50 Pics And Memes About The ’90s You Have To Be Old Enough To Understand
Interview With ExpertWe here at Bored Panda love different nostalgic eras. And we cover a wide variety of decades: the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, and even the 2000s. It's nice to delve into the past sometimes, and not always for nostalgia reasons. The past is what forms us; after all, we exist in the context of all that came before us, right?
Today we're featuring the Facebook page "The 90's Guyz," a popular account that serves its fans nostalgic memories daily. Do you miss the candy-colored Mac computers and writing with a sharpie on a CD? Then this list is probably for you!
We also got in touch with Donna Moritz, visual content strategist and founder of Socially Sorted and Canva verified expert. We chatted with Donna about the power of nostalgia in creating visual content, some cool '90s commercials, and how even Boomers can love the '90s.
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I am usually a 'suicide is never the answer' person, but having seen what Lewy Body Dementia does to someone, I don't know any more.
So few like him, universally loved. Robin, John Ritter, Betty White.
Did he actually grow up? He was one of the magic people.
Definitely, yes... I don't think he could have imagined how much we loved him and how much we missed him.
Robin Williams was a gift from God to all humanity and one that is missed!!!
Phil Collins always hand wrote all of the liner notes for his albums.
Load More Replies...I recently bought quite an expensive polaroid camera. It turns out that with a real camera, I take terrible pictures.
Polaroid was never a 'real camera'. I mean, I get that you mean film but the lenses were always sub par compared to lenses in the major brands of 35mm film cameras and the polaroid film wasn't as good as what you could get in 35mm either. TLDR: Even back then, polaroid was a trade off of crappier photos in exchange for (near) instant gratification.
Load More Replies...That little roll of Kodak film cost about $9 USD back in 1995. That's the equivalent of about $18 USD today. You got 36 photos, max. Then you had to pay another $9-10 for the development of the prints, which again amounts to about $18 USD today. Can you imagine having to pay $36 just to **see** the last 36 photos taken on your phone??!!! People would riot. It's why as a 49 year old woman, I probably have about 50 photos of myself as a child. No more. Photos were too expensive!
And you could drop them off at the Photo Hut to get developed. I bet those people saw so many things they weren't supposed to. Ha,ha.
Loved these miss the camera shop love it live 90s my childhood n everything from it like being on a doff planet now socially economically,absolutely mental hiw things were and how thwy are uld go back tomorrow n stay for couple week if I could and note all differences for or against comparable to these days
This was actually one of the best ways to know if you captured a phantom in your pictures and know you didn't tamper or doctor the film.
Or for the photo place to lose your film, so your photos never come back. My oldest two met their gr grandfather and photos were taken He died a few days later and I was offered a replacement film. Not the same.
I once took a whole bunch of pics in a game reserve only to realize there was no film when I tried to rewind.
"Nostalgia is a hugely powerful marketing tool when it comes to consumer behavior," visual content strategist Donna Moritz tells us. "As a proud Gen-Xer, I can't begin to explain the number of times I have related to a product, brand, service or ad based on nostalgic memories or past experiences."
"And as a marketer and visual content strategist, I see time and time again how impactful nostalgia can be." Donna names several reasons why it is so. First, nostalgic marketing creates an emotional connection.
"Any product or service that evokes nostalgic memories will connect to emotions of joy, comfort and even security, and this can enhance brand loyalty as we associate a brand or product with a feeling or memory from our past," Donna says. "Particularly if that memory was part of our childhood or marks a significant event."
You remember how fast that "bubble gum" turned into a concrete like substance?
Could probably repair cracks in a dam with that shït
Load More Replies...Loved Bazooka Joe, and, yeah, that thing was usually hard as a rock. I always read the comic first!
Bazooka Joe. I used to love to unwrap the gum and find the comic strip. My brother actually pasted all his in a scrapbook
So do mine... I have 2. Sometimes I do this exercise lol
Load More Replies...Still have an old Nokia as my phone. Had it since the late 90s; still works perfectly.
And if you messed up and didn't notice right away... oh boy was that frustrating
These days, we have a full keyboard on our screens PLUS spellcheck/autocorrect and struggle even more to understand each other and not just because of bad grammar.
My old mate has a phone like that. He typed my name ( Bryan) as Adjab. Totally useless with the buttons as he can't seem to get his head around how to type anything.
