUG4[/YT]

or this?

[YT]mD9i39GENWU[/YT]

 

[Angry Monkey]

Quand j'etais un petit garcon...

- I was sure cars would be flying by the time I got my diver's license
- The Sci-Fi channel showed cartoons on Saturdays
- I was determined to grow up to be a member of the Bionic-6

When I was a kid I
- wanted to be mortician
- hates girly things
- wanted to shave my head
- was ignored by in laws because I was adopted

 

[Alchemyst]

When I was a kid, this was the ****

-Also, the Ghostbusters were changed to the REAL Ghostbusters
-who could forget pogs
-Simon Says was a popular game
-Wild and Crazy Kids was a popular show
-McDonalds actually had good toys
-Going to the arcade was fun

 

[PyroChamber]

Nickelodeon had the best shows on Saturdays.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

If you were meeting someone at a shopping centre and they never turned up, you just had to go home, no texting 'where r u'

Action figures were between 99p and £3.99.

Castle greyskull was very expensive.

3D Films ALWAYS involved someone on screen poking a stick at you.

Creme egg's seemed bigger.

The net was a thing made of rope.

The web was something spider's lived in.

If i drink milk i will be as strong as Mr. T.

Micheal Keaton was the best Batman. Period.

Girls were taken out of class for a chat boys were not invited to. Boys were baffled about said chat.

Girls were horrible and the possible enemy.

T.V's had a wood covering.

You had to get up to turn the Tv over, if you were lazy you'd often watch stuff you had no interest in.

 

[Iron_Stark]

If you wanted to play Call of Duty if Medal of Honor, you'd buy toy guns and actually interact with other kids.

 

[danoyse]

When I was a kid...

Just about every other week, some kid at school would break their arm. The next week, someone else broke theirs..then someone broke their collar bone.

Here I am at 28, never broken anything.

A girl in my 4th grade class broke both of her arms one summer. As soon as she got the casts off, she broke one of her arms again. A few months later we were playing outside at lunchtime...and she tripped and broke her arm.

I've never broken my arm, but I broke my kneecap in two places in 8th grade.


When I was a kid...

The Wizard of Oz was aired on TV just once a year, and it was considered an event when it did.

 

[Hobgoblin]

When I was a kid, there was a ring of wooden benches in the grade school playground. One day a girl was jumping from bench to bench and missed. She tore her leg open on the side of the bench to the bone. They took her away in an ambulance. The next day, a boy was playing football and wasnt looking where he was running while trying to catch the ball and ran head first into a cyclone fence and knocked him out. Again, the ambulance was called.

 

[Immortalfire]

When I was a kid...

"Day trading" was swapping baseball cards on the school playground.

 

[Obi-Ron]

When I was a kid...

There was no internet. THUS, no community forums clogged with inane threads about how much people missed the good old days.

Those were the days.