REMEMBER THAT?!?
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HELL YEAH!!!! This was the shit, a fucked up 8 track player that had special tapes and buttons on the front that would switch tracks.
It would ask a question about something and give you 4 or 5 choices for answers, and you push the button based on your answer and what button you push.
It had a goofy laugh, made me giggle as a kiddlet.
Thanks for bringing that one out of the vault.
evil keneivel, shogun warriors, micronauts, black cherry soda, six million dollar man.
peace, stein. . .
peace, stein. . .
this thread is incredble! co-sign on all that 70s + early 80s stuff!
2 things to add off the top of my head:
1. one day in about march '77 I was waiting for the school bus and the Today Show was on the little b+w tv in the kitchen. they started talking about a new movie coming out later that year, and they played a clip from it. it was a space battle! i saw a humanoid golden robot tangled up in wires on a spaceship going "help me! im melting!", and then the bus came. for WEEKS my pea-sized 7 year old brain was trying to figure out what that movie was and when it was coming. of course it was star wars, as id later discover.
(1a. cheap b+w Warren magazines at the drugstore like "space worlds", etc...)
2 things to add off the top of my head:
1. one day in about march '77 I was waiting for the school bus and the Today Show was on the little b+w tv in the kitchen. they started talking about a new movie coming out later that year, and they played a clip from it. it was a space battle! i saw a humanoid golden robot tangled up in wires on a spaceship going "help me! im melting!", and then the bus came. for WEEKS my pea-sized 7 year old brain was trying to figure out what that movie was and when it was coming. of course it was star wars, as id later discover.
(1a. cheap b+w Warren magazines at the drugstore like "space worlds", etc...)
The church of jesus christ and latter day saints commercials, like never tell a lie
there was also a children's aid society commercial that was a song. I need to remember that...damn...blanking
I used to have a disc camera too. took the worst pics ever.
remember flash bulbs and 5" floppy disks...never saw an 8" floppy disk.
there was also a children's aid society commercial that was a song. I need to remember that...damn...blanking
I used to have a disc camera too. took the worst pics ever.
remember flash bulbs and 5" floppy disks...never saw an 8" floppy disk.
That show was my shit. Old dudes STAND UP! I gotta run out but I'll be back in a sec to add on.
I believe this show featured some music from the first Kraftwerk LP on Philips.
[klang]ahead of the curve[/klang]
WOW! That show's theme song is permanently etched into my brain. At the weirdest times, I find myself singing it. In the mold of educational shows...
- Square One - with whutsherface from Warriors and Carmen Sandiago
- Mr. Wizard
- Today's Special
- Read All About It (although that talking typewritter/computer freaked me out a bit)
- Sol the hobo Quebecois clown (my Canadians stand up!)
Also, those wooden cabinet systems, that had a tapedeck, record player, radio AND a 8-track player. My sister and I use to kill my dad's when he was at work. I wish I still had it with the velvet lined speaker with wooden bars down the front.
Mathnet from Square One was my favorite shit. 3-2-1 Contact inna de house as well.
LOOK, A WAGON WHEEL...
in boston, we had a great PSA featuring a dude in a glittery suit w/ weird ears (it wasn't far from being some sort of s&m gimp suit) who was supposed to a martian... he had a hardcore boston accent, thus martian was "maaaaahtian"... he was all exited about fruits and vegatables ("by only eating candy bahhhhs we don't know what we miss...")
turns out, the martian was a pre-tonight show Jay Leno... go figure...
oh, and don't forget Chow Daddy...
SHIELDS & YARNELL was my shit! If you think about it that shit was hip hop! I need to find those on DVD. I remember ALL the shit mentioned in this thread. Good days are long gone for sure! Who remembers when the wrestler Andre the Giant played big foot on the six million dollar man? So I guess every one finds porn in the forest as a kid? Lmao..........Seriously. I found like 5 magazines on the way to school and brought them to class and they called my parents! I didn't think anything of it because they weren't mine I just found them. So I figured why would I get in trouble? The gong show too woth Gene Gene the Dancing Machine was the truth. Who seen the episode when Tookie Williams came out and flexed his muscles?
my neighbor had one of these....BIG TRAK!
always played with this when I chilled at his house
I can't believe I found a pic of this...I couldn't remember what it was called
