Nostalgia
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DonKarnage
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Coleco Vision. There was some good games on that and it was the one with the best graphic for its time.
Later in the 90's I like to play with Lego, I like to build my assault vehicle, but I no longer have any Lego
I did have a cat who was removing the helmet of the astronaut, I knew she did it when she run away from my room, she have the helmet in her mouth.
Later in the 90's I like to play with Lego, I like to build my assault vehicle, but I no longer have any Lego
I did have a cat who was removing the helmet of the astronaut, I knew she did it when she run away from my room, she have the helmet in her mouth.
Maelstrom Eyre
Ahmoua Wolf
Hypercolor t-shirts. Umbro shorts. The Odyssey II game system. Sega Genesis. Original NES console. Not having a remote control and actually having to get up and turn a dial on the TV to change the channel, which wasn't too big of a deal because we only had, like five channels including PBS.
The ORIGINAL My Little Pony, and Care Bears, and Saturday morning cartoons like the Gummi Bears and Wuzzles and Pound Puppies and Transformers and GI JOE. After-school specials about peer pressure and stranger-danger. Cosby Show and Family Ties. Bob Ross' Joy of Painting. MTV actually played music videos 24/7 and it didn't suck. Music videos from movies were like extended versions of movie trailers and were usually better than the movie it was made for.
The Internet was not a thing. Phones were connected to walls. When the Internet became a thing, you had to dial into it and having a 14.4 modem was FAST. Then came the 56 and it was like WOW! Cell phones looked like some kind of field phone from the military.
Yep. . .I'm Greymuzzle and proud.
The ORIGINAL My Little Pony, and Care Bears, and Saturday morning cartoons like the Gummi Bears and Wuzzles and Pound Puppies and Transformers and GI JOE. After-school specials about peer pressure and stranger-danger. Cosby Show and Family Ties. Bob Ross' Joy of Painting. MTV actually played music videos 24/7 and it didn't suck. Music videos from movies were like extended versions of movie trailers and were usually better than the movie it was made for.
The Internet was not a thing. Phones were connected to walls. When the Internet became a thing, you had to dial into it and having a 14.4 modem was FAST. Then came the 56 and it was like WOW! Cell phones looked like some kind of field phone from the military.
Yep. . .I'm Greymuzzle and proud.
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DonKarnage
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Well the "remote control" was with a wire, I don't remember the name but it was hard to break, it did slam a lot of time on the floor and was still working. That was with early cable in the 80's.
Saturday morning cartoons, I did late 80's record them so I could watch them later. It was like from 7 am to 12 pm for a long time, but later they only put crappy cartoons and was berk.
The internet was latte 90's and yes, the 14.4 modem was great, but the 56K was mostly for fax. I know from Radio Shack the stuff they have, the TRS-80, Comodor 64, pre Pentium computer, the 486 I think, never have those. My "first" computer was a Pentium 1, cpu 200MMX, like2 MB of ram, like 500 MB I think HD VGA video card, no sound cards, CD drive, floppy disk drive.
Early furry on the net with Furnation, Yiffco (I think), VCL (still there) and a few more site.
LazerMaster5
Lost in the Static
At one point in my childhood I had a Game Boy Pocket with a bunch of games, including the original Pokémon titles. Talk about nostalgia. And Iron Maiden consisted my music tastes from 4th grade on. And while The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar movie nowadays, when I was little I loved Cars. I loved Legos, Transformers, and Hot Wheels cars very much, enjoying them even into my early teen years. Marvel comics? Simpsons comics? Hell yea. And the DS was the greatest handheld of all time, with a slew of fantastic titles (and shovelware that I had my share of). Roller Coaster Tycoon was one of my favorite PC games, and I had all the expansion packs for The Sims. Man, what a childhood.
WolfNightV4X1
King of Kawaii; That Token Femboy
Zaboomafoo xD
Ratical
New Member
A lot of my favorite games ever come from the 8 and 16-bit eras. The NES was my gateway into the world of gaming period, and what a lovely addiction that ended up being. I guess I like the quaintness of it. Games were made for the sake of gamers, not mass-appeal entertainment. Gaming systems only had one function instead of being mini PCs. No bug fixes or patches or DLC or DRM. Cartridges were expense, though. Fortunately it was my parents buying them, usually.
