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I remember it was somewhat expensive. Or at least too much for my parents to waste on a sugary cereal of limited nutritional value. I never got to try it, but I knew the commercial made it seem cool. We didn’t even have a video game console, so I guess this shitty commercial really seemed awesome at the time. Man, this one kid in my class had an old Atari, and he was ashamed that it wasn’t a Nintendo. I couldn’t stop telling him how awesome it was and how lucky he was to have it, because it was way cooler than my Tiger Electronics handheld LCD Ghostbusters game. Which was the only video game I had, that my grandma saved a lot to be able to afford. I probably made him play that system for hours and he was probably bored every minute!
Nowadays, a PC game is trivial to buy and I can run anything I want on an emulator. But I can’t have that cereal that doesn’t exist anymore. I’m way too old to want to eat something so clearly bad for my middle aged body anyway.
It’s amazing how trivial things back then were built up in my head.
I never got to taste this cereal, but the consensus seems to be it was bad.
It really is a bit more trivial as adults to buy games most of the time. I do think it kind of takes some of the magic out of it. When I was young I had to be wise on what game I chose, because that game needed to last me a year.
One of the things I really miss from my childhood was cereal. I loved the routine of Saturday morning cartoons with cereal. When I was older and I did’t have those weekend mornings I switched to eating it at night as a treat. Given I now know what’s in it, it’s certainly a life style I can never go back to.
It’s funny how utterly inverted our experiences are. I heavily regret the amount of dried, packaged, sugary foodstuffs that I ate. We had so much fruit and veg and dairy available, and instead I opted for jam and cereal and soda, never realizing why I felt weak and lethargic.
Oh don’t get me wrong. Looking back, I do regret how much cereal I ate. It still doesn’t stop me from missing the ritual. I tried other “healthier” options as an adult, but I decided there wasn’t really a good replacement and that I should just establish better routines as an adult.
When I was a little kid, I absolutely loved waffle crisp cereal. My father said the smell was intolerable so I couldn’t keep it in the house, which meant that I could only eat it for one week a year at summer camp.
I made that cereal absolutely perfect in my memory, which made it even more disappointing when I bought some as an adult to try.
First, my dad was right, it is stanky. Second, it’s only sugar. There’s no flavor, except for artificial maple, which is gross af. Third, it gave me heartburn, which just made me feel even further removed from my childhood.
Funny how the commercial has to explain how the amorphous blobs are related to Zelda and Mario.
It was ok.
Like Captain crunch but more bland. Not bad but not great.
It’s so gross that huge corporations were legally allowed to indoctrinate and poison kids with this crap.
I want some Capitalist Crunch. Oops, All Poor! edition.
That’s an empty box with fucked up plastic, and cereal dust.
And the toy is an empty syringe without the plunger.
That cereal was ass.
