Averted with this troper, I like shows/movies/music from most decades. Heck, I could lament about TheTwilightZone as much as Avatar. I suppose that some folks don't understand that they grew up and matured.

This Troper will SOMETIMES laspe into NostagliaFilter, but considering the politics, boy bands and no Internet/anime, on second thought Pokemon and non-digital tv shows were WAY better back then... (puts on rose-tinted glasses)

I have a friend at school who says, no holds barred, Citizen Kane was the best movie ever made. He will concede that Pixar is crazy genius, and any drama with over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes is also amazing, but otherwise, any movie made 50 years ago is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING EVER CREATED BY MAN, and otherwise it's all shit. The worst part is that he's only 14.

{{Jonn}}: In April 2009, I read a forum sig that said the poster was 18, and didn't know much about any shows that aired before his time ("around 1995ish"). With the exception of {{Pokemon}}, nor did the poster watch any of "this crap they call cartoons after about 2002". Go ahead, do the math.

Aside from what's mentioned on the main page my filter was shaken up by the dubbing which was, at best, sub-par.

This troper generally hates new CartoonNetwork except for a couple shows. Mid-late 90's CartoonNetwork was the best IMO!

Seconded. It barely qualifies as "Cartoon" Network anymore.

Me too.

It got better.

This troper would like to assert that, as a 20 year old, everything he watched as a child was incredibly stupid and inferior in nearly every way to modern kids shows.

Going back to the 1980s-90s TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles cartoon as an adult was a rather unpleasant surprise. This troper generally does adhere to the "cartoons suck these days" mindset, but finds the newer TMNT cartoon to be superior. Not perfect, but better. Avatar seems to be the only other recent (post-2000?) cartoon she has gotten into. Mostly she just tracks down oldies and goodies on Youtube.

This troper is one of those people who actually has this for things ''he wasn't around for the first time''. Although he maintains that since Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam possesses musical ability and Simple Plan doesn't, this is justified.

This troper is only 14 and loves 80's Hair Metal,(thinks any music made after 1990 is complete crap) the origial Star Wars Trilogy, (The only good thing to come from the prequels was the Genndy Tartakovsky cartoon). Every cartoon I watch is from 1992-2005 ( Bruce Timm's DCAU, Teen Titans!, Spongebob, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy,) and every comic I read is from the 80's (Crisis on Infinite Earths, The New Teen Titans, Watchmen,)

This Troper used to play an online game called Knight's Quest back when online computer games were a bit more primitive than they are today. He just recently found it again, and despite the near impossibility of beating the games as a non-mage, the bad interface, and it's relative shortness, he still can't convince himself that it's a bad game. (If you want to see it it, go to http://www.elpea.net/quest/knightq.html ).

As a very young boy, ''{{Series/The Mighty Ducks}}'' was my freaking ''life''. So you can imagine my excitement when I discovered an old videotape filled with nothing but ''Ducks'' episodes last year. And you can also imagine my shock when the show turned out to be merely ''decent''. Not bad, not at all, but certainly not the masterpiece I remembered. Before this moment, I (like many other people on this page) endlessly whined that today's cartoons are all crap, and everything was better when I was a kid. Watching ''Mighty Ducks'' again made me realize that no, they aren't, and no, it wasn't.

Oh, hey, someone besides me who liked that series as a kid. xD

Averted with this troper: I'm well aware that every generation has its own amount of good shows and bad shows. Sometimes, I enjoy making fun of what I used to watch, and in the other hand, I like many modern series, cartoons and music.

I generally hate anything that comes out of Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney nowadays. There might be an occasional show that comes out that I might like, but overall, I like my shows from late 90's, early 2000's. Especially all the Cartoon Cartoons on Cartoon Network.

Inversion: This troper, recalls a troll in a chatroom for a webcam channel in which someone was playing the ''Super Mario All-Stars'' version of ''SuperMarioBros 2'' who whined that video games should be put away and never played again once they're past their time.

I am horrible about this, I admit it. In particular, I have many times over stated my passionate hatred for the new CGI ''ThomasTheTankEngine'' and ''WinnieThePooh'', and I refuse to admit that ''{{Wishbone}}'' and ''TheMagicSchoolBus'' are anything but awesome. And don't even get me started on how CGI animation basically killed the use of 2D animation in filmmaking... (Only {{Pixar}} is allowed to use it, I say!)

Amen to that

I'm not yet a legal adult (no more specific than that- sorry, scary Internet stalkers!), and was therefore born about when the SNES was released. Being thrifty/incredibly cheap (delete as appropriate), I have one and an N64, and am therefore in a position to compare the original Super Mario games with 64, and you know what? With reasoned consideration, I honestly prefer Super Mario World to Super Mario 64. There's something about the combination of simplicity with surprising difficulty (you hear me, Chocolate Island Ghost House?) that works. Plus, in the N64 version, you don't jump on things anywhere near enough.

This troper has had a lot of horrible things happen to her in the past 10 years (and indeed has seen terrible things happen to the entire world. Not that terrible things hadn't happened before, but September 11th shook up the whole world and the lives of everyone in it). Thus, she is a bit offended with the implication that her fondness for her past is a "delusion". Not to mention, well, this so-called "filter" isn't entirely inaccurate. Come on, only the dumbest teenager would believe that SeltzerAndFriedberg are superior to MelBrooks or TheZuckerBrothers, that ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is superior to ''The World According To Garp'', or that TheJonasBrothers are superior to TheBeatles. Yeah, so some stuff in the past was cheesy. Some people like that. And there is a big difference between today's bad movies and yesterday's bad movies: There is way too much reliance on toilet humor today.

