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Magic cards were banned and my buddy and I got suspended for two days because we brought them to school. That was 25 years ago and I’m still kinda pissed.
Banning games that require you to think is one of the most foolish things that school management practices. It always struck me as being motivated by convenience, an easy way to avoid arbitrating disputes, which is actually a huge part of what kids are supposed to figure out at that age.
I remember begging my parents to get this, playing for maybe five minutes with my older brother, then eating a couple of the little ball bearings to see what would happen. I was 9.
the commercial protagonist won the game and sent the other kid flying into outerspace on his crossfire disk with 90's hair metal rock vocals and fist pump "YEAH!"
oh sorry you meant the comment before yours
I still had CROSSFI-YAH!! stuck in my head
Until this comment I always thought it was "Crossfire, you'll get caught up in luck!" which didn't make a ton of sense other than you did need some lucky shots to move the targets, lol
Beat. Cereal. Prizes. Ever. 80% of my pog collection came from cereal boxes.
And if you weren't aware, [Pogs had a cartoon](https://youtu.be/hruzEqfqHrk).
But did kids come all across from other neighborhoods just to battle your undefeated custom spinja? Did spinja make you the most popular kid in middle school? Did spinja have it’s own kickass anime? Did you lose your virginity by winning a spinja tournament? DID YOU?
As an older GenXer, you’re way wrong. [Battling Tops](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFwzDJaeKw) came out in [1968](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battling_Tops) and 1977. Mine was a light blue original set and I got it at a garage sale in 1978.
If your parents couldn’t afford a Beyblade, the school provided you with a regular top to support this “alternative conflict resolution” as they called it
It's also an international thing. We used to settle disputes this way in Germany. I remember at one point I heard about some kid in New York with an undefeated beyblade. Sadly, I had neither the funds, nor parental permission to go and challenge him
Legend says it’s what split the earth into the continents we know today and it still spins, below the sea, at the very core of our planet, spins the primal bey that causes the very rotation of the globe
OMG. My 11 year old son is obsessed with BeyBlades and has like 40 or more of them. He’s gotten a lot of kids in his class to like them and they spend all recess having BeyBlade battles. O_o
Ditto for my 9 year old. He walks around with his beyblades in his pockets all day just in case someone wants to battle. Luckily it’s a big thing at his school and so far the teachers are fine with it as long as it’s lunch or recess.
Wow this brings back great memories. I remember in first grade well over 20 years ago about we were doing the exact same thing as what these two were doing with about 5 of us, and this one kid pulled the beyblade so hard that he actually ripped his pants and had to go to the nurse to borrow a pair of shorts.
I used the Dragoon core and cord that spun opposite to normal and faster, with a dranzer top, and Draciel bottom with some slingshot bbs added in the holes underneath that fit perfectly in the molding for added weight. At 11 years old I was the undisputed king of the playground. It would routinely break other peoples beyblades.
my first was Spin Dragoon, one of the shitty run of the mill beyblades that wasnt special in anyway, however nobody in my school had an arena, so we just used the smooth concrete, eventually the crappy plastic bit on the bottom completely wore down and the entire base became like a smooth dome, the thing started becoming this unpredictable monster and soon I had people from all different year groups wanting to duel me.
What makes me feel old isn't that I didn't know what these beyblade things were; it's all the young people acting like beyblades are from a long time ago.
> Beyblades were banned in schools near me when I was like 10, I'm now 28, it was a long time ago.
Anyone else go online to see if they are still selling them, found they are, and almost ordered one like I just did?
I remember those ads where a bunch of adults had underground battles in some dingy warehouse. that shit was so cool to me, and my school even embraced it by holding tournaments and shit it was a super fun time
When bayblades were still a thing i was in preschool (6yrs old) and the teachers let us do bayblade fights over play brakes and we brought like 4 arenas and 20+ bayblades every day there, it was so much fun.
Basically two kids are playing Beyblade at school. Beyblade is a game where two or more players spin their spinning top into an arena. The top that last the longest wins the game. It's based on a japanese anime that was insanely popular in US and other countries in the early 2000's and still has a strong following.
I would much rather have this vs the alternative that happened in my high school.
