5 Greatest Toys of the 90′s

February 18, 2010 in games, pointless with 12 Comments

Seeing as how the 90′s encompassed nearly my entire childhood (5-15), and since Hasbro has asked me personally to develop their new line of life-size solar system action figures, I thought I should first reflect on the 5 greatest toys/games of my generation.

Pogs: This essence of this ingenious game was to find a friend, collect/stack your pogs (circular slices of cardboard), and then throw down your slammer onto your friends stack trying to unstack as many pogs as you can and paved the way for children to understand the real-world concept of “if I’m stronger than you and can afford better stuff, then I can take your stuff.”

Pencil Break: Similar to the show Prison Break, but without the declining storyline. We call this one the poor man’s game. All you need to play is a pencil and the technique. What you do to play: get a pencil, carefully extract the eraser without leaving any underground, bite down on the metal part til you have a crude prison shank, and then you take turns slashing downward at your opponent’s pencil. The trick is to buy the mechanical pencils that look like real ones. Cheating? Nay, stategery.

Streets of Rage: You may remember this little gem created by Sega: The Genesis. Throw in some exceptional 2d graphics, mixed with a tough level 5, oversized bosses, dangerous, chains, metal bats, and jean shorts….you’ve got yourself a party.

Talking Whiz Kid: Kinda like a speak and spell but, well, almost exactly like speak and spell, but without the verbal response. That little red & blue c3po befriended me when no other would, and gave me the skills to write it all down in my diary. That robotic “dadaduhda” is like chewing on a magic cloud. Thank you, less popular version of speak & spell, thank you.

Super Smash Brothers: None of that gamecube or wii junk. I’m talking the greatest game ever played on the greatest console ever played, Nintendo 64. Not only did this shape my junior high, high school, and college career, but it made me the man I am today. I don’t want to lessen its glory with cheap words and gimmicks. Just play it.

Domination. Exclamation. Exoneration.

tt….out

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Russ

Pogs rock!!!! I had huge tubes of them. And now…lost forever to the fourth grade bully.

http://www.tylertarver.com Tyler Tarver

I used to have a space shuttle tube. so flippin sweet. if I could find it, it’d be on my mantle, oh, or i’d tie it to my ceiling fan so it’d fly around the room all the time.

http://miannor.wordpress.com mike normansell

Do you mean the Hardees Apollo 13 Saturn V tube?

http://www.tylertarver.com Tyler Tarver

Good sir, I think that is exactly what it was.

Thank you.

Patrick

Although this list is composed of various iconic and wonderful 90′s toys however I do feel that you have overlooked a few classics. First off the the Talk Boy. Home Alone 2 would have never been the same without it. How else could he have booked a room at the Crown Plaza? Second, Power Rangers Original Megazord. I put it on lay-away because it was such a hot commodity. Last but certainly not least, Beanie Babies. Although I never owned one, there was a certain charisma these bean filled teddy bears had that caused parents to lose all rational thinking and pay entirely to much for. People were paying thousands of dollars for these stuffed animals that had an American flag on it’s chest. Not a personal favorite but can’t deny it’s presence felt in the pockets of the American suburban families.

http://www.tylertarver.com Tyler Tarver

Oh my gosh, you’re right. Talk boy would’ve made it hands down had I thought of it.

Power Rangers Megazord not as much, although I did have those metal top things you put into the flip thing that dropped them and the spun and smashed into each other.

Oh, and beanie babies. This is a rough patch in my history. I did collect them in the grade of 7, to put back for a few years so I could sell them and get a car. Market fell out, year later I sold them all to my mom for 50 bucks so I could go see A Night at the Roxbury.

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I’m late to this party, but I just had to add a couple of things:

1) Streets of Rage 2 was better.
2) Battleship
3) Nerf everything. Without Nerf I never would have learned how to set the perfect ambush.
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