The 9 Best Toys From The ’90s

8. Easy Bake Oven

Cooking food with an incandescent light bulb? Yes! And it was awesome, thank you very much. The Easy Bake Oven is still around today but it definitely rose to fame in the ’90s. You could make your own brownie, although it took four hours, and was a little discriminatory with its pink design but nonetheless, if you didn’t have an Easy Bake Oven, you just weren’t with it.

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7. Bop It

Simon Says goes interactive landed us with Bop It. Although it was a hit in the ’90s we would still totally play with this game now, like many games it is equally addictive and frustrating trying to beat the Bop It. Of course, the three commands, “Bop It,” “Twist It,” and “Pull It,” got old quick so it didn’t long before The Bop It Extreme came on to the scene in 1998 with the additions of 4 game modes and two new commands “Flick It” and “Spin It.” This game’s popularity carried in to the 2000s when it was declared one of the top games on the market.

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6. Skip It

With today’s overly sensitive parents and children the Skip It would probably be deemed “too dangerous” but in all actuality it was the perfect toy as it got kids outside being active. The concept was simple, one end goes around your ankle and you jump over the rolling ball on the other end as it goes around in circles while it counted your number of skips. Obviously it kind of was dangerous, it only worked on hard surfaces and you were bound to trip at least a couple of times but that was also back in the day when kids could fall without neglectful parenting questions being raised.

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5. Moon Shoes

Moon shoes were again, somewhat dangerous but mostly awesome when it came to ’90s toys, especially given the fact that they were advertised as “mini-trampolines for your feet.” If there was any toy designed to teach you discipline and self control and disguise itself as merely a toy, this was it. Every child knew full well you could not just bounce around absent mindedly on these things, you had to concentrate, focus and try not to snap your ankle. But they were really fun once you got the hang of all that.

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4. Walkie Talkies/The Talkboy

First of all The Talkboy wasn’t even a functioning toy when it was featured in Home Alone but after massive demand the product was made and kids everywhere were happy. Of course once they realized they were only talking to themselves and not fooling dim-witted criminals the novelty wore off. Meanwhile, Walkie Talkies are still fun but since we all have cell-phones there is absolutely no use for them, oh the things kids of the future will never know they missed out on.

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3. Tamagotchi

Social media and technology has created the term FOMO (fear of missing out) which means anxiety one experiences from not being constantly up to date with what is happening on social media or being separated from their device. I argue this all began with the Tamagotchi. Not only was it addictive but if you left it alone to go to school or something, your Tamagotchi pet/baby would die! While the digital toy seems archaic by today’s standards, there was nothing better back in 1996.

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2. Game Boy Color

The Game Boy Color wasn’t released until the late ’90s in 1998 but it was without a doubt THE must have device. Of course handheld devices now blow the Game Boy out of the water, but to ’90s kids, this thing will always be the pinnacle of interactive fun and of course official cool status. A handheld game device seemed groundbreaking, shows what little we knew, this thing didn’t even have a back light, but you could buy cool clip on lights! Those were the days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_colors_and_styles Source: Wikipedia

1. Nintendo 64

Last but certainly not least is the gaming unit every kid wanted to find under their tree come Christmas morning. Again, kids today wouldn’t even know what they are looking at with the graphics they are now used to, but the N64 was only the launching point for the extravagant game consoles of today. We all remember the anticipation and anxiousness playing “Goldeneye 007” while “The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Time” is still considered one of the greatest games ever made.

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