The 90s thread

[craigos]

April 1996. 35 Dead. Probably my earliest memory of "news". Everyone I knew had been to Port Arhtur, including myself several times which made it relatable. Something haunting about the place now, like you can feel the evil in the air.

 

[peternorth]

I think most if not all posters experienced and grew up/grew in the 90s. For example, born in the 70s, grew up in the 90s. Born in the 80s, also grew in the 90s. Born in the 90s, grew up in teh 90s. Born in the 00s, oh wait

 

[peternorth]

April 1996. 35 Dead. Probably my earliest memory of "news". Everyone I knew had been to Port Arhtur, including myself several times which made it relatable. Something haunting about the place now, like you can feel the evil in the air.

Wouldn't have happened if everyone had guns
/Merica!

 

[Plugger35]

The first I heard about the Port Arthur massacre was when they started scrolling breaking news updates across the screen during the footy.

Remember finding out about Princess Diana's death about a year later the same way, at first they just said she was involved in a car accident and I just assumed she would survive because of how important she was, was quite a shock finding out later that she had died.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

April 1996. 35 Dead. Probably my earliest memory of "news". Everyone I knew had been to Port Arhtur, including myself several times which made it relatable. Something haunting about the place now, like you can feel the evil in the air.

Remember 1996 but not this. Wonder if my parents deliberately didn't have the news on for a couple days.

 

[raskolnikov]

I was never much of a fan of Pulp though, Jarvis Cocker seemed like a pretentious tosser.

How dare you speak about Jarvis like that? A god amongst men.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

People in 2019: "When are they/radio/TV going to play Michael Jackson songs again???"

Me: "Um, probably never now even his fans admit he ****ed kids and he's been dead a decade too"

 

[Shell]

The first I heard about the Port Arthur massacre was when they started scrolling breaking news updates across the screen during the footy.

Remember finding out about Princess Diana's death about a year later the same way, at first they just said she was involved in a car accident and I just assumed she would survive because of how important she was, was quite a shock finding out later that she had died.

I was in a car driving past Whitten Oval, Rex Hunt on commentary and him giving updates re. what was happening down there. I recall each time the number just going up

Princess Diana was on a bus coming back from Sydney with the Geelong CS. I basically told the whole bus (well people around me, who passed it on) as I had a walkman and could hear the news broadcast.

 

[Kram]

Wouldn't have happened if everyone had guns
/Merica!

That Martin Bryant guy didn't even do it, he was framed due to a Howard government conspiracy.

 

[peternorth]

That Martin Bryant guy didn't even do it, he was framed due to a Howard government conspiracy.

White killer - Mental illness.
Non white killer - terrorist

 

[Silent Alarm]

The 90s also produced the best video game I've ever played.




Boomshakalaka

He's heating up

Head fake

Used to love this game and it's the standard I hold all team unis to: the Denver Mavericks need to be in green and blue with the old cowboy hat logo, not this bland blue-and-silver shit. Atlanta in red and yellow. Indiana Pacers need to be bright blue and yellow.

Other good games on this platform were Nigel Mansell's Formula 1, Battle Toads in Battlemaniacs, and Mortal Kombat. That last one used to spook me. Games with glitchy graphics set a mode and tone so much better.

The PS1 was a sick console too. Again, Metal Gear Solid was such a tight, quiet game where your adrenaline would spike thanks to the pixelated-sounding ! noise. France 98 changed my life. The intro songs for that and the soundtracks on Tony Hawk's Skateboarding (as they released it here) and Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX are the stuff of heart-swells. I remember being at a pub overseas and the young fella behind the bar was playing his music and Sublime's What I Got came on. It was a few weeks after Dave Mirra had shot himself and the comparison of my idyllic youth and playing that game with the sun out and the lyrics of that song and its feel (looove baby, is what I got - give it all to chaarah-tyy-yy) against some bloke capping himself made me just about well up.





Rap music also peaked in the 1990s but I got into that in the 2010s so it doesn't count. De La, Tribe, Gang Starr, all those one-album wonders.

The 1999-2003 era is a lot more vibey to me because of my age. The song that sums that up best is this thing. As well as the American Pie franchise and Blink 182. Teenagers seemed so scary and in on something way above me back then.



America owned music until Kurt Cobain died and rap got all about marketing and people started thinking Jay Z was cool. The Britpop stuff was where it was at. The early 1990s underground shoegaze stuff from the UK was sick though.

 

[Cruyff14]

Used to love this game and it's the standard I hold all team unis to: the Denver Mavericks need to be in green and blue with the old cowboy hat logo, not this bland blue-and-silver s**t. Atlanta in red and yellow. Indiana Pacers need to be bright blue and yellow.

Other good games on this platform were Nigel Mansell's Formula 1, Battle Toads in Battlemaniacs, and Mortal Kombat. That last one used to spook me. Games with glitchy graphics set a mode and tone so much better.

The PS1 was a sick console too. Again, Metal Gear Solid was such a tight, quiet game where your adrenaline would spike thanks to the pixelated-sounding ! noise. France 98 changed my life. The intro songs for that and the soundtracks on Tony Hawk's Skateboarding (as they released it here) and Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX are the stuff of heart-swells. I remember being at a pub overseas and the young fella behind the bar was playing his music and Sublime's What I Got came on. It was a few weeks after Dave Mirra had shot himself and the comparison of my idyllic youth and playing that game with the sun out and the lyrics of that song and its feel (looove baby, is what I got - give it all to chaarah-tyy-yy) against some bloke capping himself made me just about well up.





Rap music also peaked in the 1990s but I got into that in the 2010s so it doesn't count. De La, Tribe, Gang Starr, all those one-album wonders.

The 1999-2003 era is a lot more vibey to me because of my age. The song that sums that up best is this thing. As well as the American Pie franchise and Blink 182. Teenagers seemed so scary and in on something way above me back then.



America owned music until Kurt Cobain died and rap got all about marketing and people started thinking Jay Z was cool. The Britpop stuff was where it was at. The early 1990s underground shoegaze stuff from the UK was sick though.

WC 98 game was sick.

So was Steal My Sunshine.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

 

[peternorth]

I still get emotional watching and listening to the soundtrack




This bed is on fire
with passionate love

 

[Plugger35]

Used to love this game and it's the standard I hold all team unis to: the Denver Mavericks need to be in green and blue with the old cowboy hat logo, not this bland blue-and-silver s**t. Atlanta in red and yellow. Indiana Pacers need to be bright blue and yellow.

Other good games on this platform were Nigel Mansell's Formula 1, Battle Toads in Battlemaniacs, and Mortal Kombat. That last one used to spook me. Games with glitchy graphics set a mode and tone so much better.

The PS1 was a sick console too. Again, Metal Gear Solid was such a tight, quiet game where your adrenaline would spike thanks to the pixelated-sounding ! noise. France 98 changed my life. The intro songs for that and the soundtracks on Tony Hawk's Skateboarding (as they released it here) and Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX are the stuff of heart-swells. I remember being at a pub overseas and the young fella behind the bar was playing his music and Sublime's What I Got came on. It was a few weeks after Dave Mirra had shot himself and the comparison of my idyllic youth and playing that game with the sun out and the lyrics of that song and its feel (looove baby, is what I got - give it all to chaarah-tyy-yy) against some bloke capping himself made me just about well up.





Rap music also peaked in the 1990s but I got into that in the 2010s so it doesn't count. De La, Tribe, Gang Starr, all those one-album wonders.

The 1999-2003 era is a lot more vibey to me because of my age. The song that sums that up best is this thing. As well as the American Pie franchise and Blink 182. Teenagers seemed so scary and in on something way above me back then.



America owned music until Kurt Cobain died and rap got all about marketing and people started thinking Jay Z was cool. The Britpop stuff was where it was at. The early 1990s underground shoegaze stuff from the UK was sick though.

I thought you would make a beeline for this thread when you returned.

Kurt Cobain's death was another memorable event from the 90s. It didn't come us a complete shock but I thought he would have died from a drug overdose, from memory he nearly died from one only a few months prior to that. He was just one of those guys you expected to die young like Jeff Buckley.

A Kiwi guy I did a van tour with through Europe was a big Sublime fan, he had one of their best of CDs and was always cranking it on the van stereo, I'd never really listened to them much prior to that and that Steal My Sunshine song reminds me of when I was living in San Diego in 1999, it was a huge hit there at the time and I imagine it would have been a big hit here too. Classic one hit wonder, can't recall any other songs from them.

 

[Gough]

I thought you would make a beeline for this thread when you returned.

Kurt Cobain's death was another memorable event from the 90s. It didn't come us a complete shock but I thought he would have died from a drug overdose, from memory he nearly died from one only a few months prior to that. He was just one of those guys you expected to die young like Jeff Buckley.

