Nineties Kids! Ten Reasons Why Growing Up In The Nineties Was Great

I'm not saying that everything was great, but face it, the nineties was a fucking good decade to grow up in, and here are ten reasons why.

(yes, I'm a product of the nineties...)

10. Pogs - Remember pogs? I remember having some truly epic pog duels against my friends with my thick plastic slammer. I still have my collection of the little cardboard disks. My favorite one is my thick shiny slammer with a lime green skull printed on it.

9. Digital Pets - Who needs a real pet when you have a tamagotchi. Digital pets let you experience all the responsibilities (cleaning, feeding, and playing) without the cost or smell of a real pet! Fucking nice! Mine died years ago :( , but i still keep a place for him deep in my mind.

8. The Y2K Scare - There's no better way to toughen kids up than by scaring the shit out of them. Kids today are fucking pussies. They were either too young to care, or weren't even alive when Y2K was going down. The rest of us got the valuable experience of thinking the world was going to end. Fuck yeah!

7. I Spy Books - In case you don't know, I Spy books are the equivalent of crack to children. They're like Where's Waldo books, except they don't fucking suck. We used to literally fight over who got to check them out of the library each week.

6. The Internet - I know the internet was sort of around before the nineties, but the nineties were the true birth of the internet as we know it today. I got to experience the very early internet from a pretty young age. It changed me into what i am today, and whether that's a bad thing or a good thing i have no clue...

5. Less Overprotection - Everything designed for kids these days has to be %100 safe and boring just so that they wont hurt themselves, or break a fucking nail. It's not the kids faults though, it's their parents who threaten companies with lawsuits if their kid gets a bruise because he smacked himself in the face with his toy. Boo hoo, man up and get over it.

4. No "Emo" or "Scene" Kids - Scene kids = wannabe emos = wannabe goths = douchebags. The nineties were great because we didn't have to deal with annoying "emo" kids, or stupid myspace whores. There were goths, which are just as gay, but at least they're not as annoying.

3. Pokemon - Pokemon is the best hand held video game ever. Enough Said.

2. Cartoons and Kids Shows - The nineties was the best damn decade for kids shows and cartoons. These days all cartoons must have a good message to them, but in the nineties they just had to be entertaining. Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, Pete & Pete, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Ren & Stimpy, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Solute Your Shorts, Rugrats, and Wishbone are just some examples of the great shows that graced the television of my earlier childhood.

1. Video games - Video games became great in the nineties. Super Nintendo and Genesis were fantastic. I used to play Super Mario World every day. And then Nintendo 64 came out which totally changed gaming forever. Super Mario 64 remains one of my all time favorite video games to this day. Playstation one was another great system. I remember playing the original Tomb Raider, and Final Fantasy Seven. Good fucking times. And if we wanted to play against somebody, we had to actually have friends over. Kids these days just bitch and moan over Xbox live.

So there's my list of why growing up in the nineties was awesome... if there's anything you disagree about, or think i should have added feel free to comment.