You Know You’re A 90’s Kid If…

Having raised my children in the 90’s, I remember most of those things and can still recite all the words to the Fresh Prince song. But the folded paper fortune teller goes back to at least the ’60s. Sometimes the old is new.

How about Snick? All those shows, it was like TGIF but on Saturday.

I’d like to revise my last statement, how about Nickelodeon just actually being awesome in the 90’s? Now, not so much.

2 Words: Doc Martens
I had about 3-4 pairs in varying colors and styles. Wearing some now, as I type this, too!

How about the CFC hooplah with hairspray? Companies were ostracized for labeling products as ‘ozone friendly’, and one company marketed a bottle with an atomizer that you would pump three or four times for continuous spray like an aerosol (VO5?)… wish I could find an image for you…

I think this list of ‘the 90’s’ needs to stop borrowing from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

What about this list is stolen from the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s? Yeah, I remember when Screech ate warheads and listened to Ice Ice Baby during the commercials of American Gladiators back in the 60’s.

I think the older readers feel left out. Have fun playing with your 1965 Beatles Edition Pogs while wearing your Gilligan’s Island slap braclets.

My winter jacket is still made by started: 49ers coat I got as a Christmas gift from my grandparents in 1997.

Oops, I meant Starter.

The cassette tape one is the only one that is out of place to me. I know its there because the industry has changed so much now, but children of the 70s and 80s were doing that as well. It wasn’t sheer 90s although it probably differentiates well with children of the 00s.

How about Dragonball Z?

and pogo balls?

Yeah, well how about those little voice recorders with the mini tapes!!! and being the coolest person in class by having a CD walkman and the biggest ear phones!? JUMP ROPE FOR HEART FUND RAISING?!?!

1.Super Nintento vs Sega Genesis. SNES had better adventure games, Sega had sports locked down.
2.Wild n Crazy Kids with Omar Gooding and Donny Jeffcoat ruled Nickelodean. Also David the Gnome, Fred Penner, Eureka’s Castle, and the best ever cartoon, Doug. SNICK would have kicked ass if it would have stuck to Alex Mack and Are You Afraid of the Dark instead of including Roundhouse (and then All That), or Ren and Stimpy which was just a weird show.

3. “Go Ninja,go Ninja, go. Go Ninja, Go Ninja go.”

4. “I love the Power Glove, its so bad”

5. Captain Planet was the man. No way the dude with “heart” would have been a planeteer.

6. Pro Stars and Captain N the Gamemaster never got the love that they deserved.

7. No way Inspector Gadget could actually close a chick and have a daughter like Penny.

8. You know you had at least 1 pair of Zubaz pants.

9. I am still not cool enough to Wear Jnco Jeans.

10. Beavis and Butthead were MTV

11. Knuckle puck bitch!

12. I would wear that hat everyday of my life if it meant that I could be best friends with Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez.

13. The Undertaker actually scared the shit out you.

14. You were jealous of my friends who had all of the Wrestling Buddies. I only had Hulk Hogan.

15. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen immediately makes you think of Wayne’s World.

16. The Bulls and Cowboys were the shit.

17. You had to be the Raiders everytime in Tecmo Bowl because Bo Jackson was unstoppable.

18. You begged your mom to put a “Squeeze It” in your lunch as your drink.

19. The Detroit Vipers were the most badass hockey team in the state.

20. Gushers?

21. School yard football wasn’t complete without the mini rubber ball that you could sling all over the place.

22. Swamp Thing baby

23. The purple and black Cherry Coke can kicked serious ass.

24. Don’t go to school without your Trapper Keeper

25 I was 2 legit 2 quit

Homemade Snoopy Snow Cones, made from ice cube trays you filled with koolaid and stuck in the roof of that crappy but awesome house.

Hit the nail on the head with Are You Afraid of the Dark and Goosebumps. I’m 26 and I still remember not being able to sleep after AYAOTD’s girl in the mirror episode and goosebump’s “summer camp it wasn’t earth” episode freaked me out.

What an idiotic list. Several of these apply to 80s kids, not 90s kids. While others apply to kids of any decade. For example…so…a child born in the 90s was debating about two novetly rap singers whose career both were virtually OVER in 1991? Children were debating Hammer or Vanilla Ice when they were 1 year old?

Disney Afternoon & power rangers

Hey Lakawak,

To be a child of the 90’s, you didn’t have to be born in the 90’s, you fucking moron.

Oh, how about you know you’re a 90’s kid if you spent an entire summer watching Stick Stickley on Nickelodeon.

Yeah, I’m that rad.

Lakawak, do some research before complaining. Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em and To The Extreme were released in 1990. 2 Legit 2 Quit was 1991. Someone who was a child of the 90s would have been born in the 80s. If you’re 8 you’re a child.

How about if you owned a pager and weren’t a doctor or drug dealer?

If you picked a side in the Mario vs Sonic argument?

Your parents told you not to watch Pokemon because it would give you seizures?

You can do the Bartman?

You remember Real World 1 and thinking the concept would never last?

