for those born before 1986

[crackdragon]

that brought back some good memories

[Lil Jenna]

Originally Posted by Sue Bitch

I never knew what to call them but i sure did love the sound they made

I had thoes on my bike... but some of my friends that couldnt get them just put cards in their spokes.

Bevan... I never knew you were born in 86' I always thought you were a 84' or 85'.

I was one of the first kids in my school to get a nintendo... Even thought I didnt bother to play it for years after I got it. I was too busy reading books, playing with trucks, buliding cities(out of lego) and ripping apart/giving makeovers to my barbies... lol barbie just doesnt look the same with a crew cut.


Fuck I hated barbie lol But loved her cars lol

[Ree Fresh]

Originally Posted by Grapes

This reads like two internet circulations that have been slapped together. The first half actually has a point to make, although it makes it in an overbearing and heavy-handed manner. The second half is just straight nostalgia.

Looks like almost everyone who replied either didn't feel bothered to expand on the point made by the first half, or just missed it entirely.

I think were just in denial that we all probly have lead poisoning.

[LeeBrat]

Originally Posted by Asheai

I wonder why you picked the year 1986? That happens to be the year I was born and most of this does apply to me... ... but it still does make you think though of all those kids out there and what they are missing because "the world isn't safe anymore"... ya whatever, people are just a thousand times more paranoid due to easily accesible news which only shows the RARE occurence of something bad happening to someone somewhere... anyways, great post, really made me think :)

same...i was also born in 86, but the majority of the first list applies to me. i never grew up with computers , video games, or cable even. was always outside with friends, reading books, or drawing :) i feel older then i am though
good read, very nostalgic. im gonna have to send this to a few people.

[KenJi]

Originally Posted by dabbler

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent
'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

I remember those cards you get from like Cereal like Frosted Flakes and attach them to the spikes on the wheel to make it sound like a motercycle haha.

You could also use regualar playing cards but the Frosted Flakes ones were the shit. They had little plastic reflector lights on them.

I had a nintendo too, fuck was I ever good at double dragon and megaman 1 to whatever

[KenJi]

My first computer was a 486sx25. 25 Megahertz of power baby haha.

and windows 3.11 oh shit now that was considered good at one time

[Revolver]

what a great post!

i was born in 82. i think the early 90's are my fav era of all time. i mean come on:

cross colours
90210
spandex
saved by the bell on satruday mornings at 10
jean overalls with the straps down
doc martens
waynes world
'grunge'
dr.dres the chronic
NES and the jaw dropping graphics of street fighter 2 on the SNES
collecting basball and hockey cards (upper deck for basball,o-pee-chee for hockey)

....all that shit man....LOVED IT

[KenJi]

haha doc martins i had those shoes.

Oh man Street Fighter 2 is still a classic. That game created so much hype.

80's eh how about Robocop. I don't know why but i fell in love with this movie. Karate Kid too

[Two_Six]

Awesome post!

I remember the first day I got a Nintendo, my dad came back from Detroit with a present for me and woke me up at 3am. I remember coming downstairs and playing it till 10am the next day, I was even allowed to skip school the next day it was great, I was so happy.

My favorite game was Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the movie was awesome too. I had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles everything, good times.

Climbing trees was so much fun, I never fell, but I did cut myself a few times. I also remember my first BMX my dad baught for me downtown Toronto when I was 8 years old we had to take it on the metro to bring it home cause it didn't fit into the Ford Mercury. Those were the times, it was awesome going BMXing with all my friends, I miss Ontario so much, so many great memories there.

I just didn't like the Christian School I had to go to, that sucked. I always got into trouble, that school was so striked.

[Two_Six]

I was born in 1983, came to Canada from Italy, I remember I didn't wanna leave Italy, it was so nice there, so warm all the time.

Damn I didn so many stupid things as a kid, I remember I had a remote control car and accidently left it on in my drawers and woke up to the noise of it hitting the wood in the drawer. I got so freaked out and my parents were out. Then I checked it out and realized I left it on, felt so dumb.

I remember building forts and playing with lego, I had such a great set. Those were the good old days, damn I feel old now

[acidic_liquid]

Hmm well I was partly raised in the Philippines. Things were a bit different there. And I was born in 85... so I guess I might as well be for the 86 and up side of things hehe.

[justa~gurl]

i love this post!

it makes me remember so many things~

like the horse head on a stick!

i'm the one in the middle (if you couldn't tell)
my best friends mom had a good idea... she gave us play clothes so that we could get as dirty as we wanted! sweaters sweatpants and gumboots!

[justa~gurl]

and another regular pass time was fishing..

[Grapes]

Originally Posted by wellbelove's

I think were just in denial that we all probly have lead poisoning.

I think lead poisoning is the only way of accounting for how we're all shitting oursevles over how great this thread is.

Yeah yeah, I was excited about Nintendo too.

Also we had this thread about 3-6 months ago. But no-one remembers THAT.

[justa~gurl]

and the bike with the strawberry seat and the spokey things!

i remember i also had some sort of video game, i can't remember what it was called though.. i remember it had donkey kong and i remember the remote looked kinda like a telephone and it had a little round joy-stick at the top and a spiral cord

and i remember playing in mud all the time and me and my friends would throw rocks at each other cause we were playing war.. then their mom yelled at us and told us to stop throwing rocks, so we covered the rocks in mud so she couldn't tell..

lol..smart, no.. but fun as hell!

[Matty Cue]

That's killer!!

[baby-phat]

Originally Posted by justa~gurl

and the bike with the strawberry seat and the spokey things!

I had one of those kinda bikes too! :)

[mojo]

good post

[baby-phat]

PS. cute pics justa~girl. :)

[KenJi]

When I was 7 I fell from a tree chasing some animal up to a treehouse, the branch that broke was apparently rotten. Now that I think of it, it might have been a skunk I was chasing. So stupid.

If it wasn't for me being 7 years old, i prob would have had real damage to my wrist cause I crushed the bone(s)?

Luckily you heal fast when your a child still growing

[dabbler]

i stepped on a nail on purpose when i was younger. (i wanted to see how much it would hurt) *no joke* went half an inch into my foot (thru my shoe)
didn't even tell my parents till the next day, then my parents took me to get a tetanus shot.

ahhh those were the days.... LOL!!!

[KenJi]

Ya back when it was fun to get hurt, or go outside and play.

Not now when its considered unsafe

[baby-phat]

Oh man I can't even count how many times I scraped my knees, fell off my bike (or skateboard), got sharp rocks in my foot, etc etc. And of course it didn't hurt until mommy noticed it. lol

I didn't break any bones until I was 19 and drunk....I suck!

[baby-phat]

Originally Posted by Avana

I didn't break any bones until I was 19 and drunk....I suck!

I think we must've been 2 of the lucky ones. I didn't break a single bone in my body till I was about 20- and that wasn't even my fault.