Things you miss from your childhood.

Sometimes, even 19 feels like old age when you think about what used to be.

Remember in playgrounds? The playground equipment wasn't this cheap plastic SAFE crap we have nowadays. It was metal, hard, HOT AS HELL during the summer, but you played on them anyway. What happened to that... Times have changed.

Or the ball pit in Discovery Zones or Chucke E Cheeses.

Remember making big elaborate forts out of pillows, bedsheets and random chairs in the house?

Be nostalgic, gents.

playing in big cardboard boxes well they weren't big, we were small.


and kickball.

Yes Discovery Zones/etc. kicked ass... especially the plastic tubes and slides with the metal bolts that shocked the hell out of you.

I also miss when school was either not an issue or not very intrusive in life

And a ****load of other stuff I don't feel like listing now

My biggest worry was getting all the alternate paths on Star Fox 64... *sigh*

Even though i'm still pretty young (...well not like 56 or anything), alot of things actually

You didnt have to worry about things as much (...well for most kids..)

usually just have fun most of the day and start the next (I remember how I use to play with the hose all the time and spray it straight up in the air)

If I could, i'd choose to relive the past, to bad that'll never happen ._.

not worrying about a job

i remember we had a bunch of these weird things that were basically flexible foam tubes and cubes with dildoes on each side so you could stick them together and build all sorts of crazy things... now we just have a few of the tubes laying around ;_;

and all sorts of other building toys too, i still have a huge tub of legoes and two almost-as-big tubs of k'nex, some erector sets or whatever they're called, these things where the pieces are mostly flat panels with sawtooth edges, and these other weird things that i don't know the name of either but hey, anything that can be soveryhappy must be awesome

ohh, and i used to go through the house with a ball of yarn tying it to everything so you couldn't get through the room :D

This post has been edited by Quicky on Feb 2 2006, 04:18 AM

- Making forts and stuff. I used to do this all the time.

-Getting really, really excited over video games. When I got Yoshi's Island, I ran through the house yelling with glee and jumping up and down. Total idiocy. But I miss it.

-Playing EarthBound for the first time. I ALMOST didn't buy it, but decided to get it at the last minute. This was in the days before the internet and it was my first RPG. So much fun.

-The SNES/NES/GB era. I feel kinda sorry for today's generation of gamers because they probably can't enjoy the old games the way I did. I don't really blame them, because they've become used to the updated graphics and storylines and presentation and stuff...and those things are undoubtedly good...but man, remember playing the NES? Remember blowing into the cartridges because they randomly wouldn't work? Remember the first time you got the Raccoon Leaf in Super Mario 3, or the first time you threw a vegetable in SMB2?

Now we kinda just take stuff like that for granted and expect all games to have the usual share of powerups/weapons/whatever. Not so in those days, we all thought that stuff was cool as hell. In those days, I loved almost every game I played to some extent. I was nowhere near as picky as I am today about games. I have fond memories of going over to my cousin's house, watching them play Punch Out or Super Mario Bros - incidentally, the first game I ever played.

We'd have these big get-togethers and play games together. Back when the NES was relatively new, so every game we got seemed really cool and fun. I think I'm the
only member of my family who still plays video games now.

-Duckboy, thanks for reminding me about the playground equipment. Our stuff was not safe at all - and I lost two teeth to prove it. We were playing tag, see, and the kid in front of me was...well, he was kinda fat. Really wide. I was a very small kid for my age, so I couldn't see around him, and as I was chasing him, he veered off to the right suddenly. Right in front of a swingpost. I didn't change directions fast enough, ran into the swingpost (which was made of HARD metal), and knocked out my two front teeth.

-Exploring the forest/river/lake/whatever. I lived in the countryside and there were a lot of these places to explore. I always wanted to build a treehouse but never got around to it.

i got EarthBound, RCproam, and excitebike in a garage sale, there was gyromite too but i decided to waste my money and get a hamburger instead... biggest mistake

This post has been edited by FuPoo on Feb 2 2006, 05:15 AM

Kenan and Kkal + original All That cast.