This era totally skipped by me. Never owned a pager nor a cellphone. I was still begging my mom for my own landline in 2000.
i am a gen z and i have a land line that when i change the name i always write it wrong
Huh? Change the name? Of what? I'm so confused.
Load More Replies...Secondly, we might be more likely to perceive a product as more valuable if it evokes a nostalgic response. "Especially if it reminds us of happier times and any memories of emotional satisfaction," Donna adds.
She explains that the third reason why nostalgia marketing is so efficient is that we might see it as less risky. "Nostalgia can guide our decision making as we perceive less 'risk' in the familiarity of something we have experienced before," she says. "Tying nostalgic themes through your product and services can help your customers to be more comfortable choosing to buy."
As I've seen kids struggle with a mail box I fully expect them to believe you.
Pong, Atari, and Intellivision had to have the TV on either channel 3 or 4. Where we lived, 4 was CBS, so we used channel 3. The switch box was two split wires with metal tabs to screw onto the UHF and VHF antenna knobs.
Ok- I had no idea it was all construction paper. That makes this show and everyone that’s involved even more amazing
Pizza Hut was probably the first "fancy" restaurant my parents took me to as a kid. You could tell it was fancy because it had those fake Tiffany lamps with the stained glass Pizza Hut logo hanging over the tables.
Weren't these the later ones? The original were taller, less wavy and more bumpy.
I had totally forgotten about the red cups. Yes, I'm that old. I remember when personal pan pizzas first came out!
Oh yeah! And the Galaga game table, too! I got the high score on that one time!
I miss the buffet they had. Four different kinds of pizza, pasta, salad and desserts. The good old days.
I think that was USA only. I dont ever remember those glasses in our Pizza Hut in the UK. They were ordinary clear ones.
I'm also Liggett's drugstore/ sundry shop/family diner with golden cups old. Long gone.
"Content creation lends itself so well to marketing with nostalgia, as we can reference trends, pop culture and entire generational themes in our content," Donna points out. She gives the trends of Y2K, kids biking around and having adventures in TV shows and movies, and even remakes of Gen Xers' favorite shows as examples.
"It does wonders for user engagement as who doesn't want to talk about their favorite childhood cartoon, toy, movie or music obsession? As such, nostalgia is a powerful storytelling tool, making our content more memorable when we make it more relatable."
A screenshot from the Warner Brothers studio logo clip at the beginning of movies.
Load More Replies...I got nostalgic one year and bought one off Ebay. Still works.
Load More Replies...Still have it, still use it. Things from back then, (for the most part) still work.
And almost every hotel room had one until about 15 years ago so at least you knew how to set it.
We still had it up until a few years ago when the dog chewed through the power cord.
Recently was in a hotel room in Saskatchewan and whaddya know? One just like this (worked great, too)
If I learnt anything from Home Alone it's that this alarm clock can't be trusted 😂 Me, 35 years old.
I actually had this exact clock! Got it for HS graduation present and off we went to University! That was 1980 and it lasted about 15 years!
That embarrassment of needing to sharpen your pencil while the teacher scowls at you for interrupting her lesson and the whole class is staring.
Not gonna lie, those pencil sharpeners smelled good to me lol.
Load More Replies...Our pencil sharpeners still look like that, knocked one off the wall in school the other day lol
Yup, although we had a different game at school, you were a fish and you had to decide whether to dive or stay put.
However, nostalgia can also tap into more personal and individual memories. "Nostalgia lends itself to personalization in marketing when targeting certain demographics – by understanding the age, interests and types of content that will evoke strong feelings of nostalgia," Donna explains.
These made for fun bath time toys, and the doctor waiting room was full of them (and Highlights magazines).
I used to have the small, round yellow one with the dolphin. You had to get the rings on his "nose" lol
wait until they discover how to set the alarm clock. Sitting on your head is one thing, but when they can make that ding.
Load More Replies...You turn it on by touching the base. In fact most had two-three brightness settings you can switch through.
Load More Replies...From the bottom of those pants got wet it would climb all the way to your knees
Good thing left kid has a chain so the $2.97 in his wallet won't get pick-pocketed
I was always like nah Im cool looking like a nerd over here with my regular clothes you guys go ahead with those Jnco jeans and lmk how that works for ya.
