I'm ridiculously susceptible to nostalgia, for whatever reason. Intellectually, I know it's my brain cherrypicking and enhancing the good times while glossing over the bad, but that makes no difference. So a number of things get me going quite easily.
Games:
Rise Of The Triad. Holy hell, this game has always had a powerful hold on me, and I don't know why. The music, the graphics, the sound effects... it all takes me back in an instant. Usually I can diminish the nostalgic effect of a game, song, etc. just by playing it enough, but ROTT stays as nostalgic as ever.
Wishbone & The Amazing Odyssey: Hey, stop laughing! I was a complete Wishbone superfan back then, although I was admittedly too old for it, and I played the shit out of this game.
Lest I write about hundreds of games, I'll just run a quick short list of others: Maabus, SimTown, Blood, Hexen, Klik n' Play, You Don't Know Jack, Commander Keen, MDK, Sonic 1, Wolfenstein 3D, The Neverhood
Music:
90s pop. I know, I know, but that was my thing as a kid before a friend in middle school changed everything by introducing me to Rob Zombie. Holy shit, Hellbilly Deluxe was a revelation. I haven't been the same since. But yeah, both things (and more, but who's actually reading this? Woozle wuzzle) hit me pretty hard.
Notables: Type O Negative, Chumbawamba, "Steal My Sunshine", Nirvana, "Mr. Jones", Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson (Mechanical Animals, mostly), Green Day's first albums
Movies/TV:
Killer Klowns From Outer Space. It was airing on TV on one fateful day in 1992. I was certainly too young to be watching it, but nobody was in the room, so I watched with captivation. Now, this was a tame film, more parody of 50s sci-fi than actual horror, but something clicked in me, and I've been a horror junkie ever since. I still turn into an excited kid watching Killer Klowns.
Notables: The Crow, Ernest movies, Nightmare Before Christmas, Evil Dead, Beetlejuice, Family Matters, Home Improvement, Tales From The Crypt, Rocko's Modern Life, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Unsolved Mysteries, Celebrity Deathmatch, Beavis and Butthead, 90s MTV in general
... Aaaand I've rambled long enough.
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