Fads of the Mid 90's!

[Rinoa]

I was a part of all of these fads, but what ones were you part of?

[imogene the fish]

Pogs.

[cwbyrvr]

Shit. All of them. Nanopets too!

[Mordak]

I had a possessed furby and a couple of tamagotchi's. They were fun..

[Neko]

Dad kept buying me Beanie Babies as if they would go up in value. The only one I wanted was the dragon... the rest were overkill.

But I was into pokemon and tamagotchi/all the other digital key chain pet thingies. I remember having a set of Pogs too.

[Sonic#]

Mainly Pokemon. Tamegotchi seemed too bizarre... just a little annoying responsibility that my sister had and I didn't. The Pokemon though.... they were in a game, and a TV show, and cards, and... it was serious business catching them all. Serious.

... actually, I just liked playing the games. They were fun.

[The Other Lizard]

Tamagotchi. I may have had a furby too, I have vague memories of them.

[katrinioso]

All of the above (and my sparkly blue platform Sketchers, hell yeah) but oh my god with the Tamagotchis/Nanobabies/Giga Pets. I had like six of them all keychained to each other and I brought them to school once and they kept going off so my teacher took them away. Haha, and once I made my mom take them to work with her so they wouldn't die. Because it was the end of the world when the Tamagotchis died. Ew, and when a Furby's batteries died they made the most horrible noise...

Did anyone ever play the Catz/Dogz/Petz computer games?!?

[Neko]

OH, I just remembered... My great aunt collects Furbys. She seriously has a wall of them in her sewing room.

There's only one that she puts batteries in. And I think it's the one that looks like Gizmo from Gremlins.

[edit the sad parts]

OH, I just remembered... My great aunt collects Furbys. She seriously has a wall of them in her sewing room.

There's only one that she puts batteries in. And I think it's the one that looks like Gizmo from Gremlins.

That is creepy.

I had a couple tamagotchi-type things. Pogs. Slinkies and Yo-yos... when they suddenly came back into huge popularity. Chia.

[Zeph]

All of these (beanie babies to the max), except Pokemon. I planned a business where some stupid kids agreed to sell me their rare cards for almost nothing and even stupider kids would buy them for too much. I had all my deals set up to go the next day. Then, I found a rare card that usually went for $15 on the football field and sold it to my friend for $10. My dad was a teacher at the school and people tattled on me for everything, so he took my $10 and told me he was going to check my pockets for money every day I got home from school and keep my Pokemon money. He didn't have a moral objection to it (my brother had a business for years where my dad bought him cheap candy he sold at school for a huge profit), he just always took any money I had.

Did anyone ever play the Catz/Dogz/Petz computer games?!?

Yes. Petz 4 was my LIFE. I did hexing and websites and the whole shebang. Wasn't quite a '90s thing for me, it was around the turn of the century (love saying that).

[Kiss The Monkey]

Furby AND Tamagotchi! I even had the new Tamagotchi that can link together, but it died and the batteries died, too.

I fucking hated my Furby. Annoying as shit.

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[The MoUsY spell-checker]

All except for Beanie Babies. The fad was either before my time or just never took off in Hong Kong.

I do have a few anyway, but those are mice, and I collect toy mice. A friend once gave me one as a present, and when I was about to cut off the tag, the friend pointed out that it is what makes it worth the most. A soft toy where one doesn't cut off the tag? I think that is ridiculous.

Other than that, the one with which I was least involved was Furby. I only had one.

I got tamagotchis quite early on, and I had a huge collection of them. Chicken, alien, dinosaur, frog, panda, Hello Kitty (I wonder why... I don't even like Hello Kitty), Digimon, etc. (Do Digimon count as a separate fad?)

I actually started out disliking Pokemon when it first came out. (It was first on TV (in Chinese) in summer 1997, and when I started liking it it was almost over. The English round came in late 1999/early 2000.)

[cwbyrvr]

... actually, I just liked playing the games. They were fun.

They still are! Seriously, I'm twenty-two and I still play them. I started when I was eleven!

[Pyro Chick]

Alladems allatonce
Plus pogs!
My mother in law still won't let her grandkids pull the tags off the beanie babies she buys them. She'll freak out and say "It makes them decrease in value!!!"
I had a little book that would tell me how much they'd be worth in the future. Most of them said they'd be over a hundred bucks by the year two thousand. Har har har har

[Tweek]

I was never into any of those fads

[Storage and Disposal]

Pogs were the shit.

[cwbyrvr]

I was never into any of those fads

OLD MAN!!!

*points at Tweek and makes fun*

No, I'm joking. But yeah, it's probably because you weren't a kid in the '90s.

[metawidget]

I was into flannel shirts and Magic: the Gathering, but none of the above.

[Tweek]

Boozer made me sad.... I'll go off and play on my Atari or fail to solve my Rubix Cube while watching Miami Vice which I recorded on my Betamax VCR.

[Bork]

I was SUCH a fan of Tamagatchis! There was a fairly significant part of me that wanted a Furby, but luckily my parents never caved.

[Eravial]

All but Pokemon. Beanie Babies were a HUGE part of my childhood, I still have dozens and dozens lying around in boxes. Tamagatchi was pretty big for me for like, a month. One Christmas, all I asked for was a Furby, so both my parents (this was during the time where they still couldn't communicate with one another without exploding and/or killing each other) got me one (same one, as it were). And I played with one for maybe two days before realizing that it was not actually an application of new developments in artificial intelligence and did not, in fact, learn language in a way similar to human development.