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Weaponized Nostalgia and Me
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Then I had a Proustian flashback to when I was a wee fellow in my childhood home, trying to convince my mother to cut my hair EXACTLY LIKE MACGYVER, the object of my total adoration. And while I didn't walk out of the store with the game, I think there's a good chance that some day, in the not too distant future, I will.
So. Is there hope for us at all? Are we all chained to our favorite childhood products, forever throwing money at things in the hope it will stave off our inevitable deaths? Is my preference for MacGyver the most important part of my personality, or is it my entire personality? WHEN WILL A BOX I BUY MAKE ME A WHOLE PERSON?
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Last night a buddy and I were joking about buying the rights to the Golan-Globus back catalog and forming Cannon Games. Alan Quatermain & The Lost City of Gold Adventure Card Game, Ninja III: The Domination: The Miniatures Game, etc.
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Motorik wrote: Great post!
Last night a buddy and I were joking about buying the rights to the Golan-Globus back catalog and forming Cannon Games. Alan Quatermain & The Lost City of Gold Adventure Card Game, Ninja III: The Domination: The Miniatures Game, etc.
I watched Revenge of the Ninja for the first time in 30 years a few weeks back. It didn't hold up.
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There are so many better things to worry about, but it is on my mind.
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Now 90s nostalgia is a thing and it’s all about Rugrats. But what are today’s kids going to remember of NOW outside of social media junk and celebrities?
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I grew up watching Yosemite Sam who was not from my generation. But I also watched Star Wars and I also watched Battlestar Galactica. So each generation gets a bit of the old and a bit of the new and the culture keeps growing and keeps moving over time. If you want to know what is going to be remembered from right now you need to go ask a 13-year-old.
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GorillaGrody wrote: Zeus help me if they ever release a game about being 12 and trying to transcribe all the lyrics to Blue Oyster Cult’s Cultasaurus Erectus.
I might be able to do that by heart. 40 years later.
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That MacGyver episode with the automatic defense system taking over an installation with robot sentries and laser cameras was the best one ever. They even had some trap room (I think it's the garbage room) where the floor opens up into an acidic pit. What an episode.
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Black Barney wrote: That MacGyver episode with the automatic defense system taking over an installation with robot sentries and laser cameras was the best one ever. They even had some trap room (I think it's the garbage room) where the floor opens up into an acidic pit. What an episode.
Dude, that is 100% the best episode.
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Point is, kids now don't have that central reference material. One kid will have Netflix, another will have something else, some will pirate, some will have cable, some won't. They can access stuff in multiple ways but there's heaps so they won't access it all and they can get into super obscure stuff if they want. It's just a different context completely.
My kids don't watch TV. Not through parental censorship either. They are just doing other stuff, on demand, at their behest. Minecraft and games etc. Pokemon cards. They are not alone in this by any means. I have a lot to do with teenagers, their nostalgia has a bit of TV stuff but is mostly centred around Internet related stuff - memes, flash games, etc.
My kids are exposed to my random nostalgia trips but i don't push it on them, and hell, I had access to my parents nostalgia in their music and the reruns of Bonanza or whatever anyway..... and took that in and still have got all my rose-coloured memories of watching Real Ghostbusters or whatever anyway.
So I'm not too worried about my kids not having access to more modern pop culture etc.... There's just so much of it, I don't think the touchstones will be there, anyway, at least not in the same way.
On a broader note, I have come to realise that my gaming is heavily influenced by nostalgia - not for certain IPs, but for the feeling of playing games with other people I enjoyed as a kid.
(Although if there's an MCOG game out I'm first in line).
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Michael Barnes wrote: Jojo’s comments really put me in mind of Ready Player One. I think one of the biggest failings of that film (or book I guess) is the assumption that in he future 20,30,40 years from now...young people will still idolize and idealize Buckaroo Banzai, Battletoads, and Chucky. Really? Buckaroo Banzai has never been a household name! Thinking over it...where the hell are all of the hot characters and IP from like, 2025-2030? It’s almost chilling when you really think about it...people are so content and satiated with the old pop culture that they have stopped making new pop culture. Or it could be that “geek” dads poisoned the well by foisting their endless childhoods on their kids.
Now 90s nostalgia is a thing and it’s all about Rugrats. But what are today’s kids going to remember of NOW outside of social media junk and celebrities?
In its defense, I believe that was part of the point--that so much of the world had become impoverished or poor, and many had sought escape in the world created by one guy, who was nostalgic for these very things and as such they defined that world. Since so many were living there, they were content to recreate what they saw and stunt their imagination to only what they had been given. It was also clear that the Big Business didn't care about creating new IP, only monetizing as much as possible that which already existed. It's cheaper to monetize what's already there than take creative chances, spend money, and fail.
Maybe I'm giving it too much credit. But that's what I took from it.
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