40 Random Bits of Nostalgia That We’re Yanking From the Past With Scorpion’s Rope Dart Thing From ‘Mortal Kombat’

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40 Random Bits of Nostalgia That We’re Yanking From the Past With Scorpion’s Rope Dart Thing From ‘Mortal Kombat’

The more cherished bits of nostalgia we dragged here from the past, the more we wondered why we’re bringing them here. After all, they should be bringing us back to them. We’ll be together either way, but don’t they realize that we’ll all be much happier back there than up here?

They will soon, once they see the present-day dumpster fire we’re living in.

Rice Krispies

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A Christmas Story

It took Bob Clark 12 years to get the movie made. A period movie about a kid wanting a BB gun for Christmas? Hard pass, studios kept saying. MGM reluctantly agreed to pony up the money if Clark signed up to direct another movie for them. 8 CRACKED.COM

Bebop and Rocksteady

CRACKED ВЕВОР AND ROCKSTEADY WERE CREATED SOLELY FOR TOY SALES. They didn't appear in the live action movies, but were created by Peter Laird as more characters for the cartoon's toy line. They weren't given much personality or backstory, just Shredder's henchmen for the Turtles to beat every time. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Kids Inc.

DLO Kids Incorporated was a musical TV show aired during the '80s and '90s. It featured children and teenagers, many of whom would become famous after

Melrose Place

Melrose Place CRACKED.COM This was actually the 1st of five spinoffs from Beverly Hills, 90210. Its first season kept the episodic format, where everything wrapped up neatly at the end of the day. They rocketed to success when they started experimenting with the ongoing soap opera saga format.

Slide Phones

SNNSWVS Ovelar Opening our slide phone before each use and sliding it closed when done used to be the coolest thing ever. It's definitely much better

John Cena

John Cena was in a bunch of early 2000s movies just to promote WWE. © ME Every second I was on one of those movie sets, I wanted to be back in WWE, he says of movies like 12 Rounds, Fred: The Movie, and Legendary. CRACKED.COM

Blockbuster

The Blockbuster CEO laughed at Netflix's CEO when he tried to form a partnership in 2000. BLOCKBUSTER BLOCKBUSTER CLEARANCE 20% SALE SOON CRACKED COM Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings suggested Blockbuster run the Netflix brand in stores and Netflix would run theirs online. CFO Barry McCarthy says they just about laughed us out of their office.

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‘80s Power Ballads

People hate 80s power ballads because they're typically over-produced songs with vapid lyrics created by music corporations. OXETT BONNIE TYLER LISTEN

CD Cases

CD cases Remember lugging around this party suitcase with 300 little slots for your CDs? Now, with apps like Apple Music and Spotify, we have every song we could ever want right there on our phones. @ CRACKED.COM

Kids Movies

CRACKED YOU CAN'T MAKE DARK, DISTURBING MOVIES FOR KIDS ANYMORE. In the '80s, we had The Dark Crystal, The NeverEnding Story, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and Gremlins before everything brightened up in the '90s. Back then, a ghost gave Ray oral in Ghostbusters and Batman was made by Tim Burton.

‘90s Kids

Identifying as a 90s kid CRACKEDCONT Teens (understandably) hate our '9Os nostalgia (since it's the early aughts that are now back in style)

Dial-up Internet

Dial-up internet is still being used by millions of Americans. FAX MODEM MR HS CD он SD RD TR AA PWR v1433VQE GRAGKED.COM A total of 9.6 million Americans connect to the internet through the old, painfully slow dial-up method. Dial-up internet tops out at around 56 kilobytes per second.

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Disaster Movies

TWISTER CRACKED.COM In the '90s, countless volcanoes, meteors, and twisters threatened protagonists everywhere. By the early 2000s, Hollywood's priorities shifted to fantasies like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, so disaster movies like The Core did nowhere near as well.

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Portable DVD Players

Portable DVD player PHILIPS Not long ago, a phone was just a phone, and people brought laptop-sized DVD players with DVDs along for the ride. With streaming apps on your phone, DVD sales (and the players needed to play them) dropped 86% since the iPhone's release in 2007. CRACKED.COM

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Eminem

EMINEM COLLECTS CASSETTES The rapper collects all the cassette tapes he couldn't afford when he was a kid.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Vinyl

40 Random Bits of Nostalgia That We’re Yanking From the Past With Scorpion’s Rope Dart Thing From ‘Mortal Kombat’

Recording on VHS

RECORDING TV SHOWS USED TO MEAN CHOOSING WHICH NIGHTLY PROGRAM WAS WORTHY OF YOUR ONE VHS CASSETTE. PLAY o0e NOW THERE'S NO TIME TO WATCH ALL THE SH!T

DATs

CRACKEDOON THE DAT (DIGITAL AUDIO TAPE] WAS DEVELOPED BY SONY IN THE '80S AS A DIGITAL REPLACEMENT FOR CASSETTE TAPES. IT COULD RECORD AND PLAY AUDIO

Mimeographed Copies

Remember when your first shot of alcohol on test-day was... ...SNIFFING YOUR MIMEOGRAPHED COPY? CRACKED.COM

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