The power of nostalgia

[Daystar Clarion]

Guys, I need help.

I can't stop listening to remixes of tracks from the fist Sonic the Hedgehog


Sonic the Hedgehog was the first video game I ever played, and the Megadrive era of titles are some of my fondest gaming memories.

These tracks have been hardwired into my brain for more than 20 years, I can feel nothing but happiness when I hear a bloody good remix


What power does nostalgia hold over you, if any?

 

[lRookiel]

I've been playing Baldurs gate since I was 8 years old.

10 years later, hundreds of playthroughs later, still not bored of it.

Am I going to get the enhanced edition? Fucking hell yes....

EDIT: Not sure if it even classes as nostalgia since I never really stopped playing it for more than a few months...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I've been playing Baldurs gate since I was 8 years old.

10 years later, hundreds of playthroughs later, still not bored of it.

Am I going to get the enhanced edition? Fucking hell yes....

EDIT: Not sure if it even classes as nostalgia since I never really stopped playing it for more than a few months...

But your attachment to the series is probably stronger after playing it for so many years, rather than if you had just started playing it

 

[The Night Angel]

I'll admit it, I still think of the N64 controller as a huge batarang... Also, play anything related to FF7 and I just love it. I can't help it.

 

[Danzavare]

Amazing~! Thank you for posting these remixes, they shall also be added to my nostalgia collection.

I still occasionally listen to the theme songs from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. They're probably two of the most memorable games from my childhood. Prior to Sonic 2006 nostalgia drove me to buy any Sonic game that was released. (After they were fairly discounted) The username I use all over the internet is in itself a mark of nostalgia (and a matter of spelling as it sounds rather than spelling how it's spelled >.>; ):

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Watch the first 36 seconds of this for an awesome reference:
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Captcha: health food

 

[Ldude893]

I get flashbacks to my childhood whenever I hear the following.

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Dreadful in today's standards, but screw you I goddamn love the 90s.
Also, I still get chills whenever I see this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAhvQoLpvsM]

 

[malestrithe]

Nostalgia does not have a place in my life. I can play a game from back in the day with some detachment. A good game from back in the day is still a good game right now.

Same with movies, television, comic books and other things. I don't think my childhood version of Thundercats is automatically better because I was 7 when I watched it, nor is Transformers, Jem and the Holograms, and GI Joe. I understand that all series are work in progresses.

The Transformers I grew up with is not how I remember it. A lot of the things I remember about the show was told to me by Marvel Comics, Beast Wars and even the Unicron Trilogy. Megatron was not a badass in the original series. He was something of an inept leader who lets his underlings take too many liberties. He did not do strategic retreats. He got into one firefight and left when laser fire was directed at him.

He became a badass in successive retellings of that origin story. That got filtered back and placed onto G1 Megatron.

 

[subtlefuge]

I've played this little game twice every year since the year it was released. Every six months like clockwork. It would be a compulsion/obsession if it weren't for the Starmen.net playthrough every year with special challenges.

Now that Mother 3 has come out, I play it at least once a year. It's like the Winter Olympics of gaming for me. It's more raw and emotional, but gives me chills and makes me wish for all things light and quirky.

The saddest thing about that 3 hour video is that there is not a single song on it that I can not identify location, characters involved, and soundtrack title for. Nostalgia might have a hold on me, but I've never really connected on this level with another game series.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

The original Sonic Games had fucking awesome soundtracks.

 

[BreakfastMan]

It can make me enjoy some pretty crap games I played as a kid for one. If I were to play those games today, without having played them as a kid, I know I would either find them just God-awful. But I don't, because I have so many fond memories attached to them.[footnote]Seriously though, those games I played as a kid were just terrible. I really crappy taste back then. XD[/footnote]

 

[Space Spoons]

Every couple of years, I replay Final Fantasy VII, and every couple of years, it looks a little worse. I have a lot of nostalgia for the PSOne library in general, but man, it hasn't aged well at all. If not for my industrial-grade nostalgia goggles, I'm positive I wouldn't be able to stand the blocky, low-rez graphics, which lately look even worse because they're scaled up on my HDTV.

 

[Hazy992]

Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2 is still my favourite

 

[DEAD34345]

Y'know, you say it's nostalgia, but those tunes seem pretty good to me despite never having played the original Sonic games in my childhood.

Then again, nostalgia clearly does have an effect, because I also don't feel any of those tunes compare to such classics as the Kirby's Fun Pak (Kirby Super Star for Americans) soundtrack.

Also, god damn you for reminding me of this. I just spent the last 20 minutes or so browsing Youtube listening to these ancient tunes, and now I know I'm not going to be able to forget about them 'till I load up that old game and complete it once again.

 

[Hollyday]

I've just finished playing Little Big Adventure 2 which took me straight back to my childhood every time I loaded it up. I feel that games have more nostalgia attached to them than books and films for me, I think because I studied literature and film at uni I automatically view anything like that in a critical rather than emotional way, while games are just pure escapism.

I've just bought MDK simply for the nostalgia. When I saw it on good old games I think I actually screamed out loud. The whole first hour of playing I was just grinning like a lunatic (I got my ass handed to me as well - time has not improved my aim).

 

[Popadoo]

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Oh god, right in the childhood.
As for me, I'm usually a little nostalgic not specifically of games/films/shows themselves, just my first playthrough/watch of them. Your initial playthrough/watch of something is something that only happens once, something you can never get back, and is pretty much always better than replaying/rewatching it.

 

[Vuliev]

I remember watching my brother for hours while he'd play EV when I was 4-5.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2 is still my favourite

Got a whole Sonic 2 remix right here

Y'know, you say it's nostalgia, but those tunes seem pretty good to me despite never having played the original Sonic games in my childhood.

See now you think they're good, despite have no affiliation with them.

For someone like me, who's had them carved into my very soul for more than 20 years, it just makes me feel stupidly happy.

 

[Hazy992]

Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2 is still my favourite

Got a whole Sonic 2 remix right here

Very nice!

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2 is still my favourite

Got a whole Sonic 2 remix right here

Very nice!

Listen to this stuff puts me in such a good fucking mood.

[HEADING=1]Everything is fucking awesome![/HEADING]