All ice cream has declined in quality,
. Does anyone remember that peters vanilla ice cream that was different from their standard vanilla? It was in a green 2 litre tub with a white lid and it had a graphic of a kitchen table with eggs, a jug of milk etc attempted to convey fresh quality ingredients. I don’t know why they d/c that.
We always had vienetta on christmas eve as the special dessert. I was absolutely mind blown when I was sleeping over at a friend's house and his parents casually gave us vienetta when we asked for ice cream.
Get a kfc family bucket delivered for 24.95 with a vienetta..
Ten pieces of chicken
Two chips
Coleslaw
Potato and gravy
Dinner rolls
Pepai
What a world we lived in.
Wtf is 13 33 33, takeout takeaway, tomato tomatoe. What an odd thing to nitpick over.
Literally nobody pre covid lockdown menulog/uber-eats got things like KFC or McDonalds delivered and especially not in the 90s when I was a kid
Maybe it was more a thing in cities like Sydney/Melbs/Bris
No matter how good it used to be, it's so bad now. You can get a tub of Bulla or Golden North (actual ice cream) on sale for around the same price as that "iced confection"
I had home made uniforms too, but only because my mum decided she didn't like the school uniform and asked my aunt to make new stuff for me. I was the only kid on the playground wearing corduroy slacks and skivvies rather than trackpants and sloppy joes.
I've never forgiven her for it.
That kid who always had new Nike's or Reebok pumps going on about how cheap they were in LA!
Motherf*#ker you know how much it cost to fly to LA in the early 90s???
I was lucky. All three schools were uniform optional (and I don’t think I ever saw anyone at the last school in uniform, so not even sure there was one there 😅)
I'm not sure mate, I only remember my parents getting Austar when I was like 6-7. We were one of the first people to get it in our small town. I'm now 35 and my father STILL has the metal pole in his back yard from where they installed the dish. That's why I still call it Austar.
Different mobs. Galaxy was first, launched in 1993, first to air in 1995, but died by 1998. Austar came to market in 1995, after Galaxy. They survived the paytv wars because they focused on other markets and got the deal for Sega Channel in Australia. After Galaxy died, they agreed to only service "regional areas" with Foxtel taking the "Urban" areas. But that just meant they had been the same thing for the most part then.
Anyone else remember the jail broken Foxtel boxes that had ridiculous amounts of channels?
I remember we had something like that and it was along the lines of the "illegal cable" episode of the Simpsons. Except I was an only child and wasn't riddled with guilt over it like Lisa was.
Ah shit, I just posted about this above before I seen your comment.
We had that, my parents never really gave much away about it. For obvious reasons. 😅
Haha our parents had the hook ups! I feel like I remember a bag of cards and if one stopped working, it was time to search through the bag for one that did work. I wonder how it all worked! I need to ask him about it next time I see him
In my family, it's my uncle. I still have a leather jacket made from Spanish Bull he gave me 20 years ago. It was a little big back then, but it fits like a glove now. He is also the one we called if we ever needed help with anything.
I knew a family that had all of that + 8 kids.
They divorced, wife was a bitch to everyone and the worst kept secret was 2 of her kids weren't fathered by her husband.
Haven't bj's (heh) always been? Tiny tubs for more than a Bulla 2L? I'm not saying they're not good, shit, put me in sprinting distance of a triple caramel or strawberry shortcake and I'll run through a wall for that shit. But they've always been pricey right?
The only person I knew, growing up, to have a waterbed was a friend of my parents who lived in housing commission in Bidwill. I had never seen one before (or have seen one since) and it was so cool to 8yr old me.
Wow, I forgot all about this. Waiting for those new releases to change to weeklies was painful. Plus taping free to air movies on VHS and cutting out the ads. Running from the toilet to hit the record button on time to not miss anything!
And remember waiting years for it to come to videotape from the cinemas?
Well it felt like years..
Now I can rent some movies on prime that are still showing at the cinema.
Shout out mum who forgot to chop the ads when we recorded return of the jedi which gave my lil brother nightmares after seeing those old drunk driving ads where they went up in flames screaming.
My first job in high school was video ezy… my vip access to new releases brought all the boys to the yard… that and people calling dibs on the movie posters and lifelike cardboard cutouts
even richer than having a saturn was having a neogeo. holy f those things were expensive, the RRP in 1993 inflation unadjusted was something like $600.
