Category: 50s to 90s

Does anyone remember the game Simon (pictured above)? I’ve asked a few people around the office and even showed them pictures but none of them seem to remember it. They sell for really cheap on eBay.

The video was taken by a camera man was embedded in the convoy that took Sheikh Jaber from the airport to his home after his arrival to Kuwait following its Liberation. [YouTube]

Thanks NiceQ8i

I downloaded season 1 of the 80’s cartoon, Danger Mouse a few days ago and yesterday I watched a few episodes and it rocks! I used to love it when I was a kid (I think on Saudi channel 2) but even watching it now the show is still really good. His sidekick Penfold is probably the dorkiest of all sidekicks ever but he’s also the funniest. The James Bond franchise should seriously take a look at Danger Mouse and learn a thing or two. You can watch the intro to the cartoon on youtube by clicking [Here]

I would be curious to see the first MTC commercial…

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Just found a blog called q8istuff.blogspot.com that has some cool vintage pictures related to Kuwait. I found two posts so far, one of the Free Kuwait demonstrations and meetings in London taken after the Iraqi invasion in 1990, and the second set of pictures are of the Kuwait football team from the late 70’s and early 80’s. The Kuwaiti football ones are extremely fascinating.

Here is the link to the Free Kuwait Pictures. [Link]

Here is the link to the Kuwaiti football team pictures. [Link]

The baby on the Nirvana’s Nevermind album is now 17!

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Over 80 intros to cartoons from the 80’s including Gummi Bears, My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Snorks, Bionic Six (my fav), Care Bears and more. [Link]

In 1988 a Kuwait Airways Boeing was hijacked and diverted to Algiers while on its way to Kuwait from Bangkok. The hijacking lasted 16 days and ended with a Naval Officer from the Kuwaiti Royal Family being killed along with another Kuwaiti military person. The Algerian authorities allowed the hijackers to escape in exchange for the remainder of the 110 people aboard to be set free. (Wikipedia)

This is a video sporty4ever uploaded on to YouTube which is of the plane returning back to Kuwait after the hijacking.

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This was an actual commercial that was released!

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This by far has to be the cheesiest vintage commercial yet. Whats up with the Russian mail order brides?

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There are four guys who have been uploading a ton of old videos that used to be played on KTV back in the 80s and 90s onto YouTube for us to view. The four guys are (in no particular order):

hummer15al
sporty4ever
NiceQ8i
k0003

I would like to just say thank you to them because they have really been doing an amazing job. If you would like to view the videos they have uploaded just click on their names above.

I remember the yellow Koala being a lot cuter then this!
He kinda looks creepy here.

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Thanks again K0003

Don’t know if many of you will remember these, I remember the theme songs more then the actual videos.

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Thanks to K0003 for uploading them

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Here is a video divided into two parts of some POW’s arriving to Kuwait in buses after the Gulf War.

Video Part 1
Video Part 2

Thanks RJV