1996 was a big year for me, the Nintendo 64 was released heralding in a new era of Mariokart shananigans and of course Goldeneye would later be released and be the cause of sleep deprivation for many a night, while we all would scream, 'no you can't be Oddjob, there is less of him to shoot at!' 1996 was also the year that I began to think that maybe girls are more than a source of cooties or whatever it was the boys would exclaim they had that week. I remember the moment well, I was watching The Den (for our non-Irish audience, this was the staple of every child's evening viewing), when the Spice Girls appeared with 'Wannabe'. In hindsight these scantily clad ladies should probably not have appeared on children's television, but nevertheless, something happened that day, regardless of the chant 'girl power' being nothing but shallow commercialism.
