Nostalgia
 

Peoples be feelin' it today!

I bought Banjo Kazooie for my n64 today from amazon. Is it because I actually really enjoy the game or is it because I want to relive my memories of playing it when I was younger? I dunno.

I would go with the latter. A few months ago a bought an N64 as well. I got San Fransisco Rush and Goldeneye.

Memories... *sigh*




Although I started this because of all of the old threads getting bumped today...

Well I never sold my n64 but when I was younger I would get to play Banjo Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing every new year's eve as my parents would go over to my neighbours and their kids (who were older than me) had those games. I think I was only about 6 or 7 at the time!

Kill yr nostalgia

yes, nostalgia is a sin

"nostalgia for an age yet to come"

video games are the ultimate nostalgia...i remember playing clayfighter in a crusty basement and i remember playing diddy kong racing the first time i was stoned etc. etc.
maybe ill post the whole list
the whole rigamarole

Oddly enough I am really nostalgic when it comes to stuff that was as soon as 10 years ago.

How old are you?

I'm 27. That's too young for nostalgia. I think it's more a sense of being retarded if you get nostalgia below the age of, say, 45. I think there's a sense in which a lot of people get 'nostalgia' for things they didn't experience. You can't tell people how to experience life, but you can tell them that something doesn't stop being shit because it was 20 years ago.

There's no way a well-adjusted person can't remember how bad it was as much as they remember how good things used to be. Since nostalgia is just a feeling, and one that doesn't relate to any present happening, I don't understand what use it can have for someone who continues breathing.

Unless you just can't get out of a particular way of feeling in your present life, in which case nostalgia will only make it more difficult for you to move on because you spend too much time idealising the past with confusion regarding what really happened. If you even really lived what you are nostalgic for.

I don't think playing an old N64 game, or a Soundgarden album (which you enjoyed at the time but have since neglected) really qualifies as nostalgia. It's just taking a harmless trip down memory lane that I imagine most people take from time to time. Nostalgia, as porky suggests, is more a kind of irrational yearning for the past with little attention paid to the actual reality of that time.

No it doesn't. Having an interest for things that were produced in the past is not being nostalgic for what happened when those things were created. It's just getting a bit of perspective and simply enjoying a variety of music/movies etc etc.

What?

There are no rules to how and why you feel nostalgic. Maybe you're not interested in that N64 game or Soundgarden, but surely it can take you back to a time when you were around/loved someone who did like those things, and in turn you long for those days, or for a 'more simple time'. I don't know...

There are patterns, though. Also, if that 'loved one' who's gone is what makes you feel nostalgic, does that not imply that no matter what you will never be able to be happy again? Is that a good thing? NO. Uh?

I think it's possible to enjoy a little nostalgia without being completely lost in another time.. Isn't it far more strange for someone to not ever think back to some particular time that was especially wonderful?

hum.

There's nothing wrong with any of those things. the danger is when people use it as a long-term escape route from what's taking place around them now.

Enjoying memories of the past is very different from wanting to live in them.

I miss my N64.



*sigh*

You probably miss that game a bunch but don't worry...I relioved the N64 and this game and rust me...it's not as good as it used to be.

Goldeneye is still the bollocks though.