Old enough to remember...

[Tao]

I remember having an amiga and some other old gaming computer. I dont remember the model of the amiga (because they weren't exactly catchy back then, just lots of numbers) and absolutely no idea what the other was, but I remember playing Superfrog, Sleepwalker, Dizzy and the password/DRM screen of Astrix and Obelisk (couldnt get past that screen without the manual, which we didnt have).

I remember watching the golden age of Simpsons and Spongebob when they were first aired. I point that out since as the shows are still being made (I think), they are terrible shadows of their former glory.

Biker Mice from Mars, Street Sharks, Big Bad Beetle Borgs, VR Troopers and a whole bunch of other rip offs of other kids shows (mostly Power Rangers rip offs).

I remember Medabots too, which to this day I wish they had done more with it in terms of games. Always baffled how that was caught up among 'Pokemon rip off' anime.
It was ripe for an interesting game given the premise of building a little robot friend to fight...But alas, the gamea were trash. The closest I ever found was a web browser game I couldn't play because my computer was bad, or Megabyte Punch which I stumbled across on Steam.

 

[moonbyu]

Oh my gosh yes, those were the best days!! Also when we got to play with those little scooters.

omg those scooters were so much fun! only thing that was a struggle was getting my fingers caught under the wheels lol

 

[SCORPA15]

Pingu
morph
fresh Prince of Bel air

 

[xSuperMario64x]

You remember video stores lmao I still go to the local video store to rent stuff

But yeah idk if I can really comment here cause I was born June 1999 so I was basically born almost too late lol. I do remember when Windows XP was the hot stuff in the computer OS world. What a simple time that was.

Also this is kinda early 2000s but does anyone remember Hit Clips? I still have mine from like 17 years ago lol.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

Moon Shoes, VHS players, PeoplePC, the start of Heelys, Socker Boppers, Flash Games like Playing with Fire, Mighty Beanz, Poo-Chi toy, the legendary Altoids Sours... I will be back with more if I think of any.

 

[Imbri]

- I remember my Dad, all proud, renting a beta disc player so we could watch movies. That would be pre-VHS.

- Fisher Price Little People, made of wood. And when Weebles still looked like eggs (no arms or texture).

- Finally being old enough to go to Friday Night Rock Night at the rink. Roller skating in the summer, ice skating in winter.

- Land of the Lost on Saturday mornings. Hearing that music for the Sleezaks.

- Playing Pickle at recess.

- Light Brite.

- Hagen Renaker animal figurines. I'd buy these at the Hallmark store. The cats were my favorites.

 

[Bugs]

Oh man, remembered bionicles. I loved those guys, I played with them all the time.

I remembered playing Sesame Street games on windows 98, and a game called Aladdin's Maths Quest which I really loved but I use to get really scared in the pyramid levels

 

[KittenNoir]

Does anyone here remember this toy?

I miss when we just had things for everything, this was always more fun than checking out the Akinator.

Omg the memories I forgot about this I had a purple one

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

• Floppy disks
• Watching my sister play games on Windows 98
• Using projectors in elementary school
• Watching Saturday morning cartoons on YTV

 

[Vitis]

I'm old enough to remember floppy disks, vhs and betamax, palm pilots, and when walkmans were a thing. I also remember Trump: The Game, Trump themed monopoly. Smaller things like when Pogs were actually popular or when Jolt was on the shelves and not just a novelty product. And the thing everybody should forget, but was reminded of by Stranger Things and it's limited re-release New Coke.

 

[Bridee123]

How many people on this site remember watching Happy Days, Mork and Mindy, The Walton’s, Little House on the Prairie, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Man, Three’s Company, The Love Boat, WKRP in Cincinnati just to name a few the first time they were on tv?

I remember, and watched, every single one of those from when they were first on TV lol

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Ok this might not be a great one but I'm old enough to remember when McDonald's had caramel dip for the apples. I miss that so much, it was probably horrible for me but I didn't care.

I also watched re-runs of Mork and Mindy, She-Ra, the 1966 Batman (same bat time, same bat channel!). It was fun watching them, but I watched them in the 2000's (I'm not old, I swear!).

Perhaps don’t use the word “old” in this particular thread. Some of us remember one or more of those shows from TV before they were reruns :0

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

Littlest pet shop had a tamagotchi rip-off years ago

 

[Wildtown]

Back in the good ol days before.... Covid ._.

 

[itsjustlew]

As time goes by, many things you would remember as a kid or as a young adult (that are long gone) would not be known by the newer generations. Of course, everyone will know about something, but they wouldn’t be old enough to remember experiencing it.

Keep in mind that anybody can read this thread, but do not post if you were born after 1999. This is for those born in the 20th century. Also, do not list anything from the 2010s or later. People these days may not remember the stuff from the 2000s, but they do from the 2010s.

What did you remember from your childhood or some other time that people these days wouldn’t know (unless if they did research or spent time with older people)? Name as many things as you can.

Sprout!!! They had so many shows I watched like the one with the star at night time, the craft one, and the one with the bath toys.

 

[SpaceTokki77]

Back in the good ol days before.... Covid ._.

Ahhhhh yes, i remember the days when I could go out without a mask

 

[ForgottenT]

Anyone remember these? Virtual reality of my childhood.

 

[Darby]

View Masters!!! Mine was red. And I used to obsess over Avon products, I loved the lip glosses... The egg, there was a pack of gum and chocolate mint in an ice crone and they had cute perfume bottles I’d repurpose for my Barbie dolls and some funky candles... we had the mushroom and the turtle ones. I also LOVED Bonnie Bell lip smackers and the Kissing Potions rollerball gooey af lip glosses too.

 

[kayleee]

The good old days of dial up internet when my mom would yell at me to get off the computer so she could talk on the phone. I just wanted to play neopets

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I remember Neopets. I also remember Neopets’ PS2 game called The Darkest Faerie, some game I played couple of times.

Another thing I remembered is that back in the GameCube Era (also the Xbox Era and PS2 Era), there were multiple licensed games based on TV shows. I played a couple SpongeBob games, including Revenge of the Flying Dutchman.

 

[jenboston22]

-The computer game Myst
-Not having a home computer (and our first laptop being very heavy and bulky)
-Floppy discs
-9/11
-Recording TV to VCR for later viewing
-Recording songs on the radio to cassettes to make song mixes (no YouTube in those days!)
-The very early Internet/the Hamster Dance website
-The dial up ring tone of the early Internet
-Digital cameras, and before that, film cameras
-Tamagotchis
-When Amazon just sold books