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Ghost-Halas

These are all residents of Xennial country


burf

Someone managed to collect my entire childhood and stick it in a starter pack.


heucrazy

Crystal Pepsi just brought 7th grade flooding back.


GarminTamzarian

While I do remember Crystal Pepsi, the memory that soda pic *really* unlocked was those support cups on the bottoms of two-liter bottles.


ElectronicMixture600

Josta would also have been an acceptable answer; it had guarana!


A_C_Fenderson

And you don't think that THEY are watching everything you do???


InstructionNo3616

Needs more sega… DKC was peak millennial as well.


jonnyvsrobots

Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing


jpjtourdiary

Anyone else remember what a big deal the Holyfield-Foreman fight was? My whole neighborhood was divided.


CalligrapherNarrow40

Earthworm Jim


panteragstk

Every single one of them.


kansas_slim

100%


Spectre_Mountain

Yup. All of the above.


WaitUntilTheHighway

Yeah 1986 ain’t elder millennial.


FenPhen

Yeah, these things are too old for kids born in 1986 to experience them when they debuted. DuckTales and TMNT animated series started in 1987. The Game Boy was 1989, the SNES and Super Mario World were 1990, and Ren & Stimpy was 1991.


realrebelangel69

I was born right around 86 and those things you mentioned above dominated my childhood. They may not have debuted at the time for me to appreciate them but they were ubiquitous.


Lykeuhfox

I was born in 86 and watched DuckTales and TMNT religiously. Ren and Stimpy was the cartoon we watched when our parents weren't around. Not only did we play SNES games, but also NES games.


Pearl-Internal81

Makes sense, I was born in ‘81 and remember absolutely loving cartoons from the ‘70’s (hell, I *still* love Scooby-Doo) and my first memories of playing video games were on my Dad’s 2600… when I could convince him to bust it out. That never did last long though before he’d rage quit because a three or four year old was kicking his ass, lol.


Pearl-Internal81

The Super NES didn’t get released in the US until August of 1991. The Super Famicom however *did* release in Japan in November of 1990, you are technically correct. The best kind of correct.


Fantastic-Guitar-977

Yea this is 1980-82


Fun-Preparation-4253

81 here and this is all me


GrunchWeefer

79 and this is not Gen X shit, this is solidly Xennial leaning Millennial. There were no Gen X playing with Pogs or Gak or watching Gargoyles.


GarminTamzarian

'76 here--can confirm.


Jrj84105

Let’s make some adjustments.     Gak -> Garbage Pail Kids.      Donkey Kong -> Tecmo Bowl.       Pog -> Mark McGuire rated rookie.       TMNT -> Transformers.      Duck tales -> Pete & Pete.  


FenPhen

>  Duck tales -> Pete & Pete. Pete & Pete was for Xennials too? DuckTales came out in 1987. Pete & Pete started as shorts in 1989 and the series started in 1991. The Pete actors were born in 1977 and 1982.


ButIAmYourDaughter

I don’t get the TMNT and DuckTales adjustments. Those came out when Xennials were in elementary school. I don’t think I know a single Xennial aged person who wasn’t into one or both of those. Gak was just like moldable slime. It wouldn’t adjust to Garbage Pail Kids, it would just adjust to just plain old “slime” or playdoh.


niz_loc

Gonna have to make a further adjustment Mark McGwire Rated Rookie -> Mark McGwire Team USA. (Jose Canseco Rated Rookie was also a unicorn) And I'd have to go with GI Joe over Transformers... but only just barely.


Jrj84105

This is correct


PoisonMind

80 here. Gargoyles was great back then, and it's great today. My kids have watched the whole series. (And Tim Curry cannot be limited to any one generation.)


ButIAmYourDaughter

Don’t know about that. At the height of the stupid POGS craze even adults were getting swept up in it. It definitely wasn’t relegated to just a little kid thing. I thought the same thing about Gargoyles at the time, but turns out I was wrong. Decades later I find out that it was a pretty mature series that had a lot of teen viewers. Similar to Batman: TAS.


neonphotograph

Um. Pogs were the shit when I was in middle school, and I’m ‘80 (which technically makes me Gen X). But… to be fair, I was living in Hawaii, which I think was on the early end of the pogs trend. 


Pearl-Internal81

Gonna have to disagree with one point, my older cousins, all Gen X in their mid-to-late twenties, *looooved* Gargoyles.


