My birthday is coming up in less than a month, thus making it that “reflect on one’s childhood” time of year. Looking back, it seems that most of my adolescence was (sadly?) defined by the games and toys I played with. I still get a mini-emotional high when recalling my extreme happiness at getting a Game Boy. I remember how cool I felt when Tamagotchis became popular after I was the first kid in my class to have one (that may have been my one and only hip moment in middle school). I do view my obsessive Neopets phase with some embarrassment and regret, since it found me glued to the computer for the majority of my evenings, but I also remember bonding with friends over our virtual creatures. Buzzfeed has been on its own nostalgia kick lately, and has compiled a list of toys that will probably take readers back. Check out a gallery of them after the cut, and let us know what your favorite ones were!
Obviously, this list is brief. So tell us, Lovelies, what toys and games did you play with as a child?










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Cabbage Patch Dolls, Easy Bake Ovens, Pound Puppies, Get in Shape, Girl, Jem, Barbie, Nintendo, N64, & The Commodore 64. What was up with the number 64? Why was it so speshul? How could I forget Atari????? Do baseball & windsurfing count?
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Wait….The Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine. One pack of Kool-aid + all the sugar condensed and poured over a Dixie cup full of ice.
rose / 937 posts
I played with all but #7. I do think we still have a very old Easy Bake Oven as well that basically looks like a toolbox lol. I also remember Polly Pockets, Power Rangers, my Batman-related action figures, and Pound Puppies. I still have the Pound Puppies truck actually. I don’t quite remember what else other than dolls fashioned after the Spice Girls and a few Disney movies. I also had some of those Strawberry Shortcake dolls that smelled like fake plastic candy. Oh yeah and my Gameboy and old Playstation as well.
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Puppy Surprise! And littlest pet shop (back when they were actually small and could kill a kid if swallowed. Back then parents smacked their kids for putting things in their mouth that didn’t belong there. Now we just sue the crap out of a company for causing choking because parents refuse to discipline).
Legos, Play-Doh, Star Wars Action Fleet toys (I decorated my Christmas tree with them!) Kinex, Stretch Armstrong, CROSSFIRE, SNES, Hot Wheels, original Playstation, Skip-It,…So many good toys.
cherry blossom / 47 posts
I was a Polly Pocket freak. I also had a PlaySkool dollhouse that my brother and I would inhabit with batman figurines. Guess Who? was also one of my favorites!
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i still play neopets
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Lego and Super Soakers http://www.waterwar.net/site_wwn/board/
rose / 937 posts
@forever_musing@xanga - I’d rather sue than smack my kid, especially since it has been shown that corporal punishment actually has later psychological effects on a person.
@haleymroach@xanga - I totally had a Neopets account in high school.
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Polly Pocket!!
sunflower / 321 posts
Tamagotchi…
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Those faeries that were on a stand, and you could pull out the cord and they would go flying, PollyPockets, Fashion Pollys, Skipits, Beanie Babies, Pound Puppies, Gigapets/tamagotchi, Lisa Frank things, Matchbox cars, Pogosticks, and Chinese Jump ropes
I totally have played with an Easy Bake Oven within this last year, and will still log onto Neopets every once in a while :p
ranunculus / 3285 posts
Polly Pocket, tamagotchi and marbles! I was a weird child.
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YES NEOPETS!!! (:
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I loved all of those toys above and the original Polly Pocket. Sadly I still play with toys, action figures, and bought a new tamagotchi just last year… oh and I’m 21. This post brought back a lot of good memories :3
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@ashleynicole - when your kids dead from choking on a toy it wont matter.
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NEOPETS!
I dropped by to comment because of the picture. I still bond over my younger sister over Neopets.
I think people have a tendency to ignore games, as if it’s a shameful niche thing, when in reality it’s defined many lives much as social networking has.
Um, lesseee… Pokemon, Mario cart, other Nintendo DS games, DDR.
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I still play Neopets and I’m turning 21 in a month…
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ha neopets. <3 Barbie<3playdoh<3legos!
I’d still play with all of them!
magnolia / 1066 posts
NEOPETS!! ….I still play
Umm, American Girl, Generation Girl dolls, Disney movies, Pokemon, Polly Pocket, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, Sailor Moon, Power Rangers..
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BUMBLE BALL!
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PLAY-DOH AND LEGOS. Oh god yes. Neopets too, epic nostalgia.
I have no idea what those little cardboard disks were for, but for some reason, I had a crap-ton of those.
To this day, whenever someone pisses me off I tell them, “I hope you step on a lego.”
daisy / 505 posts
@kinamorata@xanga - haha marbles was a HUGE fad for us, too, in 3rd grade! They had to ban them from school and everything
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I only clicked this because of the neopets picture.
I played this game ALL THE TIME, and I decided just now to see if my account was still active and it totally is, how funny, but golly has it changed a lot!
Haven’t been active on Neopets in probably almost two years, but glad to see all my YEARS of hard work is still around.
127 months and counting, one unconverted Grey JubJub and a random slough of items.. wow!
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I loved Furbies.
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Neopets!… I still play…… Im 22.. I also happen to have over 6 million points… MANY MANY years of using the same account.. All through elementary school me and my friends would play on it in the computer lab