Gross-out humor is a CyclicTrope;it'll fade away in time. There's nothing new under the sun, and you just cherry-picked the worst examples from this era, and best from your era. SturgeonsLaw applies to your era as well. There just wasn't any internet to quickly spread the horrible crap back then for generations to remember. Also, what's not to say that some people like the crap now as a GuiltyPleasure as well? Some of the stuff in this era sucks, sure... ''just like the stuff in every era before.'' The problem with human memory in this regard is that it tends to archive only the more significant memories and dump the less-significant ones. You're more likely to remember either spectacularly ''awesome'' or ''horrible'' memories than anything mediocre or average, and you can even ''block'' the horrible ones. Yup, "filter" is entirely accurate, I'd say.

Well, I still don't like this trope's name, as it seems to imply "You have fond memories of shows from your childhood? LOL YOU'RE DELUSIONAL!". It seems to present nostalgia as a bad thing, which is goddamn '''isn't'''. Everyone has the right to like shows/films/whatever that make them happy, even if other people don't like them.

You have a point on the name, I guess. I looked at it and thought "it's a filter that prevents anything ''not'' from fond memory and your childhood from getting in", which may be the reason why nostalgia gets an undeservedly bad reputation from this, even though it's the filter that's responsible. Nostalgia itself is ''good''. ''There's nothing wrong with reminiscing the good things from your past.'' It's ''filter'' that's a seductive liar.

It's not delusional to still enjoy things you did as a kid. (If likely from a more emotional standpoint than an objective one.) The filter is the idea that ''standard'' of quality is lower, which everyone complains about. There are good years and bad years and some accomplishments that can't be matched, but the idea of any medium being downhill is skewed. This is generally born out that someone from a previous generation will complain about the things ''you'' like. It's especially evident in cartoons because well, they're usually made for kids. How is a grown-up going to enjoy them as much?

Ehh it all depends on opinion with the music thing IMHO {{Coldplay}} is much better than anything {{The Beatles}} ever made.

I don't think the trope is saying it's bad to look back fondly on the shows you used to watch or the games you used to play. The NostalgiaFilter comes up when those games or shows are ''all'' you like, ignoring their flaws and placing them on a pedestal while simultaneously exaggerating the flaws (and ignoring the strengths) of modern media simply because it's modern. Like your grouchy grandfather who refuses to watch movies in color because they weren't like that when he was in the prime of his life. You can say modern movies are bad because they gave us ''DragonballEvolution'' while older movies are good because they gave us ''CitizenKane'', but comparing the worst of today to the best of yesterday is a very weak basis for a reasonable argument. By that rationale I could compare ''{{Inception}}'' to ''TheSinisterUrge'' and make the opposite point.

This troper rarely watches Nickelodeon anymore simply because the only good show they air (that isn't on Nick At Nite) is TheFairlyOddParents. I've been known to watch the cartoons I loved as a kid and they're still as wonderful as I remember. RockosModernLife is way better than Fan Boy and Chum-Chum. TheAmandaShow is better than BigTimeRush.

This Troper is an subversion of this trope, as I believe that things have gotten better with time, especially video games, movies, and TV are concerned. To me, TheNineties sucked compared to most opinions, as I remember things like the OKC bombing, Columbine, the incredibly ridiculous White Water and Y2K issues, and all the crappy Sonic rip offs. Oh yeah, and internet, as my step-dad was an abusive pervert. Of course, I was heavily influenced by my parents, who grew up mostly in the 60s and 70s, and my older cousins who were children of the 80s, although they all taught me that I should embrace the change that comes with time. So really, TheEighties I feel are better than the TheNineties, and the current upcomming of the decade I feel looks hopeful.

I've found that these things run in cycles, at least when it comes to animation. You get about a decade, give or take, of good, quality animation, followed by another decade of utter crap, then things start to get good again. The 80's, for example, generated primarily watered down crap, while animation of the 90's (Batman TAS, Gargoyles, Exo-Squad, etc) was quality. Now, we are in another slump, where we have largely crap, (with a few notable exceptions), but with another golden age of animation on the horizon.

This troper calls a version of the NostalgiaFilter "H.S.S", or "High School Syndrome". Several of his classmates were saying "Man I wish we had year-long schools, I mean I'm so bored in the summer". Wait a sec...We've only been in summer for a little over a week, and you already want to go back to school? Dude...you spent the entire months of April and May ranting about how much you ''hated'' school, how ''dull and monotonous it was'' doing a bunch of worthless garbage that has no place in the real world and how much you wanted half the student base to be shipped to an island in the pacific ocean. You actually ''considered committing suicide'' because you felt so rejected and actually sympathsized with the columbine shooters. Now that school has started...about two weeks later (Sometimes less)...the ''exact same people'' are counting down the days on their fingers until school gets out or until the next three-day weekend because guess what? They hate school, how dull and monotonous it is doing stuff they'll never use, and think half the student body should be shipped to an island in the pacific ocean. It's just a neverending cycle...

My dad is even guilty of this. "Man, I loved my high school days". According to the grandparents and your brother, you'd fantasize about beating the shit out of the student base or graduating to college early, you hated school that much.

I'm not actually sure those two are mutually exclusive. This troper firmly remembers fantasizing about beating the shit out of the student base, but he loved highschool. Mostly because of that.

I doubt you tried to get yourself emancipated from high school only to be turned down like my dad did.

This troper has some serious HSS. Despite despising every airheaded bimbo, every dumb jock, every sadistteacher (mind you, my school is composed pretty much ONLY out of these three people), she finds herself practically pining to return to the year before and romanticizing every cram session.

Averted with this troper - I considered high school as nothing special, and probably one of the least important periods of my life. Although compared to university study, high school was definitely easier...

