I'm 29 and while I only got to personally experience the 90s for a few years that I could remember, it will always be my favorite decade! I love the movies and video games from that time period. I'm such a geek that I have a corner in my game room specifically dedicated to the 90s, with a CRT tv, VCR, VHS tapes, 90s video games, Furbies, and a bunch of movie/video game posters of the 90s!
To be fair; most things about life in the '90's were phenomenal. The music, the movies, (even a lot of the cartoons) (even though the staple '80's cartoons are arguably the best of all time.) The last generation to experience life before cellphone's and having to actually memorize phone numbers and everyday facts. Long story short; man am I glad to have grown up during those times.
@@aaronroberts8601 Okay guy; I'll bite. As one who's childhood consisted of the '80's, and teen's consisted of the '90's; I have to disagree. If you didn't live between those two particular decades at the exact time that I did, it's all subjective and you have no real place for comparison.
Do y'all remember those cassette tapes McDonalds put in Happy Meals for Halloween one year? I still remember this one song that I think was sung by Grimace "Yes I like to SCARE myself, SCARE myself, it really can be FUN!"
They were produced by like rhino records or something.. I remember being fixated on the rhino guy on the logo lol.. as well as listening to that exact song in the family minivan 😵💫
Yes! I love that movie, Jim Varney was a great character actor. Also the Goosebumps pilot episode The Haunted Mask was another awesome Halloween staple of the 90s.
I think another aspect worth mentioning is how cable TV allowed us all to be immersed in Halloween season. Nearly all the shows were producing special Halloween episodes and so many networks had horror movie marathons. Current streaming isolates everyone away from that shared experience.
Anyone remember the big orange pumpkin leaf bags? You could take your leaves and put them in the pumpkin bags and you’d have Halloween decorations right there.
There was a family where I grew up that filled those with nothing but those taffy candies that came in black and tan wax twist paper wrappers and they had a free raffel ticket box. Each family could leave their home phone(parents had to fill it out) and whoever won they would call them on Halloween to pick it up. They always had three of them. They did that every year I went treating. They also offered apples for kids that couldn't have candy 😊
'86 here too, but December. I have a photograph from my first Halloween, when my mom dressed me as a clown. You can see fake cobwebs and whatnot in our living room.
every year i wait for that 90s halloween feeling but its never gonna return :(, it wasnt just the day it was the seasonal feeling that started around september
They can in your own home. Find a neighborhood to walk around Halloween night where there are still strick or treaters, decorate your home, enjoy these nostalgic videos. I do it every year and it’s great.
@@dizzyparkermusicI’m 43 and I do exactly this every year. I go to spirit Halloween multiple times, watch all the old Nick shows on the universal app, and just over from my neighborhood they have a multi street night time trick or treat event where all the houses decorate and people sit out side with fires and Halloween themed music going. I take my kids (who are getting older now) but we still go Take in the sights sounds and smells and enjoy a few “adult” treats the people hand out to us older “kids”. Getting older doesn’t have to be all bad as long as you don’t let it.
@dev null and yet that’s a matter of opinion. A lot of ppl say the 50s were the best and i wouldn’t beg to differ on that either.. They seem to be an innocent time and How would I know if it was or wasn’t the best .. i wasn’t there
I still had a flood of kids coming to my house during Halloween, it usually depends on the date and time. Some neighborhoods have curfews, can you believe that?
Was about to comment this exact thing! Simpsons Halloween specials were often the highlight of my Halloween nights, munching on my trick or treat candy and staying up till midnight. So much fun!
I'm 39 and spend most of my life feeling nostalgic for the 90's. I feel bad for missing the past so much because I feel that I end up not living in the present enough, but these were the best days of my life.
I tell everyone all the time thr same nithing can beat my childhood unless maybe i have a kid soemday maybe that will change everything like they say but idk
Because there’s really nothing to look forward to in this present. We are not collectively wrong feeling this nostalgic about a period that will never come back. Something is wrong. People have become more cynical. We’re losing our parents because they’re aging. Our pets are dead or dying. We’re stuck in the grind of a 9-5 with poor financial progress where many of us are drowning in student debt or the idea of buying a home has escaped many Millennials. People are addicted to the internet and it has injured our neurology. Politics has gotten worse and people are joining cults. COVID is here to stay and the world is warming up. What the hell is there to look forward to??
Halloween is much bigger and better in Salem. Many people come for the hocus-pocus tour alone. It feels like Halloween all year long and there's so much history.
One of my favorite 90s Halloween memories was when Burger King were releasing Universal Monster figures each week in October. I remember wanting to get the Dracula one the most and finally getting one on a night when my dad took me our local Burger King after picking up my older cousin from work. I was so excited to have those toys and played with them all the time. Not bad for a few fast food toys.
I remember mom would stop by Mcdonalds comming home from our October trips to get us Happy meals so we could get the buckets, and use them for trick or treating. Good times.
Had to have a note from a parent when checking out Scary Stories at my elementary school in the '90's. They were in high demand and totally frightening.
I am a Halloween baby born 1990! And loved everything Halloween during the 90s!! The pumpkin leaf bags, the pillow cases full of candy, and the costumes with painted faces. I have bad seasonal depression during the fall…
The 90s were the best time to celebrate Halloween! Things are so different now. We were still allowed to go out and Trick or Treat, and the local shopping mall also used to have Trick or Treating. Neighbors used to give out coupons for Friendly's, and schools used to have Halloween parties, or people would have them at their houses. It was just a better time. Great TV specials and TV episodes, too!
Dude, thank you so much! I was born in 86 so I got to experience the 90s Halloween at the peak kid age, during it's peak. EVERY SINGLE THING you listed here is straight from my past. I called the Nick thing but got disconnected.
