Ever since Skyrim remastered, I started remembering nostalgic things I used to love. Skyrim being probably the best game I ever played, then there's the one movie I always cry at, Jurassic park. I wouldn't necessarily count something like Godzilla, as its just been that big apart of my nerdy life. I was wondering if anyone had something like this, good Ole childhood memories.

Skyrim is a childhood memory now?

NotMeNotYou said:
Skyrim is a childhood memory now?

Eh somewhat, I was in high school when I did play it. So it just brings warm memories.

Ooh I 'member, member chewbacca again?

NotMeNotYou said:
Skyrim is a childhood memory now?

If Skyrim in what is considered nostalgia I must be getting old.

Nostalia for me is all those VCR's and cassette tapes we had. and good ole 90's toons

Nostalgia for me is VCR Disney movies, Pokemon 2000, 90's Nickelodeon (Kenan ans Kel, Amanda Show, Rocket Power, early Spongebob, early Fairly Odd Parents, etc.), 90's-2000's Cartoon Network (Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Ed Edd N' Eddy, Courage, etc.), those box TV's, and Playstation 1 and 2 with nearly all of the Tony Hawk games.

hey guys remember NES

This was my first console.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Nostalgia for me is VCR Disney movies, Pokemon 2000, 90's Nickelodeon (Kenan ans Kel, Amanda Show, Rocket Power, early Spongebob, early Fairly Odd Parents, etc.), 90's-2000's Cartoon Network (Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, Ed Edd N' Eddy, Courage, etc.), those box TV's, and Playstation 1 and 2 with nearly all of the Tony Hawk games.

I wish they still showed some of the shows as reuns.

Ipsi said:
I wish they still showed some of the shows as reuns.

So do I. There are a lot of good cartoons that were never showed a second time and worse, never released on VHS/DVD. The only ones who can watch them again (legally) are the ones who recorded them onto tapes when they were broadcast the first time.

As a kid, we recorded some Simpsons episodes on VHS and I would rewatch them over and over again on repeat in my room. It got to the point where I could rehearse every single line from the Babysitter Bandit episode.
Now, every time I happen across that episode (which is very rarely), I get a nostalgic reminder that my childhood sucked.

But there's this one game I really want to get my hands on for nostalgic purposes. It's a PS1 game called Rollcage Stage II and it was the only game that, as a child, I would delete my save file for so I can replay and unlock everything again. I'd love to buy that game, but first I got to buy a PS1 again and I have no expendable income whatsoever.

8-track tapes that would pause the song you're on so it could change the "program" and then would continue right on where they left off, console stereos with record changers in them, playing Atari 2600 games with friends. My biological father's old BETAMAX VCR, watching the full-length version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on cable TV (the one I've found on Youtube isn't the one I watched when I was a boy, they cut it way down in length, not sure why). Listening to Gordon Lightfoot while just gazing at Dad's spider web oil lamp that had a mechanism in it that pumped the oil up into the top and it started dripping down these tiny threads back to the bottom again. Good memories.

Nostalgia is, for me, a TV that when you switched it on, it took at least ten minutes for a picture to come on and a calculator, not pocket, big, with hefty batteries and they actually lit up, being the only Personal Computer that was available.
Valves were still in many radios too.

Edit, no videos, if you missed your favourite programme, you missed it, that was it if it wasn't repeated again and there were only three channels, BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV, which all went off around twelve o'clock at the latest.

Games with exploration in mind with no way to find out what would happen until you did it yourself.

Unlockable content you got by achieving something, instead of paying for DLC.

Games that weren't deliberately released unfinished to make you pay to have the bug patched.

Achievements you made for yourself or for friends, instead of relying on a profile to tell you how to do it.

Being proud of yourself for making a custom level, instead of feeling guilty for the time spent on it.

Playing Super Mario Bros. 3 on NES.
Good times.:)

rhyolite said:
Nostalgia is, for me, a TV that when you switched it on, it took at least ten minutes for a picture to come on and a calculator, not pocket, big, with hefty batteries and they actually lit up, being the only Personal Computer that was available.
Valves were still in many radios too.

