re: Best decade to grow up in ?

A decade is only ten years and I consider "growing up" to be birth until at least high school graduation. Everyone has memories of at least two decades before adulthood.

I was born in '78 and graduated high school in '97, so I was heavily influenced by both the '80s and '90s. I pretty much spent my elementary school years in the '80s and middle/high school/college years in the '90s. I'm old enough to have had a KITT big wheel, a Castle Grayskull, a bunch of Dukes of Hazard matchbox cars, and an original Nintendo - and yet I was still only 18 years old when South Park debuted in '97.