Reminisce

[Zombie]

Typo error in the thread title: reminisce

Let's get nostalgic NB.

I remember as a child, I'd wake up every day, early in the morning into the living room. I'd press the power button for the television (remote controls didn't exist yet) then begin scrambling through the buttons labeled one through thirteen until I found PBS (we only had two functional channels on the waves).

If I was early enough, my favorite show, The Reading Rainbow, would be on. I'd remember coming home from school, and my mother would give me a few dollars to go to the corner store. All I had to do was get her a pack of smokes, and I could spend the rest how I'd like. So I'd get a Yoohoo and a pack of candy cigarettes, all for under half the price of a pack of cigarettes nowadays.

Wait, a young child could walk into a convenient store and buy cigarettes for a parent back then? When did the world become so pussified? Ah well, I digress.

I remember after school, I would have no choice but to go outside and play. There wasn't really much to be done inside. The NES w

I remember my first computer. I don't remember the specifications or anything of that matter. I remember it only had DOS installed, and we had a few games for it. Those games included Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and several of the earlier Kings Quest games.

Things sure are different now.​

 

[Uchiha Riyo]

Re: Reminsece

I'm quite young so I don't think the world changed that much.I also bought cigarettes but for my dad.My mom doesn't smoke.I remember getting whipped and told off all the time.I remember giving a dipshit 20 PHP in return for 10 PHP.I also remember looking up at a basketball hoop and seeing the sun.I remember biking up to a mechanic store to get some tools.

 

[McRazor]

You Sir, are my hero. U_U

I remember not having a PC, neither a mobile phone. Neither any other kinds of games. I spent most of my days in playgrounds with my friends. We had bike races and such.
As I grew, SNES appeared and the legendary game Super Mario: Yoshi's Island. That's still one of the best game I ever played. I still have my SNES and that game and sometimes when I'm nostalgic I catch myself playing that game.

A few years passed until that whole mobile phone and technology thing came to life. Still, even then I didn't know for much other fun that go outside and run with my friends.

Finally, DBZ and Pokemon era came. Trading cards, battling with decks, then after a few hours of playing cards we went to a big grassy field and played DBZ (my kamehameha was always the best ).

My first PC. That was in 2003, and I still have the very same PC as then. As the matter of fact, I'm just typing this using that PC. This is where everything started. First games and internet. Very soon I became OGame addicted and that is how my browser games addiction started.

8 years later, look where I am. A serious student, watching anime and spending time on NB with 80% kids. Most of them younger than 15. I hope some of you read this and see what you have missed through your childhood.

God, please bring those days back, thanks!

 

[Zerabitu]

Back when I was around eight or ten years old, we used to have all kinds of action figures of all kinds of shows. Since back in the 90's (the golden 90's some old hags like me can remember), every show or trademark had everything related to it made.
Toys, clothing, bubblegum, lollipops, shoes, shoelaces even, underwear, belts, drinks and so forth.
We used to watch TMNT, wear all their franchise on our bodies and play with the TMNT toys.

Nintendo 8bit was the greatest thing, that entered our home.
We used to have these competitions on various games and play them till we had blisters on our thumbs. Yeah, the good old "this ****ing controller is made of pain" Nintendo controller.​

 

[shmanton]

ahh man this thread is awesome

i loved the days when i was little and i didn't have a computer or a mobile phone
to talk to my friends i had to walk to their houses and see if they were in as i couldn't be bothered to learn their house numbers.

i loved it when i was 8 and i made pancakes at school for pancake day and now i find out that health and saftey have stopped this from ever happening.

i look at the world now and think the kids growing up will never have such awesome times of adventuring and finding out things for themselves as even my 6 year old cousin looks things up on google through her phone to find something basic that she should of learnt from exploring

this thread has made me well happy =]

 

[Zombie]

Glad to see some responses. Definitely helped spur up more of my childhood memories. I would love to see even more!

 

[-Kratos-]

Ah, I remember when I was a young child, I roamed free, collected Pokemon's stamps and played with my PS1, Hercules was my favorite game!

I remember when I woke up in the morning, ate breakfast and then watch cartoons every day, I vividly recall when I went in the kindergarten and got into "fights".

I also remember when I played with my friends and pretended that we were making adventures, when we were searching for ghosts or when we were preparing a trap for the owner of a property.
This thread has really awakened deep feelings about my earlier childhood, a little more and my childhood is about to remain in my memories, but soon enough it'll vanish !
It was a good time back then, I really enjoyed it now that I think about it!