things you remember if u were raised in the 90’s

I have highlighted the stuff that i remember or laughed when remembered on generally had a good memory about!

– Live & Kicking

– Sharky & George (crimebusters of the sea)

– Get Your Own Back….Dave Benson Philips

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

– The Moomins !

– Erie Indiana

– How 2 (that’s How for Now)

– The BIG Breakfast!

– The Poddington Peas

– Pingu

– The Books we used to read …(classics included, The Hungry Caterpillar, The Lighthouse Keepers’ Lunch, 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… i could go on all day…)

– Catchphrase (its good but its not the right one – Roy Walker. Brilliant)

– The Crystal Maze

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

– Captain Planet

– The National Lottery (it used to be good…admit it!)

– Stars In Their Eyes! (Tonight Matthew…)

– You’ve Been Framed – Jeremy Beadle!

– The Wild House

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

– The NeverEnding Story

– The Really Wild Show! – Michaela Strachan!

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

– Rainbow

– Bruce Forsythes’ Generation Game

– Noel Edmond’s House Party

– Mr Blobby !!

– Fun House (if you wanna play the game use your body and your brain!!!)

– Wizadora (we adore ‘er)

– California Dreams

– Bodger & Badger

– PopStars, the original….HearSay

– Streetmate (with Davina McCall…anyone?)

– Heartbreak High

– TFI Fridays

– Wallace and Gromit

– EuroTrash (we were definately too young for it!)

– Challenge Anneka – (no idea how to spell it.)

– The Little House on The Prairie

– Blind Date (our Graham…classic)

– Don’t Try This At Home!

– iiiiiiiiiiiin West Philadelphia born and raised….

– Zzzzzzap (- Daisy Dares You!)

– 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

– CatDog/Brum/Playdays/Fireman Sam!/Rosie & Jim/Tots TV/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 Queen’s Nose/The Demon Headmaster/Goosebumps/Byker Grove!/Round The Twist(…have you ever, ever felt like this?)/The Worst Witch (admit it, you were jealous of Mildred Hubble too)

– Knightmare

– Incredible Games!(the one with the chess board at the end with darth vadar type thing and the one with the alphabet soup thing!)

– Horrible Histories Books

– Goosebumps Books with the light-up covers

– Pokemon Cards

– Trolls

– Aliens (that apparently could breed if you microwaved
them. or froze them. or left them in a drawer or something)

– Tamogotchis, Robodogs, Pogs

– The dogs that flipped backwards (very irrelevant)

– Shag Bands !! (if you snapped you would have sex. Why did that craze have to end????)

– Snap Bracelets. They weren’t as fun, or as rewarding as sex

– Cat’s Cradle … as if anyone could actually do it

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

and just for the girls – we remember this too

– the spice girls photo collection

– the spice girls sticker collection

– spice girl bed cover/pillow cases

– every poster possible in your room

– spice girl t shirts

– making up dance routines with friends and allocating the parts to each member of the group. allocations done by hair style … not colour (ie – ginger? often a brunette)

– all the albums, and casettes, and videos

– crying hysterically when Geri left 🙁

– Cassettes – not CDs

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

– VHS not DVD !

– Polly Pocket

– Pocket Dragons

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– Felix the Cat

– Yo-Yo’s (how many of us could "walk the dog"…i never knew how 🙁 …)

– Attempting to be sexy and impress the boys by doing the hula with those Huge plastic hula hoops in the playground. Then realising it had fallen down by your ankles and people were laughing. (little bit of personal memory there)

– Light-Up Trainers

– Jelly Shoes!

– Wearing your trainers to school and thinking you looked amazing because they weren’t allowed

– (girls…) school shoes with the little keyhole in the sole of the shoe – and a little key so you could change the colour of the flower

– 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!

– having a massive crush on Zac from Saved By The Bell!

– knowing the words to the theme tune..(when i wake up in the morning…..)

– Screech. And Mr Belding.

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

– Jim’ll Fix It

– 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)

– Recording the Top 40 countdown on a Sunday afternoon onto a cassette in your bedroom.

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

– Brookside

– 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,

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

– knowing all the words to the disney films’ songs. and actually thinking you could be Ariel/Belle/Jasmin

– Mizz, J-17 (how cool did you feel when you were actually about 11 but buying J-17?!) Girl Talk, Sugar….i could go on!!

– Hair Mascara – particularly blue….. oooh, nice! (i had three of those!!!)

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

– Sonic The Hedgehog

– Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Donnatello, MichaelAngelo, Rafael & Leonardo… Splinter, Shredder)

– Thunderbirds

– HEROES IN A HALF SHELL…. TURTLE POWER!

– Alvin, Simon…. Theodore!

– The Racoons ! …Cyril Sneer

– Slinkies

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

– Trading "2 David Beckhams for a Shiny"

– Choc Dips !

– Opal Fruits…not Starburst

– Marathon…not Snickers (dont remember that personally i was about 2 when this one changed)

– 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…?

– think way back for this one… having a remote control on a wire for your TV! (i think i was about 3 when we had one)

– buying your first album. – Backstreet Boys’ Backstreet’s Back

– Hanson, Eiffel 65, B*Witched, Aaron Carter… Loved it!

– 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!

– Baby G Watches. we didn’t have one. Wanted one though

– Euro ’96

– France ’98

– Show & Tell

– Hooch !!

– PlayStations…..the original.
– Nintendo 64

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

we sound really old now… but we just thought we’d emphasise how good our little 90’s decade actually was….in the UK!       

So guys out of curiosity what do you guys remember??!!