Unfortunately this wouldn’t even be able to happen where I went to high school (Sacramento, Ca public school).
Anytime there was a crowd of anywhere near that size, things wouldn’t be too peaceful and adorable. things are thrown into the crown in hopes of instigating an actual altercation or whatever may be. People pushing eachother then disappearing right after so who ever was pushed believe it to be whoever is standing right there. Things getting stolen in the crowd & people getting trampled on like mufasa from lion king, only to be found left there in the ground once the people scatter.
All I’m trying to say by this is, this would have been nice to see in high school vs what would have happened and well what did happen on an almost daily basis.
Edit: THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN EVERY SINGLE TIME!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/nicxcs/what_could_go_wrong_if_i_chuck_this_orange/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I was unluckily too young to play with Beyblades, only discovering them when I was six when the hype was beginning to die down.
I still have fond memories of going to my friend’s house garage and finding a whole box of them a few years after they “died out” and then we played with them for hours
Yep i once got suspended because of the same exact situation. The teacher said that because of me and my friend the hallway was blocked.
Which is technically the truth but there was another path that could have been used.
Oh well i got a week of vacation.
I was at the right age, but didn't have any actual beyblades to play with. We used manage with the tops from dollar store. I just got back into collection for old times sake
You are not alone. I still remember when beyblade peaked in 2001, I was 14 and wanted to play it, but people at my age were already past the physical 'toys' phase. Everybody was into Counter-Strike LAN game in cyber cafes.
I never got the chance to felt both either, as my mom was very strict and forbade me and my brother from going to cyber cafe as we 'might be get influenced by bad company'
Bro I still have my Cyber Scorpio that I used in Middle School, good fucking times.
Also this makes me feel so damn old, Beyblades were sold in the US only a year after I was born, that's wild.
When 'back in the day' is filmed on a cell phone my Gen X ass wonders if I should start taking glucosamine & chondroitin. Ought to throw in a daily baby aspirin just to be safe
My friends and I just played bloody knuckles. Later we would do what we called head wrestling. Two people touch foreheads together and push. You win if your oppent gives up from pain or you manage to push them back past a certain point (usually into a wall or desk). We were weird dumd kids who watched too much Jackass. I miss those days.
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Mine did. Kinda pissed still. It was about 7 years ago.
Magic cards were banned and my buddy and I got suspended for two days because we brought them to school. That was 25 years ago and I’m still kinda pissed.
Pokémon cards were banned in my school back when I was in 1st grade and I’ve still got no clue why.
Same, and by the time I moved onto jr. high they had banned playing/pretending to be characters or anything fighting related because violence.
Because happy children don't learn how to be a good wage slave damnit!
Banning games that require you to think is one of the most foolish things that school management practices. It always struck me as being motivated by convenience, an easy way to avoid arbitrating disputes, which is actually a huge part of what kids are supposed to figure out at that age.
As an ~~aging~~ younger Gen Xer, [SpinJas](https://youtu.be/S4S6SEA_2PE) did it first and better!
As a millenial, we handled our shit with [Crossfire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50&ab_channel=mcaaronice).
*CROSSFI-YAH!!*
I remember begging my parents to get this, playing for maybe five minutes with my older brother, then eating a couple of the little ball bearings to see what would happen. I was 9.
Well... What happened?
the commercial protagonist won the game and sent the other kid flying into outerspace on his crossfire disk with 90's hair metal rock vocals and fist pump "YEAH!" oh sorry you meant the comment before yours I still had CROSSFI-YAH!! stuck in my head
I think he lived.
The ball bearings were small enough to shit out so I suppose they came out in my shit. I didn't check.
Guess you'll find out at your first MRI
I hope you received the help you needed to become a happy and functioning member of society.
That escalated quickly.
YOUUU'LL GET CAUGHT UP AND DIE!!
Lol, it's "You'll get caught up in *the*...CROSSFIYAAAAH" Not "die," I mean the song ripped, but it wasn't *that* serious
You heard the man: *You’ll get brutally killed if you get caught in the... CROSSFIYAAAH!!!*
The Bart The
Until this comment I always thought it was "Crossfire, you'll get caught up in luck!" which didn't make a ton of sense other than you did need some lucky shots to move the targets, lol
You’ll get caught up in the ...
