DBWI: What was your favourite part of the 90s?

Sports wise, England winning Euro 96. Chelsea's title win in 1999 comes a close second.

Forgetting about 1995-96? Newcastle bottles their big lead, Man Utd take over and then Man Utd bottles THAT. Newcastle wins their first title in decades on the most exciting final day and Kevin Keegan is still a god on Tyneside. They sign Alan Shearer in the offseason and repeat the next year. Newcastle's still on top 2 decades later although they're funded by UAE oil money now. And the managers that followed Keegan built on that legacy, Sir Bobby Robson and later his proteges Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola. Barcelona's losses were Newcastle's gain.

Another part of the 90's I loved was the Monday Night Wars, shame WCW went out in 01 though. (Manly thanks to bad booking decisions and the loss of both Hogan and Savage to WWF)

I personally loved when Ric Flair jumped in 1998. He sided with Vince and the Corporate Horsemen angles were money. Triple H, Owen Hart and Dr. Death Steve Williams all became top heels alongside Flair. Austin, Mick Foley and The Rock were the hottest babyfaces ever when they had opposition like that. Eventually Vince and Flair split and that's when they brought Hogan and Savage in along with the Big Show. So you had the Horsemen, the Union and the Ultra Powers all feuding with one another.

Shame about Bret Hart though. He gets screwed out of the WWF and goes to WCW to get away from Shawn Michaels. Shawn jumps the next year after one tantrum too many for Vince. The Kliq still makes his life hell.
 
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Forgetting about 1995-96? Newcastle bottles their big lead, Man Utd take over and then Man Utd bottles THAT. Newcastle wins their first title in decades on the most exciting final day and Kevin Keegan is still a god on Tyneside. They sign Alan Shearer in the offseason and repeat the next year. Newcastle's still on top 2 decades later although they're funded by UAE oil money now. And the managers that followed Keegan built on that legacy, Sir Bobby Robson and later his proteges Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola. Barcelona's losses were Newcastle's gain.



I personally loved when Ric Flair jumped in 1998. He sided with Vince and the Corporate Horsemen angles were money. Triple H, Owen Hart and Dr. Death Steve Williams all became top heels alongside Flair. Austin, Mick Foley and The Rock were the hottest babyfaces ever when they had opposition like that. Eventually Vince and Flair split and that's when they brought Hogan and Savage in along with the Big Show. So you had the Horsemen, the Union and the Ultra Powers all feuding with one another.

Shame about Bret Hart though. He gets screwed out of the WWF and goes to WCW to get away from Shawn Michaels. Shawn jumps the next year after one tantrum too many for Vince. The Kliq still makes his life hell.

It's not like Chelsea did too badly either. Abramovich took a huge gamble on Rijkaard to get him from under Barcelona's nose, and it paid off with the signings of Ronaldinho, Larsson, Drogba and Deco, and the European Cup in 2006. Although, it's fitting that with an owner called Roman, the club's greatest success in the 2010 treble season came under the Italian Carlo Ancelotti.
 
The highlight for me was the 1996 New Zealand Election.

The Labour/Alliance/NZ First coalition wasted no time in setting up a financial transaction tax, and raising some of the top tax levels to fund some hefty infrastructure projects - it it wasn't for that, we may still be waiting for the Auckland metro rail system and Wellington's 'Coastal Express' motorway (including that long-proposed 'Transmission Gully' section).

Moving port operations from Auckland to Northport in Whangarei with that 'New Northern' rail line has changed the waterfront in Auckland for the better too. I wonder where they would have built ANZ Stadium if that old port land hadn't been freed up? Surely they would have found some way to replace Eden Park by now.. it was in a horrible state by the late '90s.

I also wonder if we would've had so many wind farms by now if it wasn't for the Greens in the coalition Government (as part of the Alliance Party) pushing for them so much in the mid-90s.

[POD - Winston Peters & New Zealand First decides to form a Government with Labour/Alliance instead of the National Party, attracted by the prospect of several 'Nation Building' infrastructure projects]
 
Big fan of the Pokemon series. I think that they made a perfect call when they cast Christopher Walken to sing the Pokemon theme song.

Even to this day people watching the English version report that it has a certain Pizazz over the Japanese version

What did you think of the show? What is your favourite part of the 90s? Samuel L Jackson as the Joker?
I like this 1997 Star Wars sequel , with all the three original actors still in their prime. The plot: 14 years after the Battle of Yavin Luke had founded a new Jedi Order on Yavin. Also Han's and Leia's teenage twins are among his students. Suddenly an archaic spaceship appears from another Galaxy and seven forgotten Jedi-Masters, who had been active during the mysterious Clone Wars decades earlier, emerge. Among them is a mysterious leader named Mace Windu, who claims to be the successor of Yoda and the preserver of the original Jedi Code. The Jedis begin to take control of the New Order, brainwash the students and force Luke into exile. Upon rechearching on different planets he learns, that the original Jedi Masters are dead and somebody ordered to clone them in order to use them as force powered weapons. Alarmed he tries to seek for help...
 
