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What's the one thing that triggers your nostalgia?
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Escape Goat
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Hula hoops and dungarees
Shin K Dash
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Pete the Ferret
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Christmas
LookAtMeGo
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Bubble Bobble
Stone Vagabond
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Dog Problems
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Anything related to Nickelodeon from the late 80s to the early/mid 90s.
And the same goes for MTV. Any time I see one of those old MTV logos or hear "I want my MTV" then it really triggers nostalgia.
And the same goes for MTV. Any time I see one of those old MTV logos or hear "I want my MTV" then it really triggers nostalgia.
music.
I've religiously listened to music while tuning out the world my entire life. Whenever a song comes on it usually brings me to the exact moment in time where I listened to it. It's kind of weird. A song came on the other day and suddenly I was back in middle school taking a stroll around campus in the dark.
I've religiously listened to music while tuning out the world my entire life. Whenever a song comes on it usually brings me to the exact moment in time where I listened to it. It's kind of weird. A song came on the other day and suddenly I was back in middle school taking a stroll around campus in the dark.
minor effort
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Artificial cherry flavoring.
RiderKairuu
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Thinking of the Cross Fire or Skip-It commercials. It's all down hill from there.
nothing makes me feel quite as nostalgic as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, something about it just takes me back to that pure happiness I felt when playing it as a kid, it was my first GTA and it was just so fucking insanely otherworldly amazing to me at 8 years old.
I RAN SO FAR AWAY
I RAN SO FAR AWAY
MetalGearZed
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what is this even called?
bitbydeath
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Who ya gonna call?
surjective
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The ending of Dragon Ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i9mUSxq7Kg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i9mUSxq7Kg
Shin K Dash
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I raise you
god. this template was EVERYWHERE.
Strangelove77
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One Eyed Willy
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Literally almost anything from the 80s, early 90s. Today, I live through my 7 and 4 year olds. I play games, and do shit that 7 and 4 year olds do.. as a grown adult. I'm terrified of being 55+ when you can't do this.. and like you have to just be old.
I should brush up on bingo
I should brush up on bingo
NoMoreTrolls
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Orange push pops man
Exploratory
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Username1198
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everything in this thread
DiamondDog74
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Ps1 boot sound. Seeing spinning compact discs. Controllers.
Broseybrose
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Music.
Smells.
Smells.
Indrid Cold1
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SE-GAAAA
Alexander DeLarge
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NieR Automata's soundtrack (which is strange
. The music programmers and composer deserve all the praise they get for that game.
because it was triggered during the same playthrough with remixed versions of songs)
stenbumling
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Nothing transports me to another time and place as well as music that I used to listen to. I regularly listen to music that I listened to during a great period in my life, and my spirits are instantly lifted up. Some specific smells are vividly but at the same time very vaguely nostalgic to me. I feel it intensely, but I don't know why and can't connect it with a certain time period.
Of course, old video games and the 90s in particular are incredibly nostalgic to me. But I encounter it often, so it doesn't really hit me as hard as those sudden punches of nostalgia that makes you remember things you thought you had forgotten forever.
Of course, old video games and the 90s in particular are incredibly nostalgic to me. But I encounter it often, so it doesn't really hit me as hard as those sudden punches of nostalgia that makes you remember things you thought you had forgotten forever.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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This.
And specific albums I used to listen to during my youth like OK Computer. I can't listen to it without a thousand memories of teenage drama coming back, lol.
Also, the game boy and any piece of Toriyama art, be it from Dragonball, Dragon Quest, Doctor Slump or whatever else. Always reminds me of the early 90s.
Spoiled Milk
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I raise you
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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Amory
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Familiar smells are a big nostalgia trigger for me.
First girl I ever fell head over heels for, probably 15+ years ago wore some kind of perfume that I still smell every once in a while. It brings all those same emotions up even though I'm much older now and I don't even remember her name these days.
First girl I ever fell head over heels for, probably 15+ years ago wore some kind of perfume that I still smell every once in a while. It brings all those same emotions up even though I'm much older now and I don't even remember her name these days.
WinterIsComing
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Everytime i hear Estranged from G'n'R
eXistor
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This too. I remember some years ago I visited the toystore I used to buy most of my games from back in the day (rows of NES games...good times) and while the store is completely different now (they used to have the games way in the back, now it's just dolls or some such), it still has the same smell. I hadn't visited the store in years and years and it really struck me; I was instantly transported back to those days where I was trying out Double Dragon 1 to see if I wanted it for my birthday.