While most of my friends learned to type with computer programs like Mavis Beacon and Mario Teaches Typing, I played Kids Typing. Released in 1993, this game was, predictably, software used to teach typing to kids. The basic premise is that you visit a house haunted by a ghost named "Spooky" which is only a slightly more … Continue reading K is for Kids Typing

In case you've just come out of a coma that's lasted since 1992 and need a refresher, 1993's Jurassic Park tells the story of an island that contains a dinosaur theme park, complete with real dinosaurs. After extracting dinosaur DNA from mosquitos encased in amber, the genetics team, headed by B.D. Wong, combined the dinosaur with frog DNA … Continue reading J is for “Jurassic Park”

If you even vaguely had a pulse in the 90s, you know this song. "Ice Ice Baby" is the 1990 single from Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice because apparently it gives you more street cred to sound like a snow cone than it does to sound like a guy who falls into … Continue reading I is for “Ice Ice Baby”

  Formed in 1989, Hole was a grunge band that gained notoriety as one of the most successful female-fronted rock bands of all time. And unless you've been living in a hole (I don't even care if you laugh at that, that joke was for me), you know who was the female front in this group. … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: H is for Hole

GUTS, or Nickelodeon GUTS was a game show that aired, unsurprisingly, on Nickelodeon from 1992-1995. It was essentially a teen version version of Ninja Warrior and was hosted by Mike O'Malley, whom most of you would probably recognize from Yes, Dear or Glee if you watched either of those shows. It was also "refereed" by Moira Quirk who … Continue reading Throwback Thursday: G is for “GUTS”