Transformers G2 Magaman X Beast Wars Reign of the Supermen! Batman vs Bane Terminator 2 (my first R rated movie) Dark City That porn my friend found in the bushes Most other things have been covered.
You just said Transformers, He-Man, and Thundercats were awful?? Congrats on being my first ignored user...lol
Well. I was two. But I have reason to believe the style and music kicked ass, and if I could time-travel to any era, it’d probably be to the 90’s.
Ah, the days before internet toy stores....when THIS was toy hunting! Get the magazine, hope theres someone with a classified ad of stuff you need, and pray no one else got to it first....
Dude! Did you hear? Mortal Kombat 3 is coming to arcades in Spring '95! I read it in Gamepro magazine. love the first 2, this one is gonna be awesome!
The Age of teenage edgelords and embracing what "The Dark". Demonology, Death Metal, mainstream Satanism, exploited Fetish culture, "Gorn" (gore + porn) anime. It was damn fun for some of us, but I could see where it was a rebellion against the "Satanic Panic" era. By comparison, a good number of modern edgy products seem pretty tame and family-friendly by comparison. But if it's what the modern culture wants, more power to them.
If the 80's was a decade long party, then the 90's was the resulting decade long hangover. Music became more grumpy, Mtv started their transition away from music videos, the internet starting taking its first grasp on the public's consciousness and everyone was mad cause the President was being naughty.
There are a great many perfectly valid and legitimate reasons to ignore Split Lip, but he's not wrong in this case. 90s was an animation renaissance. 1980s cartoons often had some strong concepts, but they weren't creator-driven and the execution was typically paint-by-numbers formulaic.
I somewhat agree with this. 90s was the decade when we really had a chance to sort out some serious issues and instead we completely blew it. In a lot of ways things had never been better and there was a real opportunity to make some progress. Instead there was a lot of naval-gazing self-indulgence and distraction while so much fell apart. The Cold War was over, times were prosperous. But look at the news cycle in the 90s, the stuff they thought it was important to talk about. All those boomers with their idealism had a shot to change the world like they'd promised. What happened?
Early '90s was like someone tried to make more of the later '80s from concentrate and forgot to add water. More neon and metallic colors. More "attitude". More rap and RNB influence in pop music. Video games were refined versions of their '80s predecessors, but with the graphics and sound on steroids. Similar movie formulas, but more cynical and commercial. Cartoons on TV were generally much the same as they were in the previous decade, but with old shows phased out for newer ones. Cars started to become less boxy and more aerodynamic. If the early 90's was like a cocaine-fueled party, the middle to late '90s were the crash and hangover after the party. It was cool to be down, jaded, and apathetic. Grunge music went from "alternative" to mainstream (while still being called "alternative"). It was depressing, but dammit it was good, and it came from a more genuine place than the party music did. Muted colors. Video games tried to become more "mature" in every sense of the word, but struggled awkwardly with it. Along with the shift to 3D, they tried to get more story-centric, more complex, and more realistic. As a result, they were often more tedious, uglier, and more cumbersome. Movies shifted away from the old '80s formulas or started trying to subvert them. Cartoons got more serial and started to explore deeper characterization and more serious themes, with shows like Batman: The Animated Series, Gargoyles, and Exo-Squad. We saw the seeds of the 2000s "anime boom" as the North American mainstream got its exposure to Dragon Ball Z, and video rental stores (which were still a thing) started to include an "Anime" or "Japanimation" section to cater to the growing niche of anime fans. The Internet became a thing, but you were lucky if you were one of the few who didn't get online by way of Prodigy, AOL, or Compuserve. It was a very different experience. Lawless and unpoliced. No Google, no Facebook or "social media" as we know it. Definitely no YouTube.
that was late 90's lol! as someone who graduated high school and went to college during the 90's i disagree, i loved the 80's but "life" really started in the 90's for me.
The most schizophrenic part of the Nineties was that the pop-culture of the decade was selling being jaded and cynical as "cool", but the spirit of the decade was actually very optimistic. It was before the reality check of 9/11 and the sky seemed to be the limit.
