I know i don't give much to say in this community but bare with me on this, since maybe this is something everypony has on their minds but don't want to talk about it, in that fact it might sound silly to them.To me their nothing silly about it, at all. It was who you are and were back then. Don't feel bad to speak the words that you wish to give but are afraid to say anything about it. Lately, i've been having nothing but nostalgic memories that keep coming back and for more to see. I've been listening to music, Games music and playing that remind of me as a wee little boy, and looking at films and pictures of me as a kid. I don't know about you guys and Gals but uhhhh, Remember when you were a Kid? When life was simple and Computers were Young (80's kids) and the internet was young? (90's kids) Remember having to go out and do something that actually created your childhood and how wonderful of the adventures you have encountered with? Weren't those the days? Weren't those the most happiest of moments in your life? That you had in your life before you had to grow up for who you are today? Lets take a trip down memory lane and encounter that little boy or girl who was once you and how you became today. Here we go... Me being a 90's kid and growing up into a neighborhood that was once been an awesome place to be in, has turn in to a wasteland after i moved out in 1999 and that has become memories of the past that were and shall be...forever. Remember Big Wheels? Those were awesome and me and old friend use to ride are Big wheels down the block and back. We use to ride those everywhere, as to the park and on the lawn and so and man were those cool and still are, to me. Remember Windows 95? To think at the age of 3 it be my first computer I've been on and at the time, i only knew about it was Paint and use to draw on it and played Putt-Putt, fatty bear and Freddy Fish, and etc. on the computer, as well. I Remember being a little energetic little boy and would run and act like a goofy ball as i still do, today. I Remember that i use to be outside more and run around and act like an goof and making up bizarre games like, freeze tag or made up a rock-bowling game that was DaBomb by the way, in my Scout Troop. Remember the N64 and PS1? Man, did i think that was best thing at the time and they still age well to me, after little over a decade has pasted. Me sitting there, playing games like Super Mario 64, Starfox, Snowboard kids, Turok, Spyro, Crash bandicoot and what not? Man, was that awesome. When games actually had something special that made them unique and Special that no game today could best top them? Too me, I play more classic retro games today then i do modern games. Todays games don't really appeal to me as there nothing but shooters and no real creative is put into them, other the fact that graphics are better and their just doing the same thing like all the other companies are doing. No originality, No Creativity when it comes to making games then just copying. But anyway, When i was going up, kids to me, had childhoods and actually had their adventures of fun and what more then could put a smile on any person's face and to see their kids having fun with their wacky ways of using their imagination when it comes to playing. I Look up into the night sky and think of memories of me driving though the night with my folks and my brother and i would always dream of going into space and wonder if their was life out there? Now when i see the night sky, i lay on porch or lay on the grass and watch the sky and dreams. I Can go on all day with my childhood and this was a brief example on mine. I feel sorry for today's kids when they are expose to the internet, Violent games, and other things that are unappropriated to let kids see or do. But enough of my story, I want to hear yours. I want to hear what made your childhood Special. I'm not the only one hear that relives their past and wishes to go back to it again. I'm not saying have to tell me your childhoods but if you don't want to talk about it if you don't want to. It is completely understandable from my side that you don't want to share it. No harm done. :3 I just wanted to talk about how fun it was to be a kid growing up and wish people would build a time-machine for me to go back and see little old me, again.
Well, that was lovely. Even reading yours gave me a kick of nostalgia! Well, I've only been in this world nearly 16 years, and I could list all that has changed in my young years as a boy, but let's cut it down. Time was nothing to me in my earlier years, only a rule (when to go inside, dinner, all that jazz). I remember the games mostly, growing up in the late 90's gave me the likes of Tomb Raider, and Half-Life. I was always playing the games no one else played, like a Rugrats game! Haha. Still, back then, I wasn't a massive gaming kid, and from time to time I would just watch my dad play this new technology that has developed so much since. I loved the outdoors, still do, but it's not the same. In 1999, we moved out, I was 3, so it was a hassle and I missed my first home. We moved to a place quite far away from friends, school and family, so it took time to get used to. I didn't have many local friends around the area so I only saw my mates at school. It wasn't until we left that house in 2003, that the memories really become vivid. It was right near my school and within a month I knew two brothers who lived opposite, and a boy just up the road. For 6 years, nearly every night, we would make up our own games, go to the park and go to each other's houses to play on our new PS2's. Now? Well, one of them I never talk to anymore, and those days of games are gone. One of the two brothers is in college and I hardly talk to him, but we're still good friends, his brother I walk to school with still, but when I leave he'll be on his own in the morning. We all will be. Everyone at school has changed. Being "cool" is a priority and I just slip through the gaps. It's sad to say that I don't have any "Best buddies" even to those who think I am theirs. My friends are good to me, but only when I'm there. There have been too many cases where they just stab me in the back. :l I see everyone of how they used to be, the fun that we had. I hope that didn't twist into something y'all didn't want to hear. If so, I apologise. The last bit was for contrast.