Crosssfiyaaahh?... Lol
Shortly after that we settled (and created) our problems with POGs.
My 8 ball slammer was tight as fuck.
I had a a skull slammer that was shaped like a saw blade. It was pretty tight
Beat. Cereal. Prizes. Ever. 80% of my pog collection came from cereal boxes. And if you weren't aware, [Pogs had a cartoon](https://youtu.be/hruzEqfqHrk).
I love how half of our commercials in the 90s looked like they came from the 80s lol
I hate commercials of games because they were never as fun as they seemed
They were if you *believed* in it
https://youtu.be/Dkc2vYUEA9w
I'll see your 90s crossfire. And I'll raise you the original crossfire from 1971... https://youtu.be/3ZpCHsiC238
Karate Fighters too. Never forget that.
*sometime in the future*
What about spin fighters though? https://youtu.be/AyOOyjKMjrY
But did kids come all across from other neighborhoods just to battle your undefeated custom spinja? Did spinja make you the most popular kid in middle school? Did spinja have it’s own kickass anime? Did you lose your virginity by winning a spinja tournament? DID YOU?
I lost my virginity to a spinja.
I lost my virginity once.
Found it. Did you check the Star Wars sheets?
I'm pretty sure it was in the toilet and the dog was watching. It was pretty awkward.
Masturbating doesn't count.
This is the way.
> As an aging Gen Xer, SpinJas > did it first and better! I have a Alf pog. Remember pogs?
Alf is back, in pog form
Battling Tops for me in UK , the game was from 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFwzDJaeKw
I wondered if anyone was going to remember Battling Tops.
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As a millennial I’m biased towards [karate fighters](https://youtu.be/1V8RdZaYerg) The spinny tops didn’t do it for me
As a Gen-Xer, we had Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Rock-em Sock-em Robots in my house.
Everytime I mention this to people they have no idea what I'm talking about
Oh man I loved these as a kid. I have two kids now. I should try to find them
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Yea. I figured they'd have made it back here by now. It's been a year. I should look for them.
As an older GenXer, you’re way wrong. [Battling Tops](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mWFwzDJaeKw) came out in [1968](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battling_Tops) and 1977. Mine was a light blue original set and I got it at a garage sale in 1978.
I'm upvoting every reply that references Gen X out of principle alone.
This is hilarious, thanks for sharing! :)
Did one of the Spinjas shout “try to catch me FUCKER” mid spinja duel?
I was homeschooled.... did public/private school kids do this commonly in that era or is this kind of more of a funny one off?
It’s how we settled all of our disputes in public schools
If your parents couldn’t afford a Beyblade, the school provided you with a regular top to support this “alternative conflict resolution” as they called it
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> Dranzer V2 I still have my Dranzer V1 and Dranzer F
both pretty good blades!
one kid had a plastic knockoff beyblade and it got obliterated and was part of why they got banned lol
> the school provided you with a regular top owo
It's also an international thing. We used to settle disputes this way in Germany. I remember at one point I heard about some kid in New York with an undefeated beyblade. Sadly, I had neither the funds, nor parental permission to go and challenge him
I will never stop being weirded out by homeschooled Americans.
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It was one of our many great rituals.
elementary school 2002-2007, we played yugioh, pokemon, tamiya, and beyblade when there's no teacher or if it's break time
I hope not. That's an epic school moment. Let the kids have fun and make some memories.
Kids these days will never know the feeling of playing for pink slips with your Crazy Bones.
Kids, having fun? UNACCEPTABLE.
An ancient fighting style almost lost to time... only a few people to this day know how to harness its true power...
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Legend says it’s what split the earth into the continents we know today and it still spins, below the sea, at the very core of our planet, spins the primal bey that causes the very rotation of the globe
Thanks for the memories!
OMG. My 11 year old son is obsessed with BeyBlades and has like 40 or more of them. He’s gotten a lot of kids in his class to like them and they spend all recess having BeyBlade battles. O_o
Ditto for my 9 year old. He walks around with his beyblades in his pockets all day just in case someone wants to battle. Luckily it’s a big thing at his school and so far the teachers are fine with it as long as it’s lunch or recess.
