The Generation Zed, more popularly known as “Gen Z,” is on the back end of their public schooling career and entering the world beyond college and the workforce. We are all growing up and not thinking about how our childhoods were, too forced on how we will continue on into the world. Reminiscing about our childhood games and toys is a fun way to say goodbye to all of this before we move on with our lives.

5. Paper Fortune Tellers

Fortune Tellers were a staple in school and summer camp around 2017. Everyone wanted one and those who were able to make one got really “popular” because they’d be known as the people who were able to make one. Those Fortune Tellers are something that most GenZ will remember. I certainly will. Although we did have phones, computers, and tablets. we’d prefer to make those little diamond-shaped paper toys. Those Fortune Tellers were so fun to play with and so fun to make. You’d feel like an engineer if you could make one.

4. Guinness Book of World Records

While growing up the book fair was a big deal. The book fair was probably the only time you’d see a bunch of middle schoolers and elementary schoolers so excited for books. One of the books that we always pick would be the Guinness Book of World Records. When purchasing this book it was never about reading it, it was always about looking at the pictures and seeing if you could break one of the records.

3. Fidget Spinners

Fidget Spinners were all the rage around 2017/2018. They became so popular, so fast that some schools even had to ban them. Fidget spinners got so popular that they came out in different colors and different designs, but the ones that were most popular while we were growing up were the gold ones and the light-up ones. Once you got a fidget spinner the goal was to learn how to do tricks with them. For example one of the most popular tricks to learn was how to balance it on all 5 of your fingers but if you were really good at it you could move it from one hand to the other while it’s still spinning. Fidget spinners became popular because supposedly they were supposed to help kids focus but that was straight just a hoax. Once all the evident came out that it was all fake and they just did it for marketing; overnight the trend went away as if it never happened.

2. “Fire Boy and Water Girl”/ Cool Math Games

Fire Boy and Water Girl was established in 2009 and was a very popular game while we were growing up. Whenever you had free time in school you could always bet on at least 5 people playing “Fire Boy and Water Girl”. Although “Fire Boy and Water Girl” was probably the most popular game in the website Cool Math Games there were more popular games like “Papa’s Pizzeria”, “Run 3”, and “Slice Master”. Fire Boy and Water Girl was just THE game of our generation.

1. Pokemon Cards

The thing that we will remember for the rest of my life are Pokemon Cards. Pokemon Cards were HUGE around 2017; if you had a hard time making friends that problem would go away once you got Pokemon Cards. Everyone was busy trading, playing, and collecting the cards but everyone was on the search for the infamous Holographic Charizard 1st edition. Although that one singular card went for tons of money we didn’t want it for the money, we wanted it because it looked cool.