Your first celeb crush was a Spice Girl?

Hahaha… that was a hilarious collection. Thanks for sharing

You would figure that the makers of this list would have realized that a good portion, if not most, of these things are really from the 80’s. Saved by the Bell, American Gladiators, Jellies, slap bracelets, Oregon Trail, cassette tapes, TGIF… all from the 80’s….

3 words:

PETE AND PETE!!!

You mentioned Nickelodeon - dude, You Can’t Do That On Television!!! That was probably borderline late 80’s/early 90’s, right? That was the best freaking show ever! It started the whole sliming thing or whatever they call it on Nickelodeon. Freaking awesome.

It’s worrying how many of those apply to 90s kids from the UK :s

how about double shoe laces…for example having a pair of air jordans with a set of red and set of white laces. Also K2 roller blades. every kid wanted to be a professional rollerblader. CAMP ANAWANNA(solute your shorts)!!!!!!!! Also Hey Dude was another one

http://www.hecklerspray.com/top-17-90s-tv-girls-who-made-you-come-of-age/200939321.php

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Awesome comments everyone. Definitely will make a part 2 to this!

well played

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you know the original power rangers characters names including green/white ranger and their “zords”. you remember going to see the ninja turtle movies and cartoons. the goonies. animorphs. thundercats!!!!!!

pete and pete

Anyone else remeber “Dr. Slice”? The bastard child of slice and Dr. Pepper? I think it only existed for a few months, but it was delicious

Dr. Mario! I forgot about playing Dr. Mario.

a cheap version of tetris, only with pills instead of blocks…

*ahem* Talkboy. Nerf. Super Soaker 50.

that is all.

1. What would you do
2. A different world
3. when you hit 5th grade you had to ditch the trapper keeper for the more grown up 5 star by meade
4. cowboys of moo mesa
5. biker mice from mars
6. countless hours of whooping 100 dudes name joe on streets of rage.
7. The Sandlot
8. The Little Giants
9. Major Payne( who would of known i would of later found out military school sucks)
10. knowing if you got caught wearing spalding shoes or rustler jeans at school your day and possibly next couple of months were ruined
11. Brett Hart vs Shawn Michaels

Some of the items on this list are actually 80’s NOT 90’s. Someone needs to do their homework.

1) Oregon Trail was late 80’s - not the 90’s

2) Cassette Tapes were the 80’s - the early 90’s had CD’s taking over

3) Gas under $1 isn’t worth mentioning because we had that in 2001

4) Jelly shoes (and bracelets) were 80’s and not the 90’s

Tiny Toons & Animaniacs.

Cartoons today just aren’t as fantastic as they used to be, I still know both theme songs

Warner Brothers at their best.

what about the fact that you’ve seen music actually played what was the one and only MTV channel?

Crystal Pepsi was pretty good for the 1 month it was out.

SOCKUM BOPPERS
SOCKUM BOPPERS
MORE FUN THAN A PILLOW FIGHT!

I was born in the early 80’s so a good amount of my childhood was in the 90’s. Every single thing on this list applied to me or I saw it on the playground (where I spent most of my days). Excellent list!

Tech Decks!

Great list! Here’s some more for all you flamers that want to argue whether it was the 80’s or 90’s..

hypercolor shirts

hammer pants

you ended any sentence with “SIKE” (psych)

ended any sentence with “not”

you rolled your jeans

new kids on the block

@JWW81

Do your research before calling this stuff out. Your perception of what is “90s” or “80s” is off. As johnnyz4282 pointed out — “Someone who was a child of the 90s would have been born in the 80s.”

Both “Saved By The Bell” and “American Gladiators” were first released in the Fall of 1989. AG ran until 1997, and SBTB ran until ‘93, with a follow-up called “The College Years” running for a single season from ‘93 to ‘94. These two shows nothing BUT the 90s, and are still popular to this day (matter of fact I watch 10-15 minutes of a re-run on TBS every morning as I’m getting ready for work).

I’ll give you The Oregon Trail since it was originally released in ‘74, however reviewing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_%28video_game%29 shows that “An updated version, Oregon Trail Deluxe, was released for DOS in 1992, followed by Oregon Trail II in 1996, The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition in 1997, and 4th and 5th editions.” Making the game a staple of the 70s, 80s, AND 90s.

As for the others, well it just comes as any fad. Cassette tapes may very well have also been another fad of several decades. Being a genuine 90s kid, my most memorable time involving the cassette tapes were the Type IV (metal) ones. I remember that if the tape didn’t have the tabs to make it “write-protected”, all you had to do was get a couple pieces of scotch tape and cover the holes and you’re in business!