I can't really keep my comments limited to the 90s, simply because I'm old and remember the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s to now and it's like both a blur and a blip as it just passed so fast. And it just hard to explain how fast things happened, from looking back to the first electronic devices coming out, the toys, the Saturday morning cartoons, etc. And it feels like every decade tries to do 3 things. copy the last one outdo the last one tries to find it's own identity by being the new "edgy" So take everything you hear about one era and apply this to the next one and you'll get the general idea. What's been amazing is that anyone within the age of 50 to 60 right now, were the children of the 70s, the teens from the 80s, and the late teens or young adults from the 90s and we've lived during a massive revolution of humankind that had never been preceded. We are talking seeing the phasing of cars being the clunkers from the 50s-60s going through the oil crisis and shrunk down, from very mechanical to electronics, reduced air resistance, to the electric and first attempts to have self-driving cars. From playing with sticks, marbles and small plastic army men and such, to the first robots, the science fiction stuff, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. with anime translated for the Saturday cartoons that was a completely new world compared to the Flintstones and the other Hanna Barbara stuff. To see the first electronic LED watches and all the gadgets in the TV shows and movies with future themes that were the templates to the devices that everyone have now, that the younger generation takes for granted. With each decades music from the previous ones lingers, but what's been interesting is that even today, the music from the 80s and 90s are still very strong in the media, even if there is a lot of new music that is great, but trouble is, it just doesn't have that lasting power that these "classics" still have. It's funny how some music just keeps getting new life again and again, while so much newer stuff just end up getting their 15 minutes of fame then fades quite fast. So much rehash, remixing, covers from the 80s and 90s, that it's hard to hear something truly new when you listen to the stereotypical popular stuff (regardless of type). Similar with the movies. One way to describe the 90s would be to say that it was the end of a phase of humankind. The internet simply changed everything. How can anyone describe this with words that can truly provide the "feel" of going from the pay phones, paper letters, typewriters and the end of the mechanical and such, to the computers, the electronics that are part of everything today. Some might say that going to a third world country, or renouncing your cell phone and computers would give you this experience, but it wouldn't, the genie is out, you'd know it, you'd know what does exist and available easily... before, it just didn't exist. So for the privilege of the younger generation to have been born into this technology, it is a very harsh reality that they are part of a new era that will never see such a drastic evolution in the world around them. For that, I am actually very thankful for having been able to see this historical phase in humanity happen right before me. The 90s was all about uncertainties, we saw the year 2000 coming, feared it, but also believed that it would be huge to live during these times, and it actually lived up to the expectations and a lot more.
The Ogrelord only Shrek-xisted in the form of a character in a book and not as a CGI animated character. The word "Shrektastic" most likely didn't exist yet. The 1990s were an important decade for understanding the origins of many avian features. Dinosaurs, who had been depicted occasionally as feathered animals in previous decades, were known to have feathered members by the end of the decade. The 1990s were the first decade with proof of visible feathers on dinosaurs like Sinosauropteryx. In addition, discoveries involving oviraptorid nests, embryos, and skeletons of adults in brooding postures. New bird-like dinosaurs were sometimes thought to be bizarre birds, like Mononykus, and some dinosaurs previously known, like segnosaurs, were starting to be realized as closer to the bird line than previously realized. Finally, even if it had its share of inaccuracies, Jurassic Park popularized the idea of dinosaurs often being these active, sometimes bird-like animals. Furthermore, discoveries of dinosaurs like Eoraptor, Giganotosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Afrovenator, Jobaria, and others on the southern continents put greater emphasis on dinosaurs as globally successful animals. New discoveries proved that the natural world was not as completely known as humanity thought. The saola and species of muntjac in Vietnam, the dingiso (a type of tree kangaroo) in the highlands of New Guinea, and a second species of coelacanth in the waters off Sulawesi showed that fairly large animal species could still remain undiscovered by modern science. That doesn't even count the many smaller species that continued, and still continue, to be discovered. At dances, I remember people getting down to ska and punk music. There was no Instagram, so consequently hot chicks wouldn't make those stupid duck lips. There was also no Snapchat, so chicks both hot and not wouldn't have pictures of themselves with lame digital tiaras or puppy facial features. Raksha was a major figure in the Transformer fandom. Parents wouldn't be at restaurants with their kids looking at tablets and cell phones. Big budget CGI spectacles were present and more common toward the close of the decade, but still nowhere near as common as in the 2010s. Even though I don't use tobacco products other than the very rare hookah pipe, the launch of the Truth ad campaigns in the late 1990s almost made me want to smoke. Almost. A lot of cartoons with animal-inspired characters, often with muscular physiques. Beast Wars. Beast Machines. Extreme Dinosaurs. Street Sharks. That one show with the primates who were given exceptional intelligence (EDIT: Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys). There's a lot more, but it's late, and I want to sleep.
