I remember when...

salt78

Power pad! And also the POWER GLOVE!

pooh8402

this may be regional, but when brightly colored/patterned western shirts and tight Rockies were cool. think Garth Brooks.

L-Bride

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[QUOTE]Remember when Nintendo came out with the power pad? Man, that was like...huge.
Posted by crfische[/QUOTE]

My cousin and I would get up at 5:30 in the morning on weekends because we wanted to play power pad. Our parents would get so pissed because the house would shake.
I always had such a hard time beating that Cheetah!

SarahPLiz

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I remember when... : My cousin and I would get up at 5:30 in the morning on weekends because we wanted to play power pad. Our parents would get so pissed because the house would shake. I always had such a hard time beating that Cheetah!
Posted by L-Bride[/QUOTE]


But on the long jump, if you jumped off the side of the pad instead of forward, and then just pressed your foot down right before you fell on your ass, you went really far. The kids I babysat had one and I used to let them play until they dropped.

AmoroAgain

Luckily for me, I haven't any photos of me looking like that, but rest assured, it did happen.  How about when everyone was doing the grunge rock thing?  I had a pixie cut (not a good look for me):




Or, the no plucked eyebrows from high school.




*shiver*

L-Bride

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I remember when... : But on the long jump, if you jumped off the side of the pad instead of forward, and then just pressed your foot down right before you fell on your ass, you went really far. The kids I babysat had one and I used to let them play until they dropped.
Posted by SarahPLiz[/QUOTE]

If only I had knowledge to your Power Pad access back then.

Moneypenny424

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I remember when... : But on the long jump, if you jumped off the side of the pad instead of forward, and then just pressed your foot down right before you fell on your ass, you went really far. The kids I babysat had one and I used to let them play until they dropped.
Posted by SarahPLiz[/QUOTE]

Oh yes, I was the queen of the side jump!

Was the robot that came with the original NES already mentioned?

I always wanted an Easy Bake oven.  I hear the food was awful, but i was still jealous.

ladybug7485

I'm usually a lurker round these parts but I had two that I can't believe weren't brought up yet....

The Tamogotchi (sp?) toy that everyone had and was subsequently banned from school because people were feeding their pet instead of paying attention in science.

The Shirt Clip!

Moneypenny424

Look at cute, young Amoro

missy68

I remember when Pong came out. Seriously.

SpinArt

Panama Jack long sleeve teeshirts.

PunkRock day at school meant you wore safety pins for earrings (for the love of all things holy, I don't know why) and trash bags.

Reagan getting shot, Ford being shot at (by a Manson family member), looking at the pictures in Helter Skelter when my aunt fell asleep on our trip to the beach.

I wasn't allowed to watch Three's Company, either.

I remember Roseanne Rosannadanna, Lisa Lupner, and Emily Litella and all of Gilda Radner's other characters from SNL. She was awesome.

Puffalumps. I was in high school/college, but I wanted one really bad.

Moneypenny424

I loved my Puffalump!

kikibaby

I wish I had an awesome 80's pic of me around here.  I have a lame-o 90's pic, though.  I was goth before Twilight, biitches!:  (Girl on left, not girl with blue hair)

shellydiane820

jnco jeans anyone?  For the fellas.

Moneypenny424

And the t-shirt clip...oh yes.  I never actually had one, but I thought it was cool to wear that, brightly colored leggings and huge socks. 

Maybe with those Bass or Eastland loafers!

Mrs.B6302007

I wore my Coca-Cola jersey shirt until it died.

Never needed a perm but still slept on the foam rollers. Talk about big hair! (no pics, sorry).

I sported one of the Swatch watches with the changeable plastic rings.

Shazzie116

...Tiger Beat and all those other teeny bopper mags. I used to rip out the pictures of JTT and other cuties and tape them to my walls and my locker. We had a stack of them bigger than my stack of textbooks in the upper compartment of my friend's locker. 

...Fruit Striped gum with the zebra? 

...Mathnet.

...watching Dirty Dancing with my mom and feeling all tingly in my tummy when Johnny and Baby did the dirty dance. 

...when old school Sesame Street wasn't considered "mature viewing". 

...Mousercize. 

...my Betty Boop nightgown. And my pjs that looked like Princess Jasmine's blue outfit. But mine was purple, so it was better.  

klreese0213

these were super popular in my area growing up.. and i was cool enough to have one! haha
(Pullover jacket)

kfcrawford

...Playing with My Little Ponies and the tiny plastic hair brushes that came with them and were so easily lost in the bottom on my hot pink plastic bookbag
...Watching Ren and Stimpy on Saturday morning
...Getting Ranger Rick and My Big Backyard magazines in the mail
...Being able to play outside all day and all night while everyone's parents sat on their porches and babysat the whole neighborhood, and swimming in the neighborhood stream without worrying about the green pollution that now floats on the surface

laurenclaire1386

I'm watching Karate Kid right now.

MeaghanandMichael

Did some one mentioned co-ed naked shirts? I threw out Mike's last month. I am a biitch, I know.

ootmother2

I rememeber when a new post reply brought it to top postion on the boards

MeaghanandMichael

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[QUOTE]I rememeber when a new post reply brought it to top postion on the boards
Posted by ootmother2[/QUOTE]

It still does ;)

How is baby?!

strlzfan11

Wall watches

katiewhompus

I remember being able to be entertained for hours with play-do
Light brite..oh how I loved light bright.
The little muffin doll toys that smelled like blueberries, cake, etc
When I was jealous of my neighbors slip and slide.
When my nearest neighbor was over a mile away from my house.
When I told my dad I was going to build a microscopic bomb (at 6) and send it to Saddam Hussein over the phone for stealing my toys.
When cereal came with toys or other little prizes.

HisCB

lisa frank school supplies. i longed for those


when food stamps were actually paper and the checker would spread them out and stamp them meaning they were used.
oh and yes my mom could write me a permission slip to buy her cigarettes.
a barbie excersize video a friend had!
listening to my fraggle rock record that came at the end of my monthly fraggle rock books and a bonus bookbag.
Blossom, and Six.

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i loved my jnco jeans and gang letter belt buckle (with hanging belt), and laugh now cry later tshirts. my bestfriend (not "bestie") and i thought we were gangster.

HisCB

3D puzzlels and tomagotchi's

oh and having a bunch of keychains and zipper pulls dangling from my backpack was cool. i actually made some non-keychain items into keychains just to be cool.

and the boys would wear their girfriends scrunchies as bracelets.

katiewhompus

When floppy disks were actually floppy and I thought my dad was a genius for hooking up two computers to the internet (dial up) in our house (early 90's).

When my group of friends only had 1 tv with cable and we would meet at her house to watch glorious cable tv. I actually didn't have cable until I went to college, I was in shock.

munkeybutz04

...building forts in the living room was all the entertainment i had (and needed for that matter) for hours.

...giga-pets were the best toys ever

...everyone realized that a battery operated dog the size of a quarter really isnt all that cool.

HisCB

my cousin or brothers would get me 99 lives on super mario brothers by hopping on the little turtle shell repetedly so that i could play for a long time and leave them alone.

when it was fine to take a bath with my brother.

crfische

OH MY GOSH, Starter jackets! My mom wouldn't let my brother wear his when we went to the cities, though, because she thought they were gang related and he'd get shot.

Way to go small town, MN.