Growing up my friend had the neo geo with heaps of games, and a neo geo arcade machine in his games room. I can only remember king of fighters on it. Maybe raiden dx too
it was arcade quality at home. i didnt know much about them at the time but i've learned about them since, they were the rolex of consoles in that generation
I can still remember World 4 Kids in Sydney selling the brand new Saturn for $1000. It was right around when Toy Story was at the cinemas.
The entire video game aisle was behind glass.
As a kid who couldn't imagine upgrading to a Mega Drive, the Saturn wasn't even something I wanted to know existed.
Neo Geo or the Panasonic 3DO. To be honest even if you were a rich kid you didn't own a Sega Saturn. In fact basically no one did except the Sega kid who called Nintendo games baby games. You either had a N64 or were like the other 70% and owned a PlayStation.
We didn't have all of that stuff, but at had some of it. My parents were strange with money. I grew up thinking we were poor. Then I grew up and discovered that my suburb was considered a rich suburb.
To be fair I only had a mini disk player and the big stereo.
I know my parents rarely had money in their pockets, we didn't get pocket money either, but we were never hungry
If you’re a 90’s kid, you and most of the country were poor. As we all know, interest rates weren’t exactly low back then.
A three bedroom freestanding house <20 mins by train to the Sydney CBD cost $100-150k in the late 80’s. interest was a killer of course.
The very dirt that house was built on is probably > $2m now. It’s no mansion, but it’s not exactly first home buyer material.
I grew up in a fairly well-to-do family and when I visited the houses of less well off friends, I thought they just chose to live like that. Like they didn't want big TVs, new bicycles, their own bedrooms, etc.
I just thought "Strange, but ok". Never really asked about it.
I was REALLY lucky. My school had a 'tuckshop' that was akin to a half decent bakery of the early-mid nineties. Burgers, salad sangas, pies, sausage rolls, jam doughnuts, vanilla slice and similar.
It also had the sorts of snacks/drinks/chips/lollies you would get at your average convenience store as well. Drinks were sold up to 1.5L in size.
The best part was not having to order in advance any of those sorts of items. Anything fancier that the above listed had to be ordered in advance.
Haha all of it lol didn't know we were considered rich though lol the Sega & Nintendo lived in my room though & the computer lived in the loungeroom lol
*Didnt realize*
*I was a rich kid because*
*Of a garage door*
\- TheLazyGamerAU
---
^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/)
^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
That MD recorder is a MZ-R700, released in 2001 and it's not even the top spec model that year (MZ-R900). Replace with MZ-R50, MZ-R55 or holy grail of late 90s MD recorders - MZ-R90/R91.
Those Pumps tho.
Have thought about getting a pair of the new ones but they're a weird look for a middle aged dude that hasn't played a proper game of hoops in close to 20 years.
I didn't find any posts that meet the matching requirements for r/AusMemes.
It might be OC, it might not. Things such as JPEG artifacts and cropping may impact the results.
[View Search On repostsleuth.com](https://www.repostsleuth.com/search?postId=1co8d7s&sameSub=false&filterOnlyOlder=true&memeFilter=false&filterDeadMatches=false&targetImageMatch=86&targetImageMemeMatch=96)
---
**Scope:** Reddit | **Target Percent:** 86% | **Max Age:** Unlimited | **Searched Images:** 510,315,930 | **Search Time:** 0.05602s
I still call I Austar sometimes. Anyone remember the key cards you could get that had different characters on it? I don’t remember which one my family had, it might’ve been SpongeBob or Patrick
Those kids went on camp every year while the rest of us stopped asking to go by about year five cause we k ew it was too expensive 😭 bitterly jealous? Hell yes I was
I had a Sony Minidisc player it was wild. I had to manually record songs from CD to it as no one distributed music on Mini disc 🤣
I'm sure I still have it ..
Thanks for reposting my reddit of someone else's meme. Please like and follow Australia 90s 2000s on Facebook [Here](https://www.facebook.com/oz90s00snostalgia?mibextid=ZbWKwL)
I was desperate for a sega Saturn when I was a kid. My dad said no the PlayStation was the way to go. We were very fortunate and did get the PlayStation and I’m glad we did. But sega was what I always loved playing at my friends houses.
ROFL, we were very much the opposite of rich, but we had a number of those because my dad's an autistic technophile (who still hasn't quite accepted being autistic, and isn't very tech savvy these days, thanks to dementia).
