What makes you nostalgic? A few things that bring me back to when I was younger include:
-Cartoon Network (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkbdAKna3EU)- Do I need to say anything else about the channel that I haven't already?
-Disney (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs1s11Y_RjM)- Like I've said before, I live in Florida, so Disney is implanted into my subconscious. I can quote this commercial line by line thanks to it being on The Lion King's VHS, and I can probably quote that entire movie as well.
-Nintendo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Mf2mp6fms)- I've been a Nintendo fan since the SNES and haven't stopped being one since. Be it Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, or whatever, I should have good memories of playing a lot of these games.
-Sonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4jd0UWGPgY)- The games, the comics, the cartoons, I loved them all. I played the first couple of stages at Walgreens earlier tonight and it was like clockwork for me. These games will never escape my memory because I've played them that many times.
-McDonalds Kids Meals toys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZvymGK577w)- I used to collect these all the time, especially for my favorite characters. I probably still have all the Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, and Lion King ones somewhere. I remember going to meet Ronald McDonald at our local library with my sister, her best friend, her little sister, and their mom wayyy back, and... it was pretty disappointing.
-Third Eye Blind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC1NR7AL_9s&feature=related)- I had no idea what this song was about when I was a kid, but I loved it and everything else I heard from them. One of my favorite memories from my best friends was a few months ago when this came on and we sang it in epic falsettos.
-System of a Down (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzd9KyIDrM)- Younger as in middle school, but hearing about them reuniting made me flip out and realize that I never got to see them when they were still around. But just before Iron Maiden, SOAD were the first band I really liked and while I don't play their albums in full anymore, I can still go through some of my favorites and remember how stupid I was back then. I've argued that SOAD were the most important band of our generation, and I think this tour will confirm that.
The old-school NES of course.
I'm a fan of 8-bit over anything else.
Collecting NES titles brings out the nostalgic in me.
Visiting retro culture sites like The Imaginary World and Secret Fun Spot also make me feel like living in the past as well.
the old TMNT cartoon. I wouldn't call it good, but whenever I watch it, I'm like a little kid again. It's one of the few things I can watch for purely nostalgic reasons.
I love Donkey Kong 64 and you can't do a damn thing about it. :swoon:
This thread makes me nostalgic for the time when I made this thread on the old forum.
U C WUT I DID THAR?
Quote from: Foggle on December 30, 2010, 12:54:18 PM
I love Donkey Kong 64 and you can't do a damn thing about it. :swoon:
I thought you were my dawg. :frown:
Super Mario Bros. 1 makes me nostalgic because it was the first videogame I ever played.
Simpsons seasons 1-3 make me nostalgic even though they aren't my favorite seasons. It must be the style of humor used then.
Well, definitely not 1980s pop music. They play that all the time on the radio and have so much retro references, it's not like it gives me a chance to remember old times, unless it's a record or song that I haven't heard in a long time.
I love the Donkey Kong rap and you an't do a damn thing about it. : :swoon:
Quote from: Avaitor on December 30, 2010, 07:11:14 PM
I love the Donkey Kong rap and you an't do a damn thing about it. : :swoon:
Guess that game did something right after all. :P
Anyway, I posted a bunch of links on the old site, so I need to find them again. In the meantime, I must say, almost anything Disney related makes me nostalgic for Disney World. Especially when I see the Sleeping Beauty Castle on commercials. :cry:
Quote from: Avaitor on December 30, 2010, 07:11:14 PM
I love the Donkey Kong rap and you an't do a damn thing about it. : :swoon:
Yet you hate Yoshi.
Hmm.
Do I, Desen?
Do I?
Yoshi >>>> Mario
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on December 30, 2010, 08:47:30 PM
Yoshi >>>> Mario
I'm guessing those arrows are supposed to point to the much cooler character?
Heh, talon doesn't know math, lol.
Heh, Ensatsu-ken doesn't know superior characters, lol.
That old Mario Cartoon made by DiC.
All of my childhood anime favourites: DBZ, early Pokemon, Sailor Moon, early Yu-Gi-Oh, Cardcaptors (don't ask), and some others I forgot. :whuh:
Fox Kids cartoons most definitely! :shakeshakeshake:
There's some old ass anime I barely remember but always evokes some huge nostalgia on me. Specifically, I'm talking about Ranma 1/2, Saint Seiya (or Caballeros Del Zodiaco as I remember it), Candy Candy, Dragon Ball and Captain Tsubasa.
SNES, PSX and N64 are also a great source of nostalgia for me. I did have an NES but I didn't play it as much as these 3, so I passed over a lot of NES classics for remakes and ports of them. But bring up Super Mario World, Donkey Kong 64 and the Country trilogy, Killer Instinct, Street Fighter II, Crash Bandicoot, Parappa the Rapper, or just about any other smash hit for these system and I'll remember having tried them. I don't get nearly the same feeling from this decade's games, but they're not bad either.
Rare, Rare, did I mention Rare yet? I have a lot of catching up to do. Battletoads Arcade is there only game that I've beaten
Rare's N64 games, as well as the DKCs, were a set of beauty. We've talked about them plenty a time on AR, but most of the stuff from that age still rank around my favorite 3D platformers and FPSes.
It sucks that they sold their souls for Microsoft now, since they made some amazing shit back in the day.
It wouldn't matter so much that they belong to Microsoft if, 'ya know, Microsoft actually utilized them for a change. They've basically owned the company for nine years, but have barely done anything with 'em (outside of disappointing titles such as Kameo or Nuts and Bolts).
Now, we're basically watching this company slave away on nothing but the fucking Kinect, and that really pisses me off more than anything. There is still plenty of talent in that organization; why they choose to essentially ignore them outside of casual niche projects is anyone's guess.
