Sega!!!

The first video game console I had when I was a kid was a Sega. My grandfather got it for me when I was probably too young to even know what I was doing but I remember playing Sonic The Hedgehog for hours on end. This was the greatest invention in life for a kid up until that point. I know that it wasn't the first video game system ever but it was the first one I ever had and it was the best to me. Of course the graphics weren't anything compared to the graphics we have now but at that time it was amazing. There were so many  great games for Sega and I would get almost all of them. I remember all of the kids from around the neighborhood would want to come to my house and play my games even though they were a lot older but since I had the best games they wanted to "be my friend". It was a great time to be a kid and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

VCR

I look forward to telling my kids back in my day we didn't have discs that played movies and music and we were not able to just download things to the TV or computer. We used to have a VCR. A VCR was our generations form of a DVD or Blue Ray player. It used to play VHS tapes. They were big bulky tapes that were like a jumbo version of a music cassette tape which of course kids now a days don't know what a cassette tape is either. Everything now comes on a disc and the younger generation knows nothing else. This was a simpler yet harder time especially for watching movies. We actually had to rewind and fast forward through whole movies there was no scene selection or skip chapter feature. Times were really rough.  There was a great invention however a VHS Re-winder  This thing was heaven sent. You could rewind the whole movie in a matter of seconds rather than waiting forever for the VCR to rewind it. The only other fast way was the ole stop rewind which worked relatively well but nowhere near as fast as a VHS Re-winder  Rewinding was such a big deal because if you ever got a tape out to watch and it wasn't rewound it was the biggest pain to have to rewind it before watching it.

Food for Thought

There were many different foods I remember from the 90's, Most of them of course being candy and other junk food. Some of the candy is still around today so it isn't like kids these days don't have what we had but they were originated in the 90's. The first thing that I thought of was the Ring Pop. I used to love these candy suckers. They were of course shaped like a giant diamond ring but they were so delicious. Another candy that I thought of was the push pop. These too are still around today but hit their popularity in the 90's. Capri Sun also started in the 90's and are still around today. These were definitely the drink of choice behind Sunny D of course which is the best orange juice ever, probably because it isn't real orange juice.

Some of the food that I remember that they don't have today are fruit string things. These were comparable to fruit roll ups and other candy like that. They were probably my favorite out of all the fruit candy and I really don't know why they were the candy that got the hook. Another junk food that I remember from the 90's that they don't have today is the Oreo O's cereal. I remember this was the best cereal ever and granted they did have it until 2007 it started in the 90's and it was beyond amazing. It is unfortunate that we will never be able to eat again. There are of course many more foods from the 90's that we will never see again but that's a list too deep to go into.

Make your own story

I remember I used to play with this thing for hours. It was so cool making your own sentences and stories with one of these books. You could make up anything that you wanted, well at least anything you wanted that they had the buttons for. You could make things that were disgusting or more realistic type stories but the fun in it was that you got to chose what to do.

Hot Shot!

This was one of the most epic games I had during the 90's, not including video games because we all know 90's video games were the greatest. It was a basketball game that you challenged all of your friends to beat your high score. You flicked the ball with a lever and tried to make it in the hoop. sounds kind of dumb now but at the same time people play the equivalent to this game all the time on their smart phones or tablets when they flick the ball and try to make it in. In the 90's we were just a little less high-tech and more about actual tangible equipment.

View Masters

One of the toys that i remember from the 90's was the View Master. I'm sure you may or may not know what I am talking about from the name but we all know what one of these is. It was a way of looking at pictures from your favorite shows, movies, or geographical pictures. It was like having a 3-D camera that you could use to see your favorite things. Unfortunately after you looked at them a few times it got old and you stopped using it. All in all it was a great toy for its time.

POGS

I remember collecting all kinds of different pogs back in the 90's. The thing about pogs was it was really all about getting as many as you could. The strange thing was that no one ever really played the game. We all collected them but didn't know the rules of the game so we kind of just went along with the way we all thought it went. You build up a big stack and then slam the "slammer" on top of the stack of pogs and scatter them everywhere. Once you get to that point no one really does anything. The "slammer" was a thicker pog that was used to obviously slam on top of the stack to play the game. Honestly the only reason I know the rules now is because I looked it up on Wikipedia while writing this. Back in the 90's there was no Wikipedia for us to find information quickly like this so we just kind of went with the flow. I still remember my favorite Pogs were my Power Ranger ones because that was one of my favorite shows as a kid.