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...Now that the next Makai Tournament is about to begin..what will our heros do? 

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:54 am


I guess the events in this roleplay are taking place around 1996~1997 or so....
From what I knew,the original story in the manga ends during 1993~1994 approximatively...
I didn't read anywhere what year it was supposed to be when the manga first started... usually the mangaka draws a manga that he imagines takes place in the present (usually same year in which the author is when he was drawing ).
So we can assume the story begins around 1990.
After that comes Yusuke's revival /Genkai's tournament-training (can't remember exactly how long that lasted,but a few months for sure), then comes the saint beasts saga (that was probably 1-2 days long) , rescuing Yukina (that too about 2-3 days long), dark tournament (..That lasted probably for a week or two )..then the Sensui ark...hmm...that one I couldn't follow with too much attention...so I'm not sure how long that one took... (probably around a few days/weeks as well).
The comes the 3 kings saga that lasted for 2~3 years.
Some sources say it lasted 3 years,while in the anime,during the last episode, Kuwabara mentions that Keiko had waited for Yusuke for 2 years...so that is a little confusing...
So,with all those put together..it would result the last episode/chapter took place around mid 1993~1994.
Adding the 3 years gap between 2 tournaments would result,the events in our current roleplay take place in 1996~1997 or so.....
Hmm.......so I guess no Ipods and Ipads for our OCs neutral

Feel free to rant about this 'time travel' phenomenon  
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:36 am


Well, on the bright side, think of the technology that IS at our characters disposal, at least during their normal lives: Tv, Playstation 1, the N64 would have hit the scene not too long ago (or was that 98?), Even so, the gaming systems around would probably not...be, what was pictured in the meeting room...what with having a mysterious Xbox there >.>

Things that people might not have realized were not around in 96 to 97:
most people did not have cell phones, beepers/pagers were more common.
Personal Digital Assistants were not common at all (unless you had one from work, usually)
Dvd players, even if they were around, they were monstrously, prohibitively expensive.
There were no mp3 players.
There were no thumbdrives, most people made due with 1.4 mb of space on a 3.5" floppy disk (notepad files are good for saving space).
Laptops were expensive, and thus, few and far between. They also kind of sucked and had a little nob thing in the center of the keyboard for mouse functions instead of a touch pad.
PC's were expensive and ran on windows 95 or 98.
The internet was still pretty new to the public. There were no streaming media sites, because everyone was on dial up, usually a 56k connection was considered pretty good. If you were lucky, you had two phone lines, and could thus stay online as much as you wanted. If you did not, the moment someone picked up a phone line, it would interrupt the internet signal and boot you off line. It also made terrible noises when you connected to the internet.
Gaia did not yet exist, forum roleplaying was thus that much harder to find.
Cars did not tend to come with remotes that could lock, unlock, start, or open doors from a distance. You got a key, maybe 2, that was it.
Digital cameras were hideously expensive. It was cheaper to buy a disposable camera, or a real camera and simply get film for it. By extension, cell phones did not have built in cameras.
The cell phones that did exist at the time only made phone calls. It was considered amazing. That they had an answering machine service linked to them as well was similarly impressive.
People had actual answering machines with little tapes in them.
CD's were on the rise, but people still used casset tapes.
VHS tapes ruled the market place at this time, having bumped out the higher quality beta max tapes with their low low prices. Certain industries also got behind the VHS format and through their favoring of it, locked it in as the format of choice.
You had to go to a movie rental store to rent movies, and they were in VHS.
Computers with a hard drive space of 8 gigabytes were considered 'good'.
Flash games did not yet exist.
Newgrounds and it's club a seal flash game did not yet exist (the first flash game it had).
Hyperstudio was the name of a program that existed. You could make choose your own adventure games with it through the interactive button making if you really wanted to. I'm not sure what happened to that program.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:28 am


Sagetim

Wow,true. Also, during that time,pokemon was newly released in Japan (red and green version,later adapted into red and blue for the international market)
And yes,N64 was also released in 1996.
People used listen to music on the streets trough a walkman or those gigantic radios smile ) etc...
The 90's were the best years ever,in my opinion.
Honestly...good times.. I really miss them *sighs*


Also,about the xbox and stuff that can be found in the rooms...well... I made those rooms looong time ago (most of them at least),made for a roleplay that took place in more modern times...so I reused them,before thinking about the time paradox xd
Eh,well....this is makai anyway...we can pretend some of the youkai were able to travel in time and kidnap people and stuff and bring them to the makai 90's? xDDDD or anything as lame as that xDDDD
..anyway,there's no way in heck I'm gonna make new rooms just so those xboxes and computers vanish emotion_donotwant
I'll go with the time travel nonsense emotion_awesome
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