Games and fads--

• Nintendo/Super Nintendo (esp Mario Kart)
• Kites
• Fluro & glittery skipping ropes
• Crocodile Mile (slip-n-slide)
• Rollerskating
• Cootie Catchers
• Snap bracelets
• Glitter sticks
• Cassette tapes (& mix tapes)
• Puff paints
• Koosh balls
• Yo-yos (esp Coke ones)
• 1 cent bangles
• Playschool tape recorders
• Elastrix
• Everything was neon or fluro
• Cupcake dolls
• Lego
• Polly Pocket
• Oopsy-Daisy dolls
• Trolls
• Glo-worms
• Break dancing
• Walkie talkies
• Bouncy castles
• Playing games like 4-square, Scarecrow, Indians & Teepees and Crocodile in the playground
• Window buddies
• Press-on nails
• Glow in the dark jelly bracelets
• Playdough
• Donkey Kong
• My Little Pony
• Barbie (90210 dolls, "Totally Hair" and lots of mermaids)
• Magic Diaper Babies
• Care Bears
• Baby Alive dolls
• Cabbage Patch dolls
• Baby Born dolls
• Ewoks
• Scooters or bikes with streamers
• Echo Mike
• Big pencil toppers (esp Simpsons ones)
• Grabbin' Grasshoppers
• Hungry, Hungry Hippos
• The Fishing Game
• Antz in the Pantz
• Trouble/Headache
• Rubix Cube
• Operation
• Girl Talk: Dateline (game)
• Transformers
• Hot Wheels cars/Matchbox cars
• Lollipop pens
• Gak Splat!
• Pac-man
• Scratch 'n' Sniff stickers
• Wind up crayons
• Scented textas
• Faber Castell art pencils
• Crayolla crayons

Fashion--

• Anything neon or fluro
• Puff painted shirts
• Scrunchies
• T-shirt rings
• Ankle warmers
• Leggings
• French rolled pants
• Overalls
• Fishnets
• Tartan
• Stretch pants/bike shorts
• Hoop earrings
• Jelly shoes
• Those stick-on kids earrings
• Leather & vinyl
• Crimped/permed hair
• Bum bags
• Big bangles & jelly bracelets
• Uneven pigtails a la Punky Brewster
• Rainbow suspenders
• Press on nails
• Holographic stuff
• Jean jackets
• Velcro Reeboks
• Fluro shoelaces
• Twirly shoelaces (the kind that sprung up so you didn't have to tie them)

Music and media--

• Madonna
• New Kids in the Block
• Mariah Carey
• Wendy Matthews
• Daryl Braithwaite
• "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
• The Coca-Cola tune
• TV Hits magazine
• Kelly Street magazine
• 90210 magazine