What pushes your Nostalgia Buttons?

[Ragitsu]

Just curious :smallsmile:.

[rakkoon]

Old show like Thundercats or Mask, old photo's, thinking about your first day at school, etc

[Eldan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM

Normally, music leaves me entirely cold. All of it. This is literally the only piece of music I've ever heard which I care about.

[Ragitsu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM

Normally, music leaves me entirely cold. All of it. This is literally the only piece of music I've ever heard which I care about.

Your taste in music is impeccable.

[Eldan]

Though it gets a little uncomfortable, really. You are in a social situation, people play their favourite music, the only thing you can do is nod and smile. They ask you what your preferred style of music is, you have none. That just kills a conversation right from the start.

[Ashtar]

The good old period of NES / SNES games. http://www.snotr.com/video/5959

Also reading my old Dark Sun 2nd Edition books.

Spending a week-end with my mum and making her special soup, baking cakes and apple crumble.

Thinking back to the Duke Nukem 3d tournaments held at my technical college.

x86 assembly code, brings me back to 1996 - 7, when I was writing studying computer viruses during the summer.

Going through the old pictures of the parties I'd throw at my place every week-end.

[AtlanteanTroll]

The first 4 Pokemon openings and the original Yu-Gi-Oh opening.

[Drascin]

The good old period of NES / SNES games. http://www.snotr.com/video/5959


Reaction One: Man, that sure did push my nostalgia button.
Reaction Two: ...holy hell I have played almost every single one of those games at least a little.

Anyway, lots of stuff can give me a little nostalgia smile. Old videogames' soundtracks, childhood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMU2NwaaXEA) cartoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygrEVnrg3Ic) series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxIa-643zI&feature=related) openings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0TS9l_nJE), any individual fragment from the Neverending Story (which was my first "big" book)...

[Kjata]

FF9, mainly up until you reach Lindblum for the first time.

Pokemon, especially of the Gold/Silver generation.

[Gullara]

I was feeling pretty nostalgic when I was watching an old episode of Dragonball Z a while back.

[Mauve Shirt]

Books I used to read, like the Oz books.
Disney movies and cartoons they no longer play.
Pokemon games with only the original 150.

[Eldan]

Oh, yes. Books is a good one. I have the huge, illustrated copy of The Neverending Story prominently placed on my bookshelf. My father read it to me three times as a kid. Then I read it myself, in Kindergarten. I learned how to read with that book. Just seeing it makes me shiver.

[Ravens_cry]

The BBC Narnia mini series. Hammy acting, worse special effects, yet that opening theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsSVoOZRO8) just takes this one back to sitting watching one of their favourite series of books come to life with ones family. It IS Narnia to me.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Pretty much everything in this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6xj40UVRM) except with less whining about the new games, and also nostalgia over Gold and Silver. And anything from the first season of the anime.

Oh, and Rugrats. Man did I love that show.

[CynicalAvocado]

90's music and cartoons and Lubbock

[Coidzor]

The BBC Narnia mini series. Hammy acting, worse special effects, yet that opening theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsSVoOZRO8) just takes this one back to sitting watching one of their favourite series of books come to life with ones family. It IS Narnia to me.

Oh man. Now you've got me flashing back.

[Haruki-kun]

All 90's Nickelodeon Shows. I feel old, they're running them in Nick at Nite now.... :smalleek:

[CynicalAvocado]

All 90's Nickelodeon Shows. I feel old, they're running them in Nick at Nite now.... :smalleek:

i are curious now... what shows?

[Ravens_cry]

All 90's Nickelodeon Shows. I feel old, they're running them in Nick at Nite now.... :smalleek:
Even Doug?
*doo di do diddy doo di do, doo dud diddy doo di doo* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdmURW0Go9Q)

Oh man. Now you've got me flashing back.
Really? Wow, I'm surprised I am not the only one.

[Castel]

Even Doug?
*doo di do diddy doo di do, doo dud diddy doo di doo* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdmURW0Go9Q)
Now I'm having flashbacks to the flashbacks of the Nostalgia Critic...

