The 90s...Hmm.

Most of you who follow my lists know that my next list is going to be the Top 20 Gimmicks of the 1990s. Man, what a great decade, the 1990s. To think it started 20 years ago now, and I'm about to turn 18 in 2 months.

I'm a huge 90s kid, I take pride in it, but not all my favorites will make it onto the list I'll ultimately make because I have to make it as accurate as I can.

It's weird. My first memory, ever. Like, let's put it this way: I felt as if my life began the second before I blew the candles on my 3rd birthday cake. I have absolutely no memory of anything before that time of that day, October 2nd, 1995. So, for me, my life didn't begin until the second I turned 3. Did I mention that my cake was a Power Rangers cake?

Honestly, I don't even think I liked the Power Rangers...

My early, early childhood memories are littered with playing the Super Nintendo, namely Mario games and Mortal Kombat (I probably hit my first fatality when I was 4). But actually, when I think about it, it was me watching my older brother play it with his friends. I think my brother might've had a mullet, I'm not sure, but if that's the case, badass.

My parents didn't care, it was all in good fun, right?

I remember in my first house a very selective couple of things that really stood out in the 1990s. I remember this one song in particular that my mom and sister would listen to all the damn time, and there was this certain part where they'd put down the volume for a split second then turn it up. It went something like this: "And are you looking at me when y...........er." I soon found out what was actually said when my mom was too busy, you know, driving, to turn it down.

To think she was singing about the guy from Full House...

 But really, forget the first half of the decade, shit got real in 1998. Finally, I was in Kindergarten, and what happens? Nintendo. Again. My mom gave me Banjo-Kazooie for my 6th birthday (and for some reason I remember my brother being pissed off about it). That's still one of my favorite games, and there were plenty of other games for me to play. The N64 dominated that year or so of my life, up until a certain group of monsters invaded my life...

My sister got this in her first booster pack, I was so damn pissed off. I got like a Dugtrio...

If you've read any of my last few lists, you know that I love me some Pokemon, it's probably the main reason I never spiritually turned 10, I've been stuck at 9 for over 8 years. All of my friends, including my newly found best friend from 1st grade, were into this. I got the games that year and somehow got my Blastoise to level 80 or something, I would have no patience to do that today. (I didn't learn about Missingno until I got Pokemon Yellow like 3 years later)

But let's think about 90s as a whole, it was pretty much the golden age of cartoon broadcasting. Ever listen to your parents talk about how they had to wait every Saturday to watch some cartoons. Well, fuck that. We had Cartoon Network. I need not explain the significance of Cartoon Network, not only (before it was stuck with faggots) did it show all the older 60s cartoons, it brought us some of the best cartoons, EVER. Even with IGN's horribly inaccurate list of the Top 100 Cartoons (they put The Tick at #6, what the shit), we all still know what Cartoon Network did for us.

Point being, most of what was good in the 1990s is now gone. Johnny Bravo, Courage, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Dragonball Z, they're all gone now, and Cartoon Network forgot they are called Cartoon Network. Kurt Cobain offed himself which killed both Nirvana and Grunge rock, Nintendo's moved into the 61st dimension, Disney can't come out with a good movie without the help of Pixar, Pokemon's on the 680th or so episode of the show and is pretty much coming out with things to only please the younger generations, and The Power Rangers still cause seizures all over the planet (possibly other planets, as well). So, in short. The 90s was different from decades before it, where almost nothing, except for the people born in it, still sustains itself today. All we have left are legacies. The 50s gave us rock, the 60s gave us LSD, the 70s gave us countless bands, the 80s gave us Madonna and other people that probably will outlive everyone else, what did the 90s give? I'm not saying it didn't give, it just took everything back. Oh sure, yeah, there's Britney Spears and other people who got started in the 90s, but we'll never appreciate them as much as what was given to us prior.