Submitted by Kaitlyn E

Does anyone remember how to actually play the game of Cooties? We just built freakishly long bugs out of them and constantly lost all the pieces.

Submitted by Peach Bo

If it involves making noise and pissing off parents, it’s guaranteed to be an epic win! Now that we’re older, they also make great party conversation starters, as demonstrated here:

Submitted by Nate D

There’s something about sentient robots that just tugs at the human heart-strings. Especially when those robots do nice things for us and kick the asses of slum lords and other evil-doers.

Submitted by Sal O

Go Ralph Macchio! And Pat Morita! You inspired an entire generation to take karate classes. Karate Kid was also one of the largest “underdog” hits of the 80’s. And who didn’t constantly imitate wax-on/wax-off in the hopes that it would make them good at martial arts?

Submitted by mythbusting pyro

What was so fascinating about the Etch-A-Sketch? Most of us can’t create anything worth looking at on it, however, we all aspired to be Etch-A-Sketch artists. It was an iconic toy of the 60’s and 70’s and is still popular today, but we just can’t put our finger on what made this toy such a huge hit.

Maybe we all just wanted to be like this guy: