What do you get most nostalgic about? (select up to three answers)
Total Voters: 87
Loading ...Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Apr 30th, 2008
Remember getting spokies in your Frosties? Remember trying to out-do your friends with the number you could fit on your bike? It used to make a racket but we loved spokies. They’re still widely available - especially the Disney ones. Some clever people used to get flashing ones or spokies that made a noise […]
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Toys & Games on Apr 9th, 2008
I’m not sure precisely when, but at some stage in (I think) the 1970s, some genius came up with the incredible “Spacehopper“. What was, presumably, one small step for a man, became a giant leap for under 10s the world over, as they bounced around aimlessly for hours upon end.
Spacehoppers were quite possibly the silliest […]
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Food & Drink, Products, Toys & Games on Mar 27th, 2008
The best quality Kinder Egg toys were only available in Germany, where the sweet originated. I was given these toys to photograph by an enthusiast, TC, who was brought up in Germany
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, Australia & New Zealand, Fashion, Music, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Nov 23rd, 2007
An excellent singer and perfect pin-up for teenage girls, Craig David was the poster boy for UK garage. His album sold loads and he became instantly famous for “7 days”, mainly because it was so liable to spoof versions and mockery at the method of seduction. Little goaty things and cornrows became de riguer for […]
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, Australia & New Zealand, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Nov 6th, 2007
Those little mice and hamsters that lived in windmills and houses. I remember the little green plastic beds that had so many details, down to the mini-mattresses. You could collect all sorts of stuff for them, I even picked up some tiny minature tins of food to stock them up. Somehow, the mini animals were […]
Posted in 1990s, Australia & New Zealand, Rest of World, School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Nov 1st, 2007
Supersoakers were a revolution in water gun technology. No more running back to the tap to fill up your pissy little revolver, oh no. Strap ten litres of water to your body and blast your siblings away all day long.
I have a particularly vivid memory of a balmy summer afternoon near Bolton Abbey, visiting family […]
Posted in 1990s, Children's T.V., School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland on Oct 23rd, 2007
In 1993, Blue Peter did a feature on the Thunderbird’s Tracey Island because many kids at the time had the Thunderbirds toys including Thunderbirds 1,2,3,4 and 5. So Blue Peter showed us how to make our own Thunderbirds HQ using the traditional toilet roll, washing up liquid bottle and papier mache. Due to the requirement […]
Posted in 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Children's T.V., Movies, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Sep 20th, 2007
I’m quite embarassed to admit that have actually seen Power Rangers: The Movie. I’ll put this down to the young age of my cousins at the time. Back in the day I too used to watch Power Rangers, but this was the original power rangers. I thought it was pretty cool when the green Power […]
Posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Toys & Games on Sep 17th, 2007
These little plastic contraptions could be found in every household during the 1980’s and 1990’s, though they had been around for much longer. We used to look through the viewing lense to see things like the Leaning Tower of Pisa in full 3D glory. Despite being a thoroughly useless distraction in the league of kaleidoscopes, […]
Posted in 1980s, 1990s, Australia & New Zealand, Computers, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Sep 11th, 2007
At the end of the 1980s, in 1989 to be precise, Nintendo released the Gamboy, which was to become one of the greatest selling hand-held games consoles of all time.
Looking back, the monochrome colour scheme and basic games - such as Tetris - seem quite quaint and antiquated, but at the time, we were just […]
Posted in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Australia & New Zealand, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Sep 11th, 2007
Yo-yos have always been around, though for some reason they become faddy every now and again. In my school, during the early 90s, the yo-yo fad came back hard.
All of a sudden, everywhere you looked was someone “walking the dog” or doing a “cats cradle” or some other yo-yo move.
There was always a kid who […]
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Products, School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland on Sep 11th, 2007
The game time forgot, Top Trumps was great playground entertainment - there were so many different types of Top Trumps to get.
The basic idea of Top Trumps is to collect all of the cards by “trumping” your opponents card. You take the next card out, and try to guess which of the statistics will be […]
Posted in 1990s, 2000s, Computers, School Life, Toys & Games on Aug 8th, 2007
Everyone remembers learning geometry, angles and degrees with one of these little fellas. The height of new technology, the teachers used to have to ask for help programming these futuristic floor robots. Along with MS-DOS and coding your own computer, Roamers remind me of basic computing days before the internet. It used to be a great […]
Posted in 1990s, Computers, Toys & Games on Jul 3rd, 2007
Sonic the hedgehog launched the Sega Megadrive (aka the Sega Genesis in the states) into everyone’s living room. At least mine anyway.
In the early 90s as a child you were either a NES or a Megadrive family. In my house, we got the Megadrive and must have spent hundreds of hours playing on Sonic the […]
Posted in 1990s, Australia & New Zealand, Products, School Life, Toys & Games, UK & Ireland, US & Canada on Jul 2nd, 2007
Fights in the playground, swizzed out of pocket money, Pogs were the currency of the 90’s playground. Players would gamble their cardboard discs to try and win a more valuable addition to their collection. As competitive and addictive as football card trading, Pogs were banned in many schools after fall-outs and tears relating to the […]
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