I'm one of very few 70's kids on here, so I can remember some things that probably seem very strange to you. Heck, I guess I remember stuff in your history book - Vietnam, Nixon resigns, Reagan getting shot - these were actual events I watched and heard about. Phones that were stuck to the walls. Television with 13 channels. NO computers. Clunky calculators that you could only add, subtract, multiply, and divide on. NO VCR's, answering machines, and while there was cable, we sure didn't have it. Comic books? Twenty cents. For fun, I played in a boggy creek near my house. Some teenagers that lived next door would blow up models out there. That was fun to watch. They took pictures of them - with the kind of camera that you had to take to the store to have developed, and it would be a few days before you found out how your pictures turned out. I caught frogs, and kept them for a while, then let them go again. I didn't have virtual pets - I had real ones: dogs mostly. And turtles. I used to play war with my friends. We'd get sticks, pretend they were guns, and shoot each other. Sometimes we'd get into arguments over who got hit, or how many hand grenades you were allowed. Usually we had a "you stay dead for five seconds" rule, after which you came back to life. Yeah, early version of respawning, I know. I don't remember if we picked actual countries or not. I don't think so. We were just at war with each other. Of course, we had bad things too. I was bullied, picked on, and ignored. The teachers were just as bad. In Elementary School, I think I had two or three good teachers that actually cared about their students, and wanted to help them. The others? I don't know. Maybe they were too close to retirement and didn't care anymore. Or they had grown to hate children. They were mean, obnoxious, and played favorites. And in those days, complaining didn't help much. My parents just shrugged it off, saying some teachers were like that. When I complained to teachers about the bullying, their general response was "So?" When I was called before the principal because one bully was beating me up, his response was to have us shake hands and be friends. But, I try to keep in mind the fun I had with my friends Bryan, Danford, Danny, and John. We were the class nerds. Oh, and nerd was a bad thing back then - a really bad thing. You didn't want to be labeled a nerd. Danford was an American that lived mostly in Japan, so he had tons of Godzilla toys. Oh, yes, Godzilla and Ultraman were big in my time. And anime? Speed Racer, and Kimba the White Lion. We didn't call it anime, of course, although Danford mentioned something about manga that I figured were Japanese comic books. Other than that, Japan was a strange and exotic country, constantly rebuilding itself after monster attacks. Shows during the 70's weren't as good. Some kind of had kitsch value, at least now they do, but I watched them because it was the only thing on. I don't remember too many actual cartoons - this was the age of the live action show for Saturday mornings. Isis, Eltrawoman and Dynagirl, Shazam, Land of the Lost - all live action. There were some cartoons, mostly rehashing older shows, like Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny, and Scooby Doo. The funny thing is, I can't remember my childhood very well. I remember bits and pieces, and can put together things from what others have said, but my wife and friends seem to have wonderfully detailed memories that I just don't have. I think, overall, I had a good childhood. Sure, bad things happened. Bad things always happen, no matter what your age. But good things happen, too. I don't know if the exchange is equal, sometimes I doubt it, but who knows. Maybe it is. I find myself wondering what happened to all those nerds I knew as kids. Are they doing well? Do they need some help in this economy? I haven't seen them in thirty years, and I don't have much, but I'd help them out even now. But, they probably don't think of me after all these years. OK, I know - TL;DR. Sorry, you got me talking when I was in a talkative mood.
I'm 46. My wife once claimed I'm in my second childhood. I said that implies I left my first one. She said I won.
@Dwynter Well Dwynter. I would say you lived the best years for childhood. As I read through your post, I felt the same way. Which is odd because I was borned in 1990. My childhood was in the 90s but felt like the 80s and late 70s. The earliest memory I have was living in a stone house over here in Mexico. I was like 3, if my memory serves me right. It was then that my mom and dad moved us over to Texas. I was born in San Antonio and my brother in Mcallen. Which made us legal citizens. My mother is too but my dad had no papers and could only be in Texas a few days. In the time being he worked in Reynosa. I remember my old house. I would enter a mid-size room. Straight ahead was the kitchen, to my right were 2 doors. The one farthest from the entrance was the bathroom which I remember being quite big. The 2nd door was the one and only bedroom where we all slept. And finally to my left was the living room the sofas placed along the walls. A long table used to eat. There were other things, like the big screen tv. My memory tells me it was huge but.... I spent most of childhood life in that house. I remember my dog, the plants that I would water around the house just simply for being bored. I even shoveled trenches so the water could flow to each tree and plant. The small playground that my dad built himself. All the antholes that I would go visit just to see the ants gather food for their colonys. I knew my nieghbors quite well there. To my left was big Jorge's house. We called him that because my brother's name was also Jorge. In the afternoons we would play soccer, play with our bikes, or simply play games like tag and hide and seek. I think I'll leave it there. I consider these to be the best times of my childhood. The rest of the story turns for the worst. Turk, thanks for the thread. I just had a real moment. That moment where you remember everything of your past and completely forget everything thats happening around you.
