You know your a kid in the 90's when....

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  • trdy77
    trdy77 Posts: 82 Member
    Penny rolled pants
    guess jeans
    champion
    starter jackets
    we even had a "sega dreamcast"
  • ZombieChaser
    ZombieChaser Posts: 1,555 Member
    Fresh Prince of Bel Air (I can still sing the theme song..haha)

    Smashing Pumpkins (I now own them on vinyl!)

    Recording songs from the radio to cassette, and having the DJ ruin the begining of the song.

    Pogs, and marbles

    Skip-it (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2049243_2048660_2049212,00.html)

    Tetris on GameBoy
  • Addicted2Fitness
    Addicted2Fitness Posts: 90
    Every thing said above!

    VH1 popup videos lol
  • islandjumper
    islandjumper Posts: 369 Member
    duck hunt on Nintendo? that was so 'high tech'

    Loved New Kids on the Block
    Didn't get a CD player until high school
    Big fan of the original power rangers
    Green screen mac word processor computers

    maybe this is 80s but - playing Oregon Trail after school booted from floppy disks the size of pizzas

    X-Files!
  • Addicted2Fitness
    Addicted2Fitness Posts: 90
    Every thing said above!

    VH1 popup videos lol

    also i remember people had pacifiers hanging around their necks. I never did this...I thought it was weird.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    garbage pail kids

    who killed roger rabbit

    I had a TON of Garbage Pail Kids cards!!!!

    Who Framed Roger Rabbit was hilarious!!!

    Don't forget Howard the Duck when you think of oddball movies from that time period

    JM
  • Iwillshyne
    Iwillshyne Posts: 245
    my walkman
    my beeper
    my air-brushed overalls
    my poetic justice braids
    and listening to Bell-Biv-Devoe and Jodeci--on my walkman of course!
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    LOL Flannel shirts tied around the waist. Jincos with legs so big you just cut the bottoms off when got to ripped. Serious wallet chains that hung past your knees and had three of them. Choke chains. (LOL rocker chick maybe :bigsmile: ) Sketchers and airwalks being skater shoes. X-files, Star trek Voyager and DS9. Stargate SG1. Nine inch Nails and Marylin Manson. MTV music Awards actually showing music and vidoes lol. :drinker:


    Oh and does anybody else remeber Surge
    best soda ever lol as long as you werent planning on having kids anytime soon.
  • GoldenGirl1979
    GoldenGirl1979 Posts: 716 Member
    - you can't do that on television

    - double dare

    - recording videos on vhs

    -recording martin on vhs

    -sneaking to watch def comedy jam (b/c you know you shouldn't have been watching such things)

    -yo mtv raps w/dr. dre & ed lover

    - snoop dog's chronic

    - rap city w/the mayor, chris thomas

    -poetic justice, & those big dooky braids janet jackson had in that movie

    - kid & play

    - kid being on martin... remember that episode when shanene won a date w/ kid!! #classic

    -jodeci

    -alanis morisette

    - putting tape on the open parts of the cassette tapes, so you could tape over them (or stuffing tissue in the open parts)

    boy those were the days :laugh:
  • roberts1013
    roberts1013 Posts: 103 Member
    Now i just miss the 90's lol
  • rbvaudrizle
    rbvaudrizle Posts: 69 Member
    I played sooo much dragon warrior on NES, i wore LA Gears, i know how to do the "chinese typewriter" the roger rabbit and of course the running man. I used to "break on a box". I wore cross color overalls. I owned a shirt that said "where's the beef?". We also played outdoors a lot more than kids do these days.
  • crystalDRA
    crystalDRA Posts: 28 Member
    you can remember Color Me Badd singing at the Peach Pit (original 90210)

    or

    you wanted one of Blossom's hats

    or

    if you played "MASH" (the game on notebook paper- not the tv show)

    or

    if you collected Garbage Pail Kids
  • HeaderAutumn
    HeaderAutumn Posts: 119 Member
    White suits with polka dots

    "November Rain"

    Keeping Quarters in your pocket to call home or answer a page.

