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Random stuff that makes you go "wow I suddenly feel old..."

Last posted Mar 30, 2015 at 07:22AM EDT. Added Mar 19, 2015 at 11:42PM EDT
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Alternate title: random nostalgia thread.

I know most of ya'll are probably anywhere between the ages of teens to… I dunno, 40s? (sorry I'm kinda just assuming here most of KYM is made up of teens and young adults) But even so I'm sure everyone has had that moment where they suddenly feel old, despite actually being young, all because of some random thing. So what are some (nostalgic) things that do that for you?

-Suddenly remembering that when people talk about the "previous/last gen" in gaming, they DON'T mean PS2/Xbox/Gamecube anymore, now they mean PS3/Xbox 360/Wii. The sudden realization that some of my PS2 and Gamecube games are now old enough to be middle or high schoolers, when yet I was in middle and high school when that generation of gaming was still going strong, is enough to make me go "stop making me feel old, I'm only in my mid 20s!"

-The fact that songs I grew up listening to on the radio are now played on "classic music" radio stations. I heard Blink-182, Missy Elliot, and the like on some of my local stations that play mainly music that's more than a decade old. Yeah it's a weird feeling when Bowling For Soup's song "1985," a song all about nostalgia for a bygone decade, is now a nostalgic song for a completely different reason (it originally came out at a point in the 00s when 80s nostalgia was big).

-Last one for now, but another thing that can evoke these feelings in me is when I actually get excited when I learn a game I grew up playing is either on sale on Steam, or getting a re-release in some fashion (Steam, Virtual Console, HD remaster, whatever). The moment I stop to realize "wow I'm actually more excited for the remake of Majora's Mask than I am for Dying Light" makes me remember how powerful of a feeling nostalgia can be.

My ice cream melted :((

2000 was 15 years ago.

Year 0 was 2015 years ago.

This is a decade old.

10 years, ladies and gentlemen, 10 years.

Anyone remember when High School Musical was all over the place?

Spongebob has been on air with new episodes since May 1, 1999.
Spongebob has been alive for 15+ years.

Finding a box of my old Disney VHS tapes

When you don't have to lie to 18+ porn sites anymore.

I remember when Tube TV's were still available for sale, and then they slowly just faded to the crappier brands and models, and then eventually analogue TV stopped broadcasting. Now I see those 30-40" widescreen CRT TVs everyone wanted when I was a kid in a thrift store for $10.

Flip phones used to be a thing

Pokemon came out in 1995

»Blackberry once meant Smartphone.
»Lower gas prices are around how they were ~10 years ago.
»I have three Nintendo Gamecubes, and I remember when the games for that console were very popular.
»tfw been waiting for the next Star Wars: Battlefront.

One more I just remembered: "Duke Nukem Forever" jokes are now old-hat since the game did finally come out (and ended up disappointing).

- That Saturday morning cartoons no longer play on local channels and instead it's just a bunch of shitty infomercials.
- That I've had my copy of Wario Land 4 for 13 years now and is the oldest game I received new that I've kept and it still works.

Wired controllers.

Super Mario 64 (the first game that I ever played ) came out 19 years ago.

But I remember getting it somewhere around 2001. But still, this game is about 2 years older than me and time went really fast.

This turns 20 years old on 11/22/15.

This has been off air for 14 years…. ;_;

My favourite game as a child has an expy of the twin towers as an opening stage.

These came out in 2003 (I think?) and I can still remember how excited I was when I saw the commercial on tv and got to taste them for the first time. Two sweets made into one seemed really cool, and they did taste awesome. Now they're no longer in production for a couple of years, but it feels like I saw them in the supermarket just yesterday.

Some people say that they are like skittles but they aren't

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The Original Half-Life came out November 8th, 1998.

The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker, one of my favorite games of all time, and the first zelda game I actually finished, is 12 years old.

>1986

>spring break

> calling new GF

>RAD

>Dials #

>….

>rrrring….

>[anticipation intensifies]

>ayyyy hello?

>WEHAVEBEENEXPECTINGYOU.png nudephoto

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My ps2 is now at least 13 years old. And my favorite 3 games for it, Spongebob BFBB, Sonic Heroes, and NBA Street Vol.2 are now considered old school.
And I remember feeling like NBA Street was mind-bogglingly real with its graphics that look like shit now!

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- The 90s are almost 20 years ago.
- The first time I saw people playing Yu-Gi-Oh was in 2002. People still play this 13 years later.
- I've been playing Pokemon since the 90s.
- You didn't need to pay to watch Showtime. You don't need to pay to watch CN. It's added to most basic cable TV plans.
- I remember when TV signals changed from analog to digital. Channels went to static if you didn't have the digital converter thing. The government used to give them away.
- The CW used to air anime in the mornings. The lineup was: 6 AM – Sailor Moon, 6:30 AM – DBZ, 7:00 AM – Pokemon. Also during this time, VH1 and MTV used to air music videos.
- CW also used to air cartoons in the afternoons, same as Fox.
- My car was bought in 1995. In 5 more years, it will be a classic (antique?) car.
- I could eat decently for a dollar.
- I remember the Macarena dance.