Le Totally Awesome Childhood Fads Thread
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Topic: Le Totally Awesome Childhood Fads Thread
Posted By: -ProDigY-
Subject: Le Totally Awesome Childhood Fads Thread
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:44pm
These things were all the rage back in like third grade. 
It wasn't enough to just have a buttload of Pogs, either. You had to have the best Slammers, or else the number of Pogs you had was rendered obsolete. Needless to say, my slammers kicked ass. ------------- 
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Posted By: boomstick
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:48pm
Pokemon ------------- YONK~!~ |
Posted By: NotDaveEllis
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:49pm
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Posted By: [FI]
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:51pm
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Gangster fad...that died out after like middle school. ------------- Don't believe everything you think I can resist anything but temptation |
Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:53pm
| ^^ and the sluty fad is dieing out slowly but still there |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:55pm
Not at my school... ------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
636andy636 wrote:Posted By: [FI]
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:57pm
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Mine still has a few...but now girls are realizing it doesn't work that well. ------------- Don't believe everything you think I can resist anything but temptation |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:57pm
...lucky. Hey, remember these? what ever happened to goosebumps... they just like disappeared...  ------------- 
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Posted By: HondaXR
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 4:58pm
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Posted By: Frozen
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:00pm
| I still have my tomagachi...I've had it since 4th grade... |
Posted By: I <3 my A5
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:01pm
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:01pm
| Pet rocks > all other fads |
Posted By: Civilian Of
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:04pm
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I remember watching the news and seeing moms beat each other over them. I just let mine die in its own filth Tickle ME ELMO! |
Posted By: HondaXR
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:04pm
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:05pm
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Oooooooooo, remember moms stealing off trucks for beanie babies? those were some good times. -------------
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Posted By: Bango
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:08pm
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ZipZaps ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:08pm
furbys!! there was people in fist fights over thos things |
Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:10pm
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those tickle me elmo things
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Posted By: Frozen
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:11pm
Most of us were too old for those...I hope... |
Posted By: borntopaint
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:12pm
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i couldn't find an original pic of the POWER RANGERS they were teh coolest and tha YOYO'S were sooooooooooooo awesome ------------- 
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Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:13pm
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:14pm
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Stretch Armstrong and Power Rangers!
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Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:15pm
i remember chokeing a kid with a strech armstrong 
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:16pm
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I looked all over for some pics of the 80's era laser tag stuff. Couldnt find anything.
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Posted By: MuRdoc18
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:16pm
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Not a fad but most definately an awesome child hood toy! BATTLE BEASTS  ------------- 
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Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:19pm
mighty max! i have the legs from this mighty max dude. got the things that shoot things taken away. somthing to do with my brother sleeping and his eye
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:20pm
I just found it and snapped a picture. Man, I was cool. -------------
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:21pm
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I totally forgot about Mighty Max! I was so freaking into those things it wasn't even funny. Stretch Armstrong, too! POMGOMGOMGMGGGG!!!!!11 -------------
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Posted By: boomstick
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:22pm
 Micro Machines. ------------- YONK~!~ |
Posted By: newport
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:23pm
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Posted By: MuRdoc18
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:24pm
Alright guys i have this in my closet right now. PM me if you want it... (im winking and you know what that means)-------------
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Posted By: impulse
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:25pm
Remember those Skip It thing girls use too play with. They went around your ankle. Can't find a pic. Edit:found it
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Posted By: HondaXR
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:29pm
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oooo....Micro Machines...when I was a kid I would take the bottom off and change up the tires and rims...man was I a cool kid. ------------- SL68II Pro/Am 68 Carbine |
Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:32pm
man thos were good to hit people with hehehehe i was evil 
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:32pm
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Look what just hopped into town! [Chorus]Skiip it, Skiiiiip it! Skiip it, Skiiiiip it![/Chorus] BUT THE VERY BEST THING OF ALL! There's a - Counter on this ball! [Chorus]Skiip it, Skiiiiip it! Skiip it, Skiiiiip it![/Chorus] *New, electronic Skip-It! -------------
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Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:33pm
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:37pm
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REAL lego sets....before this harry potter crap.
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Posted By: Frozen
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:38pm
| my friend has an 8x6 table and a 5x2 box of legos...good times right there... |
Posted By: paintballman_13
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:39pm
| Ya new lego sucks. |
Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:40pm
 TRANSFORMERS!!!!!!!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: pimptastik
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:43pm
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hmm there are alot of them...mega man...i remeber that. Sonic.
