Old Stuff

[Coolness Bears]

I have super nostalgia for the Sega Saturn. I would happily play those sexy blocky games.

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

I feel sorry for the younger generation (I SOUND OLD) already, going on about Youtube and apps and cracks...mainly because I relate all of that with Internet-induced attention deficiency, and information overload frightens me because I am OCD about wanting to know/read EVERYTHING and organising things.

 

I do indeed suspect that the modern age has reduced my attention span greatly. Nowadays I find it hard to focus on one thing for very long if I'm not completely gripped by it.

 

That's true, everything will be nostalgic to people who experienced it first time round but what about people who are "nostalgic" about polaroids/8bit games that never experienced them first hand? These things have a certain charm to them that current things lack.

 

I just can't see anything from this era making that leap into faux nostalgia like polaroid/vinyl/8 bit etc. When my parents show me old photos, I enjoy looking at them because they look great and have a certain charm about them. I just want this era (my era, if you will) to leave something charming behind.

 

But can you tell me exactly what it is that gives polaroids/8-bit games/whatever such a timeless appeal? And can you tell me what the things of our era lack that means they won't have that appeal to someone at some point? My point is that such a thing as nostalgia is extremely hard to define the reason for and the limits of. Maybe we can't see any nostalgia in any of our current stuff, but maybe some people, maybe now somewhere, maybe sometime in the future, can. Maybe some things will only ever be nostalgic to people who never experienced them originally. Who knows? And that's my point.

 

 

I've only watched the beginning, but couldn't photos also help us remember something as it actually was rather than how our faulty memory might portray it?

 

There's two sides to this, as we've already discussed; the 'rose-tinted nostalgia' that every generation encounters when they realise that everything is in a constant state of flux, there's something slightly unreal about trying to recognise that other people have minds and experiences, and that's just made even more absurd when you realise that you can have a full conversation with someone born into a world after 9/11, after mobile phones and after walkmans and after Home Alone and blue sachets in crisps with real money in and so on.

 

It's basically impossible to comprehend being born in any other era, and as Eddie said, it doesn't half make you feel old when you start reminiscing! That state of naivity/innocence, of an age before unlimited and unfiltered information at your fingertips. I think it's important to try not to assume the past is better, or to assume that the scale is somehow the same. The measure has changed, and it won't stop changing. What is important to note is that no matter how different the world is there is a stability in the human's ability to respond to stimuli in whatever emotive or imaginative way.

 

While specific experiences may be long dead -- I'll never experience watching a movie at the cinema whilst being allowed to smoke -- they are surely experiences that are composed of other elements of experience that can be experienced, so there's no true loss involved aside from, in a way, mere bragging rights of having actually experienced the image in question... as if that even matters anyway.

 

Yeah...

 

Another splendid post from the seven of jays.

[jayseven]

I was born after Home Alone, and most (if not all) people on this forum were born after walkman's were invented. Most people here were born after Personal CD players were invented.

That... doesn't... negate my point... Congratulations..?

[MoogleViper]

That... doesn't... negate my point... Congratulations..?

 

Well you were saying how absurd it was, when you yourself were born after 2 of them, and only shortly before one.

[darksnowman]

Oh, one more thing - wooden roller coasters. I can't stand how this form of building a roller coaster is being forgotten, mainly in the UK, it must be said. Most of my friends haven't ridden one, which I think is a shame because they're different to steel coasters, not inferior. They're an art form, and we need more in the UK!

 

 

Not in the UK but still, a work of art.

 

(Though I have nothing against metal roller coasters!)

 

Well you were saying how absurd it was, when you yourself were born after 2 of them, and only shortly before one.

 

Poor little jay isn't as old as he thinks eh! :p

[jayseven]

Well you were saying how absurd it was, when you yourself were born after 2 of them, and only shortly before one.

 

Ok. So direct context, yes I was specifying the whole birthdate thing. I'll clear it up a little; people are being born in a world where the walkman is a thing of the past, where the twin towers were never standing. I was born, and raised in the prime for the walkman, and I knew of life without the fear of terrorists.

 

I do find it rather oblique and lame that you choose to point out inaccuracies rather than recognising a sentiment made. Antagonistic roles are laden with duties for pedantry... but it's still something that drags out a sigh when my post wasn't exactly threatening in any way :P

 

SMILEY TONGUE FACE POINT IN FACE CASE

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

It's what Moogle does.

[Iun]

I remember when all this was fields of unfarmed code, furrows upon furrows of fresh HTML and pretty little link-sprouts.

[MoogleViper]

It's what Moogle does.

 

 

"Who, me?"

[Diageo]

While I probably have some nostalgia for something, it is clearly not for the things being spoken about in this thread.

[Raining_again]

i do have a nostalgia for the ps1 as it was really my first console... As a child I was pretty much brought up on dos games, so the ps1 was actually my first console..! The big fat grey one.. yay. Bust a groove (rhythm game, not bust a move) will always hold great memories for me, as well as medievil and many other titles.

 

ZZT was one of my all time favourite games from teh past as well....what an ace piece of gaming history. So much thought into storyline, and a lot of graphics considering it was all based on ASCII characters =P

[Jimbob]

I remember a time when the Internet was such a thing used for researching, VCR's were the only way to record and watch movies and all that. And Space Invaders was the in-game. Still have an old copy around somewhere, probably still works if i put batteries in.

