Nostalgia Thread

[Omeletpants]

You are going to die of old age alone and miserable lololololoooolollll

You are on ignore so I dont see your posts

 

[nvanprooyen]

The 90s were like that as well. Except it was be home by the time the street lights come on. And if you missed 'supper' (Were my parents the only people who say this word?) then you just didn't eat that night.

My mom still says it. Midwest thing I suppose.

 

[Scoot26]

Leaving your house at 8AM to go play with your friends and ride your bike and being told to be home by dinnertime.

But that was in the 60's. Does that count.

I did that in the 90s and 00s.

 

[dweebs19]

Do lots of kids still do that today? go outside and ride bikes? In the summers, I see some kids in Washington Heights play outside kinda like how they do on the show Hey Arnold, but are they still playing outside in the midwest and other parts of the country?

Also, this was the meetup/chill spot

 

[Hawkeye OG]

My mom still says it. Midwest thing I suppose.

Which reminds me of the most Midwest thing ever. I could go over to my grandmas house in the late afternoon for 'Supper' and she's in the kitchen wearing her turtleneck making mashed potatoes when it's 100 degrees in the middle of August lmao. RIP

 

[nvanprooyen]

Do lots of kids still do that today? go outside and ride bikes? In the summers, I see some kids in Washington Heights play outside kinda like how they do on the show Hey Arnold, but are they still playing outside in the midwest and other parts of the country?

Also, this was the meetup/chill spot

They do in my neighborhood. Bunch of kids riding around on bikes all the time. But it seems to be mostly elementary school kids. Once they hit middle school it kind of stops.

 

[Ares]

You guys realize in a decade this thread will have stuff like:

-When Juul used to sell cotton candy nicotine
-Being able to vape in 3rd period English
-Eating Tide pods for funzies!

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

My wife started using the "supper" word for some reason.

 

[Ares]

My wife started using the "supper" word for some reason.

You should start running out the door yelling "IM GOING TO RIDE BIKES WITH MY FRIENDS" and then don't return until it gets dark.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

You guys realize in a decade this thread will have stuff like:

-When Juul used to sell cotton candy nicotine
-Being able to vape in 3rd period English
-Eating Tide pods for funzies!

'When I spent all day walking around the park to catch Pikachu on my phone!'

 

[Ares]

'When I spent all day walking around the park to catch Pikachu on my phone!'

When I accidentally wandered onto a military base and was held without trial for 90 days because I was trying to catch Charizard

 

[ijustposthere]

Just those days with my cousins/friends regardless of what we were doing. Playing basketball or football with the neighborhood kids until we couldn't see the ball anymore (while the girls watched), then playing hide & seek (or ding dong ditch). Staying up with my cousin getting "drunk" off RC playing Sega until 5-6 AM. Bike riding and jumping our home made ramps where we all busted our head open at some point. It's hard as **** just to get anyone together anymore to have a beer and watch the game.

 

[Granada]

Rectangle school lunch pizza.

Being excited to go to Blockbuster on a Friday night to pick out some movies.

Switchblade combs.

Hanging out at the arcade. Aladdin's Castle.

Buying dumb shit at Spencer's. Fake vomit, whoopee cushions, etc. And most likely the previously mentioned switchblade comb.

Waiting for hours to hear a specific song on the radio so I could unpause record and get it on tape on my trusty boombox. Also putting scotch tape over those notches of previously recorded cassettes so I could reuse them when I ran out.

John Hughes movies.

Coming home when the streetlights came on.

(I might be editing this one for awhile).

Chi-Ridge? I was at Aladdin's Castle all the time.

 

[Granada]

Where to begin?

I remember going to convenient stores was the thing to do -- with a big group of friends/kids -- buying Sour Patch Kids and those long-stringy sour-gummy strands I can't remember the name now. Then going to someone's (usually mine) to play Basketball or play Genesis.