This troper hates a lot of modern music and loves stuff from before her time (1980's). Now, it's not all that way, of course. But still, there's a lot of whiny songs on the radio where the young "talents" sound like they are vomiting in the microphone. She can't even imagine turning on the radio in the 60's or so and hearing nice music all the time. If I ever hear that song that whines about I'M HERE WITHOUT YOU BAYBEH I'm throwing a scorpion at the radio.

The filter refers to how it's easy to think of an era as being better when the dregs of it are being forgotten. I would give you a week of listening to a radio station before you went insane.

Considering the radio at work, I'd welcome the change. Of course, that radio is really a bunch of recordings on a vague loop. I'd be happy to never hear Nickelback's Photograph song ever again.

This troper occasionally tests his NostalgiaFilter. Aside from one or two things, it is easily destroyed, often accompanied by cries of, "What was ''wrong'' with me back then?!"

This troper is 14 years old. He thinks the 80s had the best music(I love hair and thrash metal) and would've been just fun to live in. A lot of what he watches/reads was made in the 90s.

This troper does not like the new Disney Channel. For him, the channel died after SoWeird ended

This troper tested the nostalgia filter around the original Halo with extreme brutality. I went online to blood gulch and started comparing things to their current generation analogues. Here's what I learned: the pistol was about as accurate as the Halo 3 AR, the warthog was slow as hell, the Assault Rifle was borderline worthless garbage, and the pistol was worse than even the fandumb-hated D.M.R. of the beta.

This troper once read a forum post in which the OP complained about how corny the "new ''Goosebumps'' show" was, and how the 90s series was much better. What he didn't realize (and what he got mocked for) is that there ''was no new Goosebumps show'', and he had just seen re-runs of the old show.

This troper looked up some of his favorite cartoons from his childhood (the 80s), and discovered to his horror that they sucked! Somehow, when I was younger, the cheesy jokes and corny plotlines of 80s cartoons were bearable. I just ignored the dumb jokes (I assumed that they were only thrown in out of obligation to include a humor quotient - no, seriously), and enjoyed the plots, even when they did have obvious holes which sometimes annoyed me. But all the shows are intolerable to adult eyes. On the other hand, a lot of good video games existed back then, that are still fun to pick up and play today. Yet, there are some downright fantastic games these days (like ''KingdomHearts'') that simply couldn't be done back then! So, ultimately, the past had good games, and so does the present. But the past also had bad cartoons, and so does the present. Today's cartoons are less story-driven than the ones in the 80s, but the stories of the 80s cartoons weren't that good anyway.

This troper is into music from between the sixties and the eighties, and had this trope averted ''hard'' by way of her dad and his internet radio thingy. It has stations for various decades' music, and she thought the 80s station would be better than the mostly-dreck modern or genre-based ones. ''Nope.'' No NothingButHits for these guys.

This troper has a weird form of Nostalgia Filter. Games that he played a minimum of 6 months ago that he liked are "BEST THING EVAR!", until he plays them for a week then they are just "good". He stopped liking some animation when he was about twelve to thirteen, but one of the few animated shows that still keep their filter are TheSimpsons, and Dilbert. Music in the 60's ranges from Good to amazing to "BEST THING EVAR!. 70's has some good rock like TheWho and TheStooges, but where pop began to go downstream. The 80's has some terrible hits in his opinion (but then again hearing the same songs for fifteen years does get annoying), but can admit some music is good. The 90's has terrible pop music, but the Grunge scene redeems it in his eyes, along with DaftPunk. Modern music can be great, but most of the well known stuff is shit, the indie scene can produce some good bands but believes it is too pretentious. And on another note he would like to say that the 90's has the best looking electronics of all time, in fact there was an iPod could look like a classic iMac G3 then he would buy it in an instant. This troper would also like to note that he is still technically a minor.

This Troper was born in 1987. As a kid, I watched Power Rangers. Had my aunt tape it when I had to miss an episode. I am 100% aware of how stupid it was and hate myself for ever having liked it, regardless of my age, and hearing other people my age talk fondly about it just confuses me. This is because I had two older sisters who got lots of sick, sick pleasure watching the tapes, even after I got out of the Power Ranger phase, just to point out how bad it was. And how stupid liking it made me. Nothing gives you a sheering dose of reality like ridicule. On the other hand, I have very fond memories of Hey, Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, Samurai Jack, and Dexter's Lab. But even then, I can still get into them newfangled new cartoon shows- I love Avatar and Phineas and Ferb!

This troper is convinced that there are very very few actually good cartoons, mostly due to the Animation Age Ghetto. Sure, there are a few gems from each generation, but anyone who says modern cartoons suck needs to rewrite that as all cartoons suck. Oddly though, there actually is some truth to the claim that cartoons are getting worse. If you go way back to the really old cartoons (before most people with a nostalgia filter were alive) you'd find that there was a lot more creativity going on. It wasn't necessarily better, but back then they were more free to experiment. Also it is true that Disney seems to have lost its touch, which is sad since for a long time it was one of the last bastions of good entertainment for the whole family. Now that job has been left to Pixar, and although they seem to just be getting better I'm not sure that one company can keep family entertainment alive on its own.

Maybe it's nostalgia filter, maybe it's something completely legitimate, but this troper has always thought that the entire look and feel of software and computer games made in the 90's has this completely blindsiding charm about it. Chunky 3D models, low resolutions, MIDI soundtracks, you name it, it all adds to it.

