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What happened to The Simpsons? [more inside]
posted by schmichael
on Oct 19, 2009 -
51 answers
What's this kids sing-along video I'm remembering from the '80s? [more inside]
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis
on Oct 15, 2009 -
2 answers
What are your picks for melancholy, lonely, time-stopping and heartachingly beautiful songs? [more inside]
posted by Lipstick Thespian
on Oct 7, 2009 -
218 answers
I have this amazing idea for a book that has never been done before and will sell like hotcakes. (No, seriously!) But I have absolutely no idea where to start. What do I do? [more inside]
posted by Madamina
on Sep 25, 2009 -
11 answers
What computer tank game did I used to play? [more inside]
posted by mtphoto
on Aug 22, 2009 -
10 answers
Name that tv show from the eighties. [more inside]
posted by NekulturnY
on Jun 18, 2009 -
7 answers
Is there a better word for this notion than "futurism?" [more inside]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Apr 28, 2009 -
18 answers
Help me find some lost video games from my childhood! [more inside]
posted by onalark
on Apr 28, 2009 -
27 answers
Im sort of a 70's nostalgia head, and as such would love to find some audio (format not important) of 70s radio broadcasts, commericals and all. [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage
on Apr 25, 2009 -
6 answers
I want to know how to remember my future travels better. I look back at some old travel pictures and think it was all a dream. What do YOU do? [more inside]
posted by bodywithoutorgans
on Apr 8, 2009 -
19 answers
I have some sort of strong, almost visceral feeling of memory related to the word "Vero", as in Vero Beach, FL. Can you help me figure out why? May be related to a story or song from my adolescence... [more inside]
posted by booknerd
on Apr 8, 2009 -
12 answers
Did the old yellow+orange+red spheres version of Trix taste better than the current multicolored Trix or am I just looking at the past with rose tinted tastebuds? [more inside]
posted by HappyEngineer
on Apr 7, 2009 -
20 answers
I'm working on a story set in 1987, and I want it to be nostalgia-heavy, a little like The Wedding Singer (except of course totally different). My memory is mushier than I realized, so I was wondering, what do YOU remember from 1987? [more inside]
posted by smoakes
on Mar 21, 2009 -
70 answers
Idle nostalgic curiosity is driving me crazy - looking for at least the name (at best, a working version) of a late 80s/early 90s DOS (not arcade) 2-d ninja game - very simple, and the most notable characteristic is that the entire game was in uber-simple orange-red-green VGA palette colors against a black background. [more inside]
posted by ab3
on Jan 16, 2009 -
13 answers
Frederic Jameson's Fear and Loathing in Globalization talks about Eastern European/Soviet nostalgia art, "in which a complete set of mass-produced industrial products, from toilet seats to window panes, from shower heads to automobiles, had been invented from scratch, altogether different from the actually existing Western inventory." Are there any examples of this type of art on the web?
posted by matkline
on Dec 28, 2008 -
5 answers
ChristmasNostalgiaFilter: Help me find the book that introduced me to Sherlock Holmes as a kid. [more inside]
posted by rwhe
on Dec 23, 2008 -
7 answers
Does anyone else that grew up in the 70s/early 80s remember the animatronic Grinch Christmas exhibit thing? [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage
on Dec 2, 2008 -
3 answers
Do any of you D.A.R.E. graduates remember the "music video" produced by (I think) a D.A.R.E. officers' band, which wrote and performed this awful song (the first one listed there)? I saw it about 16 years ago. Where can I find it online? [more inside]
posted by liketitanic
on Nov 24, 2008 -
4 answers
Can anyone identify the pizza-soldier toy from the bottom right of this picture? [more inside]
posted by hnnrs
on Nov 18, 2008 -
2 answers
I'm trying to remember a children's science fiction book (or series of books) that I read about 35 years ago. One had a giant tentacled creature that held the good guys in its tentacles--drawn either on the cover or within the book. The other book I think was called "The Boy With the Power". The boy of the title I think was eventually revealed to have telekinisis or something, but as the book starts, he has amnesia and wakes up on a planet of Alpha Centuri, where he walks by a barbecue, smells hot dogs and hamburgers, and finds the hambergers tastier. Odd collection of things I remember--can anyone find links to the actual books?
