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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 6, 2016 16:06:23 GMT -5
Did anyone else have this?
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mizerable
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Post by mizerable on Dec 6, 2016 16:24:04 GMT -5
Shrinky dinks
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Post by hossfan on Dec 6, 2016 16:48:17 GMT -5
The travelling circus
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Fundertaker
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Post by Fundertaker on Dec 6, 2016 17:00:26 GMT -5
I don't know if kids do as much, but there is definitely a healthy market for adult enthusiasts. Settlers of Catan is a great gateway drug for that. Considering that Walmart now carries several of the "gateway games" (Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, and Pandemic amongst others), board games are still doing really well. In fact, in an article I've read a few months ago, both board games and tabletop RPGs have been having a Renaissance of sorts in the last couple of years, in part due to the fact that lots of big time media nowadays (say, Game Of Thrones, MCU, etc.) that already have a version or seems something that would lead into both forms, but also in part because many of the kids that enjoyed both of their heydays are now adults with children themselves so they can play amongst other adults with fond memories and pass the fun onto their children.
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Bo Rida
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Post by Bo Rida on Dec 6, 2016 17:05:21 GMT -5
Professional clowns suffered from the creepy clown craze and weren't doing that great before that.
Plus the gadgets you used to get that have been replaced by a phone or PC.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 6, 2016 17:15:35 GMT -5
More of a media format than entertainment form, but CB Radio has largely died out.
Its not quite there, but in the age of webcomics newspapers strips feel like they're dying a death.
VHS based games had a very particular shelf life, and the DVD/Blu Ray era hasn't done much to revive them.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 6, 2016 17:17:55 GMT -5
Do those "on ice" shows still exist? Is there still a market for something like "Pokemon on Ice" or something like that?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 6, 2016 17:23:23 GMT -5
More of a media format than entertainment form, but CB Radio has largely died out. Its not quite there, but in the age of webcomics newspapers strips feel like they're dying a death. VHS based games had a very particular shelf life, and the DVD/Blu Ray era hasn't done much to revive them. Which was strange to me becuase you'd figure the DVD version could add random events taped unlike the VHS which would always play exactly at the same time.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 6, 2016 20:16:22 GMT -5
Do those "on ice" shows still exist? Is there still a market for something like "Pokemon on Ice" or something like that? Disney, for sure
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lionheart21
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Post by lionheart21 on Dec 6, 2016 20:22:07 GMT -5
Video games as a whole nearly died out after the Video Game Crash of 1983
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Dec 6, 2016 20:28:36 GMT -5
Westerns-
From the advent of motion pictures up until the early 60's at any given time there were dozens if not sometimes hundreds of Westerns every year. Hell the first 2 decades of tv there were always numerous westerns being airred. As a genre it was commonplace as romantic comedy or horror film. In fact several of biggest stars in the first 60 years of the 20th century were basically only known for doing Westerns the way someone might think of Stallone or Jackie Chan as action movie actors. The last 30 years there might be at most 1-2 Westerns a year either as Historical or Oscar Bait pieices. It's actually quite fascinating to see something be a fabric of American pop culture to now essentially a historical footnote.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Dec 6, 2016 20:49:53 GMT -5
Same Room Videogame Multiplayer. Nintendo seems to be the only company left that caters to 3 or 4 people sitting on a couch and screaming horrible things at eachother as they meet their violent ends. You've never lived as a gamer until you've won a four player game of Super Bomberman and you weren't even in the room. I was one of the losers of that game.
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Juice
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Post by Juice on Dec 6, 2016 21:31:55 GMT -5
Roller derby Disco Raves Music video count downs? Circuses Indy wrestling
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Post by BRV on Dec 6, 2016 21:57:53 GMT -5
I'm fortunate enough to have two within reasonable driving distance. While the drive-in lacks the amenities of the modern movie theater, if you're going purely to watch a movie, it's the best deal going. Admission to one local drive-in is $27 per car, so you can pack four people into your car, park, and see two movies for $27 total. Compare that to a theater on a Saturday night. Four people paying full price to see two movies would be in the neighborhood of $90 just for tickets. Maybe it's the nostalgia in me, but there's few things more enjoyable than putting a blanket on the hood of your car and lounging on a warm summer night at the drive-in. Anyway, here's my nomination for entertainment forms that died out: hair metal. It was one of the biggest genres in music in the 1980s and by the early 1990s, it hadn't just faded away, it vanished.
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Post by Alucard on Dec 6, 2016 22:25:42 GMT -5
Some of this stuff may only be dead regionally.
We have a coin op arcade (without a restaraunt or a bar attached to it) still standing and doing great business.
We also have a few drive in theaters.
idk?
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Post by Welfare Willis on Dec 6, 2016 22:49:58 GMT -5
Vaudeville is dead. Now if you excuse me I have to catch a trolley to a box social.
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legendkiller1985
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Dec 7, 2016 0:14:56 GMT -5
Based on the book I've been reading, Marvel Comics has starved off closure a couple of times in the mid 90's until Disney bought them in 2009.
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Post by AKIMan64 on Dec 7, 2016 10:05:04 GMT -5
Video game cartridges - After Nintendo retired the N64, home console systems by this point have shifted towards CDs ever since (unless we count games from the Game Boy SP days).
Music CDs - I still see them being sold in Walmart, FYE, among other retail stores, but I never hear people make mention of them.
First Run Syndicated Programs - While talk shows and game shows like Maury, Jerry Springer, Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy are still going strong, there used to be a lot of TV shows that would air exclusively in local affiliates. Cartoons (i.e. GI Joe, Ninja Turtles, Pokemon's 1st season), action/adventure (i.e. Hercules, Xena, Baywatch, Highlander).
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 7, 2016 10:26:22 GMT -5
Video game cartridges - After Nintendo retired the N64, home console systems by this point have shifted towards CDs ever since (unless we count games from the Game Boy SP days). Music CDs - I still see them being sold in Walmart, FYE, among other retail stores, but I never hear people make mention of them. First Run Syndicated Programs - While talk shows and game shows like Maury, Jerry Springer, Price is Right, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy are still going strong, there used to be a lot of TV shows that would air exclusively in local affiliates. Cartoons (i.e. GI Joe, Ninja Turtles, Pokemon's 1st season), action/adventure (i.e. Hercules, Xena, Baywatch, Highlander). Nintendo has moved back to cartridges, sort of, with switching to SD cards for its handhelds and now the Switch. There's just something so satisfying about a real hunk-of-plastic cartridge though.
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Post by DoubleDare on Dec 7, 2016 12:47:33 GMT -5
Rollerderby huge on tv in the 60s, tried coming back, of course in 99 with Rotherjam, still exists on the local/amatuer level.
Slide shows- people used to have people apparently come over to their house and show pictures projected on a screen.
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