There was only one way to spend your Saturday night (Picture: ITV/REX)

Remember back when the world was a better place? When children ran freely and threw themselves from trees without health and safety getting involved, ate food crammed with salt and E numbers and ate 10p Freddos?

It was a grand old time, and everyone was happy.

Here’s 32 things the poor lost souls of today’s youth will never experience. May they only aspire to become the fine young adults us Millennials did.

1. Spending pocket money on protective tags for their Beanie Baby collection. Them champions are going to make you rich one day.


2. Squirting purple ketchup on their chips.



3. Blowing into an N64 games cartridge to make it work.

4. Collecting Spice Girls photographs in a nice little photo album. Cute.

5. Getting ridiculously excited on a Saturday night because GLADIATORS AND BLIND DATE. Best day of the week.

6. Tucking into a wonderful, juicy Turkey Twizzler from the school canteen. Yum.

7. Playing Beehive Bedlam on Sky.

8. Being genuinely afraid of the Millennium bug. Are we all going to live? Are computers going to kill us? WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

9. Shoplifting sweets from Woolworths.

10.Questioning whether they should ask for a pager for their next birthday.

11. Going Supersize in McDonald’s, because that sh*t is cray.

12. Swapping Pokemon cards in the playground yet not having the absolute foggiest how to actually play the game.

13. Putting posters, torn from a magazine, of NSYNC, Samantha Mumba and S Club Juniors up in their bedroom.

What you would have given to be one of these guys (Picture: ITV/REX)

14. Recording songs from the radio, because how else would they be able to listen to music on their cassette player?

15. Watching their parents struggle helplessly trying to book a trip abroad on Teletext Holidays.

16. Spending an ENTIRE afternoon in Tammy Girl. So many thongs and glittery T-shirts and flares.

17. Trying to force two aliens in goo to make a baby by putting them back to back and sticking them in one shell. Goddamnit, why isn’t it working?!

18. Taking their camera into Boots and paying £7 to get their holiday snaps developed. Only to be told the flash wasn’t working and all the pictures are pretty much just black.

19. Trying frantically to raise enough money to build their Neopets a house out of jelly or white chocolate.

20. The panic of realising they’re a day late on returning a video to Blockbusters. FFS.

21. Borrowing a parent’s phone just so they could sit and play Snake all afternoon.

22. Wanting to be Kerry Katona. Because that girl got style, the best highlights ever and is FAMOUS.

These bad boys were everything (Picture: Bruce Adams/Daily Mail/REX)

23. Popping to the newsagents to pick up Elle Girl, Sugar or Mizz.

24. While at said newsagents, snapping up a can of Tizer, packet of Wotsits and a chocolate bar for less than a pound.

25. Having friends round for a good session of Dream Phone.



26. The discomfort of watching Live & Kicking on a Saturday morning from an inflatable chair.

27. Trying to make the really difficult decision of whether or not to drown your Sim in a swimming pool by removing the ladder.

28. Trying to share one copy of the newly released Harry Potter novel with a sibling. The agony. The arguments. The lies about who dies. Fuming.

29. The excitement of the Channel Tunnel opening. And then assuming it’s a glass tube and you can see fish as you go through it.

30. Being genuinely overwhelmed by Spider Solitaire after years of just having Solitaire.

31. Choosing all presents from the Argos or Index catalogue.

32.The sheer, uncontrollable emotions when the £2 coin was released. IT HAS TWO COLOURS.

You guys are going to have it tough. We had it best. The end.

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