Aside from Doug, most old time Nicktoons are the real nostalgic deal for me. As well as the TMNT.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Thunderbirds(the show), Jason Mrazz(music), Pokemon Red(game).

And Addams Family, ofcourse:smalltongue:

[Ravens_cry]

Thunderbirds(the show), Jason Mrazz(music), Pokemon Red(game).

And Addams Family, ofcourse:smalltongue:
AH yes, Thunderbirds. Still pretty quality entertainment that. I still think they did a pretty good job with the effects.

[Moff Chumley]

Supertramp. Yah, I know I'm too young to be nostalgiac for a 70s band. Am anyway. Whatchoo gunna do? :smallamused:

[CrimsonAngel]

Seeing a beyblade, finding my old Pokemon Blue game, watching The Tick...

[Ichneumon]

Pokemon Silver and Gold, although all Pokemon games to an extend.
Age of Empires I, I played 2 and 3, but 1 was my favorite as it had the romans etc....

[CoffeeIncluded]

Pokemon Heart Gold was, for me, the ultimate nostalgia rush--Gold was the first video game I ever played.

[Dvandemon]

I feel that I have the mentality of an old man (thanks to my brother born in the 80's) and therefore anything involving music, video games or throwbacks to the 70's and up. Things like Scott Pilgrim or Bit.Trip etc.

[onasuma]

Pokemon games with only the original 150.

There are no pokemon games with this few pokemon in. You forgot Mew.

[randman22222]

It's not the video games that do it for me... It's the music they had. :smalltongue:

String Quartet Zelda Medley (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/527529/legend_of_zelda_medley_in_string_quartet_form/) linked for nostalgia. (Honestly, I don't think it's a very good performance, but hey.)

Come to think about it, I barely ever played the games in which the tunes invoke the most nostalgia. Weird. But then, some 80's music makes me nostalgic. As do a lot of things - aesthetics, music, anything, really - that I never experienced.

Are we allowed to be nostalgic over things we missed? :smallconfused:
There. That's the right word. "missed"

[darbythegambler]

watching this arcade game opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFiHqGGt8V8

used to be so good at the arcades... damn, i was only 5 when i was beating everyone???

[factotum]

Ah, nostalgia, whatever did we do before we discovered it? :smallwink:

Old video game intros and music are what does it for me...I even have the music from the first level of the 1993 game "Shadowcaster" as my phone ringtone!

[Ragitsu]

(One of my many childhood heroes, and proof that you can THINK your way out of situations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQvBbzslJE))

(Gets me nostalgic for the actual game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQs48dvebck)).

(1998 was a fun year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lan9HuAAJS4))

(Keith David AND Jonathan Frakes voiced two of my favorite cartoon characters EVER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oORfIQWIwuo))

(Hallmark of the early 1990s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0KOfTV1dbc))

(One of the first sci-fi shows I watched steadily (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K41iLYVCBeg))

(^Ditto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOicSyhEOJU))

(Maaaany memories of me and old acquaintances stocking up on supplies here, before our runs into the desert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0QbfvdmZsA))

(A game that truly let my imagination roam free back when I first played it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM))

(This PC game will always stay with me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy61r3Qkm6o))

Goosebumps. This book series contributed significantly to my reading ability.

D&D. Regardless of how much I play it now, it was the first Pencil-and-Paper Roleplaying Game that got me into the hobby.

The original Star Wars trilogy. One of the few series of movies that STILL manage to get an actual emotional response from me in the form of tears.

The Super Mario All-Stars game for the Super Nintendo.

Mega Man 2, even though I was barely old enough to play it.

[Moff Chumley]

*eyetwitch*

Wouldja mind formatting those links? It's freaking me out just looking at that post.

Anyhow, I guess this gives away my age, but Avatar: The Last Airbender for me. :smallbiggrin:

[Dogmantra]

Tori no Uta, the theme from the anime Air makes me nostalgic for a) the anime and b) things I never had.

In fact I often get nostalgic for things I never had, is this usual? And it is definitely nostalgia, not longing.

[Ragitsu]

*eyetwitch*

Wouldja mind formatting those links? It's freaking me out just looking at that post.

