The eldest Millennial starter pack

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Where’s Captain Planet? Also half of this stuff was only accessible if your parents actually had disposable income for a child’s entertainment, so I am also missing the books that should be here: Boxcar Children and Babysitters Club for starters

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RoughRealistic4321@reddit

Close.

Jolt was not a "school snack". and I think more like a middle school/high school thing and Pizza Hut was either special day for school lunch or personal pizza from BookIt.

Duck tales and transformers and ninja turtles, yes, but we were aged out of saturday morning cartoons by the time that kid was on the air... we also got GI Joe, Voltron and Thundercats, which would be MUCH more fitting for this meme. (turtles were a little later and more a general millennial memory)

We also grew up with the Gummi Bears and Inspector Gadget.

I don't remember that being the pop tarts box? But I also can't really remember getting pop tarts often.

the my pet monster is true.

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Simulacrum90@reddit

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Appropriate_Park_895@reddit

Eeeeps over the My Pet Monster....want him to cuddle with me forever. His cartoon was good too.

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Background-Manager87@reddit

The NES was the epitome 80s gaming and I'm so glad I never got rid of mine. Even got the box it came in too

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Prize_Ad6430@reddit

I gave all old consoles to my niece. She's into retro gaming and the older consoles. You should have seen the look on her face when I gave my old Atari 2600, NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, OG XBOX, XBOX 360, XBONE.

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_ficklelilpickle@reddit

I traded mine in and bought a tennis racquet when I was encouraged that I was “over video games”.

Should have kept it. :(

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timsea99@reddit

Does it still work? And if so, how many times do you need to blow into it for it to work?

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ethnicvegetable@reddit

Mine still works!

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Dude_man79@reddit

I still have mine but it doesn't power on. Could just be a power supply issue, but I now have a system that plays both NES and SNES games with the flick of a switch.

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Uhh_JustADude@reddit

Still have mine, but it doesn’t work.

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

I still have mine with a "flash cart" where you can play all the games on one cartridge with an SD card and roms. This prevents taking the games in and out and that old issue.

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DJ_MedeK8@reddit

Throw in Heman/Shera and you've got a jackpot

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Insomniac_80@reddit (OP)

Lol, it needs some earlier 80s edits, He-Man/She-Ra, Cabbage Patch Kids, early 80s girly toys!

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LonghornJct08@reddit

Don’t forget Thundercats!

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Tofuloaf@reddit

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Bravestar.

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

I didn't forget bravestar lol.

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PhillyRush@reddit

And Voltron

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Prize_Ad6430@reddit

And Robotech

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theicecreamassassin@reddit

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bigfancydelta@reddit

Bravestar was awesome! Also, being a Texan made it even cooler! Planet New Texas!?!? HELL FUCKING YEAH!!!

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

Earn i was 6 i wanted to grow up to be Lion-O

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LonghornJct08@reddit

There's pictures of me about the same age dressed up in a Lion-O costume for Halloween.

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Wactout@reddit

Never have. Just did a thundercats tattoo three weeks ago. And I still collect Silverhawks toys like a child.

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osddelerious@reddit

I watched that show at 5:30a every morning before school for a few years

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FreneticZen@reddit

Hell yeah! Thundercats!

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DStew713@reddit

HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

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Mike_Honcho_Summer@reddit

He-Man was 1983-5. How are you able to remember that from childhood or was it reruns?

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Mc-Laney@reddit

In many countries the show had its first run several years later. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe are definitely an memory for many born in the late 70s and early 80s.

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Mike_Honcho_Summer@reddit

I didn't know this.
I knew this but early 80s is pushing it unless it's re-runs.

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DJ_MedeK8@reddit

Idk if it was reruns or not but I watched the hell out of it when I was really little. Had the bedset, tooth brush and am/fm headphone radio that was shaped like Heman's head lol. TBF I remember Bravestar waaaay more That was the first toy besides Transformers I really remember having alot of.

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Mc-Laney@reddit

In some countries the Masters of the Universe were also a bit controversial because many adults thought it was a "violent" toyline (monsters, skeletons, weapons etc.). That made it even more interesting for us. They didn't understand it, but it was so famous that they couldn't avoid it. They even made a documentary about the toyline to show, how "dangerous" it is. If you had very conservative parents, you had to play with the figures at a friend's house or you were just allowed to get the more "friendly" figures like Adam etc.

Bravestarr was also great, but didn't last long. I had the Marshall with a promo audio tape.

