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10-07-2025
- Entertainment
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90s Toys And Games No One Remembers
Recently, I rounded up some obscure things from the '90s that most people don't remember, like OK Soda. In the comments, members of the BuzzFeed Community reminisced about the '90s toys and games that also seem to have been lost to time. Here are 25 of their top responses: "Pogs were huge in Hawaii in the early '90s, I don't know about the mainland. (The name comes from Passion Orange Guava juice.)" —battery126 "The Real Talkin' Bubba talking plush? LOL, no one I know remembers." —oliviasmith1028 "OMG, I totally forgot about water babies. I had one for the longest time, but it was always naked because I didn't have any doll clothes that fit it." —reader65 "I once got sent to HR for hitting our CEO in the back with a Gak hand. It messed up his suit jacket. Worth it." —aahamom "I worked for Mattel in the '90s when we were pitching Gak to customers. We had 50-gallon drums of each color, and we had some awesome Gak fights!!!" —angryflower767 "I had a Thingmaker for Creepy Crawlies and also for other shapes, but I don't remember what it was called. One of the most dangerous kids' toys ever! I can't count how many times I got burned using it, but I didn't care because it was so cool! We had the creepy crawlies that had a very creepy texture. And we had another one that made cars or something; you used two plastic sheets and then somehow stuck them together. There were wheels, axles, and weights, and the cars worked. I loved blending the Plasti-Goop colors." —nyc4ever "Shortly after Creepy Crawlers got big, they came out with Incredible Edibles, Creepy Crawlers that you could bake and eat. God knows what chemicals we ingested after eating those." —Anonymous, 68, Orange County, CA "Another Nickelodeon toy: Floam. What even was the purpose of it?" —Anonymous, 41, United States "I got my friend Mall Madness for her birthday last year (an original one from eBay, not the remake), and that might have been the best birthday party I've ever attended, LOL." —caelesto "We would get all the Disney collectibles from the Happy Meals after every movie release. Toy Story 2 was so huge that we went to the drive-thru and flat out asked to buy all 20 collectibles and skip the weeks-long wait — and we were allowed to! And we still have them!" —saltyspice75 "Please, please tell me anyone remembers Henry, the matching game by Tiger Toys. Anyway, the commercial was hilarious, and I still have my Henry, which still works almost 30 years later. I love playing Henry now." —oliviasmith1028 And here's the commercial: "I'll take your water babies and raise you a Baby Alive." —adrianw440bbeae3 "Puppy Surprise! There was a mother dog, and she had a Velcro pouch tummy. When you opened it up, she 'gave birth' to her puppies. It was kind of like a grab bag because, obviously, you didn't know when you purchased it how many puppies it was gonna have inside. I only got three, and I was pissed. I wanted five!" —Anonymous, 37, CT "Dreamphone." —Anonymous, 39, Columbus, Ohio "Quints! They were little dolls that came in a set of five, and their little diapers had a number on the bum. All of their accessories came numbered from one to five. You could even get a high chair and a stroller!" —Anonymous, 41, California "Lisa Frank Password Diary — a pink and purple password-protected diary with sparkly stickers and pre-loaded 'Lisa Frank' messages. Glitched a LOT!" —Anonymous, 57, Arizona "Nightmare!!! I played it so much that I have the whole intro memorized. I showed it to my partner the other day. He didn't get how amazing it was. I still own it, but no one ever wants to play. Alas!" —potatopeel "I had the Wayne's World game that came with a video. I still enjoy playing board games. It's cheesy, old-school family fun." —b1gm4m4 "The game Ask Zandar. I remember in the commercial, the wizard goes, 'You will get a phone call about this,' and the phone rang. That legit happened to my friend and me once, and we still laugh about it." —ogsassytaco "Pretty Pretty Princess." —Anonymous, 39, Columbus, Ohio "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? was a TV game show so popular, it spawned several video games that were (and I know how cheesy this sounds) fun AND educational! I still remember beating 'Where in Time is Carmen San Diego?' It was one of my great childhood achievements — she was hella smart!" —Anonymous, 35, New Jersey "Our teacher let us play The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary if we were one of the first ones done with our work, so I rushed through all my assignments and nearly failed math that year." —ksquirkyteacher "I had a few Bouncin' Babies, but I've rarely seen them mentioned anywhere." —shytruck932 "Nickelodeon Flash Screen." —Anonymous "Talkboy/Talkgirl." —Anonymous, 38, Los Angeles And finally: "Oh God, I had the Mystery Mansion game, but we only ever played it a few times because it was so involved. I think it got junked a few years ago with all our other board games from when we were kids, because my parents didn't know what to do with it all." —riverbutwhichone Are there any other nostalgic toys and games you miss from your childhood? What made them so great? Let us know in the comments!