- AP

garbage pail kids

You remembered when Nickelodeon didnt suck:

Nickelodeon: All That, Double Dare, Clarissa Explains it All, Doug, Gumby, Guts, Kablam-(The original robot chicken), Ren and Stimpy, ROCKO’S MODERN LIFE, Rugrats, Kenan and Kel, Angry Beavers, Ahhh! Real Monsters

I agree completely with apqualified. This list contains items that may well have started in the mid/late 80s, but I was born in ‘86 and I used every single item on this list when I was a kid (in the 90s). As for cassette tapes, I specifically remember keeping a cassette tape in our stereo in case a song came on the radio that I wanted. I remember keeping tapes full of songs so that I could plug in my (giant) headphones at night and listen to some music for an hour (and have to fast-forward through any commercials I happened upon, because I forgot to hit stop when recording).

I also played Oregon Trail when I was a kid, and as a kid, I had no idea that it was from ‘74. Therefore it totally applies to kids of the 90s, who grew up on this stuff.

You got your first erection from watching the Pink Power Ranger. Kimberly forever.

Kris Kross and wearing your clothes backwards, or at least thinking about it :p

When somebody mentioned “Smashing Pumpkins,” you didn’t immediately think about Hallowe’en.

You could smell what the Rock was cookin’.

Your familiarity with the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” came entirely from that scene in Wayne’s World.

Ace of Base was your first CD

Batman, X-Men and Spiderman animated series on FOX!! THE only cool things about the 90s! Oh, and Beast Wars too!

Oh GOD…these are dead-on. Even the cassette tape - that was ME! Oh, btw, Can’t Touch This is far superior to Ice Ice Baby.

@ Bradical….

” 7. No way Inspector Gadget could actually close a chick and have a daughter like Penny.”

Penny was his NIECE, not his daughter…..

Had a cool (or thought it was cool) screen-name with your AOL account. I still have mine for my aim. I constantly have to explain the origins behind it.

Giga Pets

Yo-yo’s came back — there were like fancy pants yo-yo’s in every store and every kid carried them around.

Furbees

Inertia is a property of matter!

FRUIT STRIPED GUM! u all kno u chewed those zebra striped gum…

Skip-It…that commercial was always on…who actually owned one of those things? no one i knew for sure…

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FRUIT BY THE FOOT!!! Three long feet of fruity fun!

What about devil sticks!!

Wow - every one of you who says that we’re “80s” kids are retarded. It’s not when you’re born, it’s the years that you spent as a child that you could REMEMBER. Geez

If you’ve seen “The Land Before Time” (and at least 5 of the sequels).

You had a friend with a BBS

Warcraft 2/ Diablo 1

Michael Jordans

Doc Martens

Damage brand Jeans

Devil Sticks

Roller Racers (and the epic downhill battles that many a scar were formed from)

Sliders/ electronic Battleship

Monopoly (okay for you Brits- Scotland Yard)

Star Trek TNG

Super Sourballs (possibly 80s?)

Jolt Cola (didn’t have Surge in Canada)

Oregon Trail AND Number Munchers

You debated Ren and Stimpy vs Itchy and Scratchy

The Yo-Yo Ball/ light-up Yo-yo’s

Hot Shots! The movie series

They started putting ratings on music, and your mom made you take back a tape with ‘offensie lyrics’

“Am I a ten or what?”

You know you’re from the 90’s if you bought 3 different sets of ninja turtles action figures (even if you had all four, the new ones seemed so much better!)

Shaving a word in the back of your hair

You crank called your friends because there was no call display

The Cool Spot logo

Virtual Boy

Reboot! (And you thought it was the greatest CGI of all time.)

Big Shiny Tunes (MTV Buzz Bin)

Creepy Crawlers (ie return of the easy-bake oven for boys)

Gak!

-Man this list takes me back, well done! I remember soooo many of these things! AYAotD was great, but Goosebumps wasn’t nearly as scary as secretly staying up til midnight to watch Tales from the Crypt!
Some of these may be 80’s, but as the debate rages on in this forum, 80’s/90’s can be interchangeable depending on whether it started in ‘89 or ‘91… obviously a lot of us who remember things like the Talkboy were born in the 80s and grew up in the 90s.

Stop complaining that some of this stuff originated in the 80’s, us 90’s kids still enjoyed them. And that’s what this list was about, not “when was this made?” God damn annoying. Technically 90’s kids were made in the 80’s, but we’re still 90’s kids.

Don’t forget about Land Before Time (and all its sequels) and saying “psych!” and “not!” after a sentence.

Don’t forget using computers in the 90’s, floppy disks, your parents told you not to pull the metal slide back or it erases the memory. When you went on dial up internet. You used Netscape Navigator. KidPix was the shit. You played computer learning games like Millies Math house, Sammies Science House. You had to watch sailor moon because pokemon was on right after it and u didn’t want to miss the start. YakBak’s were the shit. Slip n slides ruled the backyard. You played crazy bones. Yomega YoYo’s owned.

You know what a Skip-It is. Your first car was a Power Wheels (or your friend’s, my parents were too cheap), and Kid’s Street was your favourite game show.

