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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Archive for May 27th, 2008

Mario Brothers

Posted by Josh on May 27, 2008

Mario Brothers
Hall of Fame Category: Video & Computer Games
Not many people remember the Original Mario brothers. Most think the original MBs were in the first Super Mario Brothers game, Some noticed the barrel jumper in Donkey Kong was very Mario-esque. But few know the first time Mario and Luigi were in a video game together. Before Mario had to go to several castles just to have Toad tell him “The Princess is in a different castle” Mario and Luigi were in a very Joust-like came for Arcades, computers, The Atari, & the NES. The image is from the Japanese version called Kaettekita Mario Bros. But the original US version was very similar, just a little less polished. This was long before the time of the leaf that could turn mario into a flying raccoon (If that wasn’t LSD inspired I don’t know what is). But for the time, it was a very addictive game. I wonder why Nintendo never kept the crab enemies.

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