1. Smacker
   Slap bracelet
2. Tack-On
   Smack bracelet

A slap bracelet was very satisfying to put on! You would slap it against your wrist and it would stick to itself with a magnet.

1. Skip-It
   Skipper
2. Skip rope
   Jump rope

Everyone had a Skip-It in the '80s. The fancy ones could count the number of skips so you could use them for exercise - and some had a heavy enough ball on the end that you could also use them to whack other kids' ankles while feigning innocence.

1. Go Ahead, Everyone Does It!
   Just Say No
2. Don't Do That Stuff
   Avoid That Nastiness

Nobody listened to this campaign, as a cursory glance around a room full of 1980s Wall Street traders would prove. The government still kept it running for years.

1. Yogi Bear
   Teddy Ruxpin
2. Storytime Bear
   Bad News Bear

Teddy Ruxpin was a stuffed bear with a cassette player. You would put a cassette in the back and the bear would "tell" you the story contained on the audiobook inside.

1. iPod
   Literally any phone?
2. Discman
   Walkman

A Walkman finally replaced the heavy boombox as the portable music of choice. Unfortunately, as headphones were still way behind, everyone could still hear your music, it just sounded terrible.

1. Mixtape
   Cassette mix
2. Playlist
   Tape deck

A mixtape was a sign of true love. Romance, friendship, filial - you could say it with a mixtape. You had to wait for the song on the radio, which proved how much effort you put in!

1. Text them
   Sign language
2. Pass a note.
   You didn't!

Passing notes was risky because they were usually spotted and naturally, they'd have your handwriting in them, even if you weren't the one caught holding them. The best teachers knew when to pretend not to see them, however.

1. ALF
   She-Ra
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
   Rainbow Brite

She-Ra was a powerful superhero-type character in the Filmation series. Her show is being rebooted in 2018!

1. A Caboodle
   A bag
2. Pockets (since jeans had them then)
   Trapper Keeper

This was the fashionable way to carry makeup. You can still get them for a mere $20, though they aren't as robust as the old ones.

1. Rewind it.
   Nothing, just keep it.
2. Return it.
   Fast forward to the end, then return it.

The motto was, "Be kind, rewind!" Some stores imposed a fee if you didn't rewind. Since getting a movie was a real hassle, people couldn't do much about this - but got revenge years later by all switching to Netflix.

1. Slinky
   Rubik's Cube
2. Tangler
   Bob's Box

This puzzle defied many people for years. These days, you can just hop on YouTube to learn that there is a method that always works. Fast "cubers" typically need mere seconds to solve it.

1. Vaclav Havel became president of Czecheslovakia.
   Fall of the Berlin Wall
2. Solidarity party won Polish elections.
   Japanese emperor Hirohito died.

This was the seminal event of all Generation X-ers' young lives. Even if you were 7, you remember it. The wall has now been down for longer than it was up!

1. Tie a knot.
   Scrunchie
2. Trick question: you didn't.
   T-shirt clip

A T-shirt clip was a tacky way to make your shirt cling. As fabrics have grown more sophisticated, fitted shirts that actually conform to more bodies are much more easily made.

1. Cloud 9
   A prayer
2. $5 a day
   His mom's boat.

This song was ubiquitous for Generation X. Love it or hate it, you could not escape it.

1. Jelly
   Stone
2. All Velcro, all over
   All elastic

Jelly shoes were semi-see-through plastic shoes that are now understood to be hideous. For a while there, they were the height of fashion.

1. Pac-Man
   Super Mario
2. Q*bert
   Frogger

Pac-Man was an arcade game that came to early home computers and consoles in the '80s. You run around eating little pellets that give you points, while ghosts try to chase you and eat you in return!

1. One of the Goonies
   E.T.
2. Ferris Bueller
   The Ghostbusters

This sweet movie was one of the main hits of the decade. It is about an alien who needs to tell his friends where to find him, if he can just get a signal. Unfortunately, it was long before you could get a decent cellphone.