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Full employment and state driven infrastructure spending is what I remember. People laughed at me for going to uni when you could be apprenticed, trades, and working on fundamentally adult rates with permanent work from 16. Without the transformation of industry Australia might be financialised and service based like the western and Northern European basket case economies.
 
Full employment and state driven infrastructure spending is what I remember. People laughed at me for going to uni when you could be apprenticed, trades, and working on fundamentally adult rates with permanent work from 16. Without the transformation of industry Australia might be financialised and service based like the western and Northern European basket case economies.


It was a competition worthy of the Olympics when Australia and New Zealand tried to "out-infrastructure" each other in the 1990s/Early 2000s. I think you did a better job with transport, but we won in Power Generation and Telecommunications!
 
I'm gonna be honest here, my favorite part of the 90's HAD to be that 1991 World Series. Like, you just get the feeling that it means so much for both sides. Like, the miracle run of the Texas Rangers to get here and then the Mighty Houston Astros just really made you love this World Series because it was going to Texas Either way.

As a Native Texan, I was proud to see the Astros just cruise it and win it in 6. Believe me, I still had my ticket from Game 6 in the Astrodome! Was a really special event in my life.
 
I'm the indecisive type, so I'm not sure what my favorite part of the 90s was. But I can tell you that for one of my brothers, it was the Cheetahmen franchise.
 
The DC cartoons during this era were also good (and boy were there a lot), but there wasn't really any connection between them.

The Wonder Woman cartoon was pretty epic. The animation was top-notch, the voice acting was great, and it was a show that managed to be suitable for kids while having a lot of adult themes - like, for instance, how Ares was defeated by showing him just what a nuclear war would mean.

Also, while I didn't notice it when I was a kid...yeah, everyone knows Diana and Etta were a couple XD Even the show-runners said so years later.*

Four pretty damn epic seasons...

*OOC: Think how Harley and Ivy were done in BTAS, only this was the leads :D
 
Trading Bobby Bonilla to the Expos in 1991 was a great move for the Pirates. They got Tim Raines in return and a pitcher whose name escapes me.

At least Bonilla got his World Series ring in 1994 and is the reason why there is still Major League Baseball in Montreal.
 
How about the Chicago Bulls-San Antonio Spurs series in 1999 that ended the Bulls' dynasty of the 1990s (which won all seven NBA finals they appeared in; they were upset by the Knicks in 1994, who went on to win against Houston)? Each game was a back-and-forth game, and Game 7 is still the longest game ever in NBA history, with seven overtimes; the Spurs won, 151-150, on a 3-pointer from Tim Duncan, who deservedly won the MVP award for the playoffs (being one of four he'd win for the Spurs dynasty of the 2000s).

I watched that game and, when Duncan hit that final three-pointer with five-tenths of a second left, you could hear the roar from the TV (so much so that my mom woke up); this was made even more satisfying to Texas NBA fans because the Bulls had beaten the Rockets earlier in the 1990s. One of the highlights is seeing Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman walk to the locker room while Spurs fans swarmed the basketball court...
 
When the after effects of the 1987 crash caught up with Japans economy. Trillions of Japanese investment in the US vaporized as inflated realestate, 'investment art', and stocks crashed in value. To many Japanese investment managers panicked and sold out, under pressure to produce ready cash. That turned paper losses into actual losses aggravating the bookkeeping problems of Japans investment/business operations. The irony was when US investors repurchased assets for fractions of what the items had been sold to the Japanese for. ie: Rockefeller Center in New York sold to a Japanese investment group for 3.8 billion circa 1983, & unloaded for 1.9 billion six years later.

Oh wait... thats not a WI. Thats how it actually came down. Never mind :cool:
 
Sports wise, England winning Euro 96. Chelsea's title win in 1999 comes a close second.

Not forgetting Scotland getting out of the group stage for the first time in that tournament and nearly going all the way too. Who can forget Rangers winning the Champions League after being instated for the final after Marseille were found out to be cheating and on a personal note, my beloved Raith Rovers UEFA cup adventures during the mid 90's.

Come to think of it, Scottish football in the 90's was a hell of a great period for many.
 