Audio tapes were generally an important thing to promote the toys besides comics. In Germany they were made by Europa. They used well known speakers and wrote their own stories (Masters of the Universe). The stories were even better than in the cartoon, a bit more exciting. The cartoons arrived us later because they were only show on cable- or satellite-TV. And it took some years before the channels bought the rights to broadcast it. In the 80s some countries were a bit late in that aspect but the 80s were a great time to grow up!

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Garthritis@reddit

GI Joe

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-piso_mojado-@reddit

Porkchop sandwiches.

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youknowwhatthisis00@reddit

Body massage

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Wactout@reddit

Dried. And gristly.

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railmanmatt@reddit

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Esternaefil@reddit

The other half is violence!

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askthepoolboy@reddit

Shake N Bake!

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CommonNative@reddit

Charmkins, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, Pound Puppies......

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askthepoolboy@reddit

Garbage Pale Kids, boomboxes, OG scooters, pogo balls, and gobots (for us brokies) would complete the list for me.

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ThePerfectSnare@reddit

I was never into Transformers but I did have a Gobots shotgun. You could put two rounds of caps in it.

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coffee_and_physics@reddit

Was gonna say. Where’s my Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Ponies?

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portagenaybur@reddit

Poochie!

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askthepoolboy@reddit

Didn't girls have a lot of toys with smells back then? Strawberry shortcake or something?

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ragingchump@reddit

The rose petal barbie!!!!

She was brunette, her dress was beautiful pink shades like rose petals

And she smelled faintly of rose petals

For years

So mad half my collection had to be left behind

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

Charmkins were coated with floral scents AND could be attached to jewelry. My sister and I had a few sets of them. Fun fact: Bath & Body Works made a soap last year that smelled just like one of the Charmkins characters. I have it in my kitchen and in a hot minute I can tell you what the scent is

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SweetPrism@reddit

I can hear the commercials now: "If you or your loved ones olayed with scented, plastic toys and got cancer, you may be entitled to compensation."

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Prestigious_Rip_289@reddit

Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Brite, Sesame Street

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sanedragon@reddit

Yeah replace Bobby's World with these. My younger brother (87) watched that, not me (81).

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DrawTap88@reddit

I don’t know, man. I liked Bobby’s World (underwater your feet don’t stink). Peewee kinda creeped me out.

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recyclebono@reddit

Muppet Babies, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

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ReinaShae@reddit

Snorks and smurfs!

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thebarnacleez@reddit

Star Wars toys too

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Joker-Smurf@reddit

And Astroboy

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oldmilt21@reddit

Oh Jesus. Jolt. There’s a name I haven’t heard I a very long time.

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FreneticZen@reddit

Yeah, but what about Josta? That shit was the jam.

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spraypaintsaint@reddit

With guarana

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railmanmatt@reddit

Yes! 100%

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longdeadbedhead@reddit

Shoulda coulda woulda josta

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theloop82@reddit

Josta and surge would have went hard here

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Greedy_Ad_3814@reddit

Jolt is out again in the energy drink sections of some stores.

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tbr6742@reddit

We never really had Jolt where I live. Ours was Nitro Cola, came is a glass bottle.

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deadly_icy_calm@reddit

Ducktales wasn’t on Saturday mornings.

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BogOBones@reddit

Gummi Bears was though, before becoming an early Disney afternoon show with Ducktales.

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theloop82@reddit

No it was the Disney afternoon

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Organic_Drawing7144@reddit

Choose your own adventure books

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BogOBones@reddit

The arc of my childhood book series readings were Sweet Pickles books to Mouse and the Motorcycle books to Choose Your Own Adventures (especially the G.I. Joe ones) to Hardy Boys and then to Dragonlance, and by high school it was Stephen King novels.

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whahaaa@reddit

and encyclopedia brown!

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danielleiellle@reddit

Whoa. I know this is not what you are referring to, but do you remember Charlie Brown’s ‘Cyclopedia?

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BogOBones@reddit

This is what I got, but I was secretly wishing for the Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown books.

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ethnicvegetable@reddit

Oh I loved these!

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AngryTree76@reddit

I had the first twelve and loved them. Later my mom and I encountered 13-15 in a store and she asked me if I wanted them, but I was self conscious (what if a cute girl or someone who I knew saw me buying them?) so I said no. Regretted that ever since.

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Jose_Canseco_Jr@reddit

and Judy Blume?

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Emotional_Signal7883@reddit

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

This pleases the entirety of my soul.

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urfriendflicka@reddit

I tired getting my daughter into mad labs and she had zero interest. But she also hated Drop Dead Fred, so obviously, her taste in entertainment is severely lacking.

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avindictiveprinter@reddit

My favorite CYOA book had a really bleak ending where you fall into an endless pit but land on an outcropping. You can see the top but you can't reach or climb up to it, so you die right there of starvation and dehydration.

