things that define your generation

[Swimfan85]

endless hours of nick(land of the lost, hey dude, salute your shorts, ycdtot)

trapper keepers!!

teenage mutin ninga turtles

who you goin call?? lol GHOSTBUSTERS!!

LEGOS *orignal...* along with play mobiles

JI JOE!

[tormented_soul]

hmm.. that's a good one.. hmm..

punky brewster

you can't do that on television

any article of clothing that was bright neon (i was a child in the 80s... so sue me)

POPPLES!!!

rainbow brite

my little pony

and i'm sure there's more.. in fact, i know there is, but i'm too tired from moving in to type more.. lol

*jenn*

[Meg07945]

POGS! Remember those! And Beanie Babies. And Tickle me Elmos and Furbys. LOL!! Game gear and N64....DUDE remember super NES. I miss that. I like it better than Xbox and PS2 :(

[Bootsy Whoosh]

OOh what a fun topic. I don't know if these things really define my generation, but it should be fun to look back on my childhood....

TOYS:

Old school gaming systems:
Commodore 64 ;) , Atari 2600, Intellivision, ColecoVision

Toys that later spawned TV shows:

Pound Puppies, Transformers (more than meets the eye! :D), The Smurfs, Care Bears, Dungeons & Dragons, Strawberry Shortcake, Rubik's Cube, Teddy Ruxpin

Cabbage Patch Kids

Speak and Spell

Micro Machines

My Buddy and Kid Sister

Ewok plush toys

Glo Worm

Weebles

Yes and Know books

Pogo Balls

Little Professor Calculator

Simon (electonic game)


MUSIC:

Madonna

Michael Jackson


FASHION:

Satin jackets

Pom pom footies

Rubber bracelets

Slap bracelets

Slouch socks

Legwarmers

Sex Wax

KangoROOS (the most awesome shoes ever. Of course I had a pair!)

Jelly shoes

Jams

T-shirt rings

Velcro

Side ponytails


MOVIES:

E.T.

Labyrinth

Gremlins

...too many to name


TV:

Snorks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Shirt Tales

Kid Video

The Get-Along Gang

Monchichis

Heathcliff the cat

Night Rider

The Littles

The Biskitts

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Voltron

TunderCats

Kissyfur

The Wuzzles

MISC:

Beta (pre VHS)

Unicorns and pegasus were really popular for some reason....maybe because of The Last Unicorn movie?

androgeny

[Swimfan85]

how could i forget Polly Pockets? lol


and getting up at like 5 in the morning with my cousin to watch cartoons like the care bears!


and on snow days having the whole neighborhood come over and play nintendo and super nintendo(i still have these!!)

[-*Forever*-]

OMG NINTENDO!!!! *crys* Jackie has her's we play it all winter at her dad's. Hehe JAWS IS DA BESTEST GAME!!!!!! *ahem* anyhoo....

[Kay Scarpetta]

Polly Pockets.

RUGRATS!!! [I know they are still in but it seems like when I was little they reached their peak]

All those different baby dolls.

Um..lemme think. I can't think of anything more, lol.

[Meg07945]

I have a pound puppy!!! There's another dog thing....it's like a dog or a cat. When you buy it and start playing with it, you can open up its stomach and there are 3-5 more little dogs/cats. I have one!! Anyone know what those were called

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by Meg07945
I have a pound puppy!!! There's another dog thing....it's like a dog or a cat. When you buy it and start playing with it, you can open up its stomach and there are 3-5 more little dogs/cats. I have one!! Anyone know what those were called

I think I know what you are talking about but I can't think of its name.

[dawsongirl]

Bootsy and I obviously grew up in the same generation!

Jelly shoes! :lol: I had several pair to go along with all my neon socks.

Did any other girls go through a phase when they wore ponytails on the side of their head?

[°Bubbly Blonde°]

Nano babies, Nano puppies, and Nano kitties, The movies Clueless, American Pie, and American Beauty, tummy bearing t's, Brittney Spear's c.d., Destiny's Child c.d.'s, tickle me Elmo,PlayStations...that's all I can think of/

[Hollow]

~Remember My lil pony? lol
~Old video games. I still have my SNES from 11 years ago lol
~Power rangers
~jungle kittens
~pogs
~jelly shoes
~necklaces w/3-inch charms on them lol
~the color pink
~polly pocket
~eureka's castle
~wearing your hair dorky like in one pigtail
~these things i can't remember what they're called it's like jungle animals or something
~cabbage patch dolls

[Meg07945]

LOL! I forgot tamagachis and friend links! When I was in like 7th grade, everyone had one!!!