"formatting those links?". I didn't see anything wrong with them, but oh well, I changed things up.

Hope you are happy with the new arrangement.

[Dr.Epic]

This guy (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic).

Any old Nickelodean show as well as any of my old N64 of SNES games.

[Demon 997]

Morrowind theme. I need that game again.

[Ragitsu]

childhood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMU2NwaaXEA)

DUCK TALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tale Spin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cMaGt52QE) while we're at it.

[Moff Chumley]

"formatting those links?". I didn't see anything wrong with them, but oh well, I changed things up.

Hope you are happy with the new arrangement.

Yah, that's better. Thanks. :smallsmile:

[Vaynor]

DUCK TALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOHOO!

Anyways, I played Pokemon Blue again a while back, and that brought back a lot of memories. I got one of those translucent purple Gameboy Colors and Pokemon Blue for Christmas when I was 6 years old.

Also, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAN-q1Mq048&feature=related).

[Winter_Wolf]

Opening theme from Ranma 1/2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hME72C7hq3U&feature=related) first season. (Jajauma ni sasenaide.) Takes me back to my freshman days at college. Still had my whole life ahead of me and oh so many fun mistakes and adventures in the making. I am so old. :smalleek:

And pretty much any time I hear Japanese TV or game shows. Been so long since I've been back there. :smallfrown:

Actually I have a LOT of nostalgia buttons. Curse of traveling around and being generally adventurous, I suppose. Wouldn't trade it for anything though! :smallsmile:

[_Zoot_]

Age of Empires I, espicaly the cheats from it, remembering my dad getting really in to setting Photon Troopers on them! :smallbiggrin:

I still maintain that that game had the best cheats of any RTS I have ever played!

And I think the game was called Commander Ken, my brother and I used to play it on the old computer down stairs, I still associate the smell of the glue used to set carpet with great childhood memories because we were getting the carpet redone while I played that game :smallcool:

[Moff Chumley]

Man, what about Starcraft I? Junkfoodnight, allyourbasearebelongtous, that kinda thing. Good times. :smallbiggrin:

[Kallisti]

2e books. I'm to young to miss 2e the game, but I used to read all sorts of old 2e books just for pleasure when I was growing up. Plus, 2e Ravenloft was just plain better-written than the 3e stuff is.

[Eldan]

Oh, I just remembered : Lego. I like kids, so whenever there's kids visiting, or I visit someone with kids, I get the job of "doing something with the kids so the others can talk in peace". Which means I get to play Lego with everyone's kids. Yay!

[hayabusa]

Seeing new iterations of video games that I played in the past. Like seeing the new Sonic commercial on TV, as well as the Mario game last year. I spent the better part of the early and mid 90s playing those respective series, and I still remember the shock of seeing a Sonic game on the Gamecube after Sega decided to become a game developer only.

You know, I still have that Sonic collection game. I think I'll bust it out soon.

[Dr.Epic]

Creepy Crawlers too. Man, I loved making those as a little kid.

[KoboldRevenge]

Jokes/: This IN-TER-NET reminds me of a primative version of my times thought sharing technology:/Jokes:smallbiggrin:

Yeah but really there's all these old vhs cassets at my parents house that really are cool to watch especialy the old trailers for stuff.

[Castaras]

- Linked to an old thread I posted in
- Old Photo
- Song I liked when I was little

[Ragitsu]

Keep in mind that more specific, and less generic, answers are what i'm looking for :smallbiggrin:.

[Rahas]

This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMcOo-k23U) is the entire meaning of nostalgia. Basically Donkey kong country in general, hope that retro studios didn't fail with DKC returns.

[Ragitsu]

This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMcOo-k23U) is the entire meaning of nostalgia. Basically Donkey kong country in general, hope that retro studios didn't fail with DKC returns.

Oh man, i'm getting choked up over here...

[lord of kobolds]

Hey Jude actually made me cry a few weeks ago.