We asked Donna which nostalgia marketing campaigns she liked the best in the past year. "One that gave me goosebumps was Canva's Holiday Story Ad," Donna shares. "It gives such a 'Toy Story-esque' nostalgic feeling from the movies of the '90s. And by the end of the ad, you're literally rooting for the character in the story to have the happy ending that ultimately comes."
I shudder just thinking about the noise. It was worse when the poster fell on your head.
Yup. And even more terrifying when it was Marilyn Manson's face coming at you before you were properly awake.
Load More Replies...And, you would lay there absolutey frozen and terrified until you figured out what it was.
One year (1970s) I received a plushy dog with a radio inside as a gift. My friend came for a sleepover, and she grabbed it and hugged it, squealing about how cute it was. She accidentally turned the radio on and it yelled, "I will NOT be treated like a sex object!" Talk about 2 freaked out teenagers!
I was leaning against the wall watching late night TV on my bed when the picture above my head fell down and landed on me. Not pleasant.
Once I thought a poster fell on my face but it was actually a bat
I had a huge poster of all the kids from Beverly Hills 90210 and one of Luke Perry by himself 💓
I still have a bunch of posters and this happens regularly 😂 it's rather alarming to see Ghost (from CoD) coming at you before you're really awake 🤣
Or wear wide headband over your eyes and pretend to be Data from Star Trek
I don't think I've seen Jumanji 2. I'll have to look for it.
Load More Replies...My mom was less harsh. She still had a laundry list of chores for me to do after school, and a full day's list of chores on inservice days. If I didn't do them all I was grounded.
Nobody should use violence to solve problems. No different than a man hitting their wife if they forget to clean up.
For dead blame sure, and we got one lots of times and still can function in society!!
"It's all of your childhood and the joy of characters and books and creativity rolled into 1.42 minutes," she goes on about the Canva Holiday Story Ad. "Created to showcase the element library in Canva and what you can create with it, the ad itself is packed with nostalgia and hits all the feels in the right place. And as a Canva Creator of templates for the Canva library, it was nostalgia on steroids for this designer!"
Let me tell you the tale of the glass salad bowl in the form of..salad leafs. Every adult (35-40yrs) household had them when I was a kid.... and when I became an adult I realized they just turn up in random 35 years old households. Noone ever bought them. Last month we went to a thrift store and there it was... Since I have no parents/grandparents I was compelled to buy it...So now, at 37 I too have a salad formed glass salad bowl.
We didn't have one, but found two in the home of a deceased grandmother. So now, with 37 years, I'm also a proud owner of one big salad bowl and one small cereal bowl 😀
Load More Replies...These that contained jelly that could be used as a drinking glass when empty. il_fullxfu...9_1c55.jpg
Wasn't there a little purple bear on the lid or something?
Load More Replies...anyone remember the aluminum colored cups when you were kids, would get so cold to your hands when holding them??
In the UK, petrol stations would give the small tumbler ones when you filled up
I’d like to think this was printed on the cassette insert.
Load More Replies...It was the early 90's that I went clubbing. Went to the legendary Hacienda in Manchester. Can't say it did much for me. It was full of people like those pictured. Oh and they filled the dance floor with foam. We had such joys as The KLF and Oasis vs. Blur.
Could be worse. They could repeat "thunder" 77 times in a 171 sec long song.
She looks like she's about to perform the old technicolor yawn.
Load More Replies...Donna also mentions this gaming ad from Nintendo as a memorable '90s nostalgia campaign. "[It ]evokes memories of siblings and childhood and playing Nintendo in the '80s and '90s. And what's more '90s than a Wayne's World Uber Eats ad? Personally, as a teen video store employee, I loved the '90s nostalgia of Airbnb's chance to stay at the last remaining Blockbuster video store. Experiential marketing [and] nostalgia is a perfect duo."
My 22 year old son and I will still make one in the Living Room and watch some of our favorite movies while sitting in our "castle" fort!
If i had DARED do something like that with the living room furntiture, I'd have got a hiding to nowhere, been sent to my room, .locked in and grounded from friends coming over for a month for MAKING MORE WORK FOR YOUR MUM TO CLEAN UP!
Quite a bit of a stretch. $2.03 would have been more like 1973.
Load More Replies...I worked at mcds in 1994 in Illinois. If you bought each sandwich in a value meal, the cost was 2.99 then 3.18 with tax.
Agreed. I also worked at McDonald’s in 1994 and the least inexpensive value meal was $2.99 USD, $3.17 with the state tax of 6%. There is no way all of that food would be about to be purchased for that amount.
