What fad from your childhood/teenage years used to be "in" but now has vanished?

Coco Cola "Spinners" (yo yo's). Seen them be big twice over the years, once in the 80's and once in the early 90's.
 
Micro Machines
Tamagotchi (my sister was into these)
Naff Co 54 clothing, jackets mostly
British Knights trainers
Slapping people like the dude from the Tango ad
McDonalds birthday parties
Getting your favourite cartoons taped over with your Mum's soaps
People letting their dogs out to walk themselves
 
cheesyboy said:
My daughter, 6, still plays with loom bands - seems to be going strong at her school.

LCD handheld games are a big thing from my primary years that are extinct. We all used to bring them in to school. I had a Turtles one. and a Mario game watch.
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I had those games. I had the turtles one and the Top Gun one. I also had the dual screen Donkey Kong one.

There was also another type of handheld game that you put up to your eyes and looked through like binoculars. It had buttons on the top for playing it.

And of course, the classic that was Frogger :D
 
Born in 1969 so I went to primary school in the 1970's, middle school late 70's to early 80's and high school in the 1980's.

Marbles
Conkers
LCD watches with tune alarms that you set to go off in the middle of a lesson
Pez
Catapalts (yes in school)
Playing "chicken" which was to rub a coin on the back of your hand so hard and fast that it bled - that one got banned
British bulldog - the full contact sport version, not the mamby pamby touch version occasionally seen nowadays
Shouting bundle and pointing at someone so the whole school jumped on them
Gola green flash trainers (no idea why)
Fred Perry clothes
Harrington jackets (although they keep making a comeback)

School was great fun at playtime :)
 
Hades said:
Playing "chicken" which was to rub a coin on the back of your hand so hard and fast that it bled - that one got banned
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Pitch and toss got banned in our school because it was gambling. So we just played it off school grounds before school started and during lunch breaks.
 
Forgot another one. All the school kids used to arrange mass fights with each other after school. I avoided those but it was a big thing. No idea if that sort of thing still happens? I'm not talking about one or two people but dozens at a time... and I lived in what I considered a nice area :/
 
robfosters said:
There was also another type of handheld game that you put up to your eyes and looked through like binoculars. It had buttons on the top for playing it.
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The Tomy 3D games they were. Thundering Turbos, and a Shark Attack game. I still have a Thundering Turbos. I got a little Astro Wars tabletop game too.
 
Going out with my mates for a game of footy was an in thing. I think nowadays we would have given in to playing Fifa online.
 
I remember things like Wearem Scarems that you had to collect crisp packets and send away for. and PG tips tea cards were the collectable ones years before other cards came along.
we used to swap the Dr Who cards/characters that came w/ Weetabix too, the back of the packets used to have different board games printed on them.
the 1/32nd scale soldiers were hugely collectable and varied when I was a kid too, used to be millions of boxes in the toy shops. used to line them up in the garden and hoy rocks at them :-D
 
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