Nostalgia

Settlers 1:

This always brings a tear in my eye. One of the most beautiful gaming experiences of my life.

Oh God yes, Settlers. So much time spent on my Amiga playing that.

In fact, here it is:

  On 1/4/2011 at 6:12 AM, Ragnar said:

 

edit: omg Confederation Trough = trough = downward/past-thinking and Rushup Edge = upward/future-thinking amirite

I owned both at the same time and had them it the same folder and I have no idea where the EP ends or the LP starts, all sounds freshly produced, all sounds amazing and new.

So I dun know what you're on about!

  On 1/4/2011 at 7:35 PM, fenton said:

  On 1/4/2011 at 6:12 AM, Ragnar said:

 

edit: omg Confederation Trough = trough = downward/past-thinking and Rushup Edge = upward/future-thinking amirite

 

 

I owned both at the same time and had them it the same folder and I have no idea where the EP ends or the LP starts, all sounds freshly produced, all sounds amazing and new.

 

 

So I dun know what you're on about!

I thought people were pretty divided on Rush Edge vs. Confederation Trough, like "I thought Confederation Trough was a joke/internet fake and then Rushup Edge came out", or the other way around. I think the stuff on Confederation Trough is at least more could've been extra Analords while Rushup Edge is Drukqs-y dramatic shit

Please say there's others who remember this blast from the past. 5 children and it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe0vUgjP0E

My grandad looks like Samiad.

  On 1/1/2011 at 3:13 AM, yek said:

i used to love this sonic the hedgehog cartooni thought sonic was badass. but now, i watched an episode i downloaded. it was so fucking bad.

Do you remember the other one that came out during the same day, on a different network in 1993? It was like a lighthearted affair with his love of chilli dogs as a highlight, while the other was about some dystopian planet bullshit. I liked both, but as a 7 year old it was a bit confusing to explain to my even younger brother about different plot universes.

  On 1/3/2011 at 5:56 AM, Ragnar said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybg0l2Alawthis was a really compelling show. shit tv for kids today is inexcusable.

holy shit, I remember watching this on Nick in the UK. Good stuff!

  On 1/4/2011 at 3:35 AM, NDB said:

  On 1/4/2011 at 3:20 AM, Candiru said:

i was 7 when i first played this

That used to a massive talking point at lunch in late elementary school, seems so harmless now compared to what kids now get exposed to (literally) on games like GTA, and without having to clear as many levels. I'd like to say that we're better for it...hard working and more imaginative.

  On 1/4/2011 at 6:12 AM, Ragnar said:

hey would you argue that Aphex Twin is just as nostalgia-based/ intentional/unintentional lo-fi artist even moreso than Boards of Canada? Would help if I heard all his stuff when it was brand-new, did it ever sound NEW or was it always like 'this is some stuff I found on a tape from 10 years ago lolol'. At least recent stuff I felt like Confederation Trough was sort of nostalgic/past-thinking and Rushup Edge was trying to one-up somebody or other/forward-thinking and I didn't like Rushup Edge as much. Maybe it's just the sound of my pirated mp3 copy I dunno (I think I got FLAC at one point just to be sure) but Confederation Trough tracks give me this feeling like they ALWAYS EXISTED. ok not like alpha and omega since beginning of time but also not a feeling like 'I've heard this before', just a feeling like it existed, could've been first or latest tracks RDJ has made, doesn't give me any indicators of however people perceive things as more modern than other things.

Well BoC has always been a bit misleading to me, because they evoke late 70s/early 80s whereas I grew up in the 90s, so it's like a false nostalgia mixed with memories I have of watching movies or playing with toys my parents had in the 70s...like a second hand nostalgia. But it's familiar and vague enough to appeal to me.

I've had the same feelings you have about Aphex, but it's more in regards to his older stuff. I hear Analogue Bubblebath, Caustic Window, and SAW 85-82 and get a timeless feel about them, without association to his peers of the era or any specific genre influences. It allows me to attach my own personal associations and guess at his. I'm not quite that way with the Tuss or Analord, maybe I will in 10-15 years.

  On 1/4/2011 at 8:52 PM, spratters said:

Please say there's others who remember this blast from the past. 5 children and it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe0vUgjP0E

I remember the book from when I was young, but not that.

  On 1/5/2011 at 12:00 AM, joshuatxuk said:

  On 1/1/2011 at 3:13 AM, yek said:

i used to love this sonic the hedgehog cartooni thought sonic was badass. but now, i watched an episode i downloaded. it was so fucking bad.