Gee.. with all that talk of sport, how could I forget..

* The All Blacks winning the 1995 'Gut buster' Rugby World Cup final over South Africa. The final was a thriller.. but I dont think anyone forgets captain Sean Fitzpatrick physically being sick at the fulltime whistle. To play through food poisoning like that is astonishing.

* The mid 1990s Rugby League Grand Finals between the Brisbane Broncos and Canberra Raiders. Seriously some of the best games I've ever seen, never more than 6 points separating them, and both sides chock-full of quality players.

* The first Super-Rugby final in LA, 1998. It was a huge risk forming a professional Rugby Union competition without South Africa, but NZ and Australia were convinced they could do it with (initially) a team in LA and a team in Tokyo, bolstered initially with All Blacks & Wallabies that retired from test match rugby after the 1995 World Cup. For the LA Titans to not only make the championship game, but host it in their 3rd season is nothing short of a miracle. Yeah, they lost to Auckland Blues.. but it marked a turning point for the game, and the beginning of the end of the "old boys network".
 
Sport:

  • Serie A being insanely competitive, with seven teams - the "Seven Sisters" - winning the championship during the decade, and the national team winning the 1994 World Cup thanks to a goal by Roberto Baggio during extra time.
  • The Netherlands defeating Brazil in the semifinal of the 1998 World Cup and then defeating Croatia - that had beaten France in the other semifinal - for the title. Even if Croatia lost they still came back to their country to a hero's welcome, though.
  • Ayrton Senna ending his Formula One career by racing at Minardi for free, just because he was a close friend of the founder; he came in first place only once that season, but seeing Giancarlo Minardi in tears was worth the whole season.
Politics:

  • Occhetto defeating Berlusconi in the 1994 general election; if Bossi hadn't joined Segni's Pact for Italy alliance, the peninsula would've had an OTL convict in charge, that would've been some crazy shit.
 
When the Lions won the superbowl.

Sure it only happened one year, but they put every ounce of training, pluck and teamwork together to scrap win after win by their fingernails and managed to barely win that last game. It was a victory of the underdogs that led to the creation of more then one movie, shame they haven't gone that far since.
 
When the Lions won the superbowl.

Sure it only happened one year, but they put every ounce of training, pluck and teamwork together to scrap win after win by their fingernails and managed to barely win that last game. It was a victory of the underdogs that led to the creation of more then one movie, shame they haven't gone that far since.
Barry Sanders carried that team fully in that season
 
Big fan of the Pokemon series. I think that they made a perfect call when they cast Christopher Walken to sing the Pokemon theme song.

Even to this day people watching the English version report that it has a certain Pizazz over the Japanese version

What did you think of the show? What is your favourite part of the 90s? Samuel L Jackson as the Joker?
Anyone remember the Watchmen Movie from 1999 ?
 
I mean, I was born in the 90s, so I can't really look back on it with the same sense of nostalgia. Like, I remember parts of it from the late end. It helps I was getting into a lot of Ameritoku thanks to Fox Kids at the time. Power Rangers Lost Galaxy was okay, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation was a lot of fun, but the show I loved at that time was Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog. It's still a crying shame that series only got five seasons, I really feel like Saban could've kept going with that instead of dropping it once Kamen Rider Kuuga gave them more Masked Rider footage. I really think it's a show that could've carried on for decades.
 
No love for the Cowboys dynasty? There's a reason they called it "America's Dynasty"--with Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders, and Michael Irvin, they went on to win five straight Super Bowls from Super Bowl XXVII to XXXI, finally losing to Brett Favre and the Indianapolis Colts...

And another one is the classic San Francisco 49ers-Buffalo Bills matchup in Super Bowl XXV; with Joe Montana's career ending earlier, everyone expected the Bills to blow out the 49ers, but they rallied around new QB Steve Young and we got one of the all-time classic matchups, with Steve Young running it in to win 35-31 with 13 seconds left to win the third straight Super Bowl for the 49ers and their 5th overall (Young would be named MVP); the 49ers wouldn't win again until after they drafted Cam Newton...

Another moment is Selena Quintanilla-Perez's crossover album (she's from my hometown, so there might be bias here), Dreaming of You; it was the debut of Tejano music on the mainstream music market and jumpstarted the Latin music boom of the mid-to-late 1990s (and sent Selena's career into the stratosphere). The single "I Could Fall In Love" went to #1 for 2 weeks, and "Dreaming of You," the follow-up single, hit the top 10...

Jerrah was going to fire Jimmy Johnson after the second Super Bowl and hire that clown Barry Switzer. That could have been a disaster for Cowboys fans.
 
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