Duck Tales/Darkwing Duck
Nintendo cartoons (Super Mario Bros Super Show, etc)
Pet Rocks
System wars in commercials/ads instead of the internet (Sega does what Nintendon't!)
VHS and cassette tapes

I remember Go-bots as well because Blockbuster had the show. Never saw them on TV.

Things I remember as a child of the 80s/90s in Western Australia:
Turbo Pascal (my first real introduction to computer programming)
KFC all you can eat (for a brief while at least KFC in my area had it, only went there once though from memory)
Getting up early in the morning, turning on the TV and seeing the test pattern
TV cartoons from the likes of Hanna-Barbara, Disney and others.
Getting hand-me-down computer parts from other people that went into my own PC
Birthday parties at the local Timezone (video arcade) back when they actually had GOOD games.
The Internet (back when the Internet meant dialing up a UNIX box with a terminal program)
Eating junk (sausage rolls, BBQ flavored chips, ice-creams, flavored milk etc) from the school canteen (these days school canteens have to serve healthy food)
The first CD burners (the first one we had was a SCSI model that used an external parallel port SCSI adapter and was SLOW)
LEGO (things like getting the big pirate ship as a reward for learning to ride my bike)
Buying a whole CD of songs just to get one good one
Banging hard on the fabric seats of the local buses and sending great clouds of dust into the air
Daily physical exercise every morning in primary school (back when schools actually encouraged kids to get exercise)

EDIT: Some more:
Only needing one key to open the front door (instead of needing security screens, deadbolts etc etc like you do these days to keep the burglars etc out)
Driving around in the family station wagon (back before the SUV took over)
TV comedy shows/sitcoms/etc made in Australia that were actually funny... (anyone else remember Hey Dad?)
Hiring Nintendo (and later Super Nintendo) carts from the local video store along with the VHS tapes.

Yea most authors still love them. Reading Stephen King and many other big name authors and they STILL like to use a typewriter. Im curious as to why they would like them over a PC.

Author? XD She's writing a book on Victorian Glass pricing.

That's still around in some locations. A KFC somewhere near Charlotte had that, it surprised me because I had never seen it before.
Are you sure? I think she's writing a book about her creepy son who plays old video games.

Still have mine. Olympia SM9 Portable. All-metal, heavy as hell, could take a direct hit from a tactical nuke and still work.

I also have a Pickett N800-T slide rule. Only use for it now is to threaten my kids when they won't do their math homework.

She better not. I'm the only one here that can hear the phone ring. Take me out of the picture and goodbye reservations.

They still make those. We've given them out as prizes at the school where I teach. One day I saw one of my students with a perfect red circle on her forehead.

"Let me guess," I told her. "You stuck the popper on your forehead."

All she did was nod with embarrassment.

Oh... well Thundercats than.
And sticky glowing little rubber-y hands, they're probably still around but we used to win them at the carnival and everybody had them at one time or another when I was young. Until they became dirty or you washed them in which case they no longer stuck to things.

Most annoying was the levers with the letters getting stuck when typing too fast. Electronic typewriters were a big improvement though on the mechanical ones, where you really had to put force on your fingers to push the letter down. Next step after electronic typewriters was typewriters with a small, one or two-line memory, with a screen were you could watch and edit the line before it was printed.

Next step, before I got my first PC, was the Philips Videowriter, kind of like an all-in-one computer with screen, the computer itself, a floppy drive and the printer all in one box. It could only do text-editing, no other tasks and it's floppies weren't compatible with normal DOS computers.

When commercial breaks didn't last five minutes or more.

When Mtv played videos.

I remember Bermuda Shorts....is that good enough? :P

I used to read books about the Bermuda Triangle in grade school. Maybe it disappeared into itself?

Yep, my Mom had one (think it was originally my Grandmother's) which I used as a kid. I thought it was fun.

Hahah, I loved to place those stamps too. I was a member a couple times, first in the VHS era then for an even longer time for DVDs. You could really build up a collection with their sales. But having to always send back the card saying you don't want the monthly movie (or sending the movie back if you forgot the card) was a pain. It was much better when it went online and you could opt-out for the monthly movie with just a click. I think most of the DVDs I own came from there.

And the music club from BMG. I was a member of that too.

- Rent video games in a video store at weekend
- Just go to friends homes to hang out together - not call, send sms, mail before (especially in east-germany & former UDSSR states was that the case I'd say, as there were mainly no private phones)
- Animaniacs :D
- Alex the Kidd & Sonic the Hedgehog
- "Das lustige Taschenbuch", don't know what it was called in other languages; that were monthly little comic-books with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and so on