Load More Replies...Yeah....no. I worked at McDonalds in 1990 and you could NOT get ALL this pictured here for under $20.
I remember when , on the first Tuesday of the month, you could get .49 cent hamburgers and .59 cent cheeseburgers at McDonald's. Workers now would laugh in your face if you told them this now.
No. But in 1993 I would skate to Burger King and get a double bacon cheeseburger meal and after tax it was $3.24 which was amazing. Also used to steal the little ashtrays on the tables.
I dunno. My mom flipped out when I got home from the store for her because I thought there was enough money left over to buy myself a chocolate bar. That was a scary day for me, realizing one chocolate bar could send us to the poor house. She often said NO! a lot and much of our outings were either free or very cheap, and she fed us porridge and soup a lot.
My mom gave me $60 for shoes one time in 1990. I bought a $20 pair of Tiger Asics and two Stevie Ray Vaughn CD's. My mom was not pleased with my financial sensibilities.
Load More Replies...Adulting WAS way more affordable in the 90s. I was making the princely sum of $11/hr in 1993 (with nearly limitless OT for two weeks of every month...) in a not cheap area of the country. I was solidly middle class. We were kings, man. Kings.
Retail and fast food jobs weren’t paying anywhere near $15/hr back then, even adjusted for inflation but housing prices weren’t nearly so high
Yep. I moved out at 15 and started working at a large national fast food joint. I think it was $5.15 an hour. They wanted age verification that I was 16 so I had to quit and walk the mile back home. Friends of my mother had taken me in.
Load More Replies...Donna says that nostalgia marketing doesn't discriminate. People of all ages may enjoy these kinds of ads, even if they weren't born in that particular decade. "While Gen Xers and Millennials are particularly attracted to '90s nostalgia, it's not an exclusive club," she says.
I hated those balls, because they'd build up static electricity while you were bouncing them. I hated dodgeball, being a wimp. I would have loved to play Foursquare, but I was never invited.
Being sensible and having a strong survival instinct is certainly not wimpy.
Load More Replies...Fifth grade dodgeball, back in '98. The bruises would fade after a couple weeks. Good times...
I think I still have the bruise on my butt from playing dodgeball with this ball!
Me too. Big hard rubber ball + bullies + face ='s pain and humiliation.
Load More Replies...Don't know the intended purpose, but they were great tactile resources for people with sensory needs- my brothers had them on their wheelchair trays.
They're good for juggling, since they don't roll across the room if you drop one.
We had a book that came with ours, full of instructions for different games you could play with them!
They were for laying on your back and throwing straight up in the air. They were for playing catch while watching TV with your buddy. They were just fun to handle.
My best friend was a dyslexia specialist (retired now). People know about the 'famous' symptoms of dyslexia like switching letters / numbers. But many also had balance issues. There was a catch routine she did with clients that helped that a lot. You could probably do the exercises with something other than a koosh ball, but koosh balls are large, easy to see, easy to catch, don't hurt if you miss and they hit you. (It was gentle toss, not trying to throw it like a fastball). So that was one good use for them.
To cause fires that's what! My friend and my cousin were throwing one around in my bedroom it landed in my lamp (one of those halogen lamps that looked like a bowl on the top) and didn't tell anyone and a fire broke out in my room.
The Wendy's near me still has this sunroom, but they got rid of the tables with the vintage newspaper ads, and it's kind of sad because now you can drive by and see that there's never anyone in the dining room.
The new Wendy's closest to me that opened up a few years ago, the dining room feels blocked off from the front counter, and it's just a lot of partitions. No atmosphere and spaciousness. No real sense of community and socializing.
Load More Replies...And they were always 100 degrees hotter than the rest of the restaurant. Sweat off the calories you’re eating
Yeah. But you still wanted to sit in there lol!
Load More Replies...Sad, how they take away everything that people actually want in restaurants.
Our Wendy's looks like a bunch of meth heads work there...its soooo sad......
"The '90s appeal to everyone from Baby Boomers to Gen Z," Donna points out. "We have access to so much content now that TV re-runs, movie remakes and social media bring access to all the best of the '90s – no matter your age or demographic." Donna says that people can pretty easily recreate the aesthetics of the '90s.