Quote from: Avaitor on July 21, 2011, 03:26:17 PM
Rare's N64 games, as well as the DKCs, were a set of beauty. We've talked about them plenty a time on AR, but most of the stuff from that age still rank around my favorite 3D platformers and FPSes.
It sucks that they sold their souls for Microsoft now, since they made some amazing shit back in the day.
I'd take
Donkey Kong Country over
Super Mario Bros. any day. :)
I hate to be the one to say this, but... if Rare had actually made good games for Microsoft, they wouldn't be stuck churning out Kinect shovelware. Perfect Dark Zero is an embarrassment to both the original and FPS games in general, Kameo is absolutely horrible in every conceivable way, Viva Pinata is one of the most boring games on the 360, and Nuts & Bolts is a textbook example of how not to revive a beloved franchise. That leaves Grabbed By The Ghoulies, which sold like shit, and Conker: Live & Reloaded, a port of an N64 title that actually featured MORE censorship than the original game. Their best games since the acquisition by Microsoft were actually on the Game Boy Advance. Sad.
They had many chances to prove themselves and failed miserably every time. It's a miracle they haven't been shut down by now.
They have really been on a bad luck spree since Conker came out. Even Star Fox Adventures, as adventurous as it was, overall was dull and the exact opposite of how to do a Star Fox game.
Kameo and PDZ were in development since the N64 days, and to be honest, I doubt they would have turned out much better if they came out sooner than they did. And while I thought Grabbed by the Ghoulies is underrated, it just doesn't compare.
Star Fox Adventures wasn't even supposed to be a Star Fox title; as far as I know, Nintendo just had them reskin and tweak their Dinosaur Planet game into one so that they could milk more money out of it. Also, Perfect Dark Zero's level design would have still been horribly inept even if it had been released on the N64. That shit was bad.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to hate on Rare. If it were up to me, they'd still be making real games and not Kinect Joyride or whatever the fuck they're doing now. I can forgive all of their slip-ups aside from Nuts & Bolts... and that's only because the first trailer basically functioned as a bait-and-switch. I want them to succeed. I know they still can. They just need to actually try.
It was bad management that lead them to be sold in the first place. After the N64 they slowly degraded in quality with each title before they hit the nadir with Perfect Dark Zero. Since the N64 generation they've lost pretty much everyone that made their games great and, the worst thing to me, those people have not moved on to other projects.
Quote from: Avaitor on July 21, 2011, 03:26:17 PM
Rare's N64 games, as well as the DKCs, were a set of beauty. We've talked about them plenty a time on AR, but most of the stuff from that age still rank around my favorite 3D platformers and FPSes.
It sucks that they sold their souls for Microsoft now, since they made some amazing shit back in the day.
Didn't Nintendo treat them like shit near their last few years with them? Either way, it's the core members splintering off to form Free Radical that did them in. Now MS has IPs they aren't good enough to tap into themselves
As a follow up to that comment I made in the old school CN thread, anyone interested in talking about their favorite marketting campaigns? I could probably do a whole article about some of mines if my laptop wasn't busy being tsundere as hell right now.
I'll go ahead and post some anyways to refresh some memories, and maybe show off some people missed. For instance, Corn Pops and their Gotta Have My Pops slogan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvgZj9IUcg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvgZj9IUcg)
I don't know how they got away with implying Pops are like drugs, but the 90s was a weird time like that. Anyways, this one was totally effective for me. Back then, my favorite cereal was Cocoa Puffs, and I ultimately caved to Pops honey glazed kernels. I'm not a big cereal eater nowadays, but Pops is one of the few sweet cereals from childhood that still tastes good, and they're one of the rare ones that don't become disgusting when stale. Strangest thing, I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlMHJE82Mk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwlMHJE82Mk)
Here's some from Good Humor's Popsicle brand. Ice Cream is pretty much a guaranteed sell for most kids, so how do you stand out from the competition? With wacky humor and talking dogs. Truly a campaign from the 90s, from the large messy room setting to the near-death trap like gimmicks of each bar, these were some of the only commercials I never got tired of. The actual products are pretty hit or miss, but all of them are messy. Beware the Rockets, those seem to always drip the fastest and stained clothes pretty damn bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agok_TVaDms&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agok_TVaDms&feature=related)
Took me a while to realize Pizza Head was a parody of Mr. Bill. But that aside, I can't remember the last time Pizza Hut had a campaign with any semblance of personality since this one. But then again, its probably hard to market greasy pizza to kids since, ya 'know...I don't remember this one lasting long to be honest. The X-Men and Goosebumps promotions I do clearly remember though, Fox Kids ran the hell out of those spots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQAbQ1hJZw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQAbQ1hJZw)
Yup, Play It Loud is a relic of the past. Still, I totally bought into that 90s grunge and rebellion theme. I think this is where my love of gaudy clashing colors comes from. Oh yeah, and video games. You just don't see stuff like this anymore. Most of the big game releases have similar commercials to movie ads, and anything under the Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo umbrella always seems to follow a generic formula now. I also liked the Get N or Get Out campaign, but I barely remember any commercials for that besides an F-Zero and Mario Party one. Speaking of Mario...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwFUNHtCJQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJwFUNHtCJQ)
Got Milk. Two words that either struck fear into the hearts of kids (no thanks to commercials like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFFBISt1gzU) and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKllfrSvrE0)) or made you wonder just how much leverage that company had to feature so many celebrities and fictional characters in their ads. I always prefered the print ads because they left something to the imagination, and they used far less scare tactics. I'm sure those guys are responsible for some milk going sour due to kids leaving a whole gallon out for dick Santa too.
