Why Did the 90s Look Like That? 

I graduated high school in 1990. I loved the 90's too! I would love to go back because many people I love were alive. I had a social life and got to see many awesome bands!

80's-90's is the best 2 decade block ever. Argue with your momma

I would trade today's tech for the books n outside culture ASAP

Born in 89. Childhood being in the 90s it was the best. Everything featured here was awesome especially the cars ❤ I remember going to blockbuster on Fridays to rent movies and games and snagging an AOL free trial disc to download it on the family computer 😂 sleepovers playing GTA3, Diablo 2, RTCW all night. I miss my Pokémon card collection😭😭😭. Good times ❤

I was born in the late 70’s, so I grew up in the 80’s and came of age in the 90’s (class of 96). I miss it all, but I think the best part was the music. Pop, grunge or rap…it was ALL so good!

I was born in ‘94 so I got the latter half leading into the 2000’s for my childhood. Definitely caught up in the Pokémania.

90's were the best! My favorite thing that I miss is drinking from the water hose.

Loved the 90s! Nintendo 64 Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Podracer and Golden Eye 007. Sega Genesis Vectorman, Battle Toads, and Road Rash. Playstation with Cool Boarders, Syphon Filter, and Spyro!! Ahh the nostalgia

I remember being a kid and my dad and uncle got our first computer the family would literally sit around and search things on ask Jeeves together

Born in 91... my favorite things were cartoons, music commercials lol. Having all my grandfolk in good health and being around them. Everything feeling so new, foing outside and riding my bike, making friends. And going places with family. Childhood felt great for the most part, and life was much more simple. 😁

Special mentions for the 2000s. Perfect Dark! Xbox was king with Halo parties dominating my high school days!! Games like Mech Warrior, Crimson Skies, Desert Storm, Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six Vegas, and more! So many treasured memories in games alone. But also the golden age of hanging the mall, playing Magic the Gathering, and crashing at friends' houses. Also paintball

90's music was the absolute best

I graduated in 94, and the 90s were a fantastic time to be a young adult too! Grunge and flannel, early internet and old-school chat rooms... good times.

I miss the 90's too. 😢

I miss how normal people were in the 90s and early 2000s

I love your topical commentary but I really loved this type of video too! More please!

As a 90's kid I remember a LOT of that cool stuff. Wish we could go back.

90s we're fun and growing up with the consoles, playing outside and drinking from the water hose. Having kids play outside was the only time you clean the house.😅😅

One thing I miss about the 90s is playing hide & seek in the neighborhood with friends. We’d play in the whole neighborhood, and even our neighbor’s houses. They wouldn’t be annoyed, and would even make us all lemonade to stay hydrated. Those were the days.

I was born in 1963. I miss the 70’s and 80’s the most. The 90’s to me was the time when the music changed from clean rock to grunge and introduced to hip hop as well as rap. All great eras 😊

I believe the car in the bottom corner with the round lights was the Autozam.

NOT Quake….that was DOOM 👌👌👌

If you were in the 90s, there’s certain things that you stick with you forever that you’ll never forget like who was born in the 90s that doesn’t remember a commercial for a balloon that you could blow up with a little straw stick a fort through it and it would never pop those commercials were amazing

Being a teenager in the early nineties, I must say I think that was the best time in history to be a kid

Yea it was called AIM, those were the days. You could pick song clips to play whenever you signed in or out… I can’t tell you how many times I heard “Cadillac Grillz!”

I miss Fruitopia, specificallyin the glass bottles.

Me too!! I miss the time when we didn't rely on the Internet. Life was funnier and more exciting! By the time I was graduating the Internet was just starting in schools. Going to the library and using the Rolla dex to find the book that you need. Such a way better time. I wish it was still like that......

FFVII classic still holds up. MGS1. Driver 1. Syphon Filter. Which GTA was over head and you could walk and fart at people? 😂. It was great.

"Is that Quake?!" No sir that's Doom. Born in '86.

The most important thing said in this video is in the last 5 seconds. Just remember the administrative-secretary-based "teen fashion" of around 2013!

I graduated in 96

oh my god. I have never had a headache so bad as I did when playing the Virtua Boy. Im a little older than you MrLboyd. I believe you said you were 7 in 94. I was 14 in 94 so many things in this video just bring massive memories. I lived just outside Dallas at that time and the mall they showed in the video I remember. There is also a mall shown on one of the Kane Pixels video series, I cant remember the video name. But, they have Valley View mall in them and I spent tons of time in that mall till me and my friends got thrown out for acting like jackasses.

