Let's Have a Thundering Thread Throwback! What Games, Music, Trends, and Pop Culture Take You Back to Your Childhood?

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I always went to the classic section of the video store wanting to borrow/hire the old movies. Like the Hollywood musicals and the ones with stars like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, etc
 
The most liked game I ever played was Mortal Kombat. The original movies were great too. The new movies were alright. I liked the original better because I saw it as a kid and I was fascinated by the action and special effects. Still can be watched as many times as you ever can.

Sub zero is my favourite.

p.s. - if you are parenting kids with strict Christian supervision and filtering what content they are exposed to, this franchise would not be for them. I'm a late 80s kid that grew up with all this, so, pardon me if it's not to your liking or approval.

 
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I've always wondered if Christian parents ever read to their children the Bible cos I never had that growing up. I read my own books.

I would think preachers kids would be all Bibled out.
 
Boys. men can't do it...they don't have the hips to hula! Look at the boy in the pic, he's doing it around his legs! lol

Us Pacific Island ladies can just do it naturally without a plastic hoop.
 
Boys. men can't do it...they don't have the hips to hula! Look at the boy in the pic, he's doing it around his legs! lol

Us Pacific Island ladies can just do it naturally without a plastic hoop.
I was on many Pacific Islands back in the day. I had to travel to Kwajalein Atoll and to get there, I had to take a flight from Hawaii to Guam and it stopped at several Islands. The Marshall Islands, Midway, Johnston Atoll to name a few.

And you are right, I couldn't Hula.

 
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The seven deadly sins.
Most didn't know the meaning behind the character personalities on the show.

Deserted island that somehow was found by guest stars from time to time.
Who never once offered to take the cast away and rescue them.

I've never watched Gilligan's Island but have heard some of the jokes.

Did that show have a lot of wardrobe changes?

I once heard a DJ pondering how many clothes would a person really pack for a 3-hour trip, because apparently some had a different outfit for each show?! 😆
 
So far, so unputdownable...I have gotten up to the chapter where Liza Minnelli wed David Gest. That was a horror show and a half.

But it was the 90s and things were just weird then but completely normal for the time.

I mean Michael Jackson! He was like the 'King of Pop' until he wasn't. Every kid loved him. He loved every kid. It was kind of weird but that was the normal for the time. We didn't care that he had plastic surgery or a monkey or lived in his own fantasy land. We thought it was cool to be Bad. He could do anything and we'd forgive him for dangling a baby out the window of a hotel room. He had the moves!

Was everyone on cocaine and painkillers back then?!

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I remember the news showing the brief clip of their kiss after their vows.

A gay man kissing a woman he used for her money , as she learned later, was disgusting. He reminded me of a Carp going for a small Bass.
 
I've never watched Gilligan's Island but have heard some of the jokes.

Did that show have a lot of wardrobe changes?

I once heard a DJ pondering how many clothes would a person really pack for a 3-hour trip, because apparently some had a different outfit for each show?! 😆
As I recall Ginger,great name,red hair, was the only one who had a wardrobe.
Maybe the Howes too but I'm not sure.
Classic TV may still show Gilligan's Island reruns.

I think every cast member but Tina Louise is passed on now.
 
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I've never watched Gilligan's Island but have heard some of the jokes.

Did that show have a lot of wardrobe changes?

I once heard a DJ pondering how many clothes would a person really pack for a 3-hour trip, because apparently some had a different outfit for each show?! 😆
The Skipper, Gilligan and the professor NEVER changed clothes. I loved that show or Marianne, I'm not sure which.
 
I always went to the classic section of the video store wanting to borrow/hire the old movies. Like the Hollywood musicals and the ones with stars like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, etc
Audrey Hepburn was fantastic.
I still remember how exciting it was when Blockbuster opened back in my hometown.

Our first video store.
 
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I remember the news showing the brief clip of their kiss after their vows.

A gay man kissing a woman he used for her money , as she learned later, was disgusting. He reminded me of a Carp going for a small Bass.
That was terrible.
It also turned out her first husband was gay, she didn't know until she literally caught her husband in bed with another man!

She still somehow remained friends with him, but the marriage was over.

They say you should never speak ill of the dead. David Gest is dead. Good.

I think Liza is happier unmarried and having her gay men as friends, not be married to them. She had straight husbands as well, but she had several miscarriages so never had any children. I always thought her mother Judy Garland's life was a roller coaster, and she had many husbands (and lovers) too, some were gay. Her father it turns out was a paedophile but he died when she was 13 I think and MGM sort of took over as her surrogate parents/family.

Anyway there is a lot to Judy Garland's life and she lived a lot of it on screen for everyone to see. She really was Americas Sweetheart when she was younger and that's why people adored her, she got them through the Depression and the War years.
 
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Audrey Hepburn was fantastic.
I still remember how exciting it was when Blockbuster opened back in my hometown.

Our first video store.

There were a few Mom 'n' Pop video stores I used to love to stop at on the way home from work on Friday nights.

I miss perusing the aisles for sci-fi and action movies that no one had heard of, but had interesting covers!!

Sure, sometimes the cover was much more interesting than the actual movies, but I sure do miss the days of being able to rent a movie and grab a McDonald's value meal as a weekend treat, all for less than $10.

(I was a big fan of Red Box kiosks too, before they all went kaput.) 😭
 
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And then there's this guy.

Actually works wonders to help create washboard abs and define your serratus anterior muscles.


If I tried this one,all that would remain is a silhouette on the floor surrounded by a giant circle embedded into the floor.

We miss her...
Where's the crowbar and bleach? Anyone?

🤣🤣🤣
 
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There were a few Mom 'n' Pop video stores I used to love to stop at on the way home from work on Friday nights.

I miss perusing the aisles for sci-fi and action movies that no one had heard of, but had interesting covers!!

Sure, sometimes the cover was much more interesting than the actual movies, but I sure do miss the days of being able to rent a movie and grab a McDonald's value meal as a weekend treat, all for less than $10.
Better days. More affordable too.
(I was a big fan of Red Box kiosks too, before they all went kaput.) 😭
Same here. They were all over the place here.

Shop Target,Redbox is in the lobby. Same with Walmart and Safeway grocery.

Lordy,Bank account look away.

I found a retro toy site. Reasonable prices too.

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Got one for Christmas while in junior high school.
Will I ace my math test?
All signs point to yes!

Liar!🤣

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"Don't grow up. It's a trap!"

Now you tell us!😏
 
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I've gotten into book nooks
I'm about half way through completing one.

I used to make a lot of boats out of paper and cardboard and sticky tape when I was a child, with my brothers. One is now a marine engineer.

I'd draw cartoons/comics as well and made books of them. I think I was trying to copy Garfield, except I had my pet cats as characters.

Now I've just got back into reading Roald Dahl books lol