I can smell this, I can hear this, I can feel this... and I'm not sure I like it
I know I don’t like it. Hated gym class. I was a nerdy book loving kid
Load More Replies...I was a custodian, now retired, and am having flashbacks of attempting sanitation from 2020 on.
Ours was this tiny broom-cupboard type room with a loft. Everyone wanted to get the job of tidying it because you could spend half a day there not doing much.
You knew it would be a good day when they opened that room and said "have fun".
We had the older set, with the policeman burger guy "jail" and the giant bouncy Grimace thing.
We had (in the big city of 10,000 people) TWO McDonald's, Burger King, Burger Chef, Jack in the Box, Arby's, Dairy Queen, White Castle, Pizza Hut, Domino's, Hardee's, Red Lobster, Bonanza, and Ponderosa. A shame my parents were broke. My brother and I loved eating out.
I remember when my home town had Burger King, Arby's, Dairy Queen, and KFC. When I was 7 or 8 we got a Pizza Hut and a McDonalds.
You can also chop up one that don't play, use a caulking and make garden witch ball suncatchers!!
Load More Replies...It still is mine. Couldn't get through the drive to/from Melbourne without my CDs for when the radio stations all have junk on.
I had Sean Cassidy records that we used for bowling in the snow. The goal was to hit the David Cassidy record.
People born after the 90s wouldn't get the vinyl reference
Walmart still sells a boom box that can play CDs.
Load More Replies..."Revivals of generational hits like Friends or Y2K colors and design can be started with a simple TikTok trend or streaming show. And yet another boy band goes on tour and their music is hitting the charts. I'm sure we will see a whole lot more of it in years to come, as different eras come back into our current pop culture. Rad!", Donna concludes like a true Gen Xer.
I was going to point out Aquarium too, can get it easily and it comes with a variety of fish patterns inside.
Load More Replies...We still have them, Palmolive brand i think. I bought one of each (fish, turtle and dolphin) and now refill them with whatever soaps i got
This is what people want, and look at the c**p we have now. What happened?
I cried when my first tamagotchi died. I had failed as a father. I was about 8.
Not enjoyed by any real parent who had to keep them alive when the kids were at school. It was a fun distraction during chores, sometimes, so I guess it's ok.
We were allowed to have them in school, so long as we didn't pull them out in class and they went into the locked box of valuables in PE so no one would steal them. Given those rules were never changed, we must have done an okay job following them.
Load More Replies...I had so many students cry over the fact that these things died in their backpacks.
My school had a nursery to care for the 20 or so tamagotchi for the kids to focus on class. Yes, child care. Free. The scandal. 😁
I was teaching when these first came out in the UK. I had a nest (basket) in the cupboard where kids deposited them for a rest during lesson times!
How has the guy with the hat in the upper left corner not aged at all???
Petey would be long dead. I saw a version of this with a dog skull that had a ring around the right eye socket.
Alfalfa grew up and turned into a religious prick
This is great! I was in love with Spanky. I thought Alfalfa was a twit.
For some reason getting tapped on made me feel less like a loner. This must have been the days when the teachers were hung over and fed up with our s**t lol
Played this in Australia in the late 80’s, at the end of class when there wasn’t much time left for work
I used to f*****g hate this game. Once the teacher tried to make me play and i cried so i didn't have to play
Actually that episode was disappointing. Went all through the digestive system and then did NOT get pooped out. My kids were so disappointed.
They’ve remade it! My daughter loves it and the snl girl voices it!
My butt? Poor kids, poor school bus, poor Ms. Frizzle.They have seen some... stuff
That's fine, I don't want to know. Great show though the kids and I loved it and still do - good times.
Fun fact, you could rent starfox from blockbuster and get the rumble pack then just tell them you never got one
Load More Replies...My siblings and I still play Goldeneye sometimes. DK mode, with lasers.
The whole world know Sweden is superior. You needn't rub it in.
Load More Replies...I remember these colours. There was a contest or something for picking new colour names for Crayola. My mom and I made a list we got from a colour book. I don't think we actually sent it in. But it was fun coming up with different names for shades.
Please don't panic! The colors still exist, only the names have been changed.
Flesh color no longer exists. In '62 it was renamed peach.
As it should be. Flesh comes in a hell of a lot more colours than that.
Load More Replies...That's the one I remember. I don't recall this raw umber nonsense.
Load More Replies...I still remember the joy every time the books we ordered at school came in. Better than Christmas, for me.
