Are you a 90s kid?

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I didn't used to like the Simpsons until I got to about 10, but I was a huge South Park fan. I still am now, I've collected all the Simpsons and South Park box sets, the newer versions of South Park are better than the older versions, they have more adult humour and the swear words are uncut after series 11.

I was born in '84 and I consider myself a '90s kid!

I sure am a 90s kid - born in '92. I watched shows like Hey Arnold, Wishbone, Kablam, and Rugrats, collected Pokemon cards when I was about 7 - 8, listened to cassette tapes, and owned a bunch of Disney movies on VHS.

Yes.

born on the second day of 87. so i was 3 when they began, and 13 when they concluded. couldn't be more of a 90s kid than that. in the most literal sense i was a child during the 90s and not by their end. Thusly as an authoritative 90s kid I will now critique your list. But before that i will critique your birthdate range. 96? if you only spent four years as a toddler in the the 90s you are not a 90s kid. i was born in the 80s, but i recall nothing culturally or technologically significant from that time. My few early memories involve random memories of my family, and a vacation to the redwoods . . . anywho i have no ground to assert myself as an 80s kid. I would rather postulate a birthdate range for 90s kids between 85-94.

pokemon : i tried to get into it right as it was going out of style

nickelodeon : still around, just stupider shows now. of coarse i think our shows probably were considered stupid by those slightly too old to enjoy them. A list of shows would be more significant. Hey Arnold, Rockos Modern Life, All That, Kennan and Kel, Rugratss

yoyos etc : yoyos been around forever, dont know where your going with that one. My sister had a tomogachi. Why no mention of pogs? Pogs were sweet.

power rangers : nail on the head there. they were the bees knees. None of the new versions even count as real power rangers. OG power rangers all the way.

getting bored of this now. VHS yes, sega, no, i wasn't allowed to play videogames until my parents softened up in the mid - 90s (before that I honestly believed they were evil), and my gateway happened to be nintendo, my friend sold me his super nintendo and all the games for $50 ( of my parents money i suppose) and we would play goldeneye and mario kart on his 64 when i played at his house.
spice girls no, i am a boy. though im sure i listened to similarly deplorable 'music', though i cant recall who my favorites were at this moment

I was born right at the end of 96, so I'm really more of a Generation Z-er.

I was born in 1990. I remember:

- the Pokemon craze (I remember being so obsessed with the games that my mom forced me to take breaks and go outside to breathe fresh air. She has recently told me that she thinks that Pokemon was my most intense special interest when I was a child)
- SNES
- all the classic Nickelodeon shows (Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, Aaaahhh! Real Monsters, Angry Beavers, etc.)
- all the classic Cartoon Network shows (Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken, Ed Edd n Eddy, etc.)

- Watching VHS tapes
- Listening to cassette tapes.
- Playing computer games with floppy disks.

I remember a little of the 90s, having spent all of my first 10 years during. I remember the pop music, which I liked a bit, but pretended not to. I remember the boy bands (oh BOY do I- BTW, the only difference between Backstreet Boys and N*S*Y*N*C was that N*S*Y*N*C smiled in glamour shots, and The Backstreet Boys never did). I remember everybody making a big deal about the new Millennium (even though the new Millennium was really the year 2001, which I would try to tell everybody). I remember my first day of third grade- all of the boys were lurching around the playground, pretending to be Pokemon characters.

Oh, yeah, and I loved Nickelodeon. I watched the new episodes every Friday night and it was AWESOME.

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I was born in the mid 80s, I was never that crazy about Nickelodeon, even though I loved Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life. I HATED the Klasky Csupo cartoons, except for Duckman, he was cool. Lots of other great cartoons though, like The Xmen and Batman: The Animated Series. I feel truly fortunate to have grown up during the "golden age" of gaming too, we had a dos computer, genesis and later an snes then a psx. I remember also getting into MTG, I saw the commercials aired on MTV! I think the last deck I ever brought was something from Urza's Saga (this was 1999 I think). I got into Pokémon pretty heavily but I think even when it came out I was beyond the target demographic. LOVED the video games and the TCG was cool.

Moreso than Nick, MTV was really spectacular and something I mourn for every day. Liquid Television, for a lack of better words, was PURE BADASS AND DISTILLED AWESOME. Anyone remember The Maxx? I believe MTV was my first exposure to anime as well, then called Japanimation. I remember magazines like PCgamer and Gamefan, along with online order sites like Gamecave, where you could buy really awesome import toys and video games. This period was sort of anime's peak, where everything from Japan was chiq and cool. Anime was what all the cool, trendy people watched and it was still hard to find at video stores. Akira and Ninjascroll were all the rage (for good reason). I think it started going mainstream with the advent of Pokémon in the US.