Yeah, I miss when games were advertised like games instead of movie events or something. Sega used to always be competing with Nintendo on who could make the better game commercial and grab attention, and Sony didn't employ some art school dropout for their campaigns. Most Sony commercials don't even have game footage anymore.
Game commercials rarely grab my attention anymore, since they never seem to have any energy. I think I saw some Sonic Colors ones that were pretty noisy (Sega, of course) and Nintendo's Mario commercials always have the theme to grab attention, but most tend to just stink.
Oh yes, I've been sick and tired of game commercials not having actual game footage for years. How hard is it to show game footage and go over the game's best features and try to sell that? I believe Saints Row 1 or 2 was the last time I've seen that. Now games have to be sold as music videos, apparently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsEQEPUJP8M
Shit, if you didn't see this commercial during your viewings of ACME Hour or Rugrats reruns, then you most definitely didn't grow up in the 90s.
Quote from: Rosalinas Spare Wand on November 17, 2011, 11:19:19 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agok_TVaDms&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agok_TVaDms&feature=related)
Took me a while to realize Pizza Head was a parody of Mr. Bill. But that aside, I can't remember the last time Pizza Hut had a campaign with any semblance of personality since this one. But then again, its probably hard to market greasy pizza to kids since, ya 'know...I don't remember this one lasting long to be honest. The X-Men and Goosebumps promotions I do clearly remember though, Fox Kids ran the hell out of those spots.
Haha, I had that basketball featured in the second video. So strange to think that a pizza place would give you a free basketball, but I also remember sometime around 1997 or so getting a demo disc for the PlayStation that had Crash and Spyro on it, among others.
Quote from: SNES Chalmers on December 23, 2011, 09:02:58 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsEQEPUJP8M
Shit, if you didn't see this commercial during your viewings of ACME Hour or Rugrats reruns, then you most definitely didn't grow up in the 90s.
THAT FUCKING AD
Knew what it was as soon as I saw the guy reading the newspaper. I was able to recite the entire script of the commercial along with the people in it...
Yeah son. I remember seeing this during reruns of the Rugrats. I forget how many years this was on TV since it felt like they aired this ad during every summer break I had.
Quote from: SNES Chalmers on December 23, 2011, 09:02:58 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsEQEPUJP8M
Shit, if you didn't see this commercial during your viewings of ACME Hour or Rugrats reruns, then you most definitely didn't grow up in the 90s.
YOU CALL NOW.
I'LL CALL NOW.
Ohhhhh yeah, I remember this one. This was a fixture on almost every channel I watched back then; Nick, CN, you name it, this commercial was THERE.
...oh, and speaking of nostalgic commercials, I'm sure we all remember this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltljWakR66w)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqbEaLOvNds&feature=related
Before he took over the network completely. Shit, I remember being in the sixth grade(the fall immediately after the show premiered), and along with one other kid I was the only one in my class who actually watched the show. I remember singing the song or quoting "That smell. That smelly smell. That smelly smell that smells, smelly!" and no one knew what it was from. Good ol' days.
I also remember how much episodes like "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" used to be reran. I still don't like that episode...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9GmpVh1zFQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9GmpVh1zFQ)
Late to the punch, but here's a little gaming christmas commercial I found amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdackF2H7Qc
Anyone remember this commercial? Somebody actually ended up collecting the 7 million points required to obtain the jet, and when Pepsi refused to give it to him, he sued. He lost on the grounds that the commercial was supposed to be a joke, and Pepsi later reran the commercial but changed the number to 700 million points.
How many of you guys were in grade school when Pokemon and Digimon were airing on tv on rival networks? You remember arguing over which one is better? Trying to one-up your friends with whatever new game you bought? Some of you even throwing shipping into the equation? How about I just go ahead and ask which movie you saw in theaters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgJ0qmcDU4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKgJ0qmcDU4)
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz_yVV6K3F4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz_yVV6K3F4)?
Only one person I knew was in to Digimon, and he was so kind to give me all of his Pokemon cards that his dad had given him(one of them was a Kabutops, I remember that much). It was all about the Pokeymans back then, and I think to most people Digimon seemed like a rip-off. I don't really remember anything rivaling Pokemon's popularity until Yu-Gi-Oh!, but by then I was in high school, skateboarding, and over all the card games.
Oh, and this wasn't grade school for me, it was middle school.
I saw the first Pok?mon Movie in theaters, while Digimon I didn't see until I rented it from Blockbuster. I dragged my dad to take me to see it in an old theater in my town that's no longer around. I still miss that theater in a way.
The Digimon movie didn't play here but I did see the first Pokemon movie in theater. But I was a bigger Digimon fan for everything but the games.
The Digimon movie was better though, if only because it had "Our Wargame" in it.
Yes, even though it was a godawfully butchered version of Our War Game, even that was still more epic than anything the first Pokemon movie could muster up. And I AM saying this out of nostalgia, since while I acknowledge that they are both bad when I see them today, I did genuinely enjoy the Digimon movie more as a kid. That said, after watching Our War Game in Japanese I can only ever go back to the dub if I want a good laugh at just how much they screwed up that picture.
You didn't like Digimon World? I only played the 3rd one but it was pretty sweet, and I played the shit out of Rumble Arena.
I'm pretty sure I got a chance to see both movies at some point. I know I hitched a ride with my cousin to the Pokemon one, and I went with my friends to see the Digimon one. My sister insists I cried during The First Movie, but I'm sure I didn't. The "Wargame" part of Digimon was all kinds of fucking awesome. Too bad it got followed up with that shitty 02 movie.
I remember playing a Digimon World game but remember nothing about it now. It was a long time ago, though.
