The nostalgia thread.

[Oruc]

In the late 80s there were a number of one-game pocket electronic devices. I had a few of them (three iirc).

Octopus was the one i played the most, although not the more advanced for its time:

I suppose the most popular of the lot was the Mario game (the original Mario, by Nintendo, was a handheld with this sort of light-effect-based images. Basically the screen had already all of the inked images on it, but they would only be lit when you moved to their position).

I was given quite a few cheap versions of those, I could never tell what happening

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Spoiler :

The first computer that I used ran on cassettes. It could take five minutes to load up a game.

The first console I owned had the pause button on the console itself instead of on the controller.

 

[Antilogic]

I've rewatched a few movies and shows I used to like when I was younger, and I'm sad when they don't hold up. The dialogue in Gettysburg and Apollo 13 is just not up to what I expect from a good movie.

Now, the Batman cartoon from the 90s does much better in that department. It's still pretty good.

 

[warpus]

The first computer that I used ran on cassettes. It could take five minutes to load up a game.

The first console I owned had the pause button on the console itself instead of on the controller.

My first computer was an Atari 800XL. Some games took a half an hour to load.. and since a lot of them were copied, every once in a while it'd fail and you had to start over.. (I was a poor political refugee from Poland at the time, we couldn't afford games. don't judge me!)

Ahhh the memories.. No HD, no disk drive of any sort, tape drive..

 

[shadowplay]

I miss coming home from school and watching this.

The "pot is bad" episode appears to have had no impact on me whatsoever.

 

[IglooDame]

Yep, cassette-tape drive for my TI-99, too. I was so thrilled, when I got a computer that I could actually type "load <program name>" instead of FF/rewinding to the right place on the tape and hitting Play.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Does anyone here have nostalgia for emotions or emotional/mental states of being? Once I started no longer being a teenager I'll sometimes have nostalgia for the silly emotional things teenagers might feel. Or I'd try to remember what I was feeling during a certain time. The smell of a humid spring morning, for instance, sometimes makes me recall the spring of my 8th grade, when interesting things happened (or at least so it seemed to me back then - it was a silly adventure of sorts).

Often, just the feeling or impression of the past is stronger for me than the actual memory or (physical) objects associated with it. I suppose that's why music can be such a powerful nostalgia trigger for me, even music I recently discovered.

 

[Perfection]

I miss Hannah Montana, oh wait, I didn't care about her either.

 

[Farm Boy]

Sure. While recognizing that I am massively happier than I was at 21 or so, I do get nostalgicish about the feeling of going out on the town as a single guy, feeling like anything could happen. Will I find somebody to smooch? True love? Get arrested? There was a feeling of being on the prowl that just doesn't come up anymore.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Continuous run movies in theaters: movie, cartoons; newsreels, movie, cartoon, newsreels, repeat all day long without any breaks. Pay 15 cents and stay all day if you wanted.

Ten neighbor kids all playing "Oliee oliee in free" at dusk on hot summer nights.

 

[Phrossack]

Nothing jogs my memory like smells. Every now and then, just for a split second, I catch a whiff of something that smells like my grandparents' houses and for a brief moment I'm back there and they're alive again.

I miss long days of playing with toy soldiers with my closest friend, where we'd set up countries, have political disputes, elections, rebellions, assassinations, frequent warfare, and so on. We'd play with the toy soldiers or toy guns all day, visit a nearby 18th-century French fort, and watch Last of the Mohicans and Battle of the Bulge.

But I try not to dwell on the past, since it's gone forever and there's nothing I can do about it. I try to inoculate myself against nostalgia by reminding myself that I would throw temper tantrums, I was an extremely picky eater, and I hated homework. In any case, it's thinking about the future that keeps me up at night. I don't like the future.

 

[IAM]

Nothing jogs my memory like smells. Every now and then, just for a split second, I catch a whiff of something that smells like my grandparents' houses and for a brief moment I'm back there and they're alive again.

I miss long days of playing with toy soldiers with my closest friend, where we'd set up countries, have political disputes, elections, rebellions, assassinations, frequent warfare, and so on. We'd play with the toy soldiers or toy guns all day, visit a nearby 18th-century French fort, and watch Last of the Mohicans and Battle of the Bulge.

But I try not to dwell on the past, since it's gone forever and there's nothing I can do about it. I try to inoculate myself against nostalgia by reminding myself that I would throw temper tantrums, I was an extremely picky eater, and I hated homework. In any case, it's thinking about the future that keeps me up at night. I don't like the future.

I worked some summers during college in large construction projects. So the smell of diesel fuel in the summer brings that time back instantly.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

There are people here who seriously don't know what the connection is?

I certainly did my share of using the pen to rewind cassette tapes. Sometimes I'd even remember to label them.

 

[cybrxkhan]

There are people here who seriously don't know what the connection is?

I certainly did my share of using the pen to rewind cassette tapes. Sometimes I'd even remember to label them.

I like to think of myself as one of the younger CFC folks but the fact that I can make the connection makes me want to rethink that.

Then again, though, I think most people born in the late 80s/90s (i.e. my age group) can still figure that out.

 

[KMRblue1027]

There are people here who seriously don't know what the connection is?

I certainly did my share of using the pen to rewind cassette tapes. Sometimes I'd even remember to label them.

Link to video.

Watch it and feel old.

 

[Antilogic]

I'd post a link to Screwattack's LP on Double Dragon Neon, which is basically 80s nostalgia crammed into a videogame, if it weren't for the language. You have to revive your fallen comrades by rewinding their tapes with a #2 pencil.

Those "kids react" videos are awesome. I loved the one where they asked kids how you could text on a rotary phone.

 

[Kyriakos]

Old phones looked so much better.

 

[IAM]

I'd post a link to Screwattack's LP on Double Dragon Neon, which is basically 80s nostalgia crammed into a videogame, if it weren't for the language. You have to revive your fallen comrades by rewinding their tapes with a #2 pencil.

Those "kids react" videos are awesome. I loved the one where they asked kids how you could text on a rotary phone.

Yea those videos are funny and bring back memories.

I remember when pagers first came out and we were on remote job site locations. You would get a page to call the office (no idea how important the issue was) and you would have to drive 30 minutes to get to a pay phone. Usually it was just some message about signing a form for per diem but it was a serious delay of work in the field. At first we thought the pagers would be great but they actually ended up costing us more money and time because they were not used well.

 

[AdamCrock]

Rewinding a tape with a pencil is simply classic !!!

 

[AdamCrock]

Yea those videos are funny and bring back memories.

I remember when pagers first came out and we were on remote job site locations. You would get a page to call the office (no idea how important the issue was) and you would have to drive 30 minutes to get to a pay phone. Usually it was just some message about signing a form for per diem but it was a serious delay of work in the field. At first we thought the pagers would be great but they actually ended up costing us more money and time because they were not used well.

Pagers ...... yeah.... let's skip to mobiles there ...