 

Now look how the times change. Most of our lives depend on the internet and we can't imagine a time when we didn't have it.

[Iun]

 

Now look how the times change. Most of our lives depend on the internet and we can't imagine a time when we didn't have it.

 

I remember the time before the Internet: I had almost no idea what that thing that begins with "m" and rhymes with tasturbating was.

 

Now? Oh boy...

[Jonnas]

I remember the time before the Internet: I had almost no idea what that thing that begins with "m" and rhymes with tasturbating was.

 

...Masticating?

[Goafer]

I remember the time before the Internet: I had almost no idea what that thing that begins with "m" and rhymes with tasturbating was.

 

Now? Oh boy...

 

I can only assume you lived in a city as a child. Here in the country side, porn literally grows on trees. At least that's the only explanation I can think of for finding random porn in the bushes at the side of the road.

 

I love how that's a stereotype of the countryside and it actually does happen.

 

Good times.

[Josh64]

I love the old style Mario. Those huge hands, pointy nose and his murderous cross-eyes. I don't see why Ps1/N64/Saturn type games can't/won't be seen in the same way as 8-Bit games currently are.

 

 

As far as old stuff is concerned, I do really miss the days of VHS tapes and cartridge games.

 

The height of nostalgia is shoving in a Disney video and not even fast-forwarding the adverts at the start because they were so damn awesome. I still remember the Disney Land advert, it used to blow my mind.

[MoogleViper]

I can only assume you lived in a city as a child. Here in the country side, porn literally grows on trees. At least that's the only explanation I can think of for finding random porn in the bushes at the side of the road.

 

I love how that's a stereotype of the countryside and it actually does happen.

 

Good times.

 

Everyone should have a childhood memory of finding ripped up porn mags in a bush (the plant kind).

 

I once remember finding pages from a porn mag alongside a large hacksaw in a bush.

 

I'm yet to find out what method of pleasure this is.

[Ramar]

I can only assume you lived in a city as a child. Here in the country side, porn literally grows on trees. At least that's the only explanation I can think of for finding random porn in the bushes at the side of the road.

 

I love how that's a stereotype of the countryside and it actually does happen.

 

Good times.

 

It was all good until older kids stole your stash from your not so secret den.

[ReZourceman]

 

Oh, one more thing - wooden roller coasters. I can't stand how this form of building a roller coaster is being forgotten, mainly in the UK, it must be said. Most of my friends haven't ridden one, which I think is a shame because they're different to steel coasters, not inferior. They're an art form, and we need more in the UK!

 

And surprisingly, it has come out this week that apparently the UK are getting 3 wooden roller coasters in the next 5 years.

[Grazza]

I remember the time before the Internet: I had almost no idea what that thing that begins with "m" and rhymes with tasturbating was.

 

Really? I was at school long before the world wide web, and our Head of Year gave us an assembly about it. "YOU WILL BEGIN TO (that word)" he boomed out. "Put your hand up if you don't know what that means."

 

...Never have I seen such a big group desperately trying to keep their hands down. Shame really, as I'd love to have seen him explain it!

 

I can only assume you lived in a city as a child. Here in the country side, porn literally grows on trees. At least that's the only explanation I can think of for finding random porn in the bushes at the side of the road.

 

Same here, but in the woods. I remember my friend showing me where he'd found some. I remember thinking "It looks like that?"

 

 

And surprisingly, it has come out this week that apparently the UK are getting 3 wooden roller coasters in the next 5 years.

 

Is that Drayton, Flamingo Land and... where else? Thorpe? I'd love to believe it, but I've been here before so many times. Thanks though, Rez, and I hope you're right. Thanks also to @nightwolf and @darksnowman. Yes, we have some good ones scattered around - my favourites being in Wales and at Great Yarmouth - but I couldn't resist a gratuitous woodie mention!

[Iun]

...Masticating?

 

Maths debating.

 

Nothing better coming back after a hard day's work and then arguing with an idiot about where the hypotenuse is.*

 

 

*with that statement, I have exhausted my entire mathematics based vocabulary.

[Jimbob]

I can only assume you lived in a city as a child. Here in the country side, porn literally grows on trees. At least that's the only explanation I can think of for finding random porn in the bushes at the side of the road.

 

I love how that's a stereotype of the countryside and it actually does happen.

 

Good times.

 

Ah yes, where i lived had one of these "bushes" as it were. They also had copies of "The Sun" and "Star" around the area as well, talk about choice.

 

 

And surprisingly, it has come out this week that apparently the UK are getting 3 wooden roller coasters in the next 5 years.

 

That is good, i don't think i've seen a wooden coaster in years.

[Frank]

 

My tutors seemed to love it, it's like shown to prospective students and stuff. Which is really nice, but it really wasn't a very ambitious work (it's just a camera...) - I just put a lot more thought into the concept (evidenced in the presentations/development meetings blah blah) than a lot of people given the same task.

 

I enjoyed that. Felt especially slow moving, yet I was surprised when it ended. Some nice ideas and thoughts put into this. That sound of the photo being captured & printed is my life!