The Ps of the 90s
- Toys -
By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net
PARDON the bias, but I think kids who grew up in the 90s (myself included) were pretty lucky with toys. It was sort of a transition year, and we had the best of both worlds — dolls and robots were still in, while video game consoles were introduced. And because computer games were slowly becoming popular, toymakers had to be innovative with their traditional plastic toys.
Here are five toys that were pretty big in the 90s. I’m not going to include the remote-controlled cars and the Barbie dolls because these weren’t really introduced then (much earlier, I believe) and, well, they’ll ruin the title. Here are some toys I remember enjoying when I was growing up:
1. Pogs. Remember those colorful cardboard discs that you stack? Pog is actually an old Hawaiian game that was first introduced in Canada in 1991. Here in the Philippines, it came free with bottled softfdrink crowns, and you claimed your free “pog pack” from your neighborhood sari-sari store. You needed a slammer to hit the stack of pogs, and all the discs that flip will automatically be your playmate’s property — or at least that’s how we played it. I don’t think anybody knows exactly how to play them. They don’t come with instructions, so the rules vary per barangay, I guess.
