Colors Chat 83

[admiral]

Finally, school's out for the day. Time to go to your part-time job, get your homework done, or dungeon crawl through the physical manifestation of someone's unconscious psyche. Oh, but wait, the group chat's blowing up! Better see what everyone wants...

Welcome to Colors Chat, where you can chat with your fellow Colors TCG members! For your response to the topic, you'll receive a card rainbow! As a general rule, responses should be around 6 sentences, but if you're a little short that's fine as long as your response is thoughtful. You don't have to answer all the prompts (or any of the prompts at all) as long as your response is on the topic.

This round's topic is.... NOSTALGIA!
Let's talk about your favorite old things! Anime, books, old hobbies, anything that makes you think of the good old days! Did you have a favorite TV show or toy as a kid? If you're a gamer, what was your first video game system? What series did you get into as a kid/teen that you're still a fan of? Is there something you miss that used to be popular? (90s anime art styles my beloveds...) Anything old school goes!

After you've responded, reply to other players' answers and start up a discussion! You can earn 2 extra random cards by replying to other people, up to 6 bonus cards total. Feel free to have more discussions than that, but you'll only get rewards for your first three conversations. See the first comment on this post for how to obtain your bonus rewards.

Please keep all comments civil and polite. This round ends Sunday, November 14th is closed!.

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[viper]

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[misheard]

My first game system was a Gameboy Color, and growing up all we had were Nintendo consoles. (My parents thought that other systems weren't family-friendly enough.) My first real RPG was Riviera: the Promised Land, and I've mastered most the cast at Colors...! But then I fell in love with Fire Emblem (Sacred Stones was my first one) and that's a deep and abiding love that still continues today.

I remember being unable to play Legend of Zelda because I got too spooked by enemies showing up suddenly. I still haven't gotten any better at games that aren't turn-based... rip...

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[madoka]

man, the good ol' days of pokemon and sailor moon, those were my biggest childhood obsessions and i'm still quite fond of them to this day. i might not watch the pokeanime anymore nor have i played the newer games but i still have the fond memories of getting a GBA and playing yellow/gsc for the first time as well as fond memories of waking up early on saturdays just to watch new episodes of both shows. i'm pretty sure its because of these two franchises i got super into anime/games, haha. good times

i also have fond memories of when they used to print shonen jump in english when i got into first got into manga and how exciting it was when i was allowed to get a sub and waiting each month to read the latest chapter of ygo/shaman king etc.

man i can go on and on about this topic, i love old series but i'll stop lmao.

[misheard]

Did they stop printing Shounen Jump in English?? Oh no, my childhood...

[moes]

i totally remember print shonen jump... my dad actually subscribed us to it when it first started so i have super fond memories of it. i wound up getting really interested in like, the early, pre-card game ygo chapters because i honestly thought the concepts for some of the games they had there was more interesting than like. having card game battles all the time—not that card game battles are bad, as a TCG player, but sometimes variety is the spice of life, you know?

[haggish]

print shonen jump was so fun back in the day i actually kept like EVERY copy i got and refused to toss it lol remember the posters they gave out for a while?? ugh good times. and then shojo beat was just as good even if they had the weird colored pages fsr. miss them both so bad

[beezebeora]

I am a fan of a lot of 80s cartoons for sure, For me uh Speed Racer, Gatchaman, ect. I had a lot of uh Mixed media growing up for sure, so I got alot of American and Japanese shows and influence as a kid. Althought already a bit older, RE and SH very nostalgia for me on PS1 for sure. I grew up with horror a lot, so from that point on every fking game I would get would be horror it seems haha. I am thankful for it, a LOT of Visual Novels for my PS1, and for PS2, I do have honestly just about every horror release for eng/jap games. Sob, I loved the PS1/PS2 era MAINLY because of that actually haha. Also a lot of those weird RPGs from Square too. Man... Good feeling to see them, like a very free time feeling I guess haha. Thats nostalgia tho. Sega had a lot of classics for me too, I religiously played sonic up until like the PS1 era actually: Sonic 3, Sonic R, Sonic CD, ect.
I love 80s-90s media a lot, western and eastern for sure. But haha its hard to bring up everything on here for sure.

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[aratakis]

my dad played video games, so my first console ever was his SNES. the first video game i remember playing was super mario brothers, and i used to play looney tunes b-ball a LOT with my dad too.
i eventually got an n64 for my birthday and my dad donated the SNES. at the time i only had pokemon snap, pokemon stadium, pokemon puzzle league (my beloved), and ocarina of time (getting scared by redeads in castle town at 7 years old). and we actually didn't upgrade to a GameCube until i had graduated 8th grade, and i distinctly still remember playing majora's mask on the n64 in 10th grade. i bet that n64 still functions to this day.

one thing i miss is how buckwild gameboy color accessories used to get. like those little lights you plug into them? or the printer that existed for some reason? i definitely appreciate the larger, backlit screens we have now (i remember trying to play pokemon yellow in the car at night and having to rely on passing street lamps), but it was also kinda fun to pull out a fully decked out gameboy with a little spiraly light and screen magnifier. and having to actually link your gameboys together to trade or battle!!
also not gameboy-related, but when you could take your pokemon snap cartridge to blockbuster and print sticker sheets of your pictures. the graphics in the new pokemon snap game are so amazing, i find myself wishing that sort of thing still existed. and i know there are other ways of printing them, but the whole blockbuster experience, man.

[moes]

man, i never had that pokesnap experience but that sounds super cool ngl... but yeah, i remember the gbc/gba accessories and i totally miss them even if technology has definitely improved. i loved the way you had to connect your gameboys together or create backlight with an accesory, it was super cute.

admittedly i also kind of like, miss the whole clear portable console era in that sort of vein, too? like the gameboy, gbc and gba had that which was such a super cool aesthetic of its time.

also getting scared of redeads in oot is absolutely fair lmao.

[moes]

gosh, okay.

so like - me and my dad basically got into video games and anime at the same time and i was a 90s/early 2000s kid. i watched a lot of pokemon and cardcaptors as a kid and given that whenever i would visit my dad every other weekend, we learned about anime and manga together. we lived really close to my city's japantown, so we'd visit it quite often - we used to rent and buy a lot of anime from the dvd place there (which still exists, even though they don't do rental anymore) so i have huge nostalgia there.

growing up, there was also a lot of games in my household, too - we had pretty much all the consoles at the time: the n64, ps1--and eventually we got the xbox, too. one of the first games that i experienced in full and still remember fondly is final fantasy 7. i still remember crying at the end of disc one tbh. i didn't understand a lot about the game's themes until i was older and decided to play it on my own, but i still have so much fondness there...

i also have a lot of ridiculous stories about how i used to be seen as someone who was pretty !?!? for even having a video game console.

and speaking of nostalgia - i actually spoke on how i went to japan in 2006 recently on a stream and how i went to the ghibli museum and had a lot of experience with the anime culture there which was buckwild... and i also spoke on how like, i had majora's mask and played it when i went overseas in 2007? i think? and spooked myself because i, a dumbass, played it in the wee hours of the night, while it was dark outside, and had link nuke himself with the moon by playing song of double time. i had nightmares for the next couple of days bc of that.

[misheard]

If I ever go to Japan the Ghibli museum is like, #1 on the must-see list.

[pcrtiallystcrs]

My first game console was the Nintendo DS, but I grew up watching my family play games all the time. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was my bedtime story sometimes, even.
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl were my first pokemon games as such and Sinnoh remains my favorite to this day. The first game I ever beat all by myself was Final Fantasy X-2, which is a masterpiece and I will argue that to this day, yes it's silly and indulgent yes it's amazing thank you. I really loved CLAMP works as a kid, and to this day Angelic Layer is one of my favorites in general and I think we deserve more Angelic Layer content who's with me? Anyways, one thing I really appreciate about this game is that it's helping me remember a lot of old anime and manga I used to adore but forgot over the years.