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

The twenty pages of stream of consciousness spiraling into acceptance of death was pretty heavy for a Scholastic publication, IMO.

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avindictiveprinter@reddit

You read that one?! All these years talking about that book and no one else ever knew what I was talking about!

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Outli3rZ@reddit

Lone wolf books

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Protoman@reddit

Hell yeah. Lone Wolf chose your own adventure RPG books were the shit.

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-Boston-Terrier-@reddit

I guess this sounds really lame and nerdy but I started using Chat GPT to turn my favorite movies and TV shows into Choose Your Own Adventure books. I guess it is really lame and nerdy but it is also fun lol.

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TomPalmer1979@reddit

The only lame and nerdy part is that you're using ChatGPT.

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mjkjr84@reddit

And Goosebumps

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RushBubbly6955@reddit

My love of these books landed me a career in ux and information architecture.

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danielleiellle@reddit

Summer of 1997 I bought a book on HTML and started teaching myself. 30 years later and a degree in information science later and still at it.

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BrutalBart@reddit

must have

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MontCali@reddit

I still want these!

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ManateeNipples@reddit

Mad libs but anytime it asks for a noun the only answer is penis or boobs lmao

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Telecommie@reddit

Explained these to my kids recently and they looked at me like I was batty.

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Pumperkin@reddit

Explaining them to my dad back in the day had a similar effect

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

Lol, what about those of us who are older than that?

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Insomniac_80@reddit (OP)

Then you get a "slightly later Gen X," starter pack, you get an Atari, hair metal bands, Garbage Pail Kids instead of Madballs, and Atari 7800 instead of NES.

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Ancient-And-Alone@reddit

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

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Hiryu-GodHand@reddit

YUUUUUHHHHHP

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jaques_sauvignon@reddit

You left out the pogs and slap bracelets.

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cdizzle6@reddit

Needs the Oregon Trail. Poor Billy died of malaria.

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Kazoo113@reddit

I am tired.

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DustedGorilla82@reddit

Pretty spot on although who watched Bobby’s world?

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ScottClam42@reddit

That was the only thing in this image that stood out to me as not applicable to my childhood. Maybe replace him with David the Gnome or some DIC cartoon. Heathcliff maybe?

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theloop82@reddit

Yeah don’t know about those toys, I’d go speak-n-spell and that Tomy Driving game with the wheel and the backlight

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ScottClam42@reddit

Speak-n-spell! Thats much more legit. Great call

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turtlenipples@reddit

David the Gnome was my jam.

Look around you. There are many things to see!

Immediate nostalgia.

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KevDub81@reddit

Camp Candy imo

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alysli@reddit

Bobby's World is way too young. Should be, like, The Littles or Muppet Babies.

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lavernenoshirley@reddit

Born in 81…Bobby’s World definitely belongs here. I watched this everyday after school. I do agree that Muppet Babies should be included. I have Gen X siblings and I think The Littles falls in with the youngest of that generation.

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DrawTap88@reddit

Couldn’t agree more. Howie Mandel was just starting to get name recognition when it came out, so this show and him as a popular entertainer are very fitting for us 81s.

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poop-money@reddit

I knew about it, but my backwater ass town didn't get a fox station until the later 90's.

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Individual-Click-104@reddit

Yeah this needs to be swapped out with Muppet Babies, Smurfs, or Gummi Bears lol

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snkiz@reddit

I did, but then I used to stay up and watch comedy shows on A&E so I knew who Howie Mendel was.

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Matty_D47@reddit

I knew him from Walk Like A Man

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

I remember not really liking it but watching it because it was on (because your other option is to entertain yourself somehow, without the TV)

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DustedGorilla82@reddit

You were an old soul.

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Kelliente@reddit

Kids without cable

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fyeahitsdasea@reddit

That skateboard brings back some amazing memories! Don’t get me wrong… I still skate, but that board — wow!

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DrawTap88@reddit

Started off riding it on my belly.

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FreneticZen@reddit

Fuck ‘91. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease that year. Had my colon surgically removed in ‘24, so fuck all of that noise. No permanent ostomy, thanks to a solid anastomosis.

I was looking forward to the X-Men animated series and Super Nintendo back then though.

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DrawTap88@reddit

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis and having to have your colon surgically removed.

I was also a big fan of the x-men animated series.

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tomphammer@reddit

I would never say “1991 was an amazing year”, I was barely online still.

Nah, kids, most 1981 babies don’t obsess over the time we were tiny children out of an inherent inability to accept adulthood like core millennials.

When I feel nostalgia, it for the late 90s, once I developed agency and preferences beyond sugar based food and loud cartoons.

