Modern Video Games
This is the best-selling video game so far, compared most often to Legos but with a survival element--and beware the enemies at night!
Minecraft
One of the main friends in the TV show Friends.
Ross
Be kind and rewind! This video rental shop is almost completely out of business--there's only one remaining in Bend, Oregon, and it has its own online store for merch.
Blockbuster
Da-na-na-na-na-na-na he's a phantom
Danny Phantom
It was difficult to tell for a while whether or not a link would lead to this Rick Astley song--what was this meme prank called?
Benjamin "Bearzly" Gwin took bravery to the next level when he beat this notoriously difficult game only using a Rock Band guitar--might be easy to save at a bonfire, might be difficult to roll out of the way of enemies.
Dark Souls
Credited with creating the first American flag.
Betsy Ross
This little handheld device taught many kids about death, considering they needed to take care of it. It's name is a portmanteau combining Japanese words for "egg" and "watch."
Tamagotchi
These turtles love their pizza!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The internet was taken by storm recently when everyone realized that everything was just this baked good.
Cake
This video game franchise by Ubisoft, now a household name, was originally supposed to be a Prince of Persia spinoff, telling the story of a female assassin tasked with protecting a prince in Jerusalem.
Assassin's Creed
He has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Bob Dylan
Back before text messages, we used to use this service to talk back and forth, provided by America Online.
AOL Instant Messenger
This anime took the world by storm with its implementation of a card game and the infamous Shadow Realm.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Complete the vine: "Road work ahead?"
"Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does."
In the first Civilization game, this South Asian leader's aggression rating was the lowest score at one, meaning he didn't want to make war. However, if a player chose democracy, his aggression dropped two points. But instead of falling to negative one, the number looped around to 255, the highest aggression rating possible.
Ghandi
Known as the best-selling reggae artist of all time, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Bob Marley
Nickelodeon was famous for this color of their VHS tapes.
Orange
Scooby-Doo
Lots of people took screenshots of an emotional argument scene from this 2019 movie and formed hundreds of memes out of it.
Marriage Story
This spinoff of the main story, created by Obsidian Entertainment, became more popular than the third game in the franchise, and is heralded by many as the best Western RPG ever made--despite its technical difficulties.
Fallout: New Vegas
A lifelong animal lover, Bob Ross was always rescuing wounded animals and nursing them back to health. As a kid, this meant one strange addition to the family: this animal, which he attempted to nurse back to health in the Ross family bathtub.
Alligator
This game, originally involving milk caps, became incredibly popular with kids in the 90s--so much so that they were being handed out for opening bank accounts and in McDonald's Happy Meals.
POG
This show made kids want to start up their own secret agency equipped with 2x4 technology.
Codename: Kids Next Door
Perhaps the most famous comic strip of all time, people have used these four panels for memes so often that even just seeing basic lines in 4 quadrants has prompted people to recognize the meme.
Loss