The top 7 kids' video game characters from the '90s

The 1990s spawned an entirely new generation of gamers; ones who craved fantasy worlds made of impossible colors and creatures. Maybe we knew we’d need an escape from the harshness of reality a few decades later?

That took a dark turn. Anyway, with those games we loved came characters that we sort of grew up with.

For years we followed them through different adventures on evolving games and platforms. Imagine playing Super Mario Nintendo 64 back in the late 90s, and someone telling you that one day you could play it on the Nintendo Switch. I couldn’t imagine a Nintendo game that you didn’t have to blow in the cartridge for.