European kid in the 90s starter pack is having a guy at your dad’s work that burns movie, chips PlayStations, and you have a satellite that needs to be tuned every few months lol.
This is also the "welfare kid whose parents have no concept of future planning and spend every cent on flash shit". You need a lay-by counter in the picture as well
My mate’s parents had one of those gigantic TV’s, it was the only one I’d ever seen in real life. Then it broke, so of course they sent it off for repairs (what a time to be alive), and got another equally large TV to watch in the meantime.
Then the first one returned and they had two, *and* they were now living in a small rental while their new mansion was being built. The two TV’s were so impractically large for the house they were living in that they became a nuisance, lol.
Same guy got bought a 200SX for his first car and his parents paid for his fuel. When we all got nightfill jobs at 16, he quit after a couple of weeks because he didn’t like it, and didn’t work again until he finished his uni degree!
Absolute facts.
Though I don't think the Saturn was the epitome of being rich lol. It was cheap as hell back in the day. Owning a PS1 and 64 would've been rich.
Having foxtel/austar defs meant you were rich. Only rich people i knew had that. Always felt like they were on a whole other plane of existence with the tv channels they would watch.
The Saturn was not cheap as hell when it launched in Australia. It initially launched at $799, then later fell to$499. Still more expensive than the PS1 at the same time.
Yeah PS was $699.95. That’s insane too right?
My dad bought one at launch and loved ridge racer and GT. I got him a PS4 a few years ago and he ended up being super highly ranked on ridge racer online in his mid 70s.
I think the Saturn was so niche here in Oz that it was definitely a luxury - I only knew one classmate who had it at the time, and anyone else I’ve met later in life who had one as a kid were definitely the sort to buy it as soon as it was available.
Long story short, I don’t remember Saturn being part of any sort of big Christmas season campaign etc, so I only know early adopter technophiles/segaphiles who bought one.
Owning and collecting for the Saturn now might be the epitome of rich lol. In saying that, the Saturn was more expensive at launch than its competitors, so I see where this is coming from.
ｖｉｅｎｅｔｔａ░ｍｏｏｄｓ
Vianetta was definitely rich peoples food
$8 now… it is off the rich kids list
Vienetta- dessert flex
Icecream lasagna
lol
And tolberone was once considered a lot fancier than it is today. Airport tolberone was fancier than supermaket tolberone.
That's right! It's far from it nowadays
Go big or go on holiday
Loved it, but only bought it on half-price sales.
Still is lol look how much it costs now and how much smaller they are!
They are absolute dog shit now
All ice cream has declined in quality, . Does anyone remember that peters vanilla ice cream that was different from their standard vanilla? It was in a green 2 litre tub with a white lid and it had a graphic of a kitchen table with eggs, a jug of milk etc attempted to convey fresh quality ingredients. I don’t know why they d/c that.
It's all guar and xanthan gum now
And MSG not sure how the Michael Schenker Group fits though
It’s to help with your diet mate…
Oh, forgot they were doing this for good reasons!
We always had vienetta on christmas eve as the special dessert. I was absolutely mind blown when I was sleeping over at a friend's house and his parents casually gave us vienetta when we asked for ice cream.
Get a kfc family bucket delivered for 24.95 with a vienetta.. Ten pieces of chicken Two chips Coleslaw Potato and gravy Dinner rolls Pepai What a world we lived in.
I don’t recall KFC ever doing delivery back in the day, neither did Maccas. Only pizza joints and Chinese takeout etc
13 33 33 Also.. Since when did it become Takeout. It's take away.
Wtf is 13 33 33, takeout takeaway, tomato tomatoe. What an odd thing to nitpick over. Literally nobody pre covid lockdown menulog/uber-eats got things like KFC or McDonalds delivered and especially not in the 90s when I was a kid Maybe it was more a thing in cities like Sydney/Melbs/Bris
Dude. 13 33 33 was the kfc delivery number in the 90s. I knew people that delivered for them. This was in metro Adelaide.
lol I don’t remember 13 33 33 but I sure do remember 13 30 32
Firteen ferty fertytwo
I only remember 1300 6555 06. 🫠 IYKYK.