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on February 12, 2012, 12:16:08 AM
Yes, even though it was a godawfully butchered version of Our War Game, even that was still more epic than anything the first Pokemon movie could muster up. And I AM saying this out of nostalgia, since while I acknowledge that they are both bad when I see them today, I did genuinely enjoy the Digimon movie more as a kid. That said, after watching Our War Game in Japanese I can only ever go back to the dub if I want a good laugh at just how much they screwed up that picture.
Yeah, but at least that one makes sense in the American version. Try saying that about the last segment. Ick.
But yeah, the Japanese version is better.
I think what really baffled me about the Digimon movie was how they tried to essentially combine 3 completely unrelated Digimon short-films into one movie, and tie it together as a coherent story revolving around some nobody of a character from the Adventure 02 portion of them movie. Even as a kid I thought that was kind of ridiculous. I could kind of understand them tying the first 2 parts together, since even though they took place years apart at least they were both related to Adventure season 1 and both had Tai in it, even if he was basically just a toddler in the first part.
Yeah, the first part was basically just a prologue so it was fine to introduce to new audiences, but really the highlight was Our Wargame. The plot alone could have carried the film even for non-Digimon fans.
The last part was just boring and I don't even know why they bothered sticking it in there. I didn't even know what was going on in it the never mind now that I know it's insane.
Really, even as a kid I didn't like that part. I was insanely entertained by the movie up until Our War Game, though. For me that was everything that I had wanted out of a Digimon movie as a kid. Unlike the Pokemon movie, it didn't disappoint me in the least, but actually exceeded my expectations. I was also really glad that Izzy got a big role to play in the movie. He was my favorite character in Digimon as a kid (and even now, for that matter).
For the Digimon movie, I still liked the first segment. The second was OK from what I remember. I still thought most of the rewritten lines in the dub were groan worthy. I never got around to watching Our War Games in Japanese, I got around to watching the more superior Summer Wars, which is technically what that movie is if Tai and Sora hooked up at the end. The 3rd segment was just WHY DID THIS HAVE TO EXIST?
As for the Video Games, I never played the digital keychain one, but I did play the first 3 Digimon World. I remember liking them, but never beat them. I kept on getting stumped on trying to digivovle a Champion into an Ultimate that wasn't getting Numemon into a Monzemon suit in one and I was just lost in two. Three was the one that I came close to beating.
The keychain ones? You mean the Digivce games? They were basically Tamagotchi with Digimon characters. They were still quite fun though, I remember I got a black D3 and would bring it with me to school and take on my bros who had the blue and green ones. One of them still has his season 1 orange digivice too.
Quote from: Daxdiv on February 12, 2012, 12:33:39 AM
For the Digimon movie, I still liked the first segment. The second was OK from what I remember. I still thought most of the rewritten lines in the dub were groan worthy. I never got around to watching Our War Games in Japanese, I got around to watching the more superior Summer Wars, which is technically what that movie is if Tai and Sora hooked up at the end.
Speaking of Summer Wars, is it just me or was that scene where millions of Oz users donate their accounts to Natsuki so that she can win the game against Love Machine a complete homage to the scene in Our War Game where kids all over the world send e-mails of encouragement to War Grey-Mon and Metal Garuru-Mon in which the data from those ends up boosting their strength and letting them fuse into one ultimate being? Because that's totally the vibe I got from that scene, even though they both played out differently.
QuoteThe 3rd segment was just WHY DID THIS HAVE TO EXIST?
They probably thought that kids would want to see Adventure 02 characters on there as well, since that was currently airing on FOX at the time and it had much higher ratings and overall popularity than the 1st season did. That said, even as a kid I actually remember preferring to have had the movie focused on the digi-destined from season 1, and I was actually a big fan of Adventure 02 at that time.
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on February 12, 2012, 12:41:21 AM
Quote from: Daxdiv on February 12, 2012, 12:33:39 AM
For the Digimon movie, I still liked the first segment. The second was OK from what I remember. I still thought most of the rewritten lines in the dub were groan worthy. I never got around to watching Our War Games in Japanese, I got around to watching the more superior Summer Wars, which is technically what that movie is if Tai and Sora hooked up at the end.
Speaking of Summer Wars, is it just me or was that scene where millions of Oz users donate their accounts to Natsuki so that she can win the game against Love Machine a complete homage to the scene in Our War Game where kids all over the world send e-mails of encouragement to War Grey-Mon and Metal Garuru-Mon in which the data from those ends up boosting their strength and letting them fuse into one ultimate being? Because that's totally the vibe I got from that scene, even though they both played out differently.
Considering that Our Wargames and Summer Wars share the same director, there is no way in hell that it was a coincidence the scene played out like that. I'm pretty sure that was Mamoru Hosoda intention. Hell, I'm pretty much sticking to my opinion that Summer Wars is basically Our Wargames that decided to add a family theme in it, was written better, and if Sora and Tai hooked up near the end. They even share the same animation style. I sort of blew my mind when I came to that revelation.
Quote
They probably thought that kids would want to see Adventure 02 characters on there as well, since that was currently airing on FOX at the time and it had much higher ratings and overall popularity than the 1st season did. That said, even as a kid I actually remember preferring to have had the movie focused on the digi-destined from season 1, and I was actually a big fan of Adventure 02 at that time.
Yeah, I get that part, but why? I felt loss during that road trip between the newbies that it wasn't funny. Or Why TK and Kari were not in Japan.
I don't think Pokemon the 1st Movie is bad. :P
I thought the Pokemon movies got better. I watched the second and third and wondered why the first was so much more boring than it.
I thought the second movie's plot was way over the top, with the whole "chosen one" deal and "The world shall turn to 'Ash'" play on words. I understand what you mean about the third though. That one was the most well made, even though nostalgia makes me pick the first one.
