Anyone else remember this?

No.  Yo-Yos have been around for decades.  There wasn't really any particular year where this was a fad

Yo-Yos have been around for centuries, earliest reference with a boy playing with a terracotta yo-yo on an Attic wine drinking cup from c. 440 BC. The yo-yo was also called a bandalore in the 17th century. As we know as the Yo-Yo today was from 1928, Pedro Flores, a Filipino immigrant to the United States, opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California.

Yo-Yo is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and means "come back." In the Philippines, the yo-yo was used as a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.

I can recall playing with one back in the 1960s, and my granddaughter is fascinated by one.

I remember the Tamagochi fad, but not the Yo-Yo fad.

I remember in the U.K. the most recent fad was in the early to mid 2000s, when my daughter was at primary school. They had some group come in showing various yo yo tricks, and of course they had yo yos for sale.

90s yo-yo booms probably came and went at different times in different neighborhoods. I remember a craze at my school around 2000, and the Simpsons had an episode about a yoyo fad in 1992.

I remember Yo-Yo's being big when I was in elementary in the mid-2000's!

I think what made yoyoing distinct in the 90s along with design changes like adding-ball bearings or little lights that light up, was a tendency to see yo-yos as edgy cool kid stuff, alongside extreme sports and rap music

Anyone else remember this?


No.  Unless you're talking about Yo-Yo Ma.  He did seem to have a surge in popularity in the mid to late 1990s.


I think what made yoyoing distinct in the 90s along with design changes like adding-ball bearings or little lights that light up, was a tendency to see yo-yos as edgy cool kid stuff, alongside extreme sports and rap music


Yo-yos that light up have been around since at least the 1970s.  I remember playing with one of these:

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-AHB2008q04220&max=1000

I think what made yoyoing distinct in the 90s along with design changes like adding-ball bearings or little lights that light up, was a tendency to see yo-yos as edgy cool kid stuff, alongside extreme sports and rap music


Yo yos are probably one of the LEAST edgy things to ever exist.

No.  Unless you're talking about Yo-Yo Ma.  He did seem to have a surge in popularity in the mid to late 1990s.

Yo-yos that light up have been around since at least the 1970s.  I remember playing with one of these:

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-AHB2008q04220&max=1000

I remember playing with them too.

Now that you mention it, Kate Bush did sing about a yo-yo that glows in the dark...

Yes, I remember the fad. I had two yo-yos which looked like this:

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http://yoyotricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Yomega-Brain-Yoyo_001.jpg

No.  Unless you're talking about Yo-Yo Ma.  He did seem to have a surge in popularity in the mid to late 1990s.

Yo-yos that light up have been around since at least the 1970s.  I remember playing with one of these:

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-AHB2008q04220&max=1000

I saw Yo Yo Ma at the BBC Proms in the early 1980s, he was playing Dvorak's Cello Concerto.

Yes, I do. I was in third and fourth grade. And it was back to intense popularity again in 1997 to 1999.

My memories of the Yo-Yo are mostly associated with Tom Smothers of The Smothers Brothers.  They had a variety show in the 60s that was revived in the late 80s and I used to watch it.

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