posted by Schmucko
on Nov 14, 2008 -
1 answer
What are some vivid examples of nostalgia in film and literature? [more inside]
posted by Beardman
on Oct 27, 2008 -
30 answers
The band Teenage Head was HUGE when I was in highschool in the early 80's. Were they popular anywhere outside of Southern Ontario?
posted by bonobothegreat
on Oct 14, 2008 -
15 answers
Okay, longshot here. I'm trying to get ahold of an old episode of 3-2-1 Contact, specifically the segment where they visited the company working on the TRON arcade game. According to tv.com, it appears to be episode 104, titled Building: Modular, from season 2, and it originally aired on Thursday, November 17, 1983. [more inside]
posted by Driph
on Aug 12, 2008 -
4 answers
What happy memories do you have of being a young child that make you think either "those were good times" or "that was good parenting"? [more inside]
posted by onlyconnect
on Aug 12, 2008 -
64 answers
When was the past better than the present? I'd like to know the word or phrase that describes the romanticism people have of the past, e.g. "In those days, children respected their elders!". I was watching the documentary Born Rich and Cody Franchetti mentions that the encyclopedia was better in the early 20th century. Why? This feeling that "old ways are better" is not exactly nostalgia, because often people expressing this sentiment didn't actually grow up in this utopian past. But their feelings toward this time are exactly like nostalgia. [more inside]
posted by Monochrome
on May 6, 2008 -
16 answers
How can I make elementary school spaghetti sauce? [more inside]
posted by darksasami
on Apr 21, 2008 -
17 answers
Define "home." [more inside]
posted by headnsouth
on Apr 10, 2008 -
46 answers
I'm a child of the '80s, and I loved the '80s. However, I didn't develop a sense of good taste until about 1994, and as a result my pop-culture radar is completely jammed with crappy cartoons designed to sell toys, cereal commercials, and Ewoks. Can you recommend totally awesome movies/TV shows/etc. that will satisfy my '80s nostalgia, but are good enough to watch today? [more inside]
posted by Metroid Baby
on Apr 3, 2008 -
75 answers
When will I stop thinking about my ex? She's starting to pop up in my cavernous head again. [more inside]
posted by anonymous
on Mar 27, 2008 -
13 answers
Movie on Disney channel in late 80s early 90s. Involves boy with crush on girl who turns out to have magical skills, she lives by a lake in cottage with her ?grandmother? who is a witch. Perhaps in England? Anyone? I picture the girl as having long dark, slightly wild hair.
posted by leotrotsky
on Mar 19, 2008 -
2 answers
yesterday, my neighbor was talking about that stuff we had as kids that was basically a little tube of awful smelling plastic gunk and a small straw. you put a glob of plastic on the straw and blew weird, oily bubbles. anyone remember what that crap was called? what was it?
posted by xz
on Mar 13, 2008 -
23 answers
OldMacFilter: I have fond memories of using a program called Studio/One on my Mac SE to generate monochrome bitmap art and animation. It was a straightforward, user-friendly program with a very solid System 6 vibe. I also seem to recall other programs from the same company - I seem to recall Studio Eight and Studio 32 as being the other products. My question is, where could I find more information about this wonderful program, to fill my nostalgia for old-school Mac-ness? What company made it, and how could I most easily create animations similar to what it produced? And what were Studio Eight and Studio 32 like? Does anyone else remember this stuff?
