Nostalgia Trigger

[BouncyCactus]

It is 2:01 AM, and the cicada decided that I am the lucky audience with a front-row seat to their late-night performance~~~

So, of course, I decided to go through my attic-banished boxes looking for a piece of my childhood and found my old collection of Green Army Men and marbles. And Holy Terra, the Nostalgia sledgehammer hit me fast and hard. It just unlocks so much memory from the age of three to five for me.

Spoiler: Marbles

Spoiler: The Machine Gunner is mah fav

Another one is the opening sequence to the TV series Journey to the West (the 1986 version), which was recently remixed into the boss music in Black Myth Wukong. Hearing that makes me feel like a kid again.

So, entertain this sleep-deprived cactus! What are your Nostalgia Triggers?

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

It is 2:01 AM, and the cicada decided that I am the lucky audience with a front-row seat to their late-night performance~~~

So, of course, I decided to go through my attic-banished boxes looking for a piece of my childhood and found my old collection of Green Army Men and marbles. And Holy Terra, the Nostalgia sledgehammer hit me fast and hard. It just unlocks so much memory from the age of three to five for me.

Spoiler: Marbles

Spoiler: The Machine Gunner is mah fav

Another one is the opening sequence to the TV series Journey to the West (the 1986 version), which was recently remixed into the boss music in Black Myth Wukong. Hearing that makes me feel like a kid again.

So, entertain this sleep-deprived cactus! What are your Nostalgia Triggers?

This song.

Reminds me of my childhood years. We are poorer, but life is much simpler back then. ??

 

[Zinless]

Any East Asian songs from the 80s and 90s-ish. The way they compose their melodies feels so nostalgic to me despite never hearing them before. Even songs emulating those styles could elicit the same reaction from me.

Examples of songs that make me feel nostalgic (despite not growing up with them):

 

[BouncyCactus]

We are poorer, but life is much simpler back then. ??

Poor in materialistic matter, but the soul is rich~~~

Any East Asian songs from the 80s and 90s-ish. The way they compose their melodies feels so nostalgic to me despite never hearing them before. Even songs emulating those styles could elicit the same reaction from me.

Examples of songs that make me feel nostalgic (despite not growing up with them):

I could totally see it! It think it is just the vibe, a capsule of a style of art that left an impression on us!

 

[Vnator]

For me, it's toonami. Anything toonami related. I even have nostalgia fueled dreams about it once in a long while, about it being rebooted or there being brand new episodes of the original Naruto. Something about sitting on front of the TV on a rainy Saturday night, with homemade pizza in the oven while I turn on my favorite TV shows just brings up the platonic ideal of nostalgia in my mind.

I mean, I know adult swim rebooted toonami years ago, but I cut cable well before then. I hope I can pass on this wonderful feeling to future generations.

 

[Anemic_Vampire]

Old keychains, hairpins, and Sailor Moon anime.

 

[NotaNuffian]

 

[Jocelyn_Uasal]

I remember how these feel in my mouth

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I used to play with K'Nex for HOURS when I was a kid. I'd build these wheeled vehicles and run 'em up container lids like ramps into walls and other things.

I also used to play with toy lizards and combine them with my lego set, building environments with legos for the small lizard and play pretend with the lizards in these lego environments.

Also, I used to drink CapriSun all the time when I was a kid.

 

[LilRora]

I got both of those, the marbles and the soldiers, stashed somewhere. Good stuff.

I'd probably find a lot of triggers if I thought for a while, but one I'll mention is notebooks. I used to write a lot of random stuff in them when I was younger, but I switched to digital a few years ago because of accessibility and ease of use.

 

[BouncyCactus]

For me, it's toonami. Anything toonami related. I even have nostalgia fueled dreams about it once in a long while, about it being rebooted or there being brand new episodes of the original Naruto. Something about sitting on front of the TV on a rainy Saturday night, with homemade pizza in the oven while I turn on my favorite TV shows just brings up the platonic ideal of nostalgia in my mind.

I mean, I know adult swim rebooted toonami years ago, but I cut cable well before then. I hope I can pass on this wonderful feeling to future generations.

Oh! I grew up on Doraemon! I never got the joy of experiencing the Big 3 of Shounen until way later via piracy, but Doraemon and Card Captor were my jams on the TV!

I used to play with K'Nex for HOURS when I was a kid. I'd build these wheeled vehicles and run 'em up container lids like ramps into walls and other things.

I also used to play with toy lizards and combine them with my lego set, building environments with legos for the small lizard and play pretend with the lizards in these lego environments.

Also, I used to drink CapriSun all the time when I was a kid.

I was too poor to enjoy Lego as a kid. I had a friend that had like, two-three sets of them, and I would always hang with them, playing with their Legos, and building battlefields for our Green Army!

 

[Vnator]

Oh! I grew up on Doraemon! I never got the joy of experiencing the Big 3 of Shounen until way later via piracy, but Doraemon and Card Captor were my jams on the TV!

I was too poor to enjoy Lego as a kid. I had a friend that had like, two-three sets of them, and I would always hang with them, playing with their Legos, and building battlefields for our Green Army!

Lol you quoted me but didn't say anything in response to it. Funny for me, I don't think Doraemon ever aired in America, so I see this massive source of childhood nostalgia for the entire rest of the world and I'm left here scratching my head.

 

[cabbag3]

Lol you quoted me but didn't say anything in response to it. Funny for me, I don't think Doraemon ever aired in America, so I see this massive source of childhood nostalgia for the entire rest of the world and I'm left here scratching my head.

I think it was aired around 2012 in the US, maybe it missed your childhood. I watched it when it aired in 2008 in my country but I never really liked staying indoors when I was young.

 

[BouncyCactus]

Lol you quoted me but didn't say anything in response to it. Funny for me, I don't think Doraemon ever aired in America, so I see this massive source of childhood nostalgia for the entire rest of the world and I'm left here scratching my head.

Oops. I mean to out the Naruto shounen big 3 as ur quote response. I didn't really grow up with anime until early teen

 

[Vnator]

I think it was aired around 2012 in the US, maybe it missed your childhood. I watched it when it aired in 2008 in my country but I never really liked staying indoors when I was young.

Definitely not on any channel I was familiar with, and I had an eye on all the major cartoon channels back then.
I must be the opposite of you then lol, I hated going outdoors and loved being in front of the TV or computer. Still do, but I force myself to go outside often enough.

Oops. I mean to out the Naruto shounen big 3 as ur quote response. I didn't really grow up with anime until early teen

That's understandable. I grew up with the pokemon anime starting when I was 5, so I've been surrounded by it lifelong! Naruto only started airing when I was an early teen as well, and that was when it left the biggest impact on me.

 

[Rezcore]

I am a child of the 90s. So I grew up watching TMNT, Malcolm in the Middle, That 70s Show, Scooby-Doo, M*A*S*H, and so on. Then in the early oughts as I broached teen years I discovered anime, was not that enthused, though I enjoyed Naruto. I liked it because like the author I had no clear idea what was coming. Sometimes I turn on the "oldies" radio station to be comforted by the music of my childhood, right before the depression hits that its the "oldies" station... life hits hard, and goes fast, and God do I wish I could go back and enjoy it more; I'd play more Zelda, I would've explored old school runescape deeper, I'd have been there for the ones I lost. But I wake up and it's the future and I'm rapidly becoming the past.