You're a 90's kid if...

[Mercury]

I think I remember quite a lot, seeing that I was born '95


- Newsround - you always wanted to be a press packer didn't you..? (urm just for the record we didn't, honestly)

- The Moomins !



- The BIG Breakfast!


- Pingu

- The Books we used to read ...(classics included, The Hungry Caterpillar, The The Tiger Who Came To Tea, Old Bear and Friends, Percy The Park Keeper, Munch Bunch (- Pedro Orange), The Enormous Crocodile, The Jolly Postman, Each Peach Pear Plum, Rainbow Fish, The Elephant and The Bad Baby, Peepo, Funnybones, The Grumpalump... i could go on all day..

- Supermarket Sweep (you know you always wanted to be on it)

- The National Lottery (it used to be good...admit it!)

- Stars In Their Eyes! (Tonight Matthew...)

- You've Been Framed ... Jeremy Beadle...you will be missed! x

- Clarissa, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister Sister...Keenan & Kel! - and that rumour that one of them was paralysed, one of them died ? random

- The Really Wild Show! - Michaela Strachan!

- Sooty & Sweep (& Soo) (& the creepy kinda pervy old man, if I remember rightly...)

- Wallace and Gromit

- Art Attack (they never looked the same when we did them at home. Neil Buchannan - legend)

- Thomas The Tank Engine

- Super Ted, Top Cat, The Flintstones!

- Pigeon Street

- Brum
- Fireman Sam!
- Rosie & Jim
- Tots TV
- Visionaries
- Animals of Farthing Wood
- Postman Pat
- Power Rangers
- Care Bears
- Thundercats
- Grange Hill
- Blue Peter(you know you all wanted a badge)
- Bernard's Watch
- The Moomins!
- The Queen's Nose
- The Demon Headmaster
- Goosebumps
- Byker Grove!
- Penny Crayon
- Family Ness
- The Worst Witch (admit it, you were jealous of Mildred Hubble too)
- The Secret World of Alec Mac

- Incredible Games!

- Horrible Histories Books

- Goosebumps Books with the light-up covers

- Pokemon Cards

- Tamogotchis, Robodogs, Pogs

- The dogs that flipped backwards (very irrelevant)

- The SPICE GIRLS! (as if you could ever forget)

- Cassettes - not CDs

- Cassette Players! With the foam headphones (...and
thinking you looked trendy wearing them)

- VHS not DVD !

- Polly Pocket

- Pocket Dragons

- My Little Ponies

- Yo-Yo's (how many of us could "walk the dog"...i never knew how :-( ...)

- Light-Up Trainers

- Jelly Shoes!

- Wearing your trainers to school and thinking you looked amazing because they weren't allowed

- sitting cross legged in school assembly, school festivities, decorating the christmas tree (that seemed to be about 14 foot tall) in the school hall/dining room... harvest festival - bringing in a tin of sliced pineapple?!?!

- passing notes across a classroom!!

- the old BBC computers, with Logic (and that turtle thing that went along the floor???!)

- mobile phones were house-brick size. and No-one had one!

- Being so let down when "saved by the bell -the new class came out" Not good. not good.

- Boyzone, Take That (-the first time around), A1, 911, Aaron Carter, All Saints (--the first time around)

- Top Of The Pops! - the programme

- Top of the pops - the magazine!!!!

- Smash Hits magazines....and all the posters

- Now That's What I Call Music..(volume 18)

- Watching friends, and only laughing at the rude jokes because the audience were laughing. we didn't understand the jokes

- Home & Away

- Smelly Gel Pens

- Thinking the Millenium was when the world would end... The Millenium Bug was real...it was an actual bug

- Gladiators (everyone knows Wolf was the best)

- Free Willy, Flipper, Homeward Bound, Home Alone 1, 2, 3, Richie Rich, Cool Runnings (one of the best ever i believe)

- All the Disney Films, before they started going rubbish (ie- Mulan onwards)

- 'Pedal Pushers' (now we call them footless tights)

- SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEMS : SNES
- MarioKart, MarioLand...the original
- Gameboys....oh good lord
- Mario / Luigi / Princess Peach / Bowzer

- Sonic The Hedgehog

- Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Donnatello, MichaelAngelo, Rafael & Leonardo... Splinter, Shredder)

- Thunderbirds

- HEROES IN A HALF SHELL.... TURTLE POWER!

- Slinkies

- Football Stickers, and the albums to put them all in

- Trading "2 David Beckhams for a Shiny"

- Choc Dips !

- Opal Fruits...not Starburst

- That Crackly stuff that you put on the end of your tongue - totally pointless sweet...kids will do anything for a gimmick

- those long straws of rainbow dust

- rainbow drops! (our sixth form sold them ... class)

- DibDabs, and any 1p sweets....penny sweets now cost 2p! that's inflation for you!

- computers were used for paint, cd rom games (tell me you remember Frogger), and microsoft Word 95. Now they're used for things like Facebook...?