[Swimfan85]

i remember those necklaces where u give half to one friend and you keep the other half and when u put them together it makes a design like a ying yang

[Kay Scarpetta]

Friendship necklaces...oh God I have like a crapload of those lol... and Tomagotchi's. OMG I used to LOVE those things!!! They were awesome awesome awesome!!!

BTW, whoever said "the color pink", PINK is still in

[Penny Lane]

back in the 50's; when I was little;
Hula hoops
Betsy Wetsy
Pop beads
bunny fur collars
can cans( Large stiff slips worn under full skirts)

The 60's;
muscle cars
The Beatles
love beads
Nehru jackets
Carnaby Street fashions(mini skirts, etc.)
granny glasses
ironed long hair
Hippies
Woodstock

You get the idea!:lol:

[Kay Scarpetta]

Originally posted by NEWHART FAN
Betsy Wetsy


Do I wanna know what that is?

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever


Do I wanna know what that is?

This was the first baby doll that wet its pants! :lol:

[XoVanillaRain90oX]

Tickle me elmo, polly pockets, Super Nintendo, eurikas (sp??lmbo) castle, furby, nanu (sp?) things 8I had 092079464 of them* Hanson

[Cokies]

Since there is the Children of the 80's, I got to be a Child of the 90's.
The things that define my generation from my point of view:Some of them are hard to admit that they've had an affect on my generation...

Saved by the Bell, 90210, Snick, Power Rangers(sad, but true), MTV Beach House, the whole damn pop movement, Generation Next(Pepsi), Harry Potter(more for the youngins, but still relevant since a lot of my peers as well as myself read the books), Nirvana, Gangsta Rap, Grunge, Britpop, Bad movies that make way too much money, those Giga pets, Tickle-me-Elmo, Jnco's, Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie and Fitch, Flares, all thsoe early to mid 90's family comedies(Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step...)
80'S RERUNS. They have had more of a profound affect than one would think...

[Swimfan85]

Originally posted by Cokies
Since there is the Children of the 80's, I got to be a Child of the 90's.
The things that define my generation from my point of view:Some of them are hard to admit that they've had an affect on my generation...

Saved by the Bell, 90210, Snick, Power Rangers(sad, but true), MTV Beach House, the whole damn pop movement, Generation Next(Pepsi), Harry Potter(more for the youngins, but still relevant since a lot of my peers as well as myself read the books), Nirvana, Gangsta Rap, Grunge, Britpop, Bad movies that make way too much money, those Giga pets, Tickle-me-Elmo, Jnco's, Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie and Fitch, Flares, all thsoe early to mid 90's family comedies(Full House, Family Matters, Step by Step...)
80'S RERUNS. They have had more of a profound affect than one would think...

you preety much summed up everything for me...i wish i was a child of the 80s but *sigh* i am a child of the 90s! born in the year patriots were first in the superbowl...and bill buckner in the world series...the same year mrs. g left fol...

[Bootsy Whoosh]

You all make me feel old by having such fond memories of the Super Nintendo as your first gaming system... golly geez

....oh well, at least I'm not as old as Newhart Fan :joke:

BTW, that's a very groovy VW bus image you got there, Newhart Fan....I like it lots!.....


I'm just curious...does anyone here beside me remember these cookies?

http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/ca1.jpg
http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/ca2.jpg

[Penny Lane]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
[B]You all make me feel old by having such fond memories of the Super Nintendo as your first gaming system... golly geez

....oh well, at least I'm not as old as Newhart Fan :joke

Thanks a lot Bootsy!:lol: :wave:

[Mossopp]

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
You all make me feel old by having such fond memories of the Super Nintendo as your first gaming system... golly geez

I'm just curious...does anyone here beside me remember these cookies?


Yeah, the Super Nintendo was my first game system too! I still have mine. Super mario World was the best game ever !!!:D

BTW - those cookie faces are freakin' scary!!!!:eek:

[Swimfan85]

my first video game was regular nintendo...then we got sega and after sega we got super nintendo...

but does anyone else remember wearing back pack strapts on only one shoulder....lol? or sitting like A.C. slater did on a chair...with it backwards

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by hockeybabe528
but does anyone else remember wearing back pack strapts on only one shoulder....lol? or sitting like A.C. slater did on a chair...with it backwards

Yep! I used to sit backwards in chairs quite alot! And I also used to carry backpacks on one shoulder....gosh looking back I don't know how I did that....I guess my books were alot lighter back then!