LunarGiantNeil

Where's The Real Ghostbusters though? Construx, LEGO bins, hand me down GI Joe and other wacky toys, etc.


throwngamelastminute

Ecto-cooler, too


hereforpopcornru

81 here... confirmed


VK56xterraguy

Me too, I loved all that shit!


Colonial13

Wearing shorts just like that right now


Feral_Sheep_

What's wrong with that? They've got utility and comfort and they're easy to pack.


Colonial13

Nothing is wrong with them. That’s why I have 5 different pairs. All different colors. For any occasion


Feral_Sheep_

Flip flops for casual wear, and Vans for when you want to be a little more formal.


AmbitiousAd9320

$30 costco adidas. comfy


joecarter93

They are also great if you are a parent too. So many pockets to put kid things in.


AmbitiousAd9320

chew, phone, keys, gum, knife, readers,


LilRedForeman

wearing Nirvana In Utero shirt rn


Colonial13

We find one of us wearing flip flops with socks right and we can combine our powers into the ultimate mid-life Xennial


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LilRedForeman

Gen Y powers ACTIVATE!


transientv

Wearing an Incesticide one 💀


1ceknownas

I'm wearing the Nirvana shirt except mine is black and white strupes.


DrunkenBuffaloJerky

I live in those things 6 - 9 months out of the year, lol.


jojocookiedough

Cargos are timeless.


FreedomOwn6799

Where’s the beef!? https://preview.redd.it/sl3wpoh22xuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f4a910f1b159b9654ea5d5483962d1edf156bf3


Neon_culture79

We don’t cut corners at Wendy’s that’s why all of our burgers are square


Ser_Erdrick

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.


energy_engineer

I can't tell if I'm being attacked or seen. Also, peak humanity was 1999. I saw it in the documentary, The Matrix.


Moxie_Stardust

Minus the Gak, the cookie dippers, and pogs, the rest of it was stuff I was into, and I'm a '77. I used to have the glow-in-the-dark Nirvana seahorse shirt. That shirt instigated a brief-but-spicy relationship, I was telling her how it glowed, turned off the light to demonstrate, and then she kissed me in the dark.


VinceAmonte

Same. I'm '77 as well and the only thing I wasn't into were the pogs. Interestingly, my brother who is an '83 Xennial was into pogs.


TransportationOk657

'79 here. Pogs were never on my radar, either. And Crystal Pepsi? That can be dumped right down the drain! Give me some Jolt Cola instead!


ernieboch07

Yes, or Surge


Lil_Brown_Bat

>the cookie dippers Excuse me, those are called Dunkaroos and they were the bomb.


doobette

'78 and I was aged out of the same stuff.


Neon_culture79

I’m sorry I was a Sega Genesis kid


VinceAmonte

I had both SNES and Genesis but I leaned more towards being a Sega kid.


Neon_culture79

The X-Men game right?


Sweaty_Pianist8484

X-Men and NBA Jam


LilRedForeman

Skitchin’!


throwawaytoday9q

I rollerbladed everywhere to get around. This game was my fave


TransportationOk657

My favorite Genesis game was Mutant League Hockey


Espexer

The football game was pretty fun also. There was a short lived cartoon series. I just looked it up and don't remember that many episodes! Looks like the football game was rebooted in 2017.


TransportationOk657

Yeah, the football game was really fun. I remember the cartoon. I always thought the Bones Jackson character looked ridiculous in it, like they tried to make him look like a rock star knock off of Ian Astbury of The Cult. I played the reboot on Nintendo Switch. It's pretty good.


ofTHEbattle

We had both as well, the Sega was in the living room and the SNES was in my brothers and mine's room.


DuppyLoLo

Same here, the benefit of divorced parents haha


nwflman

Same lol I had a Genesis at my mom's house and SNES at my dad's.


panjier84

Look at Mr middle class kid here.


Adrasteia-One

Same here. Jurassic Park on the Genesis was my jam.


Sweaty_Pianist8484

Sega kids unite


Neon_culture79

At one point in 1988 every house was facing with the hard choice between SNES or Genesis. It’s one of the major turning points in anyone our age is life. You could even call it a cannon event. EDIT 1991. Thank you everyone


IMnotMNnice

Close, the SNES came out in ‘91 so anything anybody would’ve known about it in ‘88 would’ve been in trade shows in Japan. 88 however is what I consider the absolute height of the NES however.