This troper does sometimes test this by revisiting a TV series he hasn't seen in years. From my experiences, some hold up well (DarkwingDuck, AreYouAfraidOfTheDark, most episodes of {{Rugrats}} prior to TheMovie), some still survive as a GuiltyPleasure (PowerRangers, {{Anime/Pokemon}}), some I simply can't watch them without an urge to {{MST}} it ({{Goosebumps}} being a prime example), and some have become unbearable for me (CubixRobotsForEveryone)

This troper is fond of pulling this on her kid brothers. I tell them various things like, "I miss the old days when writers weren't so obsessed with being 'hip and edgy' that they forgot to make something good" (for the record, my three younger brothers, ages 8, 11, and 17, like stuff like {{iCarly}} [someone shoot me], {{Chowder}} [not a terrible show, but by no means good], and {{Family Guy}} [shoot me again]). And I understand if they think I'm just being a curmudgeon, but I watch old TV shows (Salute your Shorts, All That, Kenan and Kel, Rugrats, and Rocko's Modern Life) from my childhood, and they still hold up and are still funny to me. Now if I want to watch TV, I had better like mean-spirited humor (and no other kind), overly-sarcastic filler (less is more, people), and people randomly screaming at each other. Thanks, but I'll stick to my documentaries.

ThisTroper has quite literally told an 8 year old kid that "Back in my day, you only had 150 {{Pokemon}} and when you caught them all, your game was over and you damn (never used it in front of the kid, but I insert "damn" when retelling) grateful for the chance to play." All because the kid tried to tell me [=FireRed=] was superior to Red. Sure, the original Pokemon games were glitchy pieces of crap games that made one wonder if the beta testers were sleeping, but they were OUR glitchy pieces of crap games, gorram it!

I object to the "piece of crap". Remember ''The'' Missingno?

Missingno? You mean the pokemon that either cloned a million items or absolutely screwed up the game? Yeah, you just ''know'' that if there was a Missingno in ''PokemonBlackAndWhite'', or if it were even ''half'' as glitchy as red and blue, it'd be called out on it. I can respect red and blue for being good game boy games, but today, they're practically an ObviousBeta for Gold and Silver and are ''hideously'' imbalanced.

This Troper who grew up in the R/B/Y era (and still plays and loves Pokemon old and new) can't stand kids who love the new games and disrespect the classics. I once had an eleven year-old girl showing me her "collection" of Pokemon stuff, and when I showed her my first gen games using my GBA she said "She only has a DS with two screens," and "This game is weird..." and stuff like that which made me want to facepalm. When she showed me her Pokedex poster, I gestured to the first gen Pokemon and told her that there used to be only 150 Pokemon. She literally stared at me open-mouthed in shock.

This troper Also grew up in the R/B/Y generation; hell, Blue was my first Gameboy game, and second video game overall (after {{Diablo}}, but... we'll not talk about that...). But I'm in complete agreement with the person two posts above; R/B/Y does NOT age well. I'll admit, when I first got it, I loved it! ...... At least until Gold and Silver came out. I could tell something was different pretty much from the first ten minutes playing Gold, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly what it was, even all the way up through beating Red. I put Blue back into my GBC a while later, and it was around then I realized what was different about Gold; a lot of the glitches in blue which I had previously failed to really recognize as such were gone, I could actually hold my own against a psychic type, and I was just overall enjoying it better. So yeah, lynch me for heresy, but I have no intent on playing Gen 1 ever again, especially since the remakes exist.

Although this Troper technically grew up in the RBY generation, she didn't get a Game Boy or any of the games before her 9th birthday, when she got Pokémon Crystal, and as the years went by, she picked up every new gen of games(including remakes like Leafgreen and Soulsilver), still enjoying them just as much as her first. To this day, Johto and Hoenn are her favorite generations Pokémon-wise, and I still like the newer ones... though by then, everyone I talked to at school and most other places only liked Red/Blue/Yellow(''possibly'' Gold/Silver/Crystal too) and hated the new ones for "ruining Pokémon". (Note that most of them never played anything past RBY, and some of them probably were those people that confused the anime with the games) Then, shortly after Diamond came out, I decided to get Blue when I was able to get it at a very low price, just to see what I had been missing... by my opinion, not much. When newer games were able to get me the same experience, with an improved gameplay(and I was able to get the Kanto pokés with Leafgreen)... it wasn't all that great. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't horrible by any means, but just majorly overrated in comparision to the newer games. Plus, I find most gen 1 pokémon designs to be too plain and boring, but that may just be me.

This troper avoids testing her nostalgia filter for just this reason, with one exception - ''MisterRogersNeighborhood''. Which sends me immediately back to the comforting, pre-9/11 days of her youth, and is just as good as I remember it, if not better.

This troper keeps meaning to test their Nostalgia filter in regards to stuff like say, {{Yu-gi-oh}}, as they are not certain that they would like it as much now. They also developed an interesting case of this regarding school in all forms, as they remember clearly that they found it highly unpleasant (and still do) but still get a warmish feeling thinking about it because of the bits that weren't (or were, in some cases). Somehow, those are what they remember first, and it makes them miss what they ''know'' they wouldn't otherwise.

A local video rental store went out of business and This Troper picked up the first three episodes of Pokemon. He forgot just how hokey the dialog was back then.

I don't ''have'' a NostalgiaFilter, I'' '''am''' ''the damn NostalgiaFilter. Video games? Better back before the first-person shitter became my own personal Wesley, all the games now have badly designed controls (hands should be symmetrical and balanced or nearly so on the controller except in rare cases of temporary camera control, no exception) and ugly brown and gray graphics. Cartoons? There's too much wacky crazy shit that seems like a giant Big Lipped Alligator Series and not enough epic (if heavily MerchandiseDriven) stories of the battle between good and evil or giant robot anime. Movies? The last one I was extremely active in wanting to go see, before TheDarkKnight, was Star Wars Episode III. TheDarkKnight was the only one I cared about since then. The Internet has done too much to weaken the surprise of things: before the rise of the new media and fall of the old we heard about a game in a magazine or two and were then surprised when it came out amazing; after the coming of the Internet we watched its development intently online and then weren't able to savor the game correctly because we knew everything that was going to be in there. Every network I used to watch has decayed into unwatchable garbage, or at least I'm feeling a bit of TheyChangedItNowItSucks. The only thing that I can actually perceive as getting better is the Pokémon games (aside from the more recent monster designs and Generation 3).

