Episode 507 — The Bad 90s Show
Submitted by Darren on March 31, 2009 – 10:07 pm32 Comments
This April 1st we bring you a gem* from the archives. Recently dig’d from a super VHS tape it’s Hak5 episode 507 from 1995. We take a peak at a Windows 95 “chicago” beta build, get our phone phreaking on, and review one of the latest SNES games.
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Show Notes
Every geek should take a look at Windows Chicago Build 58 — it’s classic.
Special Information Tones can be used for all sorts of interesting things.
The Lion King for SNES is honestly one of the better Disney games of its time.
We’ll be back next week with an awesome episode from 2009!
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Pure and simple entertainment. Great work! Something different to keep me amused. What a cool flash back. Short and sweet and I had to watch it to the end. Happy April fools day — you bunch of fools…..
I lolled so hard it wasn’t even funny. Well done, lol.
Wicked Episode guys… lol… I loved the show today… as C Rob said man… Great Flash back.. I reckon have a little segment of flash back of bits and pieces.. so we can re-live the pains of dialling up with a HAYES 2400 modems… and EDO RAM.. or even older stuff… lol
Nice april fools joke guys, now for the primetime content
Haha, awesome. And I totally remember that Lion King game. Woah the feel of nostalgia is totally taking over, hmmmm….real button cheats….hip hop….fresh prince of bel air……VHS…….pentium processors….pagers and other stuff like that….
dude fuck everyone else, Matt looks bad-ass.
I did’n get it. Have they upload an old episode? What a mistake!
I love the GDC *2009*
That was kind of a flashback to when I was 14 trolling BBSes, playing Legend of the red dragon, and beating Super nintendo games. Really weird flashback to see where some of our current Windows functionality originated. Oh, and Shannon’s sis is pretty cute.
Extreme lol @ “The number you have called is not in service….bleh blah bleh bleh bla!”
Great “episode” guys!
File Manager wasn’t really new in Windows 95 though, and why focus on minimizing windows. Would be better if you showed us the new control panel or the networking options.
Brilliant episode, pure genius, can’t wait to see what u come up with next.
Dude, seriously, we should hit up doom on the LAN, I mean .. why not?!
Lion King… I remember I had the same exact one for the Genesis. It was fucking impossible D:<.
Loved the episode – and I need a pair of Matt’s glasses
I like the way its episode 507 from 1995, yet Windows Chicago Build 58 came out in 93 and the final version of 95 was released on August 24 1995.
sounded more like the vista release plan
That didnt have any info on haking or whatnot. Whats up?
loved it! I think you should have focused more on hardware though. Now where’s my Packard Bell, P75?!
Funny Stuff, thou the DVD, Blu-ray during the Netflix kind of broke the reality.
That was hilarious! XD
Very nice guys, loved it
Gotta say though, I’m a Donkey Kong fanboy… would’ve loved a DKC 1 review or 2 plug in there. Great nostalgia
around 1:48 When Matt is talking about the case mod, the video looks like it glitches or was cut weirdly and goes to a totally different segment on the xvid and mp4 file.
@Nullspace, that was intentional
This isn’t from the 90′s ? Dude this is this week !
Hey, no fair you tricked me ….
Awesome Gag … Should have shown a Turbo Button MOD or something like that as for in 1995 the more fortunate had the Pentium CPU, and less fortunate such as myself was still running on the 80486 33 Mhz…lol
Or better yet, overclocking the 486 DX 66 to 83 Mhz and then come up with rediculous water cooling ( Garden Hose and sump with rubbermaid water storage tank ) and LED lit case etc with the older style RED, ORANGE, or GREEN “only” available colors for 1995…although the modern bling would clash with 1995 style systems, but LEDs have been around since the 70s so its possible to bling out a 486 in 1995
Maybe next year! =)
If only all the episodes where like that. I really like the phreaking segment you should do more of them.
I kinda skipped through the episode…i’m tending to a lot of that lately.
Sorry for being a straight shooter.
Guys,
Luvd the show. You missed one thing, near the end of the show you said to go to bbs.hak5.org. You should have built a simple joke page for it.
Keep it up.
Ron, from Charleston SC
@Ron M, try telnetting to bbs.hak5.org
I know I’m late, but just had to say that this was a fantastic show. Loved the nostalgia!
wow, that was very good,
the scene on the clip preview does not seem to be in the show?
OMG!!! One of the best episode that I’ve seen!!! Great!