#Drawing

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Video thumbnail — Etch A Sketch Commercial 1993
Toys 1960–present

Etch A Sketch

The red-framed gray screen with two white knobs — left for horizontal, right for vertical, and no mercy for anyone attempting a curve. Every road trip had one, every masterpiece died in a single shake, and no 90s kid ever quite mastered the diagonal.

Video thumbnail — Kid Pix (Macintosh v1.2) Gameplay
Video Games 1989–present

Kid Pix

Broderbund's gloriously chaotic kids' drawing program — the one with the honking sound effects, the rubber stamps, and the stick of dynamite that blew your whole picture apart in a burst of black-and-white circles. For a generation of 90s kids it was the first "art" they ever made on a computer.