It’s October 31st, 2021. Happy Halloween 🎃 everyone! I grew up in the 1990s and Halloween was so much fun! It’s crazy looking back at our family Kodak pictures from the 90s and seeing my costumes such as the power rangers white ranger and Ghost face from Scream. Halloween has a “cozier” vibe back then (if that makes any sense) Welp.. tonight I’ll be taking my 4 yr old son trick or treating in our neighborhood which actually has a bunch of decorated homes! 👻 Much love, happy Halloween!
Yep, that's the best way to describe the essence of 90s holiday gatherings specifically Halloween and Christmas. Very "festive" alot more enthusiasm and consideration towards the celebrations.
I was a teenager in the 1990's, so I can only vouch for about 1\3rd of these. I can tell you for certain however, that every SCREAM sequel in the 90's, good or not, was very successful.
I still have my McNugget happy meal toys. My son plays with them now. I still have my Halloween Grimace, Birdie, and Hamburgler that you can dress up in their ghost, pumpkin, and bat costumes. I also have a cassette that you can play on the radio that they gave out on Halloween too.
It was so easy to get into the Halloween spirit back then. You didn’t have all the streaming and social media.. you HAD to basically get your media from the TV. So all the specials and commercials actually stuck with us because we all saw them. Now you get to choose what you watch and when you watch it. The 90’s was the best and last great decade for Halloween. I am glad it seems to be gaining momentum again but Halloween will just never be the same as it was those 30 some years ago.
I swear the 90s were legit the last decade of the old world and the way things _used_ to be. There's basically pre nine one one. Then there's POST 9 ONE ONE. Everything just ended after that. I remember it was a slow decline but by like '04 you barely saw kids trick r treating anymore. You had less decorations, less people celebrating, and less people spending money on candy for kids. It's like people just gave up hope, or happiness, or just didn't care anymore. The same happened with all major holidays soon after. Like it's never really been the same. Then around that time you had the introduction of all this tech and every year it got better and better at lightning speed compared to before that. And that kind of sped up time for everyone. Time used to be slow. And the 90s was the last decade to really have that.
The 1980s were the best and last full decade people got to experience before things changed. The early 1990s were the last dance however by 1994 signs of the internet were already starting to appear. The following year saw Microsoft's Windows 95 PC operating system. By the end of the decade people were logging into the world wide web via dial up modem and getting their first taste of e-mail with programs like America Online. Social media was just around the corner. I was a kid in the 1980s and a teen in the 1990s. I got to experience the best of both decades which is a tremendous blessing.
@@1977TA I agree with everything you said but you have to admit, the 90s were the final nail, the last hoorah. Everything changed forever in the 2000s. I'm 36, born in '88 but I have more in common with Gen X than I do younger millennials or Gen z. There's a clear cut off, a clear division. I think more like and act more like Gen X than I do younger millennials or Gen z. I think that has a lot to do with the Internet age. Where I'm from most households didn't have Internet until the 2000s. Heck, I didn't even have cable. We still played outside, still drank out of hoses, and still came home when the streetlights came on. I genuinely feel people around my age are the where the cutoff is and truly the last of a generation. Anyone I've ever met under the age of approximately 34 is so vastly different in terms of just about everything. I actually loathe most people under 34.
@@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed I agree that's why I said the 90s were in fact the last dance of the world as we knew it prior to what it became at the end of the decade into the 2000s. Best thing about being born in 1988 is you were spared having a smart phone in your hand at a young age. Kids still played outside like they did in my generation (X) for the most part. Anyone who was born before social media should consider themselves lucky.
I lived in a small town where Internet dial up wasn't available until 1999. 9 straight 1990's years with as much fun available as the '80's. Better video games in the '90's with Doom, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Wing Commander available. I was a teen through most of the '90's myself. I'm glad Internet was an infant back then.
@@DS-lw4tn The 1990s were sort of a golden age for video games. Nintendo and Sega were at war with each other. Super Nintendo vs. Sega Genesis. Then Sony got in the fight with the first PlayStation and stole control of the market from Nintendo and Sega. I'm glad I was there for it all!
Yeah... except for the opioid epidemic, and the gay bashing... and zero accommodations for mental health... and dial up internet... and no cell phones or GPS... no Netflix, no RUclips... I'm sorry. I know I'm ruining your nostalgia. I miss the 90s too, I do. I miss watching Nickelodeon, and playing on my Nintendo 64, and reading Goosebumps books. I miss being a kid. I just try to be that one reminder that nothing is ever perfect, even when we thought it was.
You know why the 90s was so good? The internet was only around the last half and in its infant stage. Last of the natural humans raised without social media
It’s tragic: as the boomers age, many are reluctant to leave their homes, settling in the suburbs making it difficult for millennials and early Gen-z and their children (provided they’re having any) to continue to the Halloween ritual, thus diminishing the holiday across the western world. But as a man of almost forty, I now fondly recall these Nickelodeon specials and McDonald’s buckets filled with sugary treats.
I understand yeah every generations different in 30 now and I feel im starting to see it more and feel it I dont have kids yet but like idk if I would feel hallowrrn is the best these days like it was in the 2000s
I agree 100%, the 90's was the best Halloween era. Networks and shows weren't afraid to go dark and scary, and there were tons of iconic movies. Overall, the holiday itself just seemed to be a bigger deal back then. Sure, it's still a very popular holiday, but back then it was another level. Things changed after 9/11, and never reached the same point again. Thankfully, over the last few years it seems like things have started to change and it may reach those gory days again. At least we can hope it does.