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Posted By: tippmann98C kid
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:47pm
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power wheels!!!! ------------- MY SET UP 98 custom flatline barrel coil remote ************ soon to come responce trigger voodoo folding stock vert adapter some kind of x chamber |
Posted By: impulse
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:49pm
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I use too wreck my friends power wheels all the time. ------------- 6,600 posts. I need a lifE |
Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:49pm
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And I was a huge Power Wheels fan... I had that yellow ATV. For some reason it had a fake Walkie Talkie on it... I was never quite sure why, but I used it all the same. You know, to radio my other covert op army-guys who were on the secret mission with me. -------------
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Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:53pm
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army men were cool down here, hehe. -------------
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Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:53pm
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what were those crappy little battery cars called...i think power
wheels...man i loved my jeep one i had...you would charge it for like 2
weeks straight until it was finally ready then ya'd get like 15 minutes
of riding out of it going .2 mph but damn those things were the best
when you were a little kid
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 5:56pm
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles > * ------------- 
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Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:11pm
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i always wanted a power wheels thing.
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:11pm
MASK Micronauts He-Man Laser Tag Expert Legos Battlestar Galactica space ships Shogun Warriors Original Star Wars guns and light sabers Real spark shooting hair igniting ray guns Water Rockets Realistic electric water guns Realistic electric paper cap guns Hot Wheels race sets with the flexible track cox control line planes Early RC cars like the Tamiya Hornet, Grasshopper or the Marui Big Bear. ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:11pm
| does anyone remember z-bots? |
Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:20pm
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still pimpin. -------------
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Posted By: tyranny
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:24pm
 and oh yea this isn't really a toy but did anyone dig holes when they were little. I remember having about a five foot deep hole that was about 6feet in diameter till my dad filled it in and used it as field lines for ourt washing machine 
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Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:28pm
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Tonka Toys pwn j00.
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Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:29pm
i remember having all of that stuff!!!! i would have the ghostbusters uniform with the gun and backpack and that trap thing that would open and close when you stepped on the little dealy...i loved all of the ghostbusters stuff -------------
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Posted By: dye4dom420
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:30pm
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Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:30pm
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Sexy. -------------
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Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:30pm
    YES YES!!!!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:32pm
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Spice Girls. -------------
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Posted By: pbfreak98
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:32pm
Biker Mice from Mars
There was also: Iron Man Creepy Crawlers, the bug maker and the cartoon Bobby's World Eeeek the cat ------------- |
Posted By: BearClaw
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:35pm
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Commedor 64 (Personal computer befor the IBM and clones PC) 80s tech at is best i still have mine and it actually still works them games were the best and i still have yet to eat anyo em .------------- AGD 68 Automag Azodin KPII Sheridan PGP2K Tippmann Crossover XVR Tippmann ProCarbine Tippmann SL68-II Tippmann TiPX |
Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:36pm
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Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:38pm
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Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:40pm
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Oh no, I love the easy bake oven! -------------
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Posted By: 636andy636
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:41pm
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:47pm
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these things were awesome, but after the huge gust of wind tokk it on the roof it was gone forever ------------- 
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Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 6:54pm
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 8:28pm
I begged my mom for the suit/gun for years, but to no avail. I'm green with envy. -------------
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Posted By: BearClaw
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 8:46pm
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Any of you had an Intelivishion i had one of them too lol (older than NES about the same time as the Atari). How bout all the differant Nerf guns (I had a collection) Gosh i think i starting to feel old and i aint very old lol. best fad of my time still was the Nija Turtles (Man seems SOOOOOOO stupid now but for some reason amazing back then LOL) ------------- AGD 68 Automag Azodin KPII Sheridan PGP2K Tippmann Crossover XVR Tippmann ProCarbine Tippmann SL68-II Tippmann TiPX |
Posted By: NiQ-Toto
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 8:52pm
Did anyone else have Crazy bones? I had like a million and me and my friends would have battles where we would set up ten and flick them across the table to knock the others over. Good times, good times... Also, Magic cards and rumble robots.
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Posted By: Tippmannshooter
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 8:53pm
| I had absolutely everything star wars that there was to have.. It was ridiculous. |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 18 October 2004 at 9:10pm
Umm Hello:
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Posted By: Koolit32
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 5:04am
 Slot cars  Yeah. |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 5:39am
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haha,my brother had crazy bones
what about super human samurai cyber squad? 
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Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 6:10am
original gameboy anyone? -------------
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 6:48am
I admit to nothing. Except maybe copping a feel at Madame Tussaud's in New York.
And I was a huge TMNT fan when I was little. I can't believe they're back on tv, along with every other 80's cartoon. I had the Atari 2600, and it took me years to convince my parents I needed a NES. The original Game Boy was so cool and high tech. ------------- 
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Posted By: TruePaintballer
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 7:29am
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NINTENDO! SUPER NINTENDO! This brings great memories of my past ------------- http://www.freewebs.com/outlawspaintball/index.htm - Outlaws *Sponsors* http://www.abrika.ca - Abrika |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 8:39am
I demand to see your Slammers, My Slammers owned like no bodies business. I still have my pogs, far back in the old child hood toy box. I should take some pics of the slammers.. ------------- |
Posted By: Pyro-TFA
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 9:07am
| Atari, Commodore 64, 8-trek tapes, origional looney toons. |
Posted By: quizl
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 9:12am
you guys remember this fad?
