Nostalgia for the 90's and 00's
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I forgot about Wolfenstein 3D. That game rocked. My sister played Kings Quest on the PC, I think it was from the same company as the Leisure Suit Larry game (it was a real thing) because I remember it being promoted on her CD and thinking those were a strange juxtaposition of games.
In my opinion it is 100% the recipe. They went with cheaper ingredients a long time ago and it's been awful since.
I assure you kids are basically totally ignorant for the most part to the worlds problems just like they always are.
IMO the world is getting way better. People just choose to focus on the bad stuff, which their always is.
Take your kids to the library. I've done it with all of my kids. Movies shelved as far as the eye can see.
Random story... we saw this movie (Mall Rats) being filmed at Eden Prairie. Went to the mall earlier that day and saw a lot of the stage for the game show. Went back that night because Mervyn's California department store was having some special Midnight sale. (also a nostalgia hit as I got a number of amazing cartoon print NFL sweatshirts that night)
Anyway, we walk into the Mall and the security guard let my brother, dad, and I walk out to the corner of the aisle on the second floor. We watched them film the scene where Michael Rooker stomps out the floor. Not long after my mother was apparently trying to find us and was incredibly pissed because they were no longer letting people walk out into the mall.
Didn't know anything about the movie for prob. 5 more years when my Brother happened to see it at a House Party and it all came back.
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Haha that might be a low number.
I could hear my friends coming to pick Mr up from about a mile away.
That’s a great story! Mallrats and Clerks are two of my favorites. I don’t watch many movies more than once but I rewatch a small handful, including those two every couple of years. They aren’t masterpieces by any means but the nostalgia is great for me. Tommy Boy, Dazed and Confused, and Singles are also on that list. Very few aren’t from the early to mid 90s actually.
Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Thiessen) is on a Netflix show in the last several years where she is the mom of one of the main characters.
The show is called Alexa and Katie...
on Netflix....
dads.....
just in case you were wondering....
I was born in 93 and sometimes wish I was born about 10yrs earlier so I could fully experience this time. I’d take being born in 93 over ‘03 any day but just a little jealous of folks born in the few decades before me. Things just seem like they were simpler, and as some others have mentioned, there seemed to be a lot more hope for the future
Preface - This is from when I lived in Ogden (I think roughly age 8-18) so 1990-2000ish. I met and started dating my wife in 1998 (age 16), got married in 2004, and have been together ever since.
- Pizza Hut in Boone - good environment and back then the pizza was consistently cooked (all the way, actually raised bread, etc).
- Golden Corral in Boone - had a big variety and food was decent.
- Starter Jackets - Had Eagles, Packers, and of course Iowa State.
- Eastbay Magazine - I read it religiously even though I never played a single sport more than a year.
- Scotcheroos at the Ogden grocery store - legit best I've ever had.
- Ames Mall - spent tons of time there, the video/pc game store was good, went through a Buckle stage, went to probably a hundred movies between the two theatres.
- Riding bike and then moped thousands of miles every summer.
- Swimming pool at High School in Ogden.
- Once I had a car at 15, driving 120mph on the backgroads between my girlfriend's house in Boone and our's in Ogden because I was late getting home late at night.
- The OG "Modern Marvels" on History Channel (How It's Made is still on after 24 years and still great).
- TLC actually being about science instead of the crap reality and romance shows it's been for the past 15 years.
- ZDTV/TechTV with Leo Laporte and others.
- Movies 12 in Ames - my wife (then girlfriend) and I went to probably 3 movies a week every week from 1998 to 2004.
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Oh man. My claim to fame is that me and three of my friends got asked by the manager to leave a Pizza Hut buffet because we had eaten so much. We had eaten a stupid amount of pizza.
I still haven't forgiven my parents for not getting me the USS Flagg for Christmas back in 85.
Not a parent but back in the days of letting your kids go out to play and just be home by dark.
Do you wear that in the pool or is it actually a cup that holds my wild cherry pepsi?You shut your damn. I am buying these right now and gonna wear them proudly.
Could you hear the bass, or was it just the rattle from the trunk of the old Ford LTD?
