Remember the days...

[Conner42]

Those were the days before I started going to school...

Like, Moviebob, in his latest GameOverthinker episode, talked about the future of gaming where kids weren't caught up in the politics and weren't alienated for taking a side or liking a certain game...

And, wouldn't you know it, somehow, liking Mario more than Pokemon when I was in 2nd grade ruined 2nd grade for me?

I'm not sure if I can remember those "joyous" days, but I'm pretty sure a time where video games was fresh and new to me was before I stepped into any sort of society.

So, I guess it was people that ruined video games for me, and it's everyone's fault(including you, the one reading this right now! You should feel ashamed of yourself...and your family).

Thank god I'm not in grade school anymore...or middle school...or High School...

 

[Bat Vader]

I remember not giving a damn whether or not someone liked or disliked something I like or dislike. I couldn't care any less if someone hates on me because I like something they dislike. All it proves is that they are extremely pathetic and that they need to learn how to get a life. That's what I remember.

 

[EternallyBored]

But since you want nostalgia, I guess I miss it when me and my friends would climb on the roof of our old elementary school, smoke some pot, and star gaze for hours, talking about random life stuff. Those were good times.

See, that's what I'm talking about! Remembrances of days past. Surely some things were better in those simpler times. Being an adult just doesn't give you the opportunity to do these kinds of casually illegal things anymore

Actually it would be easier now that I'm not living with my parents and own my own house. xD But I have no desire to get high anymore.

Yeah, screw the school, I can climb up on the roof of my house if I want to do that, not so much the pot, but a few beers. In fact, screw the roof, I could add a deck and build a platform to put telescopes on and go up whenever I want, the great advantage of being an adult is your parents no longer get to tell you how to spend your money, and you can buy your own stuff that you can do whatever you want to.

Being an adult rocks, I get to do all the shit I wanted to do as a kid but couldn't because I didn't have the money or couldn't do it without supervision or permission. Even the simplistic stuff I can still do, I'm sitting on the patio right now typing this from a laptop while some king crab legs I got from a friend boil in a giant pot for dinner tonight, all while watching the snow fall 5 feet in front of me, there's really not much I miss from childhood, because all the stuff I did then, I can (and do) still do now, just more of it and on top of stuff I couldn't do as a kid.

 

[Neverhoodian]

I remember the heyday of the Star Wars franchise in the early to mid 90's. The classic trilogy hadn't been altered yet, the old Expanded Universe was kicking into high gear and the prequels were just a glimmer in George Lucas' eye. In short, the franchise was still highly regarded by the general public. It was an exciting time for a Star Wars-obsessed kid like myself. I remember sleepovers at friends' houses where we'd spend the entire time immersed in the lore. We'd watch all three movies back-to-back, discuss books by Timothy Zahn and take turns playing Tie Fighter on the PC.

Those were the glory days. Before the Dark Times. Before the prequels, Yuzzhan Vong and gibbering Mandalorian fanboys ruined everything.

...Well okay, maybe not. The franchise was already starting to creak under its own bloated weight of merchandise tie-ins, hack novels (*cough* KevinJAnderson *cough*) and cringe-tastic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nnHjUrLvU] spin-offs. But back in those days it was far easier to ignore, as the good still far outweighed the bad.

 

[Headsprouter]

I remember when I could play vidya for most of a day and call it a day well spent.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I remember there was a time when you could post an opinion counter to an OP's on the first page and you wouldn't be quoted relentlessly even though you had answered the first quote in detail.

I know this has been a forum that has always enjoyed disagreeing but lately its gotten a bit much. <.<

Anyway, I remember there was a time that it took several floppy disks to install a game. I do not miss that time.