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Here's some random 90's pictures

Crystal pepsi is coming back one more time

Crystal pepsi came back last year in early august(4th I believe) then it went away before the month ended but I was still finding it as late as oct 26 in other stores such as big lots and vallarta market and albertsons. I thought it was gone forever so I hoarded a small stash so imagine my surprise in early january 2017 (the 3rd I believe) when I saw a shelf of crystal pepsi at walmart, since I was in a better financial situation I was able to build a bigger stash. So much so that I still have a lot of crystal pepsi from it's 2nd comeback aka it's 1998 michael jordan run and I'm going to drink one today and tomorrow on retro fridays and saturdays. Just like during the 1st run I was able to find it long after it was pulled from the shelves, back in march this year I was grabbing a bunch from ampm,rite aid in a weird location and a small grocery store at plaza mexico just to get my fix, have you ever bought 8 bottles of a soft drink from a gas station? you get weird looks from everyone including the employees

Well just like mj(jordan not jackson) crystal pepsi is coming back for the 3rd time and this time it's supposedly the last time but hopefully it's not as sales have been good and it has it's own subreddit. It's having it's own comeback tour with salt n pepa then being re-re-released on august 14th for a limited time then it will be gone forever for all I and we know. So I will save my money as this may be my last chance to enjoy a refreshing crystal pepsi

If you never tried it, well crystal pepsi tastes like a normal pepsi but with a slight slight taste of lime and by slight I mean 1%. I like it a lot more then normal pepsi so try it while you can

 

I have started playing a link between 2 worlds on the 3DS

Well I started playing it earlier this month and ironically I stopped playing it last week because I have been busy with reading a lot of books I checked out from the library. Anyways the game itself is an A++ would buy again type of game as it's well worth the money. It plays very siimlar to a link to the past and it's set in the same world so those of us(like me) will be familar with the overworld. However there are minor differences and the map has been streamlined for less confusion and more enjoyment. You don't need a guide as the dungeons are somewhat easy but there is always a puzzle that will stump you then make you think "why didn't I think of that" when you finally figure it out but it's not too hard, the main gameplay difference is that you can "rent" weapons for  80 rubes each and you keep them until you die, breaking the mold from previous games where each dungeon had a weapon(they now have goodies such as an upgraded shield or armor) and you have a "spirit" type bar for weapons

See there's a purple bar and every time you use the hookshot or fire an arrow, it depletes it but not to worry, it recharges by itself so it's almost like you have unlimited arrows or fire rod or ice rod. It's not much of a set back as most enemies are stunned with the hookshot and quickly killed with the master sword. I am at ganon's castle so I may be near the end of the game but it's been a good wild ride

Retro saturdays and gangsta's paradise

the song gansta's paradise is by coolio and it was one of the most popular rap songs in the mid 90s. "Slide slide slippity slide" "come along and come on my fantastic voyage"  those are the chorus and it's a pretty catchy song. I would hear it out of random chevy luminas and k cars and cavaliers growing up and the few mustang or 2. It was a one hit wonder type song if coolio wasn't so good and had a few more hits before and after gangsta paradise came out

Well there isn't much else to nostalgia about this song, coolio would do the theme song to the keenan and kel show then he lost popularity and became a okay celebrity. But for those few years he was a big deal.

Link to the video

Retro saturdays and dazed and confused

There used to be a swap meet off the 605 freeway across a few ways from the rose hills cemetery, it was called the fiesta swap meet and I used to go there a lot in the early 00's although sadly it's gone. Back then I was a curious kid and I would get cheap vhs movies(25 or 50 cents each) and I would buy some R rated ones because of hormones. Yeah don't judge me >.> One movie I remember buying was dazed and confused simply because of the setting. I knew nothing about it other then it seemed to take place in the 70's

So of course I got it and I took it home to watch and it was an enjoyable movie. I liked how it took place on mostly one day well a day and a half instead of over a few years or months. I liked seeing all the actors that would later move onto bigger and better things such as ben aflleck, matthew mconaughy,milla jovovich,parker posey and marissa ribisi. Of course what I most remember is wooderson's famous well parodied line

"alright alright alright" and "that's what I love about these high school girls man, I get older they stay the same age"