I would love to have another round of like Nickedloen rennisance or anither 90s disney run and sure giid horror movies it just dint seem like much tv or movies have been all that good since 2000s
Halloween in the late 80s and the entire 90s was a magical time to be in real life. Their was no smartphone and social media. Movies cartoons television culture was over the top so awesome. Times was simple and very fun. The spirit of Halloween with family friends and acquaintances were very close and created memorable moments of keeping that spirit alive while in school whether its elementary middle or high school. They were all fun in different ways and styles. NOW...modern Halloween feels like just another Tuesday SMH 😢
I have been trying for decades now to try to figure out WHAT made Halloween feel so much like Halloween in the 90s so that I may harness that and recreate it because I miss that feeling SO much. In the less than desirable childhood I had, Halloween was always the highlight for me so it means so much to me to be able to recreate it. One day I hope to finally have that feeling again..
I knowww! I think it was because when it was Halloween EVERYthing was geared towards Halloween. We didn't have this Halloween mixed in with Thanksgiving with a side of Christmas vibe we have now. October was dark, moody, foreboding - everything a misfit child could want.
@@mattdad8429 yes I've realized that they don't make Halloween themed commercials (well, ads now) not even half as much as they used to. Store aisles would be decked out for Halloween, too. It used to feel so festive but now it's like everything is just so sterile with little to no personality anymore. I don't know if that's to not scare off religious folk or what it is but honestly I hate it. I wish Halloween was as fun now as it was back in the 90s (that's when I was a kid but from what I've gathered, it's always been a fun, month long thing long before the 90s) and seems to have stopped some time before 2010 and since then it's gotten worse to the point that we might get a "happy Halloween" from some random cashier because THEY wanted to say it. Luckily at least my job lets us come in with costumes on Halloween which is cool but that's about it aside from them adding "thriller" and "somebody's watching me' to our playlist for the month lol it ain't much but at this point I'll take what I can get I guess. Nobody around here really decorates for Halloween anymore either and it's sad. There was these two brothers that lived on the cross street of my old neighborhood that used to go all out with costumed mannequins and everything in their huge yard but after their dad died, they stopped doing it cause they never really cared for it but their dad loved it. I tried to convince them to keep doing it in their dad's honor but that didn't work which is a bummer but I can also understand if it makes them sad or something now. It just sucks cause my oldest son loves Halloween as much as I do but I wish he could have seen it when I was a kid cause he hasn't seen NOTHING compared to how it used to be.
Something I found has really helped me to regain my Halloween spirit, was finding actual Halloween events to go to. Whether local events or places like Corn Mazes and Haunted houses, that really puts me back in the spirit of the season. My absolute favorite is Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. It's a fantastic event if you get a chance to go.
Im 28 and im so grateful to have experienced this time in the us. Holidays dont give the same fuzzy feeling anymore. Cant wait to have my own kids and try to recreate the feeling
In my neighborhood Halloween was perfect. October was when fall really set in and all the trees looked dead. The schools and houses were always decorated and festive. The cold breeze and orange leaves in the streets. Nickelodeon had halloween marathons. I wish it was always like that.
My direct relative is Winifred Holman a woman accused of witchcraft in Cambridge years before the Salem hysteria. She actually took her accusers to court and sued them for defamation of character and she won and walked free as well as her accusers had to pay her court fees. It was an incredible story. Two of her daughters were named Mary and Sarah. When we found this woman in our direct lineage, we took it to the Associated Daughters of Early American witches so we could be included in their registry and they told us that our relative is indeed the inspiration for Winifred Sanderson and that the producers of the movie came to them when they were doing research for the movie. They changed our family name and obviously her narrative but her story was what inspired the character. It's the coolest honor ever! What is also interesting is the fact she was actually the village natural healer and midwife as well as a widow who used her trade to put food on the table so she was a prime candidate for that kind of accusation. You can find the transcripts of her trial online!
@@90s-rewind It’s pretty awesome! She’s the only accused witch as far as I’ve found who took her accusers on in a legal sense and won!!! Her story came so many years before the Salem hysteria that it’s been buried by the tragedy but I wish more people knew it! Amazing that she was able to stand up for herself and survive back then!
Im 34 im 90s for life we had it all gold era so Halloween 🎃 was the best its ever gunna be back then it cant be matched its undefeated 90s Halloween for life goosebumps was a big help
Bring back my real Halloween! I miss when Halloween gave you fear and excitement, you'd be seeing and consuming Halloween everything and it was the best back then!!! 💜💯✨
The thing i liked the most is every one had to make their own decorations, no two houses would have the same junky blow up thing you'd see over and over at wal-mart. snakes made of drain pipes climbing through trees, manikins with grusome guts, spiders the size of trucks towering over driveways all truely something to behold.
This. I was a preteen and teen in the 90s. I remember Halloween being awesome in the 80s too. I love both decades. 80s a little nore, although the 90s had less smoke. I always remember the McDs Halloween bucket happy meals,and the McDs commercials with the puppet chicken Mcnuggets dressed up like mummies,Dracula and Bride of Frankenstein . Those chicken McNuggets were so cute and made me want a Happy Meal.
I grew up just after this (born in late 1997), but I still feel as if I caught the tail end of this amazing time in the early 2000s. I will always miss it.
Man, I loved growing up in the 90’s. it was the best time. I believe, I wouldn’t be so into Halloween if I wasn’t. Something about Halloween always keep a warm feeling in my soul, everytime I think about it.
I now thrift anything 90s I can get ahold of. Especially Halloween / Christmas / thanksgiving things. The inside of our house during the holidays is a pure vibe straight from the best times of my life. 90s kid for life. And my daughter will be raised the same way. Except she won’t have the cool commercials like we had during the holidays. Now it’s all streaming.
Lets not forget, The Misfits made some seriously awesome music videos in that era! I'm talking about Scream, and Dig up Her Bones! Also AFI released their best music in this era. Horror punk never had a better era.