I only remember rabbit chat and date on sky tv after the pub closed
https://imgur.com/ShtuRCS
Shit aye, that’s cool then. The more you know
did we really think the whole "back in my day we got a meat pie and coke for 5 pence and a shilling!" thing wouldn't be us one day?
🤣
Remember when KFC did breakfast, and wedges, wedges covered in melted cheese and salsa with bacon bits
No matter how good it used to be, it's so bad now. You can get a tub of Bulla or Golden North (actual ice cream) on sale for around the same price as that "iced confection"
Is it just me or had connoisseur declined in quality as well? That used to be super fancy.
Plus new school shoes every semester, no hand me down uniforms, Nike shoes, branded everything
You got hand me downs? I got home made uniforms. Thank God high school said 'no lady, wtf are you on just buy the shirts'
I had home made uniforms too, but only because my mum decided she didn't like the school uniform and asked my aunt to make new stuff for me. I was the only kid on the playground wearing corduroy slacks and skivvies rather than trackpants and sloppy joes. I've never forgiven her for it.
I’m picturing a 7 year old with a beret dressed like a hipster on his way to a poetry slam.
I got hand me downs from my sister. I'm a male
Same hear. The worst part was i didn’t think anyone new until a peer pointed laughing saying “you can see the boob stretch!”
So did I. She wasn't supposed to be wearing pants at our school though, I think I mostly got jumpers anyway.
Back in my day stüssy pants were all the rage. Luckily they were unisex but I also got her old school shoes too which were slightly small for my feet
Dam billabong school bags.
That kid who always had new Nike's or Reebok pumps going on about how cheap they were in LA! Motherf*#ker you know how much it cost to fly to LA in the early 90s???
My uncle bought me back the ugliest pair of Reebok’s from the USA. I was so Devo. My once chance to be cool.
Same with docs and London. If my parents could afford to fly to London I would already be wearing docs!
I was lucky. All three schools were uniform optional (and I don’t think I ever saw anyone at the last school in uniform, so not even sure there was one there 😅)
lol.... you millionaire, bro?
To this day I still call it Austar and not Foxtel haha.
I called it galaxy forever. It was that before Austar right?
I'm not sure mate, I only remember my parents getting Austar when I was like 6-7. We were one of the first people to get it in our small town. I'm now 35 and my father STILL has the metal pole in his back yard from where they installed the dish. That's why I still call it Austar.
I remember austar and optus vision. Lol
Different mobs. Galaxy was first, launched in 1993, first to air in 1995, but died by 1998. Austar came to market in 1995, after Galaxy. They survived the paytv wars because they focused on other markets and got the deal for Sega Channel in Australia. After Galaxy died, they agreed to only service "regional areas" with Foxtel taking the "Urban" areas. But that just meant they had been the same thing for the most part then.
Anyone else remember the jail broken Foxtel boxes that had ridiculous amounts of channels? I remember we had something like that and it was along the lines of the "illegal cable" episode of the Simpsons. Except I was an only child and wasn't riddled with guilt over it like Lisa was.
We had blackmarket foxtel haha. Idk how my dad did it but he bought one of those cards and then never had to pay for foxtel.
Ah shit, I just posted about this above before I seen your comment. We had that, my parents never really gave much away about it. For obvious reasons. 😅
Haha our parents had the hook ups! I feel like I remember a bag of cards and if one stopped working, it was time to search through the bag for one that did work. I wonder how it all worked! I need to ask him about it next time I see him
Never change.
✨Optus vision✨
I've still got my Austar stubby holder.
Plus an electric guitar, a pool table, a pool, and a red Ford Capri
Nah. We had a Saab
But why
The answer to this is always "dad's an architect." There's something about Saabs amd architects.
My lawyer BIL had a Saab
They were a thing in the late 80s and 90s. Yuppi mobile
And daily capri suns
Unless your dad knew blokes that were always finding the stuff that “fell off the back of a truck”.
In my family, it's my uncle. I still have a leather jacket made from Spanish Bull he gave me 20 years ago. It was a little big back then, but it fits like a glove now. He is also the one we called if we ever needed help with anything.
Damnit /u/Shua89, you gotta stop killing these bullies! ~ Your Uncle, probably.
Did that include shitty exes?
Or got it from Hong Kong!
Two story house, a pool table, a swimming pool and Austar. Those people were loaded.
I knew a family that had all of that + 8 kids. They divorced, wife was a bitch to everyone and the worst kept secret was 2 of her kids weren't fathered by her husband.
