This mo-fo
Yes, that's a box cutter in the background. I am a Latino. Don't act so surprised. In fact, that gives me an idea...
That's right, mo-fo! It's payback time for those bad dreams you gave me... I hate clowns like Kanye hates the Nazis.
Speaking of which... well, the guy who invented the Rubik's Cube (Mr. Cube, whose son Ice would go on to big things) was actually Hungarian. Anyway, the standard Cube wasn't enough for this genius apparently:
Apparently, the only way I could solve that nonsense was if they put stuff that was familiar to me on it, like pineapples, coconuts, bananas and strawberries. Oh, and if you let me turn it to an angle, take the pieces off of it, than rebuild it in it's original form. Isn't that how everyone "solved" the cube?People always wonder how the heck my first generation American ass ending up with so much soul:
Folks, if you want your kids to grow up with good taste in music, and to appreciate music... start them off right. Motown was the sound of my little home.Someone was a sci-fi nerd apparently... in case you are wondering, though, that wasn't me. That was my brother:
In case you are wondering, that's (from left to right) "Inner Space", "Life Force" (?!), and "Batteries Not Included". I can vaguely remember Innerspace - that's Dennis Quaid shrinking and going into someone's body, right? Life Force beats me... I have no clue.
I also had all the hottest toys small enough you could steal. Like these guys:
Rickhouse and Seth are probably too young to remember this stuff. They were called M.U.S.C.L.E. men, and honestly I have no idea what they did, or why they were cool. But here are my favorites:
Damn right that's for the Sega. Sega Pre-Genesis, too. It's my second favorite old school fighting game (pre-Street Fighter), behind "River City Ransom". That was the game that when you beat up the bad guys, they turned into coins that you could use to buy cool stuff with ("Hands of Stone"). It was a real life instruction manual on how to herb other kids.
1990 was a bad time to be a New York baseball fan:
Holy sh*t, here's something you won't see anymore... a Nobody Beats The Wiz bag:
Yep, crazy versions of the same Aiwa walkman. I used to um, sell these to the rich kids. It's hard to see from the photo, but look at that - there are like four versions of the exact same Aiwa in that box.Oh, and here's another box...
More Aiwa walkmen. It makes me sad to hear they went out of business. It also makes me a bit proud... I think I may have contributed to their downfall with all the lost profits from my Aiwa trafficking businesses.Speaking of Nobody Beats The Wiz, check out this picture from a book on "how to draw trains"... can you notice how the NYC subway is different from the rest of the subways on that page:
That's right, it tells you that you have to put graffiti on the subway for it to look realistic. Hey, here's another test to see if you are a real NYer... if you live in NYC, but never rode a subway with graffiti all over the outside of it, you probably currently live in Brooklyn ("New Hoboken"). Congrats on paying way too much for an apartment that isn't even in Manhattan!
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Ironically, same time you were posting a comment here, I was posting a comment over at your site, where I noticed you also had an "old school toys" post up. We're on the same wavelength today.
Here's that link, everybody. Go check it out.
SML, I didn't see your "My Buddy" in any of those pics. Don't front, you know you had one:)
one of my neighbors had bags full of musclemen. i actually remember the short-lived cartoon, though i never saw the appeal. it was the kind of toy that came in gumball-style machine when you popped a quarter in.
the shuttering of the wiz saddened me as well. most of my hip hop tapes were purchased there. their electronics sections were only about one degree above crazy eddie's in shadiness...
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shinobi > double dragon
Hey, here's another test to see if you are a real NYer... if you live in NYC, but never rode a subway with graffiti all over the outside of it, you probably currently live in Brooklyn ("New Hoboken"). Congrats on paying way too much for an apartment that isn't even in Manhattan!
Hey! At least we're going to have Devin Harris playing in our backyards for years to come. Suck on that!
double dragon!!!!!!!!!! Def the best fighting game pre streetfighter 2. My childhood consisted solely of streetfighter arcades in pizzerias in the bronx lol.
altho upon further consideration, i also second "shinobi > double dragon"
"Swing swords like Shinobi...". Hey, listen... you guys are right, Shinobi is better. Good call, guys.
Lifeforce was about an Alien vampire if I'm not mistaken. It came out in '85. I remember trying to decide between seeing that or Rambo at the theatre. I chose Rambo.