But even putting aside nostalgia, I don't think the original's bad. I mean... it's a kid's film. It doesn't try to be anything more, so why do critics rate it as if it does?
Well, I think that just because its a kids film doesn't mean that there aren't any standards to compare it to. For reference, Our War game (referring to the Japanese version specifically here), is also a kids film, but I felt that there was a sense of effort put into it that really showed passion for the work rather than it just being an entertaining film just for kids but mostly an obvious marketing ploy to sell toys. Don't get me wrong, it is also that since that's the main reason for shows and movies like Pokemon and Digimon, but at the same time, I kind of felt that Pokemon was a bit more obvious with how it was there more to sell toys than to tell a really good story. I'm not saying that it was a bad, and I was a huge fan of the anime when I was a kid, but looking back on it I feel that other kids films in the same vein have aged a bit better than Pokemon The First Movie did, personally.
I haven't seen either movie in so long, I really can't comment too much.
Although, I will say, I've always been way more of a Pokemon kid at heart (and still am, obviously), so Pokemon The First Movie probably holds a better place for me as far as nostalgia is concerned.
I really should get around to watching these again. I believe I still have both of them on VHS, buried somewhere out in the garage.
While I do have nostalgia for the first Pokemon movie. It's the second Pokemon movie that I have the most nostalgia for.
While I also have nostalgia for the Digimon movie (mostly from the promos leading up to it) I didn't actually see it until it came out on video. It was the debut of Omnimon in all his badassery, so it wins on that alone.
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on February 12, 2012, 01:13:50 AM
I thought the Pokemon movies got better. I watched the second and third and wondered why the first was so much more boring than it.
haha, same. You know, I didn't even get to watch the third Pokemon movie until it premiered on CN a couple of years after it came out in the US. I thought it was okay. The second was better, but I still enjoyed it a lot more than the first.
I remember being pretty pumped up for the first movie when it came up, and I even saw it twice in theaters, the second during a dollar theater run. But I just found it utterly boring both times. Even when I watched it with my friends during our weekly bad movie night showings a few months ago with my nostalgia glasses on, I thought it still sucked.
The Digimon movie I actually went to see in favor of a birthday party, since it came out around that time. I dragged along a couple of friends who were kind of fans, but were a little reluctant to see it, but came out impressed at the end. In hindsight, it doesn't really work, but I still really enjoyed it as a kid. The second part especially, although I liked the first and didn't hate the third like all of you guys.
I want to see if I can find my old VHS copy now, actually.
For the Pokemon movie, my brother and I convinced my dad to take us weeks before it even came out, because we wanted to be there to watch it on its first opening day. As a kid I was hyped up like crazy and when I saw the movie, I wasn't necessarily disappointed as I still liked it quite a bit as a kid, but I walked out feeling that it could have been better. That said, I may have just had too high expectations. I'm not sure what exactly it is that I was expecting from a Pokemon movie, but I guess that it just didn't feel like it was that big of an event compared to most regular arcs in the show. It just seemed to be on a bit of a larger scale and with an obviously bigger animation budget. The 2nd movie which I saw only when it aired on CN seemed much grander in scope and something that was too big for the TV series, so I think that it was at least more fitting for a movie scenario.
As for Digimon, I had to beg my mom to take me to the movie. My brother wasn't as big a fan of Digimon, even though he ironically got me into it, but he tagged along anyways. At any rate, I don't regret seeing that movie in theaters one bit. It totally blew me away at the time, and as a kid that's how I felt a Digimon movie should be done for the most part, so I walked out of the theater really satisfied. Actually, that has a lot to do with why I wanted to see Summer Wars in theaters, to have an awesome Digimon-reminiscent experience like that (except with a legitimately great movie, this time) but unfortunately the movie didn't release in any theaters close by to me.
I actually won a contest from KidsWB (remember that!?) to see the first Pokemon movie in the theatre on release day for free. They gave me three tickets, so I went with my dad and a good friend. My dad was real nice taking me to see the first three movies (the only ones I've ever seen) at the theatre. I know he absolutely hated Pokemon and would jokingly complain about it in the car. On the way back from the third movie, I remember saying something to the extent of "I don't even know why I like this show" and suddenly stopped watching it around the time that film's VHS came out because I realized I just didn't care for it anymore. The last Pokemon game I ever played until downloading ROMs roughly 8 years later was Gold version, which I played directly after Silver. Never even got Crystal.
I always thought Digimon (the TV show) was exceedingly lame, but my friend showed me the movie at his house one time and I thought it was awesome. The games were pretty cool from what I played, too.
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on February 12, 2012, 01:13:50 AM
I thought the Pokemon movies got better. I watched the second and third and wondered why the first was so much more boring than it.
The first Pokemon movie was great.....until the punkass "It's painful to watch Pokemon fight like this" punkass part. I can't get into any of the later movies. The format seems to always be :
Ash kicks ass od random "I'm here to battle you." trainer at some picnic he's at with friends
Ash meets people who know something about superpowerful Pokemon.
Ash either gawks or runs from said powerful Pokemon after talking them. Pikachu attacks, fails to get past their shield, then is confirmed as useless and runs away.
Some other powerful Pokemon or some magic shit beats/traps the Pokemon for them.
Ash, Brock, whatshername and Pikachu go on their merry way.
At least Ash and his Pokemon being useless against Mewtwo would have been cool because it was rare back then because:
1. Ash doesn't have the bad track record he does today
2. Mewtwo was a confirmed badass and easily beat Gary's Pokemon all at the same time.
What more can you ask for? Sorry, I just hate what went wrong with the first film. Ugh..., just remembered the memory erase part at the end. UGH!