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DrawTap88@reddit

Humbly disagree. I remember dah nah dant-ing the baseline for smells like tee spirit to a classmate as a song I liked from the radio. He then introduced me to Enter Sandman by Metallica. That was the beginning of me sonically separating from my parents as musical influences.

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Gryll79@reddit

I would say 1997-1999 was an amazing year not 1991. Odd choice of year

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weberm70@reddit

Then we’d have to talk about embarrassing acts like Backstreet Boys and creed.

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chawrawbeef@reddit

‘91 is referring to the year those albums came out. 1979 here and ‘91 was monumental for me sonically because it opened my ears and my mind to the music that would eventually last me the rest of my life via Smells Like Teen Spirit, the gateway-to-music drug. So for me and many like me it actually was an amazing year

However I am more nostalgic for the late high school/early college years in that ‘97-99 range like you. 91 was an amazing year in retrospect, but if I could go back in time to any part of my life though it would be in that 97-99 range for sure

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Yeah, wasn't that the year that like half a dozen of the best rock albums of all time came out within a month's time?

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Alucard-VS-Artorias@reddit

This it is!

97 was like an awesome year. Can't say why outside of being something of an older teenager and the game releases were truly epic that year.

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Inevitable-While-577@reddit

I agree, the late 90s are more special to me because I was older and more interested in stuff.

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

I mean, I remember quite a bit about life from when I was 10 years old..

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Significant_Dog412@reddit

For those of us who were 9/10 in 1991, there were other reasons to enjoy 1991 and remember it with a certain fondness. It was a great year for movies from a kid's perspective.

But I do agree that we'd still be too young for Nirvana/grunge to be this generation defining moment for us. I love Nirvana, but this came later for me and I don't have the same connection to them that 1991 teenagers would have.

Excluding the things that didn't make Britain (Jolt Cola, whoever that cartoon boy is), I'd say that's the only part this starter pack gets wrong.

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MonkeyCube@reddit

My friends and I were heavy MTV watchers in '91, and while Nirvana wasn't that important at the time, it was definitely on our radar as some good, new music. (Around the same age, btw.) It definitely took some time for it to go from 'this is good' to 'I love this music,' which coincided with us hitting our teen years.

What I remember most was the MTV countdowns to music videos to MJ's Black or White and GNR's November Rain. Meatloaf's I'd Do Anything for Love, Brian Adam's Everything I Do, and Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You were on constant rotation. Houston might have been the next year. Oh, and that Megadeth video where he talks to himself in the mirror about Reader's Digest.

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tomphammer@reddit

Yeah I know but when I hit adulthood my nostalgia was always for being a carefree teen. I had agency and few responsibilities.

Younger millennials always tended to be nostalgic for childhood. No responsibility and no agency. Goo goo ga ga forever.

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Acton_up@reddit

I haven't seen a mad balls reference, like ever, but that hits. Maybe throw in a M.A.S.K reference and you have the niche cartoon cornered

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DrawTap88@reddit

No one remember M.A.S.K., but it was such a great show. My earliest memory is getting the toy of the car that flew (doors folded up like wings and it was red) for my birthday.

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RockyRidgeRiver@reddit

Can confirm for most items. Replace Jolt with Josta.

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McBlast@reddit

"I'm tired"

Ha!! Ahhhh. ZZZzzzzz

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LonelyAsLostKeys@reddit

Was born in 84, but this resonates.

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klockworx@reddit

Id have gone with the bart Simpson vehicle of destruction...but otherwise spot on.

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Relative_Progress946@reddit

I was more of a Fraggle Rock/ Scooby Doo kinda kid but otherwise this checks out

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theAFguy200@reddit

Diamond back bmx bikes with spokies. Garbage pail kids. Super soakers.

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Responsible_Park3317@reddit

I never did get into Bobby's World. My brother is an '81 baby, and he didn't either. The rest is pretty damn accurate for us both, though. Minus the skateboard. We were both Huffy kids. 🚴‍♂️

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blue_suavitel@reddit

You’re missing Ecto Coolers

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Timmonidus@reddit

Muppet Babies and PeeWee’s Playhouse on Saturday mornings.

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BishlovesSquish@reddit

This hit me hard. So much nostalgia.

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MarkyGalore@reddit

Needs Oregon Trail and other Mac ii classics.

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ialsohaveadobro@reddit

Lode Runner, mfer!

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HratioRastapopulous@reddit

Yeah, we’re literally also known as the “Oregon Trail Generation”.

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polipolimist@reddit

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PMmeHappyStraponPics@reddit

That's way more pixels than I remember.

