BACK TO THE FUTURE: Remember these '90s Christmas traditions?

If you can remember having a childhood Christmas in the 1990s you’ll be at least in your late teens by now. Gone are the halcyon days when the most important thing in life was which Pokemon you were going to catch next, or what stage your “shave-me Ken” doll’s facial hair was at.

We thought this was a nice time of year to reminisce about Yuletide in the ’90s. See how many of these things you can relate with…

1. There were a good few Christmases where no electronic items were on your Christmas list at all.

2. Your presents were still VHS-shaped – and you knew there would be a cracking Disney film inside.

3. You really, really wanted the Thunderbirds Tracey Island play-set.

4. You remember making the Blue Peter Tracey Island play-set, because “Santa” never brought the real one.

5. You watched Home Alone in your school hall because the teachers had had enough for one year.

6. You remember the White Christmases of 1993 and 1995.

7. If someone says “action figure” to you, you think of Ninja Turtles Transformers, Power Rangers and maybe dolphin-trainer Barbie.

8. You assumed that the Christmas number-one slot went exclusively to the Spice Girls.

9. You resented how the Teletubbies took over Christmas 1997 (but your little brother/sister loved it).

10. You had at least one Christmas when your mum made everything from Delia’s Christmas book.

11. You still rate Jingle All The Way as one of the best movies Arnold Schwarzenegger ever made – although you draw blank looks from anyone outside your generation.

12. You know that Terry’s Chocolate Oranges weren’t Terry’s – they were Dawn French’s.

13. Santa brought you at least one of those handheld electronic games, which were kind of like a Game Boy but only had one game to play.

14. And if you were lucky, one year you got the Nintendo Game Boy Colour. Your life would never be the same.

15. There was none of this “luxury gift” nonsense in your crackers. Sometimes there weren’t even gifts at all.

16. Hollywood hadn’t got to your Lego, which was all simply “pirate” or “castle” themed – none of this Harry Potter and Star Wars nonsense.

17. Band Aid was a thing that belonged to your parents. To you it was just some old Christmas song.

18. Birds were never stuffed into other birds. Even having a goose was deemed a bit subversive.

19. You genuinely thought 1999 would be your last Christmas, because six days later the Millennium Bug was going to kill us all.