"state something completely random time!"

**Lync** · 10-06-2014, 09:19 PM

Everyone can ignore me on this one but I can't help but go ballistic here because I don't have any other internet/social outlet for me to share my celebration/freaking out. (Sorry).

Have you ever had pieces of a memory from your childhood of a show, movie, game, song, etc. that as an adult you don't know what it was but you still remember glimpses of it? Like characters, settings, or plots - but despite your eagerness it always escapes you, you can't seem to put it all together or stick a name to it because you only have fragments? It's unbelievably frustrating.

Over the last year for whatever reason, as if the planets had aligned accidentally, coincidental or magically, I have rediscovered most of my childhood personal mysteries of the 90s:

Blue childhood toy that seemed nameless: ZAP Power Force Robot
Clip of some obscure anime I downloaded on Kazaa... or Morpheus?: Macross II
That video paint system before I was blessed with a Sega Genesis: Video Painter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLsZqq_to0g
That catchy 80s song that was always elusive: Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
That old website where I played Super Robot Wars before I knew what that was: http://www.animetheme.com/animetheme.html (Still online!)
That game that was reviewed in EGM that used the B-word and didn't know you could do that in a game: Sega Saturn - Magic Knight Rayearth

But this one might blow all of those away. For YEARS I couldn't figure out the name of this show. I've been writing this God-forsaken school paper and I have absolutely no idea what possessed me to browse but during the summer of mid-90's at my parent's old house I'd be alone and watch the Disney Channel; Now it wasn't 24/7, my house would only catch it for a few months in which I struggled to recall this show that took place in the tropics, a lot of beach and ocean, something about an alien and this really cute girl. That's it, that's all I had to go on. And for whatever reason, I just found this picture:

And I lit up. I've been trying to puzzle this one since '94. It's called Ocean Girl. I feel like my life is complete!

^(And this is how I reacted, running up and down the stairs shouting- my brother in the kitchen utterly ashamed of me, before writing this novel).

**Blades** · 10-06-2014, 10:28 PM

That's a great feeling.

I once saw an episode in 1995. For years all I remembered was an unconscious woman being attacked by vessels that were pumping liquid out of her.

Then one fateful day. 14:20.

**NeoVamp** · 10-06-2014, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by Lync

Have you ever had pieces of a memory from your childhood of a show, movie, game, song, etc. that as an adult you don't know what it was but you still remember glimpses of it? Like characters, settings, or plots - but despite your eagerness it always escapes you, you can't seem to put it all together or stick a name to it because you only have fragments? It's unbelievably frustrating.

Ah yeah I'm like that, most of my free time is spend tracking down obscure shit that I used to watch/play/listen/etc.
Great feeling when you find it, Once I find out what .... was I always immediately try to find a torrent/download of it.

Never did find out these two though.

1. Pirate movie, the story is about a gang of pirates who encounter an all female gang of pirates, at the end they all band together.
might be a 50's/60's movie, I remember it being in color.. might be a swashbuckler with a hint of comedy.

2. British show, there's this old house at the other side of the lake, turns out some sort of monsters inhabit it.
they slide around in alien like tunnels underneath the house, might be early 90's.
(big chance one of you brits already told me what it was, but I guess I forgot.)

And for the longest time I was looking for a movie where the Earth got nuked and Astronauts came back
to find the world in ruins, took me many years but finally I found it. it was Def-Con 4 (1985). (it turned out to be very bad)

Good feeling when you find out what your memory was.

**Iron Lizard** · 10-06-2014, 10:54 PM

I still can't find out what those damn robots were called that were like Robot Care Bears. It was the same thing but with Robots. But I was like 5 and memories are super hazy.

**Yharnamresident** · 10-06-2014, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by NeoVamp

Ugh, I tried to be relevant once.. cost me an arm and a leg and now its already considered outdated!@!

I'm just gonna tell you some stuff you don't care about.

Using my triple-core CPU computer with 4 GB DDR3, I'm rendering a 11000 polygon scene at 1600x900, and its takes about 4 minutes per frame. I got 240 frames to do. Imagine when I move up to 400,000 polygon scenes, 240 frames would take like 10 days to render.

Originally Posted by Crystalpepsifan

I found a baggie of meth in a parking garage at work today.

Did you bring the baggie home and weigh it on a scale?

I'll PayPal you ASAP, after I know how much is in there

actually meth isn't a joking matter, I know better don't worry

**Phantar** · 10-07-2014, 05:37 AM

Originally Posted by NeoVamp

nd for the longest time I was looking for a movie where the Earth got nuked and Astronauts came back
to find the world in ruins, took me many years but finally I found it. it was Def-Con 4 (1985). (it turned out to be very bad).

Sure it wasn't The Aftermath? The premise sounds virtually identical (though that one wasn't particularly good either, but it had its moments, in a so-bad-its-good-fashion).

**NeoVamp** · 10-07-2014, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Phantar

Sure it wasn't The Aftermath? The premise sounds virtually identical (though that one wasn't particularly good either, but it had its moments, in a so-bad-its-good-fashion).

What's so weird is that I seem to remember two movies as being one, my memory is like this :

1. Astronauts in a space station armed with nukes, the nukes go off and they are like oh shit!

then my second memory is of this woman being there and this jock type kinda guy who's father is rich offers to save her
but he's a douchebag with a helicopter and he's an asshole or something. I used to think they were the same movie. but after
watching Defcon-4 it apparently isn't.

Maybe your movie is my second memory, I'll try to find it. (cause it sounds awesome).