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Wactout@reddit

I forgot about that game

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OrvilleSchnauble@reddit

Hunt the Wumpus, anyone?

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PhillyRush@reddit

Karateka

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BobSki778@reddit

TI-99/4A represent!

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External_Mushroom674@reddit

How about some Commodore 64 as well? I like it tho

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E6DA@reddit

And Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.

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bord_de_lac@reddit

Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

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Allaplgy@reddit

Math Blaster!

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builtinamplifier@reddit

Swap out Bobby from Bobby's world with Bobby from King of the Hill, Pizza Hut for Dominos and Jolt for Pepsi (its the choice of a new generation) and yeah pretty fucking accurate.

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AsideLost@reddit

https://i.redd.it/vhqvxvc389tg1.gif

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Lucky_Louch@reddit

Add Garbage Pail Kids and He-men and you got it.

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Ok-Moment-6325@reddit

eh hm... jolt came in glass bottles

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NimbexWaitress@reddit

Need some Pound Puppies and Encyclopedia Brown books in there

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Ploosse@reddit

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Florglicious@reddit

I literally told my wife today I want to go back to the 80s

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Individual-Click-104@reddit

Muppet Babies is missing. And agreed on Choose Your Own Adventure. We bought this for one of our kids a few years ago and they were STILL fun to read 😂

I am a mystery writer today because of these books.

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jonathantg35@reddit

Can I get some POGS up in this bitch? jkjk

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Redbird9346@reddit

I’ll give you…

ALF pogs. Remember ALF? He’s back, in pog form.

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CatchAlarming6860@reddit

Pogs were definitely after our time haha

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Dude_man79@reddit

How about some Garbage Pail Kids

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Pale_Row1166@reddit

I don’t see devil sticks either

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elgigantedelsur@reddit

Marbles for us in NZ

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iamclear@reddit

We had pogs in small town nz. I loved my Alf ones.

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Freudianslip1987@reddit

Don't forget slip n slide with the dawn to make sure you hit the fence or road

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Rombonius@reddit

fits my 86 visionboard perfectly, except SNES was my jam, my cousins had the NES (I think my uncle bought it for himself)

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ashurbanipal420@reddit

Anyone else traumatized by having a My Lil Buddy then sneaking downstairs and watching Chucky?

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turtlenipples@reddit

Aside from living in a one-story house, I had this exact experience. I gave mine to the neighbor kid down the street.

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ashurbanipal420@reddit

I decapitated mine. My dad was pissed but deep down I think he was trying not to laugh.

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turtlenipples@reddit

That's twisted, dude.

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ashurbanipal420@reddit

I threw it out and my dad put it back in my room. At that point it was him or me lol

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PlasticFabtastic@reddit

I don't care what anyone says Bobby's world sucked

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Cutthechitchata-hole@reddit

My lil bro

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johnnyclash42@reddit

1979 and that defines me pretty damn well. Toss in the goonies, some garbage pail kids, rollerblades, and one of the Coca-Cola cup phones you could get for selling catalog crap through school and I’d be in heaven haha

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chronicnerv@reddit

Remind me, was that little blue monster part of a potato chips promotion?

In the UK, I seem to remember it being connected to Walkers crisps, but I could be completely wrong.

Most of those trends made it over here, Madballz, Nintendo, I was really into Transformers and then the Turtles. pretty accurate.

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chawrawbeef@reddit

It was called My Pet Monster. I really wanted one but never got it. My memory is that it had orange handcuffs that could pull apart, as if the monster had broken the chain with his freakish monster strength, and I thought that was so cool.

I don’t recall any kind of potato chips promotion, though

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a_newsense@reddit

Yo, I had one of those. Just reminded me, they also got me a My Buddy and I'll never forget those two would sit in the corner of my room and stare at me at night. First time seeing the movie Childs Play, My Buddy got evicted and was never allowed back in. F that doll.

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FreneticZen@reddit

It would surprise me, but I don’t recollect offhand. My Pet Monster was pretty big in the mid-late 80’s.

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chronicnerv@reddit

Cheers, It was a monster munch promotion I was getting it confused with.

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Insomniac_80@reddit (OP)

No, it was a my pet monster, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ1-RH_8fro a toy from the 80s. I'm not looking over UK ads for Monster Chips.

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

Where is Teddy Ruxpin??

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railmanmatt@reddit

Ok Mr. Moneybags. Lol

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a_newsense@reddit

I had teddy and his homie grubby if you can remember that weird worm with legs looking thing. They would read together.

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pogulup@reddit

My Buddy/Kid Sister

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

My buddy, my buddy, my buddy and meeeee

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

My sister had one. I wonder if it contributed to her longterm fear of people in mascot suits

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

Sounds like a healthy fear tbf

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

Absolutely

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HotCollar5@reddit

I had one and I actively distrust mascots sooooo might have something here!

