To understand what was seen as the height of cool in the 1990s, look no further than the cover art for Kid Chameleon. The titular star of this Sega platformer is wearing a leather jacket, stonewashed jeans, a crisp white tee, and high-top Reebok Pumps. He’s riding a skateboard, his hair is slicked back, he has sunglasses on, and he’s flanked by a samurai, a knight, and other characters the teens of the day would consider to be, in the parlance of their times, totally bitchin’, dude. It’s the ’90s distilled into a single image.