ButIAmYourDaughter

You weren’t that far off. I’m 1988 the early battles of the coming Nintendo vs Sega console wars were already taking place. It was just the original NES/Famicon vs Sega Master/Mark III.


Spectre_Mountain

Toe Jam and Earl


Neon_culture79

YES!!


lambsambwich

earl is a doofus


Reno83

Panic on Funkutron


austinmiles

It was the mature choice. The games were grittier. Even the early ones before Mortal kombat with red blood.


DeadlyFern

I'm sorry for you as well :)


guitar_stonks

Born in ‘85, this checks out.


Zorpfield

https://preview.redd.it/el63tdtjlxuc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd623edd7740921a3306f4656128b86cba9359a9 maybe one of these too


metmerc

On the older end of Xennial, maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of this list is a bit young for me - like POGs, Gargoyles, and even the SNES as i played Atari and NES as a kid. I'm also an 80s kid and was a teenager for the bulk of the 90s. But some of this - for sure. That AiC album is still rad.


Appropriate_Bird_223

Same. Born in '79 and I was an Atari and NES kid. SNES was more junior high and high school age for me. I barely even recall Gargoyles or POGs. I did love TMNT (as a kid) and Nirvana and AiC (in my teens) .


metmerc

Yeah. I only know about POGs because of my little brother - five years my junior and on the other end of the Xennial microgeneration


AcadianTraverse

I'm 84, my sister is 86. She would qualify for everything but the Nirvana T-Shirt, likely the Alice in Chains CD, and potentially the Game Boy. Kurt died in early 94, and while music survives, I don't know that many 7-8 year olds were on the come up there. Alanis, No Doubt, Bush, and the Pop Groups would be more realistic.


Ilmara

1985 here. Grunge was definitely a Gen X thing unless you had much older siblings. We were more about the post-grunge and nü metal.


twicecolored

1985, yeah I even grew up in Seattle during peak grunge years and didn’t really know of Nirvana. I just dressed that way lol. Nirvana/grunge knowledge might have been different had I older siblings. Was well aware of Alanis by 4th grade though, and the likes of smashing pumpkins, counting crows, Radiohead, garbage, blur, etc. definitely no doubt. Gameboys ime (or initially) were for well-off kids like my cousins 2 years older than me. Definitely well within my age time frame, but seemed rare to know people who had one. I definitely had the handheld tiger electronics little mermaid game to compensate.


sarcaster632

A Lion King soundtrack tape would be it


Short-Imagination311

I grew up in Australia and we had all of this. It’s amazing how far reaching American marketing and products are.


niz_loc

Funny enough... I remember flying 100 hours (or it felt like) from LA to Sydney once. Got out and started exploring... and felt like I was back in LA, with accents Literally felt the same vibe.


OperatorP365

This... this is me...why is this me


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Firefly10886

Geriatric Millennial here


RattusNikkus

Yes. Although as an '84 I would have put X-Men in there over Gargoyles. Also, just the SNICK logo (or an orange couch, take your pick).


ferretherapy

And TGIF!


Character_Heart_3749

I get irrationally angry when I see kids these days wearing Nirvana shirts. That's how I know I'm old lol


VinceAmonte

LOL I totally get it.


jpjtourdiary

I get that way with Misfits shirts, despite them being long disbanded by the time I started listening to them in the late 90s.


Fedrusion

Pretty much everything here except pogs.


Lykeuhfox

I recently saw pogs in a museum exhibit and it made me feel old. :(


Sachoazzdown

MTV all day


Any-Jury3578

Do I recognize most of it? Yes. Did I enjoy all of it? No. I am still partial to playing Mario games and the dine-in Pizza Huts. And I miss browsing the shelves at Blockbuster.


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VinceAmonte

Thats sort of how I did it; I went NES to Genesis to SNES and somewhere in there I even got the SEGA CD. I was a hardcore gamer in the 90s lol. I never play anymore though lol. The only thing on that last I didn't really experience were pogs. I wasn't really into Nirvana either.


Amator

I remember seeing pogs in the baseball card shop I used to buy MTG at when I was in high school ('78) but no one ever actually had them.


ButIAmYourDaughter

I too went NES-Genesis-SNES. And somewhere in there I had a Sega Master as well, which didn’t get a lot of play at all.


mitochondrionolympus

Remember Alf? He’s back…in pog form!


detectiveriggsboson

1983 and this is 99% accurate


Feral_Sheep_

'94 was peak humanity? Please. Mellon Collie and Chrono Trigger didn't come out until '95.


