1. Video games provided an amazing education.
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Thanks to Streets Of Rage you knew that if you smashed in enough phone boxes you'd eventually find a roast chicken.
2. And the graphics were incredible.
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When FIFA '98 came out it was almost impossible to distinguish the players on the screen from those in real life.
3. The only thing you had to watch out for was your mate shoving you off the pool table cushion and into the pocket on Micro Machines.
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4. Thanks to the revolutionary Teletext you could now access cheat codes 24 hours a day!
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As long as you were prepared to wait for the 24 pages to scroll through.
5. At school all you needed was a wetsuit-material pencil case and everyone would be jealous.
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6. Slopping on discount wet-look gel was the way forward.
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The more the cooler really. Though if you really wanted to make a statement, look no further than streaks.
7. You'd be guaranteed a year's supply of Lynx every Christmas.
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But which do the girls prefer - Voodoo, Africa or Java?
8. And if you found three crumpled David Battys at the bottom of your school-bag you could be guaranteed someone would swap them for an Eric Cantona shiny.
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9. At home your mum might come back with a Dorling Kindersley Guide To Inline Skating from the library.
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10. If not you could always browse the new Argos catalogue.
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Especially exciting if there was a lady modelling non-slip shower mats in the bathroom section. Maybe rip it out and hide it under your bed?
11. You'd hyperventilate after spending the afternoon blowing the dust out of your SNES cartridges.
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12. And if you were feeling fearless you could wind down by reading through a Goosebumps book.
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13. Until the day came when finally you graduated to Point Horror.
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14. Most of your friends had girlfriends that you wouldn't know because they "met them on holiday and only saw them once a year".
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