LOVED that game- wish it would make a comeback.
Has MySpace been mentioned yet?
Ducky Mallard = swooooon!
Let me put it this way: Coolio is now touring with Insane Clown Posse and just got a tattoo in which he misspelled “juggalo”.
Nana Mouskouri, perhaps? Supposedly she is one of the best-selling singers ever (300 million records), but I only know of her from always seeing her records in thrift stores.
I was reading an article just recently that talked about the uniqueness of the generation who grew up in teh 1970s and early 1980s. Pretty much my generation (I’m late 30s) due to an interesting time in the technology window.
It was making an interesting observation that by my generation (in North America) it had almost reached the point where there was a TV in every households but video playback devises were NOT equally widespread yet, and there weren’t as many media channels. So we were experiencing some major media “events” (whether news or entertainment) all together, all at the same time. So stuff like the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode of Dallas was way bigger than it possibly would have been today.
The three major networks put no fewer than 26 western series on the primetime TV schedule for 1959-1960. By the fall of 1975 that number was zero.
Yep…interestingly, I’ve never seen the TV version. According to the info snippet provided by Botar’s Old Time Radio, my favorite radio program podcast:
Farscape. For some strange reason it has almost completely fallen off the radar, at least as compared to other contemporary sci-fi/fantasy dramas, like the Treks, B5, Buffy/Angel, even Battlestar or the Stargates. I don’t know if it’s because no networks (at least in the States) are showing any reruns, or what; Exhibit A is the meager 4 votes over at BoneTheFish, while B5 has 85, and even Xena has 65 (even Herc has 24). Perhaps it didn’t quite qualify as a “huge” success while on the air…
That’s sort of still around. Or else how do you explain the existence of Deepak Chopra?
AOL. It’s still a huge company but they have many diversified interests now; when most Internet users were still dial up and pay per minute the “You’ve Got Mail” was probably the most heard electronic voice in existence, but now, it’s almost nostaligic when you hear it. (And those ‘over’ fees- damn!)
Compuserve also- huge in the late 90s. I bought one of my computers with a $400 rebate check from them for agreeing to a 3 year service contract. Now it’s rare that you see a compuserve email address even.
Tom Jones might not register much in the US (not that I know), but in the UK his latest album charted at number 2, so hardly forgotten. Peggy Lee is also still relatively well recognised, and it would be difficult even today not to have heard at least one of her songs.
I had accounts on Prodigy and Sierra On-line. 
I notice Pearl S. Buck books because my mother has several of them: some of them crop up regularly in Spain in “universal literature” collections. “East Wind: West Wind”, “Pavilion of Women”…
I’ll have to see about getting that biography of Buck if it gets published in Spanish, it could make a great present for Mom.
She and Joni James (100 million records) should team up for a comeback tour, lol!
I think Johnny Carson will be completely forgotten in a few years. He stopped being the host of the Tonight Show 18 years ago, so he’s pretty much a non-entity for everyone under 30. And the shows never get rerun.
Similarly, if Ed Sullivan hadn’t had the Beatles on, would anyone remember him?
Who remembers Solid Gold and Dance Fever? (with Danny Terio!)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
On our second date, my now-girlfriend (who had been very reticent up to that point) pointedly asked me: “Do you like Johnny Carson”? When I responded in the affirmative, she went into an adoring spiel about her favorite Carson moments.
She’s 24.
Carson lives.
For that matter, westerns have all but disappeared from television and cinema.
Gothic romances were way big 30 or 40 years ago. Totally dead now.
Harold Robbins. Sold more than 750,000,000 books in his heyday. Most of his work still seems to be in print, but when was the last time you saw anybody reading one or even heard his name?
Weird juxtaposition. I once met Richard Bach in a celebrity chat forum hosted by CompuServ over a smoking 1200 baud connection.
Is JLS not popular any more? I’m still meaning to read the Spanish translation “Juan Salvador Gaviota” one of these days. (One these days after I learn enough Spanish.)