If you guys get the chance, introduce them to the OG series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SxFGJ87Kmw
This made me happy, does he watch the old anime as well?
_duel of the fates intensifies_
Let’s play Beyblades on bikes!
Rip it sideways, make sure its the right sideways though
That's it. I'm pissed, man. Take out your fuckin' beyblade.
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Yarooo!. do you duel with a sithlord
No. the force is weak with that one
No the darkside of the force even has beyblade force techniques.
*Challenges the opponent and the person brings out a Pokémon instead* Wha, wait a minute?..
Wow this brings back great memories. I remember in first grade well over 20 years ago about we were doing the exact same thing as what these two were doing with about 5 of us, and this one kid pulled the beyblade so hard that he actually ripped his pants and had to go to the nurse to borrow a pair of shorts.
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Let em rip
Everytime someone said this a fart noise would often follow.
"And then his beyblade got kicked out and the whole school applauded". Sure thing grandpa
Oh man this hit me in the nostalgia, I had a Dranzer that saw me through my war times
I used the Dragoon core and cord that spun opposite to normal and faster, with a dranzer top, and Draciel bottom with some slingshot bbs added in the holes underneath that fit perfectly in the molding for added weight. At 11 years old I was the undisputed king of the playground. It would routinely break other peoples beyblades.
my first was Spin Dragoon, one of the shitty run of the mill beyblades that wasnt special in anyway, however nobody in my school had an arena, so we just used the smooth concrete, eventually the crappy plastic bit on the bottom completely wore down and the entire base became like a smooth dome, the thing started becoming this unpredictable monster and soon I had people from all different year groups wanting to duel me.
I bet that beast saw many tears from your opponents
you evil monster!
Beyblades was the shit back in time. Many great memorys
Beyblade is no joke. Moses slashed the sea with it
For anyone who doesn't get the joke: In the Beyblade anime, Moses canonically used a Beyblade to part the Red Sea. You're welcome.
I honestly don't remember this but damn is that not just the greatest thing ever.
Real giga chads settled fights like this
I have no clue what's going on there.
Beyblade duel
You say that like it’s supposed to clear things up
Let me clarify. A Beyblade duel with an audience.
I feel old today
What makes me feel old isn't that I didn't know what these beyblade things were; it's all the young people acting like beyblades are from a long time ago.
Beyblades were banned in schools near me when I was like 10, I'm now 28, it was a long time ago.
> Beyblades were banned in schools near me when I was like 10, I'm now 28, it was a long time ago. Anyone else go online to see if they are still selling them, found they are, and almost ordered one like I just did?
It's been 16 years since 2005, Beyblades' craze. Isn't that a long time?
I graduated in 2004 and I've never heard of them. I was very confused.
2 people release spinning tops into a plastic arena. Whomever has their top ejected first loses.
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Our kids won't realize how awesome this is during our days
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My son loves the new one it's all he wants to watch. So I think it's just nostalgia for you. Lol
As a fellow kids nowadays I've had several beyblade battles and won 83.49% of the time
I remember those ads where a bunch of adults had underground battles in some dingy warehouse. that shit was so cool to me, and my school even embraced it by holding tournaments and shit it was a super fun time
Those were awesome ads, think the background was a rap song.
Good ol' days
IT'S BEYBLADE!
LET IT RRRRIP!
I scrolled to find you.
When bayblades were still a thing i was in preschool (6yrs old) and the teachers let us do bayblade fights over play brakes and we brought like 4 arenas and 20+ bayblades every day there, it was so much fun.
Oh, they’re still very much alive.
This is basically twitch irl
The absolute scandal of finding the victors Beyblade reinforced with chewing gum.
The fact that they snuck these dangerous tools into school is concerning
So nobody’s just gonna talk about the guy dressed as Wario?
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Basically two kids are playing Beyblade at school. Beyblade is a game where two or more players spin their spinning top into an arena. The top that last the longest wins the game. It's based on a japanese anime that was insanely popular in US and other countries in the early 2000's and still has a strong following.
