Growing up in the 1990's

Ahhhh, the memories!

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You watched the ABC more than any other station. Those days are long
gone.

You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers
together.

Healthy Harold day was the best because you got to miss class to sit in
a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe.

Super League almost ruining rugby league in Australia.

Getting the Easter Show guide from the paper and circling all the show
bags you wanted.

You thought everyone in America carried a gun and you never wanted to
go there because you were were scared you'd get shot.

Blinky Bill, Sesame Street and Spot.

You always used to see that dried out, white dog poo on the footpath.
You never see that anymore.

SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats.

Going to the Easter Show with a big group of friends from school once
you were old enough to go without Mum and Dad.

Doing research for school projects by going to the library or looking
up an encyclopaedia rather than using the internet.

Paul Keating was some guy that ran the country and John Howard became
the only PM you really ever knew because you were too young to care
before that.

Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls.

Game Boy.

Waking up early everyday to watch Agro's Cartoon Connection.

Hey Hey It's Saturday.

Everyone got the Coke bag at the Easter Show and it was only $10.

Buying those 6 packs of Coco Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties, Rice Bubbles,

Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so you could have a different one each day
and then opening the packets really carefully and removing the cereal
so you'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards. You also most probably just
let your parents eat the Corn Flakes.

Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64.

Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty, blind
doll named EC).

Playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 and arguing over whether Oddjob
was allowed to be used in multiplayer.

The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Super International Cricket on the SNES.

Arguing over which was better - Nintendo 64 or PlayStation.

Don't push me, push a push pop!

Nobody made not jokes... NOT!!

Who shot Mr Burns?

Watching Captain Planet and then driving your parents mad by always
singing the song.

That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.

You decorated your room with glow-in-the-dark stickers.

You played marbles and could name all the different types like blue
moon, oily, candy, red wine, galaxy and red devil. You never played
anyone for your god marble.

Feeling sad when your Tamagotchi died.

Singing "This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my
friend, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and
they'll continue singing it forever just because this is the song that
doesn't end, yes it goes..."

Dolly the sheep.

Getting up early to watch the Rage Top 50.

Friends when they were all actually just friends. Why didn't Phoebe and
Joey get together?

Sonic the Hedgehog.

Watching The Simpsons back when it was funny, every night on Channel
10.

Power Rangers becoming cooler than the Ninja Turtles, even though the
Turtles will always be cooler.


Watching South Park for the first time and being really excited by all
the swearing.

Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console to
make sure it worked properly.

Smell the cheese.

Vulcan, Tower, Flame... Australian Gladiators.

Playing Mortal Kombat and trying to do a fatality but just ending up
punching accidentally.

Pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all!

Watching Hey Dad! and then seeing little Arthur McArthur go on to star
in that famous Sorbent ad.

Full Frontal, not Comedy Inc.

Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem.

Downloading music from Napster.

Chatting with your buddies on ICQ.

Going to see Titanic.

And the winner is Sydney.

Mighty Max and Polly Pocket. Max and Polly always got lost because they
were so bloody small.

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Ray Martin hosted A Current Affair.

Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn't afford it, you
asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could split it with a
friend.

Happy Meals were only $2.95 and the toys were simple but actually good.

Thorpe won lots of gold medals and wasn't so gay.

Opposite day.

Playing tackle Bull Rush at lunchtime and having tackling banned. You
had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.

Pogs and Looney Tunes Tazos.

Yo-Ho Diablos

Nobody won Wimbledon unless their name was Pete Sampras.

Smarties were better than M&Ms...and both of them were way better than
money, because you could eat them.

You tried Dr. Pepper and hated it.

Service stations didn't need space for 4 digits on their petrol prices
signs.

Girl germs! Boy germs!

Goosebumps.

You had to actually call your friends rather than send them an SMS.

Hubba Bubba.

Wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt or cap. Wearing the cap backwards.


The feeling of wonder you got, the first time you were able to see the
image in one of those Magic Eye 3D pictures.

The Secret World of Alex Mack.

Talk to the hand!

Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear.

You wished you had enough Lego to build those amazing cities they
displayed in the brochures.

Slap bracelets.

Jurassic Park and those toy dinosaurs where you could pull a piece of
the skin out to see its insides.

Roger Ramjet, he's our man, hero of our nation.

We had paper money.

Good on ya Mum! Tip Top's the one!

You could buy more than enough food from the school canteen for only
$2.

Begging your parents to go to McDonald's for dinner.

Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!

Noni, Monica and that bald guy named George on Play School.

Going to World 4 Kids to look at all the toys.


Watching The Lion King and feeling Simba's pain when Mufasa died.
Disney just doesn't make them like that anymore.

Soft serve cones were only 30c and they never tried to up-sell a Flake
because they didn't have it.

Wanting a Brain or Silver Bullet during the yo-yo craze.

Nesquik without the Nes.

Troll Dolls.

The Kids' Works at Pizza Hut with unlimited drink refills. You made an
ice cream mountain covered in choc chips and marshmallows and could
never finish it.

Thomas the Tank Engine and TUGS.

Ba-na-na-na-na! Ba-na-na-na-na! Make those bodies sing!

You had to get your photos developed.

Street Sharks and Biker Mice From Mars

Competing with your friends to see who could eat the most sour Warheads
in one go.

The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo wasn't a
folded piece of paper.
No Hat, no play.

Dr. Dreadful Food Labs. Kids these days wouldn't be allowed that
because its not healthy enough. We didn't give a **** about our health
in the 90's.

High five! Up high, down low, too slow!

Watching Round the Twist and getting pissed off that the actors kept on
changing. You still loved it though.

Cheating in Heads Down, Thumbs Up.

Watching that game show called Vidiot. Game shows didn't have to be
educational back then, like That's Academic... that show sucks.

Collecting basketball cards, whether you followed basketball or not.


You always wished your parents had bought you a bigger Super Soaker for
Christmas. Christmas is hot in Australia... the more water, the better.

Collecting hundreds of tickets from Timezone just so you could trade
them for some crappy prize that you could have bought from Woolies for
five bucks.

Playing handball with Ace, King, Queen and Dunce and making up stupid
rules as you went along.

"Inside, outside, inside, on." That piece of elastic that everyone
played with at lunch, except your mum wouldn't buy you the proper pink
piece of elastic, so you had the kind she bought from spotlight and
sewed together.

A*mazing.

Hypercolour T-shirts.

Bumbags were the only bag needed

Atari was just the Xbox 360 of its day Master System/Mega Drive

You wanted to solve the mystery with the kids on Ghostwriter

Doing 200 word reports on behind the news and it seeming like a big task

I can't be bothered to read all of that...