I see stick stickley, i automatically click I always wanted to do that Nick or treat telephone gig just like I always wanted to be on that one Toys “R” Us shopping cart grab n dash, don’t know if it’s the Rose Tennant glasses, but the 90s were a hell of a time to be a kid
MK and Ashley were the shit growing up. I had an older sister and she had allllll of their stuff. Down to the hair dryer and wall hung corded(!) telephone. I legit couldn’t imagine working that much at that age.
As a 90s kid this hits home i think for me halloween was always my favorite holiday evenmore then christmas. My mom loved christmas and dont me me wrong its great but since i wasnt alive in the 50s like her its not the same i guess thats how halloween is for us 90s kids now
This is true. The 90s Halloweens were kind of a lighter version of the 80s Halloweens. The 90s everything was spooky and fun, but in the 80s you genuinely thought you were going to be murdered.
As a kid , october wouldnt feel like halloween until i heard the opening song to disneys halloween treat ! Every year i would look forward to ainging along to that theme song and rejoicing in the beautiful month of halloween in new england. I'm 42 now, such good times in the past 🧡🖤
The 90’s was such an awesome time for Halloween I remember people always went all out and looking forward for it every year! Now I’ve met so many people who either refuse to participate in it, are against it or flat out discourage others participating in it. Sometimes it just annoys me that people can’t just be live and let live and suck the life out of everything.
Yes halloween back in the 90s was part my childhood. Yes double toilet and trouble I remember watching that on tv on abc. I remeber halloween town on disney channel and boys meet world halloween epsiode. Nightmare before christmas and hocus pocus iconic halloween movies
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This was MY generation!
I'm in my 30s and will forever be stuck in Halloween in the 90s. ❤
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Me too
I still pine for those Halloween nights back in the 90s
@@MollyF86 90's had the best Halloween decorations too
Same!
I am a 37 year old woman, that will be forever stuck in the 90's. I wish we could go back, the 90's were just a different vibe. I miss it!!
87 baby also 👋🏼
Disney went HARD on the holidays. I wish I could go back in time.
I’m in my 30’s and wow, I guess we are women now
Halloween just doesn’t feel the same 🫤
I'm 29 and while I only got to personally experience the 90s for a few years that I could remember, it will always be my favorite decade! I love the movies and video games from that time period. I'm such a geek that I have a corner in my game room specifically dedicated to the 90s, with a CRT tv, VCR, VHS tapes, 90s video games, Furbies, and a bunch of movie/video game posters of the 90s!
Halloween in the 90's was phenomenal, hands down
To be fair; most things about life in the '90's were phenomenal. The music, the movies, (even a lot of the cartoons) (even though the staple '80's cartoons are arguably the best of all time.) The last generation to experience life before cellphone's and having to actually memorize phone numbers and everyday facts. Long story short; man am I glad to have grown up during those times.
@@nickparsons337 I couldn't agree more witcha
No question!
Ummm wrong....the 80's were better.
@@aaronroberts8601 Okay guy; I'll bite. As one who's childhood consisted of the '80's, and teen's consisted of the '90's; I have to disagree. If you didn't live between those two particular decades at the exact time that I did, it's all subjective and you have no real place for comparison.
Do y'all remember those cassette tapes McDonalds put in Happy Meals for Halloween one year? I still remember this one song that I think was sung by Grimace "Yes I like to SCARE myself, SCARE myself, it really can be FUN!"
whoa we had totally forgotten about those. thanks for the reminder!
I got the addams family and addams family values movie on videotape one year and still have them! McDonald's was awesome then
They were produced by like rhino records or something.. I remember being fixated on the rhino guy on the logo lol.. as well as listening to that exact song in the family minivan 😵💫
My gay neighbor had that cassette 😂
Ernest Scared Stupid. One of the best Halloween movies of all time!
Yes! I love that movie, Jim Varney was a great character actor. Also the Goosebumps pilot episode The Haunted Mask was another awesome Halloween staple of the 90s.
Another man of culture. I tip my glass of miak to you.
Yeeesss!!!!!!
How about a bumper sandwich booger lips!
We heard you!
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I think another aspect worth mentioning is how cable TV allowed us all to be immersed in Halloween season. Nearly all the shows were producing special Halloween episodes and so many networks had horror movie marathons. Current streaming isolates everyone away from that shared experience.
That is a great point!
Anyone remember the big orange pumpkin leaf bags? You could take your leaves and put them in the pumpkin bags and you’d have Halloween decorations right there.
Yes!!!
Those still exist!
There was a family where I grew up that filled those with nothing but those taffy candies that came in black and tan wax twist paper wrappers and they had a free raffel ticket box. Each family could leave their home phone(parents had to fill it out) and whoever won they would call them on Halloween to pick it up. They always had three of them. They did that every year I went treating. They also offered apples for kids that couldn't have candy 😊
I still use em 😎
When I was a kid, we used to put those on our roof.
I was born in 86 so got to experience the full 90s experience
Loved the 90s, it was just a fun decade to be a kid in
‘84 here. Got a little of both
'86 here as well. Truly wish I could give my own kids the magic of the 80s and 90s.
82 here. great times
'86 here too, but December. I have a photograph from my first Halloween, when my mom dressed me as a clown. You can see fake cobwebs and whatnot in our living room.
every year i wait for that 90s halloween feeling but its never gonna return :(, it wasnt just the day it was the seasonal feeling that started around september
we know what you mean!
As depressing as it it, I know what you mean.
They can in your own home. Find a neighborhood to walk around Halloween night where there are still strick or treaters, decorate your home, enjoy these nostalgic videos. I do it every year and it’s great.
@@dizzyparkermusicI’m 43 and I do exactly this every year. I go to spirit Halloween multiple times, watch all the old Nick shows on the universal app, and just over from my neighborhood they have a multi street night time trick or treat event where all the houses decorate and people sit out side with fires and Halloween themed music going. I take my kids (who are getting older now) but we still go Take in the sights sounds and smells and enjoy a few “adult” treats the people hand out to us older “kids”. Getting older doesn’t have to be all bad as long as you don’t let it.
