| 1990s
Toys
A
decade of fads and prosperity leads to everything from Power Rangers to
Pogs to Pokémon. Tickle Me Elmo pulls a Cabbage Patch on
holiday-shopping parents, while Beanie Babies raise the collector
frenzy to more...

Saturday TV
The Simpsons reinvent the prime time cartoon, while Animaniacs,
Ren & Stimpy, and Batman take the animated world to
wacky, icky, scary new frontiers. more...

Movies
Left Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin finds slapstick
gold, while Disney hits the mother lode from Beauty and the Beast
and Aladdin to Mulan and Tarzan. A new wave of
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Fashion
A little something for everyone… Depressed? It always rains in the grunge world of flannels and army surplus. Angry? Let it out, you riot grrrl more...

Arcade Games
The future arrives with a tiger uppercut to the jaw in Street
Fighter II, and the era of the one-on-one fighter kicks in. Mortal
Kombat amps up the gore to more...

Prime Time TV
They’re underachievers and proud of it. Bart, Homer and the rest of the
Simpsons put the “nuclear” in the nuclear family sitcom, while Jerry
Seinfeld scores with a show about “nothing.” more...

Music
Hip-hop music jumps off the streets and into the pop mainstream thanks to high-stepping, fast-rapping performers like Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. Later on, the hip-hop
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