Lots of American kids were wild about Nintendo in 1989, and Ralston understood the fervor when it created the Nintendo Cereal System that year. Playing off of the name of the game console ...

The flood of kid-friendly, cereal-shilling characters that followed reads like a Who’s Who of American iconography, including ...

and our evaluations are mostly based on bright colors and high sugar content—but hey, that’s what being a kid is all about. Here are 13 cereals we loved as kids and 13 we hated.

The only correct answer, of course, is to subject those kids to her favorite nostalgic cereals of her youth and go through the aisles of the grocery store to retry all those wonderful, sugary flavors ...