"Jingle all the way 2 : Boomers V Millennials!" Sub plot of Jake Lloyd in prison..... too bad Phil Hartman is dead, he actually knew what type of film he was in.

**Walmarts**

That pretty much sums up America right there lol

Sounds like what happened with the Pokémon cards that were at McDondalds. Buying 15-30 happy meals, throwing away everything but the Pokémon cards and opening them up on KZfaq….

Yes. Same shit different year.

Lmao well done

Yeah same thing except it was Donkey Kong Country 2 for Christmas lol

I had to do that with the Wii back when that was sold out everywhere for a long time. Sells for pretty cheap now but back then I had to drop 400 to get one.

Exactly. Nostalgia was completely untouched until every industry started touching everything with their greedy fingers that “retro” went mainstream. And that was the only thing that was pretty much left. And we all know what happens when something goes mainstream….

Same with vinyl records. I sold about 10k worth in the last year and most were bought by resellers or stores so they can gouge other buyers.

@@hellboundTX333 Yeah, it's a real shame. Online used to be a great way to buy and sell to other collectors, but it just doesn't work that way now.

Does the word rhym with repossession

Sweet. That means stock prices at a discount.

Great depression

"Bro, crypto is crash proof though, safest investment you could possibly make."

How are people going to remember that when we’re trying to erase history right now. There’s a bunch of people they don’t even think that World War II even happened and the other half think that America was the assholes in that situation.

That’s why I bought records in the late 90s/early 00s. Super cheap. I could get dozens for a couple bucks, at times. Helped me get into old 70s bands that none of my friends were listening to like Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult, even Neil Young. Tons of random cheapo stuff. I got most of it for a buck or two or less. Probably spent about $500 (at most!) on my modest collection. Now it would cost someone $5,000-$10,000.

I collect records now, it's not nearly as bad as the retro game market. I stopped even bothering back in 2014, got priced out.

Love Tex Avery and Looney Tunes cartoons, old Goofy ones are great too...often have them on when painting minis.

Same here, I have made the switch to flash carts with OG hardware. I will only buy the real cart if its something I really want

@@CkYAll1anc3 I think a lot of people think they’re too expensive but when you think of the money it saves it’s well worth it. Especially being able to play fan translated games and ROM hacks too.

Same here. Earlier this week I got an itch to play some old 2600 games after watching some videos, I could have dug up my old VCS and carts but my Flashback 9 BOOM! was there ready to plug and play with all the ROMS from the carts I have. Guess what I've been using the whole week. Emulation is not and should not be seen as a sin any longer. In many, many, many cases it's better than the original hardware. Platforms of today and tomorrow will still be able to play those old games in digital form with emulation, real hardware and software is dying just like the people who played them and still hold to them. It happened to music and it will happen to videogames. Face it!

Fuck the haters. Emulation ftw.

Lol! 60? I wish. I have a saved search for Bucky O'Hare on ebay, just waiting for it to appear for less than $100. That stopped 4 years ago. The only affordable NES games are absolute garbage no one wants like city connection and Vegas dream, and they still want $20 for that shit.

I say this all the time: go walk around the nearest antique store and count the Longaberger baskets filled with Beanie Babies.

Star Wars killed itself

To be fair - I dont know what my parents paid for them back in the 80s, but I just bought the new he man and skeletor for 16 bucks each at target. I wouldnt say that is particularly priced for kids. I had like 30 of them when I was a kid (not to mention lots of other action figures) and I don't think my parents had the means to buy that many toys at that kind of price point.

Some of it is slowly creeping in. It was kinda funny seeing Robot Chicken branch out from the 80s pop culture stuff from early episodes, to start to do parodies of stuff I grew up with from the later 90s and early 2000s. Spongebob, CatDog, Hey Arnold, The Wild Thornberrys, Dexter's Lab, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd n Eddy, Homestar Runner, and such.

I mean, there isn't as much of anything to be nostalgic about from about 2005 and onwards. The PS2/Gamecube/Wii/OGXbox/Dreamcast era was the last hurrah of anything substantially good. I hate to be a grumpy grandpa (just turned 40), but there really is absolutely nothing kids today are going to be nostalgic over because the timeless wonder and discovery we had in the 80's and 90's doesn't exist for kids today. Without the internet, it is so much more humanistic and gives you those nostalgic feelings for finding stuff on your own back then. To anyone that says, "your parents said the same thing about you", there is barely any nostalgia nowadays for the 50's, 60's and 70's. It's not even the same. Those decades don't have the same resurgence and long lasting appeal as the 80's and 90's. What are kids today going to fondly remember over for the warm fuzzies? Tiktok? Call of Duty? It's really quite sad when you think about it compared to the magic of the 80's and 90's.

