What do you miss from your childhood?

[Magicmad5511]

I'm only 17 and I already miss stuff.

Digimon and many other shows mainly. Also the time when no cared if you were cool or not and if they did it involved Pokemon cards. I miss those days.

Oh and my innocence. My glorious innocence. The internet took it a long time ago.

 

[Elsarild]

Spare time.

 

[SoranMBane]

Tv channels like Discovery and The History Channel actually being educational and interesting. I honestly remember a time in my early childhood where a History "special on werewolves" meant an hour-long exploration of the history of the werewolf myth instead of an hour of some assholes wandering aimlessly around some woods in search of a "wolfman" the town drunk allegedly saw, and where it was possible for them to talk about the ancient Egyptians without any mention of "aliens" or "ancient astronauts." I try not to fall into the trap of being nostalgic, but in this case there's no doubt in my mind that these channels had better programming when I was a child, and I truly miss those days of being able to turn on the tv and actually learn about facts.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Trust and Innocence.

Highly recognised commodities in this world. Look how many programmes/pop-stars we can build with them.

 

[AWAR]

I miss my gramps too , he was a good man.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Not having to worry or be concerned about anything.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Thomas the Tank Engine.
God I love Ringo's voice...

 

[Vangaurd227]

I'm still in my childhood so i'm going to enjoy it while it lasts! which is approximately for another 3 years :3

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

I really only miss the quality of cartoons. Above all else, cartoons were what made growing up in the 90's so freakin' awesome.

 

[debossman21]

Good Cartoon Network and Toonami. Also just not having to care what I looked like or who is looking. Those days were awesome

 

[Scarim Coral]

Being carefree and not worried about stuff like finance, job, doing stuff by yourself etc (what adults do that a child does not).

 

[IKSA]

Playing with other kids and ofc not knowing truth about the cruel world...

 

[similar.squirrel]

The halcyon days when chronic underachievement went unnoticed. Although that may have led to said underachievement, and now my head hurts.

 

[Mitsozuka]

I miss Guardian Heroes. Damn it. :C

 

[Womplord]

Playing Pokemon cards with my friends, and basically playing anything with the other kids in my school and neighbourhood, and the days where I could be carefree.

 

[EHKOS]

My ignorance. My sanity. My belief that getting to an adult to tell about a misdoing would do anything. My belief that the world was a place worth living in and worth protecting.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Decent cartoons. Not all we have on Cartoon Network/Disney/Nickelodeon is lousy cartoons (with some exceptions, thank goodness...), and annoying non-animated bullcrap.

 

[tzimize]

The LANs. They were LEGENDARY.

We used to borrow a classrom at my local school where er...not sure what the US term would be but, where we also did cooking, home knowledge stuff etc. It was FANTASTIC. Big open room, lots of desks/tables to put PCs on and FOUR ovens and a fridge for our Colas. Frozen pizzas all over the place...people falling asleep on the floor, on their keyboards, on each other....yelling and screaming at each other while playing CS or quake...oh man...those really were the days.

 

[speakeasysyn]

Digimon Movie. First Power Rangers Movie.

Good times.

 

[Anthony_Usher]

Definitely the exciting smell of opening a fresh booster pack of Pokemon cards, and I'm talking about good ol' fashioned Red, Blue, Yellow Pokemon. Sometimes I encounter that smell when opening new textbooks for college (yeah, I wish MY homework was still just "what did you do over the weekend?") and it makes my day brighter.

Nothing compares to the fact that, no matter how much fun future generations were, I can still list the original 151 Pokemon in order from memory simply because I played the games a hundred gazillion times in a row.