If you remember rewinding a tape with a pencil, recording the chart show onto cassette, or the specific agony of someone picking up the phone mid-download — congratulations, you’re a 90s kid, and these decks were made for you.
The essential 90s line-up
- 90s Retro — the core deck. Pagers, dial-up and Saturday cartoons.
- Video Store Night — Friday night, aisle three, be kind and rewind. The full rental-shop ritual in twelve cards.
- Retro Tech — floppy disks, fax machines and the boombox you carried on one shoulder.
- Retro Arcade — for everyone who spent their pocket money one coin at a time.
- Playground Games — hopscotch, conkers, and the rules of tag that changed daily.
- Retro Sweet Shop — pick-and-mix in a paper bag. A quarter of your favourites, please.
Level up: play it three ways
Card matching is just the start. Every deck above also plays as a sequence memory game — Simon-style pattern repeating, which 90s kids will recognise from a certain beeping electronic toy — and as a what’s missing? game, where one picture quietly vanishes from the board.
The nostalgia challenge
Here’s the test: play the 90s deck on hard mode and see if your memory is still as sharp as it was when you could recite eight friends’ landline numbers by heart. (We both know it isn’t. That’s why we’re here.)