- buying your first album.

- Playing out in the street - and having no worry of getting raped / abducted

- ice cream vans ( and getting SO excited when you heard the tune approaching)

- 99's cost 99p... not £1.20??! As IF

- Show & Tell

- PlayStations.....the original.
- Nintendo 64

- Not knowing the meaning of PS2, Ipod, MP3, Download, SMS, DVD, Email, Internet?!, XBOX etc etc...

I think Pokémon in general was missed out. I think it came out 1995/6.

 

[Dannichu]

I died a little inside when I found out they'd made "new" My Little Ponies that were sparklier and thinner than the old 80's-90's ones ;~;

And nothing will ever, ever beat The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It's the greatest book ever written.

I used to watch The Really Wild Show and The Crystal Maze religiously. And Live and Kicking when they showed Pokemon (I used to sneak downstairs on Saturday mornings X3).

The Horrible History books taught me more than any history lesson ever will, I never found the Goosebumps books scary, but had every singe Animorph book ever, including the Andalite and Hork-Bajir Chronicles and the Megamorph series XD

I hope I'm not the only one who remembers the computer program Logic with the little turtle that drew lines when you put in numbers X3

And this pretty much sums up everything I remember of primary school:

sitting cross legged in school assembly, school festivities, decorating the christmas tree (that seemed to be about 14 foot tall) in the school hall/dining room... harvest festival - bringing in a tin of sliced pineapple?!?!

Those were the days.

 

[Jack_the_White]

You're a 90's kid if:
You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]
You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember:
-TGIF
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
when everyting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
when cops and robbers was a daily activity.
when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.
when we used to obey our parents
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.
"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.
Captain Planet. He's a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.
You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow on PBS.
-Kablam!
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember eating Warheads.
You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-3 Ninjas movies.
You remember Ring Pops.
You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.
If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"
When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.
Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.
You played and/or collected "Pogs"
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.
. . . Furbies.
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.
Michael Jordan was a king.
YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Carebears
Gak was the coolest stuff invented.
Lambchop's song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, which were cool to have.
You remember a time before the WB.
You collected all the Troll dolls
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
You know the Macarena by heart.
"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
You remember Yak Backs, those little voice recorders
You always wanted the giant ear of corn from the original "All that"
You remember the boy band explosion (N*sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees, LFO, etc)
You always wanted to go on Guts!, Legend of the Hidden Temple, What Would You Do?, Double Dare, or Figure it out!
One word: Pokemon
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .
Before MIKE JONES . . .
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded
stuff on VCRs.
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.
When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.
You had slap braclets!
Way back.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.
Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!

Your one of the few who remember Dinosaurs, I loved watching that show, wasn't it on Disney? But over half this list describes my early childhood. I remember always want to go to the Mcdonalds Play PLace, heck, i remember that Mcdonalds had an outdoor place that you would drive up to and they'd take your order there, and send your order by computor inside. I dont know of that was supposed to be something new or something old. The highschool im going to now wasnt made till '99, rugrats, and jesus doug!!!!! That was my most favorite show ever, i'd give anything to see doug again (the original doug, not the newer ones shown on toon disney), tho i always rember it being on Nick when it was made by disney. ANd thank god the boy bands are gone (mostly gone). All That. This list is almost describes my childhood, even ferbies!!!! I even remember having to hook up to the phone line to get internet, I remember getting my first online user on the internet on the newly created nick.com. Those were happy times. And I'll never forget them, thanks a lot for posting this man.

 

[Koori Renchuu]

To send a nostalgia rush over the forum, of course.

I used to love Tiny Toons....but all i can remember is Buster sing "Do you love me?"

-rushes into nostalgia-

"Buster Bunny." "Babs Bunny." "No relation."

 

[Zora of Termina]

*sigh* Maaaan, I remember just about all of that.

I think I still have my ol' Yak Back, actually, and I think I have a Furby somewhere. Saved a LOT of stuff from the 90's I did. But then, I'm a pack rat.

...I miss old!All That. And I still want the big ear of corn...


And of course you guys only remember stuff from Dannichu's list. You're European. You weren't awesome enough to remember the American stuff >| *brutally murdered by a bunch of Europeans*

 

[Koori Renchuu]

GUTS IS ON THE REBOUND! FAMILY GUTS!

 

[Jason-Kun]

'93 but I remember some of that stuff...despite the fact that ever since I learned to read I spent more time doing that than anything else.

 

[Dark Shocktail]

'91

Beautiful years. I thought it would never end o.o

 

[Espeon]

I died a little inside when I found out they'd made "new" My Little Ponies that were sparklier and thinner than the old 80's-90's ones ;~;

And nothing will ever, ever beat The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It's the greatest book ever written.

I hope I'm not the only one who remembers the computer program Logic with the little turtle that drew lines when you put in numbers X3
Those were the days.

Yup, My Little Ponies got caught by the fashion industry. Anorexic, sparkly horses. Not cute, plump horses.

