Nostalgia and your past

Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:21 am

Always get nostalgic when I make the bus journey from Edinburgh to the little town where I grew up.
I hated living in a backwater then but thats the nature of nostalgia.
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Ron
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:46 am

I will alwys remember all of my friends and I getting together at a friends house, and setting on lan connections, and playing halo 2. We had so much fun whenever we did that, playing Swat, screaming at eachother, chompin down some pizza and pop, havin a blast. Then after the lan madness we'd head outside and just hang around, making dumb jokes, kickin a ball at eachother, and shooting eachother with bb guns.

Also, I will always remember how my best friend and I would burn hours and hours playing custom games in startcraft and Grinding in Diablo 2. Some of the most fun I have ever had

I have alot of fun still today( halo 2 Switched for halo reach, and Diablo switched for Neverwinter Nights RP and League of Legends.) with some of the same people, but I always will look back at those LAN parties and such with a fond eye.
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Monika Krzyzak
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 6:24 pm

I'm overly nostalgic.

The smell of rain in Spring on hot asphalt.

The smile of a friend (you know that look... "Damn it's good to see you"!). Don't see that much any more.

A good sharp knife in hand and the feel it has when cutting fish. It's surgery without liability.

The smell of burnt cordite. This just gives me a serious hard-on. And I still visit the range to feel the recoil and have a waft of that gas... Intoxicating.

Body surfing (local surf is too short and choppy for it).

A good sunset over the tropics.

That feeling I got when I stepped off the boat in Seyda Neen. Or the Azura cut scene when I took the ring.

So much to go on about. Sorry for the loss of your friend.
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Charleigh Anderson
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 4:06 pm

I have nothing I want to remember from my childhood(I'm only 18) or my teen years. Mostly it is filled with being neglected by my father and my mother trying to raise us. Only thing I will look back on and think was a great thing is when my mother meet my step-father, he turned mine and my brothers life around. I guess that counts as my nostalgia for my past.
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Louise Dennis
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 2:06 pm

I used to love Thomas the Tank Engine when I was a wee little boy and even though I am now 24 I could happily sit and watch an episode now just for the sake of nostalgia.

Various games like Mario 64 really give me a warm feeling as do games like Majoras Mask, Ocarina of Time and Golden Eye

And certain music does it for me too. Metallica was the first metal band I really got into and their Ride the Lightning album was what reallymade me first fall in love with metal as 10/11 year old... I also have strong nostalgic feeling for Guns N Roses because althought they were over by the time I became a fan they were my favourite band for a long long time
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 9:30 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kwSwNQj8EE

^ Sums up the feeling of nostalgia for me, I hear that and go... ohhhh the past. Just one of those many examples :)
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Taylrea Teodor
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:08 pm

In college we used to play Madden 64. Everytime you scored a touchdown the other person had to take 2 shots or bong a beer. If it was a field goal just 1 shot.

We did that with Mario Kart 64 too. Was fun getting the opposing player belligerent.

Yes, the winning person could drink whenever they wanted to.
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Shirley BEltran
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 5:46 pm

When I think of nolstalgia, I think of flying RC planes in the park with my dad. Always nose dived.
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Laura Wilson
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 10:48 am

About 7 years ago when I would spend the night at my cousins we would sneak out of bed at around 1 and make dummies, then we would go play Halo 2... then he beat it with his friend and that made me side. We were about 10 at the time.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 3:32 pm

The summer of '84.
I was between my junior and senior year of high school.
I stayed home watching the summer olympics live (they were in Los Angeles), and playing lots of D&D with my friends.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 6:16 am

I'm feeling rather nostalgic about American Bandstand today. dike Clark was a part of my day or week or at least year for about as long as I can remember...well that is after we finally got a TV. I would watch each afternoon when it was on weekdays and then it went to every sat. I never missed it and danced my little heart out and dreamed of either becoming a rock star or at least one of their regular dancers on the show. :P But really, a lot of good music came through that program.