MICROMACHINES!!!!

also, playing ‘karate’ in the front yard with neighborhood kids and eventually it would turn into a real fight.

my parents renting Terminator 2 and not letting me see it, so I watched it from the hallway when I was supposed to be ‘in bed’

can’t forget huffy bikes. i had a neon green one with ‘tough dude’ slogans all over it. my friend had one with a gear shifter much like a joystick.

my sister had a skip-it, by the way. those commercials were relentless.

I remember the commercials for the yo-yo ball. “…Yo! …Yo! it’s a Yo-Yo Ball!”

I agree with the tinytoons/animaniacs. I haven’t seen a show as well-done since animaniacs. as my mom pointed out, those were basically the last cartoons that had a full orchestra playing the whole time. I got the vol 1. dvd set and it’s still funny.

Tailspin!
Darkwing Duck!!!
Ducktails!!!
Aladdin/The Little Mermaid/Beauty and the Beast/The Lion King/(my personal fave disney animated movie)Robin Hood

Rub-on tats that would “poison” your blood.

Teddy Ruxspin

gangster rap’s heyday (even/especially in white suburbia)
baywatch
transforming a transformer WITHOUT looking at the directions

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You know you’re a 90’s kid when you remember the day Kurt Cobain had died.

You know you’re a 90′d kid if you know what “Wax On, Wax off” really means.

You know you’re a nineties kid if you don’t understand your own teenagers anymore.

You know you’re from the 90’s if you had to “pump up” your shoes before playing any sport.

NERF made and shot everything foam.

Super Soakers hit the scene!

You watched Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda cartoons while eating theor cereal!

You remember Kevin Costner kicking ass as Robin Hood.

90’s kid through and through..
let us not forget Pete and Pete ( and the strongest man…in the world!!) Shaq-Fu and his kick as sneakers. Animaniacs and Bobbies World!! MTV when it had music videos..headbangers ball w/matt pinfield..Bagged milk… the list goes on. long live the 90’s

Gas dropped below $1 in the winter of 1997 and paid $10 to fill my car. I miss those days :`(

Umbros and hypercolor t-shirts

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I can’t believe all these things lol, i was born in 85 so the 90’s was all my youth and just into my teen years. I remember all this stuff especially the stuff everyone has added too. Ducktales! Doug! i though i was the only one who watched that show lol. Here’s a few more.

Chip’n'Dale rescue rangers (the cartoon and the game for NES)

Battletoads

When you could rent a game for 2 bucks not 10

again, anything TGIF

Sorry!, LIFE, when there was only ONE Monopoly

Tear aways

90’s forever, so good, love these lists.

How about this:

If Captain Planet and Darkwing Duck were your heroes

REEEBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

Spice Girls! Oh, and Bevis and Butthead!

Nike Jordans - you bought the white ones and your friend bought the black ones and you would trade 1 shoe when you went to the movies or mall.

GI Joe cartoons - they would shoot thousands of shots but never hit anyone, Now you know, YO JOE!

You watched IN LIVING COLOR every friday night with your friends

American Funniest Videos

Excite Bike!!!!!! Don’t over heat

Pegs for your bike so you could do tricks like in the movie RAD

EMF was cool and they played that walk 500 miles song back to back all summer long

If you had a Stretch Armstrong and after 1 hour you cut him open to see what was inside.

Legends of the Hidden Temple! Damn show near gave me a heart attack everytime. And you KNOW if you went on it you could beat those kids at putting together a freaking 3 piece monkey.

Cross Fire…
Teddy Ruxbin
Clear Pepsi
Skip-IT
PeeWee (before)
GlowWorm
DeLorean was the dream car

That Charlotte Hornets jacket was legitimately mine. I wore that exact jacket for about 4 years of my life and had not a clue who the Charlotte Hornets were.

- those sticker books which involved either professional wrestlers or disney cartoons such as pocahontas
-Small Wonder, the show about the little robot girl
-ICQ and Freetel!
-classic DOS games made by companies like Apogee
-the Micheal Jackson video game!
-johnny bravo and dexter’s lab!
-cheap ass spiderman toys made of jelly that would stick to a wall when u throw them at it
-temporary tattoos
-Double Dragon the MOVIE!!
-House Arrest the movie…every child’s dream
-Honey I Shrunk the Kids

CRYSTAL MAZE!!!

Doug

Playstation-jet moto, crash bandicoot

the tick

hungry hungry hippos

big league chew

k’nex

furby

spawn

oreo breakfast cereal

Nick-el-ozone

gulla gulla island

90s, the last great decade to be a child of, children these days are fat asses that play on the computer all day, and all the parents are hypochondriacs that feed their children wheat cereal, whats up with that, do they even make regular cinnamon toast crunch anymore? an entire generation of couch potatoes with diabetes who dont leave the house.

SALUTE YOUR SHORTS!!! GOTTA LOVE UGG!

You remember seeing The Lion King in the movie theater. And then going back to see it again.

You remember the Muzzie Commercials on TV that advertised the foreign language learning kits

The kids on Legends of the Hidden Temple never ran fast enough, nor did they put the “Shrine of the Silver Monkey” together quick enough

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electronic pets! anyone else remember those?! nano pets!

who else remembers tamagochi? And them being banned in school so the teacher didn’t have to listen to them beep all day.

