Stuff we DON'T Miss from the 90s.
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Well in the 90's I used to shit and piss myself on a regular basis, I don't miss that. However, there will probably be a time later in my life were I am again doing those things
No good cars?SodaDew said:
The Mazda RX-7? Toyota Supra? Lamborghini Diablo? Ferrari F50? The Nissan 300ZX/240SX/Skyline(doesn't count for most Americans because we could never get one, but as a gamer, we had them in Gran Turismo, and that is more than the average American could say back then)? The mid-90s Cadillac Deville is a car I dreamed about owning for over a decade, and now that I have one, I can honestly say that it was worth the wait. I love that car. How about the Mitsubishi 3000GT, Lancer Evolution (still not in America back then, but they were amazing), and the Eclipse GT and GTX (The GT had a turbo, and the GTX was just a Lancer Evo with a smaller body.)? And if you like the Eclipse, you are required to like the Ford Probe, and Dodge Stealth, which both shared a frame and chassis with the Eclipse.
WHAT ABOUT THE MACLAREN F1, THE FIRST CAR THAT COST $1 MILLION?! THE DODGE VIPER! The Jaguar XJ220? What about the Acura NSX? That car was brand new in 1991, and was still worth $30,000 when I got to sit in one for the first time in 2003.
And the thing that offends me most about your statement:
The Nissan R34 Skyline was born in 1999, and is my most desired car of all time!
The car I am saving up for now that I have my 1994 Deville: A 1998 S14 240SX.
Why is that? While most of the 90's and 2000's cars suffer from the problem of being front wheel drive (even my beloved Deville has this problem) the 240SX is very much a rear wheel drive sports car with the Car enthusiast in mind.
I don't get how you can all dwell on the bad stuff from that period. Honestly, nostalgia sure aint what it used to be.
The one thing I hated the most was politicians and the church trying to ban every film and video game that came out, which was in the news every single day in the 90's. When your local moral crusader closes your cinema down its more than a little annoying to be forced to travel nearly 100 miles to see Reservoir Dogs and Trainspotting.
Also curtain hair cuts and waistcoats on boys looked awful and girls used to put so much mousse in their hair you could hammer nails with it.
Also curtain hair cuts and waistcoats on boys looked awful and girls used to put so much mousse in their hair you could hammer nails with it.
Pietari Heliste said:
I am going to single every one of you out and refer you to my <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.394710-Stuff-we-DONT-Miss-from-the-90s?page=4#16010068>list.Zack Alklazaris said:
Your list is full of super cars. The average car was butt ugly for the early-mid 90's, although there was an improvement towards the end of the decade.Spade Lead said:
Here, have that picture of a '92 mustang again:
VHS, dial-up, the friggin' BRIGHT ASS COLORS LEFT FROM THE 80s, the hair.
Mostly aesthetic stuff. lawl shoulder pads for women haha.
Mostly aesthetic stuff. lawl shoulder pads for women haha.
I see. And which of your favorite cars of the 2000s has an entire magazine dedicated to it, with no other cars allowed on the cover or discussed within it? None? Look, I hate most Mustangs in principle, but you cannot deny that the 5.0 Mustang is the single most popular car for any sport, ever produced. I have a few Chevy designated magazines, but not one of them is just 350 or 427 only, they are literally just, "Hey we bought this '69 Corvair, and are dropping a 454 in it for fun, watch what we do!" With Corvair and 454 replaced with the car of choice and the motor of choice for each particular project. And none of them cover modifying the 4.9 liter motor in my car.Owyn_Merrilin said:Here, have that picture of a '92 mustang again:
The 5.0 is arguably the ugliest Mustang since the '70s, but it is still more poplar than anything you drive.
And that has exactly what to do with the way it looked? So it apparently handles well and is hot roddable. That's not what the people in the thread were complaining about.Spade Lead said:I see. And which of your favorite cars of the 2000s has an entire magazine dedicated to it, with no other cars allowed on the cover or discussed within it? None? Look, I hate most Mustangs in principle, but you cannot deny that the 5.0 Mustang is the single most popular car for any sport, ever produced. I have a few Chevy designated magazines, but not one of them is just 350 or 427 only, they are literally just, "Hey we bought this '69 Corvair, and are dropping a 454 in it for fun, watch what we do!" With Corvair and 454 replaced with the car of choice and the motor of choice for each particular project. And none of them cover modifying the 4.9 liter motor in my car.Owyn_Merrilin said:Here, have that picture of a '92 mustang again:
The 5.0 is arguably the ugliest Mustang since the '70s, but it is still more poplar than anything you drive.
A lot of people to this day still prefer the early 90's mustang to the 4.6, which came out later in the 90s, and had more power and better gas mileage. It was unique, even if you don't like it, and it has some sex appeal when set up for drag racing.Owyn_Merrilin said:
In my opinion, this:
http://www.moddedmustangs.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/fox-mustang-drag-wallpaper-800x600.jpg
is better looking than this:
http://image.hotrod.com/f/featuredvehicles/9879337+w794/hrdp_0612_mustang_02_z+2006_ford_mustang+drag_car.jpg
The pop music of 1998 & 1999.