[Ags2000]

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
You all make me feel old by having such fond memories of the Super Nintendo as your first gaming system... golly geez

....oh well, at least I'm not as old as Newhart Fan :joke:

BTW, that's a very groovy VW bus image you got there, Newhart Fan....I like it lots!.....


I'm just curious...does anyone here beside me remember these cookies?

http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/ca1.jpg
http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/ca2.jpg

Where did you find those Bootsy????? I LOVED those cookies. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and they didn't believe me that those cookies ever existed. Now I can show her. :)


For the record, my first gaming system, which I still play with by the way, was the Atari. Those games rocked. :) DK, Pitfall, ET, Pong, Tank, Galaxia, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr. etc...


D

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by Ags2000
Where did you find those Bootsy????? I LOVED those cookies. I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and they didn't believe me that those cookies ever existed. Now I can show her. :)

Hey, always glad to help, even when I don't know I'm helping, lol. I got them from www.x-entertainment.com which is a very silly site which has all sorts of silly articles and things about stuff from our childhood. They also listed some other foods of the past, like 2 flavored Bubble Yum, and Bonkers.

Originally posted by Ags2000
For the record, my first gaming system, which I still play with by the way, was the Atari. Those games rocked. :) DK, Pitfall, ET, Pong, Tank, Galaxia, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr. etc...

D

My first gaming system was my late, great, beloved Commodore 64. But I had friends with Ataris, which we still play with sometimes, and my boyfriend still has an Intellivision, which still works, but I've only played that like once. I think one of these days I'm gonna get my hands on an old Commodore...they sell for around 20 bucks on eBay.....my dad still has all the old games...on 5 inch floppies....remember those??

[Kay Scarpetta]

You know what words really annoying the -ahem- out of me?

"Groovy" and "Far Out" AHHHHH I want to scream when I hear someone say them!

[Ags2000]

I would just like to say Bootsy did a pretty good job here. I'm going to borrow some of hers and add a few of my own.



TOYS:

Old school gaming systems:
Commodore 64 ;) , Atari 2600 (Still have it)

Toys that later spawned TV shows:

Pound Puppies, Transformers (more than meets the eye! :D), G.I. Joe, The Smurfs, Care Bears, Care Bear Cousins, Dungeons & Dragons, Strawberry Shortcake, Rubik's Cube, Teddy Ruxpin, Rainbow Brite

Cabbage Patch Kids (Still have mine)

Speak and Spell

Micro Machines

My Buddy and Kid Sister

Ewok plush toys

Glo Worm (Mine is a green one)

Weebles (I know a joke about this. I'll post it at the end)

Yes and Know books

Pogo Balls

Pogo Stick

Little Professor Calculator

Simon (this game rocked)

Slinky

Sit and Spin


MUSIC:

Madonna

Michael Jackson


FASHION:

Satin jackets

Jean Jackets

Slap bracelets

Slouch socks

Legwarmers

Sex Wax

KangoROOS

Jelly shoes (Never did get into these)

Jams

T-shirt rings

Velcro

Side ponytails

"Air Conditioned" Jeans

MOVIES:

E.T.

Labyrinth

Gremlins

All the Star Wars movies

Any Michael J. Fox movie

...too many to name


TV:

Snorks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Shirt Tales

Kid Video

The Get-Along Gang

Heathcliff the cat

"Heathcliff, Heathcliff, no one should...
terrify their neighborhood.
But Heathcliff just won't be undone
playing pranks on everyone..."

Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats

Night Rider

The Littles

The Biskitts

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

She-Ra

Voltron

Thunder Cats (It's Thunder Cats Bootsy not TunderCats :) )
"

Kissyfur

The Wuzzles

Inspector Gadget

MISC:

Beta (pre VHS) (Still have it, it sorta works. The rewind however doesn't)

Unicorns and pegasus were really popular for some reason (I still have my collection of unicorns)


Okay here is the joke about Weebles.

There was a farm that had a few bulls and a bunch of cows. One day a big wind came and blew all the cows over. The bulls just rocked in the wind. The cows looked at the bulls strangely but went about their business.

