Are you a 90s kid?

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I'm a '70s kid, but all of my favorite tennis players grew up in the '90s. It would have been cute seeing little Rafael and little Denis playing their first tennis matches. To think, Roger Federer was once an explosive hothead on court. Things have changed.

Kraftiekortie,

I was born in 1964 and remember watching a lot of the same shows you mentioned.

I was born in 1974 but I was a real 80's kid. I played with My Little Pony and Strawberry Shortcake dolls, and would actually get up early on Saturday morning to watch The Smurfs on TV. I was fascinated by arcade games such as Pac-Man. In fact I had a real case of Pac-Man fever. My brother and I owned an Atari 2600, and my mom got me Ms. Pac-Man for passing Grade 3 that summer. It was much better and closer to the arcade game than the original Atari Pac-Man and I loved it.

It bugs me that so many 90's kids seem to scoff at 80's stuff. Especially when they're playing around with Transformers and My Little Pony.

I feel more like a 60s kid than a 70s kid----much of the 60s extended until about 1974 or so. Then the Watergate thing changed everything. This is from an American context.

Istomin: what was your favorite show? Mine was "Wacky Races." And Notre Dame football. I used to get up early to watch both "Wacky Races" and Notre Dame football. My dad used to tell me to lower the TV all the time.

I liked disco okay----but I didn't like the materialistic aspect of it. This extended into the 80s. Maybe this was less so in the 90s---I don't know.

I was an adult by the time VCR's became widespread. As a teenager, a VCR was what some kid had on the block---and all the kids would gather at this kid's house in wonderment at the technology. The first movie I saw on a VCR (which was played on a Betamax machine) was "Oh God!"

I think of the 90s as being a little more "quirky" than the 80s. I was in my 30s by that time. I like some of the music of that time, and some of the funny shows like "Beavis and Butthead."

I'm so old that I knew "Toys R Us" as a slogan, rather than a store.....

It was the slogan for Children's Bargaintown. the giraffe (Geoffrey) was Children's Bargaintown's mascot.

I think of the 90s as the "dial-up Internet era." I couldn't believe I could get an instant penpal in an exotic country "just like that." You couldn't make phone calls while you were on the Internet, though.

I would say my favorite shows were probably "The Electric Company" and "Wonderama." I also watched all of the 70s sitcoms.

Yep. Wonderama. I wanted to be on Wonderama so badly! I wish I had watched the Sonny Fox version; it seemed much better than the Bob McAllister version--though I also liked Bob McAllister. I liked it when they played the music and the kids danced. I also liked the Snake Cans. I wanted to win that Ross Bicycle! Then they had the first video game, "Pong," as the Grand Prize in the Snake Cans. I still wanted that Ross Bicycle! I learned at least two words from Wonderama: "Aardvark" and "Bamboozle." I didn't care too much when Muhammad Ali was on Wonderama--though I liked Muhammad Ali.

I liked "The Electric Company" when I got older; I liked it okay when I was like 11 or 12---but not all that much. I liked "Zoom" better.

I liked Sesame Street---but I was almost 9 when it started; I couldn't tell the other kids that I watched it!

Born in '87. So, yes. I love 80s and 90s nostalgia, as a matter of fact.

I was born in 1985 and I consider myself a 90's kid. I watched lot of Nickelodeon, I watched The Disney Channel, I had a few pogs that were a fad in 1994-95. I played with Sega Genesis and I played Sonic games and Street Fighter, I loved Home Alone and always enjoyed the movies and I enjoyed Jurassic Park. Malls were a thing in the 1990's and very popular and KB Toys and Waldenbooks or B Dalton and kids always hung out there after school and on weekends. Toys R us was a great place for a kid and every McDonalds had a playland. Burger King had one too and then they took them all out in 1996.

I also remember the Be Kind Rewind thing for video rentals and "smoking or non smoking" when public smoking was a thing and I remember DARE.

My favorite TV shows were Rugrats, Doug, Hey Arnold, All That, Figure It Out, Are You Afraid of the Dark and Pop Up Videos on VH1.

I totally remember how Macaulay Culkin was a child actor and I saw him in movies in the early 90's and then he disappeared from the entertainment industry. No more new movies with him in it. He was pretty popular. Good news now, he has returned to acting.

I played lot of Super Mario 64 in the late 90's and Mario Kart and Goldeneye I started playing at the end of the 90's.

I read Baby Sitters Club and Little Sister books and The Boxcar children and some Bailey School Kids.

I played with lot of Barbies and Polly Pockets and I had some Pollyville sets and Littest Pet Shop and my brother had Mighty Max.

I remember watching Power Rangers and my brother had some of the toys and I remember when Trix were shaped like fruit and we had Berry Berry Kix and Alphabet cereal and we had Apple Jacks and I remember we had those Mickey Mouse popsicles.

Those who are growing up now with youtube and social media, you will hate playing video games in the 1990's. If you didn't know how to play a game or do a level or defeat a boss, you either had to go to the store and buy a player's guide or call the hot number that is listed on the game case the game came in and get charged per minute or try and figure it out yourself. So many trial and errors. If you got stuck in the game and had no other options, tough s**t, the game was over. I would play games and not ever play them again and game rental was a thing back then. Also games were very glitchy and had lot of bugs in them because they could not fix them unless they replaced the copy and released the new copies. We had no things like youtube or Twitch where we could watch other people play and watch visual walkthroughs.

I remember when phone cords ran on phone cords and we used dial up for internet and internet was just a luxury in the 1990's and no one carried cell phones except business people and they were bulky and big. Every place had a phone booth and even streets had them too and parking lots. And people also used pagers.

I remember Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 and 98 and how popular Kid Pix was in our school.

I don't consider myself a 80's kid because I only remember bits and pieces of the 1980's but I don't remember any fads or current events or common things because I was too young to even notice and remember. But I was 4 years old and all the way through 14 years old in the 1990's so I was old enough to remember plenty and a kid long enough.

I remember Backstreet Boys, Hanson, Spice Girls, Blackstreet and anyone that grew up in the Portland area in the 90's will remember how awesome Z100 was and their morning zoo.

Sesame Street debuted on my fifth birthday. I was a big fan then. I think I might have learned how to count in Spanish from that show.

I also liked Zoom, particularly the first cast members.

New York City also had Z-100 and the Morning Zoo in the 80s and 90s.

I wish I lived as an adult in early 20s in the 70s, 80s, or 90s than 2010s. I don't like that my young adult years have to be faced with society's crap today and it's only getting worse.

Yup and I'm proud of it.

Actually I did a lot of the things as a young adult that a lot of kids were doing in the 90's - playing Sonic the Hedgehog games, watching Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, and playing around with Furbies. I saw no reason why an adult couldn't be interested in such things.