What is the symbol of your chilhood?

[Canadamus Prime]

my childhood in a Halfshell

That pretty much goes for me too. I was huge into them when I was a kid.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Pog. High five to other Pog players here. Most Nintendo related things where pretty big as a kid, and LEGOs. I'm 23 and stil like building them.

 

[Edge Hypermatter]

Commander Keen. Man, I had some good times with that pasty kid in a Packers helmet.

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

Legos (of course), super nintendo (super mario & zelda games only), and the third symbol believe it or not... is spinach! nothing like finishing a master lego construct, cooking up a big bowl of spinach with dallop of daisy and a little chunk of butter. then it'd be onto a lil popeye style snack while watching the intro to a link to the past.

ahhhhh, those were much simpler times.....

EDIT: OMFG!!!! i can't believe i almost forgot about pogs! life wouldn't be the same if pogs never came around back then...

virtual high fives for all my escapist brothers and sisters who STILL play with their pogs every so often

 

[Grotch Willis]

my childhood in a Halfshell

Add Mega Man to that and that would be mine as well

 

[Dan From Aus]

Okay. Symbol of my childhood is Frankenstein's Monster & Dracula.

The only recurring dream I ever had as a kid was about Frankenstein's monster and Dracula. They would just stand there glaring at me... not talking, not moving... just staring all hostile and scary.

Then everything would go black and some weird red text would flash in front of my eyes... and then I'd wake up.

Used to freak the shit outta me.

I went on a massive monster kick a little after that though... vampires, werewolves and mummies and all that. They were awesome.

I sometimes got text or books in my dreams. Would always wonder what the hell it was because I would forget the specifics.

As you can tell from my story, the monsters were always my friends. When I was a kid I trusted monsters more than people.

Actually come to think of it, same probably holds true today.

 

[katsumoto03]

my childhood in a Halfshell

Dude. Turtle Power.

 

[shwnbob]

Digimon (Season 1) and Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. I played/watched both things non-stop.

 

[fellure]

these:

Spoiler

and lego

 

[AntonicKnight]

The oppression of communism in Russia

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

D&D and Fighting Fantasy books.

I recently got more than a few FF books on a sale, and it took me waaaay back.

 

[moviedork]

Easily 90's Nickelodeon- Doug, Hey Arnold, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, etc

 

[Blemontea]

The day I fainted, and thats not pessimism it was a major turn around in my life and what led me to become the gamer i am today.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well....
Making piles of leaves and jumping in them
Climbing trees
Reading Calvin and Hobbes
Reading Captain Underpants
Motherfucking Spyro
The park down my street
An old bunk bed
Watching a million cartoons every Sunday morning
Legos of course
The Hundredth day of School celebration from elementary school
These little underground mazes filled with stick people that my friends and I used to draw
Making fun of a girl named Baily (Good GOD, she must have hated us)
The Hobbit
The Sly Cooper games
Four-Square
Catching silk worms
Trying to catch silk worms and finding spiders instead
Learning to ride a bike
My old dog, Jake.....



Damn...Those were the days. I'm grinning like an idiot right now. I'm so glad that my friends and I have no problem acting like children.

You know how, when you're a kid and you find out that you have to grow up someday, you think that it'll be the worst thing in the world? I'm not entirely sure we were WRONG.

 

[Chimichanga]

The first three seasons of Digimon Digital Monsters, Pokemon Red & Blue Version (never really cared for the anime after the first season), Monster Rancher (Yeah, I was kind of caught in that whole pocket monster fad back in the late 90's), Crazy Bones, Bionicle (you could make such cool shit with that stuff). The traditional brick Lego sets were there for the entire time. The 90's era Nickelodeon (Orange blob era of cartoons), and the '99-'03 era of Toonami back when it was good (Hell, why not the entire CN lineup prior to 2005?).

Of course, what I miss the most was going outside and doing shit with friends. After middle school everyone just got so god damned preoccupied with their facebook and social networking shit that no one ever wanted to go and have fun outside in the sun as we used to in the 90s. Heck, I love video games as much as the next person on the escapist, but I guess the novelty of them at the time kept us all inside too much. Ironically - now due to work and school & stuff I never get to be outside anyways. I always regret wasted time, even for years afterward.

Oh yeah, GO GO POWER RANGERS! Na na naaa na naaaa! MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS!

And I don't even watch TV anymore.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

An N64. So much nostalgia. I miss that thing.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

The American Smallblock V8. I was under the hood before I was out of diapers. I literally grew up with a wrench in my hand.

I am very jelly

This guy.....


....accompanied by this song.

Transform and ROLL OUT!

 

[Cazza]

Nintendo 64

So many great times with.

 

[Treaos Serrare]

The American Smallblock V8. I was under the hood before I was out of diapers. I literally grew up with a wrench in my hand.

I am very jelly

This guy.....


....accompanied by this song.

Transform and ROLL OUT!

This, and LEGO.
I'd bust a mofo up he touch my legos or transformers, in fact i got in trouble in K or 1'st for decking a kid who was trying to play with the legos(I got to them first it was My turn to play with them goddamnit0

 

[aba1]

Prolly my N64 I love that thing still do I bought a extra incase mine ever breaks