Is it weird that I have strong nostalgia for things from the '70s despite being born in 1990? Blame my parents for raising me on everything from that decade (and on British comedy from the early '80s). Of course, it doesn't hurt that all the programs that were on CartoonNetwork when I first got cable as a kid were '60s and '70s cartoons. I've been raised with DecadeDissonance!

Subverted with this troper. In the case of PowerRangers, I was there from Day One, but I consider Season 1 to be one of my least favorite seasons, and Zeo is the best. With {{Pokemon}}, I started when there were only 150 Pokemon and Generation II was in the works, but Generation III is my personal favorite, with my favorite Pokemon being Gardevoir. Furthermore, my favorite decade is the '80s, even though I was born in 1986 and missed most of the stuff firsthand. My favorite video game system is the {=DS=} (as opposed to the {=SNES=}). However, I don't watch TV anymore because everything is garbage and all the good shows are gone.

I rewatched the early MMPR, and wondered how I never noticed the bad acting, DawsonCasting, and bad CGI as a kid. Still love every damn second of it. Part of it might be that I better appreciated Jason and Tommy's fight choreography, seeing how they mostly used stunt doubles in the Disney era. Oh well, I appreciate that Saban picked actual martial artists over actors, and at least the acting got better over time.

This Troper averts most of it, simply for the fact that he can't remember what happened two weeks ago, let alone what happened when he was ''eight''. He was born in the early Nineties, the pinnacle of modern Internet-based nostalgia, so he only lived in it for a few years, and he can't ''remember'' those nine-odd annuals. Good thing, too; the web has allowed for me to have a better life than I did as an antisocial, reclusive and arrogance-throbbing child/pre-teen. With the Nineties, those chances would've been ''shot''. Still, the first generation of Pokemon remains his favorite (despite the massive bugs and the fact that he still likes the fourth gen), and most of his music selection either comes from pre-1982 or Dream Theater, so he doesn't avert it as he could; but, rejecting this decade (which he ''still'' protests to have ended in January, 2010) might as well be giving that pretentious child a chance to resurface.

This Troper cannot remember a single piece of media from when she was younger than 9 years old, up until she bought ShadowTheHedgehog for her tenth birthday. That is the only piece of media she remembers, and she has always thought that it was a great game, but only because it was a good way for her to be introduced to the SonicTheHedgehog mythos; you could decide who this 'Shadow' guy was, and then you could learn about the other characters and story-lines through him. At least, that is what she thinks. Also, She wishes that the Geewunners would just take a good look at the actual first two seasons of G1. Yeah, go through all that terrible animation, cheesy lines and characters, flat and bland plots, and just plain weirdness. The only episode she actually enjoyed was 'Make Tracks' for its absolutely wonderful first half of the plot. But then the Gheddie's Brothers showed up and the entire thing went downhill. You just can't win.

This Troper has a working NostalgiaFilter for music, where I don't go out of my way listen to anything made after about 2002 unless it's connected to a musician or band I knew before then. The stuff that comes after that is generally from tv shows or fanvids or recommended by friends, and even though I'm loathe to actually like it. However, the filter is broken for TV and WesternAnimation, since I can gladly remember shows like SamuraiPizzaCats, CowAndChicken, IAmWeasel, TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack and so on, but is also perfectly happy watching more recent shows like KimPossible, {{iCarly}}, {{Victorious}}, SonnyWithAChance and so on and so forth. As for video games.. usually the ones around the late 90's and early 2000's have the biggest filter appeal, like DeusEx, HalfLife and so on. Them being some of the best games ever helps.

I had to laugh when I read the nonsense on the main page about filtering everything from your high school days through this "nostalgia filter". Sure, the first couple of years were okay as far as pop culture goes, but the second half was crap, the beginning of the descent into the sea of utter crap that's out there today. Just about the only thing I think favorably of from beginning to end of my high school days is the academics, because I had such an academically rigorous, exciting experience back then. But as far as nostalgia goes? I practically ''live'' in the '70s. I flip through 1970s department store catalogs online and swoon over the women's fashions fo the era. Two of my favorite satellite radio channels are The Strobe (disco) and The Bridge ('70s soft rock/singer/songwriter music). I go onto YouTube to search out '70s commercials, station idents, news reports, promos, movie trailers, and home movies. I've even searched for '70s hairdos to bring with me to the hair salon for the stylist to try to recreate on my own hair. I'm a fan of the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s too, but the '70s are '''my''' decade. And even though I'm well educated on a lot of the events of the era, from Nixon's normalizing relations with China to Vietnamization to the mass inflation of the Carter administration to the Iranian clerical revolution and ensuing American hostage crisis (though the Shah was no innocent in the revolution), I would '''still''' rather live through the '70s than through the present era. Oh, and I forgot to tell you when I went to high school: 1993 - 1997. That's right, I didn't even live through the '70s.

To me, things like Yoot Tower, some mediocre NES games, and a few Apple IIGS games "get better with age". However, objectively, they aren't that great. I realized this when people talk about Atari games like they were the greatest things on Earth.

Averted with this troper. Mostly because I see everyone else playing it ''so'' damn straight it's not funny. Almost every year, it's this cycle:

'''January''': Wherein everyone is recovering from Christmas, people get bored and want kids to go back to school. Then school starts, everyone likes the new semester until...

