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 June 11th, 2008

Goosebumps

Posted by Josh on June 11, 2008

Goosebumps
Hall of Fame Category: Books & Literature

While the goosebumps series didn’t have the same user interaction that the Choose Your Own Adventure series did, it still took ya on a spooky tale, ya know, when you’re 11. The Goosebumps series lasted for 62 books, full of really scary monsters like Slappy the Dummy, Cuddles the Hamster, Curly the Skeleton, and a pair of evil lawn gnomes. It also spawned a few spin-off series also written by author R.L. Stine. Spin-offs like “Give yourself Goosebumps,” and “Goosebumps: 2000″ which weren’t before in the year 2000, but back in the 90’s it was cool to add 2000 after something. But when it got to be the year 2000 it was kinda over rated… I guess that would mean adding “2010″ after the name of something would be cool now. Anyway, unless you couldn’t read, or you were part of some weird cult that thought books were the devil, no kid from the 90’s made it through the decade without at least reading the back of a Goosebumps book. And what was the first thing you did when you picked up a Goosebumps book? You ran your fingers over the embossed “Goosebumps.” It’s not braille dude.

Goosebumps Links
- Official Goosebumps Graphix Site
- On Wikipedia
- List of Goosebumps Books on Wikipedia

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