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So I'm turning 22 tomorrow (jeeze time flies) and I'm feeling kinda lost and nostalgic. Anyone got any happy lil childhood memories to share? I'll start I guess: [LIST] [*]My dad regularly takes apart computers to try and fix them partly for his job and partly as a hobby. I remember him always showing me the circuit boards when I was pretty young and I thought he was like a hacker in one of those movies haha [*]Also did anyone else have those alien baby things? [img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/de/7e/17/de7e171f977c547215119dac64ae8a23.jpg[/img] I could never figure out how they worked lol [/LIST]

I feel you, I'll be 24 in a couple months ; ; If you want to make me cry, play the Jurassic Park theme, it gets me pretty much every time. I don't know why, I guess I'm just overwhelmed with nostalgia from it. That's about the only thing I get emotionally nostalgic with tbh. Things like certain snacks, drinks or scents I hold associated with certain times of my life, like a particular icebreakers flavor takes me back to my first time playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, weirdly, and a specific scent and brand of air freshener remind me of playing halo reach in my high school days. I get nostalgic but not super emotional, I remember fervently playing the og Spyro trilogy, those off-brand legos that had knights and dragons and I collected the heck outta those for the longest time, I still have some, playing Jurassic Park with my massive collection of toys and plushes.

[quote name="Guardianess" date="2018-09-04 14:49:05" ] I feel you, I'll be 24 in a couple months ; ; If you want to make me cry, play the Jurassic Park theme, it gets me pretty much every time. I don't know why, I guess I'm just overwhelmed with nostalgia from it. That's about the only thing I get emotionally nostalgic with tbh. Things like certain snacks, drinks or scents I hold associated with certain times of my life, like a particular icebreakers flavor takes me back to my first time playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, weirdly, and a specific scent and brand of air freshener remind me of playing halo reach in my high school days. I get nostalgic but not super emotional, I remember fervently playing the og Spyro trilogy, those off-brand legos that had knights and dragons and I collected the heck outta those for the longest time, I still have some, playing Jurassic Park with my massive collection of toys and plushes. [/quote] @guadianess Omg same same same to all of this, Especially the Spyro games! Those offbrand legos you are talking about were megabloks plasma dragon sets! Those were my favorite toys and I always saved up my allowance to buy at the end of each week

I have some fond memories that were rekindled recently thanks to a college course I'm currently taking. When I was very small, like, pre-kindergarten, my family had this toy that was an interactive map of the Solar System. Pushing various buttons on the device made a little electronic voice state facts about the planets, their moons, their distances from the Sun, et cetera. The electronic voice had some rather strange vocal mannerisms, and remembering the funny way that the voice would state the planetary facts helped me better commit them to memory. So I knew the four major moons of Jupiter - Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa - because the toy listed them off with some weird inflections that I, as a very small child, thought were hilarious. Flash forward and in my Cosmology course that I'm currently taking, the professor mentions the four major moons of Jupiter and requests that we commit them to memory. Oh honey, I memorized the major moons of Jupiter before I could even add or subtract numbers. Sheer curiosity brought me to attempt to search for the toy on eBay - as it was likely the early 2000s when I played with it - and was actually successful in finding it (or something like it) just by typing in "talking educational solar system model": [img]https://i.imgur.com/AnVGTXp.jpg[/img] Though I remember ours as being blue rather than dark gray, I do believe time has worn upon my memories of the toy and skewed them a bit. It had been so long I had forgotten exactly how the interactive interface looked - but looking at it now, memories are starting to trickle back in and they seem correct when compared with actual photographs of the toy. The eBay listing I found (where I got the picture) says the toy is from 1999, which about makes sense for when I would have played with it. We likely got it for my brother, who was obsessed with anything related to outer space, and he would have been four and either entering or just about to enter kindergarten around the time this toy came out. I likely was allowed to play with it when I too reached four years of age, though it is also likely my parents let me play with it when I was even younger, but my memories from my preschool/pre-kinder years are very spotty. Apparently the device came exclusively from the now defunct store KB Toys, according to a separate eBay listing where the toy is still in its box. It was manufactured by SNT Electronics, which my Googling is telling me is a company that, at least currently, mostly does video camera accessories and hard drives.

The tekken games. All of them. I played 1-6 when I was little, every time I main as King I almost completely lose my composure from the feelings. It's an overwhelming feeling to kick butt as a character you used to kick butt as when you were really small.

Seeing cartoons I used to watch as a kid definitely gives me nastalgic moments. Like iCarly, Ed, edd and Eddy all those good ole early 200's. Start playing the theme song and I will most definitely join in with tears of joy streaming down my face

I have a ton of nostalgic memories. Both good and bad.

But I'll just leave here by saying I hope your birthday is absolutely wonderful.

The alien looks familiar but I'm not sure if I just saw them around or if I had one myself. Lol

show me the spyro 2 hub worlds. show me the original chao gardens from the dreamcast, like the hero garden with a bridge or the dark garden with a cave. hell, show me the dreamcast startup. or the ps1 startup. or sega marine fishing, the best game EVER. or just the title screen to an old crash bandicoot game. or even, a little further along, things like pokemon emerald or smash bros melee.

i used to sit next to my big brothers and play smash. when brawl came out? we were all up 'til midnight, our little bro included, and when we got our game, we went home, started up the game, and played a round on smashville. i remember exactly which character i played. (dedede in his pink color palette, specifically.) we played so much brawl. and sometimes i'd still sit down in our huge living room and play on the gamecube on our old old OLD tv, not a care in the world, just me and my favorite games. (usually paper mario and the thousand year door...or if i was feeling up to it, super monkey ball 2. so many hours sunken into that stupid game...i love it.) those were the days.

also, late 90s to early 2000s cartoons. i cry tears of joy every time my parents feel nostalgic and turn on an episode of courage, because my brothers and i LOVED courage as kids, and still do well into our adulthood.

i'm gonna be 21 on the 15th and already just kind of feel...a little cheated with the hand i was dealt, a lot of that having to do with being mentally ill. i'm definitely feeling a little lost.

also, i DO REMEMBER THOSE ALIENS. WHAT A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE. I ALWAYS WANTED ONE AND NEVER GOT ANY.