re: Does anybody remember the yoyo phase of the 90s or am I misremembering?

Yep, fireball and the brain. I also had a butterfly

70s for me as well. The old Duncan butterfly. I remember Buckskin Bill used to have a guy come on and do tricks.

Laser pointers

Couldn’t watch 10 Things I Hate About You in the theater without someone pointing the laser at Julia Stiles’ crotch for an hour and a half.

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Yoyos were early 80s

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Duncan yo-yos were huge when I was a kid in the 70’s.

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I feel like 1995-1997

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I think it was later than that because I remember it

Yomega fireball, brain, x-brain

Black mamba 3 star. ( couldn’t find the rare 5 star)

The coolest kids were the ones who had the gold or silver “axle” ones

Ohh yea, had quite a few including what the coolest one at the time was I think it was called an "xbrain" but may have been the brain as mentioned ITT

My grandad it turned out had what was at the time considered by me and my elementary friends as the holy grail of yo-yos, it was basically unattainable to any of us, I can't remember the name but it was this heavy metal type as opposed to the ones we all had which were made out of basically plastic.

Anyways my grandad was nice enough to give it to me which basically made me to the coolest kid in school or at least I thought so. Time passed, yo-yo fad sort of died down, and of course my dumbass lost the damn thing and never could find it again. As I got a little older realized what a blunder that was as in my head that yoyo must've been really expensive. Of course in reality I'm sure it wasn't really that expensive at least I'd hope not bc why would my grandad trust me with it?

Anyways.....he never asked me about it and that's my yo-yo story

ETA: after giving it some thought the yo-yo MIGHT have been called the silver bullet

Remember the fad from middle school.
Had a Duncan wheels, butterfly and a x-brain