In the 90’s, EVERYTHING had a set of trading cards. My sister had New Kids on the Block Cards (lame) which I traded away for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cards.

dude, u forgot LISA FRANK! hahaha. my gf when i was in like 4th grade was all about that stuff.

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These are all so great! I remember them all…there are so many good ones. I forgot what an awesome childhood we had in the 90’s!

What about sticker books? Taking them to school and trading stickers.

Eureka’s Castle

You know you’re a kid from the 90s if a gameboy was the size of a brick.

You know you’re a kid from the 90s if you got really sad when your Gak would dry up after only three days of use. And Floam was really not the same.

This thread kicks ass. On to part two!

Geezzzzz! Imma mom born in the 60’s and have 2 sons born in 86 and 88. Just reading the list and the commented lists and can’t help but smile and remember all the things my kids experienced and all the toys i’ve bought them that correspond to everything on your lists!

Oh! Just to say that as a kid in 60’s-70’s….i has a Skip-it and also the first edition of Creepy Craulers….around 1968 to 1971….Things do come back in style sometimes…don’t they|

Born in 1972, I am a child of the 80’s. Yup, your list is very heavily influenced by 80’s culture.

Sorry to disappoint.

The “pogs” collect game was called “Flippo’s” in the Netherlands.

You grew up in the ’90s if you were required to bring a 3 1/2 inch Floppy disc to school instead of a flash drive.

I remember bay watch, I loved watching the women run, and watch you know what bounce, lol. And remember crystal pepsi, does anyone remember that, or just me? I love that soda until they stoped selling it.

Oh and another thing, kids still played out side, now kids sit inside on th computer or watching tv all day. Cell phones where huge and the parents only had them. Pagers got popular. Tales from the dark side on H.B.O was one of my favs. Stealing cigs at walmart when they where on shelves, and not behind the counters. Fast times at ridge mont high got popular again, and blood in blood out was popular as well, even though thay where from the 80’s. Ice cube was getting more popular. I better stop before I keep going. Peace out.

the little boom box key rings from mcdonalds and they came with micro cds…..i think the were called micro-players or smoething

2 words, hoki poki

Some of these things may not have been MADE in the ’90s, but they were all popular then, and that’s the important part! Also, this list was made for kids of the ’90s, not people born in the ’90s — most of them would have been too young to be into this stuff. I was born in ‘87 and was just the right age to remember (almost) everything listed here… We had Oregon Trail Day at my school, danced to the Macarena at the school dances, played with Pogs at recess, and made those fortune tellers all the time! I owned several pairs of jelly shoes (some with sparkles in them), a sweet cassette player/radio combination, a bunch of taped Bill Nye episodes, and Goosebumps books. I was convinced that my Beanie Babies would be very valuable someday and would pay for my college education.
Anyone else remember…
- Sailor Moon (Fightin’ evil by moonlight)
- Pokemon
- Tamagotchi/Digipets (I had a mermaid)
- Mummies Alive!
- Amazon Trail (Oregon Trail spinoff, where you got malaria instead of dysentery and caught useless wet logs when you went fishing)
- Power Rangers
- Titanic (OMG Leonardo DiCaprio. OMG.)
- N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys
- Destiny’s Child
- The Electric Slide (okay, not a ’90s song, but it was a major part of our school dances. It came right after the Macarena!)
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (again, not FROM the ’90s, but popular at the time)
- When M&Ms replaced light brown M&Ms with blue ones
- Slip ‘n Slide

P.S. I remember seeing gas prices go over $1 when I was a kid and being SHOCKED AND APPALLED. So there.

dude. this is weird. i was born in 1995 and i remember these things most like coz my sister was born in 87 so i got all her toys she got bored with. and yes, i owned jelly shoes wich r coming back in style i have a pair now with *sparklez*

First and foremost this is a great list.

ALthough I was hoping you were one of the 90’s kids that had the extended “first season” version of the Fresh Prince’s theme song

After he gets in the fight palyin basketball

“I begged and pleaded with her the other day
but she packed my suitcases and sent me on my way
she gave me a kiss and gave me my ticket
I put my wlakman on and thought I might as well kick it

First class yo this is bad
drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass
If this what the people of belair livin like
Hmmmm this might be alright

[incomprehensible]
is this the type of place they should send this cool cat
I don’t think so I’ll see whn I get there
I hope they’re prepared for the prince of belair

Well I, the plane landed and when I came out
There was dude looked like a cop waving there with my name out
I ain’t tryin to get areested I just got here
Spring with the qickness like [incomprehensible] disappear

My school had oregon trail but I only got to play it about 3 times in my six years of elementary school. When I got to middle school, the school district finally got internet but students weren’t allowed to use it. Well, you had to be working on a project or paper for class but none of papers or projects required the internet and none of my teachers would give permission. In my freshman year of high school, they finally let students the internet for non-school things but that stopped about half-way through the year and they went back to the old policy. My school district was stingy with the computers…

Aside from the music and tv, I didn’t have any of the other things on this list because we didn’t have any money for it. Never owned a single pog, beanie baby, or pair of light up sneakers. I could get slap on bracelets of the quarter machine though.

