Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia from the 1990s. Memories of events and items from popular culture recorded in words and pictures on the internet. Share, remember and get wonderfully sentimental…

Tamagotchis came around in the mid-90′s as the alternative to actually owning a pet, for children it was very exciting period and these were all the rage in a time when digital was relatively unknown. They weren’t popular for long, like most things in the 90′s they were swept along on a wave of new [...]

Does anyone remember a time when, as well as Googling something, we might, just, once in a while, Ask Jeeves. I do. Jeeves was an imaginary butler who would go away through the internet and find your query in double-quick time. Except, more often than not, because they used a version of Google from about [...]

Aaah its 6.30 its the late 90′s its channel 2….its time for Heartbreak High. dont remember much other than Drazick was a Badass and they played a lot of pool. This post was submitted by Adam Walker.

He-Man was another of my favourite cartoon TV shows when I was growing up. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, as a TV show really had it all. A main character with muscles and a big sword. Check. An enemy with a skull for a head (Skeletor). Check. At the end of the show, [...]

The Sega Megadrive was the first games console that I first properly got given – I had used the Atari, but that had been my older brother’s console. It was known as the SEGA Genesis in America, I believe, and my parents somehow managed to get a Japanese version that played both Japanese and European [...]

Don’t know why – its like all the things I can’t explain – but this track by Crowded House “Four Seasons in One Day” evokes in me feelings of the utmost nostalgia. Hence, I thought it appropriate to add it to this Popular Nostalgia website! Feel free to leave your nostalgic comments about the time [...]

I love point horror/ point horror unleashed and point horror nightmare hall. I’ve always loved them but it’s so difficult getting hold of them now. I have a small collection but would love to own every point horror book ever made. I may be 32 years old now but these books bring back memories from [...]

Don’t you open that Trap Door. There’s something down there. This was on children’s TV when I was growing up, and I can remember only the intro, which is in the video above, and the fact that there was a talking skull. The start bit went like this: Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, [...]

“A right proper love song” according to the writer, Gary Barlow. The Northern souls of Take That banded together to create the greatest pop love song of the 1990′s. With more musical courage than anything Simon Cowell could possibly muster, Barlow croons a descant in the final chorus and the boys of Take That back [...]

Fun House with Pat Sharp ran for an amazing decade, despite not really having much more to it than a few messy games, a really slow grand prix in go karts that seemed to have been turned right down to minimum, and an end bit with lots of great prizes like a trip to bognor [...]

For no reason at all, I today remembered this three-piece girl group, Cleopatra, who came at us in the 1990s with not only a theme tune (Cleopatra’s Theme, AKA “Cleopatra Coming At Ya”), but a really lame TV programme which was, from hazy recollection, on childrens ITV. I don’t remember much else about them, but [...]

Before Transformers became a silly overblown movie with Corvettes in it, it was an altogether more pleasant cartoon and toy combo which involved robots who would transform from useful objects, like lorries, into more cool objects, like Optimus Prime ( a big destructive robot overlord guy). I loved Transformers, for they truly were Robots in [...]

Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed [...]

Its time for a very British TV focussed post here in Popular Nostalgia – its Teletext! We all remember reading Teletext for news, sport reports and even, once Fastext (oh what an advancement in technology that was – like the internet, only with four “choices”!) was invented, quizzes, like Bamboozle. If the internet is the [...]

The Toxic Crusaders was a short cartoon that I remember airing on UK TV during my childhood – I can just remember thinking “oh great, another cartoon” while the show started, then the theme tune featured the line “we’re hideously deformed” (or similar) and I was hooked. The toxic crusaders tried to ride the tidal [...]