Remember these?

stokleplinger · 8 months

This is, honestly, the first time any of these "Remember these" type posts has ever made me remember something I hadn't thought of in a long time.

ZarehB · 8 months

Hitclips Alarm Clock

I still have this

zippyx · 8 months

I remember I had the original one that was like 60 second clips, and then they upgraded to the clips that were the full song and each clip was honestly 15 dollars. I could only afford one full song clip but I felt SO BOSS having a full song so small in my pocket. If I only knew of the FUTCHA!!!!!!!!

nippletang · 8 months

Owned one of those and one of these. Both were pointless as portable CD player and portable DVD players existed at the time.

conwyt · 8 months

The radio was the only one of those worth having.

AsoBit · 8 months

No, but I remember these that went into this

[deleted] · 8 months

I think about that thing every single day.

TheCaterpillar · 8 months

Commercial wait for it

jonny_wags · 8 months

NO I DON'T I HAVE AMNESIA THAT CAUSES ME TO FORGET EVERYTHING FROM THE NINETIES.

arsonisfun · 8 months

Nah, I had one of these (in blue)

derby_girl2z19 · 8 months

My mom walkways refused to buy me one of these, so I ended up stealing one from my friend Kelli. I never felt bad about it because she had another one the next day.

no shame

claychastain · 8 months

Absolutely don't remember them. I went straight from walk man tape deck to CD player to mp3 player (iPod) to iPhone. I feel like that's the normal portable music evolution.

Rot53 · 8 months

The spoiled asian girl in the playground had a flock of those clipped on her shorts.

cerva · 8 months

Why the hell did I like these so much? It was only a minute of every song!

Pannecake · 8 months

I have never once thought of these in over a decade but suddenly i'm mad at my parents at age 10 for not getting me one...that an a tomagatchi...

j-meninja · 8 months

Ah, the derp cousin of the Mp3 players

ChappyWagon · 8 months

These things were technological jokes when they came out. Who in their right mind would buy one of those aside from poor aunts buying clearance gifts for their poor grandsons?

Captain_Thrus · 8 months

shit i remember those. i think mine had ~~1000 miles by vanessa carlton~~ that michelle branch song...

ireland1988 · 8 months

Yea I do but only because my sister is 19.

rooftops · 8 months

And I still know where it is!

pokeylope · 8 months

I had Livin La Vida Loca on mine, and nothing else. I drove people nuts.

spazmodic- · 8 months

What the fuck. I thought i made this shit up. I saw these on a commercial when I was young. Later in my life, I tried bringing it up and no one knew what i was talking about, so I figured I must have made it up or saw it in a dream.

sventos · 8 months

Walking around as a kid playing "bye bye bye" shit was cash

Dani_Daniela · 8 months

I was too poor to own this :(

motoguy · 8 months

LOL!

I don't think I ever had one of my own, but I still nostalgia'd.

coasterboard · 8 months

No, actually

kira1151 · 8 months

Ugh. I had that Brittney Spears one. Now I feel old.

tylr · 8 months

Can anyone give me a name for what this thing is? I feel like I missed this, whatever it was.

cbake4 · 8 months

Nostalgia just hit me like a tsunami

sbond007 · 8 months

You made me cringe. Then I laughed.

powerhower · 8 months

oh. my. god.

anonymous4315 · 8 months

nostalgia

caitymac · 8 months

For the past couple of weeks I've been trying to remember what the hell those things were called. I felt like a badass with it, and I never thought it'd get any better. Seriously, thank you. Goal made.

khaos117 · 8 months

The only thing I have ever won in a contest was a pack of these and an alarm that played them from a box of lunchables

hank91 · 8 months

When i first saw these i thought they were fucking retarded and i still think they are fucking retarded.

JWL1092 · 8 months

AHH THE NOSTALGIA IT BUURRRNNNSSSSS

BeezowPooPoo_ZGopGop · 8 months

BURN IT WITH FIRE!

Chuck_McBuff · 8 months

I used to have penpal in India. I was young at the time, we were both the same age. He once sent me this incredible gift through the mail, he sent two hand carved wooden elephants. It was incredible and such an amazing gift. I then in returned sent him the Hit Clips to India. I feel like such a loser for sending that considering how awesome his gift was.

theworsttasteinmusic · 8 months

I went to read the Wikipedia page on HitClips but FFFFUUUUUUUUU

tigglet · 8 months

wasdy1 · 8 months

No man, I do believe you would get your ass kicked for something like that.