@@quibquatch3975 @Quib Quatch idk that sounds a lot like you are just not paying attention to what kids are doing nowadays (which is fair, you are 40 and not 14). I am almost 26 so I'm somewhat past it too but I still see some of it. KZfaq and it's content, Internet content in general (including TikTok). 1999 to 2009 was an AMAZING time for children's programing on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney. CoD is kinda past it's prime now but I played a ton of it in middle school on my 360 with friends. Minecraft, Smash Bros, Fortnite, Undetale, Halo 3.You had dumb gymics like Silly Bands, Fidget Spinners, and other fads like every era has. With the internet, I had much more freedom to find things on my own then people before ever had. I got into retro gaming purely from the internet, found new shows, music, and such, met new people. All that jazz. The 80s and 90s has some great media , but as someone born in 1995 a lot of that stuff I have a similar apathy towards (Like, to me most 80s cartoons are unwatchable and dull). A lot of stuff that gives people warm fuzzies are disposable junk, but if you had it at the right time it means something to you.

@@larryinc64 Minecraft I can maybe kinda see as "nostalgic" for when kids get older, Smash Bros is from the Gamecube generation, Fortnite is just simply god awful and hollow and anyone who has "warm fuzzies" from it is probably a rather shallow human being, Halo 1 and 2 is from the OGXbox generation so calling Halo 3 anything nostalgic kinda relies on the first two. If you admit that your generation is "disposable junk", I think that says everything anyone needs to know. I mean, the bulk of what this generation is mostly called "content", as if it's something to be eaten up and shit out and forgotten. All of these 10 second Tiktok/KZfaq/etc. videos are nothing tangibly physical and nothing substantial. Finding anything you want anytime you want completely ruins anything personal or any mystery behind what you Google searched. I will gladly take all the forgotten gimmicks we had over the vapid nothingness of Tiktok dances and such of today. At least those were tangible objects, not "aesthetical vibez" or whatever surface level poseur-ish nonsense. Seriously this generation is pretty bad now when I really think about it. All I see is kids wearing the same shit from people in the 80's because they have nothing to call their own right now. They want the look and the feel, but not actually walk the walk. I can't tell you how many Thrasher shirts I see with bleached torn jeans, and they've never even set foot on a skateboard. Hopefully something better comes along in the next 10-15 years?

@@quibquatch3975 With some of your logic, Most superheros like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, ect date way father back then the 80s and 90s so you can throw out things like Batman the animated series. VHS where first made in 70s so no one from the 80s and 90s could be nostalgic for it. The SNES was just the NES 2 so no one from the 90s can be nostalgic for it. Disney Land is from 1955. Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck, Chip n Dale, Tailspin and Duck Tales are all based on older characters. G.I. Joe goes back to 1964. Tiny Toon Adventures was based on the Looney Tunes. The Smurfs were created in 1958. Nickelodeon first went live in 1979. Power Rangers was based on Super Sentai and that was created in 1975. A lot of kids shows from the 80s was just commercials for toys. AVGN has an entire series how so many 80s and 90s games were cheep cash ins. The 70s had a ton of 50s nolstalgia reboots and throwbacks like Greese, and the 80s and 90s had reboots like The Brady Bunch Movie and Leave It to Beaver movies. it's all circular. . Donkey Kong was almost a Popeye game. You really need to adjust your rose colored glasses lol.

Same happened with me I bought pokemon platinum for 20 euros (it was loose) from a store and that same store now sells it for 80 euros

Ah the ‘good’ old days...kinda miss the ridiculous amount of foiled covers they used to have...

90s cartoons were fantastic as cartoons alone. Toys were just a bonus. 80s cartoons were meant just to sell toys.

Larry Hama, Ron Rudat, and Hasbro created some wonderful characters in gi joe that made the toys and cartoons come alive. And nothing felt better than walking into a Toys R Us store and seeing them new figures on the center aisle and vehicles stacked to the ceiling..then recreating battle scenes with your friends in the backyard. But yeah, lot of cheesy episodes, but occasionally I watch Worlds Without End, or Arise Seprentor Arise =D I suppose my collection of modern toys and statues is my sign of longing for that simpler time..

200% agree. 90s cartoons are far better.