Video Game Nostalgia
 

Hey guys this is a quick video that me and my friends did, looking at our Video Game Nostalgia and our Video Game History.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oxty5LUtW8

I would love to get your opinions and comments on the games and consoles that shaped up your gaming history and made you the gamer you are today. Thanks guys.

I've never really held any nostalgia towards anything

but I suppose the game I most played was TMNT 2 arcade

You've never had any nostalgia? For anything? Christ, I swim in it.

My opinion on nostalgia in general?

I think the obsession with it is slowly killing all media. Almost everything nowadays is a reference to an old thing and that's not great.

Nostalgia is OK in small doses, but it seems now everyone is obsessed with it and that prevents them for giving anything new a chance. It's a total shame.

I haaaaaaate when someone says "it's ruining my childhood!". No, nothing can f*cking do that.

Sitting around discussing sh*t with friends like in the OP's video is normal, as long as the goggles don't blind you.

Nostalgia is good. Just lately I was getting nostalgic about Mario and RPG's...so I decided to combine the two together and replay Paper Mario on the N64.

I haven't played the N64 Paper Mario in like 10 years....I almost forgot how fun it was.

I find it difficult to be nostalgic about much, as the stuff I loved the most as a kid never really went dormant for me. Games on the NES and SNES I don't feel all that nostalgic for, because I played them through all stages of my childhood, into high school and adulthood. When the NES and SNES got "retired" they went up north to my parents trailer where I'd play them every summer, so they never really went away long enough for me to have any prolonged sense of longing for them.

I'm starting to get nostalgic itches for the N64 and PS1, however, because those are systems that got put away as newer stuff came down the line that I haven't touched in more than a decade. Even the Xbox and Gamecube are starting to give me pangs of nostalgia, because they too went away years ago and weren't shown any love.

I think nostalgia is a powerful feeling that can make even the worst sh*t seem incredible, but I also think it's used far too often. The Mario series has been beating that drum for a number of years now and they just can't hook me on nostalgia alone anymore. The one exception was the remake of Whomp's Fortress in Galaxy 2. That blew my mind.

We got rid of our NES at some point during our childhood -- most likely soon after we received a N64 for Christmas one year. Then we got a PS2 fairly early on in its run. Then I bought a Wii for myself during my second year in college. A couple years ago I bought an X-Box 360 for $100 off a friend.

After some pangs (I was maybe fifteen or sixteen at the time) for my old NES, and some diligent searching, we found it sitting in a box along with all our old games in a cousin's attic. All save for To the Earth; never found out what happened to that cart. Simply disappeared.

Anyway. Yeah. Lots of nostalgia.

Most of gaming related nostalgia I feel when I think about the Demo 1 CD that came with our first PlayStation... Hard to remember the games it featured, but there was at least this one overhead shooter and some fighting game where you could fall off from the arena. Not even any NES or SNES games give me the same feeling of wanting to see it one more time, though it's probably better that I never again will.

Ahh, demo discs. I had a few come bundled with some of the official PlayStation magazines and actually spent a lot of time with them. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit II, Parappa the Rapper, Frequency, lots more.

My demo disc memories were Intelligent Cube, Parappa and Croc. It was really weird when I finally got that copy of Croc last month and played the actual game for the first time. Weirdly nostalgic, despite the fact I have never played the game proper.

Thanks guys for your opinions. The demo disks that I remembered for the PS1 had Tomb Raider where the playable was Lara Croft's mansion and Tekken 2 on it, used to play it all the time.