/nostalgia thread/

>>35779644
>be me
>10 in 2007
>it's warm outside
>play outside with little brothers maybe after school maybe not, can't remember
>play some GameCube with them
>dad comes down and gives me the new Pokemon emerald game
>just remember being incredibly excited

That's the only story I remember from the 2000's, but I'd pay anything to go back and do it again

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Run it, anon. Remind me of simpler times.

>2005
>be me, 11
>low income family, but enough to have fun sometimes
>friend down the street is very wealthy
>both of us love Bionicles and YuGiOh
>spend hours playing and building both
>Super Mario Sunshine.exe activated
>have no vidya at home
>holyshit.jpg
>walk home humming the Delfino Plaza theme

Will never feel this way again.

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>early 2005, 8 y/o
>I got very sick, had 3 big surgeries, recovering for 3 months (no school fuck yeah), can't even go outside
>spend all winter watching cartoons, sleeping, playing vidya
>especially early DS games and my favorite game: Metroid Prime

I was often very dizzy and nauseous from being constantly pumped with dozens of chemicals but I still very fondly remember those comfytimes, mainly because I was too young to understand how close to dying I was

I just want the comfy pre-social media internet feel of discussing my then obscure favourite series and fandoms before mobile phones ruined everything, today's whole fandom doesn't feel right, maybe because too commercialized?

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>born 1991, slovakia
>comfy preschool life, american cartoons
>age 4 or 6 kindergarten starts
>hell_goggles.gif
>school starts
>wearing_two_hell_goggles_at_the_same_time.gif
>summer vacations happen intermittently
>visit croatian coastline with parents maybe 3 of those vacations (when there still was a little money left)
>lying on beach
>no pressure
>no realistic expectation of pressure in the near future
>no people I hate
>I get to sleep as much as I want
>I get to have quiet time as much as I want
>it's warm
>the ocean is pleasant and the salinity helps me float
>GAME
>BOY
>COLOR

I think I associate the sea and sun with freedom ever since it was my only respite for my entire school-going life. I'm gonna return there again one day.

>be me in 2004
>recently acquired Mario Kart Double Dash
>both parents work, but I was sick one day so I got to stay home alone
>go and play Gamecube in parent's room (that's where the TV was) all day pretty much
>discover Staff Ghosts and spend so much time trying to beat them
>finally manage to beat one on Waluigi Stadium
>feel triumphant
There was a matress on the floor too, I don't remember why, but it was just pretty comfy. Just hanging out and Mario Kart that day. That's when I realized I wanted to gitgud at Mario Kart.

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>>35779644
>early 2002
>Pokemon Sapphire and Ruby just got released
>I have Sapphire, friend has Ruby. Gonna do
trading
>Start walking to his house which is pretty close to mine.
>Sun has slowly started to set
>Weather is super nice
>I reach his house after a 5 minute walk
>We start playing pokemon and trading pokemon cards
>Zero worries
>His mum orders pizza
>Get an Arizona bottle out of their fridge
>Go outside after pizza to have a nerf battle with the kids living close by.
>Beingakidisfuckinggreat.png
>Go home
>Stay up late to watch tv and shit cause it's a comfy saturday
>Fall asleep on the floor

TAKE ME BACK TO THE HAPPIER TIMES

>>35780526
Sorry I meant Late 2002

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>Be me summer just after finishing high school
>Spend everyday with my bros
>Out in the park or round at their houses drinking and chilling playing vidya mostly
>Had a couple of musical friends so we would jam out some songs we all knew on guitar drum and bass
>Every day would last forever
>No responsibility, still living with parents and nothing to pay for except recreation
>Even though it was the UK it was blazingly hot that summer
>Would get home sometime 2 in the morning and sleep in till 11am to do it all over again
>That face when started uni and I lost contact with most of my male friends
>Now moved to new city and I have no friends here
>Life will never be the same ever again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88o1TccaJw4


>kids born in 1998 onwards will never experience the feel of playing outside

>>35780489
That's where your parent's gimp sleeps.

>>35780115

this, I loved going on message boards for all the different movies and tv shows I followed

now the IMDb boards dont even exist anymore

>>35779644
>be young 10 year old me
>1998/1999
>playing pokemon red
>being obsessed with pokemon
>holy shit I have never liked a game like this before
>becomes my favorite game of all time easily
>enjoy long hours of pokemon on my gbc
>eventually get stadium
>oh my god I can now play pokemon red on the big screen
>then stadium 2 and gen 2 come out
>my god pokemon is the greatest thing of all time
>hang with buddies and trade pokemon
>school obsessed with all things pokemon
>get gen 3
>this is cool I guess
>eventually grow out of pokemon

For some reason too many of you didn't grow out of Pokemon when you were supposed to. With that said Pokemon Red will forever have a place in my heart. No other pokemon gen came close to the epicness. Wonder why Pokemon Go was such a big thing for a minute? It is because millions have gen 1 nostalgia. Only hardcore neckbeards nostalgia for anything after that. Not even gen 2 can match the massive phenomenon that gen 1 did.

Calm your nerdy selves though guys. Not saying gen 1 is superior to whatever it is you like. Just nostalgiaing here is all.