[Gorgondantess]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM

YES.
That, and Pokemon Red version, and the mindsplosion that was the amazing amazingness of gold version. Full color? New starters? 16 badges? And HOLY SH*T I CAN EVOLVE SCYTHER INTO SOMETHING EVEN COOLER!!!
And then we had the bitter, bitter disappointment of ruby version, and the only good thing I derived from that was Flygon... though admittedly it did have better starters than Gold/Silver.

And being terrified of the Skarj, or however you spell that, in Unreal. Seriously, those things were tough. Especially for a 9 year old. Headcrabs too- Ravenholm brought me to that dark little time in the past, hiding under the covers, terrified of monsters under the bed.

That giddy feeling from playing Planescape: Torment. I didn't know what it is at the time, or really why I liked that game at all, but I'm quite positive now that it was the brilliant atmosphere of the game- what drives me to enjoy games the most now is that kind of atmosphere.

Ocarina of Time as well- though in the end even more nostalgic was Majora's Mask. Sue me, I think it's a better game, and I definitely put more hours of my childhood into it than Ocarina of Time.
Still, this music will always get me. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeemulhp4hM)

Oh, and I totally have this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYeHPFR3f0)on my mp3 player.:smallcool:

[Eldan]

Ah, Majora's Mask...

I played it for a while, then couldn't find out how to get to the next dungeon pretty early in the game, so I put it away, to finish it a few weeks later.

Then my N64 broke down. I still have the games and controllers... :smallsigh:

[randman22222]

Oh, I definitely think Majora's Mask was the better game. :smallsmile:

But. This song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yc7kp_ETGU) is instant nostalgia.

I think the themes in OoT were more... thematic. :smallconfused:

EDIT1: :smallconfused:

EDIT2: Ohh! But MM did have this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKUP8Whnxtw&feature=related). And this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLCbS02T1Y).

[Drascin]

Ah, Ocarina of Time. I was such a fan that I taught myself to play Saria's Song and Zelda's lullaby on flute, by ear and trial and error. My fingers still remember how to do the first bits when I grab the flute, even if my mind doesn't.

[Trobby]

Trob Nostalgia?

Rocky and Bullwinkle. Nintendo games. Apogee games. DOS-based games of any kind, music of the 80's, movies that are animated without CGI, VHS tapes...

Just to name a few. :smallwink:

[RanWilde]

Swords always do it for me.

It reminds me of the good old days when I man had to cut his opponent down if he wanted to be sure that his enemy was dead. Spurs also do it for me.

[Mystic Muse]

Even Doug?
*doo di do diddy doo di do, doo dud diddy doo di doo* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdmURW0Go9Q)

I actually get the joke involving that theme song now. Wasn't sure what it was before.

Disney movies, Tom and Jerry, the Pink panther, and a Don Bluth movie or two push my Nostalgia buttons.

[Eldan]

I actually get the joke involving that theme song now. Wasn't sure what it was before.

Disney movies, Tom and Jerry, the Pink panther, and a Don Bluth movie or two push my Nostalgia buttons.

There's a joke?

[KerfuffleMach2]

My Pac-Man shirt, Mario, Animaniacs, Magic School Bus, Pop Rocks, and Weird Al.

[Ragitsu]

Ah, Playstation. Those were the days.

[Sipex]

DUCK TALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tale Spin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cMaGt52QE) while we're at it.

The Duck Tales video game for the NES. Anytime I hear that space stage music...

Playing any SNES RPGs.

Kirby's Adventure for the NES, in french. My copy was french and only cost me $10. No, I don't speak french, but there you have it anyways.

Lego. Seriously.

[RandomNPC]

Being eaten by a Grue.

[Ragitsu]

The Duck Tales video game for the NES. Anytime I hear that space stage music...

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01096/

[Gorgondantess]

EDIT2: Ohh! But MM did have this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKUP8Whnxtw&feature=related). And this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knLCbS02T1Y).

My personal favorite was this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGnc08aKXNQ&feature=related) I vividly remember just swimming around in the clock tower as a zora for about an hour, just to listen to it.
The observatory one is really, really good too, though.:smallsmile:

[Katana_Geldar]

I have found tastes and smells push my Nostalgia buttons more than anything.