The Hungry Caterpillar! Oh, that brings back memories.
Incidentally, does anyone remember the book like the hungry catepillar that was about a spider building its web?

I remember that turtle! I only saw it at primary school once.
I used it for about 5 minutes; I input a number, saw this tortoise/turtle move. My immediate thought was: "What on earth?" I couldn't get it to change direction, so I gave up a few minutes later. I STILL REMEMBER IT THOUGH!

 

[Frozen Weta]

Hehe. Now that I think of it, aside from the whole "over-using the internet" thing, I am very, very similar to what a 90's kid would be. To tell the truth, I really don't fit in with a lot of stereotypes for this generation. I have no MySpace. I have no Facebook. I've never used one of those IM chatting things. I've never downloaded music or videos. I've never sent a text message. Most of the music I listen to is over 12 years old. I still think videocassettes are awesome.

Ah, even though I was 7 years old when 2000 came, I still remember when beepers and public phones were commonly used, and few people had cellphones. Good times...

 

[Eeveeon25]

And nothing will ever, ever beat The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It's the greatest book ever written.

^-yes. just, yes.

Also, PLEASE tell me that some one here remembers those mechanical, motion-activated dogs! What were they called... Poochies or something like that...

 

[Celestial Blade]

I had an original Digimon V-Pet, and I remember things like half of those shows.

I also watched the FIRST Sonic cartoons, and The Lion King.

 

[Dannichu]

^-yes. just, yes.

Also, PLEASE tell me that some one here remembers those mechanical, motion-activated dogs! What were they called... Poochies or something like that...

Yeah, Poochis were great. I remember my sister got one for Christmas and after about three days I don't think we ever played with it again. Same with her Furby a few years before X3

 

[Altmer]

I remember lots of this and I was born in '89... :/

 

[Minish]

OH GOD FURBIES. They made the nineties. XD Nyaaaaam~!

Does anyone remember gel pens? :D I guess this was back when I had a sense of smell because I remember having loads of them. And there was this white bubblegum one I used whenever I found black paper~

My gran has a collection of pink troll dolls. XD I remember nearly everything on Dannichu's list~

 

[Frosty~]

You can finish this; ice ice Baby
You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.
You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."
You remember:
-Dinosaurs
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You remember reading "Goosebumps"
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not
when everyting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.
Dip dip dip, My Blue Ship; actually, but all the same
when we played Hide and seek until our legs grew numb.
when we used to obey our parents Hah, I used to have to ask if I could have a snack back then
You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.
I don't remember them, but I remember playing them
You always wanted to send in a tape to You've been framed . . . but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.
You remember those Where's Waldo books.
You remember watching:
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere. Although not until 2004 =P
. . . Furbies. Oh god o.o
You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet. Haha, I didn't have the internet until like four years ago Dx
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats
Carebears
If you even know what an original walkman is.
You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said
You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.
You remember the boy band explosion (N*sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees, LFO, etc) Not exactly, but I remember a few
One word: Pokemon ...Gee, I wonder what that is
Before the MySpace frenzy . . .Die Myspace, Die! D<
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .;_;
Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .Didn't matter much, I didn't like music very much back then
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . . I still have a magazine from years ago with an article about the PS2's forthcoming release
Before Spongebob . . .
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.Yes, but 5 hours is a bit much o.o
...and I still put it off
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When we recorded
stuff on VCRs. I still do. Decent DVD recorders are expensive and our old one doesn't work
When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.
You had slap braclets!

And that's the stuff I remember T_T

I hope I'm not the only one who remembers the computer program Logic with the little turtle that drew lines when you put in numbers X3

OH GOD I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THAT. Although just barely

 

[goldenquagsire]

And nothing will ever, ever beat The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It's the greatest book ever written.

As endorsed by George W. Bush!

I had this video with adaptations of loads of Eric Carle's stuff - TVHC, but also The Very Quiet Cricket and the Mixed-Up Chameleon and some other stuff. It was one of my favourite videos when I was really young, and my brother inherited it from me. He loved it as well. There's this bit at the end of the video, where there's the violinist and the psychedelic backgrounds; it made me cry when I was younger, because of the music. I still always get a little soppy when I hear violins. :3

 

[Superscyther]

How About: When you LOVED spongebob

 

[Elfin]

Hey, that implies we don't now? ;D

I remember a lot of stuff in this thread! In elementary school during recess a bazillion kids would be trading Pokemon cards to the point that Pokemon anything got banned. Not that it stopped anyone.. good times, good times. xD
I still have two furbys from when I was little, and they scared the heck out of me. One is light purple and I think it was for Easter or something, and the other's brown. One of them broke a long time ago, and now it makes this weird buzzing noise and smells bad. Possibly because I was always throwing it against the wall at night when it started talking. I miss the good ol' days.....
Now I sound old!!

 

[Eeveeon25]

Who remembers Gremlins, the "furby" movie? That movie was awesome.