'''February''': Wherein everyone wishes it were Christmas Break again because it's cold, they're too busy to relax, they don't want to go outside, they have to ''drive'' in that snow and ice, it's Valentines day, everyone hates it because of HypeBacklash, and they just wanna go home and hang out again.

'''March''': Wherein everyone gets hyped for Spring Break and Saint Patrick's Day, only to spend most of it unconscious or hung over or doing something else than they intended. By Saturday they wish they can go back to school.

'''April''': Wherein everyone's bored out of their minds and wishes it were Spring Break again, or for summer to get over there ASAP.

'''May''': Wherein everyone starts counting down the days until summer on their hands and they can finally do stuff and remove that obstacle known as school. They continue to study for finals week and then dash out. Summer begins, and everyone spends the rest of the month unconscious.

'''June''': Wherein everyone is either still asleep from May or is now complaining at how bored they are because they can't get out of bed.

'''July''': Wherein everyone is just like the above, but is now complaining about how hot it is outside or how crowded the beaches and water parks are.

'''August''': Wherein the kids start dreading school, the people who hate summer are looking forward to it, and everyone's still complaining about the heat. School starts, then after a couple weeks, everyone who was looking forward to school are now making plans for Labour Day Weekend because they wish they could relax.

'''September''': Wherein everyone celebrates Labour Day...then begins to wish it were summer again because it's getting cold out, or it's starting to.

'''October''': Wherein everyone begins to continue to wish it were summer because it's so damned cold out they have to ''drive'' in that snow, only the bikers who are TooDumbToLive haven't shelved their bikes in the garage.

'''November''': Wherein everyone begins to look forward to Thanksgiving Week merely because, guess what? They get time off from school.

'''December''': Wherein everyone begins to make plans for Christmas Break and are finally relieved to be done with school...only to look forward to going ''back'' to school when January rolls around again and then the cycle starts ''all'' over again when people wish it to be several months ago.

You can see ''why'' I tend to actually enjoy summer rather than complain when school starts...

I hate it when Britney Fans do this. Her "Golden" era wasn't completely golden. She had a boyfriend who didn't listen to her, was banned from the radio and had less control of her stage show then she does now and that's just the start of the delusionalism....

This troper had NEVER had any nostalgia filter for his whole life. He was absolutely convinced it only happened to people older than himself, until he saw it happen to a ten-year-old. This ten-year-old, who was and still is a friend of (gonna ditch this third person thing) mine, had received Tekken 5 for his birthday. Now, Tekken 5 contains the full version of Tekken 3, which I immediately recognized to be graphically identical to the PS1 version. My friend, on the other hand, was convinced that the PS1 version had way better graphics; he kept saying things like "they ruined a game, the original was much better" and so on. I was unable to convince him that the two versions were identical, until I started digging among his old games, found his original Tekken 3 PS1 CD and loaded it with his PS2. Cue JawDrop from my friend.

I put my Nostalgia Filter to the test, when I found cartoons on YouTube. While there are some cartoons that I appreciate more as an adult, I admit there are some that don't have anything to that effect... for instance, (and YourMileageMayVary) if you take away the admittedly catchy theme tunes to StreetSharks and ExtremeDinosaurs, all you get is a knock-off of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

This Troper has an unshakable apprieciation for cartridge games. Despite being wholly obsolete they last a hullava lot longer then CD/DVD games which inevitably get scratched. Plus, you could always fix a cartridge console just by blowing on it.

Also, CartoonNetwork was WAAAY better when Toonami was still a weekday bloc that showed anime like DBZ. It all went downhill after they got shunted to a stupid weekend timeslot and now I shudder at the kind of crap they air.

This Troper is fairly certain she'd be shunned if she ever admitted that she hate, hate, hate, hate, HATES Grease. Like, a lot.

After seeing videos like this one and this essay on Newgrounds, this tropette believes that a justified example of the Nostalgia Filter for a lot of folks in their teens and twenties these days, especially ones who heavily praise the person who made these types of videos, as well as the person who wrote that essay, make her go as far as to think that those people would hope in ''vain'' that they would get hired to babysit today's kids (or when they have kids themselves in the future) so they could show those kids the stuff that those said folks grew up with when they were kids and raise those children very ''firmly'' like a strict nanny so those children would mature to an extent where they would obtain and maintain the desire of living a more ''classy'' and ''sophisticated'' lifestyle, and have ''tasteful'' interests, especially since she expected a nostalgia-infested babysitter in his or her teens or twenties dragging a bratty child who would prefer to watch ''HannahMontana'' all day out to see ''PrincessAndTheFrog'' when she went to see that movie.

This article reads a lot like a "Things were better back in my day" and deliberate AccentuateTheNegative about the 21st century.

This troper hates the alterations made to ''Jeopardy!'' since 1997. For starters, the change from the amazing Grid set to the Sushi Bar set. Although the Grid set was my favorite, and the single best set the show ever had, the change wouldn't have bothered me too much if it weren't for the fact that it happened ''in the middle'' of the 1996-1997 season. In the new set's premiere episode, Alex Trebek mentioned the set was made to relate with viewers being in "the warmth, the comfort and the security" of one's own home. Wait, Isn't Jeopardy the complete opposite of safety?. Second, replacing the iconic main theme and the legendary "Think!" theme with watered down versions took away a lot of the program's excitement and energy. And then they moved the various tournaments around. Until 1996, the Tournament of Champions always took place in November, the Teen Tournament always took place in February, and the College Tournament always took place in May). Since the 1997 season, they've moved all around the calendar, being in February, May, September, and then November again! Lastly, for right now, the overabundance of punny/"clever" category names. Categories were simple/straightforward, with silly categories happening only occasionally, like celebrity games. Here are the categories from a 1995 game: Bible Quotations; Sports; American Cuisine; Grover Cleveland; Ranks & Titles; "Lady"s. Now, here are categories from more recent years: The Louvre; Earn, Baby, Earn; Jay Leno's Headlines; Dairy Products; Show Me Your Peninsula!; How Well Do You Know "Me"?. Seriously? "Show Me Your Peninsula?"?! That's the kind of stuff I'd get on ''[=~Win Ben Stein's Money~=]'', not Jeopardy! ''itself''!

