Now, I don't know about you guys, but I'm a very nostalgic person myself. I very often reminisce about memories I have had in the past, and often think back fondly of them. Now, a huge part of that nostalgia is geared towards video games. Video games have had a huge effect on my life personally, and I really do adore them. I have so many good memories from playing games in the past, it's impossible to not think about them.
Now, another thing is, I've been nostalgic since a pretty young age. It was mainly in December 2010 at the age of 12, and there was a huge snowstorm that closed schools and public transportation, so there was nothing really to do. So, what my brother and I did, was put CDs of our old PS1 games in a CD player for some reason. Much to our surprise, in some of the games they actually worked! So, we listened to the soundtracks to games like Beyblade and K-1 Grand Prix, and it really made me yearn for the games that I had gotten rid of over the years. That's when I became extremely nostalgic.
A lot of my favourite games were games that I played before that time. Final Fantasy X, the 3 Super Smash Bros. games, TimeSplitters, the first few Smackdown games, Crash Bandicoot 2, Yu-Gi-Oh: Forbidden Memories, Strider 2, Heavy Rain, Street Fighter II, etc. In fact, in my top ten favourite games list, the only one that I played after that date was Metal Gear Solid 2.
Now, that's not to say that I haven't enjoyed any games that I've played since then. On the contrary. It's just that it seems like along with being a great game, it also has to get over the hurdle of nostalgia to break through and become a true favourite of mine. And of the games that have done so recently, they were generally released before the 2010 date, too (MGS/MGS2, SH1/SH2, Persona 3/Persona 4, King's Field, Ninja Gaiden, etc.). So, it seems like it's become more of a nostalgia for the time period overall, which is kind of strange considering that for a lot of the games I play I was either not born or was too young to play/remember it at all during release.
So guys, do you have the same experiences? Or is this not something that's generally happened to you?