A week goes by and an even stronger wind comes that not only knocks the cows over but it pushes them to the next field. The bulls, however, are just rocking in the wind. Now the cows know there is something going on, they just don't know what yet but they aim to find out.

About a week later, a tornado comes and blows the cows 4 farms over. It takes them a week to walk back. When they get there the bulls are still in their same spot. The cows just can't take it any longer so they walk up to the bulls and one of them asks, "How come all this wind doesn't affect you bulls any and we cows go flying into next week whenever there is a strong wind?"

The bulls look at the cows and respond, "We bulls wobble but we don't fall down." :rotflmao: :lol: :rotflmao: :lol: :rotflmao:


D
:cheers:

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by Ags2000
Jelly shoes (Never did get into these)

(It's Thunder Cats Bootsy not TunderCats :) )

The bulls look at the cows and respond, "We bulls wobble but we don't fall down." :rotflmao: :lol: :rotflmao: :lol: :rotflmao:

D


I never got into Jelly shoes much either. My mom bought me a few pairs, but they really hurt my feet!

Ooopsy, demon typos....I just got so excited writing my list I overlooked that...I'm surprised I didn't have more typos...though I did think it was one word, with the "C" capitalized (what do I know...I never really watched it...I was more of a Voltron kid myself)

That joke was great!! :cheers: Of course I saw the punchline coming, since I knew it was a Weebles joke, but still....can't wait to tell some of my friends!

[JDS84]

Cabbage Patch Dolls
Kid Sister
To many to think of right now

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by Lisa Whelchel Forever
You know what words really annoying the -ahem- out of me?

"Groovy" and "Far Out" AHHHHH I want to scream when I hear someone say them!


GROOVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:lol:

[Kay Scarpetta]

Originally posted by NEWHART FAN



GROOVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:lol:

IT'S A CLOWN!!!!! *HIDES*

[Lynn]

Originally posted by Ags2000


The bulls look at the cows and respond, "We bulls wobble but we don't fall down." :rotflmao: :lol: :rotflmao: :lol: :rotflmao:


D
:cheers:

:lol: :lol: love the joke, Ags!

Bootsy, great list.

Jelly shoes hurt my feet too but I still wore them because I liked the colors. I also remember wearing a bunch of Jelly bracelets.

Some other things I remember:

Holly Hobby stuff.

For music: Debbie Gibson and Tiffany (do I dare admit I had their tapes?:blush: yikes)

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by Lynn
Holly Hobby stuff.

For music: Debbie Gibson and Tiffany (do I dare admit I had their tapes?:blush: yikes)

How could I forget Holly Hobby?!? I used to have Holly Hobby wallpaper, and so did my sister! Shame on me **goes off to give myself 40 lashes with a wet noodle**

As for Debbie Gibson and Tiffany tapes...I never had any Debbie Gibson because my sister had all of those, but I betcha I can beat you at Tiffany ;) ....I had three, count 'em three!!! Tiffany albums. I think I'm like the only person in the world who actually got her third album.

Everyone sing with me now: "Children behave, that's what they say when we're together.....and watch how you play, they don't understand and so we're....

RUNNIN' just as fast as we can, holdin' on to one another's hand, tryin' to GET AWAY into the night, and then you put your arms around me and we tumble to the ground and then you say

I think we're alone now...there doesn't seem to be anyone around....I think we're alone now (alone now!)...the beating of our hearts is the only sound"

:lol: :crazy: :lol: :crazy: :lol: :crazy: :happyface

[Paula]

Well, I know I'm repeating a few of the things that were already mentioned, but here's what popped into my head:

Slambooks
Garbage Pail Kids
Now & Laters candies
Madonna/ Goomie bracelets
L.A. Gear
Transformers
G.I. Joe
Atari
Hello Kitty
Legwarmers
Biker shorts
Miniskirts
Michael Jackson pins
Keds
Smurfs
Alvin & The Chipmunks
Neon colors
Rubik's cube


SLANG:
"Your mama"
"Your whole generation including you"
"Awesome"
"Chill"
"Gag me with a spoon"

TO ALL OF YOU CHILDREN OF THE 80'S....CHECK OUT THIS COOL WEBSITE I FOUND:
http://www.i80s.com/

BTW, I still have a collection of My Little Ponies!

