Everyone Backs Their Decade
Some debates never really get settled. The best biscuit. The proper way to build a brew. And the big one, the decade that did it best.
For a lot of us, the older decades come as borrowed glamour. The platform shoes, the glitter balls and the "you had to be there" disco stories handed down by our mums and nans. The ones we lived through ourselves came with shell suits, a bedroom wall of magazine posters and a phone line nobody was allowed to hog.
At Zingo Bingo, we reckon a good bingo break is the perfect place to have this argument. Pick a decade, pick a room, put the kettle on and let the tunes do the talking.
So let's rewind through disco, denim, Britpop and beyond, and see which decade truly deserves the crown.
Round One: The Seventies Struts In
🪩 This is the decade most of us know through other people's memories. The wallpaper that could give you a headache, the collars you could hang-glide with, and a soundtrack built for the dancefloor.
Seventies moments passed down to us:
- Nan's stories about staying out until the last bus, hair still smelling of hairspray
- Orange and brown everything, including the biscuit tin
- A telly with three channels and a proper waiting game for the good programme
- Somebody's dad claiming he invented a dance move at the youth club
🎲 Room Match: Disco Inferno
Because if any decade earned a room with a mirrorball energy, it's this one. Slip in for a dab when you fancy a bit of borrowed sparkle.
Round Two: The Eighties Turn It Up
📼 Big hair, bigger shoulder pads and a synth line for every occasion. The eighties knew how to make an entrance, and plenty of us remember it from the back seat of the car with a tape whirring away.
Eighties bits we still smile about:
- Rewinding a cassette with a pencil to save the batteries
- The squeak and hiss of a video tape finding its place
- A shell suit that announced you before you'd even walked in
- Taping the charts off the radio and yelling at the DJ for talking over the intro
🎲 Zingo Tip: Queue up your favourite eighties playlist before your next session. A synth-pop backing track turns a quick game into a proper bit of theatre.
Round Three: The Nineties Take the Stage
🎶 Britpop on one side, boybands on the other, and a playground rivalry to match. The nineties gave us mixtapes made with real love, and telly you planned your whole evening around.
Nineties habits we all had:
- Choosing your allegiance in the big band rivalries and defending it to the death
- Passing notes because texting wasn't a thing yet
- The dial-up screech that meant nobody could ring the house
- Collecting anything you could, from stickers to those little plastic tazos
🎲 Room Match:The Main Stage
For the decade that lived for the gig, the anthem and the big singalong. It's the room for when you want a bit of front-row feeling with your dab.
Round Four: The Noughties Bring the Pop
💿 Low-r199 jeans, flip phones and a ringtone you paid far too much for. The noughties were shiny, a bit chaotic, and absolutely certain the millennium would change everything.
Noughties throwbacks that still land:
- Burning a CD for someone as the ultimate sign of affection
- A phone charm heavier than the phone itself
- Waiting an age for one song to download, then treasuring it forever
- Choosing your top friends and causing genuine upset in the process
🎲 Room Match: Millennium Mix
A cheerful nod to the decade that couldn't stop reinventing itself. Pop in for a bright, breezy game with a proper noughties bounce.
Bonus: Settle It Yourself with a Decade Dab-Off
Fancy playing referee? Here's your kit for a proper retro showdown.
✅ Pick the decade you're backing before the first number is called
✅ Dress the part, even if it's only a scrunchie or a bit of neon
✅ Choose one snack that decade did best and stock up
✅ Build a playlist that jumps between the decades
✅ Give each round its own theme and daub to match
✅ Rope in a friend on chat to argue the other corner
✅ Keep a running scoreboard on the back of an envelope
✅ Play at your own pace and keep it all about the fun
🎲 Room Match: Weekly Whirl
Fast, playful and full of surprises, it's the ideal spot to spin through the decades one round at a time.
So, Which Decade Wins?
💬 Are you a disco devotee? A shell-suit eighties kid? A Britpop loyalist? Or do you fly the flag for noughties pop and refuse to hear otherwise?
Share your winning decade using #ZingoBingoRewind and tag our socials for a chance to be featured in a future Zingo Bingo spotlight.
Let's Zingo and Let Every Decade Take a Bow
🪩🎲 Because whether your heart belongs to the seventies or you're forever a noughties kid, every decade brought something worth dabbing to, and the best one is simply the one that makes you smile.