And I played EQ1 back in the day, too. Not at the very beginning; I had the original release, but my parents wouldn't let me use their credit card to play it, so I had to wait a couple years until I got my own, which was around the end of Velious/start of Luclin. I think it's safe to say we'll never get an MMO as hardcore as that again, for better or worse. Of course it gave me a ton of memories, but sometimes I wonder if I'd ever willingly go back and risk losing my sanity over corpse runs and grind-fests. But I wear that experience kinda like a nerdy badge of honor.
It'll probably come as no surprise to anyone, but I love Redwall. I always associate it with my earliest memories of the series: going to the bookstore in the mall and seeing these elaborately detailed covers of mice in armor fighting stuff. It gave me the impression that these were "grown up" books, along with being thicker than most children's stuff, but they read so fast you can almost binge 'em. It's the Game of Thrones of my childhood, and I still adore them.
Goosebumps was undoubtedly the most popular series with kids growing up, though. Every book report ever in elementary school: Goosebumps. Teachers had to have been tired of that, but we sure weren't. They made up most of my shelf space back in the day.
Sergalmedic
Clear!
I don't even know what triggered it, but the other day at work I remembered how my sisters and I would watch Pokemon on an old, old TV at my grandfather's when we would go there for Sunday lunches and dinners way back when. Even for an old TV it seemed bizarre, there were 13 nondescript buttons in a column down the side and one of them was orange. No matter how much you adjusted the antenna you could never quite get rid of the static snow on the screen but the sound was fine. It was a wonderful thing to have remembered.
Mr. Sparta
Scale Face
Happy to see there's a lot of lego enthusiasts here. They were freakin awesome. I also had an N64 back when everyone had gamecubes and ps2's. My brother and I were always behind a bit. We played a ton of Goldeneye and the original Smash Bros. Also we had Spy Fox, Freddie Fish and Pajama Sam for the computer. Oh, and Roller Coaster Tycoon! We didn't have cable, though, so our Saturday morning cartoons were limited to Kids WB. It had Pokemon and Yugioh, at least.
To think the 2003-2006 period is worth remembering is astounding.
To think the 2003-2006 period is worth remembering is astounding.
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Nyro46
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My first house, Winnie the Pooh and the random music I would hear my brother or sister playing.
Maelstrom Eyre
Ahmoua Wolf
Yep, I remember those. Like, three rows of buttons, one button for each channel, and you had to hit the "row" button to select a channel from a different row. The box was big and clunky.
I grew up in an era when black and white tvs were actually still available for purchase. We had one when I was still pretty young. And the tv I grew up with had no remote at all. Just a dial.
First online account was with the Prodigy network, going on the message boards there. Then it was agreed that Prodigy pretty much sucked and a bunch of people moved to AOL. . .and we'd get to hear that awful modem/fax-type dial in. . .followed by "Welcome" and "You've Got Mail." And I collected .wav files to change our house computer's event sounds. So, instead of the usual "Goodbye" sound file when logging off AOL, I had it set to Miracle Max and his wife, from The Princess Bride "Bye bye, boys!" "Have fun stormin' the castle!" "Think it will work?" "It'll take a miracle." "Buy-byyyyye!"
Oh, and the Video Jukebox channel. . .you would call in and pay, then enter a code for the music video you wanted to watch.
There was never an issue of stepping on Lego blocks in my home when I was very little. . .because my first few years of childhood were the era of shag carpeting. Lego blocks - especially the little single-piece blocks - would simply be swallowed into the depths of the shag carpeting, never to be seen or heard from again. That's okay, though. . .because I ran around barefoot outside all the time, climbing trees and playing in woods, so I stepped on plenty of sharp little rocks and sticks and things. Toughens up the feet. Good for the sole.
OMG HOW DID I FORGET ZABOOMAFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
LazerMaster5
Lost in the Static
Am I the only one who didn't have a problem when his floor was covered with Legos? Yeah, pieces would stick to my feet when sweaty, but I don't recall it being very painful at all.
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DonKarnage
Guest
Yep, I remember those. Like, three rows of buttons, one button for each channel, and you had to hit the "row" button to select a channel from a different row. The box was big and clunky.
I grew up in an era when black and white tvs were actually still available for purchase. We had one when I was still pretty young. And the tv I grew up with had no remote at all. Just a dial.
