Popular Nostalgia

Toys & Games which bring back happy (or sad) memories. Remember when all you had was wooden blocks? You still preferred the box it came in? Tell us about it!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]