First thing that comes to mind when you think of the 1990s

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This post wins. Everything else is garbage.

MP3

Nirvana

Its a toss up between that...

and...

"Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly.

and

"Rico Suave" by Gerardo!

OH.....

and "The Humpty Dance" by the Digital Underground!

All That.

My old Corvette.

Climbing trees, throwing bricks at imagined enemies, making enemies who held imaginary grievances against me and my buddies, sleeping over at people's houses who I didn't even know much about except a few lines yet would die for them if the need arose, seeing a teacher in a shop and being astonished that they would dare exist beyond the walls of the education factory, autumn leaves are recurrent and mean more than my own sense of cyclic time, milk deliveries are not done by robots but real humans with needs and feelings, squinting in sunlight and outgrowing the night light only to replace it with feeling sorry for the moon.

Sailor Moon, Digimon, neon colors, and good pop music.

When my whole world got turned upside-down----or, "started anew", really, I should say----as that is when I began to get all my diagnoses (late 90s).

Death of Princess Diana

Death of Sherrie Lewis

Death of Jim Henson

Troll dolls (my biggest obsession ever)

Tamagotchi

Furby

Ninja Turtles

The Simpsons

Beanie Babies

CD players

Grunge fashion

The Macarena

Tiny Toon Adventures

Batman

The Atkins diet and lo-carb diets in general

Being put in a group home for chronically mentally ill people at 21.

The Powerpuff Girls

Rugrats

Ren and Stimpy

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

The Lion King

My Playstation One

Pokemon

Power Rangers

Barney and Friends.

Y2K

Climate change

El Nino

The ice storm in Quebec

The anniversary of the Halifax Explosion

The Titanic movie

Toy Story

The Clinton/Lewinsky scandal

The OJ Simpson trial

Seinfeld

Fresh Prince

Flesh-eating bacteria

Ebola

Whose Line is it, Anyway?

The internet

The 90's was pretty much a mixed bag, for me at least.

Meeting my childhood girlfriend when we both were in the fourth grade together.

Boy Bands, and being puzzled over other girls squealing over New Kids On The Block.

Gaming console wars: Nintendo-Sony-Sega-Panasonic-Atari.

Sonic the Hedgehog!

Never-ending and pointless arguing over which consoles, games, and characters were better.

The Dark Age of Comic Books

South Park

Really stupid, gross, and offensive video game commercials. There was the one of Yoshi's Story where a guy stuffs himself until he graphically blows a la Monty Python (which they soon censored), Earthworm Jim showing an old lady stuffing her mouth and eating wriggling live worms, the obnoxious ads for the Atari Jaguar where they lied about it being 64-bit, and it's really not a good idea to insult the people you want to sell your product to. And those were just the ads on TV. The ones in magazines were also really bad. And often very sexist.

Every ad by Sega brutally made fun of Nintendo, especially the Game Gear vs. Game Boy ones because GG had COLOR. One had had a kid playing a GB and then he picks up a dead squirrel and whacks himself over the head, making him hallucinate colors. And that annoying SEGA! shout they always had at the end.

Game Boy outliving ever other console made in that time.

Sega becoming a third-party company after their new consoles all flopped.

Being frustrated and annoyed by the assumption that all gamers were male. And really stupid and immature with their brain cells killed. And this was in ads trying to sell video games, as I've mentioned.

And if you were female, it only mattered if the games you played were rated M and full of blood and gore.

Last edited by lostonearth35 on 01 Oct 2017, 1:04 pm, edited 1 time in total.

how i experienced ALL of it and how many good times i had!! !! !! !!

Really lame, cheesy and heavy-handed environmental-themed cartoons and video games like Captain Planet and Awesome Possum, respectively.

Rocko's Modern Life