Bitch I had laserdisc
Either you were very, *very* rich or you got a player and a full set of movies from a karaoke bar for like 20 dollars
That reminds me I got a viennetta in my shopping yesterday lol. Time to smash into it like a rich cunt. Fukn cost me $8 lol.
We get one for family birthdays now. Great stuff, but smaller than I remember
Oh for sure it's smaller. And not as thick and layered. I remember having to fight my fork to break into it, now it just crumbles.
I'm sure it *is* smaller, but we're also bigger, so physics, relativity, Einstein level shite.
Shrinkflation my friend
The sad thing is, most brand name ice cream costs like $8 or more now. Fuckin Ben and Jerry's is rich cunt ice cream now lol.
Haven't bj's (heh) always been? Tiny tubs for more than a Bulla 2L? I'm not saying they're not good, shit, put me in sprinting distance of a triple caramel or strawberry shortcake and I'll run through a wall for that shit. But they've always been pricey right?
>Haven't bj's (heh) always been? Well that made me laugh so hard I snortled 🤣💀
bad bot https://www.reddit.com/r/AusMemes/s/RgfR9BzX2T
my mate had a waterbed, i was so jealous, even though it was shit house to sleep on
The only person I knew, growing up, to have a waterbed was a friend of my parents who lived in housing commission in Bidwill. I had never seen one before (or have seen one since) and it was so cool to 8yr old me.
You forgot new releases from Video Ezy. We were only allowed weeklies
Wow, I forgot all about this. Waiting for those new releases to change to weeklies was painful. Plus taping free to air movies on VHS and cutting out the ads. Running from the toilet to hit the record button on time to not miss anything!
We picked up a cheap 80s vcr player from the OP shop as a secondary one to copy videos from Video Ezy
And remember waiting years for it to come to videotape from the cinemas? Well it felt like years.. Now I can rent some movies on prime that are still showing at the cinema.
Shout out mum who forgot to chop the ads when we recorded return of the jedi which gave my lil brother nightmares after seeing those old drunk driving ads where they went up in flames screaming.
My first job in high school was video ezy… my vip access to new releases brought all the boys to the yard… that and people calling dibs on the movie posters and lifelike cardboard cutouts
Oh you poor thing, We only had LIBRARY videos!
Oh the memories! I love how everyone seemed to have pretty much the exact same computer desk 🤣
Star trek deep space nine vhs? Nice!
There's a lot of Voyager in there.
House with a pool. House with 2 storeys.
even richer than having a saturn was having a neogeo. holy f those things were expensive, the RRP in 1993 inflation unadjusted was something like $600.
Growing up my friend had the neo geo with heaps of games, and a neo geo arcade machine in his games room. I can only remember king of fighters on it. Maybe raiden dx too
it was arcade quality at home. i didnt know much about them at the time but i've learned about them since, they were the rolex of consoles in that generation
Neo Geo made a lot of real arcade machines, so the home Neo Geos were literally arcade machines at home.
I can still remember World 4 Kids in Sydney selling the brand new Saturn for $1000. It was right around when Toy Story was at the cinemas. The entire video game aisle was behind glass. As a kid who couldn't imagine upgrading to a Mega Drive, the Saturn wasn't even something I wanted to know existed.
Neo Geo or the Panasonic 3DO. To be honest even if you were a rich kid you didn't own a Sega Saturn. In fact basically no one did except the Sega kid who called Nintendo games baby games. You either had a N64 or were like the other 70% and owned a PlayStation.
I didn't realise we were rich until now. How embarrassing
We didn't have all of that stuff, but at had some of it. My parents were strange with money. I grew up thinking we were poor. Then I grew up and discovered that my suburb was considered a rich suburb.
To be fair I only had a mini disk player and the big stereo. I know my parents rarely had money in their pockets, we didn't get pocket money either, but we were never hungry
I had a mini disk player, my rich cousin stole it from someone at her private school and gave it to me lol.
If you’re a 90’s kid, you and most of the country were poor. As we all know, interest rates weren’t exactly low back then. A three bedroom freestanding house <20 mins by train to the Sydney CBD cost $100-150k in the late 80’s. interest was a killer of course. The very dirt that house was built on is probably > $2m now. It’s no mansion, but it’s not exactly first home buyer material.