[viper]

i didn't appreciate dppt enough when i was a kid, i really loved making poffins and running around the underground area! are you going to get the remakes?

[viper]

my dad had video games when i was a kid but my brother and i didn't get our own systems until we were older, maybe 7 or 8, so we mostly played his games. i feel the most nostalgic for tes iii morrowind but my first ever video game was silent hill 2 lol. i have many fond memories of trying to stumble through it with my little brother at ages 4-6. we had absolutely 0 clue what was going on and could never figure out how to get past the room with all the bugs so we immediately restarted the file every time we got to that point. eventually we got GBAs and mostly played a lot of pokemon (crystal was always my favorite).

the only anime i watched as a little kid was tokyo mew mew but it was always airing at the same time as my soccer games so i had to remember to set up my VCR to tape it before i left lol.

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[haggish]

my "first" console as a kid was one i shared with my younger brother, a nintendo64! we had a small selection of games for but one we always played is diddy kong racing. i keep hoping nintendo will put that out on the switch but i don't think they have just yet. if i'm wrong, i'll sadly shell out whatever the price is for it lmao, but my earliest gaming memories are actually playing games with my dad. both of my parents were avid gamers and regularly had dates where they just got KFC buckets and played sonic the hedgehog on the genesis... i think my earliest memories are playing sonic with them and american mcgee's alice and max payne with my dad on the pc lmao. i still have a really strong fondness for both series actually.

this morning i was actually talking to my friend about yu-gi-oh! the dark side of dimensions movie got me rewatching the anime series when it came out. i still miss it. i'm weirdly hopeful some day they'll do a reboot of the first series; i'm sure that the new stuff has been fine and good but the rose-tinted glasses just don't go away, try as i might lol.

this also isn't a colors viable series but when i was in grade school, i was the kid who would run home to watch xena. my schedule was that i'd run in, put on the television and watch xena, then swap over to toonami for the last half of a dragon ball z episode, followed by tenchi muyo, sailor moon, gundam and outlaw star... truly a golden era for me. i was supposed to do my homework after almost three hours of tv but usually i got on the computer and read fanfic on ff.net 😭

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[lina_trinch]

Some time ago, my mom broke out my old PS2 and decided to try playing Kingdom Hearts and WOW that took me back in time. Just the music alone, like the stuff at the beginning on Destiny Islands? oh my god. It was a blast from the past. It lead me to finally replaying it for the first time in like a decade or something, plus FINALLY finishing Final Fantasy X, a game I was obsessed when I was younger but it was way way too hard for little lina.

Otherwise, sometimes when I'm feeling particularly nostalgic, I'll fire up Netflix and watch Star Trek: TNG. Used to watch that late at night as a kid with my dad, no clue what was going on but loved every second of the show. (It's probs gonna leave Netflix soon ugh.)

[moes]

man, ffx is such a nostalgic game. i got to see my dad play it but i've never played it myself... maybe one day.

[camilovesyou]

My favorite TV shows as a kid were probably Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Sailor Moon. Of those three, I think I'd only say that I'm still enough of a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh that I'd sit through those old episodes again. I actually have re-watched episodes of the Duelist Kingdom arc a few months ago. I couldn't tell you why I did it...just that I did not find it nearly as boring as I thought I might have now that it's been many, many years since I originally watched them.

Uh...while I don't consider myself a gamer, my first console was a GameBoy Advance. My first games were Pokemon Gold & Crystal, but I still played those on an Advance because we also had a GameBoy Color that my younger brother would use - until we got an SP, that is, because my GBA then got passed down to him.

[collectedmiscellany]

Oh man, I remember collecting a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh cards growing up!! I never did play too many games of it, but I heavily enjoyed the card art!! As for the show, it's been so long since I watched it, but I do remember enjoying a bunch of the OG series!!