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LubaUnderfoot@reddit

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LubaUnderfoot@reddit

Married one, this is accurate. He's eldest and I'm peak.

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-threefeetoffun@reddit

Is this why I still love Pizza Hut?

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maryummy@reddit

BOOK IT!

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PMmeHappyStraponPics@reddit

They still do book it! You as a parent just go and sign the sheet to get your kid a little pizza!

But then you have to eat Pizza Hut, which my 40 year old body rejects violently.

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ST0N3F1ST@reddit

Those free pan pizzas were so good! Plus, some of those pins had a cool texture to scratch on, and the book opened when you saw it from different angles!

Has anything in my entire life since felt as rewarding and simple as that?

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Dr_Wah@reddit

Those personal pans were absolute magic. I'm sure it's the nostalgia, but memory is that they were basically mana from heaven.

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TorchThisAccount@reddit

Fond memories of sitting down at pizza hut and enjoying pan pizza. The crust just tasted amazing. Going to Pizza Hut was a treat. Now it feels like a punishment. Sauce is sweet and instant heartburn. Crust is slightly better than store bought pizza. The take away was that I feel in love with pizza, but not pizza hut.

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Sad-Structure2364@reddit

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Dino Riders!

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runhomejack1399@reddit

Bobby’s world? I dunno about that one.

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lik_a_stik@reddit

*or younger gen x. Exact same stuff. Those cartoons were after school afternoon staples tho. Saturday morning reserved for Gummi Bears & Peewee’s Playhouse.

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Ronthelodger@reddit

Real ghostbusters, thunder cats, transformers, motu

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lexluthor_i_am@reddit

I'm an older millennial and this is only half true.

I never drank jolt, or skateboarded, I didn't like pearl jam, and I don't know what those balls are.

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FethB@reddit

I almost forgot about Madballs!

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molotovv3@reddit

So what this meme tells me is nearly nothing changed for kids between 1981 and 1986

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Charrbard@reddit

81'er here. But I only had one CBS channel at that age.

Transformers was gone by the time Bobby's world and TMNT were on. They had syndication if you had cable, but it was at like 7:30 am. Ducktales wasn't on Saturday mornings here, but week day afternoons. One channel ran a huge block.

What I remember of CBS - Superman, and Rocky and Bullwinkle very early. Then Muppet babies. Then Ghostbusters (I think?) and Garfield. Then an hour of TMNT at 10. Then WWF taped shows. Later on it flipped to fox with Bobby's world, Eeek the Cat, Thunderlizards, and maybe some other stuff.

G.I Joe, Transformers, Mask and Dungeons and dragons I *barely* remember seeing on networks, but much moreso as I grew older with cable. There was also a few other things that never left the 80s; Bravestar, Go-Bots, Pound Puppies, Heathcliff, the fake Ghostbusters, Silvewings, Centurions, and so on that all got washed away in the flood of direct to cable cartoons that came with the 90s.

Toys were just as wild. Practically every week there would be something new out. No wonder we're so nostalgia prone. We got mentally bombarded as kids from every angle to want this stuff.

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_ism_@reddit

where is the girl stuff? remember? we existed. you were on the blue aisle, i was on the pink aisle. as our mothers yelled "We have plastic toys at home!" simultaneously and backed out of their respective aisles, their eyes met at the endcap...

wait what subreddit is this where am i

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LocalMain4677@reddit

Jolt Cola, because hacking is more than a crime... it's a survival trait!

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leroyskagnetti@reddit

I haven't thought about My Pet Monster since I had one way back when. 🥹🥹

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RevolutionaryBake362@reddit

Gummy bears bouncing here and there and everywhere….

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ValancyNeverReadsit@reddit

What was the name of those head-shaped balls? I had the peach-colored one in the lower right of that image

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

mad balls

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Sentence_Salt@reddit

You guys remember pillow people? I had the same one the kid is hugging. She was my bestest friend. Haha

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TransportationOk657@reddit

Technically, I'm at the very tail end of Gen X, but this was all my childhood as well (except Bobby's World).

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SweatPig77@reddit

Yesterday during work, I stopped by a Casey's gas station in Atlanta, Tx. In the refrigerated softdrink cooler ther was a Jolt Cola Zero Sugar, I haven't seen a Jolt since the end of the 90's and I don't remember them being sugar-free. Anyone else seen this?

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mcsweetin@reddit

Pop tarts used to be so delicious

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TurtleSandwich0@reddit

Even in the picture on the box the frosting used to go to the edge.

