1990s

I was born in '94, and I do have some fond memories of my youngest years. My earliest clear memory is being 2 1/2, waiting in the hospital for my brother to be born, playing with the Mighty Ducks toys that came in McDonalds Happy Meals. I guess that means that I liked the 90's.

When I think about what they meant to my family, I remember we weren't as bothered about money as everybody seems to be now. I would always look over my dad's shoulder at the newspaper in the morning and wonder who all the people were. Sometimes I'd ask, and he always seemed to know.

My dad would get home from work at six. Our family owned some water guns that could squirt cold water and that fit into the palm of one hand, so sometimes my brother and I would be playing and squirting each other when my dad got home. Once or twice, he would join in, and grab one of his own, and chase us through and around the playhouse that he built for us with his own two hands.

Sometimes, it felt like he built the whole house, and the whole wide world. Whenever one of my parent's was gone, I'd sit in that same spot at the top of the stairs and pretend I was on a ship, or in a tower, or someplace far away that everyone could go.

I wasn't born when we were in that house, but my brother's were. I remember that when my second brother was born, my first brother moved into my room. I was a bossy brother, so we didn't always get along. I once convinced him that nickels were just a new kind of quarter, and got him to trade me a bunch of quarters for a bunch of nickels. That was the same week my mother went to Italy with her sister. Everything felt very empty. I spent a lot of time at the top of the stairs, and that was where we traded the nickels and quarters.

I had a lot of stuffed animals in that room. I remember my parents telling my not to chew on their tails, or not to pick at the wallpaper, but I did anyway. I was very nice wall paper. I think I chewed the tails and picked the paper because I liked it so much, not because it was a habit or anything. I jus liked doing it, and it made them special. This one tail of a stuffed animal, I chewed in half. My dad had to sew it back together. It was Tigger, from Winnie the Pooh. He was always my favorite. When nights were dark, or scary, or everybody was gone, Tigger made me feel less alone.

It's true that I had a lot of things when I was little. My parents liked to get me stuff. My dad once bought a gigantic package of Pokemon cards, and allowed my brother and I to open a pack every so often, after dinner. My brother got a Charizard, and he traded it to me. That began my hobby of collecting cards of every sort. I first collected Yu-Gi-Oh cards in the third or fourth grade, and then Baseball cards through Middle School, Magic: The Gathering cards in High School, and everything else in between.

When I was little, about five or six, my parents explained the idea of a soul, and religion, and that sort of thing. As a child, I wondered if everything might have a soul. Did the desk have its feelings hurt when I touched it while thinking negative thoughts? I didn't know. Could they die? I didn't know that either. A couple years later, I think, when I was in the third grade, my grandfather died. He was my mother's father. I didn't know as much about him then as I found out in later years. I just liked the way he smiled at me when I would walk into his room in the hospital and hear his creaky voice greet me. It sounded a lot like the hinges on a door, speaking to you. He didn't seem like he had much to say at the time, but I guess that was wrong; I just didn't know how to talk to him. I thought he would just get better. I didn't know.

That same year, my dad walked into my room. We talked about how I had just read "The Lord of the Rings" for the first time, and he gave me his copy of "The Hobbit" because he said I would like it. I read some of it that night. I remember it was his because of how disapointed he was when I messed up the cover sleeve on the outside. I know it wasn't a big deal, but to a little kid who just broke something belonging to his parent, it seemed like the end of the world. I don't even know if he remembers. I still have the book, and its one of my most prized possessions.

I remember cartoons from the 90's, too. As fun as they were, watching them with my brother and father in the morning was better. That's where I got my habit of eating cereal and milk in front of the TV every morning, before I even do anything else. No regrets there.

A lot of people remenisce about the 90's, but I think that's because of the space it occupied in our lives, not just because of all the cool things that happened. There were things that weren't so great in the 90's as well. School, for example, wasn't much fun for me. Still, when I think about the 90's, I don't think about all the crap experiences, I think about all the great ones. I think that's because it was the beginning of my childhood, and if that's the case, I want to live every day like it's the next day of my childhood.


TL;DR: I get nostalgic and the 90's were fun.

 

This explains the 90's in a nutshell honestly.

[video=youtube;BJ0xBCwkg3E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0xBCwkg3E[/video]

 

Hmmm....there's a ton I could say about the 90's but I'll only say the first two things to come to my mind: Pokemon Cereal and Legends of the Hidden Temple. The perfect Saturday morning.

 

Born in 91, so far I would rate the decades like this

90s>2010's> Y2K (worst decade EVER!)

But yeah I miss all the fun stuff we 90's kids had back in the day. Ahh Nostalgia, why must you taunt me so.

And I agree with Turk, seems like the 90's was the last decade where kids went outside & played ...well went out and played as much as they stayed inside & played video games and watched cartoons & what not...at least I did.

Whipper Snappers these days, dunno what they missed out on.

Well at least the 2010's have brought us Ponies & some other good toons. So kiddies nowadays have some good stuff in their lives.

 

Right. Sorry. I'm still a bit new to regularly posting on online forums. I'll keep that in mind.

That's too bad, but par the course. Someone always has to go and do something silly and ruin it for everyone else.

 

I was born in '89, so the 90's was my entire childhood. There were so many amazing shows, a lot of awesome music, and the economy wasn't as awful. I definitely would love to go back and relive that decade. What I also really liked about it is that the 80's was still somewhat alive during the 90's in terms of both TV shows and music. So it was like having two decades in one for me!

 

The economy was just as awful back then as it is now. As a kid, you just never cared about it. :derpe:

 

Then again, the 90's also had this:



Is it just me, or was Bill Clinton the original trollface? :Trollestia:

 

I miss those black and white buttons!

 

I prefer the bumpers to the W & B buttons. I hated to massive controller they first had. It was like a brick.

 

Oh god 1990s Were my childhood i know i was born in 1996 but i still remember my years Playing my pokemon games and the christmas i got my Nintendo 63 x3

 

I miss playing the original Halo. I remember playing it with my brother and cousins. We used to always go for the rocket launcher because that was easily the best weapon.

 

Back when you were "the annoying 10 year old" on every online match.

 

The gaming systems I had during the 90's were the SNES and the N64. I've still got the N64, but my brother broke my SNES. So much time went into both of those systems.

 

I like that y'all are talking about the xbox when it never came out in the 90's but Granted, it was in the works of the late 90's but due to it's delays, it shoved to side till 2001. I'm sorry for all you Xbox fans but i dislike the xbox (only a little) and 360. Granted, I will give it credit for have a huge library of gaming choices for the original xbox had going for. So there is my plus for it, but i didn't care for it's controller. The Mech assault Series and Halo series i did play but stop after 3 but that's really what i use it for, anyway. Today, the 360 is the King of FPS and that's what bores me the most about the new system and i find really repetitive about the system and i wish i never picked one up for just to own. I only own 4 games of the system. I grew up with Nintendo and the Nintendo 64 was my first system. I stick with Nintendo as my Champion.

 

I'm going to say this once, and only once.

I owned a Dreamcast.

Nuff.
Freakin'.
Said.

 

I owned a Dreamcast

First game for it, the original Unreal Tournament. Bought it when it first came out.



Speaking of, I was 9 when that game came out. What the buck is wrong with my parents?

 

I started playing GTA when i was 10... no one cared