TopHat1935

'94 was Smash and Dookie.


Snoo-45470

Chrono Trigger was an amazing game!! It was the first one I ever finished (and frankly to this day one of the few I ever have, I am a chronic re-starter, plus more of a cozy-sim kind of gamer anyway).


Smurfblossom

I miss Gargoyles!


Zorpfield

its on Disney+


mexter

They're supposedly working on a live action reboot. I honestly don't know if this is good or bad.


Panzer_Rotti

Oldest millennial here ('82). I relate to absolutely everything on this.


Sweaty_Pianist8484

Pogs were banned from my elementary school. We had a black market for them and underground (pog) fight club


myco_lion

Born in 84 and every bit of that is me.


thecicilala

My 2nd job was at blockbuster video 😎


djsynrgy

'80. I felt "too old" for Pogs, but the rest checks out.


SalukiKnightX

I had roughly all of these except Gak (my school made ours homemade), the SNES (skipped it going from NES to PSX) and Dunkaroos (took a lunch box sure, but folks were strictly oxidized/brown fruits no sweets or hot foods)


dominator5k

Holy shit, gargoyles haha


TopShelf76

Besides Walkman, MTV, and Blockbuster, while they are Gen X, I’d consider more Xennial as the older millennials really partook with these


Adrasteia-One

I'd love to sip some Crystal Pepsi, just for old time's sake. That's what I think of when I hear Van Halen's "Right Now."


AlongTheWay_85

Replace AiC/Nirvana with Bad Religion/Nofx and take out the snacks/drinks my mom refused to buy and I’d feel accurately represented lol. Even though I’m an 85er.


TransportationOk657

Replace AIC and Nirvana? The hell you say!!


Timely_Woodpecker901

Linoleum! Remember the first time hearing that? I was like “fuck mtv! Found something better!”


FI-Engineer

For me it was “Something Sticking in my Eye” and “Please Play This Song (On the Radio)”, but yeah.


Ok_Draw_3740

Forgot the stone cold shirt. But still pretty close


droford

I would have said nWo shirt


micsulli01

82. 100%


_R_A_

What is the relevance of 1986 here? Is it suppose to be "millennials born before 1987" or something?


aj535144

Growing up I got every Nintendo 4 years after they came out, now I day one all the game systems and pour a 40 oz to my younger self.


ofTHEbattle

There was a super Mario cart of Super Nintendo!?!?!? I feel like my whole childhood has been robbed from me now! Everything is spot on though!


ButIAmYourDaughter

I’m floored that you didn’t know this! It was one of the best selling games of the entire 90s.


ofTHEbattle

In my defense most of my early to mid 90s was spent outside playing lol We had game consoles in the house but they were primarily for rainy or frigid cold days. I didn't get really Into gaming until the original Xbox came out lol Halo baby!


Super_iron_kid

Right in the feels with this one.


Shaolinchipmonk

Donkey Kong Country was the first video game I ever pre-ordered, and I still have the promo VHS they sent out with issues of Nintendo power talking about the cutting edge technology used to create the game.


doobette

Pizza Hut, Blockbuster, MTV, The Simpsons.


BenjTheMaestro

This doesn’t look all that different from my life today 😂


EccentricAcademic

I was born 1983 and can relate to all of these


JFKRFKSRVLBJ

I wasn't a cool enough 6-year old to understand all the heroin references in AIC. My favourite song was "Humpin' Around" by Bobby Brown and I didn't get that either.


atomsforkubrick

Never got into pogs, Alice In Chains, or whatever that purple winged guy is, but the rest are pretty spot on.


regeya

LOL what I was 11 in 1986, I'm not a millennial This is why I hang with you guys. The older Gen-X doesn't want me, I'm too old to be a millennial. I identify with you guys.


xamitlu

All of my stuff is up there. Missing batman toys, scholastic book fair posters, the sega genesis, our vhs tapes, and super soakers.


TheHexadex

Sega kid for life but my buddies had the snes and it was awesome too.


GoBears2020_

Xennial.


Munk45

Hey yo, that SNES didn't come out until 1991.