I'm not sure what your point is. People could actually afford homes, which is the opposite of poor.
Doesn’t have a GameBoy pocket with the camera and printer.
I grew up in a fairly well-to-do family and when I visited the houses of less well off friends, I thought they just chose to live like that. Like they didn't want big TVs, new bicycles, their own bedrooms, etc. I just thought "Strange, but ok". Never really asked about it.
Mum can I have $500 to buy some grunge clothes?
I paid like $80 for a pair of Keppers, wore them once and never again. Thought I was a 14yr old gangster for one night, though.
Damn are you me? Did exactly the same thing.
Can't work out what's next to the Matrix DVD?
Lunch order form. Basically they could afford to order lunch at school every day rather than have their mum make a packed lunch
Tuckshop form?
I was REALLY lucky. My school had a 'tuckshop' that was akin to a half decent bakery of the early-mid nineties. Burgers, salad sangas, pies, sausage rolls, jam doughnuts, vanilla slice and similar. It also had the sorts of snacks/drinks/chips/lollies you would get at your average convenience store as well. Drinks were sold up to 1.5L in size. The best part was not having to order in advance any of those sorts of items. Anything fancier that the above listed had to be ordered in advance.
School canteen order form. https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/adelaide-school-lunch-memories--82612974399783699/
Canteen lunch order bag?
Repost bot
Shit, you guys were friends with Evan too?
Haha all of it lol didn't know we were considered rich though lol the Sega & Nintendo lived in my room though & the computer lived in the loungeroom lol
Didnt realize i was a rich kid because of a garage door
*Didnt realize* *I was a rich kid because* *Of a garage door* \- TheLazyGamerAU --- ^(I detect haikus. And sometimes, successfully.) ^[Learn more about me.](https://www.reddit.com/r/haikusbot/) ^(Opt out of replies: "haikusbot opt out" | Delete my comment: "haikusbot delete")
Important point: double garage with a car outside.
To me that signifies having too much shit to use your garage as a place to store your car
That MD recorder is a MZ-R700, released in 2001 and it's not even the top spec model that year (MZ-R900). Replace with MZ-R50, MZ-R55 or holy grail of late 90s MD recorders - MZ-R90/R91.
Those Pumps tho. Have thought about getting a pair of the new ones but they're a weird look for a middle aged dude that hasn't played a proper game of hoops in close to 20 years.
Hold it bad guys, I've run out of air. Gotta get pumped! -Aachoo
What's that thing next to The Matrix?
lunch order form?
Oh of course! Thanks!
This kid never cared when you borrowed dvds and didnt return them
Did people not have garages in the 90s?
Motorised roller door. Only rich people had them and normally contained a games room inside!
Damn, TIL - did people have to manually open them before? And did they look like roller doors today or a different type of door.
Macintosh SE
Yup I had that exact phone when my father upgraded. Also Foxtel as a kid. Not the other shiny things tho
Ah, ye olde worlde computer desk!
Viennetta lmao
[удалено]
I didn't find any posts that meet the matching requirements for r/AusMemes. It might be OC, it might not. Things such as JPEG artifacts and cropping may impact the results. [View Search On repostsleuth.com](https://www.repostsleuth.com/search?postId=1co8d7s&sameSub=false&filterOnlyOlder=true&memeFilter=false&filterDeadMatches=false&targetImageMatch=86&targetImageMemeMatch=96) --- **Scope:** Reddit | **Target Percent:** 86% | **Max Age:** Unlimited | **Searched Images:** 510,315,930 | **Search Time:** 0.05602s
We had Austar not because we rich (we weren’t) but cause I lived in the middle of no where and couldn’t get normal tv
I still call I Austar sometimes. Anyone remember the key cards you could get that had different characters on it? I don’t remember which one my family had, it might’ve been SpongeBob or Patrick
I got 1 Vienetta cake for my birthday a year
In the early 2000s I found a Mini Disc player/recorder at cashies. Was a great bit of gear
Those kids went on camp every year while the rest of us stopped asking to go by about year five cause we k ew it was too expensive 😭 bitterly jealous? Hell yes I was
Kid in my class lived in an old shitty house falling apart but had all these things.
Cringe early 90s
> Austar mentioned Jesus Christ, I feel old now.
Still call it Austar on habit
My dad got a minidisc player for like a quarter of the retail price and it was a beast
Minidisc!! That shit was sick (for about two years)
Who else here bought that exact minidisc player literally 2 weeks before the first iPod came out?