I wish I was in primary school again.

You could have fun and school never really was a problem.

But high school just pretty much takes over everything.

Playing contra on the genesis, and never getting past level 1.

Not only do I remember that stuff (the only plastic things were the slides, but in kindergarten there was a huge (well now it doesn't look huge, but it seemed like a skyscraper or something) metal slide ..) the best part about the plastic slides was touching the giant metal pole when you got down to shock the hell out of yourself. I don't know why but all the kids including me would do this just for the fun of it. Our plastic chairs were extremely static, so we found out if you slide your butt across it when you get off it you'll be able to shock someone for a short time as long as you don't lose your charge.

But ya, not only do I remember the stuff, but I remember the naive-ness of a child. I found this website http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/ that has a TON of stories submitted by people of what they used to think as a child, such as "if you swallow a seed a plant will grow inside you" usually they give a little backstory too... it's fun to read especially when you're bored and have nothing to do.

-When I first Played my first Video game Donkey Kong Country man it was a blast back then and I took me a while to beat it since I was like 3 or 4.

-School was never a problem and it was always fun and joy backthen I also remmber when I went to some beaver Camp or something.

-When I first got Yoshi island I was always confused how to play probaly because I never actually Listened then.

-When Cartoons never sucked were on the air

Creating my first sprite.

Creating my first successful game... then delete it... (I'm such an idiot!)

Remember watching All That, Kenan & Kel, and Cousin Skeeter (That show was tight!!!).

This post has been edited by OmegaKong on Feb 2 2006, 08:49 AM

Catching bugs and trying to keep them as a pet without mom noticing. Mostly pill bugs. Which were awesome because you could put them in water and they wouldn't die. And the fact that they rolled themselves into balls was amusing.

This post has been edited by Nintendwarf on Feb 2 2006, 11:01 AM

Ah, so many things to remember.

Well, I'm only fifteen so some things will seem older to me than to others.

I was really small and short, so everything seemed much bigger than usual. Heck, I needed a booster seat til I was about six. I remember getting "lost" at Target, in reality, I was in the mattress 'cave'. Those places with tubes kicked ass. Chuck E. Cheese was also funner(is that a word?) when they didn't have stupid safety stuff. I kinda remember when there were benches and allowed grown ups to smoke. I also remember being afraid of the slides, not because of height, because of being shocked or burned. I'd make a sand mountain, I didn't have a bucket so I had to make moutains. I always wore dresses, because mom thought I looked cute. (I thought i was cute too) I was also afraid of Mario, because every time I tried to play, I'd die or the game crashed. So then I was introduced to Sonic the Hedgehog, who would be my number one hero for a long time. I was always filled with glee when AoSTH came on. I was too little to play video games though but I always enjoyed watching my older sister play. Now, about Sonic, he really was my hero, which is kind a good, because it made me the fastest kid on my soccar team. I remember they made spagetti-os shaped like Sonic and friends. There was Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Dr. Robotnik. I was shocked when I found out there was a 'new' character in Sonic 3. when I got older, I was confused as hell when in Sonic Adventure one, they called what I knew as Robotnik all my life as "Eggman". I don't even think he looked like an egg. The fact there were on earth didn't really confuse me, I only watched AoSTH, I skipped SaTAM and the comic. I also thought Mobius was just the area they lived in. I thought they lived on earth. Anyways, I basicly miss being able to fit into stuff like the washer and to play in tubes and playgrounds.

I actually used to LIKE Power Rangers.

@ Princess Pie


I used to have those sonic spaghettio's! I never got meatball ones because I was picky and didn't want to taste them. I'd probrably eat them now since I love meatball subs and everthing..


I remember once a long time ago publix had mario soda's, I've seen them online before too, so I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. I remember getting one just because it was mario, but I didn't like how it tasted or something. For a while I'd go with my mom shopping to see if they had it each time, but they stopped selling it.

I also used to get Archie sonic comics at the grocery store