[deleted] · 8 months

oh yeah? http://www.bandai.com/tamagotchi/

kceb · 8 months

Totally had the Backstreets one. I found it again while I was moving and listened to the tiny clip of music on it for the longest time.

superfantastique · 8 months

i never knew anyone else that had one. I didnt even know it existed until i got one for christmas. Its terrible how many times i listened to the 30 second clip from "Stronger"

3wordresponse · 8 months

No, I don't

Khyrdantai · 8 months

My boyfriend claims he has no idea what these are. His parents are awful people to neglect his childhood so.

[deleted] · 8 months

No. I don't.

abbisail · 8 months

I had at least 20 different clips AND the clip that played the radio! Even though that hardly ever worked and it only got like one station. Also, I had the little robot that danced to the beat. And the stereo. Yeah... 3rd grade...

darkevilemu · 8 months

My friend had one. The coolest part wasn't even the music, it was using the single earpiece to pretend you were part of the secret service.

nastshabast · 8 months

oublie · 8 months

... It took me a good moment before I went "OH MY GODDD, I REMEMBER THOSE."

I'm getting senile in my old age. ;(

ERAlderidge · 8 months

Nostalgia'd so hard. Only ever used it like twice but those two times were pure happiness.

dhockey63 · 8 months

yes!!! I had a shitload of those little discs! They werent even the whole songs :/ just parts of them

XxChompahxX · 8 months

I STILL have like 40 of those little clips, and 2 or 3 of the players. I was an avid collector. I should really see if they're worth any money these days.

d3jg · 8 months

Unfortunately, I do...

mizzmini · 8 months

I saw one of those once and had convinced myself for the intervening years that it was a dream. Cool to know it wasn't.

Stormdancer · 8 months

Yes.

Beezwhammer · 8 months

It was this, then the juice box. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-OybUC-qiw&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

RoosterCogburnhad1_I · 8 months

Yeah just like the pocket rockers; down on the corner, feel the beat, pocket rocker got the music get and feel the beat.

Trevor1993 · 8 months

I was so young when these came out. I had the britney spears strongerone but I can't remeber if I had the N Sync one. They were from mcdonalds right? Those also didn't even have the whole song. I was just like half or a part of it.

mynameisgoose · 8 months

I remember those. Didn't have anything on this baby though.

I guess the only downside was the FM reception sucked ass and it took a million D batteries.

...okay, yeah it sucked.

CallmeIrish · 8 months

Ohhhh shit!

Exact response; thanks for the nostalgia!

MarySwanson · 8 months

What?

In 2002, Hitclips earned Tiger Electronics approximately $80 million.

D33GS · 8 months

I do remember these and now I feel really old.

iceagecoming · 8 months

Oh my god!!! Those were the best, I think I had that same exact one also!

03Titanium · 8 months

I never had one of these. I only saw one or two when I was a kid. And I always thought they were dumb.

priceisalright · 8 months

I remember when McDonalds put these in the kids meals for a while. The funny thing is that they didn't even play long enough to hear a whole song.

pHreaksYcle · 8 months

I remember getting the FM radio for this bitch and covering it in my ear with one hand, pretending to rest on my hand in class. No headphone cord, smallest radio ever, stayed awake in grade school. Score.

BrotimeAtBrojangles · 8 months

Blast from the past.

Gamegirlab · 8 months

I STILL HAVE ONE! ^{^}

Exostenza · 8 months

No, I don't.

rockstang · 8 months

nope. I went from discman to ipod

N1njab0x · 8 months

Holy crap! I remember these!

qwertykyle · 8 months

i remember going to mcdonalds or wherever with my dad to get one, and they were sold out. But my sister got one...

B-ruckis · 8 months

I have the same Nsync song sitting in the same device under my couch right now...

Azimutha · 8 months

i had that.. made my dad wonder for awhile... oh god why?

WorldGenesis · 8 months

Oh wow, I remember these. I never had one because I had a CD player at the time along with a series of burnt CDs. I still think they're neat and a very simplistic design. :D

siphontheenigma · 8 months

I remember thinking these were behind their time when they came out. I mean, why buy part of a song on physical media with terrible sound quality when it was free to swap and burn CD's with your friends?

Catch22af · 8 months

I remember these ..they were the songs my sister listened to. Not me...just my sister.

Peaches666 · 8 months

Pretty sure that when these came out, most kids knew that they were complete shit.

FreeMoustacheRide · 8 months

I got one of these with a horrid song from a band I didn't even like. The song cut off in like a minute and it was so stupidly expensive and useless.

BlackCoffeeNoSugar · 8 months

Um.. No, I don't. Wtf are these?!

