"When I was Your Age..."

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:57 pm

So, I was looking at some upcoming DVD releases, and noticed some Godzilla movies being released on high-quality DVDs. And suddenly I remember how damn much I loved Godzilla when I was kid. I used to watch crap like Godzilla vs Megalon and like it. Nowadays I'm much pickier about my Godzilla affairs, sticking to Godzilla vs Mothra and Terror of Mechagodzilla--and such and such. (Final Wars is good too.)

But anyway, what's some stuff you used to like as a kid that you're now either only partial to or not interested... or hell, stuff you liked as a kid that you still like a lot today?

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:08 pm

Power Rangers. omg i used to watch that haxca.

also, i still sorta like season 1&2 of digimon.

and i still like playing pokemon and yu gi oh.

uhm. and beast wars. i still like that show! we have 2 dvds of it! <3

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:10 pm

The Addams Family!

Thing and Cousin It were my favorites.

Dave Against The Machine · Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:23 pm

I always like the old rerund of UNDERDOG! HAVE NO FEAR, UNDER DOG IS HERE! But I think that was a little before me time. I like, Where on earth is carman sandeigo.

Col · Post by **Col** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:30 pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Ghostbusters, GI Joe, and He-Man were the big ones for me when I was a kid. Cripes, I'm looking forward to seeing the new movies for TMNT and Transformers next year. And BOO-YAH to Beast Wars!

I'm working through the third season DVD right now.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:32 pm

I still like pretty much all the same stuff I used to like as a kid. Even when I look back on some of it and see how crappy it really was, I still manage to enjoy the hell out of it.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:31 pm

Oh, this is an easy one: Pokemon. Or rather, the show anyway.

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:37 pm

DOUG

edit: oh wait. I read that wrong.

I still like everything I liked as a kid.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:42 pm

Mario and Sonic. Video games + young impressionable minds = ca-ching!

I used to like comics, and I still do!! Yey!

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:55 pm

I've actually been surpised at how much I watched as a kid is still good! But yes, there is the occasional show that I loved then that I go back and watch and...oh man. Like He Man. Could be the later seasons are better. But the first one...I don't remember the animation being THAT bad!

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:16 pm

Hahaha He-Man. It's awesome how they managed to use about three seconds of non-reused animation per episode.

The only thing I was a fanboy of as a kid that I no longer have any appreciation for would be the Power Rangers (I think I stopped liking it when they ditched the dinosaur robots). Oh, and Sonic breaks my heart a bit nowadays.

Game Misconduct · Post by **Game Misconduct** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:39 pm

Boston Celtics, LA Lakers, Chicago Bulls were the top teams in the NBA. NE Patriots did suck very bad back then. Joe Montana and Jerry Rice leading the 49ers to their Super Bowl dynasty. Another dynasty followed by Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving of Dallas Cowboys. Before the Texans it was Warren Moon and run and gun offense of Houston Oilers. The original Browns was in Cleveland before moving to Baltimore.

NY Yankees were terrible in the late 80s and early 90s.

The arcades used to exists by a handful. Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat was the hottest thing in the arcades before fighting games got diluted/

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:43 pm

Col wrote: Cripes, I'm looking forward to seeing the new movies for TMNT

what?

I certainly hope it's not in CG. I can only imagine that looking worse than the power ranger people in dodgy looking samurai turtle costumes

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:36 am

I was a total Lord of the Rings fan girl from age 4- onward, and I was totally hyped on Hitchhiker's Guide... not so much now though.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:35 am

I liked He-Man then, nowadays I like it too, but in a "funny because it's bad" way. It's a pure, condensed trash.

I've never watched Star Wars when I was a kid, but I'm sure I would've liked them. I used to like Spielberg's kiddy movies, "ET", "Gremlins", "Close encounters" too... Similar films like "Batteries not included" and "Showt circuit"... all that is too gawky for me to watch now.
Oh god... I can't believe that I liked "Space oddisey: 2010" better than "Space oddisey: 2001" *smacks forehead*

In high school I used to be a sucked for SF, nowadays I only like a few writers of those.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:39 am

mcDuffies wrote:I've never watched Star Wars when I was a kid, but I'm sure I would've liked them. I used to like Spielberg's kiddy movies, "ET", "Gremlins", "Close encounters" too... Similar films like "Batteries not included" and "Showt circuit"... all that is too gawky for me to watch now.

Zwuh got me a lil Gizmo!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 5:32 am

I remember when we got our color television. And it was sold that way - a color television. That was a feature.

I remember when those super-patriotic cartoons were all the rage - a few years back Bugs Bunny cartoons featuring Bugs calling the Japanese "slant-eyes" was shelved for life. I remember seeing it on TV as part of the loony toons.

Speeaking of which, I remember The Bugs Bunny and Road Runner show - the ORIGINAL Bugs Bunny and Road Runner show, where all the characters came out wearing hats and did a jig at the start and finish of the show; it lasted a whole hour. Tom and Jerry never talked. Neither did Wile E. Coyote.

Sesame Street didn't have Elmo. Ernie and Bert were really just good friends (although it was weird they slept in the same room even then), Oscar the Grouch didn't have "wormy" and was really a grouch. The adults couldn't see Snuffleufflegus and didn't believe he existed.

*sigh*

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:07 am

he-man and thundercats. oh god, i saw thundercats again a few years back, it was painful, i refuse to watch any incarnation of he-man again just not to ruin any childhood memories.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:24 am

blackaby wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:I've never watched Star Wars when I was a kid, but I'm sure I would've liked them. I used to like Spielberg's kiddy movies, "ET", "Gremlins", "Close encounters" too... Similar films like "Batteries not included" and "Showt circuit"... all that is too gawky for me to watch now.
Zwuh got me a lil Gizmo!

Gremlins do maintain some of their charm, I guess, if you forget that the 2 part was a blatant copy of the 1 part... "Bateries not included" just has "kind like crazy old people" written all over them... aaand short circuit had Steve Gutenberg written all over it I guess.
While we're at that, I liked Police academy, first three sequels at least. I recently watched the original to refresh my memories.
I had no idea that youthful Samantha was in there.

I remember when those super-patriotic cartoons were all the rage - a few years back Bugs Bunny cartoons featuring Bugs calling the Japanese "slant-eyes" was shelved for life. I remember seeing it on TV as part of the loony toons.

Ha ha. I remember Snafu cartoons. Because I found them on CDs.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:44 am

legostargalactica wrote:he-man and thundercats. oh god, i saw thundercats again a few years back, it was painful, i refuse to watch any incarnation of he-man again just not to ruin any childhood memories.

I remember both of those! The He-Man movie actually wasn't bad... all things considered.

What about those holographic toys - the ones where they all had a banner they held and the holograph was of a monster, and they could become that monster?

That had a show associated with it - I remember it because they got to the final episode, and at the end, at the cliffhanger of the whole season the main character came to the screen and said, "And that's all there was... there was supposed to be more, but we got cancelled."

... and they really did! GAH!

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