That feeling was called being a child. Try enjoying life now instead of living in the past.
90s was the best! Nothing like today. Kids don’t even trick or treat anymore
@dev null Umm I’m 40 years old. I consider 90s to be a great time as i do the 80s
@dev null and yet that’s a matter of opinion. A lot of ppl say the 50s were the best and i wouldn’t beg to differ on that either.. They seem to be an innocent time and How would I know if it was or wasn’t the best .. i wasn’t there
@dev null guys,guys! every generation is horrible.
They do, just not in your town. I can guarantee it's due to your community not coming together for events.
I still had a flood of kids coming to my house during Halloween, it usually depends on the date and time. Some neighborhoods have curfews, can you believe that?
I gotta give an honorable mention to the Simpsons Halloween specials. Those were the best!
Definitely! We watch those episodes all October long
Was about to comment this exact thing! Simpsons Halloween specials were often the highlight of my Halloween nights, munching on my trick or treat candy and staying up till midnight. So much fun!
Love those haha
Tree house of horror
The best!!
I'm 39 and spend most of my life feeling nostalgic for the 90's. I feel bad for missing the past so much because I feel that I end up not living in the present enough, but these were the best days of my life.
I tell everyone all the time thr same nithing can beat my childhood unless maybe i have a kid soemday maybe that will change everything like they say but idk
Because there’s really nothing to look forward to in this present. We are not collectively wrong feeling this nostalgic about a period that will never come back. Something is wrong. People have become more cynical. We’re losing our parents because they’re aging. Our pets are dead or dying. We’re stuck in the grind of a 9-5 with poor financial progress where many of us are drowning in student debt or the idea of buying a home has escaped many Millennials. People are addicted to the internet and it has injured our neurology. Politics has gotten worse and people are joining cults. COVID is here to stay and the world is warming up. What the hell is there to look forward to??
For someone who grew up celebrating Halloween in the 2000s, i agree with this video.
Haha thank you!
i got best time, about 96-03
80 and 90's one of the best times to be alive in all of human history
Halloween is much bigger and better in Salem. Many people come for the hocus-pocus tour alone. It feels like Halloween all year long and there's so much history.
That’s awesome!
I stayed in the Hawthorne Hotel for two nights and can confirm it is haunted.
I want to go visit Salem, MA for a week within Halloween so badly!!! It’s one of my top places to visit
Were you in room 1408?@@StrangeScaryNewEngland
Goosebumps!!!!! How did they not make your list
An unfortunate oversight 😭
Or Ererie Indiana
Gasp! Yes! Goosebumps was the best! Loved both the books and the show!
Ermahgerd!
@@benharrison5816 Gersberms!
They use to make Halloween specials on tv in the 90s. And most tv shows would have a Halloween episode.
I used love all the home improvement with Tim Allen halloween episodes.
I want to cry knowing these days are gone. 90s was my childhood and Halloween is truly the best time of the year and remains my favorite to this day
Everything was better in the 90’s. EVERYTHING
One of my favorite 90s Halloween memories was when Burger King were releasing Universal Monster figures each week in October. I remember wanting to get the Dracula one the most and finally getting one on a night when my dad took me our local Burger King after picking up my older cousin from work. I was so excited to have those toys and played with them all the time. Not bad for a few fast food toys.
I remember those toys! They were awesome!
I was 10 in 1990 so i got to experience both the 1980’s and 1990’s as a kid and they were both amazing.
I remember mom would stop by Mcdonalds comming home from our October trips to get us Happy meals so we could get the buckets, and use them for trick or treating. Good times.
Are you afraid of the darks theme song and vibe will forever live thru me and my compositions. 🖤
Are You Afraid of the Dark and Unsolved Mysteries theme songs went unnecessarily hard.
@@mattdad8429 yeah and that one narrators voice that was on unsolved mysteries
Had to have a note from a parent when checking out Scary Stories at my elementary school in the '90's. They were in high demand and totally frightening.
Too funny!
I am a Halloween baby born 1990! And loved everything Halloween during the 90s!! The pumpkin leaf bags, the pillow cases full of candy, and the costumes with painted faces. I have bad seasonal depression during the fall…
Totally forgot about the pumpkin leaf bags, those were the best!
The 90s were the best time to celebrate Halloween! Things are so different now. We were still allowed to go out and Trick or Treat, and the local shopping mall also used to have Trick or Treating. Neighbors used to give out coupons for Friendly's, and schools used to have Halloween parties, or people would have them at their houses. It was just a better time. Great TV specials and TV episodes, too!
I totally agree!
I’m 36 and my midlife crisis is peaking. I miss the 90’s so much!
80s baby 90s kid and I miss it so much! You don’t think things will change so much 😭
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Dude, thank you so much! I was born in 86 so I got to experience the 90s Halloween at the peak kid age, during it's peak. EVERY SINGLE THING you listed here is straight from my past. I called the Nick thing but got disconnected.
Glad it connected with you. Peak 90s Halloween was something special!
Hey I was born in 86 too and love the 90’s!
It’s October 31st, 2021. Happy Halloween 🎃 everyone! I grew up in the 1990s and Halloween was so much fun! It’s crazy looking back at our family Kodak pictures from the 90s and seeing my costumes such as the power rangers white ranger and Ghost face from Scream. Halloween has a “cozier” vibe back then (if that makes any sense) Welp.. tonight I’ll be taking my 4 yr old son trick or treating in our neighborhood which actually has a bunch of decorated homes! 👻 Much love, happy Halloween!
Love this, thanks for the comment!
It's September 22, 2022. The McDonald's Halloween buckets are set to release October 16, 2022.