Retro fridays and the matrix reloaded

I was there when matrix reloaded came out and there was a huge amount of hype for it. If you haven't seen the 1st matrix, well it was a surprise hit about a computer hacker who is the one who can save the world. See it turns out what we know as the internet is a lot more real so people jack into the internet as an 3D avatar. Anyways the matrix had a different plot and the cool effects know as bullet time and cool enemies such as the agents and agent smith. So of course there had to be a sequel and that was known as the matrix reloaded. My friends saw it at midnight but I didn't see it until later on that year when the other sequel(matrix revolutions) came out. Similar to how back to the future 2 and 3 came out really close to each other, 2 matrix sequels came out in the same year

Every kid at lunch would always talk about the matrix reloaded and it's neat bullet time effects, the movie was so so acting wise but people didn't go to see it froe the convoluted story arc, no they went to see the fight on top of a speeding semi on a busy freeway. Actually the whole freeway scene is worth the price of admission. All of the vehicles are general motors but don't let that distract you, seeing the agents jump like frogs and the 2 semi's crash is great, so is neo to save the day and the twins escalade ext exploding. The scene were neo fights a lot of agent smiths is also amazing and kick butt

There isn't much else to the movie unless you want to be extremely confused so just watch it and enjoy the fight scenes like how I did. Oh when this movie came out it was extremely popular to have a matrix letters screen saver or wallpaper. Here's part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4 of the freeway scene

Retro fridays and casper the movie

This is about the CGI movie released in 1995 featuring christina ricci aka the little goth girl from the adams family movies and not the cartoon tv show or the comic books. I saw casper in theaters or on vhs as a rental as I don't remember how I saw it. In my mind I saw it and what creepied me out was the opening scene being a homage to tales from the crypr so it brought back bad deja vu to the time when I stayed up late and watched an episode of tales

Anyways I don't remember much about the movie as I didn't pay much attention to it, I was wowed by the visual effects of casper and his jerk uncles. It's still amazing to see in 2017. I just remember a party and that the movie was boring and so so

Something about a cd takes me back to the 90's

A cd or compact disc is a simple thing, it's a thin layer of plastic that you put in a cd player and tadah it plays music. I been on a kick lately getting good cheap cds from the 90's such as tragic kingdom by no doubt and nevermind by nirvana and dookie by green day and jagged little pill by alanis morisette. I have a cd player somewhere under my bed next to a pile of boxed hot wheels,magazines and my hopes and dreams. So I listen to cds in the 6 cd player in my lexus(that feels good to say) and it's a retro experience. I know what song is coming next but it's a completely different mood when you listen to them arranged in the order the label or band wanted them to be. I been looking for a sony discman for more 90'sness but for now this will do

Retro saturdays and toy story 2

Toy story 2 is of course the sequel to toy story 2 but it also the last one that has the positive wholesome feel without the time is changing overtones of the 3rd one or the morality of life. I 1st saw ts2 in theaters after waiting for what seemed like a decade for a follow up to toy story and it didn't let me down. There was new characters(woody's round up, Al, andy's dogg) and new locations(the toy store, andy's front yard) but it still retained the core group of characters and added more humor into them. For example, rex is even more nervous and innocent, ham and mr potatoe head get tempted in the barbie aisle, buzz runs into more buzzes that think they were space rangers. It was a good enjoyable movie that still holds up for future generations

I of course liked the marketing blitz and got the bk ts2 toys and the ps1 game(I still enjoy it) and the bulls eye and woody toys but the movie has a special place in my life as it was the last movie I saw with my mom and brother together

Retro fridays and macho man randy savage slim jim ads

"snap into a slim jim" these were the whole commercial but somehow it was memorable to still stay fresh and in people's minds all these years. They all revolved around macho man randy savage doing something "macho" in a similar manner to terry crews in the old spice commercials only randy ends them with him biting a slim jim and saying his now infamous catchphrase. That was that for the commercials and idk why it brings back so much nostalgia, maybe because as a kid if you went to a liquor store you would always see the randy savage cardboard standee and maybe because the commercials ran for the better part of the decade and they were always on. I'll snap into a slim jim in tribute to a macho man

