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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

MonsterKing is young enough that he doesn't know you could push the slider and it would work on channel 4.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You'll have to wait until Monday to be able to take out some cash.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Macdonalds and burger king Pokemon toys were actually of decent quality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Same with Kinder Surprise. When I was a young child, I got a flywheel mouse with multiple interlocking precision gears. I must have spent hours disassembling and reassembling it, instead and studying how all the pieces fit together. When I was an older child I got a single-piece plastic gorilla with green fur. It turned over in my hands a few times and probably threw it away.

Also, those Bionicle Happy Meal toys got me hooked on Lego Technic. Most addictive gateway drug ever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When you turned the TV on you had to wait a minute for it to 'warm up'. The black and white image would slowly emerge out of the darkness.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

And then it made that "warm up" sound, like a "klank!" Or something clicking inside the tv

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Bullshit they could work on channel 4 too; the NES and the SNES both had a switch in the back for that, I assume the Genesis and TurboGrafx16 did too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

BLESSED THE DAY PLUG AND PLAY WAS INVENTED

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know what exactly that means but I know there was no sound without it. Guess I'm slightly younger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Being subscribed to a service that brought about a dozen magazines every week that we would rent including Donald duck, gossip magazines, etc. Sometimes getting to sneak the 'adult' one to the bathroom and spend some quality time there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There was no world wide web.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection

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