"cozier vibe" = wholesome, almost melancholy yet cheerful, "festive"
Halloween in the 90s was soooooo much more festive 🎉🎉🎉
Its so dull now
Yep, that's the best way to describe the essence of 90s holiday gatherings specifically Halloween and Christmas. Very "festive" alot more enthusiasm and consideration towards the celebrations.
I was a teenager in the 1990's, so I can only vouch for about 1\3rd of these. I can tell you for certain however, that every SCREAM sequel in the 90's, good or not, was very successful.
@@Chainsawhappy they are the best!
@@Chainsawhappy also, love your username
I still have my McNugget happy meal toys. My son plays with them now. I still have my Halloween Grimace, Birdie, and Hamburgler that you can dress up in their ghost, pumpkin, and bat costumes. I also have a cassette that you can play on the radio that they gave out on Halloween too.
That's awesome!
It was so easy to get into the Halloween spirit back then. You didn’t have all the streaming and social media.. you HAD to basically get your media from the TV. So all the specials and commercials actually stuck with us because we all saw them. Now you get to choose what you watch and when you watch it. The 90’s was the best and last great decade for Halloween. I am glad it seems to be gaining momentum again but Halloween will just never be the same as it was those 30 some years ago.
Good point for sure!
I wish Halloween could be like this again. I don't know if it's just because I got old or what, but it just doesn't have that same magical feel.
I swear the 90s were legit the last decade of the old world and the way things _used_ to be. There's basically pre nine one one. Then there's POST 9 ONE ONE. Everything just ended after that. I remember it was a slow decline but by like '04 you barely saw kids trick r treating anymore. You had less decorations, less people celebrating, and less people spending money on candy for kids. It's like people just gave up hope, or happiness, or just didn't care anymore. The same happened with all major holidays soon after. Like it's never really been the same. Then around that time you had the introduction of all this tech and every year it got better and better at lightning speed compared to before that. And that kind of sped up time for everyone. Time used to be slow. And the 90s was the last decade to really have that.
The 1980s were the best and last full decade people got to experience before things changed. The early 1990s were the last dance however by 1994 signs of the internet were already starting to appear. The following year saw Microsoft's Windows 95 PC operating system. By the end of the decade people were logging into the world wide web via dial up modem and getting their first taste of e-mail with programs like America Online. Social media was just around the corner. I was a kid in the 1980s and a teen in the 1990s. I got to experience the best of both decades which is a tremendous blessing.
@@1977TA I agree with everything you said but you have to admit, the 90s were the final nail, the last hoorah. Everything changed forever in the 2000s. I'm 36, born in '88 but I have more in common with Gen X than I do younger millennials or Gen z. There's a clear cut off, a clear division. I think more like and act more like Gen X than I do younger millennials or Gen z. I think that has a lot to do with the Internet age. Where I'm from most households didn't have Internet until the 2000s. Heck, I didn't even have cable. We still played outside, still drank out of hoses, and still came home when the streetlights came on. I genuinely feel people around my age are the where the cutoff is and truly the last of a generation. Anyone I've ever met under the age of approximately 34 is so vastly different in terms of just about everything. I actually loathe most people under 34.
@@therevolutionwillnotbeyoutubed I agree that's why I said the 90s were in fact the last dance of the world as we knew it prior to what it became at the end of the decade into the 2000s. Best thing about being born in 1988 is you were spared having a smart phone in your hand at a young age. Kids still played outside like they did in my generation (X) for the most part. Anyone who was born before social media should consider themselves lucky.
I lived in a small town where Internet dial up wasn't available until 1999. 9 straight 1990's years with as much fun available as the '80's. Better video games in the '90's with Doom, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, and Wing Commander available. I was a teen through most of the '90's myself. I'm glad Internet was an infant back then.
@@DS-lw4tn The 1990s were sort of a golden age for video games. Nintendo and Sega were at war with each other. Super Nintendo vs. Sega Genesis. Then Sony got in the fight with the first PlayStation and stole control of the market from Nintendo and Sega. I'm glad I was there for it all!
Even the movies Casper, Hocus Pocus, Nightmare Before Christmas
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I miss the 90s … everything was way better
Yeah... except for the opioid epidemic, and the gay bashing... and zero accommodations for mental health... and dial up internet... and no cell phones or GPS... no Netflix, no RUclips...
I'm sorry. I know I'm ruining your nostalgia. I miss the 90s too, I do. I miss watching Nickelodeon, and playing on my Nintendo 64, and reading Goosebumps books. I miss being a kid.
I just try to be that one reminder that nothing is ever perfect, even when we thought it was.
You know why the 90s was so good? The internet was only around the last half and in its infant stage. Last of the natural humans raised without social media
There might be something to that!
There was definitely more mystery and immersion in moments and community. It was the best time.
The trips to Blockbuster were special too. Was fascinated just looking at interesting covers of horror movies.
We couldn’t agree more!
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It’s tragic: as the boomers age, many are reluctant to leave their homes, settling in the suburbs making it difficult for millennials and early Gen-z and their children (provided they’re having any) to continue to the Halloween ritual, thus diminishing the holiday across the western world.
But as a man of almost forty, I now fondly recall these Nickelodeon specials and McDonald’s buckets filled with sugary treats.
I understand yeah every generations different in 30 now and I feel im starting to see it more and feel it I dont have kids yet but like idk if I would feel hallowrrn is the best these days like it was in the 2000s
I agree 100%, the 90's was the best Halloween era. Networks and shows weren't afraid to go dark and scary, and there were tons of iconic movies. Overall, the holiday itself just seemed to be a bigger deal back then. Sure, it's still a very popular holiday, but back then it was another level. Things changed after 9/11, and never reached the same point again. Thankfully, over the last few years it seems like things have started to change and it may reach those gory days again. At least we can hope it does.
