SWG Tales

....but I couldn't help myself. Hit too close too home. Was too funny.

You know you grew up during the 90's if ...

(X all the ones that apply to you.)

[x] 1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

[ ] 2. You watched the Pound Puppies

[x] 3. You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"

[ ] 4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish

[x] 5. You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club

[x] 6. You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls

[x] 7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" or that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"

[ ] 8. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"

[x] 9. If you had plastic streamers on your handle bars...

[ ] 10. You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" (What about Darkwing Duck?)

[x] 11. You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons

[x]12. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head

[x] 13. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. (My family always died.)

[X] 14. You played the game "MASH" (mansion, apartment, shack, house)--

[ ] 15. You wore a Jordache Jean Jacket and were proud of it.

[ ] 16.You had L.A Gear

[ ] 17. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten

[x] 18. You remember reading "Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the Ramona books

[x] 19. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"

[x] 20. You wanted to be a Goonie

[x] 21. You ever wore fluorescent clothing

[x] 22. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off

[x] 23. You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf

[x] 24. You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school

[x] 25. You remember the craze then the banning of snap bracelets

[x] 26. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...

[x] 27. You remember hyper-color t-shirts

[ ] 28. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band

[ ] 29. You thought She-Ra and He-Ra should hook up

[x]30. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged friendship bracelets (I think I still remember how to make them, too.)

[x] 31. You owned a pair of jelly sandals. (Blue glitter)

[x] 32. After you saw "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" you kept saying "I know you are but what am I"

[x] 33. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up" (I remember freaking out about this and saying it all the time, but I cant remember what it was from.)

[x] 34. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates

[x] 35. You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide (fucking stickerballs)

[x] 36. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds

[x] 37. You've gone through this occasionally saying, "Awwww!"

[x] 38. You remember the Popples

[x] 39. "Don't worry, be happy".

[ ] 40. You wore socks over tights

[x] 41. You wore socks scrunched down. (And two years in elementary school, I was known for mismatching socks. AWWW.)

[x] 42. You know the whole Miss Mary Mack hand clapping game.

[x] 43. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players

[x] 44. You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies

[x] 45. You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare"

[x] 46. You remember having "Rainbow Brite" and "My Little Ponies"

[x]47. You thought Doogie Houser was hot (OMFG YES)

[x] 48. You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac who ate cats

[x] 49. You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool

[x] 50. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"

[ ] 51. You know all the words to Bon Jovi

[x]52. You played and or collected "Pogs"

[x] 53. You used to pretend you could transform into a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger (I admit it. I wanted to be the Yellow Ranger.)

[ ] 54. You had at least one GigaPet and brought it everywhere

[x] 55. You were obsessed with your "Easy Bake Oven" and/or your "Lite-Brite"

[ ] 56. You watched the original transformers at 6 in the morning!

[x] 57. You weren't cool unless you owned at LEAST 6 Beanie Babies

[x] 58. You owned at least 2 or more tamagotchi

[x] 59. You tried spelling your name in an etch-a-sketch, and failed miserably

[x] 60. You spent countless hours playing duck hunt and tried to shoot the dog.

[X] 61. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were your idols

A whole lot of the list I would characterize more with the 80's.

Jabe

Jabe Adaks wrote:A whole lot of the list I would characterize more with the 80's.

Jabe

Seems maybe like there's a lot of overlap, maybe? "Child of the 80s" memes and "Child of the 90s" memes have a lot of the same stuff...but if you were born in the early to mid 80s, you get a lot of the early 90s crap too because you were still young then. :)

Yeah, there's too much generational overlap on that list.

Like, Duck Hunt? Absolutely an 80's game. By the time 90's got into full swing, the SNES was debuting.

Strawberry Shortcake and TMNT were absolutely 80's items.

Then there's Easy Bake Oven and Lite Brite? Uh, those are 70's toys. Yes, they're still around today, but they really don't "define" the 90's.

Transformers, New Kids, Bon Jovi, Care Bears, Gremlins, Boom Boxes, all 80's.

Tomagachi? Beanie Babies? Power Rangers? I'd say yes

And "I've fallen and I can't get up" is from the original "Medic Alert" bracelet commercials. An old lady had fallen, and it was the poorest delivered line in commercial acting at the time. Laugh. RIOT.

Where's the beef?

Lessee...child of the '70s and 80's overlap with me.

"Psyche!" was definately 70s. Eddie Murphy, another child of the 70s, re-popularized it in the 80's with his "I Got Some Ice Cream" routine. (Wanna lick? Psyche!").

Plastic handlebar streamers...70s for sure. I remember.

I think every kid generation claims "their" Saturday morning toons as "the best".

Jordache? 1980's no doubt. "You got the look...I want to know better. You got the look that's all together...Working, playing. Day & night. Jordache has the look that's right..."(from memory).

Jean jackets & John Hughes movies...yep. 80's.

Michael Jackson? I remember the original album cover to "Off the Wall" (1979). Skin darker than Lando's with an afro. All subsequent reprints of the CD only show him from the waist down.*shrug*.(That was the first album I played over & over again).

