@Larisa: You’re paying for the air fare, right? ;) Or, alternatively, just send カービ over and I’ll take a ride on his star… which is mostly likely a euphemism for some kinda drug-taking…

As for consoles, I have a GameCube, a PS2 (really it’s my brother’s, but I’ve used it so much it may as well be mine too :P) and a Gameboy Advance (which I haven’t used in years and which I only have about 3 games for; this is the regular kind, not the SP one). My dad bought a PS3, but it’s really only him and my brother that use it – I bought Soul Calibur IV and Guitar Hero 4 for it, though. I tired playing Fallout 3 and Red Dead Redemption, but I just never got into them.

Besides actual consoles, we have a PC, which is where I do a lot of my gaming these days. And I’ll be getting a Wii very soon, because I have Skyward Sword’s limited edition bundle sitting up in my room back home, and I’ll need something to play it on ;D

I hardly ever buy games: 1. I don’t have copious amounts of money, and the money I do have I don’t like spending it too much XD 2. I LOVE replying my old games :3. The last game I bought was Portal 2 at the end of the Summer, and before that, my brother bought me Left 4 Dead 2, WAY back at the end of 2009! :P I mean, I bought “The Longest Journey” on GoG.com this Summer too, and I’ve just finished playing The Legend of Zelda on a NES emulator, but I don’t buy/play many new games. I have a HUGE list of games I wanna replay, actually, two of them being Monkey Island 2 (which is my avatar :3) and 4.

(Also, I usually play the Wii or Xbox360 if I’m over at a friend’s house, so I guess that counts as me *playing* new games, but they’re not mine haha)

This little TextFugu community is great, don’t you think? ;D

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I’m kinda struggling to remember more kids gameshows, but I know they existed haha. Mostly just involved getting gunged :P
There was 50/50, which some people from my school competed in once.

SMTV Live.
Aqua (singers of Barbie Girl).
BN biscuits!!
The Demon Headmaster.
Mummies Alive.
Beetleborgs.
Biker Mice from Mars.
Street Sharks.
Ghostbusters.
Sonic The Hedgehog animated series (I remember his penchant for chilli dogs, though I’ve no idea who came up with that :P)
Rayman.
The Karate Kid.
Not that I “remember” it from the time, but the 90s had a lot of good dance music.

@Yggbert: That’s *3* things ;)

@ooh_a_robot: That’s odd – you experienced more of the 80s than I did of the 90s, but I still remember the 90s more XD Well, maybe I didn’t remember *everything* of the 90s, but the memories I *do* have are vivid and awesome :) *Technically*, I’m a 00s kid, but I don’t like to think of it that way, since the 90s was so much better :D

Oh oh oh, another good thing about the 90s – The Simpsons, back when it was hilarious! :D Even if I didn’t get a lot of the jokes back then, rewatching episodes from that decade is just fantastic :)

Gameboys. The big chunky ones and the Gameboy Colour. None of this DS nonsense ;)
Tamagochi.
Not that I remember it well, but the boom of the internet.
Monkey Island 2 coming on 8 floppy discs! :D
Monkey Island 3.
Donkey Kong 64 and the DK Rap (which some of you will know from Super Smash Bros. I’m sure).
The original Super Smash Bros.
Goldeneye.
Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
Vengaboys.
Steps.
Eiffel 65 – I’m Blue
Little Rascals.

Disagree with Mark W; totally agree with huw.

“How do you know which word [is significant]” – you made the story, so you’re GOING to know! :D Also, it’s probably going to be obvious (if it’s not obvious, you’ve failed at making a story): in the sentence… oh, let’s see… “Usually when the circus is in town, I see parades of elephants riding on bicycles” – the “obvious/significant” words in there are most probably going to be “circus”, “elephants” and “bicycles” (and, obviously, you’ll know which (if not all) of them are the ones relating to the thing you’re trying to remember, since you made the story up). So, the word you want can’t really be ANY other word in the sentence – “usually/when/the/in/I/see/of/on” seem in no way significant, so you’d be a fool to think it was one of them :P

I generally don’t think of stories for vocab though: I use little personal memory aides or experiences that probably wouldn’t seem like much in an explanation. Or I just straight-up remember it as it is, which is more desirable but less frequent :P

@ooh_a_robot: Well, we’re currently going through an 80s revival period, so soon enough we’ll be onto the 90s ;) God, I hope so anyway – because I was a young child during the 90s, that makes it the best decade ever :P haha. Kenan and Kel, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Nintendo 64, The Spice Girls, yo-yos, Pokémon, Home Alone, Monkey Island… *nostalgic sigh*

Gotta be over 18 for Mechanical Turk, sorry. Plus, you’ll be doing menial jobs for them FOREVER if you want to make any amount of money haha. I’m giving up with these sorts of sites just as soon as I get my £50 from YouGov (which has taken me more than a year to get halfway! >.<)…

Also, “definitely” ;)

• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by  MisterM2402 [Michael].

The imperative form means it can’t be past tense either, so “has vanished” doesn’t make sense.