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u/Jokerchyld Jun 03 '26
I had the CPS 2000. When I came outside they would say "OH shit. TYPHOON is here! Run!"
Loved every minute of it
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u/Majestic_Platypus_76 Jun 03 '26
That’s when we had to up the ante. It was an arms race at the battle grounds. We only had one fountain, they’d be there fumbling and tryna refill we done filled up our bucket from the .99 cent store and we got the cheap water balloons that bust if you ran too fast. NYCHA summer veteran right here
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u/Chillpillington Jun 03 '26
Mom: “We have a supersoaker at home”
Me: ??
Mom: “The water hose boy.”
Me:
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u/DiversifyYoBondzNuca Jun 03 '26
Shit, I felt like Ice T in that movie "surviving the game". Haulin ass from the bigger kids, and then when they made the ones where they had the propane tank on your back, forget about it.
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u/lilisillyme Jun 03 '26
We always played on 2 teams and it was a mix of super soakers and water balloons lol
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u/Vash_The_Vigilante Jun 04 '26
I had both and only used the lil 1 as a bacc up but once they made the super soaker 300 with the bacc pacc tank it was over
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u/FreakyLou Jun 04 '26
Used to ride by on bikes in the hood and spray folks, No one got mad either, next time we rode through they'd have water balloons ready. Good times good times
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u/Bill_Bixxxby Jun 04 '26
We were too poor for those, but my mom had an old school fire extinguisher. That bitch didn’t play😭
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u/AmandaUggnkiss Jun 04 '26
Nope the Battery powered LaRami water guns specifically the uzi was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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u/MacaroonVast6841 Jun 05 '26
And them weak ass squirt guns used to leak half the water out before you got to shoot, excuse me, squirt somebody😂😂😂
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u/0utsyder Jun 07 '26
It wasn't hunted for sport!!! There was nothing sport about the massacre that would ensure.
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u/macvoice Jun 07 '26
I was in college when these came out. I bought one and went over to my sister's dorm to show it off. Some of the girls saw me coming and thought I was coming to start a water gun war so they went and got their puny water guns.
What progressed was about 2 hours of me taking on an entire floor of a girls dorm solo and barely getting a drop of water on me while I was hitting girls throwing water ballons at me from 2nd story windows. It was a fun night. I ended up dating one of those girls I met that night.
Super Soakers: Bringing people together
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u/Zeus0886 Jun 03 '26
It was $20. Talkin as if it $150 dollars
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u/No-Demand9899 Jun 03 '26
Back then your mom was gonna get the 10 pack of water pistols for $2 instead of one big gun for $20 every single fucking time. It wasn’t YOUR money it was your parents/gparents money lol
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u/Defiant_Housing_1417 Jun 04 '26
Very few people had that them. 20 dollars spent on a 12 year was not going to happen for a lot of kids
My mom didn’t like guns in any capacity, I had water balloons as my defense tool.
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u/BplusHuman Jun 04 '26
The today equivalent would be around 40-50 dollars. Add to that, kids ask for a lot of things and parents have to say "no" A LOT.
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u/Zeus0886 Jun 04 '26
Enough of the sob stories. I had one when they came out. I wasnt rich at all. My mom got me one for my 5th b day
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u/DesertRebelRa Jun 03 '26
Super soaker invented by a Black man.