Top 5 Greatest Things About The 90's

It just dawned on me that in 2 short years another decade will come to an end. With this in mind, I started thinking about the great things that this decade (the 00's?) has brought us... and then I started thinking about the great things about the 90's, and here is my list of the greatest things about the 90's.

#5 ) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael; the four greatest ninjas, which were turtles, of all time. I don’t know about the rest of the fellas out there, but in the early 90’s, Saturday mornings were considered turtle time for me. The movies were amazing, except for the third one, I don’t know what happened there. I had a Cowabunga time watching Splinter, Casey Jones, and April O’Neil teaming up to take it to The Foot and, of course, its leader Shredder. I was fortunate enough to get the Pizza Thrower one Christmas, and spent countless hours chucking small plastic discs at friends. I can’t think about the 90’s and not think TMNT.

#4 ) South Park / Family Guy
Yes, that’s right two of the more popular shows on TV today were born in the 90’s. They were two cartoons that decided to give the ole F*** you to what cartoons should be, and we loved it. Cartman impressions were the soup de jour in the Middle School cafeteria, and everyone quoted scenes from Family Guy. They’re still around, but we have the 90’s to thank for it.

#3 ) Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon hosted some of the greatest old school shows ever. A few shows that come to mind are: Salute Your Shorts, Doug, Rocko's Modern Life, Guts, Hey Dude, Nick Arcade, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? Thanks to Salute Your Shorts, I have fond memories of Sponge and Donkeylips battling with their weight classes so they could get on the wrestling team, all awhile that asshole / camp drug dealer, Budnick was administering Awful Waffles. "It's I hope we never part, now get it right or pay the price!" And we could always count on Nickelodeon to scare the shit out of us with Are You Afraid of the Dark? … Remember the one where the kid gets stuck in a videogame, and he has to run around a mall and save the girl? It wasn’t till the end that he found out he was stuck in there FOREVER. I didn’t play videogames for weeks. These shows are a far cry from what kids are watching now, and for that I salute you 90’s Nickelodeon.

#2 ) Super Nintendo / Nintendo 64
This one is a no-brainer. Super Mario World, Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat, Zelda, Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Blitz, etc… Some of these games are still being played in college dorms nationwide. Before the age of next-gen systems, Nintendo dominated, and we got the benefit of amazing games. You could not host a legitimate sleepover if you did not have one of these systems. Nintendo games of the 90's are too legendary to ever be considered old, and that is why they brought greatness to the 90's.

#1 ) The Internet.
The greatest invention of the 90’s is the greatest thing about the 90’s. Downloading Mp3’s from Napster, being on AOL Instant Messenger, and playing a round of virtual miniature golf, all the while being in Science class is a great thing to me. Thanks to The Internet I haven’t had to buy a CD since 1997, and I like most people have tons of illegally downloaded songs on my computer, and it feels good. The Internet paved the way for the best invention of the 00's, that of course being the Mainstream, and other websites like this, amazing. I don’t even think I need to explain this one further, The Internet is the greatest thing about the 90’s.