I also never had a gigapet or nanopet. My mom thought I would let the virtual character die. The school district banned them anyways.

I remember at recess there would always be a big group of girls doing those little hand clapping songs, and cat’s cradle. I know they probably go way back, but still. I also remember having to have a talk boy just so you could call the pizza place and order a pizza for the house across the street, then watch them deliver it. And Lisa Frank was the shit!

The jelly shoes were EIGHTIES, not NINETIES.

Jesus Christ. Get it straight.

Anyone else have a Crocodile Mile?
“You run! You slide! You hit the bump and take a dive!”

Others:
- Home Alone 1 and 2
- Rookie of the Year
- Welcome Freshmen
- Hey Dude
- Reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Maniac McGee for school
- Mr. Wizard (as cool/funny as Bill Nye was, Mr. Wizard had better experiments)

First off, stop complaining if it came out in the 80’s or 70’s or whenever. Who cares, this is about things kids in the 90’s remember. This whole post is to remember the awesome times in the 90’s.

When Disney still had cartoons and good movies
The original AFV
MTV had music (decent at that too)
Nickelodeon was awesome (Hey Arnold anyone?) and lots of slime
Cartoon network had cool cartoons like Dexter’s Lab, Cow and Chicken, Jonny Bravo, Power Puff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog (Boomerang?), Bugs Bunny, Road Runner
WB - Freakazoid, Animaniacs, Pokemon, Static Shock
Playing outside
Scooters
Giga pets
Pokemon cards were popular
Hotwheels
GOOD toys from fast food
Windows 3.1, 95, and 98
Super Soakers
The Home Alone movies
Legend of Zelda
Health crap wasn’t shoved at us
Gameboy
They’d give away prizes on TV by calling a number and being lucky #7
The internet was a nicer place (and slow and ugly)
You had to blow in game cartridges to make them work.
Hawaiian Punch
The list goes on…

What about “Hypercolor” T-Shirts by Generra?

@Alan

I totally owned a Skip-It! It was neon pink and awesome! I played with it for years!!!!

Also,

Doug and Legends of the Hidden Temple were awesome. I personally always wanted to be on the Blue Barracuda team because I thought it was the coolest name ever.

Also, for a time on Nick there was a great show about these kids who lived on a ranch called Hey Dude! Anyone remember that? I loved that show.

What about “The State” on MTV that was great! “I wanna dip my balls in it”

I think I’m a 90’s kid…Goosebumps were the books that got me reading a lot…So were Animorphs. Sadly, the warheads, paper fortune cookies, the Blair Witch Project, Beanie Babies, and the big one, Bill Nye the Science Guy, were all a huge part of my development.

Oh, and jelly shoes. My sisters both had pairs.

Moonshoes. Gak. Coming home from school in time to catch 90210. hangin with mister cooper. john elway could throw a vortec 150 yards. bo jackson. obnoxious hats while on the slopes. silly putty. ms. doubtfire. and last but not least… being scared shitless when x files came on.

Goldeneye for N64 was the best game ever.

Gameshark.

Insideout boy from nickolodeon

Yakbaks

The SuperSoaker with the backpack that you could barely lift.

Tying a sweatshirt around your waist.

Ren and Stimpy.

Gak.

Pump up shoes with lights.

Haha. Ahhh the memories. Awesom lists.

I was born in 1982 and i am definitely a child of the 90s. i was 8 in 90, 12 in 94. i was the perfect age to get that 80s and 90s blend that everyone remembers fondly.

how about remembering where you were when they announced kurt cobains death?

nao thats soem 90s.

having grown up in portugal, a lot of these don’t mean much, mostly the tv-related ones.
however, i remember playing and collecting pogs (or “tazos”), the jelly sandals, the macarena… and the slap bracelets!!
they’ve put a smile on my face! thank you for sharing!

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what about when that AQUA song cd came out during the holiday time and it had that ‘barbie girl’ snog that seemed really cool if you were 10…i was in forth grade, and half the class was given that cd as a christmas present that year.
o and every kid was obsessed with the real reason why one of the band members only had one arm…wow good times

One word: JNCO’s

computer lab classes when kids first started using microsoft word and paint

A lot of these are actually from the 80’s, not the 90’s. I had the pleasure of “growing up” during both decades and I have to tell you, the 80’s were, by far, much more original and fun than the 90’s. The 90’s pretty much took everything the 80’s did and retarded it up by making it bigger or more (uncoordinatedly) colorful. Even Zubas pants started in the 80’s and I could have sworn that they were out of style by 1990.

