You know you were raised in the late 80's early 90's when...

[camochick]

Pepsi chrystal was clear pepsi. It tasted like pepsi but looked like water. It was lame . hehehe >

On another note, i just got a three dvd set of old Mr. dressup shows, the good ones with casey and finnigan. They are so cool hehe, i'm such a dork.  >

 

[Island Ryhno]

Reebok Rads, Optimus Prime and Megatron. BTW those jeans are still stone washed, I think what you are thinking is ACID washed jeans, it was blue with big white patches in it. How about Surf Style, Varnet bright pink shirts. There are so many things, Nirvanas Nevermind cd, Pearl Jam.  The Chicago Bulls 6 championships and the Houston Rockets in between. How about the world series Quake, SF & Oakland, the bash brothers. Back to Back for the Blue Jays (Joe Carters Home run is one of the greatest moments in baseball) 1994 NO WORLD SERIES    5 Edmonton Oilers Stanley Cups, and Canada Dominated the World Junior Hockey Championships. I saw Wayne Gretzky get over 200 points in a season for 3 consecutive years. You saw the Gretzky to Lemiux goal at the Canada Cup. I could go on forever, how about GUMMI BEARS!

 

[camochick]

GUMMI BEARS, i forgot about that show. How about glow worms, teddy ruxpin, rainbow bright, chip and dale rescue rangers, hercules(the cartoon with the little halfling that went herc, herc), polka dot door, the muppet show, astro boy, hammy hamster, the friendly giant, under the umbrella tree, fred penner....I could go on for days.

Anyone remember those badly drawn cartoons that were on early in the morning, the wizard of oz and pinnochio hehe. >

 

[GK .Dundas]

GUMMI BEARS 4 - EVER !!!!


  Hey I went thru my second childhood in the 80'S ;D

 

[Zombie]

Funny, I was just watching a show called "Back in 1987" -- all the movies, bands, songs that were popular back then -- "Three Men and a Baby" was the top grossing movie of the year! WTF!!

 

[jswift872]

LOL, I agree with pretty much the whole list, I was nodding my head the whole time, good find... ;D

 

[Jonny Boy]

Ah the memories of my childhood...

- Pogs (played at school constantly)
- Devil Sticks (I had 3 sets)
- Marbles (1990 equivalent craze of playing Jacks)
- Colin James (before he played Swing Music for GAP ads)
- Green Day (when preppie punk and swearing in lyrics was "rad!")
- Mini-stick hockey (OMG! We actually had that!?!?!)
- Woodstock '94 (only a few of us knew there was a Woodstock in '69, even then this concert looked bitchin)
- Macintosh and IBM computers (before 1000s of other companies started getting into the business)
- LA Gear light shoes (those stupid shoes with the light that blinked with each step you took)
- Pauly Shore (the 1990s seem to be the pinacle of his career after he left MTV)
- Super Nintendo (the "X-Box of the early 1990s)
- Gun registration (not an issue 'til 1998)
- cigarettes were $2.50 a pack (they're about $8.00 a pack now)
- super soakers (everyone, even girls had them)
- stone-washed jeans
- beastie boys were the only rap / hiphop group listened to at school
- Bi Way (cheap store, you got your @$$ kicked if you shopped at Bi Way)
- Cable TV (sattelite was for millionaires, rabbit ears were for cave dwellers.)
- CDs (people still bought cassettes because CDs were triple the price)

ha so much of every thing is true. i had such a great pog collection. and don't forget the teenage mutant ninja turtles. they were the best.

But who can forget  hair styles like...the bowl cut, the rat tail...

...yes the 90s were strange and cumbersome times...

i had such a long rat tail. my mom and sisters always used to pull me around by it. lol

i also had the bowl cut and the mushroom cut.

 

[NATO Boy]

I remember this stuff like it was only yesterday...I'm even more surprised that other people do too! 

 

[1913_kicks_ass]

i remember it like it was yesterday too...but i dont kno how you could forget all that stuff?....( i  used to have a teddy ruxbin that told a story it came with a book and everything!! lol)

 

[atticus]

http://www.retrojunk.com/

ahh... childhood memories brought back....

 

[NATO Boy]

...and who could forget MTV's "BEAVIS and BUTTHEAD" during the '90s...

"Uh huh huh huh huh, you said 'head.' Uh huh huh huh huh." ;D

"Yeah, heh heh hmm hmm, and 'butt,' heh heh hmm hmm heh heh." ;D

 

[BDG.CalgHighrs]

Damn, I wish you could still get a $3.99 pack of smokes.

 

[vangemeren]

I'll ad my memories to the mix:

Honeycomb cereal had cartoon commercials that had an adult adventurer (Indiana Jones like) in space?
Alphabits mascot was a wizard not some computer.
I played with tiny little cars called micromachines.
Holes in jeans were cool.
I remember wearing "cords"
Disney cartoons like Tailspin, Darkwing Duck, Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers and others.

As I was born in 85, My memories are mostly from the early 90s.

 

[Island Ryhno]

GoBots
Gargoyles
Reebok Rads (two different colored shoes)
Steve Young
Joe Montana
Troy Aikman
Reebok Pumps
Neon Everything  :
Hulk Hogan (I am a real american 8))

 

[mover1]

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/redriver/415/smurf.html

And still the communists were trying to play with our mind.
Check out the Socialist Men Under a Red Father. :rage:

 

[chk2fung]

I wasn't allowed to watch Baywatch or Married with Childrem growing up, but I did watch lots of Kids of Degrassi, Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi  High in reruns of course, even I was a little too young for the original.

 

[Sheerin]

lol... I remember micromachines, those things were the coolest!!

god i remember those snap bracelets, they were so cool, with their funky colours and such, although for the life of me I can't remember why schools banned them?  There is this one toy/game I remember seeing ads for, in a set you got two guns, like water guns except they shot coloured liquid, I remember i wanted it so bad but my mother refused to buy it because she thought I'd ruin the furniture with it (she was probably right).

hmm, I also remember being incredibly disappointed with the ghostbuster toys, especially the trap thingie because all it did was open up (and if I remember correctly youhad to really stomp on the pedal thing to get enough air pneumatic pressure); i was sure that when I got it it would be exactly like the real thing from the movie and cartoon... ah to be at 6 again.

Oh did anyone else have a VexTrex?  Man, i used to love that thing... actually I still think its down in my dad's basement, but I doubt it works.

 

[nawk]

darn, I wish you could still get a $3.99 pack of smokes.

How about getting gas for 40 odd cents a litre.

 

[Jonny Boy]

i know this was around 1996 but does anyone remember those nino things. god everyone i knew had one of those things.

oh and i can never forget those crash test dummy dolls. i used to have  so much full ripping them apart and putting them back togeather.

Hulk Hogan (I am a real American 8))

i used to have rubber versions of the wrestlers. including Hulk Hogan. my dog chewed them up and i think i screwed hulk up with a hatchet.

 

[camochick]

i know this was around 1996 but does anyone remember those nino things

Do you mean the nano pets. Those electronic pets on key chain things that you had to feed and water and play with or they would die hehe. I had one of those things and i wasnt even a kid hehe.

Hey, we all forgot about the cabbage patch kids. They were huge. MY mom had to wait in line forever to get me one and almost had to fight for it hehe. It's kind of like those damn furbies. I worked at toys r us when those came out and people were psycho about getting one. Bet there are alot of kids with an old broken furbie(or tickle me elmo) in the back of their closet hehe.