This troper may be a kid in adult body, so it's no wonder he can enjoy ''{{Ben 10}}'' as much as he enjoyed DuckTales.

Seconded, but it also counts as a ''{{Guilty Pleasure}}'' for me.

Not with this troper, but with the fandom she's in. Highly nostalgic Filipino fans of ''VoltesV'' decried the celebrity re-dub of the said show, having been way '''too''' attached to the Filipino English dub way back in the 70s; never mind that the said dub is actually SoBadItsGood in today's standards; and the actual re-dub is no better or worse that current Filipino dubs. A possible factor for the hatred aside from the nostalgia is that the cast included Sandara Park.

This troper can't help but burst out laughing everytime he reads about people (mostly on Youtube) binging on about how the 90's were 'so awesome' and how the 2000's (or just about any other decade outside of the 90's and possibly 80's) were/are completly awful. Sure, the 2000's weren't perfect, but no decade is. I like some stuff from the 1990's, but I don't view the 90's as 'the best decade ever'. And for the record, this troper grew up in the 90's, but never received his pair of Nostalgia Goggles...

This troper is one of those die-hard, always pissed off NMA assholes that believe Fallout 2 is the epitome of RPQ quality. I really,really do. Though, this is only about one genre, I'll admit there are a lot of games that might be "more fun" than the old Fallouts, but none of those are RPG's. There are many many that come close, like Knights of the Old Republic, but it just doesn't have the same feel. Now, I don't know if this counts as nostalgia, because I still CONSTANTLY play the oldies, and thus they might as well be brand new games just made 12 years ago. Also Fallout 3 was okay, but it devoured the story. Being around in 1989 as a little child certainly plays a part in my favourite Batman movie (hint: see the Nostalgia Critic's crash-test review). I'm ready to admit, however, that Nolan's movies are brilliant and even improve upon Burton's when it comes to AdaptationDistillation. However, one thing I accept no argument about is the Batman cartoons - everything after 1997 was crap compared to the first seasons. The more recent Batman cartoons are a travesty, and Batman Beyond was good only when it dealt with Bruce Wayne's past friends and enemies! BatmanTheBraveandtheBold is worthy of a smirk and can be fun, but for me the only "proper" current screen version of Batman besides Nolan's franchise is this piss poor licenced game.

This troper, being a new art major, will now more often hear the NostalgiaFilter animation discussions of several classmates. One shining example was one guy who commented on watching a new series on Nicktoons, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and complained that the storyline was completely stupid compared to that of the original DragonBallZ series. Only thing is, Dragon Ball Z Kai is a recut of the original Dragon Ball Z. ''The story is the same.''

This troper zigzags this trope. He doesn't really have a problem with the new video games, except for RockBand. But everything else in everything else is okay with him. But he usually plays older games.

This troper has watched Main/{{Nickelodeon}}, Main/{{Cartoon Network}}, and Main/{{Disney Channel}}. I like Main/{{Cartoon Network}} a lot before it changed. A lot of it isn't cartoon and some of the cartoons don't seem to talk about anything of substance or importance. I like Main/{{Spongebob Squarepants}} a lot, but the humor is more gross than it used to be. I dislike a lot of reality tv shows because it glamorizes negative human behavior and promotes negative qualities in human beings.

Provoked on the World of Warcraft forums. This troper preferred classic WoW to whatever it is now, and as such desired classic WoW servers. The next few replies from my OP or others wanting classic WoW back had to do with a) perceived lack of skill, b) "take off that nostalgia filter" or c) "Blizz don't have the money to do it." Nevermind the fact that three pages on the Google listing for "classic WoW" are...wait for it...classic WoW private servers, which enforce this trope.

This troper disliked Classic WoW because of how ''broken'' the classes were.

I'll give you this. Playing a paladin as a DPS is more fun now than it was in classic because of Holy Power. No wonder why Rift had to copy it for their warrior.

This troper really tore into someone who said that "Movies today suck, we need to go back to the GoldenAgeOfHollywood". To which I gave him a "the reason it sucked" speech. -> "The GoldenAgeOfHollywood? If anything, it should have been called the ''gilded'' age of Hollywood. Just because you remember stuff like ''WizardOfOz'' and ''CitizenKane'' doesn't mean there wasn't a load of crap. There were ''just'' as many shitty movies back then as there are now -- you just don't remember them because they were quickly ignored. Theatres back then weren't really concerned with quality -- they were more concerned about getting the movies distributed. Back then, the studios owned the theatres, who had no choice but to run whatever movie they produced, no matter ''how'' shitty it was. Many studios often had localized monopolies on distribution, so they slacked off on quality since the theatres ''had'' to play it anyways, they couldn't just say "WTF, dude, this one sucks! We're not showing it." ''{{Casablanca}}'' wasn't made with the intents of being a classic -- it was just Movie #37 or so out of fifty, the only thing that set it apart was that it had an above-average cast. There were ''just'' as many "generic" movies back then as there were now -- studios had their own signature styles. The acting was better? Remember that some of those actors who you think are great now (like KatharineHepburn) were considered "box office poison" back in the day. Also don't forget that many movies you consider the best of all time were actually ''trashed'' by critics back then, the same way a lot of music that is untouchable today was just like JustinBieber.\\ \\ And perhaps the worst part? The studios got away with a ''lot'' of stuff that would nowadays get their asses sued into oblivion if they were lucky. Actors and directors were locked into ironbound contracts that more or less treated them as property. They didn't get to pick what movies they wanted to act in. They had to maintain images in public, and people were given hush money when they saw them acting out of character. You also couldn't be gay (just ask Rock Hudson), and the MoralGuardians could absolutely ''destroy'' a movie, whereas nowadays that causes people to ''praise'' it on basis of being declared a Video Nasty. And not to mention, there was a lot of racism in casting -- if you weren't lily-white, you could forget about working in Hollywood unless you wanted to get pigeonholed into playing ethnic stereotypes. (The story of Rita Hayworth -- aka Margarita Carmen Cansino -- should bear this out.) If you tried many of the stuff that Golden Age Hollywood studios got away with, you'd go under because no actor would work with you and you would probably get sued."