Retro fridays and tubthumping

"I get knocked down but I get up again" that's the chorus to tubthumping by chumbawamba released in 1997 although it feels like it was sooner then that. It was one of the biggest hits of 1997 and the rest of the decade thanks to it's catchy lyrics and funky beat. There isn't much else to say as it was a 15 minute of fame song that somewhat quickly faded into the background, kinda like gangnam style, it was a song that was played at parties and weddings and is now on top hits of the 90's cds

I used to hear it a lot on the radio and it seemed like kb toys and sears had it on repeat as it was always playing when I was in there. Those were good times though and the chorus makes me picture a Chihuahua for some reason

Here's the link to the song

Retro saturdays and the sandlot

The sandlot is a timeless classic that I didn't realize it was released in the 90's until not that long ago because the sandlot seems like it was released in the 80's or that it just showed up and you never really care about when it came out, only that it came into your life. The sandlot is a movie about kids playing baseball on a sandlot field in the neighborhood and it is set in the 50's during the summer. It's a light coming of age movie topped with nostalgia of a boy named scotty smalls aka smalls moving into a new neighborhood then slowly getting accepted by the neighbor boys because as a kid you always wanted to be liked by a group of kids. The play baseball of course and had a rivalry with some rich kids and go to the pool and they all have a crush on the older neighbor girl wendy pferrcorn. They go to the carnival on the 4th of july and do chew and throw up, it's all in good fun especially when the chubby kid says the infamous line "you're killing me smalls"


The last main plot point is when the gang runs out of baseballs so smalls uses his dad's signed babe ruth card and he hits a home run into the scary neighbor's yard with a huge dog, now they somehow have to get it back. Of course it would be easier to ask and james earl jones(the neighbor) even mentions that and he gives smalls a ball signed by the '27 yankees. The movie ends with smalls in the announcer's booth and benny the jet rodriguez playing for the dodgers as he steals home. Maybe the fact that it's on a lot every weekend or that it has the summer feel but the sandlot brings me to a simpler time in my childhood

Retro saturdays and spyro the dragon 2

Spyro the dragon 2:ripto's revenge is one of those games I hold close to my heart as it was my 1st spyro game I ever owned. I got some $ for christmas and like any kid I of course blew it on video games and that was an extra sweet xmas as spyro 2 recently became a greatest hits game and I got a cheap memory card plus other ps1 games but spyro 2 is the only one that I remember. This is obviously the sequel to the 1st spyro the dragon game on the playstation so it improved on it's predecessor by letting you swim and having bonus levels among with more hub worlds and bigger levels with multiple goals in each one

I couldn't get enough of this game and every morning before school I would play for at least half an hour until the game got boring and I beat it and got 102% and there was nothing else to do however it was a fun ride while it lasted. My nostalgia comes from those before school hours where I was all alone to explore as I wished. There are other platformers that came before and after but none that had the simpleness of spyro the dragon 2. I should bust it out(still have it) and play it for old times sake

Here's some random pics of 90's things

Retro fridays and fruitopia

Fruitopia was a juice made by coke a cola targeted towards edgy kids/teens in the mid to late 90s as a "cooler" version of snapple. That's all it was, a simple juice with uneven font to look cool but it worked or at least it did for kids like me. I couldn't get enough of fruitopia and I very rarely drank snapple(it's competition) or orbitz soda or even surge later on. It was sold in plastic bottles,cans and glass bottles ala snapple but the plastic ones were the huge sellers and I always got strawberry passion as it tasted a lot more like pomengrante and less like strawberry

There wasn't much else to this juice and it was a product of it's time and environment as edgy juices went out in the early 00's and coke a cola moved on with surge but I still haven't forgotten my old pal fruitopia

Retro saturdays and fishing games toys

There isn't much to these fishing games and they are still being made today but they brought me hours of entertainment when i was little and when I was tired/bored of weekend afternoon tv/hot wheels/super nintendo. I used to have the simpler wind up ones that didn't give you much time and got frustrating pretty quickly and the bigger more expensive battery operated ones. The technology is pretty simple, you have a fishing pole(s, but I would lose all but one) which is a thin plastic stick and had a magnetic reel. The fish themselves would open and close their mouths randomly and had a small metallic circle inside so you would get close and pull one out

The wind up ones gave you a few seconds of the fish moving in circles while the battery powered ones ran until the batteries RIP so you can tell which one I played with more. I didn't have much growing up so I made the most of what I had and looking back at things now, idk how I did it