For example: I was eating a museli biscuit the other day, and the taste and texture reminded me of something, but I couldn't remember what. Then it hit me, it was almost (but not quite) like the wholemeal fruit bikkies I used to have for recess at school. My parents used to own a bakery and my mum used to bring them back (among other things) for us to eat. I had not thought about it for a while until I had that biscuit, and it brought it all back...

As for smells, the dirty, hot rubber smell always reminds me of trains, no matter where I am.

[Ragitsu]

I have found tastes and smells push my Nostalgia buttons more than anything.

For example: I was eating a museli biscuit the other day, and the taste and texture reminded me of something, but I couldn't remember what. Then it hit me, it was almost (but not quite) like the wholemeal fruit bikkies I used to have for recess at school. My parents used to own a bakery and my mum used to bring them back (among other things) for us to eat. I had not thought about it for a while until I had that biscuit, and it brought it all back...

I am pretty much the same way with garlic.

[Remmirath]

Being eaten by a Grue.

Yes. :smallbiggrin:

Also a wide variety of DOS games (Wacky Wheels, Hocus Pocus, Mystic Towers, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, The Incredible Machine, Lemmings, Crystal Caves, and more), Quake, the Engineering Building on campus where my mom used to work, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Jurassic Park, Tron, Q-Basic, Word Perfect, floppy disks, laser discs, Sonic the Hedgehog, Magic School Bus games/books (wouldn't like them these days, but remember them in a good light), Schoolhouse Rock, 1st edition D&D, Lego, Goldfish snack crackers (I always used to eat them in the break between Saturday performances), that particular feeling of trying to go to sleep in a darkened train as it goes through the mountains but not really being able to, the Solar Queen books, the Chronicles of Narnia, the first two Oz books and mostly the second (I simply develop an eye twitch about the others these days - I don't think I'd actually like the first two any more, but I still remember them fondly if that makes sense), The Star Beast, Nancy Drew books and games (another in the 'don't really like them any more but remember them fondly' category), Choose Your Own Adventure style books in general (especially things like The Pillars of Pentegarn - and even more especially Revenge of the Red Dragon) a few certain songs that were the first ones I remember hearing, that one particular copy of the The Lord of the Rings, and... well, probably other stuff.

That's... more than I thought there would be.

[randman22222]

My personal favorite was this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGnc08aKXNQ&feature=related) I vividly remember just swimming around in the clock tower as a zora for about an hour, just to listen to it.
The observatory one is really, really good too, though.:smallsmile:

*Blinks.*

Yes... How the hell did I forget that one? :smallconfused:

I just sat next to the mask salesman, not wanting to leave. :smalltongue:

[Ragitsu]

Theme of Miami Vice? Wow.

[CrimsonAngel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0TS9l_nJE

I loved that show, and I love it even more now that I get all the jokes.

[AslanCross]

There's a Facebook meme going around that's an anti-child abuse advocacy, and it calls for people to change their avatars to cartoons from their childhood. That got everyone's nostalgia running, both at the office and at home.

[CrimsonAngel]

Oh, that's why Jessica is the Cheshire cat and David is... I don't know, he's like 23. Who knows what he used to whatch.

[Snares]

There's a Facebook meme going around that's an anti-child abuse advocacy, and it calls for people to change their avatars to cartoons from their childhood. That got everyone's nostalgia running, both at the office and at home.

Yup, I got that earlier today. Mine's Norbert from Angry Beavers. Now there was a show. :smallcool:

Other things that get me all nostalgia-y:

Tom and Jerry, any old school Cartoon Network shows (Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo etc.), Stratego, PS1 Final Fantasy, old FIFA games, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tarka the Otter, anything on my really old music playlist, old Pokemon games, Pogs (DEAR GOD, POGS!), Horrible Histories books, seeing any kid with those light-up shoes, Kenan and Kel, the London Transport Museum (I must've been there at least fifteen to twenty times as a kid).

That's about it. Good list. :smallcool:

[Ragitsu]

Pogs (DEAR GOD, POGS!)

You remember POGS? There used to be a shop nearby that sold them.