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on February 12, 2012, 12:23:54 PMI guess that it just didn't feel like it was that big of an event compared to most regular arcs in the show. It just seemed to be on a bit of a larger scale and with an obviously bigger animation budget. The 2nd movie which I saw only when it aired on CN seemed much grander in scope and something that was too big for the TV series, so I think that it was at least more fitting for a movie scenario.
Well the first one still has big things like death, Mewtwo wanting to take over the world, and Ash "dying" and being revived (which gets a little too much heat, the Pokemon saving him with their tears, as there's a deleted scene that goes into detail about that). It should at least feel slightly bigger than the regular show stuff. :P
Quote from: talonmalon333 on February 12, 2012, 01:21:55 PM
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on February 12, 2012, 12:23:54 PMI guess that it just didn't feel like it was that big of an event compared to most regular arcs in the show. It just seemed to be on a bit of a larger scale and with an obviously bigger animation budget. The 2nd movie which I saw only when it aired on CN seemed much grander in scope and something that was too big for the TV series, so I think that it was at least more fitting for a movie scenario.
Well the first one still has big things like death, Mewtwo wanting to take over the world, and Ash "dying" and being revived (which gets a little too much heat, the Pokemon saving him with their tears, as there's a deleted scene that goes into detail about that). It should at least feel slightly bigger than the regular show stuff. :P
Thanks man. *goes to youtube*
Quote from: Foggle on February 12, 2012, 01:14:12 PM
I know he absolutely hated Pokemon and would jokingly complain about it in the car.
I can totally relate to that. I really have to appreciate my dad for putting up with the movie even though I know that to him it must have seemed weird as hell, and it was probably really boring for him to sit through. But he took my brother and I because he knew that we were really into it at the time, despite the fact that it meant that he'd have to sit with us through 90 minutes of stuff that he considered absolute crap.
QuoteI always thought Digimon (the TV show) was exceedingly lame, but my friend showed me the movie at his house one time and I thought it was awesome. The games were pretty cool from what I played, too.
I used to think that Digimon was a lame Pokemon rip-off, until my brother started watching the show and then I started watching it myself as well. After that I thought it was like a much better-written version of Pokemon, though when I think of the dub I do think its at least partially lame, but I still have nostalgic love for it so I'd still watch the dub for the TV series. That said the dub for the movie went way too over-board.
Anyways, when I was a kid this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9LLiNPW3w4&feature=related) was my favorite part in the Digimon movie. But just for comparison's sake, here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw4xnC90erg&feature=related) is how it was done in the Japanese version, and as you can see its much more effective without any dialogue and lame-pop songs at all (though admittedly I used to think those were cool....but give me a break, I was only about 11 at the time, I didn't know any better).
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on February 12, 2012, 01:59:10 PM
Anyways, when I was a kid this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9LLiNPW3w4&feature=related) was my favorite part in the Digimon movie. But just for comparison's sake, here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw4xnC90erg&feature=related) is how it was done in the Japanese version, and as you can see its much more effective without any dialogue and lame-pop songs at all (though admittedly I used to think those were cool....but give me a break, I was only about 11 at the time, I didn't know any better).
Holy Christ the English voice acting and script are cheesy! And those pop songs... lol! Remember this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn7zPdizrqk)
But it did have One Week, The Impression That I Get, and All My Best Friends Are Metalheads which are actually great songs. So it kind of balances out a bit with how the music was used.
Quote from: Ensatsu-ken on February 12, 2012, 01:59:10 PM
Anyways, when I was a kid this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9LLiNPW3w4&feature=related) was my favorite part in the Digimon movie. But just for comparison's sake, here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw4xnC90erg&feature=related) is how it was done in the Japanese version, and as you can see its much more effective without any dialogue and lame-pop songs at all (though admittedly I used to think those were cool....but give me a break, I was only about 11 at the time, I didn't know any better).
I don't know, I watched both those clips and they accomplished the exact same thing, but approached it differently, and I like that. The japanese version sounds more dramatic and serious with that choice of ambiance they used, but the american dub added a little more attitude to reflect the power of youth its using. I respect your choice, but I don't feel like one is inferior to the other since they both seem like an excellent moment to me.
Well, I do still like that scene in the dub in a very nostalgic sort of way, but I guess I just personally found the scene to be more effective in Japanese, myself. Either way, though, I think its the best scene in either version of the movie. ;)
I really like where they used the Impression That I Get after the bomb hits the water. It's a perfect song choice for the scene, really.
I don't think anyone's going to argue that as a whole the Japanese version is better, though.
Yeah, that song and its placement at the end of the Our War Game segment of the movie never bothered me. I just mostly felt that it was really not necessary to put it in the cyber-space scenes in which Metal Garurumon and War Greymon were fighting Diaboromon, and especially not during the part where they fuse into Omnimon (I also didn't quite care for the addition of having Omnimon yell out attack names in the dub, though to be fair that's just nitpicking on my part).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRR4OiLxDIg&feature=related
Forget Pokemon or Digimon, Monster Rancher was that real shit, sons...
Anyone remember this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqV4AbtLWxk&feature=related)
I never actually liked mac & cheese, but I remember Kraft's commercials a lot. The Rugrats one also comes to mind.
Found this on Facebook:
(https://animationrevelation.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-snc7%2F391242_480036408674280_600028752_n.jpg&hash=90b5867a8241e9618418751622986753e759c85e)
This really did hit me, despite all the errors (Raven ended 5 years ago, and I believe it still airs on Disney on occasions, Lizzie McGuire ended 8 years ago, and KP's last episode was 5 years ago).
I'm not really big on twenty and thirty-year-olds pretending like they're having some kind of middle-aged crisis.
You're still young, you're not even finished developing yet.
Really the only thing that makes me feel old is the fact that I got my driver's license nearly a decade ago. It sure doesn't seem like it's that long, but it has.