I as well. In fact I still have a couple in my bookcase, 50 years later. Black Beauty, Lassie, Heidi etc.
Load More Replies...This is what Coles looks like now. It takes every ounce of my will and careful scrutiny to tell myself it all looks more fun on the table than when I bring it home.
All those kids rubbing the fluffy-topped pencils on their faces--Uck! Sticking the picking finger up their noses.
All pencils turned to rubber if you held the end and jiggled them up and down!
Flexible pencils, felt pens that glittered, erasers that smelled like a whole strawberry field, teachers getting mad if you handed in your essay in purple ink, cute cartoons on the top of your notebook - what happened to all these nice touches? Today everything is just so "professional"...
I bought some the other day for the prize box at work- the kids will (hopefully) be extra good at packing up so they can earn them!
I tried to use these pencils, and they succeeded, but I loved messing with them
I remember being told off for snapping a pencil because i thought it was a flexible one
This is what you gave the classmate that always forgets his pencil! 🤣
i refer to NFTs as "digital POGS" all the time, and if you ever wanna see a tech bro get super mad suuuuuper fast, let me tell ya.......
Just the other day I was trying to explain pogs to a 12-year-old. They looked at me like I needed mental help or something. You throw a heavy disk at some light disks...and do what now?
My school usually had a couple for left handers in each class room.
Load More Replies...The best chiropractic tool ever made. Sit feet flat on the floor, press arms against desk. You could get every bone in your spine to Crack. Probably a bad idea in retrospect, but damn it felt good.
🤣 I can't get my back to crack by myself anymore. I thought it was just me getting older. But, now I am pretty sure it's because I don't have a school desk-chair.
Load More Replies...Never had these in Britain, always thought they were a weird idea, hardly any work space, no adjustability in terms of distance, and can't work for lefties. In england we'd just have separate chairs and larger tables that usually sat two people per table.
We sold these when I worked at Spencer Gifts back in the 90's. They only held about 6 ounces and they were made out of this rubberized plastic that made everything taste funny.
I don't know about that. I thought the watermelon flavor of Bubblicious was the bomb!
I don't think we had this brand in Australia. The best gum we had was Hubba Bubba, grape flavour was my favourite.
One had to do the entire bag at once also. No 'save some for later', oh no no no. Whole bag, sore jaw, didn't care, was cool. Lol
Load More Replies...Those are still around! So is Bazooka Joe gum, if you know where to look!
Bubble gum comes in sooo many flavours. Without added flavour, it's tasteless... Yet there's "bubble gum flavour" for toothpaste... how?
The sound these made was so cool. Especially if you were going very slow.
We used to cut up a plastic bottle and attach it so it would touch the spikes, and when you rode the bicycle, it would almost sound like a motorized version! :D
They click clacked loud enough to be heard down the block. I remember getting a holographic, reflective one and I thought it made my bike the coolest on the street.
we used to tie balloons to the side of the frame to make a motor sound until they popped
We could buy these at my grade school in the '70s for a quarter. The problem I had was getting the right cheese to cracker ratio. I'd usually put very little on the first two crackers, because I was afraid of running out of cheese. So the last two crackers would be absolutely smothered.
Oh, I had a system where I divided the cheese in to block sections...always had enough.
Load More Replies...Cool kids chewed on the red stick after. You know, until the teacher told you it was a 'choking hazard'
Until you hit the rave scene 😂 then you get why they made them.
Load More Replies...These were actually made for people who went to raves to give them something to bite down on instead of grinding their teeth as a result of all the narcotics they'd be on. It just kinda trickled down to kids in school because rave culture was pretty big in the 90s.
Not the hard plastic ones. Ravers used actual soothers.
Load More Replies...If you used MDMA (molly) at a rave it kept you from grinding your teeth.
I had totally forgotten about these! OMG this just unlocked part of my brain.
I worked in the service dept of a car dealer and some of the mechanics were the biggest cry babies. So me and another lady came up with the idea of the official cry baby award and I bought a big pacifier somewhere and put a long ribbon on it. It was in my desk drawer and a couple of days later Tammie told me to go give it to Phillip. I went out in the shop, walked up behind him, called his name and when he turned around I hung it around his neck and told him what it was. The who shop cracked up and we had the permission of the Service Manager to do it.
