What gives you the most gaming nostalgia?

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I was watching some Carbot and I got a massive hit of gaming nostalgia from the Tristram theme. It gave me a massive hit of gaming nostalgia, remembering running around Tristram and exploring the dungeon. D2 might be a better game but the original will always be my fav of the 2.

A few other things that tend to give me big nostalgia hits are the psx boot sound/WarHawk start. First minute of the vid pretty much.

The Extreme Pinball Rock Fantasy table, played the shareware with this table so much.
 
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Worgen said:
I was watching some Carbot and I got a massive hit of gaming nostalgia from the Tristram theme. It gave me a massive hit of gaming nostalgia, remembering running around Tristram and exploring the dungeon. D2 might be a better game but the original will always be my fav of the 2.
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Back to D1?

"Thank goodness you've returned! Much has changed since you lived here, my friend."
 
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This sound meant that I'd just gotten back home from Blockbuster, I'd gotten lucky enough to get a working disc, and I was gonna have a fun weekend.
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For me that sound is something... alien. I'm not sure how to describe it, but those early 3d consoles and games on them had a weirdly surreal quality to them and to me the boot sound for the psx just amplifies it, probably because my initial experiance with it was from renting it so it kinda was something alien from my SNES. But, for me it also needs to be followed by the SingleTrac screen, mainly from Warhawk and Twisted Metal.
 
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Oooh...I mean yeah, the PSX boot screen is a classic. But also:


"Welcome to Intex systems..."





 
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Some classic games that often evoke nostalgia include Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pac-Man, and Tetris. These games were some of the most popular and influential titles of their time and have left a lasting impact on gaming culture.
 
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Green monochrome screens. I played on these rather late (in the 90s, a stay in Greece, where my family had only an old MS-Dos PC) and I found it so cool that when I came back to my A1000, I would sometimes toggle its monitor's monochrome mode (there was a little button on the back that did that), especially for games that I had discovered that way. Ultima 4, for instance.

But I'm above all an Amiga nostalgic. Unpacking that computer and discovering what was a qualitative jump that cannot be matched anymore (gaming has just been progressively more photorealistic, since then). There was something magical to its pixel arts and how they were stretching its limits, a specific kind of emotion and awe that no modern game can bring back.

Maybe it's similar to the cultural shock that Star Wars has been, with its first "lived in" space opera universe. Star Wars, or cinema scifi in general, can't impress anymore on these grounds, in our times of granted visuals.
 
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At a minimum, they reworked FF1 theme music in parts of FFX. Wow the feelings that invoked!

 
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