"I've fallen and can't get up!" was Life Call.

"Don't Worry Be Happy". I will always remember this song because it got me through the night after I thought I got a girl pregnant. Couldn't sleep the whole night worrying at 17 years old...dozed off in front of the TV to wake up to this video. I thought to myself! "YES! I MUST be in the clear!!! (and was...LMAO).

Etch-a-Sketch, Easy Bake, Lite Brite all 1970's. (Anyone remember Spiro-Graph?)

I'd say Huuuuuge overlapping.

A 79' turkey baby, as it were, I solidify myself in the 80's. MTV, back when it was just starting, was just making a name for itself and was all about playing music videos with only a 'little' of the other types of programming.

G.I.Joe and Transformers! Boo-yah! Lived for my toons. And before the, uh, incident toward the end of the 80's it was things like Pee-Wee Herman and Ernest P. World that oddly caught my attention on Saturday mornings.

As for toys.... He-Man seemed to overwhelm the toy isles for a time. While the Popples and Rock Lords kind of just sat there like Little Orphan Annie begging for someone to buy them. Transformers and G.I.Joe were still popular; but usually sold out.

And, as a kid, I kind of got to see the trends set in high-school at the time through my older brother. Indiana Jones came out and everyone started sporting the Indy-like leather jackets (as I'm sure today's kids will associate trench coats with Reeves in The Matrix).

At any rate, ain't Nostalgia fun!

Keer wrote:Michael Jackson? I remember the original album cover to "Off the Wall" (1979). Skin darker than Lando's with an afro. All subsequent reprints of the CD only show him from the waist down.*shrug*.(That was the first album I played over & over again).

Ditto. Only mine was Thriller, but I did own a copy of Off the Wall somewhere.

Actually, the very first track (ON .45) I ever owned that I played incessantly was Disco Inferno. Same thing later with Bohemian Rhapsody (which my family loved, as we're part Bohemian, even though it has seemingly nothing to do with the song).

Hmm... In the eighteeeeees my time was split between GI Joe and NES. Mostly GI Joe. I had a pile of he-man crap also but I didn't really like it. The cartoon was kinda blah. I actually think She-ra was written better.

E-bo Obi wrote:Hmm... In the eighteeeeees my time was split between GI Joe and NES. Mostly GI Joe. I had a pile of he-man crap also but I didn't really like it. The cartoon was kinda blah. I actually think She-ra was written better.

I still have a LOT of my GI Joe stuff. GI Joe Base, Cobra Raven, helicopters, vehicles, (even the old old old tank that took batteries), etc. Got my figures, but unfotruntely a lot of stuff is missing.

I just went through my old stuff in the last few days as I am clearing space in the house for the baby. I realized I kept the boxes to every Nintendo product I ever bought. And so now sitting in my basement are a SNES, NES and all acocmpanying games back inside their boxes, original plastic bags (even have the twisties lol) with the manuals and everything. I wonder if it will all be worth anything at some point.

Jabe

Jabe Adaks wrote:...I realized I kept the boxes to every Nintendo product I ever bought. And so now sitting in my basement are a SNES, NES and all acocmpanying games back inside their boxes, original plastic bags (even have the twisties lol) with the manuals and everything. I wonder if it will all be worth anything at some point.

Jabe

Yes. When your middle-aged son or daughter sells it on eBay.

Oh man. I don't know what condition your NES is in but I know by the end of mines life it was a frankenstein. I had taken the cover off and rigged extra pieces to keep the game locked down at a certain spot so it would still play the cartridges.

I have the ROM's and play them on my PC but I would love to still have Contra, Tetris, and Zelda. That would make me a happy man. I could play them for hours. Jackal was another one I really liked.

I bought one of those Gameboy Advances when I was overseas. I see I can get most of the old games for it.

GI Joe. I have the original base and the base that was three stories that had tracks so it could move. Sky Striker, rattler, dragonfly, fang, and a bunch of other crap I can't think of right now.

Okay...who mailed in the Hasbro proofs-of-purchase to get the "Duke" action figure sent to them in the mail?

/raise hand

Boba Fett, with the Kenner proofs?

/raise hand

After 3 days, I was on the mailbox every day like glue for both of them. The Duke figure came during the summer so I was meeting the mailman on the front lawn.

Norman Rockwell, eat your heart out.

Keer wrote:Okay...who mailed in the Hasbro proofs-of-purchase to get the "Duke" action figure sent to them in the mail?

/raise hand

Boba Fett, with the Kenner proofs?

/raise hand

After 3 days, I was on the mailbox every day like glue for both of them. The Duke figure came during the summer so I was meeting the mailman on the front lawn.

Norman Rockwell, eat your heart out.

Well, I did Boba and I think the Ben figure, and Hammerhead.

No Duke figure mailin for me, but I had my fair share of G.I. Joes. The current Joe toys aren't even half as well made. My kingdom for my old Mosquito and the F-14A they made. /drool

Dang, I'd almost forgot about those mail in proofs.

Jazz for the Transformers as well!

Oddest one I remember... a mail in for a Gizmo plush from the Gremlins. It came in a shoebox. I'll never forget that.