I remember people being more easy going about stuff too until the tail-end of the 90s when everyone started getting hyper-sensitive about stuff. For example, in our school we had Wolfenstein, Origin trail and DOOM on our computers. As a reward for making good grades on tests we would be allowed to play on the computer during reading/study hour. Some of the kids, myself included, would even bring our own cds and diskettes to install games from home. I remember this one girl brought over a disc with either Masters of Orion 1 or 2, I can't remember, but we LOVED that game and several of the best students in the class would always gather with multiple chairs during study hour and we would dick around in that game. It was a great time for me honestly, I was one of the smart kids and had several really good, awesome friends. We lived in this really rural, back-water place so no one paid heed to what we would do on the computer, since we made good grades and behaved. I remember playing Doom and eventually someone even installed DUKE NUKEM. No one batted a single eye...until...

Columbine. Suddenly we were all under the eye of scrutiny, especially me, since I had installed Doom on our school computers. The principal forced us to uninstall everything and we were no longer allowed to goof around on the computer during study hour, despite our grades. Life started to stuck a bit more for me at this point as well because all those friends I mentioned moved away the subsequent year. I was completely alone, going to school with a bunch of country people who hated me because my dad was a science teacher at the middleschool and I liked different music, believed in evolution etc. This was toward the late 90s so its no surprise I identify more fondly with the early to mid 90s, for personal reasons. Also I had a lot of emotional problems and after Columbine I began to get A LOT more attention..but that's not necessarily a good thing. Especially when people start blaming your likes, hobbies and introversion for possible reasons that you might be at risk to go crazy and shoot up the school..even though I didn't hunt and was scared of real firearms, unlike 99% of our school . I really hated the whole Columbine fiasco so much, almost as much as 911, in terms of how it changed people and how they perceived things. I know that's very selfish, I'm sorry.

The 90s were fun times (mostly) for me. I attribute that partially to youth, but they were fun in general. (Some) good music and in my opinion, the best era to be a gamer. The world seemed like a friendlier, more hopeful place. Also I remember dinosaurs being all the rage, I saw Jurassic Park when it hit theaters and it BLEW MY MIND. So awesome.

I think the end of the 90s and then September 11th 2001 really seemed to entail a switch to a more paranoid, unsafe world, kind of like the cold war I guess, but not as bad. I think its largely just personal for me. I was a quirky, weird kid but had fellow quirky, weird friends during the 90s but then their families moved away and other stuff happened that made my life suck. My dad was attacked trying to defend a student and ended up disabled (this was 2000 I think) and he hasn't worked since. He's changed a lot too. Its because of this and many other things that I look back to the 90s in a very positive light, even if its through biased, rose tinted glasses.

If you're old enough to have grown up from the early to mid 80s as a fan of cartoons, comics and other nerdy things you were a very lucky person, in my opinion.

I really didn't like the boybands though. New Kids on The Block, Nsync and Hanson got on my nerves.

I was born in the same year and I would consider myself a 90s kid more than an 80s kid. The only thing I don't really relate to is Nickelodeon and most of the other children's tv from the 90s. Thundercats, TMNT and Knightmare>all. 80s kids tv was the best

Born 11th December 1996, so I grew up more in the 2000's. I do remember some old shows and stuff, but sometimes I wish I was born earlier so I could have been around when rock music in the early 90's was popular.

I was born in 86 so that should count. Favorite 90's stuff includes All That, Toon Disney, and Green Day.

I was born in 1986 and would say i am a 90s kid.

I was born in 1985 but the majority of my childhood was in the 90's. I remember watching Nickelodeon and how cool it was then. Hey Arnold, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Doug, Rugrats, Global Guts, Dare, The Legends of the Hidden Temple, Figure it Out, My Brother and Me, All That, Ahh Real Monsters, Angry Beavers, Rocko's Modern Life. I also remember old school Disney and today it's not the same. I remember the old TV shows they used to play like Mickey Mouse club, and other TV shows during the day like Quack Attack, Mouse Tracks, and I remember watching Kids Incorporated, the New Mickey Mouse Club, Under the Umbrella Tree, My Little Pony, Pooh Corner, Dumbo's Circus, Care Bears.

I did watch lot of VHS tapes, I did listen to cassette tapes, I played with Barbies all the time, we had a Sega Gensis and I remember playing Sonic the Hedgehog. I remember playing with the Super Nintendo at one of my dad's friends house and it was always Super Mario World. I played with Polly Pockets, back when they were Polly Pockets before they became Polly Fashion. I also played with Littlest Pet Shop before they made the animals looking like sluts. I hate their new looks. I also remember Pokemon and I was never into the games.

I think the 90's were the best. That was when I started to use the computer and internet, got introduced to video games. I still have lot of my stuff from my childhood but most of it is in Montana and I got rid of some of my Disney VHS movies after I got them on DVD and Blu Ray. I have very little of it with me such as the cassette tapes and the CD's such as the Spice Girls. I didn't have very many CDs in my childhood. The Spice Girls was the first CD I ever owned. I still have my video games from the 90's but got rid of the Sonic ones because I have them on Sonic Mega Collection Plus. I probably should have held onto them too including Sonic Mega Collection because you would never know what could happen to those game systems. I remember the days when Goldeneye game was very popular into the 2000's. I didn't start playing it until 1999 though.