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Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 9:20am
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wow, i remember almost all of those. I feel old, some of those were around like forever ago. Alot of people at my school, including myself, still play magic. Does anyone remember the giga pets? It's the only fad I can think of that's not listed already. ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: rootsradicals
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 9:35am
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i had the sickist arsenal of nerf guns around....it was awesome. Ninja
Turtles was definately my favorite, along with Transformers. I remember
watching a T.V. show called V.R. Troopers, I think thats what it was,
anyone else know what I'm talking about? It was like a rip-off of the
Power Rangers. Speaking of Ninja Turtle, has anyone else noticed that nowadays, all of them look really mad? They used to have like HUGE smiles on their faces all the time....now they just look pissed off. Mikey just isn't the same anymore.... ------------- WWBDD?  |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 9:46am
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wow... the memories... nerf guns oh the memories!!!! |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 11:12am
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D&D/AD&D/AD&D 2nd Edition/AD&D Player's Option/D&D3.0/D&D3.5, depending on exactly how old you are, and anybody as young as those last two is too young to be here.
Rollerblades became common. Star Wars. Han shot first. And you may remember the NES, but do you remember R.O.B.?  -------------
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Posted By: quizl
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 11:21am
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what the crap is R.O.B. ?? ------------- MEJOR QUE |
Posted By: HondaXR
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 11:27am
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 11:31am
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R.O.B., Robotic Operating Buddy. R.O.B. played two games, neither of them very well or accurately. Gyromite and Stackup. He read the screen like a light gun does, and would react on his controller. R.O.B. didn't last long, and I didn't get one because he was expensive, but my cousin had one and I got to see it in action.
The commercials for him were great. They made it seem like R.O.B. would just rule the gaming industry. He's had a couple of cameos in games since, but that's it. -------------
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Posted By: BradNowell
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 12:14pm
shut up i still play time to time ------------- "When I travel through mountainous areas or places of questionable hillbilly population, I usually keep a gun in the vehicle" -Da Hui |
Posted By: MROD
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 12:28pm
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Sonic the Hedgehog has got to be the best childhood fad of al ltime because it's was a fad when I was young, and is still a fad for all the generations since while never being the same fad since the TV shows and games have changed so much. I'll add some pics later my mom is here and I wouldn't want to scare her into thinking I'm some weirdo who still likes Sonic. ------------- I need to find smaller pictures for my profile. |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 12:32pm
   Snap brqacelets, NES, and a 386. All stuff from my childhood. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: HondaXR
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 12:51pm
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^^^I should hope you didnt wear snap bracelets... ------------- SL68II Pro/Am 68 Carbine |
Posted By: HondaXR
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 12:53pm
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I remember these...
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Posted By: pbfreak98
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:03pm
I know what you're talking about, it had the talking dog and one of the guys was also trying to figure out who his dad was(every episode). I can't remember what it did, but I know the car did something special. I don't know what they're names are but there were two other shows I used to watch, if someone can help me that'd be great. One of them had 3 kids and they always went to this house, one guy that lived in the house, I think his name was Fathom, turned the kids into superheroes that had suits/outfits like bugs. The other show was like this guy that came to Earth from a different planet and a family took him in. He later became a superhero, it was kind of like Power Rangers but it only had 1 main character hero. ------------- |
Posted By: scenarioballer7
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:10pm
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Z bots were the coolest. then I wasted 150 bucks on Pokemon cards. lol ------------- 04 Vision SH((0))CKER with << otherstuff>> ♦♠♣☻☺○•♣╒&nb sp; 562;846T╚"‼¼,ÿX>±▲» MacGyver's little NinJa |
Posted By: rave5910
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:12pm
  Beanie babies and ronin warriors. EDIT: I almost forgot about this monster.  Remember when all the girls wore these on their wrists.  ------------- 
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:15pm
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Heck with the Power Rangers, what about http://www.voltronforce.com/ - Voltron?
Now that was cool. Voltron even gets a mention in Red vs. Blue "Chicks are like Voltron, the more you can hook up the better it gets" and a rap song or two. -------------
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Posted By: rave5910
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:22pm
Did any of you ever have rock lords. Between me and my brother we had everything in this picture. They were kind of like... genertic transformers only instead of being cars and planes and stuff they were just rocks. -------------
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Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:24pm
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anyone remember the show "Beetle Borgs?" it was about these
kids, kinnda like power rangers, and they had suits that were all shiny and "beetle like" -------------
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Posted By: Enos Shenk
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:26pm
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HAHAHA i remember those rock transformers. I got one for christmas one year.
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Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:28pm
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I had the limestone guy. I could proably still change him out in 10 seconds flat if one were put in my hands. -------------
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Posted By: scenarioballer7
Date Posted: 19 October 2004 at 1:29pm
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ya I had a beatle borg! thos things were cool, until my cousin threw it out off the second floor ------------- 04 Vision SH((0))CKER with << otherstuff>> ♦♠♣☻☺○•♣╒&nb sp; 562;846T╚"‼¼,ÿX>±▲» MacGyver's little NinJa |