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Ahh MTV. Or Much Music in my case. The only thing better was the late night scrambled channels. Internet porn has completely erased the sense of achievement young men used get from actually managing to find an even slightly risque picture.
 
lol, porn in the 80s...

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I also had some neat knock-off GI Joe toys from England that some relatives brought as Christmas presents. The big item was one of these:
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Except it was bright red and came with a bright red cobra looking guy to man it. I've never been able to figure out what line it was from.
It was called the Laser Exterminator. Part of the Red Shadows, the enemy of Action Force. Which is the european GI Joe.
 
Ahh MTV. Or Much Music in my case. The only thing better was the late night scrambled channels. Internet porn has completely erased the sense of achievement young men used get from actually managing to find an even slightly risque picture.
Kids today. They have it so easy...
 
Yeah, we are not going down this path without a mention of the scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis.

Allegedly the topless scene in Trading Places was the most paused moment in VHS history. Find it yourself, but I'll leave this one which leaves a little to the imagination. :grin:

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I always confuse that film with Doctor Detroit...
 
Something Dumarest posted in the Far West thread reminded me of this. Anyone else remember the one week in 1986 that this movie got really hyped, before our entire generation decided to pretend it never existed?

 
Something Dumarest posted in the Far West thread reminded me of this. Anyone else remember the one week in 1986 that this movie got really hyped, before our entire generation decided to pretend it never existed?


No. Never heard of it. I think we were probably spared from a theatrical release in New Zealand.
 
Something Dumarest posted in the Far West thread reminded me of this. Anyone else remember the one week in 1986 that this movie got really hyped, before our entire generation decided to pretend it never existed?



No I don't remember this at all. It looks like one of those movies that on paper had some potential until studio exec made some suggestions. How on earth did Mel Brooks get mixed up with this, wikipedia says he lost $9 million of his own money on it.

It had a decent cast, some experienced and some who went on to better things. Jami Gertz and Jason Patric did Lost Boys a year later.


Speaking of which, that was a much better movie that belongs in this thread.

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Something Dumarest posted in the Far West thread reminded me of this. Anyone else remember the one week in 1986 that this movie got really hyped, before our entire generation decided to pretend it never existed?


I remember seeing Solarbabies at the cinema. Rollerskating in a post-apocalyptic world. Hard to forget that one although I was doing good not thinking about it in 30 years. Until now...
 
I remember seeing Solarbabies at the cinema. Rollerskating in a post-apocalyptic world. Hard to forget that one although I was doing good not thinking about it in 30 years. Until now...

You're welcome. :evil:
 
Mary Hendryx and Linda Simpson in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
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Bad Dudes is a poor copy of Double Dragon. That said, Double Dragon Dudes as a title has some cache. One of my personal favorite arcade games is Crackdown:
 
Bad Dudes is a poor copy of Double Dragon.


uh, noooo, not at all. Besides the premise of two player characters using martial arts, the games are hella different. Double Dragon is a clunky, methodical game, while Bad Dudes is a frenetic, speed run. Final Fight has more in common with Double Dragon than Bad Dudes does, while Bad Dudes is closer to Shinobi or Contra in style.
 
uh, noooo, not at all. Besides the premise of two player characters using martial arts, the games are hella different. Double Dragon is a clunky, methodical game, while Bad Dudes is a frenetic, speed run. Final Fight has more in common with Double Dragon than Bad Dudes does, while Bad Dudes is closer to Shinobi or Contra in style.
I was being facetious. That said, there were a whole bunch of two dudes using martial arts games that came out following Double Dragon, and it beggars belief that those two things aren't connected to some extent.
 
I was being facetious. That said, there were a whole bunch of two dudes using martial arts games that came out following Double Dragon, and it beggars belief that those two things aren't connected to some extent.

Oh, yeah, Im sure, the videogame industry was incredibly incestuous at that point in time.
 
Doesn't Bruce Lee predate them all?
 
It was awesome kinda for it's time.
 
The c64 fighting video game.

Oh, I dimly recall that one. There was also a Zorro game that I seem to recall was structured rather similarly.

Then there was Karateka.

I remember my friend who owned the C64 said Karateka sucked and was impossible. I asked to play and I was doing really well at it after getting the hang of it. Soon I had a crowd of his brothers and some friends he had over as I battled each of the henchmen and that damn bird. And then, I was at the boss. It was an epic struggle, and the room went wild when I beat him.

I moved my character into the next room where the princess waited. But... I never switched out of battle stance, and the game required you to be in a non-combat stance to walk up to her and win. So, she lightning kicked my guy in the nuts, and he crumpled like a wet napkin. Game Over. The room erupted in laughter, and my victory turned in an instant to something all of them would ridicule me about for years.

Still pissed off about that one.
 
Oh, I dimly recall that one. There was also a Zorro game that I seem to recall was structured rather similarly.

Then there was Karateka.

I remember my friend who owned the C64 said Karateka sucked and was impossible. I asked to play and I was doing really well at it after getting the hang of it. Soon I had a crowd of his brothers and some friends he had over as I battled each of the henchmen and that damn bird. And then, I was at the boss. It was an epic struggle, and the room went wild when I beat him.

I moved my character into the next room where the princess waited. But... I never switched out of battle stance, and the game required you to be in a non-combat stance to walk up to her and win. So, she lightning kicked my guy in the nuts, and he crumpled like a wet napkin. Game Over. The room erupted in laughter, and my victory turned in an instant to something all of them would ridicule me about for years.

Still pissed off about that one.
Karateka. Oh for the times the graphics were amazing. So smooth so much more detail it felt like. So f'ing slow to load and respond as I recall. You must have mastered the ability to predict when to kick/strike. It was built up as awesome but it felt so wrong to me.

Yeah Zorro was cool too.

Anyone remember Conan for c64?
 
Every third girl being named Jennifer or Katie. In my high school cooking class, we were in groups of five, and my group was me, a dude named Bryan, and three girls all named Jennifer. It would've been fine if one went by Jen, one went by Jenny, and one went by Jennifer, but all three of them went by Jen.
 
Every third girl being named Jennifer or Katie. In my high school cooking class, we were in groups of five, and my group was me, a dude named Bryan, and three girls all named Jennifer. It would've been fine if one went by Jen, one went by Jenny, and one went by Jennifer, but all three of them went by Jen.
Oh gosh... That reminds me of how a friend got the nick name 3-diff. See this group of friends included three Brians. Someone was trying to explain this to their mother, and 3-diff got his nick name...
 
Every third girl being named Jennifer or Katie. In my high school cooking class, we were in groups of five, and my group was me, a dude named Bryan, and three girls all named Jennifer. It would've been fine if one went by Jen, one went by Jenny, and one went by Jennifer, but all three of them went by Jen.

One of my cousins is a Jennifer. She's two months older than I am. Most popular girl name in 1973.

My daughter is Katherine, but we call her Katie. She was not born in 1973! We love the name.
 
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