The cutting edge of retro

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massrock

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Mr. Tea said:
Anyway, the early '90s was a very earnest time, practically irony-free I'd have said.
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Yes there is something to that. Imagine!

The gunging was still being recycled for an older audience who had grown up with it I would say.

I don't think I've actually seen any of those programs you mentioned though. Maybe one episode of Noel's House Party, that was more than enough. :eek::eek::eek:
 
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BareBones said:
do you remember the Neo Geo?
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Yes, but i raise you this:

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edit (are people still concerned about hotlinking? v. 1990s retro):

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matt b

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the future of skating in the early '90s. Crazy futuristic editing too):

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massrock said:
I know it didn't take off but I think they made a UK one. Was working in a second hand games shop at the time so we had a few of them come through, usually had one around to play on.
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does it still have a fanbase?
 
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massrock

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I wouldn't be surprised, what hasn't? But it was pretty crap at the time anyway IIRC. Had some things going for it for a short while but the Playstation and Saturn killed it dead.
 
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droid

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I had a virtual boy for a while. it was good but it made you feel sick after 10 minutes. the graphics were very late 70s retro themselves. Nintendo's only big hardware flop. Gumpei Yogi died in mysterious circumstances not long after.

A friend of mine had a Jaguar (with the CD Rom add on!) and a 3DO. the former was good for aliens v predator and the fantastic Tempest 2000. 3DO was good as a door stop and super street fighter 2 with the capcom arcade stick.
 
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droid said:
I had a virtual boy for a while. it was good but it made you feel sick after 10 minutes. the graphics were very late 70s retro themselves.
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Like those Tomytronic 3D handhelds?

Droid, have you retained every single bit of information you have ever come across? Nutter! Gunpei Yokoi:
 
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massrock

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Yeah that's right, those were the ones. Was quite sad when the Jag and Atari died, even though I was an Amiga man at heart.

The 3DO was also about Need For Speed, which was boring but the roads looked good for the time. I think people were mostly impressed by the filmed cut scenes and intros.

 
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Retro gold dust- 1990 news story on the console wars



"I think the level of business in the category is certain to decline"



edit: even better:

 
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Client Eastwood

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Errmm

NASA logos - to mean Nice And Safe Attitude
Nike Air 95 Trainer
The Jordan logo
Usenet groups
Mini Discmans

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talking of fractals - Equinox. The science program I always wanted to understand. First 20 mins I was OK then it all when over my head.
 
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swears

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Mr. Tea said:
I thought irony was only invented in about 1997?

Anyway, the early '90s was a very earnest time, practically irony-free I'd have said.
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Michael Bracewell, the author and cultural commentator says that a sort of cultured, distanced irony was the hip attitude/position to adopt in certain artsy/literary circles in the 80s, (think Jay McInerney, Jeff Koons, Pet Shop Boys) then irony seeped more and more into the mainstream during the 90s and coupled up with a sort of faux-yobbish psuedo-authenticity (think Damien Hirst, Oasis, Frank Skinner).
 
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BareBones

wheezy
Oh yeah, the Jaguar! that and the Neo Geo were both like fantasy consoles i remember, I'd see them in the shop and they were like machines from the future, completely unattainable because they were so expensive, the games were all about £100...

I have a couple of those tomytronic handheld 3d things too, back at my mum's house. A white one that was a racing game and i think a dark green one which was some kind of tank battle game... i might dig them out when i next visit...
 
swears

swears

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BareBones said:
Oh yeah, the Jaguar! that and the Neo Geo were both like fantasy consoles i remember, I'd see them in the shop and they were like machines from the future, completely unattainable because they were so expensive, the games were all about £100...
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Yeah, it's funny, considering you can download almost any old game on any system for free now. A few years ago I got a SNES emulator with a shitload of titles, that would have blown my mind at age 9, thousands of pounds worth of software at the click of a mouse.
 
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BareBones

wheezy
reminds me of one of my favourite onion headlines - "Ghost of christmas future torments children with visions of playstation 5"

a mate gave me a disc full of emulations of old arcade games last year, i finally managed to complete cadillacs and dinosaurs... it was quite disappointing really.
 
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massrock

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When MAME first came out it was exciting for a minute to have Star Wars Arcade and perfect versions of Defender and Robotron at home.

Even that was like ten years ago now.
 
owengriffiths

owengriffiths

Owen
I still have a virtual boy in my loft, you could buy it for the bargain bin price of £50 2 or 3 years after it was launched, and this is for a bloody import as well- that's how desperate the shop was to be rid of it. It never made me sick, I'm dubious about tales that it had this effect on loads of people. The problem about the virtual boy is that it uses a shit load of batteries, and almost all of the games werent good enough to warrant the effort & expense.
 
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