Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

Definitely remember earthworm Jim. Always watched it. I mainly watched nickelodeon as a kid though.

"Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" just out on iPad for those with the hardware and an interest

Just under 2gigs and 9 Euro.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-wars-knights-old-republic/id611436052?mt=8

the groutch wrote: »

alot of the TV shows from the 80's or 90's were nearly more memorable for their theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5Y_ogiyi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xO72s5EBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nqN_7eGItM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n40Un4GP6E

The memories! For years I couldn't recall that city of gold one and I loved it when I was wee.

Best tunes ever from 80s and early 90s
Mask (the one that was pushing toys not the green faced loon one)
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Visionaries
Lonestar- where the horse he rode on also had bipedal abilities and a blunderbuss type weapon
Centurions
X-Men
Freakazoid
Defenders of the Earth
Dragonball Z- the show where the spun out maybe 10 episodes of material into like 60!
Doug
Real Monsters
Courage Cowardly Dog
Ghostbusters- the show where I would drop whatever I was doing and run home to watch.
Batman the animated series buts Nolan and Bale's stuff to shame.

The joys of having younger siblings means you always had an excuse to watch crap cartoons but also having to watch the real kid stuff. Thank god they both liked Tom and Jerry.


Anyone remember waking up before tele and having to wait for the test card to **** off!
Rte 1 and 2, bbc for a while on a crappy little tv eating biscuits for breakfast and hoping your Dad wouldn't wake up.
Sorry or the nostalgia but I'm getting all misty eyed.

Jesus did I hate Dogtanian back in the day.

Watching that clip has actually made my angry!

OwaynOTT wrote: »

The memories! For years I couldn't recall that city of gold one and I loved it when I was wee.
Dragonball Z- the show where the spun out maybe 10 episodes of material into like 60!

That show has been re-edited and is now on one of the Sky Kids channels as Dragon Ball Kai. It has condensed a lot of the material into smaller chunks by removing all of the padding. Sounds like a great idea on paper... but the voices and music are different and some of the dialogue has been changed.
Heartbreaking stuff.

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Yeah terrible stuff. I recently watched a fair chunk of the show again recently and it took ages to find the one I use to watch. There's a few different dubs and versions of it. I like the one where Vegeta sounds like a bolll@x not a little whiny pip.
The plot is basically- big bad shows up and Goku narrowly defeats him but finds out a super strong guy is coming, cue training and 'comedy' routines, Goku is delayed so the others fight get defeated and Goku saves the day. Rinse and repeat.

I read a few of the mangas and they're quite enjoyable in that format, partly because you end up reading the text with the voices you're used to hearing:)

I have a few VHS tapes from afew years ago (damn I just realsied that "afew" means +10 in this instance). I never thought VHS tapes would be worth holding onto but for the moment I'll be keeping them...

A brand new Dragonball Z animated movie just came out in Japan recently too.

Goku fights a bunny rabbit apparently... http://www.dragonball2013.com/

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Underground gamer shutdown it seems... for now at least.

Ohh for feck sake I'll never get my Hyperspin cab set up properly at this stage.

Anybody got Hyperspin preconfigured that they wouldn't mind me taking a copy?

Hyperspin is great if you're willing to put time and considerable effort into it. And you can do so much with it, but it is a bit of a beast.
With the scripting system they have for it combined with the easy ability to call external program/apps/utils is pretty darn awesome

I even wrote a couple of small C# programs to do a few background tasks when certain emu's are loaded and it just works great and helped improve my C# programming as I was only learning the language at the time.

In short, you'll take some or lots of knowledge away after you've setup Hyperspin from scratch

EnterNow wrote: »

True, but it is a double edged sword. For a while after you've finished setting it all up, you're an expert at HS. But, due to the overwhelming fear of screwing it up, you never mess with it again, meaning you forget it all over time. Much like I have

Nah, I'm always tinkering with it (better emulators, artwork, my own creations)
But I've a mirror image of it that I update before any changes, just in case.

Anyone mention Gargoyles yet?

I love Bugs Bunny / Tom and Jerry they're top of my list. Favourite episodes for Bugs is the big red monster... is the Dracula one different episode ? (abracapocas) and the opera ones! (I was mad into Peter and the Wolf as a kid)
favourite T&J's are the kitchen freezing over, Tom as baby, the beach one Jerry turns the pier into a woman's face, I know there's another but can't think.

deathrider wrote: »

My sister used to be mental for Gargoyles!

Must have been for Goliath's sultry voice.

Speaking of which, I used to have a figure of Goliath.

Now this is real retro discussion.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My secret shame back in the day was watching Gummi Bears, by Disney, it honestly was because of the way it was put together, nice classical cinematic animation style, great choice acting and great music. Compared to the contemporary Smurfs it was far superior.

Tiny Toons and Batman Animated , both my WB, made grown ups watching cartoons cool again, and in the cinema The Little Mermaid was a reawakening of western popular animation around the same time.

And it had a cracking theme tune. I love the 90's WB cartoons, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Taz-Mania, Freakazoid, Pinky & The Brain etc etc. and Batman The Animated Series was wasted on kids, one of the best portrayals of Batman you'll ever watch. the art deco art style was brilliant.

Animaniacs was demented for a kids show, so many great movie references that would fly straight over the heads of kids, the Goodfeathers pigeons and jokes about Orson Welles in a kids cartoon? you'd never see it today. Random fact, the guy who plays Wakko is the voice of Ironhide in the Tranformers movies, and Crash Bandicoot :pac:

Sera wrote: »

Anyone mention Gargoyles yet?

I love Bugs Bunny / Tom and Jerry they're top of my list. Favourite episodes for Bugs is the big red monster... is the Dracula one different episode ? (abracapocas) and the opera ones! (I was mad into Peter and the Wolf as a kid)
favourite T&J's are the kitchen freezing over, Tom as baby, the beach one Jerry turns the pier into a woman's face, I know there's another but can't think.

I love the kitchen one but my favourite at the moment is the one where Jerry whistles for help and Tom gives him chung gums filled with glue.