Okiedokes said:
I love reminiscing about how nice the 90's were.
I feel the same way. I was born in the mid '80s so I was a kid through the whole '90s. I watched cartoons like X-Men, Spider-Man, Transformers (g1 and Beast Wars/Machines), and the classic Saturday morning cartoons. I spent my days playing with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, various aircraft, Transformers and Star Wars figures. I remember seeing Star Wars in 1995 or so and getting really into it. That was just before they re-released the movies in theaters with the special editions. I didn't game a lot, but when we got a modern computer I played games like X Wing, TIE Fighter, and Claw. And I swam at the pool in summer, sledded in winter, caught fireflies, went to my Grandmother's to sleep over, rode bikes, and played in the parks. I didn't have my dog yet, but he was the only nice part of my life I didn't have (and pretty much the only bright spot in my life after childhood ended). If I could take him back in time to then, life would have been perfect.
Aside from that, it was just nice. There wasn't the feeling we have of today, where it seems like it's all going downhill. It seemed like a good time to be alive, like things were nice now, we weren't living in the past anymore and it would only get more futuristic from here. It just felt like everything was going to be all right. I miss that feeling. Today it just feels like the world is broken, for good, and it's just going to keep on getting worse. Supposedly the economy has recovered on paper but in day-to-day life, people have not.
I was too young to appreciate it at the time, but when I got older and looked back, the '90s music was great. I mean the alternative stuff...grunge, the second wave of punk/ska, all that stuff. I have a lot of '90s faves like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Green Day, Offspring, and more I can't list off the top of my head right now. It was just a great time, culturally.
I'd love to go back to the '90s. I don't know if it would have been more fun to have experienced as a child like I did, or as a teen-20 something instead.