[sinew]

nostalgia hurts my soul lmao

my first system was the gamecube and man is that nostalgic too lol. a really weird specific memory i have from that gaming era is being at kmart and playing the dead or alive demo on xbox lol

oh man.... i got into sailor moon when i was a wee'un and i'm still here. same with x and yam no matsuei O_O (i was a weird and precocious kid)

i have a fascination with the old web, ie pre 2010? idk it was just Good back then lmao. now most of the sites are dead so ):

[collectedmiscellany]

Oh man, I remember just sitting in stores a bunch of times, checking out demos when I could- that was fun ehehe!! Most of them were for consoles I never owned, so I just enjoyed the tidbits that I could!!

[kues]

I've been watching this particular youtuber who covers content from the early to mid 2000s, which was around the time I was growing up and discovering early fandoms, so it's been a joy to watch his videos and go !!! I had that robot dog toy or ah yes I also remember watching those Scooby-Doo tv movies.

My first video game I think was Ocarina of Time on N64?? I did not beat it, I was very small sjakdghlhg. I remember just running around and playing in the save states that the game had been given to me in, one near a town that had a bunch of chickens in it. And I was just mindlessly entertained by the fact that you could pick up and throw the chickens. Damn near lost my mind throwing chickens.

[collectedmiscellany]

Oooh, I'll have to check out that youtuber!! I heard Scooby-Doo and came running JKGDFSJND

But honestly I'd loose my mind if I could chuck chickens too so I do not blame you in the least!!

[collectedmiscellany]

Nostalgia is such a big thing for me- I love older cartoons and TV shows a whole bunch! Animaniacs has definitely stuck with me for a long time, to be honest! To this day, I still know all the words to Yakko's World by heart!! The reboot isn't too bad either! I could spend the whole day talking old Cartoon Network, Disney and Nick cartoons honestly. Scooby-Doo is a big contender for favorites as well.

Sailor Moon was also my first anime- I remember getting like, VHS tapes of it from Blockbuster when I was little, and some of the movies too! I haven't watched much of it, but what I do remember I enjoyed.

I also remember my first gaming console- the PS2. It was a bunch of fun! I think one of my favorite, more obscure games for it was Mad Maestro! I'm pretty sure that game kickstarted my love for rhythm games. I also played this one surfing game a whole bunch, but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. A game that had the biggest impact on my childhood though, had to be Cartoon Network Fusionfall- I remember having a blast with that!

[pcrtiallystcrs]

united states, canada, mexico, panama, haiti, jamaica, peru-

yeah tbh nostalgia is a huge thing for you and i think one of the first things we actually bonded over... american dragon jake long our beloved

[sunlitrains]

Let's see... well my first video game system was the N64. The first video game I played on it was Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time which we rented from Ye Olde Blockbuster. I miss the Blockbuster experience ngl. But anyway I couldn't get very far in the game because child me thought it was scary when Link's hearts got too low and you could hear the low health noises lol. I did eventually get around to beating the game when I got older!

The first one I ever owned and got super into was Banjo-Kazooie. I never actually beat the game but I used to love restarting the game over and over again whenever it got too hard for me at the later levels. I'd probably enjoy revisiting that game sometime as an adult.

[pcrtiallystcrs]

the n64 is the first console i remember seeing in my life, honestly. i'm sure we had others but baby amity is not best with their memory... but god yeah the blockbuster experience was Something... netflix could never tbh

[admiral]

i'm a crotchety old person who still enjoys many of the series/games from my youth lmao. a lot of it is obviously nostalgia-based because a lot of those things are objectively bad lol but that's okay! i'm very bad at keeping up to date with anime especially so my favorite series are all old. but especially with video games i love a lot of games from the gameboy/ps1/ps2 eras, i think the ps2 had the best catalog of games. oh how i miss the days of being able to play a video game as soon as you bought it lmao.

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