When I was a kid this was soo cool [Archive]

Slydragon

01-22-2009, 01:22 AM

At my house we never had cable so on the weekends I would stay at my grandmas house watching cable and this would pump me up for the movie that was about to start.

I know it's lame but I just ran into this on accident and it brought a huge smile to my face. I can remember sitting on the sofa and my grandma making home made tortillas and my 2 uncles outside with there regular friends, all of whom have pass on.

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PixelPusher

01-22-2009, 02:09 AM

...then you held your breath waiting to see if the magical letters "N" and "SC" would follow right after that.

Slydragon

01-22-2009, 02:13 AM

...then you held your breath waiting to see if the magical letters "N" and "SC" would follow right after that.

:lmao

PuttPutt

01-22-2009, 02:16 AM

...then you held your breath waiting to see if the magical letters "N" and "SC" would follow right after that.

You also had to make sure it was safe to watch. Remote in hand to change it real quick if you heard footsteps...:lol

jaffies

01-22-2009, 02:17 AM

...then you held your breath waiting to see if the magical letters "N" and "SC" would follow right after that.

:tu :rollin:rollin

PM5K

01-22-2009, 02:18 AM

They should bring that shit back...

Frenzy

01-22-2009, 02:18 AM

now that's old school

TDMVPDPOY

01-22-2009, 02:19 AM

i remember when i couldnt catch any nba games down here cause it wasnt free2air no more, then went overseas and spent the whole day inside the hotel just watchin nba and cable tv......

DarkReign

01-22-2009, 09:45 AM

Well, that was a blast from the past. Pretty similar story as well (minus the tortillas) in that my grandmother had cable while we did not.

mrsmaalox

01-22-2009, 10:07 AM

Well, that was a blast from the past. Pretty similar story as well (minus the tortillas) in that my grandmother had cable while we did not.
Sad, sad childhood ;)

HORNSWOGGLE

01-22-2009, 10:16 AM

Im at work and cant see it, what is it?

phyzik

01-22-2009, 10:37 AM

Im at work and cant see it, what is it?

Its the old HBO movie intro where the camera swoops through a rather fake looking city. :lol

When I was little I used to think Star Wars was coming on every time I saw this. :rollin

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mrsmaalox

01-22-2009, 11:14 AM

Its the old HBO movie intro where the camera swoops through a rather fake looking city. :lol

When I was little I used to think Star Wars was coming on every time I saw this. :rollin

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Fake looking city?! Shit, I wanted to live there!

mexicanjunior

01-22-2009, 11:30 AM

Man, that takes me back. Makes me think 'Cloak and Dagger' or 'Max Dugan Returns' is coming on...

DarkReign

01-22-2009, 11:47 AM

Sad, sad childhood ;)

:lol Lets just say Mexican food never agreed with me anyway, and leave it at that.

Fpoonsie

01-22-2009, 11:52 AM

My uncle had this monstrosity of a satellite out back that would pick up EVERY channel, but on the days I was stuck at home, suffering through basic cable, I could always count on USA to get me by...

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whottt

01-22-2009, 11:54 AM

The last time I had HBO, they still used that. I've had cable all the time since then but I got sick of HBO a long time ago because they showed the same movies so much...and the worse the movie was, the more they showed it. Until that intro was the best thing about the movie.

I missed the entire Soprano era...heck I missed the entire Arli$$ era.

They once had a short film on the making of that intro.

If you really want to go oldschool, you ought to see if you can find the Video Jukebox intro, it predates MTV :tu

whottt

01-22-2009, 11:58 AM

If you really want to go oldschool, you ought to see if you can find the Video Jukebox intro, it predates MTV :tu

Couldn't even find it on youtube...I did find a picture of it though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/HBO_Video_Jukebox.png

koriwhat

01-22-2009, 12:16 PM

how about the music channel on basic cable(IF YOU COULD GET IT SOMEHOW) called the box. i think that was the name. my friends and i used to watch it back when i was like 7-9 yrs old.

come to think of it i dont think we had cable till i was like 12 and only for like 1-2 yrs so maybe the box was on regular tv but you had to tune in somehow to a scrambled version of it that was half way decent. i cant remember.

or better yet remember when no channels would stay on past like 3-4am and on fox i believe some stupid off the air montage was played with some jet flying around and some american tune in the background.

Slydragon

01-22-2009, 12:27 PM

how about the music channel on basic cable(IF YOU COULD GET IT SOMEHOW) called the box. i think that was the name. my friends and i used to watch it back when i was like 7-9 yrs old.

come to think of it i dont think we had cable till i was like 12 and only for like 1-2 yrs so maybe the box was on regular tv but you had to tune in somehow to a scrambled version of it that was half way decent. i cant remember.

or better yet remember when no channels would stay on past like 3-4am and on fox i believe some stupid off the air montage was played with some jet flying around and some american tune in the background.

I could never get the box, a few of my friends did and they live near me so I'd be even more piss.

I tried like crazy tho..foil, hangers, etc...nothing ever work.

Darrin

01-22-2009, 12:34 PM

This used to pump me up!

I wanted to live with the California Raisins!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzriJ2LDpI&feature=related

And the Noid was sooo scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-hYfxpx5qs

Blake

01-22-2009, 12:41 PM

I remember HBO showing several movies non stop over and over again....

Blues Brothers

Candleshoe (a teenage Jodie Foster flick)

anyone else ever try to flip back and forth with the remote real fast between the Disney Channel and the Playboy Channel? It was like hitting the jackpot when the Playboy channel stuck.

Darrin

01-22-2009, 12:46 PM

My first horror film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frX00n3gngU&feature=related

florige

01-22-2009, 01:32 PM

This used to pump me up!

I wanted to live with the California Raisins!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXzriJ2LDpI&feature=related

And the Noid was sooo scary!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-hYfxpx5qs

You officially have the best sig on the forum now!!

Slydragon

01-22-2009, 01:34 PM

More on HBO, I would love watching these 2 shows.

This one because what kid don't like being scared.

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This I like because it was cool but also I knew I had a high chance of seeing some T&A

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johnsmith

01-22-2009, 01:47 PM

I loved "Dream On", for the same reason in fact.

Creepn

01-22-2009, 04:34 PM

...then you held your breath waiting to see if the magical letters "N" and "SC" would follow right after that.

lol that's good. :lmao

I still wait to see if those letters show up.

Ed Helicopter Jones

01-22-2009, 06:17 PM

When I was a kid color TV was pretty cool.

IronMexican

01-22-2009, 06:37 PM

When I was a kid, waaaaaaaayyyyy back in the mid-late 90's, almost everyone had cable.

Slydragon

01-24-2009, 12:32 AM

They once had a short film on the making of that intro.

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whottt

01-24-2009, 01:01 AM

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The guy who posted it at youtube says that was made in 1983...I cannot freaking believe it was that long ago that was the new into for the HBO movies and they made that documentary...they were still using that intro in the mid 90's though....they kept it for a long time.

Slydragon

01-24-2009, 01:54 AM

The guy who posted it at youtube says that was made in 1983...I cannot freaking believe it was that long ago that was the new into for the HBO movies and they made that documentary...they were still using that intro in the mid 90's though....they kept it for a long time.

As I was seeing it I was thinking that must be pretty easy to do now with CGI.
He talks about a computer controlled camera and they showed the computer and I was like WTF is that.