    Wayne's World -- SSHWING!!!-- NOT!!!!-- "hey look, we're in Delaware..."

    Rebecca Gayheart the Noxema girl

    Spending hours trying to look grunge in the cleanest way possible

    Snackwell's
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    Every thing said above!

    VH1 popup videos lol

    also i remember people had pacifiers hanging around their necks. I never did this...I thought it was weird.



    I had a friend explain that to me. Most people with the pacifierss were doing Ex..... they would suck on the pacifiers to increase the high.... ON that note lets not forget glow sticks. lol
  • MinnesotaManimal
    MinnesotaManimal Posts: 642 Member
    This thread is just depressing.
  • puppy1002
    puppy1002 Posts: 154 Member
    The dating game Single Out on MTV and Smiley faces on everything :smile:
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    When you don't know the difference between you're, your, their, there, they're....
  • My1985Freckles
    My1985Freckles Posts: 1,039 Member
    Star Trek TNG
    Wishbone
    Y2K - Remember all the preparations for it?
    The sneakers that you pumped air into
    TGIF
  • GrahamBarwick
    GrahamBarwick Posts: 459
    Braveheart

    Gladiator

    Oasis

    Blur

    Knebworth

    Raving

    Gatecrasher

    This Life
  • JPsFunkyMojo
    JPsFunkyMojo Posts: 72
    I remember having a blank VHS in the recorder at all times and whenever BSB came on the television I ran up like a fool to hit record. I think at one point I had over 10 tapes O_O
  • BioQueen
    BioQueen Posts: 694 Member
    When there were only 151 pokemon you had to catch...
  • Now0rNever
    Now0rNever Posts: 69 Member
    Nickelodeon consisted of : ALL THAT, SNICK, & ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK

    THE Disney Channel actually played cartoons instead of tween shows! lol

    YOU LISTENED TO : Backstreet Boys, NSync, Destiny's Child, and watched Ricky Lake lol :))
  • britishstar41
    britishstar41 Posts: 140 Member
    The dating game Single Out on MTV and Smiley faces on everything :smile:

    I used to love that show!
  • misstasharenee
    misstasharenee Posts: 95 Member
    Are you afraid of the dark

    Nirvana, seattle grundge (early 90s)

    Boy bands/Britney Spears (late 90s)

    "As-if" "Talk to the hand" "Whatever"

    Orignial Power Rangers

    *69, *67

    Saved by the Bell

    90210, Melrose Place

    JTT


    LOL LOVE THIS!!! ...I was the *69, *67 Queen!!!:tongue:
  • Now0rNever
    Now0rNever Posts: 69 Member
    LOL!! i recorded a lot of things too! good ole' vhs tapes!!!
  • chauncyrenayCHANGED
    chauncyrenayCHANGED Posts: 788 Member
    Tamagotchis!

    I was going to say this!!!!! So many people have forgotten about them! :( I saved up all my birthday and babysitting money to get one, and when I got to the toy store they only had one ugly camouflage tamagothci left. And I bought it with all my one dollar bills and quarters! hahah
  • christina0089
    christina0089 Posts: 709 Member
    I love this thread! It is taking me back!!!

    Blossom, NKOTB, BIG bangs and scrunchies, Jean jumpers and shoes with the shinky tips, fresh prince of bel air, Hammer pants, Garbage pail kids, mili vanilli, calling into request songs on the radio, YO mtv raps, boyz to men, 2 live crew, TLC.. yea music is huge for me and rooted in them days! lol
  • Now0rNever
    Now0rNever Posts: 69 Member
    Almost Forgot............. NINTENDO! SUPER MARIO BROTHERS AND THAT DUCK GAME LOL!
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    OMG I loved TGIF, it became a family event.


    -Pepper Ann.
    -Pogs.
    -VHS


    Can't wait to see other responses.

    Holy crap POGS!!! I loved POGS

    AHH!! POGS!!! I had like 450 of those things!! I even had an extensive slammer collection.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
    Computer Games:

    Duke Nukem 3D

    Max Payne

    Quake

    JM
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