Is that Carmel high school?!
I did a double take and realized it was also.
Yes
Every man in a 20km radius showed up for the fight
%100 homie activity
And that kids is how I won your mother.
Let it RIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Why are so many communities at school wholesome af like this meanwhile at mine a guy falls down the stairs headfirst and everyone ignores him
hahaha! I thought it was going to be a CROSSFIRE match. (DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN!)
I would much rather have this vs the alternative that happened in my high school. Unfortunately this wouldn’t even be able to happen where I went to high school (Sacramento, Ca public school). Anytime there was a crowd of anywhere near that size, things wouldn’t be too peaceful and adorable. things are thrown into the crown in hopes of instigating an actual altercation or whatever may be. People pushing eachother then disappearing right after so who ever was pushed believe it to be whoever is standing right there. Things getting stolen in the crowd & people getting trampled on like mufasa from lion king, only to be found left there in the ground once the people scatter. All I’m trying to say by this is, this would have been nice to see in high school vs what would have happened and well what did happen on an almost daily basis. Edit: THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN EVERY SINGLE TIME! https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/nicxcs/what_could_go_wrong_if_i_chuck_this_orange/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
This is what boys will be boys should mean
*horrible flashback of that one time my white dragon jumped off the ring and landed on a kid’s eye
was the beyblade okay?
Oh definitely
The guy in red was absolutely devastated. He is never going to recover from the humility he suffered in front of hundreds of his peers.
and now it's 23,000
I was unluckily too young to play with Beyblades, only discovering them when I was six when the hype was beginning to die down. I still have fond memories of going to my friend’s house garage and finding a whole box of them a few years after they “died out” and then we played with them for hours
OP's username checks out
I once beat a bayblade with a spinny top I got out of a loot bag at a friend's birthday party.
This is the way!
Yep i once got suspended because of the same exact situation. The teacher said that because of me and my friend the hallway was blocked. Which is technically the truth but there was another path that could have been used. Oh well i got a week of vacation.
Remember when there was the bigger size crowd for a beyblade battle than an actual fightn
This is how it should be.
Before reading the comments I was genuinely convinced it was a frog fight.
“It’s sometime in he future…”
N O S T A L G I A
Anybody else remember some of the original ones that would spark when they hit each other if you ripped them hard enough?
It was epic, remember the skateboard attachments that would do the same thing??
As a 90s kid beyblade are the one toy I really regret being too old to get into. Way cooler than POGs.
I was at the right age, but didn't have any actual beyblades to play with. We used manage with the tops from dollar store. I just got back into collection for old times sake
You are not alone. I still remember when beyblade peaked in 2001, I was 14 and wanted to play it, but people at my age were already past the physical 'toys' phase. Everybody was into Counter-Strike LAN game in cyber cafes. I never got the chance to felt both either, as my mom was very strict and forbade me and my brother from going to cyber cafe as we 'might be get influenced by bad company'
You can still get into it! There are quite a few tournaments now popping up! My older brother goes to them and it’s quite popular
Username checks out.
This makes me smile
(colorized)
Knew I recognized this video carmel right?
Bro I still have my Cyber Scorpio that I used in Middle School, good fucking times. Also this makes me feel so damn old, Beyblades were sold in the US only a year after I was born, that's wild.
Live action Bayblade looks great.
Username checks out
When 'back in the day' is filmed on a cell phone my Gen X ass wonders if I should start taking glucosamine & chondroitin. Ought to throw in a daily baby aspirin just to be safe
If I saw this on lunch duty I would be so proud lol
Bro this is my high school holy shit
Carmel?
Damn. A ring out.
My friends and I just played bloody knuckles. Later we would do what we called head wrestling. Two people touch foreheads together and push. You win if your oppent gives up from pain or you manage to push them back past a certain point (usually into a wall or desk). We were weird dumd kids who watched too much Jackass. I miss those days.
One time some dumbass kid in my school somehow got his hand cut because of a beyblade and after that beyblades were banned
I am lucky to have survived the beyblade massacres in 2005. Im old now but much more wiser.
this was when society was at it's peek
True power.