Nostalgia Path: My favorite 90's cartoons

I'm the kind of girl who really likes to delve into my childhood memories. Because face it: when you were a child you had nothing to worry about!

Oh how I miss my childhood. If I could go back in time and do it or witness it again, I would do it without hesitation!

Those of you who know me, I used to watch a lot of television as a kid. Don't get me wrong, I was out playing imaginary games with my friends as well. But I have to admit, most of those games wouldn't have been created if it weren't for some of my favorite 90's cartoons.

I was one of those "fortunate" kids to have a Cartoon Network channel (when it showed GOOD cartoons - not the crap they're showing now) in my house and usually right before or after elementary school, I would be sitting in front of the television, with my eyes glued to the screen.

Maybe some of you might remember these cartoons, but most of them are my favorites.

Inspector Gadget

Still this day today, I find myself humming the opening song of this cartoon. It wasn't probably the best cartoons out there but at that age (6-10), I found it hilarious whenever Inspector Gadget failed his missions and his little causin & dog had to go and rescue him. Too bad the live action sucked though....

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Hands down the best cartoon at that time! I was a HARDCORE TMNT fan when I was a kid (still am!). I practically owned every merchandise, the backpack, the costume, the shoes, the pyjamas, the plushie (which I still own today!) and of course the figurines. My favorite turtles were Leonardo and Raphael. Why? Probably because red and blue are my favorite colors. Whenever the video renting store had those gems on video, my little brother and I would always go there and rent at least 3 videos! What's not to like about this cartoon? They're turtles that know ninjutsu!

The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest

This was a cartoon I never tried to miss. There was just something about three kids going into a cybernetic /Tron-ripoff world that intriqued my innocent brain that I just had to watch it. It didn't hurt that the world and characters were portrayed in early computer graphics too. I based A LOT of my childhood games from that cartoon, where I always played Johnny. Yeah, I know there's a girl there but Johnny was just way cooler! Just the opening intro made me believe that I was watching a hardcore action film!

The Mask: Animated Series

When The Mask the motion picture came out in 1994, I was 7 years old. I watched it, laughed my ass off (especially the scene when the Mask blows the little car horn) and probably watched it for a second, even a third time without getting tired from it. So you can imagine my joy when I found out that Cartoon Network was showing the animated series. I watched it every single time and I think I was annoying my mom a lot by quoting sentences from the series, especially his catch phrase "Sssssssmoking!" Ahhhh good times, good times.

Little Dracula

Does anyone remember this one? It was about a little vampire who had a magic wand/sceptor-kinda-thingy and he got into a lot of troubles, who had to be rescued by his dad. I don't have a lot of memories from it but it still is stuck in my head for some reason. Even watching the intro, you can see that they're kinda ripping off from the Adams Family. But hell, I'm just glad to see that I was interested in vampires at a such tender age.

Widget, the World Watcher

Okay, I don't think this one was showed on Cartoon Network but I remember it being aired on our Icelandic channel 1, I think it was called "Völundur" or something. They were pretty entertaining at the time. It was about this little purple alien who came to Earth in order to guard the nature and animals from all kinds of bad people. He could turn himself into almost anything and was apparently a mighty foe against....you know...people with guns and stuff. Even though it was aimed for educational purposes, I remember it wasn't that bad. I actually found little Widget or Völundur to be quite endearing.

Honorable mentions:

Back to the Future, the animated series
One of my favorite films of all time, so of course I LOVED the animated series!

Swat Kats
It's like Batman meets Cats, it was pretty cool.

Captain N, the Game Master
Even though I had no idea what kind of games they were making fun of, I enjoyed watching that show, just because a REAL boy went into his tv!

The Super Mario Super Show
Yep, I was into the Super Mario Bros. games, I mean who didn't? Watching that shows with my cousins was one of my all favorite past times whenever I visited them.

The Muppet Babies
Sigh.....Yes, I did watch that show and I'm embarrassed to say that I liked it. Now I prefer adult muppets anytime!

Well, that's it for reminiscing.

Question of the day:

~What are your favorite old cartoons?