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Back in the olden days, our family survived on a Tandy 1000 EX. I normally would play games on that thing, and it would work just fine. Then, my dad one day bought a HP Windows 95, and the entire family's attention went from that, to the new one. Except for me. Even though I loved the new computer, I still loved the old one for what it was. That is, until Y2K scared me out of regular playing. I tried getting back into it, but one day in November of 2003, it just wouldn't start. I tried every possible combination and although the system was whirring, the screen was white and there weren't any of the normal startup clicks and buzzes. My dad then put it in the garage the next month, and it's still there today, along with all those programs. Since my sister moved out yesterday, I'm likely going to plead my parents to bring it back in and set it up there. If I can get that thing to work (which I highly doubt, now that it's been in a garage for 3 years with no temerature control) I can finally be able to re-experience my childhood.

Here's a picture of it.

So tell us your childhood things you loved. And it doesn't nessessarily need to be electronic or broken.

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Saturday morning shows (TMNT, Muppet Babies, PeeWee's Playhouse, Fraggle Rock, etc.)
Toys for building stuff (Legos, Knex, Tinkertoys, Lincoln logs, Erector set, and model cars)
The Apple IIE my family had, with some sort of learning game with Alf in it
Snow...I grew up in Tulsa, OK, where we had snow almost every winter. When I was ten, we moved to Houston, where we've lived ever since, and where snow is rarely seen. Snow was great for snowball fights, snow days, and of course, snow ice cream.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

oh my god that tandy has king's quest on it.

anyway, i miss Legos. and i miss cartoons that i liked. i don't like many of them anymore. aaaand i liked my messy old room from when i was a kid.

I still am pretty young, but I miss the Fox Box. That had some crazy crap in it.

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I had, and still have, a CD with a bunch of old games on it. It had Jill of the Jungle, three Skunny games, four Commander Keen games, Superfly, Hunt the Hurkle, three Aldo games, Crystal Caves, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Jazz Jackrabbit, and a bunch of other games. I played it and played it. My favourite games were Jazz Jackrabbit, Keen 4, and Cosmo. Unfortunately they were all the shareware versions, but at least they were fun.

What I miss the most is the after school care I went to from year 1 to year 4. Somehow, I have nothing but good memories of it, despite the fact I was picked on, excluded, and kicked in the mouth while I was there. They had a Sega Master System with Sonic 1, Lemmings and Alex Kidd in Miracle World on it. They also had computers with the games I later got on the CD I was talking about above. And other games. I was in love with Police Quest 1, but I only once got out of the carpark. And then I crashed.

Nostaligise about something that isn't related to video games? Maybe later.

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."

Ah, and I forgot one more childhood addiction of mine: Goosebumps books.

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

Oh, goodness, so many things... When I was a kid, I had obsessions with, among other things, 101 Dalmatians (the book, not the movie), Muppet Babies, Kirby, Banjo-Kazooie, Ren & Stimpy, and a very strange story-world I invented for myself called the Knots Crew, which is kind of difficult to explain, except that there were 50 different individual characters, and only about twenty percent of them had actual personalities. Like Raffesia the raven, who was a great cook, and Gorgonzola the blue bird, who was my personal avatar character and who had a pizza place.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

I still have that thing on my 64 and i play it every once and then

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I know! I wish Rare would let Nintendo release it on the VC. Because I want to play it... It's definitely one of my favorite games.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

When I was a kid, my sisters and I would write our own stories using Storybook Weaver (and later on, Storybook Weaver Deluxe). We had a great time coming up with all kinds of crazy stories, and sometimes just playing One Word Stories and then trying to come up with pictures for whatever weird paragraph we ended up with.
When my younger sister was really little, she LOVED The Little Mermaid and would watch it nonstop. Luckily, I remember that the movie was technically mine (I got it for my birthday whenever the VHS came out), so I could say whether she could watch it or not. That was a happy, happy day. Regardless, I still like the movie, and I get really, really annoyed when modern parents say they don't want their daughters watching it because Ariel is a bad role model.

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"Loud or lewd or la-di-da-di, everything to everybody!"
-Ah, But Underneath, Follies

Based on old tapes of me (I have a crappy memory), I was sorta obsessed with Rugrats.

And... now I'm not. T_T

Also, I liked those Kid Pix programs. Ah, the fun that was had.... Ahhhhh, I look back fondly on those times now.


Oh, and probably other stuff. You know, dumb little kid stuff.