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TheJustBleedGod@reddit

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Nacho_Sideboob@reddit

Missing Thundercats, Ghostbusters, Kid Cusines, WWF.

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Barzlog@reddit

Where’s the Ecto cooler?

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Active_Yellow_1573@reddit

That looks exactly like my youngest Gen X pack. 🤔

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heyitscory@reddit

Atari hooked up to black and white TV on a metal record player stand.

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One-Earth9294@reddit

I mean I'm still Gen X but it very much looked just like that. This list looks a lot more like a class of 98 thing than a class of 00 thing though.

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Twoslot@reddit

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DefiniteDooDoo@reddit

What are those monster things bottom left?? I completely forgot about those but remember having the eyeball one!!!

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Rick_from_C137@reddit

Awww I miss jolt cola

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TomPalmer1979@reddit

I still blame the orange plastic My Pet Monster handcuffs for why I got into BDSM as an adult.

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Unlikely_Ad11@reddit

Sweet Pickles books anyone? The origin of my obsessing of Google earth for hours.

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Maxfunky@reddit

I definitely don't miss the '80s and '90s. Don't get me wrong, they shaped me in many ways, but I certainly wouldn't go back.

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Gimedecash@reddit

1984 here - I had everything on the pic except jolt cola. We had RC cola.

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Sorry_Challenge_4179@reddit

Born in 81 can identify except I don't know what low end theory is, and I didn't have those balls or toy skateboards myself.

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chawrawbeef@reddit

Low End Theory is by A Tribe Called Quest.

You probably remember this song:

Here we go yo, Here we go yo, So what’s the what’s the what’s the scenario?

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alwaus@reddit

I am in this image and i dont like it.

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MommysLittleBadass@reddit

Except that I don't miss the 80's and 90's at all. I still prefer physical copies of books, but give me all of today's tech over the 80's and 90's crap. To all of the people who wish they could go back, I wish I could send you back.

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SizeableBlast666@reddit

Except pizza hut, this is accurate.

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rtrawitzki@reddit

He man should be in the mix somewhere. Or transformers , thundercats.

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-bobsnotmyuncle-@reddit

Im literally wearing a ninja turtle shirt with that image on it right now

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ronin_cse@reddit

I’m ‘84 and share most of that. Replace DuckTales with Voltron because it didn’t really like DuckTales. Also didn’t like those ball things and wasn’t allowed to drink soda much so no Jolt cola for me 🙁

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GryphonHall@reddit

I swear $.25 Little Debbies tasted so much better back then. My family was too frugal for the food in this picture. It was usually RC and Double Cola for me.

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Flat-While2521@reddit

Yeah every single one of those for me

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Infamous_Tie5605@reddit

i never knew anyone with a my pet monster toy.

same goes for the technodrome or unicron transformer

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jacox200@reddit

1981 check in and I'll have you know I am not a millenial

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Moons_of_Moons@reddit

As the youngest GenX I can relate. (except Midnight Marauders is better album)

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Geek_King@reddit

I feel recognized having been born in 81, this is spot on. I unsubbed half a year ago from r/90s, and r/nostalgia because it was the same types of posts. Example: Gak! Remembergenial! But 99.9% of posts were nothing but one off call backs

But Xennial is more of a community with a shared experience and that resonates with me much more! We do nostalgia too, but we are such an unique generational slice that being together as a community feels nice.

Thanks for being here r/xennial!

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Spaceboy779@reddit

...oh we were young, once, lol

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Ok-Weather-7332@reddit

A box of Nerds cereal please.

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FlatRooster4561@reddit

Absolutely nailed it, except for the snacks.

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Walksuphills@reddit

If you were cool.

I wasn't.

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Oxybeles@reddit

3-2-1 CONTACT it's the secret it's the moment when everything happens

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anon-187101@reddit

you missed Doom for PC

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Fartweaver@reddit

1984 here, tbf i relate to all of this too

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fadedblackleggings@reddit

Same, late 80s, we just had a lot of stuff from thrift stores.

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Dermisgermis@reddit

Same. I even look like that wojack.

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RepresentativeMud509@reddit

Switch Bobby for Eek the Cat. Also need an old school Easton baseball bat added to the pack.

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CookieTX2022@reddit

Arcades in general with Pac-Man, etc. skating rinks and arcades is what I remember from my childhood in the 80s

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SomeGuyOverYonder@reddit

Of all the years I’ve lived, every year since 2020 has been a miserable slog.

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honkifyoulikebirds@reddit

Magic The Gathering is missing too

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Insomniac_80@reddit (OP)

That came in the mid 90s.