I wanted that so much, but my grandma had the good sense to buy me one of those big, boxy tape recorders. I LOVED that thing! I recorded every episode of the A-Team, and would play it for the guys at school, the next morning. I actually found one of those old cassettes a while ago.
Pentium 120hz for life!! We had 1.19Gb hard drive and 16mb RAM, but the monitor used 1mb of RAM so we couldn't run software/games that needed 16mb. I could however download a Metallica song MP3 from napster in under 2 hours, if my mum or sister didn't pick up the phone
Remember PC THEMES FOR YOUR DESKTOP? You installed a The X-Files Theme or a DaVinci Theme, for instance and it changed the icons, fonts, the wallpaper, screen saver, log on (and log off) music, cursor, error message, the background color and some other stuff I forget to all be based on the theme you installed. I LOVED and dearly miss that feature of 90s pc culture!!!!!! Btw, anywhere I could find that for modern pcs?
I still have my Donkey Kong Green one that I bought back in '98 I think. Still works too!
My partner and I regularly play Dr. Mario on ours!
Load More Replies...They sold out so fast that retailers just put the pallets right off the truck, unwrapped the overrating and put the pallets in ailes. Saved on time, employee costs and space.
The staff were probably thinking of all the really happy, excited kids come Christmas and birthdays.
i remember the original playstation release day, i was working at a toy store at the time.
Sega, N64, Ps1...all still working. PS4 has been repaired twice. Don't make them like they used too
There was never enough female characters. I always played the females. Loved seeing their outfits.
I loved getting kicked off by the boys for mutilating them with Mileena 😂 by the time the newer outfits for her came out they refused to play me anymore 😂 Mileena all the way
Load More Replies...I quit playing video games before the N64 arrived. Loved MK2, super mario world, boy and his blob...wait that was on NES.
This looks like it is being played on the Sega Genesis 16bit. Which was substantially less performance than the N64, which was 64bit. I remember having to put in the blood cheat code.
Load More Replies...We didnt have a tv or cable so loved getting to watch this at one of my friends home after school.
When I found out, I said "The voice of my childhood just died. Rest in peace"
Load More Replies...Sandlot it’s an old movie I watched it in school like 2 years ago. It’s a great movie too
I have never been able to do these. I can stare at it, cross my eyes, squint, walk in closer, stand farther away, close one eye and still have absolutely no idea what it is supposed to be
Do you have an astigmatism? I've never been able to either and it was told most people with astigmatism can't.
Load More Replies...That explains why I can't see them. Thanks
Load More Replies...Couldn't get these for the life of me. I was only able to do it once recently. I can't see anything in this one and I fear I'm wrecking my eyes trying.
Get up close and pull back slow with eyes unfocused.. Still got that " Magic Eye"
Is the final scene of the series Boy Meets World
Load More Replies...The final episode of Rosanne i really got upset about. Heartbreaking.
It was, if you went to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour! I can't remember if that was The Zoo or The Trough... but I remember it came out on a stretcher with sirens blaring and 2 guys running it around the restaurant!
Ohmygoodness! I hadn't thought about Farrell's in so long! I do remember what you described. I believe it was the Zoo that had to be ordered. Remember all the plastic animals all over it? Broke my heart when I heard they went out of business.
Load More Replies...I am this old again. Dig out my old N64 and I'm playing this again. Funny how much better I used to be playing this, or any other of the games.
Haha I'm old enough that pole position was only available to play at the local arcade!
Between this design and the design that looked like pastel Doritos with sprinkles on them, the 90s really did have a unified theme of what was trying to be "hip" and "cool".
Haha, every friday there is a food truck in front of my local super market selling fried fish. They use paper bags with this motive as Take away bags 😁
Oh, the utter glee I felt the first time I discovered the Star Road...
To this day, I swear I had a green VHS tape of something from Nickelodeon as a kid, but no recollection of what it was. My brother and sister don't remember it at all, so I'm starting to wonder if I'm having a Mandela effect
Rod Stewart's Atlantic Crossing album sounded better on orange vinyl, too.
No, they came out in 1961. I had one when I was little. I actually thought they came out in the 40's, but I was wrong.
Load More Replies...Try 1961, the year the Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone was released. The world didn't start in the 1990s!
Why is this even in this list? These have been around so long there are drawings of them on cave walls. /J But for real - "The Chatter Telephone is a pull toy for toddlers 12 to 36 months of age. Introduced in 1961 by the Fisher-Price company as the "Talk Back Phone" for infants and children, which was updated to the name Chatter Telephone in 1962, is a roll along pull toy."
