Memories and discussion of the '90s.

This is a screenshot from one of the Star Wars Micro Machines commercials.

Taken at Splendid China theme park in Kissimmee Florida, 1997.

Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem on BBC iPlayer

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals! https://youtu.be/TaFuoPggx3E?si=g45mgrT-l5NFsLiu

My grandma made me a sweater in the 90s where the design was sewn into the inside of the front of the sweater then the front was cut to reveal the design. Mine was a Christmas tree. Does anyone know what this is called?

These movies were very close to the plot for all of the pretend play I did with my cousin growing up. Now that my kids are 10, I wonder how the movies have aged and if they'd like them at all.

There’s other things like the optimism of the nineties and fewer global conflicts and so forth I wish continued too, but that’s another discussion.

I’m sick of paying for subscriptions and having a million accounts for things I used to have for free. And things like online gaming bore me and I miss the actual social connecting of video games in the nineties.

We pay for TV/Movie subscriptions, and we watch shows I grew up with for free. Across different platforms! But it’s on demand, they say. Well, setting up a VCR was on demand too! And we had decent digital solutions to this already in the form of TiVo and other DVR devices post nineties. Yeah, sure you could still use these today, but the good shows have left network television to go to streaming platforms. If streaming never took off, we could still have on demand TV in the modern world, skipping the ads, and all for free! I just wanna watch The Simpson and Star Trek, and they’re on different payed accounts! (Luckily I own copies of these but some aren’t so lucky, and this also doesn’t help for new episodes if anyone is interested in them).

And why am I paying for Spotify? There’s digital radio! If this was more popular, there’d be more stations and I could easily find something I wanna listen to on the drive to work. It’d be nice if modern music was better too, but once again, that’s another discussion.

And don’t get me started on gaming. I was thrilled that Need for Speed was on PlayStation Plus, but quickly disappointed when I downloaded it, hoping to have a race against my rev head son. The only multiplayer is online. We wound up playing an old GameCube Need for Speed instead.

I know there’s still couch co op, but not much. It was in tonnes of games growing up across all genres. Shooters, sports, platforms, puzzles, you name it. You had real fun with your friends and it made a trip to their house to play a new game worth the while. Do kids actually get this same sense of socialising with online games? I don’t think so.

I’m sure modern consoles are powerful enough for this too. I know it would mean downgrading a bit to display two images, but who cares? TVs are enormous now, and downgraded modern graphics would be still superior to what we grew up with.

And what happened to cheap alternatives to buying this stuff too? Why can’t I rent a PS5 from the video store, or the games? Why can’t I go to a gaming cafe and play a top tier PC I could never afford. And imagine the arcades! Cabinet sized machines housing technology not possible in a console, so if you wanna play the superior version you better get off your arse and go to the mall!

Anyway, I gotta go pick up the kids. Old guy rant out.

When I was in maybe 3rd or 4th grade we had an assembly at my school and it was this guy who was doing a show about science and he had songs and did audience participation bits. The beginning of it was him reading from a textbook and then music started playing and he looked around confusedly and then started dancing and singing. The only words I remember are "the Sun, the Earth, the Moon, the stars"

For the life of me I can't remember what his name was or what the show was called. In my mind the guy looks like Jeff Fahey with blonde hair parted to the side and glasses.

Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to recall the name of a board game I used to play in the 90s, but I'm drawing a blank. Here's what I remember:

The game featured a chef or a character similar to one, who moved around a track. The chef would scoop up players or pieces as they advanced around the board. The game had a somewhat quirky or playful vibe, typical of 90s games. Does anyone know the name of this game? It's been bugging me for ages!

Thanks in advance for any help!

...and how unbelievably patient this guy was while he's stopping a kitten from diving into a fishtank while a parrot pulls his glasses off his head. The show was called Extra Help with Marc Morrone.