Social Science Children of the 90s

[Gough]

Red or green shell?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Red or green shell?

To use, Red.

 

[Gibbsy]

Brucey on the mike

 

[akkaps]

Red or green shell?

Spiny Shell.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Donkey Kong Country on SNES >>>>>> any video game that has come before or after

SNES was awesome. Marino kart, donkey kong and super Marino world were all amazing games.

 

[jasonwilde]

On those phones you could dial 199, wait a second or two and then hang up. The phone would then ring itself.

Was awesome for playing tricks on people. You'd dial 199 then hide and they would answer the phone and get increasingly frustrated.

Yes.

Then we were told it costs the price of a local call, so you'd feel guilty.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Yes.

Then we were told it costs the price of a local call, so you'd feel guilty.

It didn't though.

 

[jasonwilde]

It didn't though.

How do you know?

I think I was told this years after.

(Anyway, you seriously brought up an old school memory. 199. Fking awesome)

 

[Hard Ball Get]

How do you know?

I think I was told this years after.

(Anyway, you seriously brought up an old school memory. 199. Fking awesome)

Yeah the 199 was the best. If it cost my siblings and I would have heard about it. We didn't have much cash growing up and we used that flat out. Mum was pretty on top of bills and expenses so if it cost we would have known about it.

 

[jasonwilde]

Yeah the 199 was the best. If it cost my siblings and I would have heard about it. We didn't have much cash growing up and we used that flat out. Mum was pretty on top of bills and expenses so if it cost we would have known about it.

Was thinking how much poorer everyone seemed back then.

Do you think it's a generational thing perhaps? If you are roughly the same age as me, you're the start of Gen Y. We couldn't give a flying f about a few cents. Or were people genuinely poorer?

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Was thinking how much poorer everyone seemed back then.

Do you think it's a generational thing perhaps? If you are roughly the same age as me, you're the start of Gen Y. We couldn't give a flying f about a few cents. Or were people genuinely poorer?

I was born in 83 so I'm kind of boarderline x and y I think.

I can't speak for everybody but my situation was mum basically raised 4 kids on her own while working at a Pizza Hut, so we weren't rolling in it.

She put herself through night school and got an important job and built her way up. By the time I left home she had her own house. She now owns 2 houses and an apartment in docklands. She's a bloody legend.

I think your view of the world reflects what it was like for you, so for me it's much more comfortable because of the hard work mum put in. If you're in a similar boat you might feel the same.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Us '90's kids would've been the last kids to experience ramps within shopping centres.

 

[rippersnipper]

Humphrey bear was the best, grew up with that show

 

[Spirit Level]

I swear the Nintendo department that came up with the 64 had absolutely no knowledge of human anatomy

 

[mad_monkey_j]

Widget the World Watcher?

Used to love this show as a kid. Looking it up it was apparently shown from 1990-1992, I was born in '91 so they must have flogged it for years afterwards.

 

[Cruyff14]

Used to love this show as a kid. Looking it up it was apparently shown from 1990-1992, I was born in '91 so they must have flogged it for years afterwards.

I remember watching it circa 1994

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I swear the Nintendo department that came up with the 64 had absolutely no knowledge of human anatomy

Masterpiece. Still the best controller ever.

 

[The Passenger]

Heard a car backfire today. Must have been the first time in 5 or 10 years I've heard that sound. With the advancement in car technology, I realised that kids born after about the late 90's have probably never heard a car backfire.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Heard a car backfire today. Must have been the first time in 5 or 10 years I've heard that sound. With the advancement in car technology, I realised that kids born after about the late 90's have probably never heard a car backfire.

I can't remember how that sounds.

 

[HBF]

Biggest generation gap in town is between those who remember life before the internet, and those that don't. It's changed everything.

So true.
Being born in the early '70's I can easily remember life without the internet. Ah memories.

 

[edgie]

I remember when internet was still seldom used and a novelty, before it exploded in the early to mid 00s.

 

[MaddAdam]

Worst thing about no mobiles was ringing a bird's number and her parents answering

Also the fat older sister/annoying little brother listening on the extension.

 

[MaddAdam]

Donkey Kong Country on SNES >>>>>> any video game that has come before or after

Speedball2 on the Amiga.

 

[Handsuper47]

As much as I love Donkey Kong, Super Metroid is easily the best game ever.

 

[Cole Dammett]

As much as I love Donkey Kong, Super Metroid is easily the best game ever.