Edit, no videos, if you missed your favourite programme, you missed it, that was it if it wasn't repeated again and there were only three channels, BBC 1, BBC 2 and ITV, which all went off around twelve o'clock at the latest.

I remember when I was about four or five years old, a TV repairman came to our house and fixed the television in our living room. It was the only time in my life it ever happened. His toolbox was filled with various tools and he also had several vacuum tubes with him. The TV itself actually had tube electronics. It was an old black and white TV that had its own legs and was encased in wood (not a console TV, just a little simple one.

Also, the CBS special presentations and the fancy rainbow-colored animated title card for it is something nostalgic to me.

Floppy disks. I still store my plain text documents on them because I like the sound and because nobody would bother to check a floppy disk to see what I'm writing about.

Off the topic of entertainment for a sec, seeing the waterman come around every week or so to refill our water tanks. Back then, we didn't have access to a public water supply so we lived on tank water instead. We also didn't have a public sewerage connection, public transport, access to most shops or services (the nearest supermarket and hospital were both 35Km away) or many other modern conveniences that people never think about today. Back then, entertainment meant going outside to run around, climb trees and not being killed by wildlife.

Hell, I get nostalgic for the college I went to for my senior year of high school 2 years ago. I wasn't miserable like I am now.

The Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Show and Saturday Morning Cartoons in general.

Code Lyoko. "Return to the past now" indeed.

Old, late 90s saturday morning cartoons - like the Looney Toons, Wooody Woodpecker etc. Also good action movies, Disney VHS tapes (still watching them today ^^) and self recorded TV movies (recorded by my parents)

Another thing is food - The Jurassic Park icecream, Lunchables (not sold here in Germany anymore) or Frufoos . But what I miss the most is the green beans stew my grandmother used to cook - sadly I never were able to recook it :/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

PancakeMouse said:
Any one remember him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2yQ6iRC4o

I do. He was cool.

I get really nostalgic playing the first 3 Spyro games for ps1 and listening to the level music

my nostalgia dick is longer and thicker than everybody else's
i still remember my family's black & white tv set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFAfX7BNmp8
this whole thread

I remember the Monkees on UK TV when they were still being repeated in the early 70s.

:-/

I may be only 22 and thus too young for that era, but I remember watching The Three Stooges. Spike TV had the Stooges Slap-happy Hour every late day in my middle school, and I'd relax and watch it before heading to school. You can never beat slapstick comedy.

I'd never say that Joe is a stooge, and Shemp is my personal favorite.

Siral_Exan said:
I may be only 22 and thus too young for that era, but I remember watching The Three Stooges. Spike TV had the Stooges Slaphappy Hour every late day in my middle school, and I'd relax and watch it before heading to school. You can never beat slapstick comedy.

I'd never say that Joe is a stooge, and Shemp is my personal favorite.

There used to be a lot of good comedy shows. I grew up on shows like Full Frontal and Hey Hey It's Saturday that had the balls to make fun of pretty much anything.

...But good luck making any of those now without being flooded with complaint letters.

Siral_Exan said:
I may be only 22 and thus too young for that era, but I remember watching The Three Stooges. Spike TV had the Stooges Slap-happy Hour every late day in my middle school, and I'd relax and watch it before heading to school. You can never beat slapstick comedy.

I'd never say that Joe is a stooge, and Shemp is my personal favorite.

I used to watch that too, every once in awhile they play a few episodes of The Three Stooges on TCM.

Flygon said:
Anyone here remember when Ragnarok Online was probably the world's biggest MMO then WoW happened? :P

I thought the world's biggest before that was Everquest 1, back when it was good. Genre that was Ultima Online, and before that was TinyMUD.

I remember when killing Lord British in Ultima Online was its own running gag, since you weren't even supposed to be able to because it was an admin. You had to exploit bugs and it became an achievement in every Ultima game to be the first to find a way to kill Lord British.

I miss the classic Tony Hawk games. I played the crap out of 3 and 4.

Computer battleships!

Thirtyeight said:
I miss the classic Tony Hawk games. I played the crap out of 3 and 4.

http://emilociraptor.tumblr.com/post/138910433846/brozilek-with-a-great-big-hug-and-a-kiss-from-me