Toys & Games
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!
Hand held 3D Viewers
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, [...]
Nintendo Gameboy
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 [...]
Yo-Yos
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 [...]
Top Trumps
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 [...]
Roamers -the classroom robots
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
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 [...]
Pogs (Milk Caps)
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 [...]
