Toys of the Nineties

Anyone who grew up in the 90s knew that one of the biggest crazes was Pokemon. First it was the TV show phenomenon which later exploded when it released it’s ‘Pokemon cards’, a trading card game that almost every kid in primary school had. The most wanted cards of the pack were always the shiny ones. And if you didn’t have the cards you just weren’t cool. Many schools ended up having to ban Pokemon cards because it encouraged bullying.

Another toy that was a hit in the 90s was  the famous ‘Furby’.  Unlike the Pokemon cards, not every kids had them but whoever did was the coolest kid on the block. Like Pokemon cards, Furby’s were released in 1998. They were a robotic creature that would speak furbish and over time you were able to teach it English. If you had two Furbys together then they were able to speak to one another.

The orginial Furby of the 90s. The new versions look very different.

So there was a trend, where kids enjoyed having toys that they could nurture. A fad that followed this was Tamagotchi’s. Tamagotchi’s were created in 1996 with many different versions. These were toys were little hand held devices that contained a digital ‘pet’ that you had to feed, clean, play with and allow them time to sleep. If you didn’t take care of it the pet would die. From personal experience, the pet usually died because it was living with its own poop for too long.