Clearly Canadian -- I loved this crap back in the day.

NES -- still love Nintendo.

GI Joes -- the cartoon and the toys (80's).

Dyno's (bikes). God everyone had these damn things.

LA Gear shoes with the double strands.

Those stupid toy chicken nuggets that McDonalds gave out in happy meals.

Super Soakers.

Slap Bracelets.

GAK.

Guts (Nickelodeon), Legends of the Hidden Temple, Dare

Ray Combs (host of Family Feud in 80's 90's).

Pudding Pops.

Bonkers (best candy ever).

Doc Martens

Jean jackets

Showbiz Pizza (Chucky Cheese)

Roller racers

I better stop before I take up 3 pages.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Chi-Ridge? I was at Aladdin's Castle all the time.

Mostly the one in the now destroyed Woodmar Mall (Hammond, IN). Which made me think of another one. Wright's Barnyard (I think in either Cal City or Lansing). Anyone from NWI / south burbs remember that place?

 

[Penny Traitor]

NES -- still love Nintendo

I never owned any Nintendo system.

I got an Atari 2600 for my 10th B-Day and played it for the entire 80s . Then one day in 1994 I bought a Sega Genesis on a whim and sat on that for another decade.

Never even bother with Nintendo other than playing at friends that could afford it when it dropped.

 

[zack54attack]

Let's see...

I was a child of the 90s, but we still played outside quite a bit.

Ghost in the Graveyard or Kick the Can, played evening/night with kids in the neighborhood.

Shaved Ice, I know it is still a thing in some places, but a spot that did it opened like 5 mins from my house and for a couple summers we did this instead of ice cream. Ice and flavored sugar syrup... lol

Sega Genesis and N64 when I was a kid and started to enjoy video games.

Xbox (original) and going to my buddy's house to play on a LAN connection on two separate TVs

Building my first PC at 13 with my Uncle's help.... yes @Crystallas I am a snap-together pleb, I never learned nor soldered any of my own components. It was still a fun gaming/learning experience... first time I added a new hard drive.... first time I added memory.... first time I replaced a CPU... the quest for cooling that would keep my CPU/GPU temps below surface-of-the-Sun.... first (and last) water cooling system.

The days when I thought it was so f***ing cool I could burn video files to a CD or DVD, stick it in my DVD player and it could play DivX/XVID codec files without me needing to transcode/burn a DVD. Later same thing when I figured out I could put show files on a flash drive and play stuff off my flash drive.

Watching AHL hockey on public access channel because I figured out I liked hockey, but the Blackhawks were not on TV.

Oh and I miss Josh Beekman

Totally forgot about Ghost in the Graveyard. Anyone else play Shark in the Water in Gym class?

 

[zack54attack]

When you were at the mall, this was the toy store..

 

[Anytime23]

YO! MTV Raps
Playing wrestling games, super smash bro’s, Mario party and goldeneye on N64 with the neighborhood kids after school.
John Hughes fills
Wrestling buddies
The Saturday morning cartoon lineup on Fox
The Attitude era of WWF
Pogs
The smell of being in a McDonald’s and opening up that chicken nuggets happy meal box
Yo-yos
Stretch Armstrong
Mad balls
Wrestling practice/conditioning/meets
Skipping school to go to the beach
Taking skim boards to the local golf course after a big rainstorm and getting ran out by security.
Adam Sandler and pre-911 Dennis Miller being funny

 

[Ares]

I feel the need to add:

Going to GameStop or EB Games in the mall as a kid.

When I knew my mom and sisters would be shopping for clothes for an hour or so, I would spend an hour in the little PC games section of EB Games reading the back of the boxes, imagining these games and the future of PC games.

For me, I dreamed of an evolution in games back then, which pretty much all came true or blew my expectations out of the water.

Shogun Total War was one of my favorites back then and I wondered if they'd make sequels... what it might become down the road... lol they beat anything I imagined back then.