Growing up in the 90's

[fr0zen]

You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers together.

The best parties always had fairy bread.

You thought everyone in America carried a gun and you never wanted to go there because you were scared you'd get shot.

Blinky Bill, Mr Squiggle and Gumby.



SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats.

Going to the Easter Show with a big group of friends from school once you were old enough to go without Mum and Dad.

Doing research for school projects by going to the library or looking up an encyclopaedia rather than using the internet.

Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls.

Game Boy.



Waking up early everyday to watch Agro�s Cartoon Connection or Cheez TV.

Hey Hey It�s Saturday.

Buying those 6 packs of tofo Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties, Rice Bubbles, Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so you could have a different one each day and then opening the packets really carefully and removing the cereal so you'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards You also most probably just let your parents eat the Corn Flakes.

Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64.

Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty, eyeless doll named EC).

Birthday parties at McDonald's.

A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month. No returns!

Playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 and arguing over whether Oddjob was allowed to be used in multiplayer.

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.



Crossing your heart, hoping to die, sticking a needle in your eye.

Super International Cricket on the SNES.

Arguing over which was better � Nintendo 64 or PlayStation.

Don�t push me, push a push pop!



Nobody made "not" jokes... NOT!!

Bathurst stopped being Holden vs. Ford and all those European cars came in until they came to their senses.

Who shot Mr Burns?

Watching Captain Planet and then driving your parents mad by always singing the song.



You can be one TOO!

That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.

Playing Chinese Swaps in the lunch line to let in your friends.

WWE was WWF and they actually had cool wrestlers like The Rock, Mankind and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Playing Gran Turismo and MGS on PlayStation.


You decorated your room with glow-in-the-dark stickers.

You played marbles and could name all the different types like blue moon, oily, candy, red wine, galaxy and red devil. You never played anyone for your god marble.

Feeling sad when your Tamagotchi died.

Seeing a small rack of DVDs in the video store and wondering if anyone ever rented them.

Home Alone!



Dolly the sheep.

Getting up early to watch the Rage Top 50.

Friends when they were all actually just friends. Why didn't Phoebe and Joey get together?

Sonic the Hedgehog.

Alec the KID!!



Watching The Simpsons back when it was funny, every night on Channel 10.

Power Rangers becoming cooler than the Ninja Turtles, even though the Turtles will always be cooler.

Watching South Park for the first time and being really excited by all the swearing.

Watching Hercules and then being disappointed when Xena Warrior Princess replaced it.
Nobody was cooler than Herc.



Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console to make sure it worked properly.

Vulcan, Tower, Flame... Australian Gladiators.

Playing Mortal Kombat and trying to do a fatality but just ending up punching accidentally..

Pokemon! Gotta catch �em all!

Full Frontal, not Comedy Inc.

Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem.



Downloading music from Napster.

Chatting with your buddies on ICQ.

Going to see Titanic.

The winner is� Sydney.

Mighty Max and Polly Pocket. Max and Polly always got lost because they were so bloody small.

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.


Australia didn�t always win the cricket.

The Socceroos couldn�t qualify for the World Cup.

John Eales captained the Wallabies and we won the World Cup.

Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn�t afford it, you asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could split it with a friend.

Listening to boy bands like Human Nature and girl bands like Girlfriend.

Barbie, not Bratz.

The Spice Girls.

Happy Meals were only $2.95 and the toys were simple but actually good.

Person 1: Who farted!?
Person 2: Whoever smelt it, dealt it!
Person 1: Whoever made the rhyme, committed the crime!

Brad Fittler was the best in the world.

Thorpe won lots of gold medals and wasn�t so gay.

Opposite day.

We all loved Pat Rafter and almost cried when he lost to Goran Ivanisevic because our Pat deserved that title more than anyone. Definitely more than Hewitt ever did.


It took 3 Goran's to beat our Pat

Playing tackle Bull Rush at lunchtime and having tackling banned. You had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.

Giving a friend a backage in the canteen line. If it was your best friend, you gave them a frontage.

Pogs and Looney Tunes Tazos.

Nobody won Wimbledon unless their name was Pete Sampras.

You laughed at the fat kid on the Cottees cordial ad and changed the song to "My Dad picks his nose..."

DuckHunt!



You ate Smarties instead of M&M�s.

You tried Dr. Pepper and hated it.

Service stations didn�t need space for 4 digits on their petrol prices signs.

Girl germs! Boy germs!

Goosebumps.

You had to actually call your friends rather than send them an SMS.

Wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt or cap.

Wearing the cap backwards.

Arguing over who got to be Warnie in backyard cricket. Six and out!

Paul Jennings� Gizmo books.

Matchbox cars.

The feeling of wonder you got, the first time you were able to see the image in one of those Magic Eye 3D pictures.