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

I used to LOVE Storybook Weaver! I guess I've always been a natural storyteller. I remember I once wrote a story about the 5 Kingdoms of something or other, which involved a girl named Pansy or something, and it was, like, the maximum number of pages for a Storybook Weaver story. Woah. XD

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

I had Kid Pix! That was so fun! Especially when we got the upgrade, with sound and picture prompts. (Best sound ever is q, seriously)

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"Loud or lewd or la-di-da-di, everything to everybody!"
-Ah, But Underneath, Follies

...Theory Girl! I remember you!


That game was the first 3D platformer I ever played. My first fandom that I participated in was Banjo-Kazooie. My first screen name was Clanker. My current screen name came from a forum that used to be Banjo-Kazooie related. My first fanfic that I wrote down was about Gobi. The first fan game I ever played was BKPC.

I have a lot of Banjo-Kazooie memories. I loved that game.

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."

That's a lot like me! BK was one of my earliest fandoms too. I even wrote a couple mock episodes for a TV show based around it. They were silly, but still kind of funny. I also invented a character in them called Great Uncle Euphonium. Ha. But sadly, he died before getting any screen time. (It was necessary for him to leave something in his will for Banjo to inheret, of course.)

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

Ah, yes...and the SNES--that was the console I had growing up. Zelda: A Link to the Past is still one of my favorite video games of all time, if for no other reason than nostalgia. Yay for emulators and ROMs!

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The meaning of life is 'bucket.'

FOR PONY!!!

Well, back when I was a wee lad, most computers were still running Windows 9x, cell phones were centimeters larger (obligatory gasp!), and Abraham Lincoln was commandeering the fourth branch of our gladiator army into Saskatchewan! *gets run over by a Model T*

Anyway, I remember liking Lego building blocks... that's about all I can remember, which is odd, since I'm currently in a tie for the youngest person that has posted in this thread so far.

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When I was 3 and 2 I used to think Sheryl Crow was the coolest person in the world . I still think she's cool now but I don't love her as much as I used to hahahaha

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"I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming." -Courtney Love

http://z6.invisionfree.com/Trogboards/index.php?act=idx <--My Trogdor Forum

I remember you, too, but I can't for the life of me remember where from.

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"Loud or lewd or la-di-da-di, everything to everybody!"
-Ah, But Underneath, Follies

Stardrifter's KND forum.

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"Explain to me how drowning them would not ruin their date."

I remember, when I was a kid, I used to love that animated The Hobbit movie. I would always ask my mom what was going on in it, and she would tell me. Then one day my grandma came over while I was watching it, and I basically explained the whole plot of the movie to her.

Mom never told me what was going on in it again.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

Ah, that's right.

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"Loud or lewd or la-di-da-di, everything to everybody!"
-Ah, But Underneath, Follies

Huh. I know there were a lot of things from my childhood that I love, but I can't really think of anything that interesting...
We used to own Sim City 2000 on our old computer, which was pretty cool. Seeing as we basically hardly had any other games.
Of course, we had no idea how to play, we were hopeless. We used to open the cities that were already made and destroy them. What jerks.

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The first computer game (if I remember correctly) that I ever played was Lemmings, which came with an old PC we once had. Hooray for Lemmings! I couldn't beat most of them, but I managed some.

I can't exactly remember getting my first console, it was ages ago. I remember what my first console was, and it was the GBC. This family has never really owned any TV-style consoles, only handelds. I have no idea what my first GBC game was, but I remember having Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue very early. I still have those same Pokémon games, and they're still working.

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I think we might have had that game, but I only particularly remember playing it at a friend's house. The music made me really sad.

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I miss Fix Kids from before the Foxbox, when it had Digimon. Digimon was the best.

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Oh my gosh, I was SO into Kid Pix as a youngling. I screwed around with it ALL THE TIME.

Also, does anyone here remember Sky Dancers? Not the toys, but the videos? I was SUCH a Sky Dancers fangirl. And I found the old tapes again recently, and they're freaking HILARIOUS. SO corny. XD Like, if you can find the tapes, get them. It's so MST3K-worthy.

Come to think of it, maybe I should do that. Invite a few friends over and give it the ol' MST3K treatment. Man, that'd be fun.

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My favorite thing to do in Kid Pix was to make "spaceships." I would draw a starry background, then a big empty spaceship, which I would fill up with the necessities for travel--food, a bed and such--by using stamps.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

I used to like riding bikes, now, not so much...

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Digimon FTW!

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