First online account was with the Prodigy network, going on the message boards there. Then it was agreed that Prodigy pretty much sucked and a bunch of people moved to AOL. . .and we'd get to hear that awful modem/fax-type dial in. . .followed by "Welcome" and "You've Got Mail." And I collected .wav files to change our house computer's event sounds. So, instead of the usual "Goodbye" sound file when logging off AOL, I had it set to Miracle Max and his wife, from The Princess Bride "Bye bye, boys!" "Have fun stormin' the castle!" "Think it will work?" "It'll take a miracle." "Buy-byyyyye!"
Oh, and the Video Jukebox channel. . .you would call in and pay, then enter a code for the music video you wanted to watch.
There was never an issue of stepping on Lego blocks in my home when I was very little. . .because my first few years of childhood were the era of shag carpeting. Lego blocks - especially the little single-piece blocks - would simply be swallowed into the depths of the shag carpeting, never to be seen or heard from again. That's okay, though. . .because I ran around barefoot outside all the time, climbing trees and playing in woods, so I stepped on plenty of sharp little rocks and sticks and things. Toughens up the feet. Good for the sole.
yep, that old Jerrold I think Tv control. It was pretty solid
I remember the Black and White TV with no remote, I remember watching old puppet show Supercar, Fireball (fusée XL5) Marina (the sub marine and the mute girl) I think I have watch UFO and Space 1999.I remember the paid TV, There was only two, one in french and one in English and with a pirate decoder for the paid TV we watch Star Wars, it was in the 80's and it was a bit I think it was not with a illegal but by just adjusting the signal you could watch it with like snow in the pictures, but that was the early paid TV.
A bit of the friendly giant, Rocket Robin Hood and Hercules. Eekkk I never like those two cartoons. I remember in the 70's watching some cartoon the Saturday night from Hanna Barbara mostly and some Bugs Bunny.
meowtacles
Member
I will forever hold onto my dearly departed childhood with pokemon.
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Nyro46
Guest
also,
TREEHOUSE.
FREAKING TREEHOUSE
(aka the canadian kid's channel... but it was weird. and also that "don't put it in your mouth" ad)
TREEHOUSE.
FREAKING TREEHOUSE
(aka the canadian kid's channel... but it was weird. and also that "don't put it in your mouth" ad)
Llamapotamus
Member
Yeah! That and Kratts' Creatures, from which Zaboomafoo was a spinoff. And now I watch Wild Kratts with my niece when I visit her. Makes me reeeeeeeally nostalgic.
Torrijos-sama
The Artist Formerly Known as Jesusfish
The past is certain, while the present and future aren't so.
It's only natural to crave what was certain/safe in retrospect.
The music, the shows, the simple things and the company you had around you.
I miss hanging out with my little clique of misanthropes as we would people watch and talk about the terrible things that could happen to those around us. High school was fun in that way.
It's only natural to crave what was certain/safe in retrospect.
The music, the shows, the simple things and the company you had around you.
I miss hanging out with my little clique of misanthropes as we would people watch and talk about the terrible things that could happen to those around us. High school was fun in that way.
Kinharia
Drunken Irish Snow Leopard
When you couldn't go down the street and be stopped by army men with their automatic rifles and tanks and armoured cars all over the place. When the military actively patrolled the street.
Wait I ain't nostalgic for that shit!
The first time I played Spyro the Dragon and Pokémon games. Those days were amazing and I still get a big silly smile on my face when I play them. The old Playstation loading sound and symbol was cool as well.
I miss when Fredo Bar's where 10p and not 25p. Fucking rip off.
Wait I ain't nostalgic for that shit!
The first time I played Spyro the Dragon and Pokémon games. Those days were amazing and I still get a big silly smile on my face when I play them. The old Playstation loading sound and symbol was cool as well.
I miss when Fredo Bar's where 10p and not 25p. Fucking rip off.
LegitWaterfall
Forever done
Did anyone ever play that old computer game Zoombinis?
It was used as part of a grade for some students in my early education.
PlusThirtyOne
What DOES my username mean...?
WolfNightV4X1
King of Kawaii; That Token Femboy
American Dragon Jake Long, Danny Phantom, Code Lyoko, Kim Possible...and too many more to name
Byron
Moshi Moshi, Byron Desu~
Those little blue bastards thought they were too good for the pizza I made them.
I miss everything I used to play with on a Mac II at school. Kid Pix, Thinkin' Things, Flying Colors.
Except the typing tutor program they made us do. I hated that one.