Buzz Feed
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
'90s Things No One Remembers
Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community about the things from the '90s they're convinced no one else remembers (or that Gen Z wouldn't understand). Here are 35 of their top response: "A step further from the purple and green ketchup, there was that butter that came in blue or pink. As a kid, this was the highlight of my breakfast." —Anonymous, Portland, OR 28 "The Nickelodeon show Weinerville. There have to be other people out there who have the image of grown men's heads on little bodies burned into their memory like me!" —Anonymous, New York Here's a promo from the show: "OK Soda. Weird advertising that didn't resonate with most people, and it tasted like a mix of cola and orange soda." —Anonymous Watch an old ad for the soda below: "Swatch Twin Phone." —Anonymous, 51 Colorado Here's a commercial showing how it worked as two phones in one: "Nickelodeon Gak! It was a weird and almost assuredly toxic gelatinous goop that was basically ruined the moment it touched any part of the house or outside. Lucky moms in the '90s got to deal with this literal hazardous waste disguised as a toy." —silkyvampire294 Here's a compilation of early '90s commericals for Gak: "The board game Nightmare. Players would watch a VHS tape that guided them through the board game. After playing two or three times, it was pretty much never played again because the VIDEO WAS THE SAME EVERY TIME." —Anonymous, 43 CA You can see clips from the VHS in the commercial below: "The commercial for Creepy Crawlers that played during Saturday morning cartoons." —Anonymous, 43 Billings, MT Here's a Creepy Crawlers commercial from 1992: "Sun In. So many orange-haired people walking around after they sprayed it in their hair and went to the beach. Never really turned blonde, just ugly orange." —comfychair793"It only worked for people who were already blonde. Source: had blonde hair and used it for highlights."—minervamcgonogall"OMG, I forgot about this! I went through so many bottles of Sun In in my teens! 😂😂"—jamiesmith9 Here's a (really weird, IMO) commerical from 1990: "Water babies — the baby doll that you'd fill with water. I loved mine, and it was arguably my favorite baby doll." —mo2758 "If you're American, A*Teens and S Club 7. I'd expect Europeans to remember them. My sister and I were two of the few that we knew who were obsessed!" —Anonymous, 40, Ohio "7-Layer Burritos from Taco Bell — and also their Bacon Cheeseburger Burrito. The BCB is pretty self-explanatory. 7 LB was rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, pepper cheese, lettuce, and, I think, tomatoes. They had basketball announcer Dick Vitale do a TV commercial with 'seven seven-footers' for the seven layer burritos ads. I think there was a Godzilla tie-in with the BCB. Both of those items are gone from Taco Bell's menu now." —evilorca597 Here's the 1994 7-Layer Burrito commercial with Dick Vitale: "Pop Qwiz microwave popcorn!" —clever_girl Here's the old commercial for Pop Qwiz: "Those little cans of air freshener that looked like Fancy Feast cat food and had a scratch-and-sniff label on top of them. They were always sitting by the checkout line in big box stores." —Anonymous, 36, Illinois "Clear phones. You could turn the ringer off, and it would just light up when it would ring! Best phone ever for sneaking on the phone way past when you were supposed to be asleep! 😂😂 —jamiesmith9 "Mall Madness board game." —wittysinger478 "Dolly the sheep being cloned. To quote Ted Lasso, 'Where are we at with cloning these days, by the way? Them Scottish folks have been mighty quiet on that front for a while, which means we gotta be close, right?'" —ssstege11573 "VHS vs. Betamax." —marvelousqueen11 "The Sweet Valley High TV series. I still remember the theme song, too." —Anonymous, 34, Los Angeles "Blowing into the Nintendo cartridge. I saved many a game that way. It was so standard that my friend's parents would ask if we blew into the cartridge when we said a game didn't work." —luckyclown551 "I had several baby dolls as a child, but one of my favorites was one that I got for Christmas one year (and it was a big deal — it was $50!) that was similar to Baby Born, but very distinctly not. It came with a rattle, and its gimmick, besides being hyper-realistic, was that if you shook the rattle in one of the hands, the doll's head would turn towards the rattle. I loved this doll to pieces when I got it, and I have never been able to find any evidence that it even existed online, even though I distinctly remember seeing ads for it." —lobster_lemon_lime "I remember the sports drink All Sport. It was just as popular as Gatorade back in the '90s." —Anonymous, 41, Walla Walla Here's an old commerical for All Sport: "Singled Out with Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy! She drove me nuts, but the show was funny. And definitely not something I should have been watching at that age." —Anonymous, 41, Chicago "The game Ask Zandar. I remember in the commercial, the wizard goes, 'You will get a phone call about this,' and the phone rang. That legit happened to my friend and me once, and we still laugh about it." —ogsassytaco Watch the commercial below: "Mystery Mansion. I own this game. My family and friends loved it when I was a kid. No one I know now that I've met later in life remembers this game existing. It is so fun!" —Anonymous, 38; North Dakota Here's a commerical for the 1995 version of the game: "Skip-It!" —Anonymous, 34, Los Angeles You can see the Skip-It in action in the commercial below: "Enchanted Palace!" —Anonymous, 36, MA Here's an old commercial for the game: "Nickelodeon Flash Screen." —Anonymous Here's an old commercial showing how it worked: "Lifesaver Holes!" —Anonymous, Becca, MN Here's an old commerical: "The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth." —Anonymous, 35, Illinois "In grade school, all the girls were reading The Babysitters Club book series. A new book was released about every other month, and on the day it came out, we'd all rush to our local bookstore in little groups to get our copies before they sold out. You were always guaranteed to run into several other schoolmates while you were there. It was an event!" —Anonymous, 46, Fort Lauderdale, FL "Tacky Stretchoid Warriors." —Anonymous, St. Louis, MO "Pass the Pigs." —Anonymous, 43 San Diego Here's a '90s ad for the game: "The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary." —Jennifer, Arizona "Parker Lewis Can't Lose. A show I swear to God nobody I know remembers." —Anonymous And finally: "How good toys from drive-thrus were! Teenie beanies from McDonald's meant we had six little white cats and one little black cat — those seven cats had so many adventures up and down our house stairs. Taco Bell had the 'Queiro Taco Bell' talking plush. Even gas stations — those Chevron collectible cars with faces that had names/profiles and blinked as you pushed them. We have boxes of those cars up in the attic for my sister to take when she has kids of her own. Feels like a fever dream." —Anonymous, 34, USA There were quite a few foods here I wish I could time travel to try, so what's a '90s snack or fast food item you seriously miss? What made it so good? Tell me in the comments!