Slap bracelets come and go every few years. The ones in the 80’s got recalled because they had metal cores covered in thin material and could cause cuts if the metal broke through. I just saw a watch mounted on a slap bracelet somewhere being marketed to the elderly (yeah, people even older than myself)

Jelly shoes were huge in the 80’s, just check out a Madonna video from the time. I noticed that they’re making a comeback and I need to remind everyone of the cold hard truth: they make your feet stink and leave them covered in a web of filth. (yup, just like Crocs, except I don’t know of any men who would dare wear jelly shoes and still try to convince themselves that they are, in fact, not gay)

The paper fortune teller thing is timeless, and I remember my mom telling me about making them in school with her friends in the 60’s.

One last thing: the cartoons of the 80’s were FAR superior to those of the 90’s. Smurfs, snorks, GI Joe, Thundercats, He-Man, etc… anything that came after was either a rip-off or just plain stupid. I noticed that someone said that Doug was the greatest cartoon ever… NO! Doug had it’s good points, but to say it was the greatest of all time? That takes (Patty) Mayonaise for brains. I now hate myself.

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Thanks for all the great memories guys. I was born in 1989, so I remember a lot of these, however as I’m from the UK, some things don’t sound quite so familiar, or have different names. Can we stop arguing about whether things were actually 80’s or 90’s though, because as has been said plenty of times, it’s not about WHEN it was made, but the fact that it was STILL popular in the 90’s. For example, I used to watch cartoons which were made in the 90’s such as rugrats, but on the same day would watch other cartoons like The Smurfs which were made in the 80’s.
Anyway, thanks again for the memories

OOOHH!! Just remembered, does anyone remember those trousers which had popper buttons on the side so you could undo them, I guess just if you got hot?? I used to have about three pairs, and had no idea why you would need to open the sides up.

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Everyone complaining please shut up we didn’t come to this site for a history lesson.

I loved the list! No one I know have a clue what Pogs are. I was once an avid collector.

Don’t forget the huge metal slammers you needed to play with the pog’s, and then all of it being banned from school b/c they considered them weapons. And in my area it was cool to get electrical wire with the different colored plastic covering and make braclets out of it…you were cool if you found a color no one else had.

How about the MTV dating show with Jenny McCarthy - Singled Out…that was 90’s wasn’t it? and awesome.

I was born in 81, I was more considerd a kid in the 90’s, so all of you who where a kid in the 80’s let us remember are fun, stop telling us cartoons where better in the 80’s and this and that was better to. We had tight shows just as the 80’s did. But I do have to say barny was a show kids laughd at. I’ll never let my child watch that show. Does anyone remember crystal pepsi? That soda I do remember. Oh I have something that I thought was crazy, every time I go pay my comcast bill at there pay center I see the old 90’s cable box, its crazy. Peace out.

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mortal kombat GET OVER HERE was a action commonly used as “fightin words”

This list was awesome! I was born in 1993, and a lot of these things gave me nostalgia.

Just a reminder to all the people saying the stuff were from the 80’s:

This list was made about things we remember during the 90’s.

I remember VHS. Bill and Ted. Cooties! Haha. I can think of loads more but I don’t wanna spam this.

The 90’s were EPIC.

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You should add: “You got up every morning at 5 am, even when you didn’t have to, in order to watch Captain Planet.”

OMG, good times. xD I was guilty of wearing jelly shoes when I was a kid. x3 And at some point the light up sneakers. They were so cool you’d freeze your fingers if you touched them. Man, I miss my childhood now.

This really brings back old memories!

“Mom! The phone’s going to ring in a minute BUT DON’T…PICK…IT…UP! And I’m going to be on the modem for awhile so don’t pick up the phone without asking!”

commence Duke Nukem 3D, Doom II, Shadow Warrior, Battledrome. But none of my friends liked Quake.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned mmm bop!

What about Bop Its? They came out late 90s early 2000s. Those were freaking awesome.

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I find it interesting how many people complain about how “borrowed” elements from a 90s childhood/adolescence are. Of course they are! The decade, while sporting a few original touches of course, was infiltrated with tons of cartoonish 60s and 70s nostalgia. As a result, “revivals” of these things are a big part of memories. The 80s experienced a similar cultural obsession with the 1950s. A “commercialized” childhood–one where toys and culture were constantly marketed toward children–has probably really only happened since the 1950s. These first few decades as a result seem a lot of more “original.” Also, as 90s children, we have to remember who raised us. Primarily baby boomers…marketers revived tons of stuff to appeal to this demographic, including our toys. Same thing goes on now with Gen Xers and their children now…the revival of Transformers and other 80s toys is not accidental.

We all have to recognize that at least the past 25 years have been a serious cultural amalgam of other elements. As a through and through 90s kid, I embrace this. Appropriation of the old have been some of my best, I suppose…

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I turned 12 in 1990. I got excited when our small town got Nickelodeon.

I remember watching a teenage soap opera on Nickelodeon. It was called “Fifteen” and it had Ryan Reynolds in it. I remember having a crush on him back then. And “Clarissa Explains it All” was good.

And lets not forget “My So Called Life.” I was in high school when that show came out and it was such a good show. I’m sad it didn’t last long.