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MonkeyCube@reddit

I was playing it in 93, which is right around peak Bobby's World era.

Completely unrelated, but props for putting The Low End Theory on there. All-time classic.

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EnlightenedDragon@reddit

I remember discussing it on the bus during a jazz band trip end of 8th grade, which was 9. "Some card" called a Black Lotus was worth $100, which was unfathomable at the time for a non-sports card.

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NatWilo@reddit

I pulled the Black Lotus and The Rack (IIRC? I can't remember if it is that or something else, had a torture table on it) which were THE two most expensive cards out there from a pack. Played them for like two weeks, and then they both got banned at tournament and I was SO pissed.

I got back into magic years and years later, while in college after a stint in the army. I was thirty, playing with college kids, and telling them about the halcyon days of Ice Age and Alpha, and things like Banding. And pulling out ancient cards that blew their minds. It was so much fun!

I had new cards, obviously, but they loved those ancient cards so much I almost always got asked to whip out one of my old decks for fun.

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FreneticZen@reddit

Lord of the Pit and Breeding Pit were such a killer combo back then. Nightmare was the icing on the cake.

I had a black/white + artifact deck that mopped. Armageddon, Wrath of God, Feldon’s Cane, Ezra’s Glasses.

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kam0rix@reddit

Then you were literally one of the first. Iirc it didn't come out until 93 and my lil town didn't really start seeing it become popular until the 95/96. I think we had the second additions and then the boosters where in full swing by then.

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Prudent-Lake1276@reddit

It launched in 93 iirc, when those of us born in 1981 were the perfect age to get into it. My junior high lunch table was just a bunch of us playing Magic.

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Alucard-VS-Artorias@reddit

I feel called out in this one 😅

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tmotytmoty@reddit

Bobby’s world was a bit “young” for 81

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tmotytmoty@reddit

Bobby’s world was a bit “young” for 81

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goobershank@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/

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idio242@reddit

Yes.

Granted I’m older than 81 but whatever.

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phoenixliv@reddit

Um, Jolt was in glass.

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SweetPrism@reddit

There should be a Garbage Pail Kid.

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Clevergirlphysicist@reddit

Mine was a bit different (I’m also ‘81)… mine was more like, Gummi Bears or Thundercats on Saturday morning (or You Can’t Do That On Television or Double Dare if I was at my grandmas because she had Nickelodeon). Throw in some American Gladiators too. Jolt wasn’t a thing until I was a teenager, not childhood 🤷‍♀️ for me it was generic kool-aide. For toys I’d include Popples, Sweet Secrets, and even Polly Pocket, with a Barbie Fold n Fun house with Totally Hair Barbie. No skateboard, but I had rollerblades.

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Houdini-3000@reddit

Needs more WWF

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MontCali@reddit

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

Add Sega Genesis and we there

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E6DA@reddit

I didn't know any 10 year olds who were listening to Pearl Jam or Nirvana. We all found that stuff later.

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Tack-One@reddit

I’m 78 baby but every one of those tracks for me. Especially the jolt cola. I spent way too much time trying to secure that stuff, even had that Tony Hawk Powell deck.

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

This speaks to me.

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Esternaefil@reddit

Where's the cabbage patch kids?

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Big-Peak6191@reddit

Same for 85 here

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Unique_Limit_1576@reddit

Where are the Garbage Pail Kids?

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Miguelpaco@reddit

It me. 🥴

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Uhh_JustADude@reddit

My Pet Monster. Wow, haven’t seen that in ages.

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walter_grimsley@reddit

Elder Xennial here (77). Swap Bobby for the Pac Man cartoon. Add Atari 2600. Needs He Man and possibly GIJoe. Get rid of Madballs, add Capsela or Construx.

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osddelerious@reddit

Bobby! Was that really the no handshake guy from that reality show?

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iheardthemetalclank@reddit

The only one that I don’t identify with is the Pizza Hut. I grew up in a pretty rural area and we didn’t have any sort of chain restaurants. Just a local mom and pop pizza place. It was kind of mind-blowing to 10 year old me when they started offering taco pizza, though.

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You_need_a_drink@reddit

I'm pretty sure teenage mutant ninja turtles came out in 1987

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MaternalFornicator2@reddit

Oh man Super Mario Bros and the Legend of Zelda were my first NES games. My grandfather (who loved on the other side of the country) had found a great salesperson at his local Sears and asks him what games were the best to start with for a kid and his Mom. Then for my birthday he shipped the NES and the games across the country. I was an oblivious kid so I didn’t even know what the NES was. I remember my Mom and I playing Zelda (really her playing and me constantly dying on my turns). Good times.

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Insomniac_80@reddit (OP)

test?

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