Can you imagine how long it would take to dial an 11 digit number that had 8 zeros?
We had one. I also had a yellow (toy) princess phone.
One fine day with a woof and a purr, a baby was born and it caused a little stir...
Woooow. I had totally forgotten about these. I can ALMOST rmbr the taste...
Nice find. I do remember these!! Perfect for days when you were sick.
Yeah, I wanted it, but then I remembered that I was a vampire and the sun would be too much.
Load More Replies...Nah. I wanted Lydia Deets' room, complete with opening up to the Netherworld.
I still have my original somewhere. I loved riding around on it...and I was not a child when I got it.
I still have a scar on my palm from the first time I wiped out on that thing...
Still have one, the iron one. My kids left in the middle of the street and a car ran it over. Came out fine , what a legend 😭🙌🏻
As a gay boy in the 80s, I always used to buy these. I liked the red colored one. Can you blame me with having Kelly Lebroc to look up to?
Garfield and Friends: ended in '94, but CN provided reruns for a.few years afterwards.
Nick had a branch NEXT TO MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! Was so cool to drive by it every day!
I had the OG Gameboy. There were some really great games for it. Tetris game mode b, level 9, high 5
...and the joy of seeing that rocket take off when you won the game.
Load More Replies...They switched to corn syrup in the early 80's. Besides I bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in a blind taste test.
Load More Replies...Basically Coke's answer to Dr. Pepper. Actually came out in the 70's.
Load More Replies...I know what you mean. TRU was like going to the amusement park, but KB was like going to the 7-11. One big endorphin hit vs. a lot of little ones. If you don't get it, you don't get it.
Load More Replies...i have traumatic memories around that sticker. big white wire grid bins full of sega genesis games (empty boxes, get the game at the cash register) and one bin was 2 for $5 and one bin was $7.99 and people never put them back in the right bins after digging through. a woman punched me in the kidney because i wouldn't honor the price of the (cheaper) bin she found the box in as opposed to the sticker price on it. was great to watch my petite manager manhandle her out of the store and ban her though.
I never got out, I'm living here now, for 30 years. Send help... or cheese-its
I bring these up all the time! I miss them so much. The white ones are legendary🤍
12 year old me thought I was something special the day I finished my complete set
Similes never went away. I still buy them for my son and that’s the story I’m sticking to.
I bought them recently for my kids and they didn't like them
Load More Replies...School Cafeteria pizza hands down!!!! I will rent a kid to go to school for their lunch on pizza day lol
I'd bring back the pizza only if our lunch lady came it. RIP Mis s. Hunt
They still stamp at ours with invisible ink or blue light ink to make sure the children leave with correct adult. Safety first!
Elmer's glue. Let it dry and peel it off.
Load More Replies...we poured small ovals of glue in the pencil tray of our desks, let dry overnight, and the next day we had stick-on nails!
I'm sure if you were born or live in the USA, it was a riot of nostalgia. For anyone else, 80% of it means not a thing.
I was born in late 1970s Brazil. I don't know about most of these. Oh well
Load More Replies...These lists seems to be only for US-americans, I'm sure I've seen lists like this for other parts of the world it would be nice to see a bit of that on BP.
I'm American, but I agree: it would be neat to see what kids of other countries grew up playing with. Where did their imagination take them?
Load More Replies...I grew up in the 70s. A lot of these computer games and tv shows/cartoons mean nothing to me. But I enjoy seeing what 90s kids had.
Always interesting to get a glimpse into what live was like in other countries. Top.
We had all these here in Canada too. Don't forget about super soakers too.
I'm sure if you were born or live in the USA, it was a riot of nostalgia. For anyone else, 80% of it means not a thing.
I was born in late 1970s Brazil. I don't know about most of these. Oh well
Load More Replies...These lists seems to be only for US-americans, I'm sure I've seen lists like this for other parts of the world it would be nice to see a bit of that on BP.
I'm American, but I agree: it would be neat to see what kids of other countries grew up playing with. Where did their imagination take them?
Load More Replies...I grew up in the 70s. A lot of these computer games and tv shows/cartoons mean nothing to me. But I enjoy seeing what 90s kids had.
Always interesting to get a glimpse into what live was like in other countries. Top.
We had all these here in Canada too. Don't forget about super soakers too.