“The Wizard” was one of my favorite movies. And my friends and I loved playing NES games, some are from 80’s arcade games, like Paperboy. We’d play Maniac Mansion (I loved the music in that game), Baseball Stars, and Dusty Diamonds All Star Softball.

OMG - you commentators are so cool with your “this is list is from the 80’s not the 90’s” and how you rush over to wikipedia with the quickness to point out Saved by the Bell started in 1989.

effing dorks!

I guess am an 80s/90s kid… twelve in ‘90 so a lot of these applied to me too. I always thought of myself as a child of the 80s.

/Childhood lasts longer nowadays.

Who remembers the shoes with the wheels in them. Not like the Heelies they have these days, but the ones that actually had a wheel folded up into the sole of the shoe, and you had to press the button on the side to pop it out. You were like a god if you had those at my school.

I’ve always thought of myself as a child of the 80’s, but I graduated high school in ‘95, so I guess I’m a cross-over. I have a younger sister, so maybe some of this stuff I identify with because of her?

What about Giga pets, tomagachi, nano’s? tatoo chockers?

You know you’re a 90s kid if… you looked forward to the Christmas Fruity Pebbles commercial every year.

“Seasons greetings in our souls, yummy Fruity Pebbles in my bowl…”

How about the Seven-Up Dot game for SNES… dude I loved it and I love the list. I was born in 85 so I definately know everything that was mentioned.

M-I-C-K-E-Y…M-O-U-S-E!!!
Does Flubber mean anythying to you???

when you argue over who was better the red or the green ranger

I was born in the year 1990, so my years were roughly 1995-2005.
Some of my memories were

Beanie Babies
Gel pens
Giga Pets
Rugrats/Hey Arnold/ Dexters Lab/ Cow and Chicken/ Rocket Power/ Cat Dog/ Doug.
Sonic 1 and 2/ Tony Hawk/ Crash Bandicoot/ Tony Hawk
Jurassic Park 1 and 2/ Jamangi/ Casper the Friendly Ghost/ The Lion King/ Toy Story/ A Bugs life… wondering what Pixar would come up with next….

Sigh it was great times, though to think they are any better then what kids are growing up with now is foolish. I would say I loved the 2005-2005 part of my childhood more personally….

Heck I’ll make a list for the early 2000’s.

When Adult Swim would play the Family Guy and Futurama block and would switch them every once in a while.

Writing down cheat codes you got on the internet on a piece of paper for GTA3/ Vice city

Watching Beavis and Butthead on MTV2

Xplay when they were still on TechTV

South Park/ Aqua teen hunger force

Sigh I can’t wait to see what is in store for us young adults in the 2010’s.

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Most of this shit applies to the 80s too. Get yer own decade wannabes.

I didn’t see anyone mention spandex pants or LA Gear shoes (or how you had to have instructions on how to lace them).

You forgot Trolls, Gigapets, The Sega/Nintendo wars 8 bit vs 16 vs 32 bit.

And to answer someone who was going on about this being more of an 80s thing. No, it really mentions more of early to mid 90s because after that is when everything started sucking and turning into the disaster we see now, at least in my humble opinion.

I loved Oregon Trail. But we can’t forget Myst and it’s “mind blowing” graphics

Jelly shoes are totally 80’s!

You grew up with a dial up modem in high school.

Jellies shoes have been around much longer… and unfortunately are still around….

Animaniacs/Pink&the brain, (which I guess still plays?)
The Spice Girls
Crazy Bones
Anime
Rupert
Sharon Lois and Bram
Mr Dress Up… other wonderful morning shows, etc

I think the cassette, should also include a sweet portable cassette player, and recorder.

Also a nod to laser beams.

all you people worrying about weather it was from the 70’s or 80’s need to realize that just because it was from a different era doesn’t mean it reminds us of growing up in 90’s. its sentiments not statistics.

add a “cant” in there before “reminds” sorry rather sleepy

If you’ve have a stance on whether Buffy should be with Spike or Angel.

If you ever wore a baby doll dress and construction boots.

If you know that Just ten of us is a spinoff from Growing Pains

If you know what a y-necklace is

If were in love with Kurt Cobain

If you had a stock pile of aol trial disk in your house

If you can sing the theme song to Animaniacs

If you know the true true origins of Smurfette

If you’ve ever uttered the phrase: “In a van down by the river”

If you ever wore two different colored
socks

If you know what a buzzclip is

If you had a crush on rude Jude

If you wore butterfly clips in your hair all in a row

BOP IT

how about simon?

or bonkers the tv show
or gargoyles

or how limp bizkit was awesome
also korn

my first cd was “the simpson’s sing the blues”
I don’t think anyone has said family matters or step by step

We played blues clues with steve not joe

Lol im a kid of the 90’s how about getting up Saturday morning to watch cartoons on Cartoon Network?

I and still have and play with pogs.

Also when Disney Channel was Zoog Disney and had the most amazing shows with actual meaning like the Movie the color of friendship and my favorite show so weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LONG LIVE THE 90s!!!!