Life Back Then.

Simply about Life back then in the good old 80's/90's.

You know, I must say. It's been a few months since I was fortunate to be shown this site by a good friend. I've been coming back and forth to it ever since and I must say, there aren't too many articles I haven't read since I started coming hear regularly. The funny thing is, I read all these articles and I completely agree! Everyone has it pretty much dead on, especially when they say that children these days are screwed for good cartoons. It's so true. I feel sorry for kids these days. I remember waking up, and I don't think ANYONE will question me on this, on Saturday mornings and with a huge bowl of cereal and a remote control, starting my day to some kick ass cartoons. Back then the lineup was always great, however, as time progressed it seemed that cartoons began to get worse and worse. I loved cartoons so much back then, I'd get up at 6AM to watch this one strange anime about some bears with wings which was in French (I don't speak French). (If anyone knows about that cartoon specifically, I'd appreciate it). The good old days when being a kid wasn't such a terrible thing, when everything, every sad moment, every terrible event could be completely forgotten when I picked up that nes/snes controller or the remote control and the original TMNT was on. I watch the TMNT they have on now and it's so horrible.

I wonder about the new movie coming out. I'd hate to say it, but after looking at all of the stuff they pump out now, to be perfectly honest, I have no hope for it. Cartoons are steadily getting worse. It all started with my nephews. It never kicked in quite so much until then. I was about 17/18 at the time, and they were around 10 and 11 and they were watching just the worst cartoons available. I mean most of this stuff was completely retarded. The characters were poorly drawn, the story line was very childish. It had no character too it. Children nowadays are so deprived of good things, it's so sad. Television has gone so down hill, it's gotten to the point where I only watch about 2 hours a week of TV, where as if you had told me I'd one day end up doing that when I was a kid, well, first you'd have to pry me away from the tv to do it, and then I wouldn't believe it and go back to watching it. I have two television sets in my apartment and steadily they grow dustier. However, games were always there. I am sure most can agree that they're VERY sick and tired of hearing these ignorant people spamming us with all this crap that "media, especially video games causes violent behavior" and we all have looked at them, thought they were a complete idiot and then thought, gee, I play a lot of GTA but I never pulled some guy out of his car and then ran down a hooker or two with it! It seems to have taken a small break as of recently, but it's always been there through the ages, there's always been something I suppose, but since this is what people relate to these days, it hits especially hard. If it wasn't for video games I don't know where I'd be. I grew up in a rural area and even in school only had a handful of friends, but it was games like Final Fantasy 1 and 2 and Crystalis that had me reading and thinking. Games like that where the story would grab me (no matter how poor the graphics were, even now I play the games on Jnes and thoroughly enjoy them) and I'd spend hours and hours playing them and being entertained, and I believe I have strong reading and writing skills because of all this.

Well, everyone's had their turn and now I have mine on a rant. Graphics never mattered. They evolve with time, that is the way of technology, always moving forward. Cartoons may be forever lost (The simpsons haven't been good in many years, although Family guy is a pretty good cartoon). however, games we still have and games we can still enjoy. Even in my 22nd year, I am proud to say I am a gamer and that is what I'll always be. I am proud to say my hands if relaxed are permanently formed to hold a nes/snes/playstation controller. However they don't make games like they used to. There are so few good titles coming out these days. Companies tend to be more and more involved with graphics then they are story and that's a shame, because platformers are very few nowadays, and those were the games that one would want more bulk. Well, I am sure I've bitched and complained enough for now, but before I go, I'll say this...I want my legos back and I want my old TMNT action figures. Those were the days that make me think, my childhood wasn't all that bad after all. -Terry

Comments

Eek the Cat was a great show. Very underrated, and it seems like most people don't remember it.

plzz ducktalesfan...the 80's and 90's are married...for life...end of story lol...BUT it will be cool to see some 70's articles

that was so cool

*tear* *tear* u brought back so many good memories!

right on brother...

I watched Eek! on Puerto Rico by 1993-94 I don't remember episodes because i had like 7 and it was early to watch it. I missed them most of it.

I agree with you Derrick. He hates everything that doesn't have to do with something he, personally, enjoyed. Oh, well.

i have watch all of those great cartoons as well, although in my country Ecuador, they showed them all the time even in the late 90s. I can also say i grew up watching all those shows from the 70s and all those anime cartoons from mazinger z to saint seiya.

Actually, I don't remember specifically when I watched Samurai Pizza Cats. I think I was pretty young, however. Anyway, I actually needed some pics to get this posted and to be honest, I don't remember most of the shows I watched in the 80's, and so it took me a bit to remember the things I truly loved and watched religiously. As well...ducktalesfan?

samurai pizza cats wasnt aired in the usa untill 1996 which had aired in canada 5 years earlyer and was thought to be a ripoff of tmnt which was groundless given the very few things in common and that this was out befor the tmnt cartoon

back to the point i also mis eek and the pizza cats heck i miss the old foxkids and ytv all together

Hey ducktalesfan, why do you get so dissapointed when someone who was born in the 80's doesn't get nostalgic for the 70's? Of course they are going to act like there was no life before the 80's...they weren't even born yet. There's lots of cartoons and movies from the 70's I like, but I saw them in the 80's obviously. So, they make me nostalgic for the 80's rather then the era they are really from...because I wasn't alive during that era. And just because you grew out of cartoons by 1990, doesn't mean that's when Saturday Mornings officially died for everyone.

My childhood period was from the 80's - mid 90's. And what the author of this article is talking about is very similar to my childhood experience (as well as most others, I'm sure) - watching Saturday morning cartoons with a bowl of cereal, playing the NES and SNES, etc. I never really cared for "Eek! the Cat" though. And I've never even heard of the other cartoon that's shown up there.

i believe the cartoon you were talking about is samurai pizza cats though i dont think i ever saw it on foxkids

C'mon ducktalesfan, you seriously whine way too much about this. Honestly, so what if a kid of the 80s or 90s feels old? What, they arent allowed to? Everybody is different, everybody was born from a different era. You gotta understand this is the internet, and the people that are of internet browsing age and forum browsing age are in probably their late teens early 20s. For children of the 80s and 90s, a lot of stuff has indeed disappeared and these kids are growing up and experiencing the nostalgic feelings that surely everyone goes through at some point. It's not their fault. Maybe instead of complaining about the lack of your stuff, you can contribute more or do some recruiting to get people over here. Not flaming or anything here, it's just getting really annoying man...

I meant to say no one on here except a few people.

I was a child of the 70s and 80s.

You sound like an old fart.

It's sad no one thinks there is life before the 80s. Don't get me wrong, I like the 80s a lot but I don't see a goddamn article on the 70s, 60s etc. Everything is all about the 80s and 90s (and I think they don't go together) here.