Imagine the terror of setting up your new Sega MegaDrive/Super Nintendo, placing the console on your television unit (where the television had always been) and wanting to either sit on your couch or lay on your bed as you play on Sonic Spinball, Micro Machines or Super Mario World - only to find the controller won't reach where you want to physically be! Nooooooo!!!! These days, we have no such issues, with wireless technology being bog standard but, back then, the limitations of a controller with a finite length wire attached to it were painful to say the least.
11. A "Popper" Coming Off Your Tracksuit Bottoms
You're the height of sporting fashion, you've got your Adidas poppers on (or, goodness gracious, your Kappa poppers on) and you're ready to roll (whatever "rolling" entailed in your life). However, one of the "poppers" (little buttons that basically held the legs together - they were completely unnecessary) has come off and you're showing a bit of leg - the most sickly of looks - and your day is subsequently ruined.
10. The Presenter Talking Before A Song You Were Recording Finished
Cassette tapes were still being used in the 1990s, despite the fact that CDs were obviously a thing and, as such, we would use them to record our favourite songs off the radio. Imagine the horror, however, as East 17's "Stay Another Day" wasn't quite finished, but Steve Wright or Mark Goodier decided to start talking anyway. That's that recording RUINED.
