you'r a 90s kid if...(only American i think)

[Ducttape]

@johnfoss

Yup, as Tom explained, lots of stuff on that list, though it may be remembered by 90s kids, goes back years or decades before that. I was right at the age to watch the first Batman TV show. We were nuts about it. I think that was 1966. Poor Adam West never got over the typecasting. My generation also gets to claim Hot Wheels, which came out when I was six!

The 90s doesn’t get to claim the first crappy Disney movies either. There were plenty before that, they just aren’t classics. Disney made an incredible amount of films during the 1960s, for example, for the theaters and their one-hour weekly TV show. This was where Kurt Russel got his start. Some of that stuff was pretty lame. Anyone remember The Black Hole? That was right at the beginning of Disney branching out into non-kids movies. It was one of many very lame Star Wars ripoffs at that time (1980 I think).

Nostalgia is nostalgia at any age. It’s only meaningful to people of similar age, who remember the same stuff. I remember being nostalgic about the early years of Hot Wheels, for example, in the late 1970s after my friend and I dug up some old catalogs. They don’t make 'em like they used to!

I was born in '90 and remeber most of hat, I also remeber a frined smuggling his NEW furbie into school and it was sticking out of his backpack someone walked by it and it went off, and annoyed the crap out of everyone… I’m not gonna be nostalgic because the 90’s weren’t all that fun the quality of Tv shows was way better then and I don’t bother getting up on saturday mornings anymore… Cartoons today SUCK!

[Unitik908]

i literally can identify with 95% of that list… if not a little more.

Chase

[johnfoss]

@unijesse

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

Hmm. I do, but that was over by the early 80s for me. I think part of those perceptions have to do with your age, rather than the actual quality of content.

when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.

None of those even sounds like they came from the 90s.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

I think that was the 1950s.

Making those little paper fortune teller things, and then predicting your life with them.

…in 1970. I wonder what the origin of those things was?

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

I think they actually stopped being silver in 60s or earlier…

If you even know what an original walkman is.

Those came out in the late 70s (though they were around for quite a while).

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

Ouch. I’m not even going to say the prices I remember from when I was a kid… :o

Still fun to go through and think about changes.

[Unitik908]

@Goats_On_Unicycles

well, actually, i’ve been homeschooled all my life… i just didn’t remember any tv shows cuz we didn’t have a tv, didn’t remember the video games or lack of video games since we don’t play video games…

wow man, your life must have suck…

Chase

[Brian_O]

@Unitik908

wow man, your life must have suck…

Chase

I doubt it, I’d rather have been raised that way.

[oneisenough]

i remember most of that stuff…remember pokemon?? that was soooo popular

[chester1234]

I remember about 2 thirds of that stuff.

And ya I remember when pokemon came out. I was in grade 3 and it was right at the end of the 90’s. I remember everyone had a huge stack of cards but nobody knew how to play, and then they got banned from my school.

[johnfoss]

@Unitik908

wow man, your life must have suck…

Maybe, but at least he came out of it with the ability to form a sentence. Except for the capitalization part…

[Wedgehog]

Holy crap I remember most of that… creepy… Get away get away! arghhhhhhhh lifeforce melting! dies

… Also yoyos phase in and out of being cool. Depends whats popular with the culture and toy companies.

[Kaasi]

Also when I was like 3 (in 96,97) I used to listen to Jazz all the bloody time!! It was my favourite genre of music

Also Donky Kong and Jazz JackRabbit were my two favourite games ever

[C-Einrad]

what about when pokemon was cool? anyone remember that. and when there were only 150 pokemon. and what about when there was the big thing with kids stealing them and then they had to put them behind the counters? can’t believe that nobody mentioned that.

[James_Potter]

@Kaasi

Also Donky Kong and Jazz JackRabbit were my two favourite games ever

Jazz Jackrabbit is an AMAZING game…

[C-Einrad]

the sequel was pretty sweet, too, with that red guy in there.

[saam]

@unijesse

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

What do you mean ‘was’? Gak is still the coolest stuff invented, hands down

[dudewithasock]

@chester1234

I remember about 2 thirds of that stuff.

And ya I remember when pokemon came out. I was in grade 3 and it was right at the end of the 90’s. I remember everyone had a huge stack of cards but nobody knew how to play, and then they got banned from my school.

Oh geez, I remember them getting banned from my school, too…that sucked. Pokemon Red was my first game on my first original GameBoy…ahh, good times, good times.

[johnfoss]

@saam

What do you mean ‘was’? Gak is still the coolest stuff invented, hands down

What’s Gak? Anything like Mattel’s Slime? I think that came out around 1982 or so…

[oneisenough]

@C-Einrad

what about when pokemon was cool? anyone remember that. and when there were only 150 pokemon. and what about when there was the big thing with kids stealing them and then they had to put them behind the counters? can’t believe that nobody mentioned that.

yeah i mentioned it-- at the top of the forth page

[smcmorrow]

I remember about 90% of that stuff. But I didn’t really have video games, and I was only allowed to watch PBS.

Pokemon was Huge in my school. I was one of only two kids in my whole elementary school that didn’t play. We wanted to get it banned but never did…

Robin Hood was the best Disney movie, though Lion King was a close second. And GAk is definately the coolest stuff ever.

One of my friends recently chipped his tooth yoyoing…That was really funny.

[chester1234]

@dudewithasock

Oh geez, I remember them getting banned from my school, too…that sucked. Pokemon Red was my first game on my first original GameBoy…ahh, good times, good times.

I remember when my brother got a gameboy and pokemon yellow and I got really jealous so I went and got a gameboy and got pokemon red with it. Such a fun game. I still have I think

[dangerlaef]

When I was a kid people were nostalgic for the 50s.

Now people are nostalgic for the 90s?

I must be old