Born in 1988

£1 in 1988 would be worth approximately £3.30 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1988 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 5 February – The first BBC Red Nose Day raises £15,000,000 for charity.
• 3 March – The SDP amalgamates with the Liberal Party to form the Social and Liberal Democratic Party. Its interim leaders are David Steel and Robert Maclennan. The merger means that the Liberal Party has ceased to exist after 129 years.
• 24 May – Local Government Act becomes law. The controversial Section 28 prevents local authorities from "promoting homosexuality". Local authorities are also obliged to outsource more services, and dog licences are abolished (except in Northern Ireland).
• 31 May – The controversial BBC film Tumbledown is broadcast despite Ministry of Defence concern.
• 11 June – Some 80,000 people attend a concert at Wembley Stadium in honour of Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner who has been imprisoned since 1964.
• 20 September – Margaret Thatcher gives her "Bruges speech", opposing moves to transition the European Economic Community into a federal Europe.
• 19 October – The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
• 3 December – Salmonella-in-eggs controversy: Health Minister Edwina Currie provokes outrage among suppliers by stating that most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria, causing an immediate and lasting nationwide decrease in egg sales.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Micro Machines
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Jenga