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Post by John Titor on Feb 10, 2020 15:29:00 GMT 10
Threw my ps1 and n64 in the bushes when Dreamcast dropped Secretly played ps1 for a bit in 2001 in secret  I was unaware of the Dreamcast until much later, I don't think any kid in my neighbourhood had it. Why in secret lol I sold my Dreamcast when Sega made the big announcement in 2001, I shit talked all the other systems at the time and secretly went back to ps1 while I waited for my ps2 to come lol
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Post by mh on Feb 11, 2020 2:28:22 GMT 10
Christmas 1999 was great because my brother got a PlayStation. I had already gotten a Nintendo 64 the previous year, but had been wanting him to get a PlayStation because there were still some big games were missing out on. We spent the whole day playing Spyro 2.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 10:03:20 GMT 10
Christmas 1999 was great because my brother got a PlayStation. I had already gotten a Nintendo 64 the previous year, but had been wanting him to get a PlayStation because there were still some big games were missing out on. We spent the whole day playing Spyro 2. Damn, you must've been real lucky to have both. In my neighbourhood you either had one or the other 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 10:43:42 GMT 10
I liked the second half of 1999 a lot better than the first half. I got an N64 that year for my birthday in August, which was the first new console I was allowed to have since the Sega Genesis. Played lots of Super Mario 64 and 007. That was also the year that I really started getting into Top 40 music and hip-hop and when I started listening to the radio. Before that, I knew a lot of Top 40 songs because I heard them on the school bus or when out and about but I didn't really listen to it on my own time. My parents would only allow me to have country, classical, or religious CDs but around that time they started allowing me to have the "Now That's What I Call Music" CDs.
I wasn't allowed much TV at that time and especially not modern stuff. I did watch Nick at Nite every night because I was allowed that. I tried to watch Dragonball Z but my mom came out and sat through a few minutes of it and said that it was against Christianity so I wasn't allowed to watch it. I did really like "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" with Regis Philbin, which was a sensation that fall.
The most memorable movie that year was probably Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Also Toy Story 2.
The two most memorable things in my own personal life that year was almost getting hit by the May 3, 1999 Oklahoma City tornado and then that summer, developing a crush on one of my friends and becoming too clingy, causing him to turn against me. And oh yeah, getting surgery to resolve a speech impediment that I had.
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Post by karlpalaka on Feb 11, 2020 10:48:09 GMT 10
I am amazed that a majority of people posting on this thread were born between 1986-1993.
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Post by John Titor on Feb 11, 2020 12:08:52 GMT 10
I am amazed that a majority of people posting on this thread were born between 1986-1993. =)
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Post by fusefan on Feb 11, 2020 17:18:47 GMT 10
Pokemania was real during the 1999-2000 school year. Even a non gamer like me got swept up in it. I just collected the cards and watched the anime. Never got the coveted holo Charizard card though. My first Pokémon card was a gold rimmed Meowth I got in a box of fruit roll ups. Did anybody else go to Learning Express to get the Japanese cards? And does anybody remember the TOPPS version of Pokémon cards? How about this Burger King PSA when their pokeball toys were suffocating small children?
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Post by Cassie on Feb 12, 2020 1:54:56 GMT 10
Pokemania was real during the 1999-2000 school year. Even a non gamer like me got swept up in it. I just collected the cards and watched the anime. Never got the coveted holo Charizard card though. My first Pokémon card was a gold rimmed Meowth I got in a box of fruit roll ups. Did anybody else go to Learning Express to get the Japanese cards? And does anybody remember the TOPPS version of Pokémon cards? How about this Burger King PSA when their pokeball toys were suffocating small children? That shit is creepy and i'm 17. Also I watched Final Destination 2 last night and this is what scares me more. It's chilling.
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Post by fusefan on Feb 12, 2020 4:03:17 GMT 10
Pokemania was real during the 1999-2000 school year. Even a non gamer like me got swept up in it. I just collected the cards and watched the anime. Never got the coveted holo Charizard card though. My first Pokémon card was a gold rimmed Meowth I got in a box of fruit roll ups. Did anybody else go to Learning Express to get the Japanese cards? And does anybody remember the TOPPS version of Pokémon cards? How about this Burger King PSA when their pokeball toys were suffocating small children? That shit is creepy and i'm 17. Also I watched Final Destination 2 last night and this is what scares me more. It's chilling. One day I need to make a thread about commercials and PSAs that scared us as kids. 😄
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Post by karlpalaka on Feb 12, 2020 4:53:45 GMT 10
I remember being scarred for life during 1999, but shortly after seeing that disturbing scene a number of times, my family made sure I would never see it again. It was not like a childhood trauma or anything, but it was something inappropriate.
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Post by fusefan on Feb 18, 2020 4:50:45 GMT 10
A commencement speech in 1999.(from a 1969 perspective) 
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 5:42:42 GMT 10
My parents would only allow me to have country CDs I would have ran away from home.
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Post by fusefan on Feb 18, 2020 7:00:57 GMT 10
My parents would only allow me to have country CDs I would have ran away from home. IMO Country music wasn’t *that* bad at the time...not like it became after 2004.
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Post by Telso on Feb 18, 2020 8:01:08 GMT 10
I would have ran away from home. IMO Country music wasn’t *that* bad at the time...not like it became after 2004. I actually think the opposite is true . "Pop country" mostly sucked until Carrie Underwood's winning at Armerican Idol in 2005 brought some much needed energy and singer-songwriter's sensibilities back into the country charts. Well, until it sucked again due to bro country's emergence.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 9:41:30 GMT 10
I would have ran away from home. IMO Country music wasn’t *that* bad at the time...not like it became after 2004. I agree. Though I would actually say 1999 was around the time country started going downhill. It didn't become unlistenable though until the mid 00s. I can't stand today's country.
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