I’m starting this thread for all the random childhood memories that pop into your head out of nowhere and make you smile. No rules — just post whatever hits you.

Wall ball and kick ball

Hackey sacks

Epic tetherball battles on the playground

Nylon necklaces for the deep end and shallow end at the YMCA

Teddy Grahams, Gushers, fruit rollups

Pizza Hut personal pan pizzas

Pizza Inn buffet

Blockbuster movie nights

Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball, Madden, and NBA Jam on Super Nintendo

Jurassic Park jawbreakers

Field days

Exhilarama in Cary and Putt Putt on Capital Blvd.

Grand Slam USA

NC State Fair

Rice Krispy treats

Pete & Pete, Doug, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Mr. Wizard, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? on Nickelodeon

Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?

Saved By the Bell and California Dreams

TGIF on ABC

Home Alone

Free Willy

The Lion King

Aladdin

Ghostbusters and TMNT

Prizes in breakfast cereal

Goosebumps books

School book fairs

Happy Meals toy

Disney Adventures kids magazine

The Simpsons

Late childhood: Sex in the 90s, Road Rules, My So Called Life, Daria, The Grind, Beavis & Butthead, and The Real World on MTV

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damn

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Monday night wars- raw vs nitro, nwo etc

Baseball cards

Fishing

Nascar

Pulp fiction

Goldeneye for n64

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Walkman / Discman

Ren & Stumpy

Thundercats

He-Man

Family Matters

In Living Color

NY Undercover

Blue Razzberry Blowpops

Pop Rocks

Blockbuster Video

Contra

Bad Dudes

Battle Toads

Street Fighter

Tekken

Killer Instinct

Rec. League Basketball

Super Soakers

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Monday nights. Homework, dinner, Scout meeting..... RUN HOME, turn on TV, catch the start of WCW Nitro. Immediately flip to RAW when that starts. Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Prev Channel, Jim Ross plays me off to sleep at the closing moments. Literally heaven

I had to save money to buy the 19" Orion TV for my bedroom. And I actually wore out that button and it stopped working. That was a major crisis for me at the time

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getting a Rad Dog instead of a Trapper Keeper

hundreds/thousands of useless basketball cards collected

recording music on tape - CD music or guitar music

ummm Geocities?

boy scout camp and my D somehow getting swollen 2 years in a row (some allergic reaction to something)

green ketchup

Blues Clues applesauce (a lot of these were like high school things lolz)

Ecto Cooler

Surge

crows, ghosts, the midnight coast

the Milky Way of FUCKIN shooting stars

4/16/2026 11:02:55 PM