There are
things kids these days may never get to experience firsthand and I feel bad for
them. They are never going to have a truly happy and fulfilling childhood. Some
will enjoy some of them, but it’s second hand and just not the same; they didn’t
live it. If you’re as old as I am, you will understand.
Truffle
Shuffle
Iocaine
powder
“The perfect
cheer”
Jimmy “Superfly”
Snuka
Zim Zam
Zim Zam
Double Dare
Remote
Control
Designer Imposters
Designer Imposters
Kelli
Kapowski
In Living
Color
Sticker
books
Perfection
Perfection
Garbage Pail
Kids
Jake Ryan
Playing MASH
Sprockets
Blowing out
your Nintendo cartridge
Demented and sad, but social
Demented and sad, but social
Kids
Incorporated
Daytime game
shows
Nina
Blackwood, Mark Goodman, JJ Jackson, Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter
If you don't know any of these, you can Google it. There wasn't an internet way back when these were popular.
Just this weekend my daughter "blew out" the DVD player when it wouldn't play her movie. I was so proud.
ReplyDeleteBut then my son totally dissed my 80's music. I almost cried.
I do feel sad for them. They won't have anywhere near the kinds of societal experiences we had. A shame, really.
Blowing into my Nintendo games was a daily activity! It used to drive my brother and I crazy. If you added a Game Genie - you had to worry about blowing into both! Some friends had the magic touch :) These were fun to think about!
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing because I lived through these with my now adult kids... but oh, my I just may have to put together my own list from my 1950's '60's childhood! You've got this old brain turning like the key to my metal roller skates!
ReplyDeleteThis list brings me back! I would have to add actual music on MTV!
ReplyDeletePop up video!
ReplyDeleteI remember some of these. We take our kids back to our childhood occasionally with the "Brady Bunch" and the "Beverly Hillbillies"! Once the kids understood the concept of black and white TV, we were good! :)
ReplyDeleteKids incorporated - K! I! D! S! Yeah! Loved that show. Also, I'm convinced that Garbage Pail Kids smelled like puke! I had so many of those things. haha!
ReplyDeleteKids Incorporated! K I D S! :I can't stop signing it now. I LOVE that show! And I watched IN Living Color religiously. And all of these other things flood in the childhood memories. Oh, the good ole days!! Does anyone remember jukebox TV?
ReplyDeleteLOVE this! I used to love "You Can't Do That on Television" on Nickelodeon ... the show that started the green slime :) And I STILL remember the stupid code for the Contra Nintendo game to get, like, a million extra lives. Sad :)
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