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I want to create a group called 1991. It's for people who love the '90's and really like classic old things. I shall be the leader of this group. Plus, I really just want my username to look like this: Suicide Alice
The 90s for me, was an age of innocence. It was the age of li'l Yom. He had no understanding of english, but fucking loved the shit out of the American cartoons of the day.
I should have paid more attention in english class. ;_;
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Re: I want a group!
Oh my, 90's cartoons. It's like ANOTHER (recent post I made reference) acid-like flashback! Do, uh, you mind if I throw in a few intros to some of the memorable ones of my own?
To start off with, Steven Speilberg got into the cartoon business as a producer and made a nice collection of great shows, including person favorites like Animaniacs. Tiny Toon Adventures and more. But, there was one, zany, wacky innovative cartoon that embraced the coming digital age and the rise of computers and the internet in homes.
Slightly off the beaten path, there were several attempts to cash in on the gaming craze that started sweeping the nation during the 70's and 80's. With video arcades, D&D and home console companies growing in the US, TV shows started seeing if there was a market. Things like He-Man tried to cash in on the high fantasy, while D&D the animated series and the many Mario TV shows took a more direct approach at using an existing IP. You ended up with airwaves filled with based-offs, spin-offs and knock-offs. But I feel a very special nod needs to be given to a particular Nintendo produced show for mixing marketing and entertainment in a way that most children wouldn't notice but almost any adult would.
Since many think of three as the magic number, I'll finish up with this one. There are so many choices. I would love to finish up with a look at the early experiments at using CGI for children's cartoons, things like Beast Wars (if I get another post in here, that is going up) and Reboot, but there was another crazy in the 90s. Anthropomorphism. From live action shows like Animorphs (something I've been trying to find for a long time to watch again) to such earlier mentioned shows as Beast Wars and another attempt at CG AND incorporating the game crazy, Donkey Kong Country. The obvious pick would almost certainly be Gargoyles, a masterpiece of 90s cartoons. Or some could argue for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I feel its start as a comic book puts it a rung below as the idea wasn't one developed specifically for the cartoon medium. But, I think a shout-out has be given to one that took the absurd and ran it all the way to the other side of the stadium, out to the parking lot and across the country like Forest Gump when he didn't know when to stop.
The 90's were an amazing time in the west (stupid US education system that doesn't want to talk about the rest of the world so I don't know how life was in the east or south... Well, maybe if I hadn't been so busy watching cartoons. Time for independent research!) of rising stocks, a tech boom and a healthy middle-class. It allowed creativity to roam more free than it had in two or three decades, actually beating out the 80's not so much in style but in sheer number of entries. That caused a lot of bombs and duds, oddly meaning the same thing, to come about, but that didn't matter so much when you had so much to choose from. Plus, to me the 90's will always be the Age of Slime.
Um... Now I want to be in the group too. I never thought I'd get to hyped up about the 90's. At least not when they were only... 20 years ago. *feels like a skeleton.*
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