I would love to have another round of like Nickedloen rennisance or anither 90s disney run and sure giid horror movies it just dint seem like much tv or movies have been all that good since 2000s
Halloween in the late 80s and the entire 90s was a magical time to be in real life. Their was no smartphone and social media. Movies cartoons television culture was over the top so awesome. Times was simple and very fun. The spirit of Halloween with family friends and acquaintances were very close and created memorable moments of keeping that spirit alive while in school whether its elementary middle or high school. They were all fun in different ways and styles. NOW...modern Halloween feels like just another Tuesday SMH 😢
I have been trying for decades now to try to figure out WHAT made Halloween feel so much like Halloween in the 90s so that I may harness that and recreate it because I miss that feeling SO much. In the less than desirable childhood I had, Halloween was always the highlight for me so it means so much to me to be able to recreate it. One day I hope to finally have that feeling again..
It's hard to recreate nostalgia, huh?
@@90s-rewind yup lol I started making playlists on here of Halloween cartoon marathons and stuff from when I was a kid.
I knowww! I think it was because when it was Halloween EVERYthing was geared towards Halloween. We didn't have this Halloween mixed in with Thanksgiving with a side of Christmas vibe we have now. October was dark, moody, foreboding - everything a misfit child could want.
@@mattdad8429 yes I've realized that they don't make Halloween themed commercials (well, ads now) not even half as much as they used to. Store aisles would be decked out for Halloween, too. It used to feel so festive but now it's like everything is just so sterile with little to no personality anymore. I don't know if that's to not scare off religious folk or what it is but honestly I hate it. I wish Halloween was as fun now as it was back in the 90s (that's when I was a kid but from what I've gathered, it's always been a fun, month long thing long before the 90s) and seems to have stopped some time before 2010 and since then it's gotten worse to the point that we might get a "happy Halloween" from some random cashier because THEY wanted to say it. Luckily at least my job lets us come in with costumes on Halloween which is cool but that's about it aside from them adding "thriller" and "somebody's watching me' to our playlist for the month lol it ain't much but at this point I'll take what I can get I guess. Nobody around here really decorates for Halloween anymore either and it's sad. There was these two brothers that lived on the cross street of my old neighborhood that used to go all out with costumed mannequins and everything in their huge yard but after their dad died, they stopped doing it cause they never really cared for it but their dad loved it. I tried to convince them to keep doing it in their dad's honor but that didn't work which is a bummer but I can also understand if it makes them sad or something now. It just sucks cause my oldest son loves Halloween as much as I do but I wish he could have seen it when I was a kid cause he hasn't seen NOTHING compared to how it used to be.
Something I found has really helped me to regain my Halloween spirit, was finding actual Halloween events to go to. Whether local events or places like Corn Mazes and Haunted houses, that really puts me back in the spirit of the season. My absolute favorite is Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios. It's a fantastic event if you get a chance to go.
They left out Goosebumps
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Im 28 and im so grateful to have experienced this time in the us. Holidays dont give the same fuzzy feeling anymore. Cant wait to have my own kids and try to recreate the feeling
Trick or treating in the 90s was so much fun
Agreed!
In my neighborhood Halloween was perfect. October was when fall really set in and all the trees looked dead. The schools and houses were always decorated and festive. The cold breeze and orange leaves in the streets. Nickelodeon had halloween marathons. I wish it was always like that.
Sounds magical!
I’m an October 1990’s baby and grew up in the east coast where Halloween and Christmas were the best time of the year!
My direct relative is Winifred Holman a woman accused of witchcraft in Cambridge years before the Salem hysteria. She actually took her accusers to court and sued them for defamation of character and she won and walked free as well as her accusers had to pay her court fees. It was an incredible story. Two of her daughters were named Mary and Sarah. When we found this woman in our direct lineage, we took it to the Associated Daughters of Early American witches so we could be included in their registry and they told us that our relative is indeed the inspiration for Winifred Sanderson and that the producers of the movie came to them when they were doing research for the movie. They changed our family name and obviously her narrative but her story was what inspired the character. It's the coolest honor ever! What is also interesting is the fact she was actually the village natural healer and midwife as well as a widow who used her trade to put food on the table so she was a prime candidate for that kind of accusation. You can find the transcripts of her trial online!
Ummm, that’s incredible!
@@90s-rewind It’s pretty awesome! She’s the only accused witch as far as I’ve found who took her accusers on in a legal sense and won!!! Her story came so many years before the Salem hysteria that it’s been buried by the tragedy but I wish more people knew it! Amazing that she was able to stand up for herself and survive back then!
McNugget Buddies will always hold a special place in my heart.
Why are they so great?!?!
Halloween in the 80's and 90's was so cool. I miss seeing all the Halloween commercials every fall.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Darks illustrations still haunt my dreams to this day. The drawings were absolutely terrifying
Everything was better in the 90s that's why we're all Nostalgia nerds now
I tell my niece and nephew we had scary stories to tell in the dark as books to read and had stories read to us by the Cryptkeeper. 😂😂😂
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"Write to me, Stick Sticky, PO Box 963, New York City, NY State, 10108!!" After all these years, I still remember this song. I even wrote to the guy!
Did he reply?
@@90s-rewind pfff no!! I don't know what I was expecting, he has no hands!
It was insane in the 90’s! So glad I got to experience it!
Me too!
Checking in for 2024; can confirm my kids got a McDonalds trick or treat bucket this year!
Niiice!
I got buckets the past two years. My childhood ones are long gone.
@@wintersprite best we can do is make sure our kids get to enjoy the little bits of happiness we once had!
How I miss those days so much fun.
Im 34 im 90s for life we had it all gold era so Halloween 🎃 was the best its ever gunna be back then it cant be matched its undefeated 90s Halloween for life goosebumps was a big help
Golden era for sure!
