-You used to get so all of a dither when you saw an ad for a favorite show, but couldn't watch it because you had school.

-Hearing or seeing the name ACME made you think either Looney Tunes or Carmen Sandiego.

-You liked Nickelodeon GUTS so much you used to pretend the stairs in your house was either the Aerial Bridge or Aggro Crag.

You remember Beavis and Butthead.

See now me, Im an 80's kid graduated High School in 93' BUT I admit all through school I watched Sat Morning Cartoons, in fact I watched them till they were officially pulled from the Big 3's lineups in the late 90's.

That was truly the end of an Era that began in the 1960's. We 80's kids had Saturday Morning Cartoons at it's absolute peak, when it was at the top of it's game. So lucky we were

Thats one difference between us 80's kids/teens... we heard ACME and picture Looney Toons.

when you realized that everything you adored was an imitation of the 80's......only shittier and without conviction and originality.

oh, i'm sorry.

did i say that out loud?

THIS. Things started sucking hard around 1998 as far as quality kids entertainment. Nothing beats the days of waking up on a warm Saturday morning in the summer of 1992 and doing nothing all day except watching TMNT/X-men/Muppet Babies/Bugs & Tweety Show. Then going outside to ride bikes, build forts, explore the woods, jump on trampolines, go to the neighborhood pool, play with those fireworks you found and come home for lunch where it was grilled cheeses, chee-tohs and Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid.

After lunch it was more bike riding, playing Sonic the Hedgehog or Mario 3, making insane Hot-Wheel race courses that went down the length of the long hallway in your house and playing war/guns with all your neighborhood buddies using the bushes as bases until the sun started going down. In the evening it was dinner with the parents, more bike riding doing jumps and tricks and then back to the pool until it closed. Everybody always wanted to be the last person of the night to jump off the diving board before the lifeguards blew the 'everybody out of the water' whistle at close.

Then we rode our bikes back home, dried off and it was time for a sleepover with hours of tv shows like Pete & Pete, Ren and Stimpy and Are You Afraid of the Dark with videogames like the original Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2, F-Zero. PC games like 7th Guest, Myst, Duke Nukem and having the first opportunity to test out online multiplayer on Doom over 14.4 baud modems. The rest of the night was filled with candy and sodas, arm wrestling and jokes(both dirty and clean) until the wee hours of the morning. The next day we did it all over again. That was my childhood.

Oh man...you just painted the most vivid and beautiful picture of childhood in the 90's!! You had me at Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid. I actually had a tear roll down my face... Is it any wonder I miss it so much in this day and age?

Did you notice how I didn't even mention the internet? Ahhh nostalgia.