Also currently married and have a gf on the side.

oldfag here, born 1964

grew up in the 70's, after vietnam ended.......what a wonderful time that was

>>35779644
You're right, Facebook destroyed everything, everything, it would've all gone down so fuckign dfiferent without it

>>35780867
>Also currently married and have a gf on the side.
>adulterous scumbag thinks he's in a position to judge anyone

>>35779644
>a rain storm is coming

It's always been looming, friend :^(

>>35779644
My entire life has been shitty except for a few moments. I don't get nostalgia because I intentionally block out all memories of my past.

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>1996
>Live in remote area in mojave
>Mother puts me on home school cause I didn't do well in the school there
>Curriculum is brutal but I see the light at end of tunnel
>Wake up with parents 6 am every monday begin zerging entire weeks schoolwork for the whole week
>work till 4pm when they get home have it all completed but squirrel it away
>pretend to turn it in for whole 5 days but enjoy my 6 day weekend
>wander our tiny town abandoned as people work during the day
>build 3 tree houses all by myself
>swim in the lake
>catch snakes and lizards
>play Atari ST computer
>play SNES and Genesis
>go fishing whenever I want
>find my moms "old purse" in closet and it has like 50 dollars in quarters weighing it down like a cinderblock which she kept for parking tolls
>spend 50 cents every day for a longass time buying myself zebra cakes to eat
>watch toonami every afternoon
>robotech, dbz, reboot

I have more of these

>>35779644

Mid teens is the best time even if your life is shitty by most other teen standards.

I was a acne covered permavirgin yet I'd stay up all night playing vidya and eating snacks, and it was genuinely the best fun I could have.

>Hanging out with my cousin over the summer.
>We'd just explore our town and always find some random shit to do on those warm days.
>Climbing random trees or old buildings, going places we probably weren't meant to just out of curiousity
>Every now and then we'd return to one of our homes to get something to eat or drink before either heading out again or playing San Andreas
>Eventually it would start getting dark and depending on who's house we were at we'd ask the question.
>"Can cousin stay over?"
>"Sure"
>"Fuck yes"
>Gather whatever money we could find and head to the nearest shop
>Manage to buy mountains of snacks with the bits of change we could find
>Set up to play a 50 turn game of Mario Party 5
>Or, if it's one of those amazing days where we somehow have an Xbox we'd play Halo

Halo was like a mythical game to us back then. We absolutely fucking loved it, but neither of us owned an Xbox for the longest time. Every now and then some boyfriend of a sister or something would have one and lend it to us, and it was the hypest fucking shit imaginable.

These times lasted for years, my cousin was my best and only real friend. Then one day he just stopped coming over. Turns out he had been getting into drugs and my dad told him not to come around anymore. It made me real sad at the time that he just stopped coming around for no reason.

>>35780943

How does someone so old find r9k? You were 29 when I was born and even I feel too old for this place sometimes.

>>35780867

Infidelity is the most immature thing a person can do, even more immature than escaping into a world of catching cartoon monsters once in a while.

ur a faget. Hope it blows up in your face and you're left alone. Then maybe you'll realise you aren't actually this alpha stud playboy, you're just a prick who spits on the trust of others. Which is something literally anybody can do.

>>35780639
t. December 31 1997 at 11:59:59 PM

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Is it true that 9/11 was when the 90s were shot, but 2006 was when they had finished bleeding out their last drop?

>>35780489
>Double dash
I used to play that with my dad. We loved battle mode a lot.

I wish my 10 year old self had a switch or a 3DS. Fuck dude the majority of my gaming life has been NES/SNES/PS1 tier games on gameboys and the DS.

>>35782596
>I wish my 10 year old self had a switch or a 3DS.
You never owned a Gamecube or N64?

>>35780943
you're older than my dad man

All these feels. Bumpp

> be me
> May, 2007
> it's my 12th birthday
> warm saturday morning
> just moved into new house in a /comfy/ little town
> wake up to the sound of the trees rustling gently in the wind, tapping lightly against my bedroom window
> tfw own room for the 1st time in my life
> slip out of bed and knock on parents' door
> dad excitedly wishes me happy b-day
> we shower, get dressed, eat chocolate chip pancakes and are off by noon
> driving through new /comfy/ town with brothers
> dad pulls into a cute shopping plaza
> parks in front of the gamestop
> oh_boy_oh_boy.gif
> we buy a gamecube
> brothers & I pick out all the games we want
> back at home
> playing Harry Potter with bros
> grandparents and aunt stop by
> they bought us a ping-pong table to make our basement even more /comfy/
> sweet.png
> later in the day
> walk to the pool
> chill evening
> orange sky
> playing colors with friends and bros
> afterwards
> get a cake and play gamecube into the night
Best birthday ever

>>35780051
why were u in the hospital?

Some of the perks of adulthood are cool but is there anything that honestly compares to the carefree lifestyle of being young?

>>35779644
after 2008 everything was a blur desu

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>>35779778
>2007
>the new Pokemon emerald game

>>35784596
Some nasty bacteria in my head. I was in the hospital only 20 days though, the rest of the time I spent in my comfy house