Bring back my real Halloween! I miss when Halloween gave you fear and excitement, you'd be seeing and consuming Halloween everything and it was the best back then!!! 💜💯✨
The thing i liked the most is every one had to make their own decorations, no two houses would have the same junky blow up thing you'd see over and over at wal-mart. snakes made of drain pipes climbing through trees, manikins with grusome guts, spiders the size of trucks towering over driveways all truely something to behold.
The Garfield Halloween special still came on TV back then. One of the most underrated Halloween specials.
Love Double Double Toil and trouble! It is a must every year.
It’s really an underrated classic!
Bring the 90's back
This. I was a preteen and teen in the 90s. I remember Halloween being awesome in the 80s too. I love both decades. 80s a little nore, although the 90s had less smoke. I always remember the McDs Halloween bucket happy meals,and the McDs commercials with the puppet chicken Mcnuggets dressed up like mummies,Dracula and Bride of Frankenstein . Those chicken McNuggets were so cute and made me want a Happy Meal.
I grew up just after this (born in late 1997), but I still feel as if I caught the tail end of this amazing time in the early 2000s. I will always miss it.
@@trevorkohne7780 it rocked!
Same, but born oct 1998 🫡
The 90’s was the best time
We peaked as a species in the 1990s
Man, I loved growing up in the 90’s. it was the best time. I believe, I wouldn’t be so into Halloween if I wasn’t. Something about Halloween always keep a warm feeling in my soul, everytime I think about it.
I totally agree!
I now thrift anything 90s I can get ahold of. Especially Halloween / Christmas / thanksgiving things. The inside of our house during the holidays is a pure vibe straight from the best times of my life. 90s kid for life. And my daughter will be raised the same way. Except she won’t have the cool commercials like we had during the holidays. Now it’s all streaming.
Lets not forget, The Misfits made some seriously awesome music videos in that era! I'm talking about Scream, and Dig up Her Bones! Also AFI released their best music in this era. Horror punk never had a better era.
Yes! We love The Misfits!
Hundreds of kids in the Halloween streets when I was a kid. Miss it so much
I see stick stickley, i automatically click
I always wanted to do that Nick or treat telephone gig just like I always wanted to be on that one Toys “R” Us shopping cart grab n dash, don’t know if it’s the Rose Tennant glasses, but the 90s were a hell of a time to be a kid
The 90’s were my teen years. Halloween was great!
That’s rad!
I still have my Halloween McNuggets and ghost bucket
That’s awesome!
Did you know that Funko Pop is now making all the McNuggets? They are available on pre order now
I do too. My son plays with them now.
MK and Ashley were the shit growing up. I had an older sister and she had allllll of their stuff. Down to the hair dryer and wall hung corded(!) telephone. I legit couldn’t imagine working that much at that age.
That boy meets world Halloween episode was so so good!!
Jeez this was the last decade where society really catered to children. We need to get back to that. I’m 38 and I remember a lot of this stuff.
As a 90s kid this hits home i think for me halloween was always my favorite holiday evenmore then christmas. My mom loved christmas and dont me me wrong its great but since i wasnt alive in the 50s like her its not the same i guess thats how halloween is for us 90s kids now
Too bad some of you all missed Halloween in the 80s !!
Now THAT was a great era !!
I was born in 1989 a little too late 😂
Here, here!
Didn’t kids in the 80s usually die on Halloween because the microchips in the masks made them melt into bugs or something?
With 80's fashion, looks like it was Halloween all year round.
This is true. The 90s Halloweens were kind of a lighter version of the 80s Halloweens. The 90s everything was spooky and fun, but in the 80s you genuinely thought you were going to be murdered.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; I got this at a book fair when I was in 3rd grade. Epic book
I was born 1990. Absolutely the greatest era to be a kid
Amen friend!
I was born in 1998 and grew up in the early 2000’s but most of these things in the video were things I still grew up with.
The nightmare before Christmas movie turned 30 last year in 2023 and got played in theaters again.
Awesome, it's such a good movie!
Born in 1989 and the 90’s was a time of great memories and opportunities!
And the early 2000s too Halloween was a huge deal then. Kids don’t even trick or treat past 6 pm where I live anymore.
Oh my gosh, that Boy Meets World episode scared the SHIT out of me hahaha like couldn’t sleep for days lmfao
Halloweentown and the Disney Channel during Halloween hold the most special place in my heart.
Missed Rosanne Halloween episodes they were iconic.
Oh those were the BOMB. Home Improvement too.
As a kid , october wouldnt feel like halloween until i heard the opening song to disneys halloween treat ! Every year i would look forward to ainging along to that theme song and rejoicing in the beautiful month of halloween in new england. I'm 42 now, such good times in the past 🧡🖤
Was that on Disney channel?
I love "I Put A Spell On You" from Hocus Pocus, best part in the movie.
Agreed!
90s Halloween was the best
Amen!
As a kid from the 90's, I have to agree that many things were better. ESPECIALLY Halloween
The 90’s was such an awesome time for Halloween I remember people always went all out and looking forward for it every year! Now I’ve met so many people who either refuse to participate in it, are against it or flat out discourage others participating in it. Sometimes it just annoys me that people can’t just be live and let live and suck the life out of everything.
Could've easily replaced Halloweentown with Ernest Scared Stupid, such a far more renowned and superior Halloween movie in every way.
That's a good one too!
I remember Halloween in the 90s tons of scream masks! Could walk around with replica guns and nobody would bat an eye. Blood capsules and weird Candy
90s Halloween = trick or treating
2020s Halloween = trunk or treat
🎃 Halloween Town was so good!
Agreed!
Yes halloween back in the 90s was part my childhood. Yes double toilet and trouble I remember watching that on tv on abc. I remeber halloween town on disney channel and boys meet world halloween epsiode. Nightmare before christmas and hocus pocus iconic halloween movies
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