RETROGENERATION: 1992 - Where were you?

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Where were you and what were you doing in 1992?

Jog your memories here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992

[blueshift]

Aug 8, 2012 9:47:22 GMT @grahamt said:

Where were you and what were you doing in 1992?

Jog your memories here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992

I would have been 8/9! ;D

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I was in Year 10 at school in 1992 and 14 years old. So, first year of doing GCSEs then.

I was very much into rave music and all that entailed. Glow sticks, whistles, those weird colour changing teeshirts and so on.

Also: my beloved Amiga 500. How I loved that computer!!

Transformers-wise I was getting the Action Masters and the likes of Overlord and the Motorvators, blissfully unaware of the fact they were UK-only!

And without the comic it was just me and my imagination when it came to TFs, so by the time I started seeing/getting the Turbomasters and Predators I had formed my own "generation 2" in my mind.

[Bogatan]

June 1992 I was in Florida for the second time buying up lots of heavily reduced Actionmasters and Micromasters. Also got my first pair of inline skates, which I attempted to use in the carpeted hallways, before heading out around the carpark and international drive the next morning.

September I started my last year of primary school, it may have also been the birthday I got Overlord. It was between it and Thunderclash and for maybe the first time I chose the decepticon option, I feel it was the right call.

Christmas brought with it my first console, the mighty SNES and a lack of transformers as I remember it. though it was probably then that I bought a second hand original boxed Prime for £20.

TVAM ended and so there was no Timmy Mallet, this made me terribly sad at the time as aside from entertaining, he and the show could be really informative.

[Benn]

Before I wander over to the wiki page for me, what I remember of 1992 was... Nirvana, Metallica and Nigel Mansell.

I had no toys that year, was plowing towards my GCSE's and had no idea what the future held or what I wanted to do.

Transformers-wise, I don't remember seeing them in shops, was never bought any, but was still drawing them, from copying Wildmans latter day splash pages (Shockwave vs. Scorponok springs to mind) to my own doodles.

[Andy Turnbull]

1992, I was in Scone, going to school in Perth. I was in third year/starting fourth year.

I'd stopped picking up the toys, wasn't much into music then. Drawing Transformers, X-Men and playing football was pretty much my life at that point.

Computer wise I was rocking the C64 still. Good times.

Andy

[The Doctor]

I was in 2nd year of High School and dreaming of escape and was heavily into Star Trek: The Next Generation and wondering when the heck Doctor Who would be back on the telly.

-Ralph

[Hero]

In Year 10 and starting Year 11 in September. On my final chance at School and kept my head down as the HoY was looking for any excuse to permanently exclude me.

Was buying the Transformers Collected Comics whenever they were out.

Made the most out of my BBC Model B on the weekends and used it to write my first ever fanzine - MegaGames.

Heavily into TMNT also, and endured the worst paper-round ever to save religiously for a SNES. I finally got it January the following year. Could not buy toys, just the occasional magazine/comic.

[legios]

In 1992 I was going into the second year of my undergraduate degree up in Aberdeen. Starting to read a lot of C J Cherryh novels (I tore through most of her Alliance/Union stuff that year), exploring the intricacies of UseNet, Gopher, and NCSA Mosaic.

Computer-wise I was using university-owned machines, splitting my time between the windows machines in the main labs and the SPARC stations in one of the side labs.

I was also learning to drink alcohol properly - thanks to the Aberdeen University SF&F Society. And it was in this period that I started my career as a fanzine contributor - serving as a fiction contributor and book-reviewer-of-last-resort for the society's 'zine.

Karl

[chrisl]

I was 10 that November, playing NES still, listening to G n R and Nirvana, not getting much TF wise. Probably the classics, Turbomasters and some reissued cartoons on VHS. Went on holiday to Majorca that summer and my bro bought a high quality Landcross KO.

[garrybodsworth]

I would be buying 2000AD, reading lots of comics through ACE Comics and a local newsagent with huge COMAG stickers. Also, I would have been buying loads of computer magazines and maligning the fact that the PC is not as good as the Amiga.

I would probably have been programming using QBasic on MS-DOS 6 or DR-DOS (can't remember exactly which one we had at the time).

Garry

[jameso]

I was well into football in 1992, and during that year's European Championships (in Sweden) I was in France on a year 6 school trip and our teacher could speak french, so my main memory is him listening to the aftermatch analysis on french tv and working out that both England and France had unexpectedly been knocked out in the group stages.
When I was younger I was basically into one thing for about a year at the expense of anything else, so I have no music or Transformers memories from 1992, just football.

[Mark_Stevenson]

I was 13 and had just returned from living in New Zealand.

[skillex]

I was 12 years old and went into second year of high school. It was probably around then I gave up on toys and packed them all up into my parents' loft and my old Transformers and MOTU comics went into my parents' garage. Notably none were chucked out and almost all now live in my flat alongside all the new toy and comic stuff I have bought in the last decade or so.

It would be the year that I first bought Doctor Who New Adventures novels, a novel line that cemented and made my love for Doctor Who. I bought Timewyrm: Revelation and Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible from John Menzies in Perth. Embrassingly, I can likely date events from the next few years after this by what NA I was reading at the time. I also started getting Doctor Who Magazine.

Also just beginning to get into music, which would blossom into a very teenage interest in indie bands and cultural association with them a few years later.

[Kingoji]

I would have been 11, and just started at high school. I had no friends follow me to my classes from my junior school, and didn't start making any new ones until much later in the year (all of whom are still very much in my life, and I'm very grateful that I was lucky enough to find those particular people).

I had always been drawing, but I don't think Transformers was something I was doing a lot of at that time. I think I was more into TMNT at that point, but most of what I drew came from movies. Aliens, Predators and Godzilla were biro'd all over the insides of my folders.

Oh! Actually, my big thing at that point was Spider-Man. I had just discovered The Exploits Of Spider-Man, and in particular the final chapters of 'The Osborn Legacy'. Since all my memories of superheroes before then were the likes of the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon or Adam West's Batman, I was stunned at how serious and mature these stories were.

Music wise, I was always a Queen and Madness kid, but was just getting turned on to the heavier side of music by my brother, though I would sooner tease him about it than admit it at the time.

I had probably started to discover anime and manga by then as well. I certainly had a lot of love for Guyver throughout high school.

[Marc Graham]

In 1992 I'd have been 15 and entering final year of secondary school. Imagine hell on earth, it wasn't as nice as that. Was so glad when I finally escaped - literally I considered it an escape, the school was designed like a prison - rectangle with yard in the center - most of the windows had bars and there was regular disturbances that bordered on rioting.

Good times.

[Shockprowl]

Blimey Marc, sounds rough to say the least. Never ceases to amaze me how decent people can come out of unpleasant surroundings.


In 1992 I was 18, living in sunny God's country. I was at colleage doing, er, Social Services I think, or somethig like that. And, shock horror, I WAS NOT collecting Transformers, or any other toys. I wasn't reading comics no nawt. I'd stopped all that a coupla years before, and didn't see the light again until 2000ish. I know, terrible. I call them my 'Dark Years'. I was heavily into karate and chasing after girls. Makes me sound like a bit of a lad, but I wasn't at all. Whereas I wasn't too bad at karate, I was rubbish at chasing girls!

[Marc Graham]

Slight thread hijack - but yea, School was terrible, parents wanted me to attend mixed religion school in Northern Ireland, there was only one in town (state school), they opened an integrated school few years later and my crappy school closed....