 

 

Do you remember the other one that came out during the same day, on a different network in 1993? It was like a lighthearted affair with his love of chilli dogs as a highlight, while the other was about some dystopian planet bullshit. I liked both, but as a 7 year old it was a bit confusing to explain to my even younger brother about different plot universes.

 

yeah, it was horrible. blasphemy!

Anyone remember the show Reboot? One of the first fully computer animated Saturday morning kids cartoons?

If so, just keep on remembering it. The dialogue/voice acting is painful.

Bump in the Night is still good though. That show was weird.

Yeah, I remember Reboot. It was like a more cartoony, childish Tron or something. There was a female character called Dot Matrix.

And they were sponsored by Skips for a while.

  On 1/5/2011 at 12:42 PM, usagi said:

I could still watch Reboot

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2-GTrfhByw

Yea. that intro is still pretty great. But the dialogue in an episode; No.

  On 1/4/2011 at 3:20 AM, Candiru said:

I remember this well.

"Shake it baby, shake it baby, shake, shake, shake, sh, sh, sh...." from constantly throwin cash an making that ho jiggle

castlevania.. fucking love the first few renditions. there was something really imaginative about the whole Belmont vs Dracula thing. it got pretty lame when it turned in to anime cartoons with the later releases but the first few were epic.

had the greatest music , by far.

Castlevania 4 is one of my favorite platformers after Super Metroid, although Symphony of the night was pretty fuckin good too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntOol8Ubx00&feature=related

seriously unfuckwithable

  On 3/24/2010 at 11:59 PM, Obel said:

 

Did MC Hammer ever have credibility?

If I remember correctly, he was too legit to quit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnB7rIL2fy8

I like how the trailer features a completely different, and terrible, voice actor for Max. Makes me wonder when Paul Reubens got involved in the project.

  On 1/6/2011 at 6:20 PM, mafted said:

castlevania.. fucking love the first few renditions. there was something really imaginative about the whole Belmont vs Dracula thing. it got pretty lame when it turned in to anime cartoons with the later releases but the first few were epic.

 

had the greatest music , by far.

 

I think castlevania is good for the music but maybe the story was always bad I liked how the levels made no architectual sense whatsoever SPANISH CASTLES IN SPACE

The Incredible Games just popped into my head, a cyberpunk kids' gameshow from 1994/5. The futuristic lift, the Dark Knight game being class, and the iconic giant alphabet soup bowl at the end are what I remember primarily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Games

unrelated to topic: i didn't know ragnar had gotten banned, what happened?

here are a bunch of 10 year old Ragnar tracks for nostalgia: https://www.buzztunes.org/music/ragnar?page=5

Nostalgia post Web 2.0 has been quite the mindfuck - user content driven media has contributed greatly to rediscovering old shows, movies, video games, pictures of long gone places, etc. even mundane stuff like retro-futuristic fonts and typefaces, new age art, library music, etc. (which was the prime fodder for gernes like vaporwave, hypnagogic pop, and other hauntology electronic music)

The catch is it's become so easy to recreate and subsequently, edit, parse, and revise these raw sources of nostalgia into stylistic homages, memes, parodies, etc. It provides a distorted and idealized vision of the past for those who never lived it and a mentally jarring memory alternative to those who did. Simon Reynolds highlighted this in Retromania and it's been a debate far above my cursory intellectual knowledge within postmodernism debates.

Anyone else find themselves dealing with hyper-faux memories or a find increasingly fleeting memories of actual existing or being the way you were in the past - pre-social media, pre-internet. The days where you had to tape a song on the radio, catch a film or tv show showing or miss it for years, sear a visual memory of something you saw on a trip, walk, or drive without the use of a phone camera. Throughout human existence memory has always become something hazy, distorted, and selectively forgotten and highlighed but now even those routines are being drastically altered or eliminated altogether.

The one I've been actively restoring is the feeling of idle time before not just on demand streaming content but also internet and cable. Losing minutes, hours, even large parts of the day to imagination, internal thoughts, and hobbies and activities for a whole day. I used to pour over every detail of old magazines, catalogs, books. Now I find myself mindlessly scrolling curated content on instagram and often feel vapid and empty. I fight against it and I'm self-aware of it, so I don't feel like I lost anything significant yet. I have purposely tried to fight of my erasing of pure albeit imperfect visual memories in my brain of my past with precise and accurate but nonetheless imperfect and incomplete photos, google street views, or easily accessed written histories. It's like replacing a real car for a simulated drive, a vinyl copy of a record with some 128kps mp3s and 300x300 pixel scan of the cover. It's just not the same and it's not as genuine.

We're at a time were oral tradition and curated memories are dying out but the elevation to full blown simulated realities, AI, and interfacing conscious with digital computers is still way off.