The Secret World of Alex Mack.

Talk to the hand!

Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear.

You wished you had enough Lego to build those amazing cities they displayed in the brochures.

Collecting Yowie toys.

Playing truth or dare with your secret crush.

Mark Taylor equalling Don Bradman's record.

Slap bracelets.

Jurassic Park and those toy dinosaurs where you could pull a piece of the skin out to see its insides.

We had paper money.

Telling those Dobbers where to stick it by singing, "Dibba dobba dibba dobba number nine, wearing nappies all the time" and, "Dibba dobba Cindy went to kindy, stepped on a bindy wa wa wa."

Good on ya Mum! Tip Top�s the one!

You could buy more than enough food from the school canteen for only $2.

Begging your parents to go to McDonald�s for dinner.

Rocko�s Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!

Noni, Monica and that bald guy named George on Play School.

Going to World 4 Kids to look at all the toys.

Watching The Lion King and feeling Simba�s pain when Mufasa died. Disney just doesn�t make them like that anymore.

Soft serve cones were only 30c and they never tried to up-sell a Flake because they didn�t have it.

Wanting a Brain or Silver Bullet during the yo-yo craze.




Nesquik without the Nes.

Troll Dolls.

The Kids' Works at Pizza Hut with unlimited drink refills. You made an ice cream mountain covered in choc chips and marshmallows and could never finish it.

Thomas the Tank Engine and TUGS.

You had to get your photos developed.

Your family didn�t own a 4WD unless it was a real one like a Land Cruiser or Patrol. Range Rovers were tough and nobody thought BMW would make a 4WD, let alone Porsche.

Competing with your friends to see who could eat the most sour Warheads in one go.

The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo wasn�t a folded piece of paper..

No Hat, no play.

Dr. Dreadful Food Labs. Kids these days wouldn't be allowed that because it�s not healthy enough. We didn't give a shit about our health in the 90s.

High five!

Up high, down low, too slow!

Watching Round the Twist and getting pissed off that the actors kept on changing. You still loved it though.

Cheating in Heads Down, Thumbs Up.

Watching that game show called Vidiot. Game shows didn't have to be educational back then, like That's Academic... that show sucks.

Collecting basketball cards, whether you followed basketball or not.


You always wished your parents had bought you a bigger Super Soaker for Christmas. Christmas is hot in Australia... the more water, the better.

Collecting hundreds of tickets from Timezone just so you could trade them for some crappy prize that you could have bought from Woolies for ten bucks.

Healthy Harold day was the best because you got to miss class to sit in a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe.

(omg I absolutely loved going to this and the little man in the corner and you could see all his guts! And fighting to sit next to your best friend in the dark!)

Playing handball with Ace, King, Queen and Dunce and making up stupid rules as you went along.

Skipping ropes and Jump Rope for Heart Day.

Chewing the crappy gum in Bubble-O-Bill's nose and wishing they could just use Hubba Bubba instead.


A*mazing.

Hypercolour T-shirts.

Who Dares! Who Dares! Who Dares Wins!

Having your very own Dollarmites account and getting really excited when you earned a tiny bit of interest.

Snake on the Nokia 5110 (Brick!!)

[Tom[wh]]

Aight bro

[ELiTEE]

no `!

[pinto]

YOU COLLECTED DRAGON BALL Z CARDS!??!?

[fr0zen]

LOl i copy/pasted from an email.

[chopper~]

lol comedian

[Boagz]

You didn't get to go to EXPO.

[Max_]

lol bangers and mash

[Snow]

80's kids are better but yer I spose my main memories are from the 90's

[Montu]

HAHAA yes! What a read. Only made it like half way through but it brang back some awesome memories

[Benee]

I can recall almost everything on there lol. Indeed good memories, not a care in the world apart from playing as much as possible before bed.

[esjay]

woah, i love the ones where you think your the only one that did that but apparently other people did too!

Oddjob on n64 and the easter show one yes!

[sequaL]

You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers together.


Remember this was soo cool

[Montu]

Oddjob on n64

Haha yes! And the shortcut trick on Rainbow Road. I can still do that today. It's so annoying when you make it but bounce off haha.

[esjay]

You're a 90's kid if:

You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"

You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You remember reading "Goosebumps"

You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You danced to "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)

HELLO....HOT WHEELS!!!!!
Cars, cars, cars.

You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.

You remember when super nintendos became popular.

You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3........and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"

"I've fallen and I can't get up"

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players

You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool

You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"
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You played and/or collected "Pogs"

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere

You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles

NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS WERE THE BEST MYSTERY BOOKS

Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)

You made paper scrunchies to see who you'd end up marrying
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You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.

You used to wear those stick on earrings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.

