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Toys, electronics, or forms of entertainment that disappointed you as a kid
Posted on 4/6/15 at 11:52 pm
Posted on 4/6/15 at 11:52 pm
What were things or even aspects of life that simply disappointed you when you were young?
I have been watching video game documentaries on Netflix tonight, which brought back so many disappointing memories of things that really had me hyped!
1. The Nintendo Power Glove: Holy hell! This thing was a freaking disaster. It seldom worked properly. When it did work, chaos!!!
2. The Nintendo U-Force: This device was supposed to do what the Wii did more than a decade later, except it didn't...at all. Hands free control my arse!
3. The Atari Jaguar: 64 bits!!!! Do the math they told us! This system sucked hard. The graphics were worse than SNES, which was a 16 bit system. Atari should have had somebody else do the math!
4. Reebok Pumps: Yeah, they were cool, and I owned two pairs...but the damn basketball pump on the tongue would crack ten times faster than the rest of the shoe would wear out. They became hideous, quickly.
5. Hypercolor t-shirts: Sure looked really cool....until the 2nd washing....
What say you?
I have been watching video game documentaries on Netflix tonight, which brought back so many disappointing memories of things that really had me hyped!
1. The Nintendo Power Glove: Holy hell! This thing was a freaking disaster. It seldom worked properly. When it did work, chaos!!!
2. The Nintendo U-Force: This device was supposed to do what the Wii did more than a decade later, except it didn't...at all. Hands free control my arse!
3. The Atari Jaguar: 64 bits!!!! Do the math they told us! This system sucked hard. The graphics were worse than SNES, which was a 16 bit system. Atari should have had somebody else do the math!
4. Reebok Pumps: Yeah, they were cool, and I owned two pairs...but the damn basketball pump on the tongue would crack ten times faster than the rest of the shoe would wear out. They became hideous, quickly.
5. Hypercolor t-shirts: Sure looked really cool....until the 2nd washing....
What say you?
This post was edited on 4/6/15 at 11:53 pm
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Posted on 4/6/15 at 11:53 pm to lsufan9193969700
Internet was so cool!...until your phone rang. 
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:00 am to Jet12
Portable CD players you could carry or plug into the cig lighter in a car....sounded great....except the first ones were not equipped with the no-skip feature!!!!
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:06 am to lsufan9193969700
8-track had no rewind feature.
Cassette decks with no auto-reverse.
Nintendo Power Pad
Cassette decks with no auto-reverse.
Nintendo Power Pad
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:12 am to lsufan9193969700
Slinky, it got knotted up and useless after an hour.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:12 am to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:12 am to TheWalrus
Agreed!!!
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:15 am to The Boat
Yes, my cousin Steven got one of those for Christmas after watching Home Alone 2....it was not as cool as it was portrayed in the movie.
Megatron the toy was not a cool looking robot!!!! He was an awesome gun, which is what he stayed after looking at his thin, goofy looking robot legs!
Megatron the toy was not a cool looking robot!!!! He was an awesome gun, which is what he stayed after looking at his thin, goofy looking robot legs!
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:18 am to lsufan9193969700
I paid a shite load of money to rent one of these for a weekend from Blockbuster.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:19 am to GaryMyMan
Yep! I had a friend who went out and bought this as soon as it became available. It was horrible!
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:20 am to lsufan9193969700
So disappointed!
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:21 am to NewIberiaHaircut
I see every pic posted so far...except yours...what is it?
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:21 am to lsufan9193969700
Those 25 cent machine gel slappy hand things. Got about three good uses out of it and then it'd be so dust-laden that it was nasty/non sticky.
Digimon cards... Nobody else had them
Korean crayons. They were super soft and colored over anything like acrylics. Well, leave them in the car in Arizona and you end up with a mass of one multicolored blob.
Digimon cards... Nobody else had them
Korean crayons. They were super soft and colored over anything like acrylics. Well, leave them in the car in Arizona and you end up with a mass of one multicolored blob.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:23 am to lsufan9193969700
The first ink jet printers were clunky, loud, and expensive pieces of shite.
Is it too early to bitch about Windows 8?
Is it too early to bitch about Windows 8?
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:24 am to lsufan9193969700
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:24 am to forksup
What about the white crayon? Totally pointless unless you had a coloring book that had slightly off-white/tan colored pages.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:31 am to lsufan9193969700
Also all those action figures looked awesome with waterfalls and shite in the background of commercials, but they were boring as hell.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:32 am to lsufan9193969700
But when you had a black piece of paper, it was glorious. Until you needed to outline things
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:33 am to Tunasntigers92
What the frick is wrong with a Lite Brite?
Posted on 4/7/15 at 12:38 am to ellunchboxo
I am not sure. I thought they were cool.
Yo-yos always pissed me off, though!
Yo-yos always pissed me off, though!
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