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A Little Leaguer falls through an earthquake crack at home plate and lands in King Arthur's Camelot, where a backpack of 90s stuff makes him look like a prophesied savior. Critics hated it; 90s kids wore out the VHS. And look closely: that's a pre-Titanic Kate Winslet and a pre-Bond Daniel Craig.
The 2001 Martin Lawrence comedy where a modern theme-park worker falls in a moat and wakes up in medieval England, fish-out-of-water antics ensuing. A critical flop that a whole generation still somehow watched on cable a dozen times.
Square's "Dream Team" — Final Fantasy's creator, Dragon Quest's creator, and Dragon Ball's artist — built a time-travel RPG so good that thirty years later it still tops greatest-of-all-time lists. A dozen endings, no random battles, and the game that gave New Game Plus its name.
Jack and Annie climb into a tree house full of books, point at a picture, and the whole thing spins off to dinosaurs, knights, or the deck of the Titanic. Mary Pope Osborne's chapter-book series turned a generation of kids into readers — one 'research trip' at a time.
The Borg Queen haunted the multiplex in Jonathan Frakes's feature directorial debut, with James Cromwell as the boozy, reluctant legend who invents warp drive. It became the highest-grossing and best-reviewed of the TNG-era films — the moment 90s Trek proved it could do full Hollywood scale.