The Nostalgia Hall of Fame

Nostalgia in Hall of Fame form

  • The Nostalgia HOF

    There are halls of fames for everything nowadays. You got the obvious ones: Rock & Roll HOF, Baseball HOF. You have the ones no one seem's to care about like The Rockabilly Hall of Fame, or the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame (Actually exists). But there's not one Hall of Fame that everyone cares about. There are non-sports fans that could care less who's getting in the Baseball or Football Halls of Fame. There are people that aren't into current entertainment that don't care about who's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But the one Hall of Fame we all could relate to is missing. The Nostalgia Hall of Fame. Things change from childhood to adulthood, but there are always things that remind us of childhood or our teenage lives. We might see an old book in the library and think "Hey, I remember reading that book in 5th grade." There might be an old toy at a yard sale or on the E-bay that reminds us how we played with it non-stop a long, long time ago. So why is there no Hall of Fame for all the old stuff we like? Well now there is. Kinda. I'm not ambitious enough to build a giant building and officially induct things and give them plaques and crap. But as a blogger I can do my duty. After all, in 10 or 20 years when the new cool thing on the internet is something totally different, blogging will be nostalgic. There are several categories that something can get inducted for including: Toys, Movies, Cartoons, TV Shows, Sports, Music, Video games, Quotes and more. Nostalgia will be inducted in an at least 10 years old basis, so anything before 1998 is fair game.

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Choose Your Own Adventure

Posted by Josh on May 18, 2008

Choose Your Own Adventure
Hall of Fame Category: Books & Literature
I can’t speak for every person of my generation, but one of my first non-picture book, non-school text book reading experiences was trying to pick whether I wanted to be adventurous and explore the damp, dark, cave or play it safe and go back to Billy’s house for hot cocoa. Choose Your Own Adventure books were great for many reasons. With regular books you were on one adventure, you were going places that the author wanted you to go. But with CYOA you could stop by Billy’s house and drink some cocoa, explore the cave, or enter the creeky door that says DO NOT ENTER. Either way it was your choice and if you didn’t like the outcome, a different ending was just 5 or 6 pages back. No other books had alternate endings. They actually gave kids a reason to read, and most couldn’t turn to page 96 fast enough. So thank you CYOA for getting my ass away from the TV and into a book.

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