And the fact that six years ago this past June I graduated high school.
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 07:38:45 PM
I'm not really big on twenty and thirty-year-olds pretending like they're having some kind of middle-aged crisis.
You're still young, you're not even finished developing yet.
Oh heavens no. Didn't mean to imply that I'm turning into one of those kind of people. :sweat:
Quote from: Rynnec on August 03, 2012, 07:54:26 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 07:38:45 PM
I'm not really big on twenty and thirty-year-olds pretending like they're having some kind of middle-aged crisis.
You're still young, you're not even finished developing yet.
Oh heavens no. Didn't mean to imply that I'm turning into one of those kind of people. :sweat:
I wasn't referring to you of course, just those types of sheets.
I mean, someone tells me something like Raven ended five years ago and my reaction is usually "it feels like its been that long, yeah."
Quote from: Comeau on August 03, 2012, 07:45:10 PM
Really the only thing that makes me feel old is the fact that I got my driver's license nearly a decade ago. It sure doesn't seem like it's that long, but it has.
And the fact that six years ago this past June I graduated high school.
Let's see, most people graduate high school at age 18. You say this was 6 years ago... But you also say you got your license a decade ago. This would mean, when you got it, you were... 14?
:huh:
Almost a decade ago. Key wordage. I got my license at 15, because the state of Idaho lets you do that.
What makes me old is how little most of this actually means to me.
I'll start feeling old when Pokemon hits its 50th anniversary.
What makes me feel old is knowing that Tommy Pickles was able to get legally shitfaced last year and that a fairly big part of the Sonic fandom hasn't played any of the original games on the Genesis without an emulator or something.
Quote from: Avaitor on August 03, 2012, 10:02:19 PM
What makes me feel old is knowing that Tommy Pickles was able to get legally shitfaced last year and that a fairly big part of the Sonic fandom hasn't played any of the original games on the Genesis without an emulator or something.
The kids who started with Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube are the weirdest. Like I can't imagine growing up with Sonic during that period and sticking around not knowing about the classics.
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 10:07:41 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 03, 2012, 10:02:19 PM
What makes me feel old is knowing that Tommy Pickles was able to get legally shitfaced last year and that a fairly big part of the Sonic fandom hasn't played any of the original games on the Genesis without an emulator or something.
The kids who started with Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube are the weirdest. Like I can't imagine growing up with Sonic during that period and sticking around not knowing about the classics.
Speaking as someone who's first real Sonic game was SA2:B, I completely agree with you. Especially since Sonic Mega Collection came out barely a year afterwords. What's even weirder are kids who started with Sonic Heroes and/or Sonic X. I knew two of them in highschool, neither of them played the classics far as I could tell, hell, they didn't even play any of the Adventure games! It was very...odd talking to them about Sonic-related things, to say the least.
Quote from: Rynnec on August 03, 2012, 10:14:28 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 10:07:41 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 03, 2012, 10:02:19 PM
What makes me feel old is knowing that Tommy Pickles was able to get legally shitfaced last year and that a fairly big part of the Sonic fandom hasn't played any of the original games on the Genesis without an emulator or something.
The kids who started with Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube are the weirdest. Like I can't imagine growing up with Sonic during that period and sticking around not knowing about the classics.
Speaking as someone who's first real Sonic game was SA2:B, I completely agree with you. Especially since Sonic Mega Collection came out barely a year afterwords. What's even weirder are kids who started with Sonic Heroes and/or Sonic X. I knew two of them in highschool, neither of them played the classics far as I could tell, hell, they didn't even play any of the Adventure games! It was very...odd talking to them about Sonic-related things, to say the least.
Even weirdest are the kids who started with Sonic 06 and thinks it's great!
Can't wrap my head around that at all!
Eh, I guess that it's kind of like how your favorite Bond is the first one you see. Except it's hard as fuck to believe that someone would consider Pierce Brosnan to Connery or even Daniel Craig, just like it's hard to believe that Sonic 06 could be someone's favorite.
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 10:23:59 PM
Quote from: Rynnec on August 03, 2012, 10:14:28 PM
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 10:07:41 PM
Quote from: Avaitor on August 03, 2012, 10:02:19 PM
What makes me feel old is knowing that Tommy Pickles was able to get legally shitfaced last year and that a fairly big part of the Sonic fandom hasn't played any of the original games on the Genesis without an emulator or something.
The kids who started with Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube are the weirdest. Like I can't imagine growing up with Sonic during that period and sticking around not knowing about the classics.
Speaking as someone who's first real Sonic game was SA2:B, I completely agree with you. Especially since Sonic Mega Collection came out barely a year afterwords. What's even weirder are kids who started with Sonic Heroes and/or Sonic X. I knew two of them in highschool, neither of them played the classics far as I could tell, hell, they didn't even play any of the Adventure games! It was very...odd talking to them about Sonic-related things, to say the least.
Even weirdest are the kids who started with Sonic 06 and thinks it's great!
Can't wrap my head around that at all!
One of those kids I mentioned actually fell into that group as well! :D
After seeing his Let's Play of the game, it was pretty obvious to me that he only likes it because it has Sonic characters in it, rather than it actually being good. Come to think of it, that's probably the reason a lot of kids like Sonic 06: Brand Recognition.
I'll start feeling old when the kids around me are wire tapped directly into a cloud server and when fuel stations no longer offer petroleum gas.
Quote from: Spark Of Spirit on August 03, 2012, 10:07:41 PM
The kids who started with Sonic Adventure 2 on the Gamecube are the weirdest.
You mean me? :P
But to be fair, I bought Mega Collection as soon as it came out and loved it far more than the Adventure games. And I've played 2 a few times on an actual Genesis.