There was still hope for the future in the 90's.

You can't beat the early to mid 90's Acura Legends and Toyota 4Runners!

I think we are close to the same age. I miss the 90's honestly skateboarding, bmxing, and we would know the homies was at a house because every ones bikes were outside. With the book part of your video do you remember Zoobooks?

Playing NBA live 95/96 freaking out that you could distinguish each player from the other, then look back at it and their all just blocks

Thing with the dodge viper convertible too is you can't lock it. It's roof is vinyl, side windows plastic with zippers. Basically its a car you can't leave anything in at a best, steal me!!! a its worse. Pretty car though (without the cheap roof) definitely want the non-convertible version.

there was a period of about two years i used those AOL free trial discs, especially for AIM

Banjo Is Crash Bandicoot

I think the best way to describe being a kid in the 90s was “hopeful” We had this great big wild new world of computers and games and movies and ideas and we were watching it all unfold and be born right in front of us, and we felt like there was no limit to what might be possible. Photorealistic graphics in games? Just a matter of time. Robots? They’re working on them. Virtual reality? Yep, we knew it was coming, even though it was in a very primitive state at the time. Anything and everything seemed possible and there was nothing that could stop us…until September 11th. Nothing has been the same since and everything has just been a slow descent into mediocrity or worse ever since.

My nana had an 80’s Thunderbird. Great car.

Finally a fun video!

The best thing about the 90s to ne is definitely the music.

Definitely one of the weirdest was the original Sega Saturn unveiling / presentation at the Computer Entertainment show, compete with it's odd visuals like a bald woman with Saturn rings around her head and other such weird imagery. I imagine that didn't exactly wow people over; especially after seeing it's price and then the PlayStation was unveiled with a much more impressive presentation and a cheaper price tag. But also later the PlayStation had a Japanese game literally called LSD and it was definitely a mind trip.. But the 90s had the best Japanese sports cars

"when kids played outside" Bro, that's 2024 as well. Favorite thing in the 90's was the pre-9/11 attitude, life changed drastically after 9/11.

Should be called 'Why the 90s was Superior'...

AOL, You've got mail.

Never seen it until you just pointed it out 😅

i still have the first issued AOL disk sealed :P

If that’s what you want to do bro… do it! The only thing stopping you is you. The best move I ever made was selling my place in the city and moving out to the country, I play outside everyday and my only regret is not doing it sooner!

"Was that Quake?" Bro! 🤦‍♂️

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Blossom, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Gameboy Advance! Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, That's So Raven, Lil Kim, Mase, Missy Elliot, Bobby Brown, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Save By the Bell!

What you saying about the game consules, MrLboyd, Facts.

AOL chatroom's- first thing always said was a,s,l? Age,Sex,Location? We didn't use gender we used sex lol.

Anyone remember “Uhoh” ICQ messenger?

Cuz it was fuckn awesome that’s why

I am 50 born in 1974. I was in my 20s in the 90s. For me the 90s had the best movies and music. The 90s had so much diversity naturally. Not like the forced diversity today. 90s hip hop and grunge was the best. I listened to groups from A Tribe Called Quest to Mob Deep. I listened to all the grunge/alternative rock bands from Weezer to Nirvana.

That death of supeeman black package worth a little bit today not as much as it should

Born in 82. The 90s were the best by far. Maybe the 60s or the 50s but i didn’t experience them.

I try not to let nostalgia overpower reality, but dammit, it was a perfect decade to be a child/young adult. I know that everybody says that about their childhood decade, and it's all equally subjective and valid and guided by personal circumstance, but, I mean... fuck, man, after this interminably long era of corporate minimalism and the slow death of the concept of cultural decades in favor of an amorphous monoculture, it's hard not to see the 90s and early 00s as a last hurrah for exciting aesthetic and variety.

Yeah dude AIM had me hooked for hours after school

I wanna drive my 240 now

I miss the 90s

Music CD's on console for the visuals 😊

I want the 70's back, lol. You can keep the 90's.

Elon needs to create a giant city without internet that we can all move to.

the 90's are when the mind control was at its highest form edit: it hurts me now to go back and watch things, only to discover how much effort went into manipulation

I miss 90-95. After that I was too old for toys and games, and music really went downhill.

4:30 Crash Bandicoot....