1. Let the music play
   Worry's for another day
2. Up at Fraggle Rock
   Let the music play

Fraggles are relations of the Muppets. They live at Fraggle Rock and they are amazingly chilled out, according to their theme song.

1. Squeezeit Fruit Drinks
   Jello Pudding Pops
2. Popsicle
   McDonald's shake

Many of the best snacks of the Gen Xers' youth are no longer with us. Popsicle has survived, thank goodness!

1. Ally Sheedy
   Rick Moranis
2. Rob Lowe
   Molly Ringwald

Rick Moranis is certainly not a Brat Pack member. The Brat Pack were a group of up-and-coming beautiful actors who appeared in a series of coming-of-age movies.

1. Swashbucklers
   Doc Martens
2. Moon boots
   Pretty Woman boots

Doc Martens were the only boot. Sure, you had moon boots for the snow, but you were just waiting to get back into your Doc Martens.

1. Janes
   Sarahs
2. Heathers
   Lindsays

"Heathers" was a hugely successful movie about teen bullying, taken to an extreme. In 2010 it was adapted as a musical.

1. Roommates who don't like each other
   Friends
2. Husbands
   Colleagues

Bert and Ernie were long suspected to be a couple, but in the '80s, that wouldn't have been possible on TV. It's likely the makers of "Sesame Street" never intended anything else, but these days, it's fun to imagine what could have been!

1. The Ramones
   Animaniacs
2. Kids Incorporated
   Schoolhouse Rock

Schoolhouse Rock explained what a bill was and how it became a law. It disguised civics as a fun cartoon, so kids would sit through it!

1. In a bag!
   Inside your huge perm
2. Trapper Keeper
   Backpack

Trapper Keepers are so wholesome that it's hard to believe they were really cool. They are literally a file folder with sections for different pieces of work. These days, you just put it all in Google Drive.

1. Pound symbol
   Satan symbol
2. Hashtag
   X

The pound symbol meant a currency symbol in the UK, but in the US it was what we now call a hashtag. The change was made in the last 15 years with the rise of social media.

1. Care Bear
   My Little Pony
2. Slinky
   Glo Worm

A slinky is one of the most satisfying toys in the world - until it refuses to go down the stairs and then it just sits there. Then, it is one of the most frustrating toys you can own.

1. Napster
   Rhapsody
2. Youtube
   AOL

Napster is all legitimate now, but when it started, it was a scrappy pirating service. The modern version is not the same thing, really, but it bought the trademarks to sound cool.

1. Go to the library and log in
   You didn't, as it did not exist.
2. Use your phone
   Plug your laptop in to a modem

If you are Generation X, you probably got email around the age of 14-20. That meant you had to go someplace to check it, since no mobile device had it.

1. Wuzzles
   Popples
2. Transformers
   Fashion Plates

Transformers began as a toy that was super cool because it was a car that turned into a robot warrior. These days it is also a very successful movie franchise directed by Michael Bay.

1. Dictionary.
   Speak & Spell
2. Parents!
   You didn't.

This device was the equivalent of a pronunciation YouTube channel or website. You typed in a word and it would speak the correct pronunciation.

1. Centipede
   Oregon Trail
2. Galaga
   Frogger

This text-based game nearly always ended with your character dying of dysentery. The goal was to navigate the Oregon Trail and get to ... Oregon!

1. Kitchen
   Living room
2. Laboratory
   Library

The Dewey Decimal System is a way of tracking books. Before you could just scan them, they all had their own reference card and a system for locating them. Generation X were probably the last group of kids to learn it in school.

1. 5" 1/4
   3" 1/2
2. 6"
   12"

Floppy discs are so named because they were actually floppy, though they were in a plastic sheath that protected them. The earliest ones known to Generation X were five inches and a quarter in size and contained practically nothing by today's standards.

1. Dot matrix
   Dell
2. Epson
   Canon

Dot matrix is a method of printing, and became a brand. It was enormously successful until replaced by the laser and inkjet printer.