Sindelian · 8 months

Cuz now I'm STROOOONGEEERRR

goodalan · 8 months

"angel" by shaggy was my jam

Ace_Mazta · 8 months

fuckin yes! your social rank was based on this

Softkore · 8 months

biggest waste of money ever

jinkieslove · 8 months

holly fuck i remember theses i thought i was cool for having them. i would beg my mom to buy me happy meals when they came out

Silverkarn · 8 months

I do remember these, and i thought they were cool for a total of 5 minutes when i saw the commercial for the first time, then i promptly forgot about them until now.

mightgetdownvoted · 8 months

I had a blue dancing ROBOT that played these things and rolled around and fucking danced to it it was the coolest fucking thing i had. I can't find info on it anywhere though...

Robstaley · 8 months

holy fucking shit. yes.

drbeanz · 8 months

OMG!!!!! I fucking loved hit clips!!! I had the boom box one and even went as far as getting the radio transmitter for it....good times.

Bustycops · 8 months

I don't know what's worse that I remember these, or that I remember my sister had these when they were popular but I never really cared because I was "too old" for them (well mostly I had a computer full of Napster stuff by then).

I feel like an old nerdy geezer.

Dreamrunner · 8 months

Had a blue one, took it to school, teacher took it... teacher never gave it back. .. brb hunting down that teacher..

inthe_meantime · 8 months

I actually just came across about 30 HitClips and 3 different HitClips players when cleaning out my room. I used to spend all my allowance on them...

Trikester · 8 months

I had the boombox style one. I still have it and it still works! I sometimes use it as a radio

Iroc1989 · 8 months

Mind blown completely forgot bout these

Regeneracy · 8 months

Yeah, but I was a little busy listening to my motherfucking Diamond Rio 500. 64MB plus an optional 32MB Smart Media card, bitches. that's right... Slightly more than one CD worth of audio on ONE DEVICE (with an awkward manual transition between media). There is only one better way of listening to the Neverhood soundtrack...

ddddbbbb · 8 months

PastaOfMuppets · 8 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitClips

In 2002, Hitclips earned Tiger Electronics approximately $80 million.

Holy crap, dude.

techmaster242 · 8 months

Remember these? Geez it was like five years ago.

Remember these?

Whatmemesrmadeof · 8 months

deargrace · 8 months

This reminded me of skip-it's for some reason.

billyboogie · 8 months

spookydoom · 8 months

As soon as I saw that, repressed memories came rushing back to me. Wow. Those haven't crossed my mind in years!

jingalings · 8 months

ironicshelf · 8 months

I had this. And those same tracks. In that same color. Wait a minute...

redditchao999 · 8 months

I wish I didn't.

sanhedrinx666 · 8 months

NOPE.

meganahs · 8 months

I wish I held on to mine... I had the mini stereo.

krevo · 8 months

No. No I do not.

AlexDeLarge4848 · 8 months

These introduced me to music.

Radejax · 8 months

I remember my niece begging me for these, the shit i used to do for my nieces.. the worse was getting up at 2am camping outside toysrus to get furbies and elmos and that dumbass hillbilly stuffed animal that talked backwards.. what was that things name? its been haunting me for years

jacks-colon · 8 months

Cresent04 · 8 months

Dear God.... what have we created..

Burn them, burn them all before the new generation finds out what we have created.

skysurfer88 · 8 months

I still have mine floating around the junk drawer somewhere. i got a yellow one with part of a backstreet boys song cartridge, and my brother got a red one with an aron carter song.

doesntgetreddit · 8 months

No. Shit. I just turned old.

iplaw · 8 months

I remember buying myself the first generation iPod. The one with the spinning wheel. I think I paid $700 with tax for it.

First person I knew to own an iPod. I had to buy a Mac computer in order to use it; then purchased ephPod so it would work on my PC, too.

NoctGent · 8 months

i remember thinking how absolutely retarded the idea of these were when they came out.

Lady_Azure · 8 months

I have the little stereo these went into. I still have tons of the song cartridges too. :)

meowsymcdermott · 8 months

HOLYSHITFUCK.

Ah nostalgia you sick sonuvabitch.

TupTup · 8 months

I don't remember these and i'm glad of it.

bananaghost · 8 months

So many repressed memories...

dweebo777 · 8 months

Yes. Thank you for this. I was trying to explain this to someone the other day but we could not freakin remember the name of this goofy thing. I can't tell you how many times i listened to the same 15 seconds of that one Shania Twain song or Britney Spears one.

NexusCloud · 8 months

THE FUTURE.

mustachebro · 8 months

I still own mine and I take it with me to the gym. I have brittney spears, n'sync, backstreet boys etc..

basicseacat · 8 months

No. I don't. I think that's good? (extended "good", end in upward inflection)

memeaddictedchick · 8 months

I still had mine till a year ago. The headphone got crushed. Lol

[deleted] · 8 months

I remember the commercials, but I was too old for them when they came out. A minute of a song I hate? No thanks.

But this is the best "Remember x" post in a looong time.

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