Haha my thoughts exactly . Speaking of which I saw The Phantom last night, damn was that a horrible movie. For nostalgia, I'd have to say: N64 SNES Pokemon Digimon Gameboy Color (I still play it all the time) and a crapload of other things I forgot.
Well i was born in the 60's. We had no Big League Chew then, only candy cigs and bubble gum cigars. There were these things called Flix, kinda like a Hersey Kiss, but in the size and shape of a Nonpareil. Came in a tube of different colors.
Stop saying Digimon! Here's the reason it isn't old enough: Digimon was created in 1997, Toy Story came out two years previously. There's no way a franchise started after the first full-CGI feature film was released counts as being nostalgic yet. CGI is new shit!
digimon! Nostalgia: a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: Nobody can really tell you what you can or cannot be nostalgic about, I was only 11 at the time which feels like a lifetime ago to me. It definitely has sentimental value to me and reminds me of the happy times I had during my childhood.
Jeez. Nothing like someone thinking 2000 is "the old days" to make you feel old. I feel like my list is going to engender a lot of confused looks, but here we go anyway: - Atari 2600/Coleco Gemini, Intellivision, Colecovision - The Hostess Munchies - Popeye Candy Cigarettes. Not sticks. Cigarettes. With the red tip. - For that matter, bubblegum cigarettes with the paper wrapping full of powder that shot out when you blew on them. - Night Court (Best. sitcom. ever.) -Tales from the Riverbank (the 80s TV show, not the recent crappy CGI movie that was made from it.) - The Great Space Coaster - Commander Tom and Rocketship 7 - Animals! Animals! Animals! - Toronto Rocks! (Obviously only nostalgic if you lived in pre-GTA Toronto; for the rest of you it was our great local music video show. For maybe the one of you that remembers, did you know John Majhor died?) - Schoolhouse Rock - Politically incorrect Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies before Political Correctness took over - Superfriends ("Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...") - Rocket Robin Hood - Not wanting to grow up because you were a Toys "R" Us kid - Dig 'Em and Sugar Smacks when they still had "sugar" in the title - Pac Man cereal -- for that matter, the Pac Man cartoon and all of the other Pac Man merchandise - Morris the finicky 9-Lives cat Jeez, I could go on...
Even though I wasn't alive at the time, I'm gonna go ahead and list what is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time: MASH. And music that actually sounded good (80's were also ahead of my time). And movies that had original plotlines.
Wasn't saying you didn't know what nostalgia means and the old days is different things to different people. But if we're going by what the topic says then: In the end you can't tell people what they can or cannot be nostalgic about. It's just a feeling you get when you see a show/game/toy/etc. that just brings back a flood of good memories. There are different levels of old days for me though. Digimon and the like are not as "old old days" as when I would watch Sesame Street when I was a a little kid, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make me feel nostalgic. Just saying...not really arguing or anything
I go back to original Pong....state of the art stuff back then Atari in high school made all my friends jealous. You cant find those Looney Tunes anymore on tv. Its sad really, cause those were the classics that will never get old. I STILL call them Sugar Smacks. Or how about that commercial that went..."Hey, how about a nice Hawaiian Punch?" And the little dude punched him hard in the face? Not sure when that was but i remember it well and no longer see it. Who remembers all the "Final Mash" parties that went on that day? Eh?..........Speak up sonny, i cant hear ya. Batteries dead in my hearing aid.
I was around for it but never had one. I didn't even see my first video game 'til 1979, and then it was a cocktail Asteroids game at a restaurant/bar where my dad was playing in a band. (He was a musician and single parent, took me on all his gigs 'cos we could never afford a babysitter.) Quite. True, some of them were pretty offensive by today's standards, but you have to look at them through the lens of time and the attitudes of when they were made. Heck, you can't even by the classic Song of the South in this part of the world. (Which frankly wasn't nearly as offensive as some of the Looney Tunes of the day.) You and me both. And Sugar Corn Pops, too. Yep, I remember those too. I never really liked Hawaiian Punch though, but the commercials were entertaining. I was a little young to fully appreciate MASH in the day, but as I grew up I learned to love it. Hawkeye and BJ (and later Trapper John) were probably one of the funniest duos on television.
That was another thing. Going into bars at that age back then was no big deal. I remember even going into them to buy my Pop a pack of cigarettes when i was 10 years old. Unheard of today and the retailers as well as the parents would be fined/going to jail in a second. Actually, Trapper came before BJ. MASH was one of the few programs that actually got better as the years went on IMO. I never much caed for the earlier episodes, but as soon as BJ and Potter got there, it started to improve, then even more after Charles arrived and Hot Lips character improved a bit.
I blame Bush (Jr)'s "kindler, gentler nation." Which turned into the bubble-wrapped generation. Well, that and the 24-hour news cycle that brought th world's dangers into more people's brains more often. I mean, jeez, I was taking the bus at 10 years old. By myself! To the downtown area to spend my allowance on arcade games and junk food! I turned out fine. I guess though now they have these new things called pedophiles and stuff that totally didn't exist 30 years ago, and bars and cigarettes (real or candy!) have only recently become dangerous to children. Sorry, I just think the whole "things are more dangerous today, think of the children!" stuff is complete BS. If you listen to the media, everything will kill you, as if the media saying so and citing dodgy "new" studies (that were in no way started to justify an infusion of grant money) suddenly makes it true. Whoops! My mistake; I always get the order of those two mixed up, probably because I only started watching when it was in syndication so I never got to see it in chronological order. I liked Charles' pompous antics, and Potter -- well, Harry Morgan was great in anything. Never cared for the Hot Lips character though. She kind of grated on me.
Oh totally agree!! I was going to the movies at 9 years old.... by myself....in the "downtown" area...and i'm still alive. All those cigarettes i bought as a child for my Pop didn't do me any harm..guess what...i'm still alive. I too rode the bus alone at that age, went to the stores alone, walked to the stores alone...in the rain even! . I walked to and from school by myself. The students themselves were crossing guards....4th and 5th graders. I was one of them. Didnt get hit, crippled, shot, or abducted. Going even further, i ate hotdogs straight from the fridge, raw cookie dough (still do) . I went out in the sun without sunblock and didnt get cancer. I went swimming in the lake and didnt get a bad disease, i played dodge ball with my friends and didnt turn into a psychotic killer nor did i get hurt. I made make shift knives out of sharpened Popsicle sticks and i never got arrested or thrown out of school. We played "pencil wars" (if you're old enough, you'll know what this was), and it was just fine. I wonder how any of us made it thru alive back then.