Well, I started with Sonic 2 on the Genesis, myself, but admittedly I never played more than a few bits and pieces of the 1st game as well as 3 and Knuckles. I really liked Sonic 2, but to be honest Sonic Adventure was the first Sonic game that I got really into, and subsequently Sonic Adventure 2 became a huge addiction for me when it came out. But, it wasn't until a few years later that I rediscovered my love for Sonic 2 and then went and played the original Sonic as well as S3&K, and its only recently that I even started playing Sonic CD. Those are definitely the best Sonic games of all time, but I still say that both the Adventure games are great in their own right. I feel like hardcore fans of the classics just hate on them because they flat out aren't the same types of games as the classics, and the modern critics hate on the games just because later 3D Sonic games have given the series a bad reputation in general and they are just pitting those 2 games in with the masses out of a vague memory of actually playing them. Either that, or its like how they like to blow the problems of those games WAY out of proportions. Its true that both games are flaws and certain elements of each haven't aged well, but any fan of those games can tell you that most of the criticisms that get lashed out at the Adventure games these days are flat-out untrue.
Someone on another forum I go to, someone was posting pictures of an old Sonic Look and Find book. Which eventually lead to me remembering the I Spy books, other Look and Find books, Amazing Mazes and some mystery/look-and-find series by the same guy who drew that. Plus Where's Waldo etc.
...I miss those books.
Recently I seem to be getting nostalgic whenever I hear "Waiting For Tonight" by Jennifer Lopez. I'm not really sure why, but it's something I've recently noticed.
That's a pretty random song.
Which is why it's so weird. It isn't like that song was present in any of my fondest memories or anything.
Speaking of nostalgic songs... this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UyzM0KhRr0), anyone?
Man, this was one of my favorites as a kid. Seriously. :sweat:
Heh, I remember liking that.
While I'm at it, it seems to be an unpopular opinion to like this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxQs34UMx4), but I loved it way back when.
I liked both of those songs. I still like Smash Mouth's first two albums in a way, but there's no denying it's sort of forgettable stuff.
Yeah, we owned the first album, but I don't really remember any of it besides that one song.
As far as Smash Mouth goes, I still kinda like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuVrTNoyz80).
It's not a great song, but it's not bad either. That's probably about it, though. They are a pretty forgettable act.
Remember when they were hard? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_8DPQJod0)
Sort of like Sugar Ray in that way.
Here's another oldie I remember (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is)
Quote from: Avaitor on October 09, 2012, 11:31:25 AM
Here's another oldie I remember (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is)
That was seventh grade for me, right around the time I started skating. I remember because I was always hanging out with this kid named Chris Franks, who was a fellow skater, and he was always singing this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi-F2oXQYCg
Haha, I'm amazed this worked.
Welp, I'm going to try to find a copy of TMNT on VHS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4U6vAwLT9s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0752FxFBTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0icdL3zmOU
I want this Disney Channel back.
Ditto.
Posts like this make me feel old. (http://spaghettimonster42.tumblr.com/post/63698067517/are-we-all-just-going-to-pretend-these-shows) Either I wasn't technically a kid when they aired, or I thought that everything here (Recess and Fillmore! aside) were stupid as hell.
The aughts kids are coming. Ah well.
Out of all of those shows I've only seen 4 of them, and of those 4 I only ever cared for Recess.
Of those shows, I still like Xiaolin Showdown, Totally Spies!, Recess, and Fillmore! quite a bit, even if neither of them are great shows. I guess I also sorta still like Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, even if it isn't really very good nostalgia-aside.
Only one of those shows existed when I was a kid, and it's nearly a decade older than the rest of them. Shit, I think all of those, except Recess, came out when I was in high school, some of them after.
Most of those shows were out when I was in middle school, so I guess I can consider some of them nostalgic.
I remember enjoying Recess, Filmore, Xiaolin Showdown & Code Lyoko.
I watched Fillmore for the first time ever this year and it's actually a really good show.
I don't like Xiaolin Showdown on the basis that yellow people scare me...
...as well as the real reason that the show got too outlandish after the first season and a half.
I liked Xiaolin Showdown's second season the best, mostly because that's where I felt the writing peaked and the stories became more fun. Chase Young being an awesome villain helped too.
Then the third season happened and the show hit a slump for me.
I'm just surprised that it got revived. Was it really that popular?
It was fairly popular, if I recall, but not popular enough for me to have expected to see a sequel series nearly a decade after the first one came out. It was a decent show, not necessarily great, and there were some problems in the last season in terms of the storyline and the fact Hannibal Roy Bean went nowhere as an antagonist. Chase Young, Wuya, and Jack Spicer were always awesome, though. Honestly, if the show was about Jack and Wuya trying to take over the world Pinky and the Brain-style, I probably would have liked it a lot more. :lol:
I was shocked to see a new Xiaolin series on a few weeks ago. I am guessing it was a popular show. Still weird though, seeing how there's like 30 shows that I thought would have been revived before it.
Here's some Yu Yu Hakusho nostalgia for you all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V24ePGebJO0
Toonami had a way of getting you pumped for the upcoming show.
SHOT *power up noise* GUN!!!
I always like watching old Toonami promos. Very badass stuff. I didn't start watching Toonami regularly until 2005, however, so I'm not really nostalgic for that stuff (any YYH nostalgia I would have would be associated with Colors TV's FUNimation Channel block, anyways).
As for Toonami promos that I do find nostalgic, pretty much everyone who watched Toonami between 2006-2007 remembers this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PjFH8nNVDI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PjFH8nNVDI)
I don't even like the show anymore, but this promo is still one of my all time favorites.
But of course, there is other stuff from those days (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOXoXRN4tOo) that get my memories rolling... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KRNNE9Q5tE)