[RabbitHoleLost]

Carebears, being around my highschool friend Heather, Pocky, the ocean, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, Diddy Kong Racing, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Beauty and The Beast...
I'm a sucker for nostalgia, really.

[loopy]

This song. Underworld - Born Slippy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLWFa1b1Bc)

Let your feelings slip boy-- but never your mask, boy.

Close your eyes before it starts playing... :smallsmile:

[Ragitsu]

This song. Underworld - Born Slippy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlLWFa1b1Bc)

Let your feelings slip boy-- but never your mask, boy.

Close your eyes before it starts playing... :smallsmile:

Ah, Trainspotting :smallcool:.

[shadowxknight]

The Fire Emblem Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTSoyQgzWs) takes me back to middle school times. I don't know how many assignments I missed in 7th grade because instead of doing them I was busying playing through this game.
That and the smell of new Magic the Gathering cards. Yes, the new card smell. Good times, good times.

[Ragitsu]

Is anyone here (likely fanfiction readers) nostalgic at all for that late 1990's/early 2000's time when Angelfire and Geocities reigned supreme?

[loopy]

Ah, Trainspotting :smallcool:.

Indeed. Something about that song just resonates with me.

[Remmirath]

Is anyone here (likely fanfiction readers) nostalgic at all for that late 1990's/early 2000's time when Angelfire and Geocities reigned supreme?

Yep, but it's not because of fanfiction. I used to do a lot of various pixel art type stuff, and a lot of those sites were either Geocities or Angelfire.

[Zeb The Troll]

I waver between "nostalgic" and "good god I'm old, why do I hang out with these people?" Most of the stuff being discussed here makes me nostalgic a bit, sure, for my early adult years. And that makes me feel old because I know that stuff that would take me back to my childhood is stuff that most of you have only heard stories about...


Also a wide variety of DOS games (Wacky Wheels, Hocus Pocus, Mystic Towers, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, The Incredible Machine, Lemmings, Crystal Caves, and more), Quake, the Engineering Building on campus where my mom used to work, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Jurassic Park, Tron, Q-Basic, Word Perfect, floppy disks, laser discs, Sonic the Hedgehog, Magic School Bus games/books (wouldn't like them these days, but remember them in a good light), Schoolhouse Rock, 1st edition D&D, Lego, Goldfish snack crackers (I always used to eat them in the break between Saturday performances), that particular feeling of trying to go to sleep in a darkened train as it goes through the mountains but not really being able to, the Solar Queen books, the Chronicles of Narnia, the first two Oz books and mostly the second (I simply develop an eye twitch about the others these days - I don't think I'd actually like the first two any more, but I still remember them fondly if that makes sense), The Star Beast, Nancy Drew books and games (another in the 'don't really like them any more but remember them fondly' category), Choose Your Own Adventure style books in general (especially things like The Pillars of Pentegarn - and even more especially Revenge of the Red Dragon) a few certain songs that were the first ones I remember hearing, that one particular copy of the The Lord of the Rings, and... well, probably other stuff.

That's... more than I thought there would be.Yeah, like that kind of stuff. :smallsmile:

I have boxes of stuff in my house that I keep for no reason other than to wax nostalgic when I come upon them again unexpectedly later. I have things like medals from math competitions that I won in middle school to my ACT scores to a plaque that my coworkers made for me when my daughter was born. I have a photo of me from the time that I won Battalion NCO of the Quarter. I have pictures of my daughter from when she was no older than her son is now.


There's a Facebook meme going around that's an anti-child abuse advocacy, and it calls for people to change their avatars to cartoons from their childhood. That got everyone's nostalgia running, both at the office and at home.I'm pretty sure I read recently that the rumor about it being anti-child abuse is just that, rumor. I'll have to see if I can find where I saw that.

EDIT: It appears I was wrong (http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/cartoon.asp). It was the story about it being started by pedophiles that was malarky.

[Eiremauve]

This old Disney theme song. We have a lot of old Disney Classic VHS, and this song played at the beginning of all of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaOP86gX2s&feature=related

Also, old-school PC games. Dr. Brain, Oregon Trail, and the like.

