Pogs and the 90s
April 20th, 2006, 07:14 pm
The other day pogs popped into my head. I have no idea why or where it came from. It was a sweet blast from the past. I remember collecting the little circles of card board and playing during recess at school. Pogs were awesome!
Here is a bunch of things from the 90s that I enjoyed reading and bringing back some great memories. I miss being a kid.
I didn’t write this. I snatched it off of MySpace.
You’re a 90’s kid if:
You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “SIKE!”
You can sing the rap to “The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air”
You remember when Kurt Cobain, Tu Pac, River Phoenix, and Selena died.
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 got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading “Goosebumps”
You know the profound meaning of “Wax on, wax off”
You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
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.)
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.
Captain Planet.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the red* Ranger were meant to be together.
To the last sentence you said…..hey…Tommy was the green* ranger!!!!
*later to be white
When playing power rangers with friends you fought over who got to be who…………and still all ended up being tommy.
You remember when super nintendo’s 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 going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
Two words… Trapper Keeper.
You ever got injured on a Slip ‘n’ Slide
You wore socks over leggings scrunched down
“Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back” SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS PHANTS PHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE
he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stubbed his toe toe toe and thats the end end end of the elephants show show showYou 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”
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 remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
You remember a time before the WB.
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 woud 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 MIKE JONES
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX.
Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
WHEN LIGHT UP SNEAKERS WERE KOOL
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 2Pac and Biggie where alive.
When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.
Way back.
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.
Slip-n-Slides…. now there are just ghetto ones
Tree Houses.
Hula Hoops.
Reading R.L. Stine’s Goose Bumps.
HELLO….HOT WHEELS!!!!!
“POWER OF LOVE” BY CELINE DION..ONLY COUPLES COULD SKATE TO THIS.
The annoying Nano Pets & Furbies.
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”
CAPRI SUN
Watching Saturday Morning Cartoons in your PJ’s still wrapped up in your TMNT, Power Rangers, Barbie, Fairy Princess comforter.
Hey Arnold, Doug, Rugrats.
The original Power Rangers
Or what about:
The Secret Life of Alex Mac.
Ren & Stimpy.
Double Dare.
Rocco’s Modern Life.
AAAHH!! REAL MONSTERS.
Wild & Crazy Kids.
Clarissa Explains it All.
CAMP NOWHERE
salute your shorts(CAMP ANAWANA)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
The original cast members of all that.
Kenan & Kel.
“CITY GUYS”…ROLL W/ THE CITY GUYS
doug.
magic school bus.
Nick Arcade.
flash forward.
pete and pete.
legends of the hidden temple.
hey dude.
dinosaurs.
pinky and the brain.
Sailor Moon.
blossom.
hangin with mr.cooper.
wishbone.
bill-nye the science guy.
MR RODGERS!!!!
Who could forget Snick? & Nick @ Nite with Bewitched, I Dream of Jenie, The Facts of Life & I Love Lucy.
Where everyone wanted to be in love after watching The Wonder Years.
or nick jr. with face
gulah gulah island
little bear
under the unbrella tree
PEE-WEE!!!
The Big Comfy Couch
Kool-Aid was the drink of choice.
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school.
Eurika’s Castle!!!
Class field trips.
POGS
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’.
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming ‘do over!’
‘Race issue’ meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was banker in ‘Monopoly’.
act like you didn’t watch afro-king BOB ROSS paint trees on T.V.
It wasn’t odd to have two or three ‘best’ friends.
Being old referred to anyone over 20.
A chance to skate as a couple at the local roller rink was like winning the lottery.
Scrapes & bruises were kissed & made better.
It was a big deal to finally be tall enought to ride the ‘big people’ rides at the fair.
When playing Nintendo was the hardest thing ever.
When Ninja Turtles ruled the world.
DID I DO THAAAAAAAAAT???
smud and yak back. skip it and pop it.
By Xore on April 20th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
I feel old.
Thanks, Eric. =)
By Stu15 on April 20th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Indeed, I agree with you there Xore, that make me fell old.
By smithy_dll on April 24th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
If I didn’t feel old already, *cries*
I don’t recognise all the brands, and some of them came to cable TV post 2000 in Australia (like all the nick shows), but yeh, I’d recognise maybe half of that, not bad for the other side of the world.
You guys ever have TAZO’s and ODD BODZ (late 90s)?
It was also a time when you had weekend sport and no weekend homework/assignments *angry*.
The internet was something you got on at most 7 hours a month, and used to look up websites which actually contained information worth reading.
Message Boards didn’t exist.
XHTML was a pipe-dream.
A 33.6kbps modem was the thing
bps was still called baud
Nursery Rhymes weren’t banned due to possible racist interpretations by adults, I mean look at how racist we grew up to be! ;P
You would try and get a coveted metal tazo slammer.
You tried to collect all the glow in the dark pogs and odd bodz.
The Y2k bug would destroy us all.
computer games were about fun, not graphics.
Your computer would actually crash
devil sticks were in
then yoyos
and those other things
and those delayed pop up things
you would take a birthday cake to school
Maxis weren’t owned by EA
you knew all the cheats to sim city 2000
When the grocery store would carry all your favourite brands
When the grocery store actually carried normal flavours of ice cream
By Nephrus on April 25th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
That brings back memories of when I actually had a recess.
By Andrew on April 26th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
I actually can relate to most, if not all, of those. I’m not old yet though.
By Edward on May 9th, 2006 at 3:20 am
I grew up with that stuff
By who_cares on May 12th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
I remember doing about half of that stuff.
and I’m suprised Legos weren’t on that list.
I wish games were still about fun
By smithy_dll on May 12th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Sacrilege for saying “Legos”, thats an Italian pasta sauce. What you meant to say was ‘Lego blocks’, or ‘Lego sets’. Lego is a company name and registered trademark, their product are Lego sets which contain a dozen to a few hundred Lego blocks.
By Jose on August 31st, 2007 at 6:57 am
I remember the good ol’ days (way way back 90’s!). Here in the philippines we used to do some of the stuff listed above, specially Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers.. But what about the Simpsons?