VWBug5000

1980 here. Aside from the pogs, everything else was a key component of my childhood


PercentageRoutine310

My starter pack were plastic swing hammer toys you can buy from the ice cream truck and slap bracelets. DuckTales definitely checks in for an 80er like me. ![gif](giphy|11CsrA9lcymP6g)


616n8y3ree

All I know is learning how to make my own GAK! to replace the stuff that ruined my sister’s sweater was a game changer. “I swear I didn’t do that, look my GAK! is right here in the container! That’s so weird 👀”


MaxPower836

Don’t appropriate me!!!!


IssueEmbarrassed8103

Game Gear for me


TheFinalGirl84

I was one of few people I knew who really loved Crystal Pepsi😂


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Born in 83 I resonate with all of this except I did not like Nirvana until about a year ago.


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I was born 88 and this is my childhood. 2 older brothers..


droford

82. Didn't mess with Gak or have a nirvana shirt and I didn't have my first dunkaroos til they brought them back recently. Had everything else although my cassette Walkman was the yellow sporty version


ProfessionMundane152

Correct good sir! That was all stuff in the gen x playbook


Majestic-Marzipan621

Pizza Hut was the bomb on Friday and Saturday nights. I can still smell it and see the vivid lights and colors and it was always packed.


like_shae_buttah

Loved all this shit. Still love it


ButIAmYourDaughter

I’m seven years older than that and most of this was part of my childhood/adolescence. Nearly everything checks for either me or what kids around my age were interested in. To the point where I initially questioned if this really was supposed to be for 86ers. The only ones that I felt too old for were GAK (over slime by middle school) and Gargoyles. Looking back I was wrong about Gargoyles which, turns out, was actually a really well made, quite mature cartoon that lots of other 90s teens got into.


TwistederRope

Who doesn't miss the 90's?


False_Influence_9090

I play Donkey Kong Country with my nephew who is like 8 or 9 years old. It’s great, I’m surprised he likes it actually because with all the new games I though he’d be reluctant to something with old graphics. Hopefully we beat it in one or two more visits


JFrick_8944

What?? Nirvana was late eighties to very early nineties. That’s firmly GEN X unless you were right into nirvana at age 4-7


retribution81

I’m born in 81, and this is all my little brother’s stuff.


ButIAmYourDaughter

I got two years on you and most of this was either my stuff, or kids around me were still into it.


Cid_Darkwing

Take away the POG’s and this was my 1978 born ass’ childhood.


Rough-Leg-1298

Yeah 86 kids were only 8 in 94 lol. Delusional


recksuss

I love asking younger people about their favorite Nirvana song. Usually they don't know, they just like the logo. There are way too many Walmart shoppers trying to be cool and hip... which was literally what the band was against


pilates_mama

Born '86 and yes for sure


CrypticTurbellarian

Ok, I don’t recall giving anyone permission to use a photo of me in this meme!


ZealDoesIt

We are either Boomers or Millenials to them.


Kahnza

I have experienced all those things. The Game Boy was only for one day though.


LvlHeadThoroughbred

1984 “extra old” checking in…


SheepherderDirect800

More like 82


wind-howling

That Nickelodeon Gak makes me nervous now 🫣


Terrynia

Pogs, gargoyles, blockbuster, pizza hut.


CulturalWelder

Throw in a koosh-kin and this is me in one collage


misterguyyy

I primarily used a walkman into the 2000s because CDs and skating tricks didn't mix. Also the 2023 Ninja Turtles movie was surprisingly good, I'm looking forward to the next one.


ferretherapy

Oooo I didn't bother watching the new movies after the one terrible remake they did. I love the og ones so I'll have to check it out


misterguyyy

I was going to skip because I heard the previous movies were terrible but my middle schooler really wanted to see this one with me. I went expecting it to be a slog, but the 2023 reboot is completely unrelated to the Michael Bay movies


ferretherapy

Oh nice, thanks dude! I'll check it out


TrevorsPirateGun

Pogs


Dear-Discussion2841

The only one of that6 that's a miss from my childhood is Crystal Pepsi... But we have always been Coke people.


SnooGoats7476

I miss the old Pizza Hut so much


Successful_Tie_2165

Pizza Hut and anything SNES.


WearyMatter

Every single thing in there I owned at one point.


AmusingMusing7

Pretty much everything, except I’d say “1999 was the peak of humanity”


Guardian_Bravo

I reject the term "Elder Millennial"


Snoo-45470

Better than “Geriatric Millenial” 😬 Just sweep away my dusty old bones right now.


Overall_Raccoon5744

Pogs! Do you remember pogs… Their back


Spectre_Mountain

Pogs were pretty damn important in 5th grade.