The Nostalgic Wave
A Continuing Search for Pop Culture Icons from the Past!
Jar your memory. Relive the past in the
First, the One and the Only Nostalgic Wave
Last updated December 1, 1995
The Nostalgic Searches of the Week
We're asking you to go back, way back here in the search for:
The game that started the puzzle craze, and drove most uf us batty, .iso/marchweb/mirrored/hype/nomirror.gif)
The Rubik's Cube.
Those almost life like dolls that every child just had to have in the mid '80s, Cabbage Patch Kids.
Soap with hair? We remember Fuzzy Wuzzies.
That game show that just screamed 'Gambling is cool,' The Jokers' Wild.
Our favourite foul superhero... Super Chicken!
And Mr. Potato Head, hold the 'E'.
What do you get when you combine goo, a mold, and an easy bake-type oven? Incredible Edibles, that's what.
And don't forget that wild and wacky claymation dude that always got smushed by falling pizza boxes, The Noid!
And last, but certainly least, those blue guys that were only three apples high, The Smurfs.
The Nostalgic Wave Out Box
The results are pouring in, and we're working on posting the results. In the meantime, toss in your two cents about these searches in limbo:- The 'Food of the Astronauts,' Pilsbury Astro Sticks.
- Probe those synaptic tangles for rememberances of Silly Sand.
- And when you're finished playing in the sand, help us with the digs on the Chainsaw wielding wendy O'Williams and the Plasmatics.
- We need the skinny on the Motor City Madman, political analyst and hunter extraordinaire, Ted Nudgent.
- The live action kid shows Wonderama!, The Curiosity Shop
and Dusty's Treehouse.
- TNW's first nostalgic piece of software, the Apple II game Karateka.
The Nostalgic Wave In Box
They're in! But don't take our word for it...
- Big Bucks and no Whammies? Aside from Bill Gates and his post Windows 95 windfall, who doesn't? Check out the search for the elusive TV game show Press Your Luck.
- The 70's anime cartoon, and the King of animals in Africa, Kimba the White Lion.
- The elusive, thing like super hero of Saturday morning cartoons, Captain Caveman.
- The profound, wobbly, but otherwise unexciting Weebles.
- Talk about information at your fingertips! These young Korean pre-schoolers amazed our educators and our talk show hosts alike by performing complex arithmetic calculations with their hands. Check out Hype!'s retrospective on Korean Finger Counting.
- Ouch! Sometimes pain doesn't feel good. Check out the results from the nostalgic
search for the grandaddy of exercise machines, the
Johnny Bench Batter Up,
- One of the best cartoons of the last twenty years, Voltron - Defender of the Universe is honored in the Nostalgic Wave.
- Check out the skinny, and our new visually stunning, avante garde layout for the results pages,
on the really kool sneakers from the late 60's, P.F. Flyers.
- Chico and the Man, a mid 70's situation comedy, makes a return in the Search for Chico and the Man.
- You asked for it and you got it. From the pages of the search for Mattel(tm) Sizzlers springs the
Search for Whizzers, gyroscopic tops from the 70's.
- A dynamic duo, fighting crime on Saturday morning TV. Sound familiar? Results from the on-going search for Electra Woman & Dyna Girl are now in.
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, cult movie, toy and chocolate bar, and newest edition to the Nostalgic Wave archives.
- They dotted the parking lots of strip malls across America, then vanished into oblivion.
Visit a Fotomat store near you in the Search for Fotomats.
While you're browsing the searches, dig through your brain and give us some suggestions (including a brief description of the item/person/etc.) for future Nostalgic Wave Searches.
Ongoing Nostalgic Searches
June 13, 1995 - Hype! Gets Hit by the Honk Kong Phooey ChopMay 18, 1995 - Lost in Space - Hype! Gets Lost In Space
May 18, 1995 - VertiBird Helicopter - Rescued By the Wave
May 9, 1995 - Mattel Sizzlers - Gravity Not Required
May 9, 1995 - Smash Car Derby - Deconstructing Destruction June1 15, 1995 - The Micronauts - Multicomponent Toys from the 70's April 15, 1995- Emergency! - Revived March 28, 1995 - The Red Barn - Demise of a Fast Food Icon". March 21, 1995 - Wacky Packs March 13, 1995 - The Time Tunnel Remembered Feb 28, 1995 - The Banana Splitz: A Commemorative Feb 21, 1995 - Major Matt Mason, Profile of an American Action Figure Feb. 14, 1995 - Quisp & Quake, Breakfast Cereal Icons of the Late Sixties
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The One Hit Wonder Compilation
Check out Hype!'s Quintessential Compilation of One Hit Wonders. Updated October 8, 1995 Go ahead! Submit your own.
Invent Your Own Wacky Packs! - A Hype! Original
We were overwhelmed by the near fanatical response to The Nostalgic Search for Wacky Packs
But wait, we thought, why should the last generation get all the kicks? This is a new age, a new generation
and we have our own products to spoof. Thanks to the invisible hand of capitalism, and your editors, we
have created a special service for our generation. Check out Invent Your Own Wacky Packs, and the compilation, Wacky Packs 95.Feel free to surf on over and add your own Wacky Pack. We will have them beautifully rendered in 71 x 93 pixel .gifs for you to collect and trade over the net, once we find a willing and capable cartoonist. (If you know of one, send me their email address. ed.)
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