Old PBS shows, Ghostwriter, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago/Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago, Magic School Bus, Arthur, Wishbone, etc.

Oh, Choose Your Old Adventure! I remember those.

[Ragitsu]

Why did Ninja get turned into Hero in the UK?

[John Cribati]

Recently? This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkCkq9rGFME)

[factotum]

Why did Ninja get turned into Hero in the UK?

That was random. Are you talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, perchance? If so, I believe it was changed because the local censors at the time considered the word "ninja" to have overtly violent connotations for a children's cartoon. They also edited out any scene in which Donatello (I think that was the one, anyway) used his nunchakus for similar reasons!

[Drascin]

That was random. Are you talking about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, perchance? If so, I believe it was changed because the local censors at the time considered the word "ninja" to have overtly violent connotations for a children's cartoon. They also edited out any scene in which Donatello (I think that was the one, anyway) used his nunchakus for similar reasons!

Michaelangelo, actually. Donatello was the one with the bo staff.

[Jay R]

I'm surrounded by children.

Playing D&D in college. Not 4E, not 3e or 3.5E. not AD&D2 or AD&D1. The original three books, with fighters, magic-users and clerics. Then playing with the Greyhawk supplement which added thieves and paladins, before Blackmoor added assassins and monks. With hobbits, balrogs, and ents, before D&D was big enough for the Tolkien estate to notice.

Waiting for the issue of The Strategic Review or its successor The Dragon, which could be expected to add something new to the game. The Dragon stopped being as exciting after the first 5 or 6 issues.

Walt Disney on Sunday nights telling us what he was adding to Disneyland -- especially the night he introduced the Florida Project (eventually named Walt Disney World). "And now your host, Walt Disney".

When Yogi Bear and Quick-Draw McGraw got their own cartoons and stopped being backups on Huckleberry Hound.

The Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure comics. Superman in the early 60s. Showcase and its offshoots in the late 60s (Bat Lash, Anthro, Inferior Five, Angel & the Ape, Hawk & the Dove). JLA/JSA annual team-ups on Earth-somewhere.

George Reeves as Superman.

Ruff and Reddy. Fireball XL-5. The original Mickey Mouse Club.

The exciting new Marvel Comics superheroes.

The great original daily comics -- Peanuts, Pogo, Li'l Abner. (Since then, only Doonesbury, Calvin & Hobbes, and maybe Dilbert have joined that class.)

Roy Rogers. John Wayne. Gene Kelly.

The Avengers, when the show first came to America.

The Fugitive. Andy Griffith (until Barney left). **** Van Dyke.

Having a new (usually Rankin-Bass) Christmas Special each year -- Charlie Brown, Rudolph, Grinch, Frosty, SC is Coming to Town (and *NOTHING* since then).

Feeling safe eating Halloween candy before getting home. Feeling safe walking around at night in costume.

[Zeb The Troll]

I'm surrounded by children.Hey, that's usually my line! :smallbiggrin:

It's not very often, sir, that someone comes along here and has active recollections of stuff that was in reruns when I was a kid.

*shakes hand*

[d13]

THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOYIbV5y7FI) gets me every time.

Specially between 00:59 and 01:52 xD

[Asta Kask]

This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_All_of_Us_to_All_of_You) is shown every year in Swedish Television, and the soundtrack always makes me feel that Christmas has come.

[Mr. Filcher]

The Monkees, the original once-a-year JLA/JSA crossover comics, and Roy Thomas' Defenders for Marvel, and Evel Knievel.

[Popertop]

Legend of the Dragoon, Record of Lodoss War

Being really sad about stuff

A few other things I can't remember

[AshDesert]

Supertramp. Yah, I know I'm too young to be nostalgiac for a 70s band. Am anyway. Whatchoo gunna do? :smallamused:

Pfft... I get nostalgic whenever I hear Glenn Miller or Benny Goodman. Beat THAT:smallamused:.

Also any of the Pokemons up to Sapphire/Ruby, but Yellow especially.

And the Rudolph movie they show every Christmas.