posted by Sticherbeast
on Mar 4, 2008 -
7 answers
I'm looking for a XP-friendly version of the old "virus war" games. [more inside]
posted by LairBob
on Feb 9, 2008 -
10 answers
I'm looking for a very specific (Fisher Price?) record player from my childhood. [more inside]
posted by mamessner
on Jan 28, 2008 -
2 answers
Were produce and meat really better in the old days? How can we be sure? [more inside]
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg
on Jan 26, 2008 -
42 answers
My geometry teacher in high school in 1984 showed us this puzzle. I was only half paying attention, but I believe the goal was to draw a line that intersected each segment only once. [more inside]
posted by mecran01
on Jan 6, 2008 -
15 answers
Help me identify this UK children's book about a sea monster kept in a house! It's not The Water Horse! [more inside]
posted by subbes
on Dec 28, 2007 -
10 answers
Childrens' book filter: I'm looking for a story about a mole, in which he tries to escape from a digging machine. [more inside]
posted by snarfois
on Dec 23, 2007 -
3 answers
In the early 1980's there was a pizzeria/bar near Goshen, Indiana called Das Keller that was in an underground bunker... [more inside]
posted by dirtdirt
on Dec 3, 2007 -
7 answers
On a whim my girlfriend started us watching the 90's cartoon series Gargoyles together. For some bizarre reason this has turned into a fun little bonding ritual. Unfortunately we've almost reached the end of Season Two: Volume One, which is all that has been released on DVD (When's the rest coming out?). What should we watch next? She had the idea to watch the old X-Men cartoon series. What other retro shows have a little bit of that little kid fun, and a little bit of all-ages appeal?
posted by shanevsevil
on Oct 16, 2007 -
49 answers
Last weekend I saw Darjeeling Limited. While the movie was okay, I absolutely loved one of The Kinks songs featured in it, "This Time Tomorrow." Can anyone recommend other songs by other artists that have that same big, happy, melancholy mix? [more inside]
posted by milarepa
on Oct 11, 2007 -
21 answers
Where can I find lists of the most popular Spanish top 40 music from summer, 2002? [more inside]
posted by bluejayk
on Oct 10, 2007 -
4 answers
So, my father has a ton of old (50's-60's) baseball/football/collector cards and is nearing retirement. I'd like to help him sell them. I've a lot of questions here. [more inside]
posted by Ufez Jones
on Sep 4, 2007 -
10 answers
What should I put in a time capsule for my daughter? [more inside]
posted by jonson
on Jul 13, 2007 -
27 answers
NostalgiaFilter: Early nineties kids show in which the kids ran the cameras, the sound booth, and possbily sang? Possibly on Saturday mornings on PBS? [more inside]
posted by coolhappysteve
on Jul 5, 2007 -
17 answers
I'm looking for a table hockey game (rod hockey, not air hockey) that I played as a wee 'un back in the 80s. It featured a super-slick surface, 3D players, an electronic timer (and goal counter), and a behind-the-net left winger. [more inside]
posted by YamwotIam
on Jun 21, 2007 -
6 answers
When I was growing up in Russia, one of my friends had a nifty 2D console (at least NES-era, possibly better) that we played every now and then. In one of his games (a side-scroller), you controlled several humanoid cats, each with a different body shape, color, and speciality. I'm fairly certain that one of them could dig. [more inside]
posted by archagon
on Mar 5, 2007 -
6 answers
I have one (color, custom diecut) sticker. I want to turn it into many stickers. The sticker places on the web are astoundingly not helpful for custom work like this. Should I be chasing down a local printer, and if so, which one? There's some additional complication, too. [more inside]
posted by majick
on Jan 31, 2007 -
14 answers
I'm looking for a sample pack of all of the words/letters/numbers/phonemes from a Speak n' Spell (and/or derivatives). I'm not looking for crazy circuit bent samples... just something I can piece together words/phrases out of. Surely someone has done this. [more inside]
posted by phrontist
on Jan 20, 2007 -
9 answers
For a friend: Name the heroine - similar (looking) to She-Ra but with a purple outfit. Hair: Black/Brown with purple in it. May have ridden a white horse. Help?
posted by knapah
on Dec 18, 2006 -
12 answers