To me, the 1990s had it’s ups like my getting my first ever A-B Honor
Roll in 5th Grade and it’s lows like my near death experience when I
nearly drowned to death during a field trip in pre-school.
But
the 1990s were also the peak years for black sitcoms like A Different
World and In Living Color, but you also had amazing Saturday Morning
cartoon shows from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to X-Men.
And then you had record labels such as Death Row & No Limit
dominating The Billboard Rap music charts in the 1990s. The 1990s was
mostly a very memorable decade in my life.
Here are top 5 things that I loved about The 1990s.
1. The
OG Power Rangers - My favorite thing that I absolutely loved about The
1990s was watching The OG Power Rangers on Saturday Mornings when I was a
kid because prior to that, my life was in emotional and personal
turmoil with me nearly drowning to death at a swimming pool during a
school field trip, my 2nd aunt OD’ing, to my two oldest brothers going
to the pen. But when I watched the pilot episode of The OG Power
Rangers on August 28, 1993, it became a turning point in my life because
seeing The OG 6 Power Rangers on screen especially The OG Black Power
Ranger in Zach Taylor (who was my favorite OG Power Ranger) actually
gave me a newfound purpose in life as this show truly saved my life.
2. Master
P and The Old No Limit Records - As someone who was in their early
teens in the late 1990s, Master P and The Old No Limit Records were a
musical juggernaut that not only dominated the Billboard Rap Music
Charts throughout the years of 1997-1999, but they were so popular in
the mainstream that they were featured in a “Country vs Rap Music” WCW
storyline against The West Texas Rednecks in the summer of 1999 to me
that’s better than these garbage PG Disney story lines for the current
male wrestlers on the WWE main roster today. I remember my first time
hearing Master P and The Old No Limit Records music when some of my
older brothers riding around my old neighborhood and playing “We’re No
Limit Soldiers, I Thought I Told You”. I remember an old classmate of
mine coming to school one day wearing a “No Limit Records” shirt saying
“I’m a No Limit Soldier” and I never forgot it either.
3. American
Wrestling - Prior to me becoming a wrestling fan in the late 1990s, I
was a young boy that was heavy into video games, playing baseball with
my younger siblings in front of my old home, and the OG Power Rangers
who I was a huge fan of at the time. I remember one hot July night at
the young age 12, I was basically flipping through channels with the
remote control and found nothing that interested me until I stopped on
Channel 51 which was TNT at the time and I remember watching this one
particular wrestling match on Nitro and the first thought that went
through my head was “What is this?” and as I was watching this match, I
noticed that the crowd was absolutely electric that night and I was
absolutely hooked on this match and after watching the match, I
absolutely fell in love with wrestling. Note: Those crowds in the late
1990s are so much better than the crowds today.
4. The Arcades -
One of the main things that I loved about the 1990s was playing at the
arcades at Mr. Joe’s Pool Room where after school, I would often ask my
grandmother for some money so that I can go and play at the arcades. I
remember being a young video game genius at the time because I was so
good in lasting longer than many other arcade players that used to
frequent the pool room. My favorite arcade games that I loved playing so
much from those days were Aliens, Cobra Command, and X-Men. Even
though I have never got to beat Cobra Command, but I did get to beat the
Aliens and X-Men arcade games many years later. Even though I was
never a good pool player like my older brothers were, but I was a genius
when it came to playing the arcade machines at Mr. Joe’s Pool Room.
5. Sonic
The Hedgehog - As much as I played Mario for The NES, but Sonic was my
#1 favorite video game I enjoyed playing the most throughout the mid to
late 1990s because whenever I played a Sonic game on The Sega Genesis
whether it was The 1st Sonic Game or Sonic 3D, I had an absolute blast
playing these games. My favorite Sonic games that I actually played came
from the 1990s in Sonic 2 and, Sonic and Knuckles and I did beat both
of those games on The Sega Genesis home console. I have been a longtime
fan of Sonic The Hedgehog since I first played the game on the old Sega
Genesis 6-Pak Cartridge that I absolutely hated to blow constantly just
to get the game to actually work on The Sega Genesis so that I can enjoy
the fun and thrills playing Sonic.
The Conclusion - We all have
those trips down nostalgia lane that’s full of good and bad memories,
but we can always cherish the good memories during The Good Ole Days
especially in the 1990s.
By Kwame Shakir
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