A Kiwi guy I did a van tour with through Europe was a big Sublime fan, he had one of their best of CDs and was always cranking it on the van stereo, I'd never really listened to them much prior to that and that Steal My Sunshine song reminds me of when I was living in San Diego in 1999, it was a huge hit there at the time and I imagine it would have been a big hit here too. Classic one hit wonder, can't recall any other songs from them.

I was sitting in back of a BMW driving through Jo'burg and I bought a copy of the Times from one of the guys that sell them at the lights and on the inside front page it had Kurt Cobain dead. It wasn't that big a news at the time because the place was wound up so tight because of the upcoming election, plus South Africa in the early 90s was like going back to the 70s. Musically a lot of bands hadn't started touring there again yet and a legacy of Apartheid was that a lot of music was banned so not many had heard of Nirvana.

 

[Kram]

Princess Diana was on a bus coming back from Sydney with the Geelong CS. I basically told the whole bus (well people around me, who passed it on) as I had a walkman and could hear the news broadcast.

Did you get everyone to sing Three Coins in the Fountain?

 

[Scotland]

Played NBA Jam the other week, it's still fun. Wasted many many hours playing NBA Live '95 back in the day. So easy to get sucked into the Reggie Miller 'For 3! For 3! For 3!' from the corner. Video game AI wasn't too advanced back then.

 

[Gough]

Did you get everyone to sing Three Coins in the Fountain?

I could see Windsor Castle from my bedroom window and went through Windsor on a boat the day it happened and it was a proper weird atmosphere. Untimely end aside for a thick posh bird she did do well for herself.

 

[rocker_oz33]

The 2 Coreys were huge late 80s early 90s.

 

[Kram]

Plugger35 surely a fan of Jonah Lomu's Rugby on PS?

 

[perthblue]

Used to love this game and it's the standard I hold all team unis to: the Denver Mavericks need to be in green and blue with the old cowboy hat logo, not this bland blue-and-silver s**t. Atlanta in red and yellow. Indiana Pacers need to be bright blue and yellow.

Other good games on this platform were Nigel Mansell's Formula 1, Battle Toads in Battlemaniacs, and Mortal Kombat. That last one used to spook me. Games with glitchy graphics set a mode and tone so much better.

The PS1 was a sick console too. Again, Metal Gear Solid was such a tight, quiet game where your adrenaline would spike thanks to the pixelated-sounding ! noise. France 98 changed my life. The intro songs for that and the soundtracks on Tony Hawk's Skateboarding (as they released it here) and Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX are the stuff of heart-swells. I remember being at a pub overseas and the young fella behind the bar was playing his music and Sublime's What I Got came on. It was a few weeks after Dave Mirra had shot himself and the comparison of my idyllic youth and playing that game with the sun out and the lyrics of that song and its feel (looove baby, is what I got - give it all to chaarah-tyy-yy) against some bloke capping himself made me just about well up.





Rap music also peaked in the 1990s but I got into that in the 2010s so it doesn't count. De La, Tribe, Gang Starr, all those one-album wonders.

The 1999-2003 era is a lot more vibey to me because of my age. The song that sums that up best is this thing. As well as the American Pie franchise and Blink 182. Teenagers seemed so scary and in on something way above me back then.



America owned music until Kurt Cobain died and rap got all about marketing and people started thinking Jay Z was cool. The Britpop stuff was where it was at. The early 1990s underground shoegaze stuff from the UK was sick though.

I was lying on the bench slide in the park across the street
L-A-T-E-R that week

 

[Scotland]

I've still got F-1 World Grand Prix somewhere at home on N64. It was a fun game without being a classic. My main memory is that Jacques Villeneuve wasn't in it so it was the full complement of teams and drivers and "Driver Williams". You could edit his name and unlock special features like a shiny gold car that had no speed limit and a cool track in Hawaii.

 

[Scotland]

Video games were social in the 90s. Sure I burned through hours at a time playing side scrolling Super Mario Bros but who didn't enjoy riding their bike over to someone's house with a bunch of controllers for a Goldeneye or Mortal Kombat session? Sitting in a fancy office chair wearing a headset sounds more like working in a call centre than playing video games with friends.

 

[Kram]

Maybe a tad controversial but I always thought N64 was a bit of a crap console, at least compared to PS1 and the legendary SNES.