As for games I think I am most nostalgic about my first time playing a video game. My Mother, myself and my oldest son who was crawling around the living room floor and my brother all sat on the floor for hours playing pong on Magnavox Odyssey taking turns playing pong. What a good time that was. 1972. I had already graduated from uni with my first degree back then. We couldn't imagine hooking some black box up to our TV to play a game but there it was.

As for the game I have enjoyed the most of any other I'd have to say Morrowind. I too played the first Fallout and Fallout:2 but just never enjoyed it too much. At that time I believe I was enjoying Super Mario a bit more and thus played it quite a lot with my youngest son.

Pinball was my first game love then pool, then arcade games then D&D.

I am not a nerd. ;)
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 11:11 am

I get nostalgic about a few things.

1. I get nostalgic about Morrowind, I have played it more than half my life. (Note my father bought it in 2002 and I was 6 at the time and now I'm 16) I can remember the first time I leveled up, I was to the west of Dagon Fel and I had just slaughtered some Mudcrabs, the game then said to me: "You should rest and meditate on what you've learned." I remember an instance of being in Arilles Tradehouse and trying to read books to get level ups (I didn't know that only certain books were skill books :P) and I accidentally picked up a piece of cloth, little to say the occupants all started to attack me until I was dead on the floor.

2. I get nostalgic about cartoons. I watched Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy for most of my childhood and loved every minute of it. I remember once I watched an eight hour marathon of Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy without doing anything else that day besides eat during the commercials and use the restroom. I still record some of the old shows so that I can watch them.

3. Runescape. Yeah yeah I know, Runescape is bad, it is just a grind, yada yada. Those opinions can't keep me from the nearly six years I played that MMO from 2006-2011. I remember facing Nomad (A extremely tough boss) and finally beating him. It was such an accomplishment I still remember the day I did it. May 30th 2010. I remember spending nearly 46 hours playing during a weekend, man that hurt the following Monday. :P I remember getting all the quests complete and finally claiming the Quest Point Cape, all my friends were there, it was quite a good day.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 7:08 pm

After about 20 years I did visit properly and realised that you can't go back to a place, because it was another time. Everyone had moved on and it now looked a bit small and scruffy; part of the secondary school had been pulled down, the meadow had been built on and the remainder grassed over, the shops now had graffiti-laden metal shutters over their windows. Sad, but I guess I should remember to grow up when I did: it was a pretty idyllic childhood in many respects.

I'm pretty fortunate. While my street had changed a lot (more homes, less open space), all in all the town looks pretty good - perhaps better since it became a somewhat upscale long distance bedroom community of the San Francisco Bay Area. So basically, when I go there I don't get the "OMG, what did they do to the place?" reaction that often happens to people visiting their childhood homes. Still, there are places I used to go to decades ago that are decidedly worse/scarier/scruffier than when I was young. One is Anaheim - the city the original Disneyland is located in south of Los Angeles. Massive demographic shift (from middle class native born to poorer immigrant) and now it looks very shabby with lots of gang graffiti. Sort of spoils a trip to the "Happiest place on Earth".
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Ian White
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 11:08 am

I try not to think about it. My past is not a good one ~_~..
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Sarah Bishop
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 6:39 am

Guild Wars is a pretty nostalgic game for me. Played that for upwards of 5 years (2006-2011). I remember night when I'd stay up till 4 so I could finish a dungeon run with my guild. And using a perma sin to farm ectos to the wee hours of the morning.
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Javaun Thompson
 
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 12:31 pm

I try not to think about it. My past is not a good one ~_~..
There are a lot of things I'd like to not remember, bad things that've happened or relationships (parents or friends, boyfriend/girfriend) gone sour. I try to remember the best of times, but sometimes past reflections come in a flurry.
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Post » Wed May 02, 2012 2:57 pm

Nostalgia..

Skipping school,smoking cigarettes in the alley near home,running through the woods all day,jumping trains,getting into fights,swimming in the river,someone steals a 6 pack off their dad and everyone hangs out around a fire,hanging out with girls for the first time.

..Everyone's favorite memories differ .

Maybe their best memories are of family game night,or their freshman year in high school or college,or something else.
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