Today's toys suck.  

Every kid is playing with an iPad, X-Box, or PS4, and we guess that's cool because the future is now, but still, toys today suck. 

Not like in the 90s, that magical bridge of time between the dark ages and the new millennium. 

We weren't the first gaggle of youngsters to fall in love with video games, so that's another story for another time.

The sad reality is, the 90s were two decades ago. 

And no, you're not the only one that feels like it was two days ago.

And yes, on Thursday September 17th, you can relive the magic with us at The Dopest #TBT Ever-- and no, we wouldn't be mad if your busted out your Pokémon or Moon Shoes at our party. Get your free RSVP right here. 

Now that electronics seem to have infiltrated playtime as soon as kids are old enough to handle a controller or a tablet, let's take a look back at our picks for the best, mostly analog toys from two decades ago. 

Which was your favorite? 

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1. Tamagotchi

These were kind of educational, actually. If you were really into learning responsibility at a young age, or really into killing your virtual pets, Tamagotchi was for you. 

You may remember having about 80 of them on one keychain, and spending 20 minutes at a time just feeding the little weirdos. You used to laugh at how their poops always looked a little too much like Hershey Kisses.

They were everywhere, and they just might have been the first introduction into desensitizing kids to the emotional gravity of death. 

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2. Skip It

A genius idea. Kind of like a hula hoop for your ankle. 

You already know how to skip, now see how many times you can do it! You may remember falling on your face a lot while getting the hang of it, but sooner or later if you convinced your parents to buy it for you. You had to become a pro at skipping. 

And the better you got, the more Skip It moves you had, but do you integrate them into your adult dance moves today? We think you should. We'd dance with you if you did... 

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3. Action figures

Beast Wars. G.I. Joe. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. X-Men. Action figure game was on point in the 90s, and that's not including Power Rangers and their Megazords.

The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers were a force to be reckoned with in the 90s, and their action figures were no different. They were huge too! Not only that, some of them had special action moves, like a karate chop or kick. 

The greatest debt all 90s children owe the Power Ranger action figures is that they were for both genders. You could play Power Rangers with the opposite sex, and for many of us, our Tommy/Kimberly scenarios opened the door for some great puppy love. 

Thank you, Power Rangers, thank you so much. (And we can't forget about those Trolls dolls, either!) 

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4. Beanie babies

To our recollection, it appeared that just 50% of all parents thought this was a scam. The other half thought they'd put their children through college on a toy collection. 

We can't blame them. In the immortal words of the Fresh Prince, "Parents just don't understand."

But even tons of kids didn't actually play with them. They were an exercise in how many "stuffed animals" could you fit on your bed, or how many giant storage containers do you require to house your collection safely? 

Maybe the key to this phenomenon was that parents and kids got to collect them together. We, however, are still waiting on our spider eggs to hatch. 

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5. Razor scooter

By the 90s, scooters were getting played out. They seemed to be going the way of the roller skate. All of the cool kids were taking sides in the epic battle between skateboards and rollerblades, and well scooters didn't really have a place in the equation, until the Razor Scooter. 

We were led to believe that you were meant to trick on these fold up scooters in much the same way as inline skates or skateboards. You may remember the videos of - like adults? - riding Razor scooters on half pipes and over fun boxes in skate parks, but did you ever actually see anyone doing that? No. 

You know why? Because if you fell on skates, nothing hit you in the face. If you fell on a skateboard, you mainly had to deal with the ground - not the skateboard falling on you. 

Let us take a moment of silence to remember all the prepubescent shins that got mangled by trying to handle bar spins with a Razor scooter without enough air. 

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6. Pokémon cards

You may have taken those first steps into addiction by hunting them down on the backs of select Lunchables containers. You were a fiend for these little bits of cardboard until Mom bought you that disappointing starter pack whose only glory was the holographic Machamp card. 

From then on, you were screwed. You'd shell out eight to ten bucks for little foil packs that sometimes left you feeling empty inside. You'd trade action figures for cards you thought were beautiful, and hell, maybe you didn't even play the game at all. You just liked the cards.

Maybe you were an artisan collector ahead of your time. You handled the cards with a white glove preservation, scanning the bottom corner for the "*" that said, "Yes, this is rare."

Before you knew it, your school had banned them, you were dealing cards in the bathroom, stealing them back from your teacher's desk at lunchtime, and claiming that Billy S. down the block was the bad influence. 

Then your parents threw them out, thus blackballing Pokémon from your house, and you from Billy S.'s house. 

