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Obscure 80s and 90s references (morphing into "Anything you can remember from the 80s and 90s") (1 Viewer)
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zamboni
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zamboni
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Top Of The Heap: short-lived spin-off of Married...with Children starring Matt LeBlanc (pre-Friends) and also Joey Lauren Adams (the skinny, squeaky voiced girl from Dazed and Confused)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUErwyPRdoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUErwyPRdoo
Leroy Hoard
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Zam bringing out the serious trivia knowledge 
SFBayDuck
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I watched both of these over and over again. Tanya Roberts in Beastmaster was something special. And of course Mr. McDowell from Coming to America kicking ### with a staff and Rip Torn as the villain.
Others heavy on the HBO/Showtime/The Movie Channel/scratchy VHS tape rewatchable list that are pretty obscure:
Dragonslayer (this guy as a hero?)
The Sword and the Sorcerer (sweet three-bladed sword that shot sword missiles, and pretty sure this was the one where our hero swung on a rope across a room full of topless women)
Sheena (there's Tanya Roberts again)
And of course the two Conan movies, but those aren't very obscure.
shuke
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zamboni
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A favorite among most guys who grew up in the '80s. May have been said in other threads, but the guy in the varsity jacket in the 4th picture (middle) is also this singer.
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Jules Winnfield
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Jules Winnfield
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zamboni
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Jules Winnfield
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Bossman
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Dragonslayer made me think of the 1980's arcade game Dragons Lair.SFBayDuck said:
This was the first video game that was very unique because it was cartoonish vs. the standard Centipeed, Ms. Pacman, etc.
Dragons Lair
parasaurolophus
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Sticking with dragon theme The Last Dragon was easily one of my favorite movies as a kid. Sorry if a honda.
Jules Winnfield
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That’s the fact, Jack
Jules Winnfield
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Shankopotamus
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Married...with Children had another proposed spin off that ran a pilot episode disguised as an episode of Married. It was Steve Rhodes (Marcy's first husband) returning as a dean at the college Bud Bundy was attending. It would have been those two characters with a bunch of new college age cast characters. The episode had something to do with two DJ nerds at a radio station and the subplot had Bud trying to score with a jock's girlfriend.
El Floppo
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there was a video game in the mid/late 80s... like 1987?... where you rode on top of a dragon and killed #### while flying. IIRC, there were different types of dragons to fly and unless I'm mixing it up with another game, it would shout at you "YOU'RE DOING GREAT!" occasionally.
I gave that a like. it's on the tip of my memory- haven't placed it yet, but am hoping the brain will start firing up again soon.
zamboni
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Interesting - didn't know about that, although when Bud got older I lost interest in MWC.
Speaking of Steve Rhodes, we've bandied about on these threads several times with David Garrison/Jason Bateman in the always underrated It's Your Move.
ProstheticRGK
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"Barnecke? barnecke? That guy owes me money."
"Who's your buddy? Who's your pal? I am, aren't I?"
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Soulfly3
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Garfield Brand Tortilla Chips.
I will give a free prostate exam (in the afterlife) for anyone who can even find me a photo of the damn packaging. I still have dreams about this product, which many of us remember, but doesn't seem to exist in the google machine
I will give a free prostate exam (in the afterlife) for anyone who can even find me a photo of the damn packaging. I still have dreams about this product, which many of us remember, but doesn't seem to exist in the google machine
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Leroy Hoard
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Just like you all I could find was a couple of old links. The internets get less and less reliable as we go into the wayback machine.
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/garfield-nacho-chips-742041/
Soulfly3
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i NEED to find the packaging... the guy in that link describes the packaging perfectly... I remember it vividly.
I also remember the "Fake" looking grill marks on each chip... looked like it was almost airbrushed on
El Floppo
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I'm trying to google this and coming up empty.
ring any bells for anybody? you're riding a dragon forward (not side to side) and the graphics were pretty amazing for the time- you'd come upon things that you had to battle and kill or maybe just avoid?. no memory of whether the dragon could shoot fire and attack or was just a vehicle.
Soulfly3
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Little Nemo the Dream Master?
iirc, you rode on (and in) some animals, and I think a dragon was one
eta: is it Dragon Spirit?
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SFBayDuck
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No idea, but this made me think of Joust. And that took me to this site, where you can play 80s games in your browser. If anyone needs me, I'll be playing Paperboy.
belljr
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Panzer Dragoon
It was state of the art 1995. Sega Saturn
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/Panzer_Dragoon_level_1_screenshot.jpg/250px-Panzer_Dragoon_level_1_screenshot.jpg
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Charlie Steiner
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El Floppo
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Thanks guys.
It was an upright game at an arcade, not home console.
I'll check dragon spirit
belljr
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Leroy Hoard
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ClownCausedChaos2
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El Floppo
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Ok... I think this is it- Space Harrier
You don't ride a dragon, you fly around with a jet pack. Sorry for the misleading brain fart. But you do fight dragons. And it tells you "you're doing great!!"
And it looks like it went to console, so belljr was prescient
You don't ride a dragon, you fly around with a jet pack. Sorry for the misleading brain fart. But you do fight dragons. And it tells you "you're doing great!!"
And it looks like it went to console, so belljr was prescient
Vanilla Guerrilla
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That was the first thing I thought of when you described it, but then I thought... nope, no dragon. I remember watching people play it, but I don't remember playing the game more than once myself. Was it more expensive than the other arcade games?
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Mr. Ected
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Red Sonja too, which is probably slightly more obscure than the Conan's. Krull the Conqueror was a favorite as well, with his spinning Glaive.
Back when Blockbuster was a thing, I was a big fan of renting Mecha inspired low budget movies like Robot Jox and Robot Wars in the early 90s or Abyss horror ripoffs like Leviathan and Deep Star Six.
Actually looking back on it I was a huge fan of horror stuff (the mainstream like Night on Elm Street down to the B movies and low budget stuff like the Troma films), Critters and its sequels were great fun (the 3rd which was straight to video has a young Leonardo DiCaprio), Evil Dead series and Army of Darkness (well known now but not so much back then), Hellraiser, Candyman, The Wraith (young Charlie Sheen!), Repo Man (young Emilio Esteves!), Children of the Corn, Re-Animator, Scanners, Child's Play, Warlock, pretty much all Stephen King movies, Piranha... I watched Tales from the Crypt religiously on HBO, because it was scary, funny, and it had boobies!
The Gate is still one of my favorite horror movies of all time, despite the low-budget, stop-motion claymation special effects for the creatures.
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