That was Doom

As soneone who is struggling to get any sort of foothold, how does one get started as a professional photographer? If this isn't the proper avenue for this sort of question I apologize

The Playstation Resident Evil the original was the greatest

Have you checked out the 2025 C8 Corvette ZR1? 1064 hp 828 torque 0-200 in 15-20 seconds. RU-vid has videos on it.

I remember geo cities lol

Born in 87

The original PlayStation was came out in it came out in 1990 but you can get it you could have got it pre-ordered in 89 I'm getting November of 89 in pre-order and you got it in January

PlayStation was supposed to attach to super Nintendo like Sega cd

13:17 that collage of 90's cars definitely had some wtf is that doing there additions. Everyone knows the holy Grail lineup of 90's cars were Toyota Supra Mitsubishi 3000 GT Nissan 300 ZX Mazda RX-7 Toyota MR2 Acura NSX Mitsubishi Eclipse Mitsubushi Evo Nissan R34 Skyline Lamborghini Diablo McLaren F1 Jaguar SJ220 Porsche 959 Subaru WRX And yes even Honda Integra Man 80's cars were so ugly outside Delorean, Porsche 928 / 944, Lotus Esprit. And yet people respected the 80's Grand National and Monte Carlo even if kinda ugly

My son is older than you. He's 40 yo.

80s better

The generation of angry without a clue..

I am not going to lie. I don't like the 90s all that much. I grew up in it and aside from a shit ton of bomb ass cartoons like AAA Real Monsters, Street Sharks, and Gargoyles hell watch that shit it seriously holds up and I actually re watched Gargoyles like 2 months ago the show really hold up even over time. Also X Men and Batman and Superman but aside from the cartoons much of the games are interesting but controls are shit compared to now and hell I don't know how I got so fucking good at games from that time but I can't play them realistically anymore. Hell the internet back then well I found an anime site back in the late 90s and I am going to straight up admit the internet was pure fucking evil if other people were online. It could easily take hours to log in. I listened to a We Will Rock You once in the 1990s and it took 29 hours to load the song. You couldn't just play the song it took hours to days to do shit. Hell to watch the video of the guy wearing the banana and singing its peanut butter jelly time it would take 1 to 3 hours to load the song. Back then you basically would start the loading process then do chores then when your chores were done it might be ready. I literally was trying to play a game online so what I did was I started the game loading went I went to the movie theaters and watched 3 movies and came home and it was 7% loaded so I went and read a book went to sleep and then the next day went to school, came home, did chores, watched some shows, then oh boy it was ready not it was ready the next day after school. Often times I would set something to load on the computer and go and watch a full hour of CSI then some stuff would be ready. I don't miss that at all. I also don't miss the fog of cigarettes and cancer. I also don't miss the smell of grunge. I also don't miss the toys which were fucking dangerous like the sky dancing fairy which I had one and that dam thing nearly took my head off when it flew in the air. Basically take a barbie doll add reciprocating saw blades for its 5 inch arms and make them spin around fast enough to cut your head off. The thing broke and flew wildly as they generally did and it cut my favorite jacket and my favorite shirt and embedded itself into a tree and I rand home and got my dads pliers and ripped its arm off and ripped the blade out of the tree. Oh I also had to put a bandage on my shoulder because it did clip me a bit and it wasn't too bad but it did bleed a little bit. I told the McDonalds that I got it from a few days later about what happened and advised him to take it off the shelf which he did only after a kid proved it was dangerous. Also the item never got banned even after the nearly 250,000 deaths it caused in which over 49,000 deaths were kids being decapitated and it still didn't get a ban it just got a warning might be dangerous. So I don't miss the zero fucks given to children's safety. Even after telling adults that it was dangerous they didn't understand that a saw blade that flies in the air could possibly be harmful. 1990s Adults: Kids will love playing with a flying saw blade. Yea really sounds stupid when said now but back in the 1990s adults never thought it was dangerous and even still didn't fully except it could possibly be somewhat dangerous after 250,000 deaths because ok after 250,000 deaths they could start looking into it to maybe see if it could possibly be maybe dangerous but probably not which is where I knew then instantly Gen X and older generations are absolute morons.

I had a 92' 3000gt VR-4 that i bought in 98 when I was 18, and quickly realized why when I saw them as a kid, the guys driving them were usually rich and wearing suits. Lol. Parts were expensive, and it required a lot of maintenance. The car was amazing though for the time. When it was running right. I think it spent more time broken, than working. Still mad at myself for trading in my IROC Z/28 that was paid off for it. That car is worth a lot more these days.