1. This gamebook (notepad) series that made you feel like you were a comedic genius:

2. The best way to learn math in elementary school, which also doubled as a sort-of Lego:

3. The best snack you could have at recess:

4. And the best snack you could have after school:
5. Having Arthur...

6. ...and The Magic School Bus as the cartoons you only watched at your grandparents' house 'cause they didn't have cable:

7. The Pizza Hut commercials with Pizza Head that made you both hungry and feel sorry for a slice of pizza:
8. Owning one of these sand-filled, glittery, rainbow lizard toys:

9. Tamagotchi — the first thing that you truly felt responsible for, which would also cause you so much stress:

10. And this totally reasonable way to deal with the death of a Tamagotchi:

11. The original Tinder:

12. This toy that was really a torture device for your ankles:

13. The carpet at Chuck E. Cheese's that was always covered in old gum, dirt, and food bits — that you somehow, always, ended up touching irregardless:

14. The Aladdin game on SNES that was so fun, but also an unnecessarily hard game to beat:
15. And Rainbow Road on Mario Kart 64, which would make your palms sweaty just thinking about it:

16. This TV series, which was the best way you could learn how to paint...

17. ...and this TV series, which was the best way you could learn about science:
18. These glow-in-the-dark blocks that you never saw anyone have IRL:

19. And this Rainbow Art set that — thanks to the commercials playing nonstop — you ended up begging your parents to order for you:

20. These albums, which played at every classmate's birthday party you went to:
21. These Valentine's Day cards that were also stickers:

22. These Looney Tunes novelty cups, which always caused a fight between you and your siblings over who got to use it:
23. Arcade tables — that you always would run and grab whenever you and your family would go to your local pizza parlor:

24. Hair gel from L.A. Looks and Dep (which you would add globs and globs of to make your hair look stiff as a board):
