Others celebrated when two sides were completed and felt success was just around the corner, but would later discover they had reached the peak of their skills.Īnd, from bitter experience, if you thought the passing of the years would give you a better chance of completing it, let me assure you, it doesn't. Many came up with the cunning idea of peeling off the stickers and, frankly, cheating. Playgrounds were filled with children trying to work out how to get all the coloured squares back in their rightful place. It's also become something of a cultural icon for the decade. And that's not including the vast array of unofficial rip-offs. He was 30 when he created his fiendishly difficult Cube to which he lent his name – first a hit in his home country and then, after signing distribution deals overseas in 1980, a phenomenon. So let's take a look back at some of the fads which so many of us were caught up in back in the day.ĭid you know that Ernö Rubik, the man who created perhaps the most famous of puzzles, is still alive and kicking? The Hungarian inventor and professor of architecture is now 77 and lives in Budapest. We're talking the sort of things which made both the lives of parents – who were subjected to non-stop begging to buy the en vogue objects of desire – and teachers, who, almost inevitably introduced a classroom ban after pupils' focus slipped from their formal education because they were playing with them. Simple pleasures for a simpler age? Do you remember these fads of years gone by? We've certainly come a long way over the decades but many of us will look back fondly on the crazes which swept the nation in the 1980s and 1990s. Once upon a time the playground was a more simple place – an era of trading cards, conkers, munching on Wagon Wheels and a healthy disregard for health and safety.
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