[Kristina]

I used to love Jelly shoes in the 80's and part of the 90's, in the 80's I had tons of CPK dolls and I could never figure out the Rubik's Cube :confused:. I also have a Alvin & The Chipmunks doll of Alvin it says Copyright 1989 he used to be my favorite toy :D BTW I was born in 1986.

[Ags2000]

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh


My first gaming system was my late, great, beloved Commodore 64. But I had friends with Ataris, which we still play with sometimes, and my boyfriend still has an Intellivision, which still works, but I've only played that like once. I think one of these days I'm gonna get my hands on an old Commodore...they sell for around 20 bucks on eBay.....my dad still has all the old games...on 5 inch floppies....remember those??

Cool, I'll check out that website.

I still have those real "floppy" disks. When we first got our computor that was all we had. So work I did back then is on the floppy disks. We have upgraded the system, but it still has the floppy drive.

D

[Ags2000]

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh


How could I forget Holly Hobby?!? I used to have Holly Hobby wallpaper, and so did my sister! Shame on me **goes off to give myself 40 lashes with a wet noodle**

As for Debbie Gibson and Tiffany tapes...I never had any Debbie Gibson because my sister had all of those, but I betcha I can beat you at Tiffany ;) ....I had three, count 'em three!!! Tiffany albums. I think I'm like the only person in the world who actually got her third album.

Everyone sing with me now: "Children behave, that's what they say when we're together.....and watch how you play, they don't understand and so we're....

RUNNIN' just as fast as we can, holdin' on to one another's hand, tryin' to GET AWAY into the night, and then you put your arms around me and we tumble to the ground and then you say

I think we're alone now...there doesn't seem to be anyone around....I think we're alone now (alone now!)...the beating of our hearts is the only sound"

:lol: :crazy: :lol: :crazy: :lol: :crazy: :happyface

I LOVE that song. I found an 80's music CD that had it on it and I bought it just for that. It also has some other great songs too, but that is my favorite.

D

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by Ags2000
I still have those real "floppy" disks. When we first got our computor that was all we had. So work I did back then is on the floppy disks. We have upgraded the system, but it still has the floppy drive.

D

Yeah, I still have a 5 inch floppy drive too. Acutally, my drive is a combination, with both the 5 inch and 2.5 inch floppy drives on it. As long as it keeps working, I'm always going to use that drive, even though I never use 5 inch floppies....it's a relic, I can't just trash it! :D The only problem with it is that it takes up the whole face of the computer...a slot I could use for a CD burner or something....but oh well, I'll cross that bridge if I ever get a burner!

[Ags2000]

Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh


Yeah, I still have a 5 inch floppy drive too. Acutally, my drive is a combination, with both the 5 inch and 2.5 inch floppy drives on it. As long as it keeps working, I'm always going to use that drive, even though I never use 5 inch floppies....it's a relic, I can't just trash it! :D The only problem with it is that it takes up the whole face of the computer...a slot I could use for a CD burner or something....but oh well, I'll cross that bridge if I ever get a burner!

Man,you must have a small face on your computer. I have the 5 1/4 drive, 3.5 drive, and a CD Rom drive, with room for something else if I ever decide to get a CD Burner.

D

[dawsongirl]

Oh yeah, that reminds me- Apple II's. Great computers!! :lol:

That and those little Mac's that had that 9 inch (or so) B&W screen. What were those called?

[Penny Lane]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bootsy Whoosh
[B]

How could I forget Holly Hobby?!? I used to have Holly Hobby wallpaper, and so did my sister! Shame on me **goes off to give myself 40 lashes with a wet noodle

Yes! Holly Hobby! My daughter had her! Wasn't she cute?:)

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by Ags2000


Man,you must have a small face on your computer. I have the 5 1/4 drive, 3.5 drive, and a CD Rom drive, with room for something else if I ever decide to get a CD Burner.

D

No, lol....I meant it takes up the whole horizontal face, not vertical. Like the drive is the same width as my CD-ROM. So I am using up one of my big slots with it, whereas I could have like a CD burner or a DVD drive there. (I only have 2 big slots). Then I have 2 little slots, which are meant for 2.5 inch floppies, but I'm not using either of those. But either way, yes, my computer is stumpy and short with a small face. :D

[17Mar59]

This is a toughie but I say the one event that could symbolize
my generation a bit is The Election Of Ronald Reagan,'cause
he was the first President so many of my generation had a
chance to elect.:)