You know, I don't understand why this board doesn't get more traffic. You all had childhoods, right? Hell, some of you might still be having one, right now.

Maybe I shouldn't cast stones, because it's not exactly like I'm blowin' this place up with all my hot nostalgia dialogue. Still, I try - I asked you about your Pokémon, and I told you some shit about my Legos and my Construx. This, it occurs to me, is not enough though.

What I'm gonna do now is lay down a couple nostalgia-related thoughts - some shit to "riff on", if you will - and if it sparks some special memory or some nostalgic thought of your own, even if it doesn't quite relate to the shit I'm gettin' misty over, then speak up.

1. I've been replaying a bunch of NES and SNES Mario games on emulators lately (I even bought some USB controllers for the first time in my life). I remember playing the first Super Mario Bros on my cousin's NES when I was little and it was painful for him to watch how bad I sucked at it. I don't think I ever got past the first world without using a warp zone until I bought an NES in highschool. When I was around 8 or 9, my sister got an SNES with Mario World for her birthday, but it didn't take long to become the whipshit at that - the physics just aren't as clunky.

2. I've heard that new TMNT movie sucks. I'm of two minds upon hearing this. On the one hand, I'm not surprised at all. After all, I've been watching them destroy things like GI Joe and Transformers at the movies for years now. On the other hand, I've seen the new CGI TMNT cartoon and I fuckin' like it. Of course, we had our own TMNT toon when I was little, as well as our own movies that didn't even compare.

3. When I was little, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, DC Superheroes and The Hobbit was the kind of shit I was trying to cobble together from LEGO sets. Now it's like all they come out with is that shit. I find myself saddened though that the Space line is discontinued and the Castle line has been scaled back to practically nothing. There was something of a story that had unconsciously unfurled itself in my mind behind all the different factions they used to roll out for those product lines.

4. I know it must seem a little quaint and silly to most, but I still BUY movies and tv shows on disc. Over the past year, after finishing off my Star Trek collection, I started working on my DC Superheroes collection. I started with all the Batman and Superman movies, then I bought the Batman animated series from the 90s. Nothin' rose-colored about my recollection of that show - it is STILL bad to the bone. I also bought all I could of the Filmation DC cartoons, which wasn't much when I first started buying, but they recently released all the remaining stuff except the Superboy segments. At first I was excited to buy the Filmation stuff because I was like, "Hey, hokey 70s animation at it's best," but I've since realized that I actually used to watch the Filmation Superman when I was little. I popped the first Superman disc in and it was like the door to a whole locked section of my memory opened up, and it was like I was parked on the carpet in front of the livingroom tv on Saturday morning all over again.

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Johnny C. 14/11/27(Thu)19:27 No. 76 File 141713443137.png - (22.60KB , 320x320 , MAD.png ) I visit this board now-and-then. Out of all the other 99chan boards, this one seems most up my alley. The TV/games one is also a cool premise. Games: I love to emulate all the newold weird games I've never played before. I use an SNES->USB converter and it feels good, man. My main sources to find new things are http://www.romhacking.net/ http://www.racketboy.com/ http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ The first time I played a game was NES at my cousin's, too, and I could barely comprehend it. I probly only got an NES starting in HS too. In the early 90's when I was like 5, I got a Game Boy and the SMW SNES set and played those casually. Back then I wasn't super into games, it was just a thing we had which I took for granted. Parents got me Super Ghouls n Ghosts at some point, but I couldn't get past the first level, and so when I asked for more games, the response was "But you never play the games you already have!" so I didn't get many games in my earlier years. It wasn't until Pokémon released in 1998, at age 11, that I was fully sucked into the video game machine. TMNT: I was never into TMNT as a kid, but it sure was popular. Recently this past year or two I've finally tried out the comic and I can now say I dig it. Also tried out Transformers and I def. see the appeal, would watch more. LEGO: With the franchising of LEGO, the company was saved, but at the cost of inspiring creativity more easily. When I was young I liked LEGO, but never got many because they were too expensive. These past few years I've been buying a couple LEGO now and then. I have the DeLorean, the Architecture Studio, and Metalbeard's pirate ship from the Lego Movie. I want to get the Ghostbusters car, and I have lists of older sets I'd love. My primary want is the Space Shuttle Expedition (10231) which I've wanted since I was young. Out of them all, I think I want a lot of the space sets most. Secondarily, pirate stuff. Egypt is cool conceptually and it would be fun to try to use those pieces to make something awesome. Physical Media: xfd I've never been one to buy lotsa movies. Only very special ones that I've already watched dozens of time which I know I'll watch dozens of more times. The most recent purchases were: In Search Of… box set, Indie Game: The Movie special edition, and a Ecstasy of Order, a Tetris doscumentary. I do love to download/watch older shows which aren't on TV anymore, though. Like Pete and Pete, Salute Your Shorts, Rocko, Watch Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc. Maybe some day if I'm old and rich and unable to move around anymore, I'll buy all the Treks and all my old shows. Mr Rogers' is also one of those - just watched one today and it's so soothing.