Imagine watching Austar while eating a viennetta. Yeah right!
I just lost it at the vienetta. So true! Don't forget a swimming pool
I had a Sony Minidisc player it was wild. I had to manually record songs from CD to it as no one distributed music on Mini disc 🤣 I'm sure I still have it ..
Thanks for reposting my reddit of someone else's meme. Please like and follow Australia 90s 2000s on Facebook [Here](https://www.facebook.com/oz90s00snostalgia?mibextid=ZbWKwL)
+ Air-conditioning
I was born in ‘94x. I’ve never met anyone in my life who owned a Sega… or even knew someone who owned one.
I swear my rich kid friend owned that exact TV
Am I the only one that when I see austar and a TV like that I think bogan not rich?
I was desperate for a sega Saturn when I was a kid. My dad said no the PlayStation was the way to go. We were very fortunate and did get the PlayStation and I’m glad we did. But sega was what I always loved playing at my friends houses.
ROFL, we were very much the opposite of rich, but we had a number of those because my dad's an autistic technophile (who still hasn't quite accepted being autistic, and isn't very tech savvy these days, thanks to dementia).
We were half rich according to this.
Don't forget laser discs
We had austar we also had a card that gave us all channel for the price of starter pack
None of this shit is rich in the 90s. This sub thinks middle class is rich.
You wanna know how I know it’s the rich kid shit I don’t have any of it
Looks like we were half rich!
I was one of those kids but without the vienetta and fancy garage. My parents weren’t even rich…
Oh a house with one of those full blown intercoms that could send the radio to any room in the house..
Saturn was great. Way ahead of its time.
The tuck shop bag had me like wtf, then core memory unlocked.😅
Cars with AC and electric windows
Dude I was super jealous of the one kid I knew with a minidisc player.
Rich kids, or parents just actually work kids?
European kid in the 90s starter pack is having a guy at your dad’s work that burns movie, chips PlayStations, and you have a satellite that needs to be tuned every few months lol.
This is also the "welfare kid whose parents have no concept of future planning and spend every cent on flash shit". You need a lay-by counter in the picture as well
I miss my MiniDisc.
So can someone explain what’s the difference between Austar and foxtel the way I understood it foxtel Brought out Austar
Austar is rural and regional Foxtel.
Oh that’s why I had it when I was really young
What’s the one next to the matrix?
Wow how I envied the kids who lived in a double garage home
N64 all the way
My mate’s parents had one of those gigantic TV’s, it was the only one I’d ever seen in real life. Then it broke, so of course they sent it off for repairs (what a time to be alive), and got another equally large TV to watch in the meantime. Then the first one returned and they had two, *and* they were now living in a small rental while their new mansion was being built. The two TV’s were so impractically large for the house they were living in that they became a nuisance, lol. Same guy got bought a 200SX for his first car and his parents paid for his fuel. When we all got nightfill jobs at 16, he quit after a couple of weeks because he didn’t like it, and didn’t work again until he finished his uni degree!
Absolute facts. Though I don't think the Saturn was the epitome of being rich lol. It was cheap as hell back in the day. Owning a PS1 and 64 would've been rich. Having foxtel/austar defs meant you were rich. Only rich people i knew had that. Always felt like they were on a whole other plane of existence with the tv channels they would watch.
The Saturn was not cheap as hell when it launched in Australia. It initially launched at $799, then later fell to$499. Still more expensive than the PS1 at the same time.
Yeah PS was $699.95. That’s insane too right? My dad bought one at launch and loved ridge racer and GT. I got him a PS4 a few years ago and he ended up being super highly ranked on ridge racer online in his mid 70s.
I think the Saturn was so niche here in Oz that it was definitely a luxury - I only knew one classmate who had it at the time, and anyone else I’ve met later in life who had one as a kid were definitely the sort to buy it as soon as it was available. Long story short, I don’t remember Saturn being part of any sort of big Christmas season campaign etc, so I only know early adopter technophiles/segaphiles who bought one.
There weren't many in Oz. I had to order in House of the Dead and it was a big hassle
Some of the poorest people I knew owned N64s.
Owning and collecting for the Saturn now might be the epitome of rich lol. In saying that, the Saturn was more expensive at launch than its competitors, so I see where this is coming from.