Love It. We got a Gamer here, Man. Hahahahaha!!! The Last sentence were sad but Their always a Light of Prosperity and happiness in every tunnel. Some Story you got there. All i know the 70's were somewhat hard to live in and You Played War too? I thought i was the only one i did this. Me and my Cousin would play war all the time when we got the chance to see each other. Last year, we did it again for old time sake and felt good to be a kid again. Almost there, dude. Live your childhood to the fullest. You never have it again but to react or savior the memories. :3 You will always have Bad times in your life but you will always remember the good times. No problem, dude. Glad to be of service. :3 Awww Man, Beast Wars. That game is Awesome. My life was not so glamorous, so i can relate to this.
Child of the 80's myself...born in the late 70's. I remember Betamax and the beginnings of VCR. I remember Karate Kid, Don Johnson, Paula Abdul and Genesis and yes I have found the number 867-5309 and called it good stuff
I never watched this series, but this was made by one of my favorite AMV artists. I read the synopsis and felt it, and the (love) song, were relevant. [video=youtube;tlOwMMyvV-g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlOwMMyvV-g&hd=1[/video]
Only 19 so I still have a lot left. I remember fondly though, watching Toonami when I came home from school. I remember my favorite show was Outlaw Star and that my friends in 3rd grade and I used to fight over who Melfina loved more. I remember being the kid who was bullied more than bullying. I also remember my grandfather being the caretaker of the outer banks in North Carolina and hanging out down there a lot. I also nostalgia over things that I wish I had cherished because I was naive like every youngster and thought that it was okay to take things for granted. Also morals and other epiphanies. Myup. That's about it.
Childhood memories?... Well, I do fondly remember playing the game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion a few years back when my parents got divorced and it kinda helped me cope with that whole ordeal... I also have a soft spot for the Machinima show: Arby n' the Chief, it has and given me a ton of laughs throughout the years and it still continues to do so this day... even my signature has a gif that was from their movie XD
Nice to know some games don't go out of style. Probably the only argument I won, so it stays in my memory.
Oh, yes. Every once in a while, we have to stop and ask ourselves, "How did we get on the topic of giraffe sexual practices?" Usually followed by, "And why am I looking it up on wikipedia?" But I digress . . . Childhood! Let us continue . . .
I have a lot of memories of my childhood. I've lived most things mentioned above and am very proud of being born in these days. I remember playing with my playmobil figures. I loved my farm full of domestic animals lol. I used to skate with my friends and listened to hip-hop music in the early 90s. Besides, I started playing football and scored a lot I was a football player who collected plushes and still like them. Regarding video games, I had a sega mega drive console and played Sonic the Hedgehog and other stuff. All things considered, I grew up happily. As far as music is concerned, I keep on listening old school dance music from the 80s and 90s respectively and everyday
Outlaw Star was one anime I watched as a kid, late at night on Toonami, along with Inuyasha, YuYu Hakusho, Tenchi Muyo, and other things not meant for kids of my age. Looking back at it now makes it feel all the more ironic that I'm watching a show meant for young girls as an adult guy. I guess I never followed the whole demographic thing, even as a kid, though it sounds like a lot of people don't from what I see. I grew up in two places at once, on a farmette in a rural area, and in an apartment in the suburbs. At the former I played outside with the many cats we always had around in the acres of land that my grandparents owned, while at the latter I had some of the most fun times of my life with my best friends who were neighbors at my mother's apartment building. I had the best of both worlds as a kid, and I'd trade anything to go back to those simple, fun loving days. My first console was a Super Nintendo, and I played my fair share of Super Mario World, but when the Playstation came out, I became a Sony gamer, and have been ever since. If I had to pick a negative childhood memory, it'd probably be the lingering feeling of never knowing my father, which still haunts me to an extent today. I don't feel as badly about it now after having talked to my grandmother about it, but it still feels like there is an empty spot in my heart that just won't fill in.