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 thought Brain would finally take over the world

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

You remember when everyone went slinky crazy.

You remember when razor scooters were cool.



When we were younger:

Before the MySpace frenzy...

Before the Internet & text messaging...

Before Sidekicks & iPods...

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX...

...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 & paid $3.50 for a movie.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.

When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.

Tag.

Get Over Here!!!! means something to you.

Hide-n-Go Seek at dusk.

Red Light, Green Light.

Heads Up 7 Up.

Playing Kickball & Dodgeball until your porch light came on.

Hopskotch.

Tree Houses.

Hula Hoops.

Captain Planet.

Running through the sprinklers.

That "Little Mermaid"

Crying when Mufasa died in the Lion King.

Happy Meals where you chose a Barbie or a Hot Wheels car.

Getting the privilege to sit in the front seat of the car.

Drinking Sqeeze It "Squeeze The Fun Out Of It"

Or what about:

Hey Arnold.

Rugrats.

The Secret World of Alex Mac.

Rocco's Modern Life.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Doug.

Magic School Bus.

Aladdin.
Aladdin - The Best Story Ever !!!

Pinky and the Brain

Sailor Moon.

Blossom.

Beavis & Butt-Head

Wishbone.

Bill Nye the Science Guy

MR RODGERS!!!!

Where everyone wanted to be in love after watching The Wonder Years.

Under the Umbrella Tree

PEE-WEE!!!

The Big Comfy Couch


Kool-Aid was the drink of choice.

Class field trips.

When Christmas was the most exciting time of year.

When $5 seemed like a million, & another dollar a miracle.

When you begged to go to McDonalds for dinner everyday.

When Toys R Us overuled the mall.



Go back to the time when:

Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'.

Money issues were handled by whoever was banker in 'Monopoly.'

Being old referred to anyone over 20.

A chance to skate as a couple at the local roller rink was like winning the lottery.

When Ninja Turtles ruled the world.


When Aladdin was new, before the trilogy was complete.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear

Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!

[Jack]

great read, haha brought back some great memories.

Giving a friend backage in the canteen line. If it was your best friend, you gave them a frontage.

oh yeahh.

[UnicoRN]

haha the memories

[z1bE4R]

Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn�t afford it, you asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could split it with a friend.

hahahah<3

[D2therJdotCOM]

cool story bro

[LeoGODFATHER]

they also made warheads in a hot flavour

[zer0pS]

LOl i copy/pasted from an email.

was gona say..

pretty sad if u actually did all this.

i agree with some such as certain cartoons blah blah and others is more or less "errr if ur a fuckwit maybe it was like that."

[zer0pS]

i believe esjays post much more lol....nearly everything brought back memories.

[m1ndee]

I'm sad now.

[Karma]

good memories. made me lol

[zer0pS]

awwww yeeeaaaa 80s baby's represent

[stix]

[PerSpaRi]

f*ck me so many memories lol, feel depressed now. the good old days

[falcz]

miss those days. 0 responsibilities lol.
bubble O bills and odd job on 64 FTW lol.. tony hawks pro skating was a major game for PS back then for me though..

[Ordinary]

80's kids are better but yer I spose my main memories are from the 90's

Lol, you idiot.

Nice thread, brought back alota memories. a LOT!

[grimlock]

Didn't think my entire childhood could be summarized in one post.
choosing oddjob or baron samedi would earn me a punch in those days.

[che]

good times hahah, fkn GUMBY LOL that brought some memories hahahah I still have a mini figurine of him , good times ay

tv is so shit now days, even the cartoons on Saturdays are not what they once were, I remmeber getting up every Saturday to watch the toons would never miss them lol

[BellaCullen]

"Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64."


^^^^ this is a big one for me rofl.

[wilzredman]

WOW best thread ever, so many memories, like said before makes me depressed that i missed that stuff so much.

Playing tackle Bull Rush at lunchtime and having tackling banned. You had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.
HA YES

and harold the giffafe was the best


i miss the old days

[Montu]

and harold the giffafe was the best

Haha harold. You had to act out ways to get out of peer pressure with alcohol and stuff haha. BEST

[Fiendly]

Where's the Zelda Ocarina of Time?

[kiz]

The Secret World of Alex Mack.

she was so dreamy

[jb[chea]]

Hahaha oh god the memories that these bring back! It's unbelievable how accurate some of them are, I would swear I'd be the only person to remember stuff like that, but apparently everyone does =] Jump Rope for Heart, Harold the Giraffe, Bubble O Bill.

Wow, do I miss those days

[bquick]

OHH i had a Game Boy, they where the BOMB!!

[sjB]

Esjays Facebook group steal is the better one, complete with links

Good times though

[fr0zen]

haha my dad used to wake me up before he went to work to watch cheeze tv. fuckin awesome show!