97% of horror & comedy movies that came out after 1998.
Whatever Rob Liefeld was working on at the time.
Dial-up connection, fax machines, beepers/pagers.
5th Generation & early 6th Generation Console graphics (Playstation, N64, Saturn, Jaguar, 3DO, Virtual Boy).
90210, Friends, Road Rules.
Only 99 channels & analog cable....Changing the channels one at a time & relyng on a printed Cable Guide.
Chunky CRT monitors & TVs.
Video games on floppy disks that ran on MSDOS.
Windows 1-98.
Computer hard drives that couldn't hold even 1 terabyte of data.
97% of horror & comedy movies that came out after 1998.
Whatever Rob Liefeld was working on at the time.
Dial-up connection, fax machines, beepers/pagers.
5th Generation & early 6th Generation Console graphics (Playstation, N64, Saturn, Jaguar, 3DO, Virtual Boy).
90210, Friends, Road Rules.
Only 99 channels & analog cable....Changing the channels one at a time & relyng on a printed Cable Guide.
Chunky CRT monitors & TVs.
Video games on floppy disks that ran on MSDOS.
Windows 1-98.
Computer hard drives that couldn't hold even 1 terabyte of data.
I kind of miss the old hayes handshaking tones. Almost entirely because of nostalgia of course.Soviet Heavy said:
Well, this thread was about stuff that we personally don't miss about the nineties, and I think the majority of the stuff that came out in that era (particularly american stuff: seriously, the deville? That shit is not cool.).Spade Lead said:
It's not that there weren't any good cars, but the vast majority of the stuff you see on the roads from that period of time look like I designed them after not sleeping for a week and then drinking a bottle of scotch.
edit: Actually, I should say that yes, there were good looking cars back then (and obviously, they were technically better than the cars of the 80's but that doesn't count since that happens with time anyways) but the nineties also produced a lot of hideous, hideous cars. I mean yeah, previously we had stuff like the amc pacer, but that was ugly in kind of a charming way, whereas the ford scorpio for example is so apalling to look at it really isn't even funny anymore.
All of that being said, the ugliest car in human history, the aztek, was created in 2001...
Music wasn't that bad, Oasis, Blur etc. I dunno what you guys were listening to. The only thing that comes to my mind is England not winning anything, but that's not exactly exclusive.
Film, television and games were making leaps and bounds as well; Lock Stock, Pulp Fiction, Batman the Animated Series, Friends, Golden Eye.
Cars were getting faster, F1 (start of the Schumacher era) in particular was doing well.
I suppose there was the Spice Girls, but they did make that film that was brilliant.
Film, television and games were making leaps and bounds as well; Lock Stock, Pulp Fiction, Batman the Animated Series, Friends, Golden Eye.
Cars were getting faster, F1 (start of the Schumacher era) in particular was doing well.
I suppose there was the Spice Girls, but they did make that film that was brilliant.
Wow, I know that I was 11 to 20 during the nineties but with the exception of net speeds and Rob Leifeld (Super heroes in general, I don;t think there is much from the decade that was not cooled then it is now.
Action movies were violent and there were no Transformers, Yah there was Brittney but we had Tool and NIN.
Clerks and Pulp Fiction; Indie comics like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac; Cartoons that were cool.
This says it all:
http://youtu.be/TZt-pOc3moc
Action movies were violent and there were no Transformers, Yah there was Brittney but we had Tool and NIN.
Clerks and Pulp Fiction; Indie comics like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac; Cartoons that were cool.
This says it all:
http://youtu.be/TZt-pOc3moc
I was not the only one who thought the guys who said there were no good cars back were wrong, I was just the only one to list a lot of the good cars. And a lot of the non-supercars I listed are still immensely popular. The Supra is actually still worth about HALF of it's original 1996 list price. In some places, their value is going back UP again, because of movies like The Fast and the Furious, which made the 10 second Supra popular. (Tell me you wouldn't like a 1,000 horsepower car)Pietari Heliste said:
That said, what is wrong with the 94 Deville? It is a great car, with plenty of horsepower and even more torque. I shit stomp cars from last year that kids think are fast, like Honda Civics and Accords. I bought it because my goal was to lower it and make a cruiser, and for that, it is far better than anything to come off an assembly line in any other country in recent years. I think the lines are aggressive and manly, yet still aerodynamic. I am not going to lie, I think the Seville looks more aggressive and race car like, but I didn't want a race car, I wanted a sleeper that was meant for cruising that just happened to be able to smash on so called "street racers."
The low slung curves that were popular in the 90s were an attempt to make ultra-sleek aerodynamic car that was still stylish. Some of the cars, like the Eclipse and Supra, are still popular among the punk teenage "street racer" crowd. Others, like the 240SX are considered staples of the Drift Racing leagues. The S14 240SX is a 90s cars in it's entirety, and is one of my favorite cars from that era. The only other one I can afford, really.