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7. Furby

Furbies were weird. Even if you had (still have?) one and loved it, you know there were moments where it got strange. There wasn't too many affordable animatronic toys for the masses before the Furby, and that's part of why it made such a big splash. 

But remember thinking that if you fed your Furby after midnight or got it wet, it would turn into a Gremlin? WE DO. Alas, Mogwai and Furbies are two different entities all together. Both made in China.

Remember wondering if it knows what you're thinking? Remember the kid at the sleep over that asked you to put your Furby in the other room because he/she couldn't sleep and then that kid had no friends ever again? 

Yeah thanks a lot, Furby, you creepy little bastard.

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8. Moon Shoes

Moon Shoes were always advertised as shoes that would give you insane bounce. They came across as some kind of trampoline shoes, and that idea, paired with Space Jam, made it seem like dunking was a very real possibility for those of us who knew we'd never be tall or athletic enough.

But if you wore them once, you wore them enough. They were giant boxes with velcro straps and added very little to your hops. Disappointing is one word for them, but useless POS garbage is a more accurate depiction. 

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9. Super Soaker

Water guns are the best kinds of guns. They allow for children to slaughter each other safely, unlike paintball guns, and they're perfect for summer. 

The Super Soaker 50 was perhaps the iconic water gun of the 90s. It featured a huge water canister so you didn't have to reload a lot, and it was pump action so you really got a tricep work out if you wanted that water pressure to reach your friend across the street.

Later incarnations of the Super Soaker got wacky. They ended up coming with water tanks for your back, enormous gun styles that were too heavy for younger kids to rock, and all sorts of stuff you could break or lose. 

The Super Soaker 50 was the paramount of water gun technology. Only one piece ever came off, and it couldn't be broken unless you lit it on fire, or snapped it in half on purpose. Hail to the Super Soaker!

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10. Bop-It

You know how people say millennials have no attention span? That's bullsh*t because we grew up loving this toy that only asked you to do THREE THINGS. 

Bop it. Twist it. Pull it. 

Of course it was like playing a very unimaginative version of Simon Says with an invisible adult on recording, but it was a blast. 

There was also the multi-player function where it told you to pass it, and inevitably, some nerd had already screwed it all up by the time it came back to you. Side bar: Wouldn't it be cool if someone sampled those commands into a dance track? We think so. Please do it and send it to us. 

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11. Talk Boy/Talk Girl

Right after Macaulay Culkin schooled the Wet Bandits in Home Alone II, everyone went out and got a Talk Boy or a Talk Girl. They were amazing. 

You could record anything you want, play it back in slow-mo, AND listen to all your cassettes. It wasn't a Walk Man, it was a Talk Boy (or Girl.) The girl one was pink. The boy one was silver, and looked like it was part of Robo Cop or something. 

The best part about this was recording things your parents said and playing it back later to prove them wrong about something. Now, you probably got punished harder for talking back with audio evidence, but you knew you were right, and that's what's important. 

Now a little later the Yak Bak came out, and it featured pre-recorded sound effects, was way smaller, and didn't even record on/play cassettes. Sadly, the day of the Talk Boy/Girl was over, but now we have voice recording apps up the wazoo so look where it got us. But it's just not the same. 

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12. Mighty Max/Polly Pocket

These were pocket-sized play houses. In general, Mighty Max was for boys featuring creepy scenarios full of monsters and mad scientists, and Polly Pocket was mainly for girls featuring glittery goodness like sugarplums and Candyland-esque themes. 

But yo, if you're a boy and you played with Polly Pocket, or if you're a girl and you played with Mighty Max handheld universes, that's cool with us. How insensitive was 90s marketing? Sheesh. 

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13. Gak

Most 90s kids were obsessed with Nickelodeon, as well they should have been. Many of us still are. If a random episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? came on right now, you'd probably watch it if you had the time, right?

So, it's perfectly natural that many of us had Gak. 

Gak was a unisex toy. Gak was cool because nobody really knew exactly what it was. It was just Gak. You could take it out of its package and make weird stuff with it like Silly Puddy or Play Dough, but it had a distinctly more gross texture that was fun for some reason.

Plus, you could make fart noises with it if you squished it into the corners of its container. What kid doesn't love fart noises?

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14. Power Wheels

Back in the day when SUV's were what everyone wanted to drive, the kid version of mom and dad's Jeep was the Power Wheels cars. They were like remote control cars, but you could sit in them and drive around. 

It was like having the coolest bike on the block, but even cooler because you could drive it like an adult. Also, you could play bumper cars with them and familiarize yourself with the woes of car accidents. 

Did they try to sell your parents Power Wheels insurance? 

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