I have this, as I lovingly refer to mid 90s CartoonNetwork as "The Golden Age". I feel the same way about {{Nickelodeon}}. However, I have a few shows from the Golden Age I didn't care for, one of them being RenAndStimpy. I also like a few of nickelodeon and disney's new shows ({{iCarly}}, PhineasAndFerb, and WizardsOfWaverlyPlace, to name a few)

I HATE the way Animal Planet is now, ever since it started making shows about wild animals attacking people, animals being torn to shreads by other animals, cryptids of all things instead shows about baby animals, like it should be because there's never anything on!!!

This troper has noticed that this very wiki is guilty of this attitude. And not just in TroperTales sections like this one. The MusicIsPolitics page, for example, claims that the corporatization of the music industry began purely with the rise of {{MTV}} and the buyouts of record labels in TheEighties. Ahem. The first payola scandals? They happened back in TheFifties. The legend that was FrankSinatra? He had an army of actresses hired by his record label to mob him and pretend to be {{squee}}ing fans in order to make him look more popular. The "image over music" style that so many think is a product of the music video era? Try, a product of TheBeatles and Motown Records. Labels jumping onto trends and driving them into the ground, as if that's a new thing? One word -- disco.

No...the page said it made it ''WORSE''. The article was not written through a NostalgiaFilter. Which is besides the article's point anyway.

This Troper always looks back on his childhood in the nineties and looks back on other possible childhood decades of the 1900's, and can only conclude that his was the best one ever. The early 1900's to the '10s were plagued by World War One, the twenties may have been quite good, what with the economy being stable, and no wars going on, but it was spoiled by the ending, which evolved into the Great Depression of the 30's, followed by World War II, and the threat of Japan and Germany. The fifties looks fine on the outside, but many from that generation will regard it all as very Crapsaccharine. The 60's had the Red Scare, and Vietnam War, which went well into the 70's, and that saw the rise of Disco. The 80's would have been all good, with great music choice, new fun styles, the works, but it still lacked something, like a 90's prototype. The 90's seemingly had it all. The cartoons were all classics, the toys were amazing, bicycles were getting more and more fun to ride, the Super Nintendo, N64, and PSone, all regarded as classic game consoles. There was Surge, Happy Meal toys didn't suck, and Toys 'R Us was the most amazing place on the planet. The only war was the in the Gulf and that was over fairly quickly. You just can't beat the 90's if you were a kid.

World War 1 wasn't happening in "the early 1900s." Just saying.

LooneyLuver: I hate nostalgia. Sure, I'm only ( going on) 20, but I don't really miss much from childhood. I'm glad they added (500) new pokemon. I've always loved the game. I was afraid I was gonna fall out of it (it was HUGE in third grade) but I'm really happy with BW. Im glad whenever a new FinalFantasy comes out. I think the battles in 13 are awesome. Their so fast but still have the general feel of the 'old' ATB system. I dunno. About the only reason I miss childhood is because, as I near adulthood, it's scary. What if I don't make enough money to live comfortably? What if I never meet the man who'll aid me in coming out to my parents? *sigh* life is just hard.

My first pokemon game was Emerald. One day, a few months ago, I found a Pokemon Blue cartridge. I played it. It sucked.

This Troper and his brother recently got into an argument that exemplifies this trope. The argument was over which was better, ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' or ''PowerRangersWildForce''. This troper was born in '92, so he was pretty much born into the original PowerRangers franchise. His brother, born '97, was about five years old when Wild Force came out, and thus, thought it was the shit. It took a neutral third party (born circa '87) to inform them that both series were equally bad.

This troper is (almost) 18 and, yet, I insist that music was far better when I was young(er) and far beyond that (much of the music I listen to is from the 70-80's). True, the style hasn't changed much, but, come on, does the music industry even care about rock music anymore? I've been forced to listen to Radio 1 for roughly a quarter of an hour every school morning for almost a year (we were given our own bus, (despite the fact that the previous bus service worked perfectly fine) and, in that time, I can only recall about three rock songs having been played (and one of them was pop punk, which doesn't exactly help the argument). I know that pop music makes more money for the industry due to being quicker to produce, but that doesn't mean the charts need to be full of symthesisers consistantly: it makes the average rock artist have to work even harder than Lady GaGa just to have a chance of even entering the top 100 charts. I've actually considered boycotting the charts because the average pop song could, realistically, be written, produced, recorded and ready for release in a few hours, but the average requires many different takes, so requires more work and This. Deserves. Fucking. Acknowledgement! *cough* Sorry about that, but it's been bugging me for far longer than I care to admit.

God, I've just looked back on this and I think I sounded like a bit of a dickhead. In the interest of balance (as well as having read the comment four down), I'll confess I listen to some Lady Gaga (most tracks like "Judas" and "Bad Romance"), Simon & Garfunkel (who can be considered folk-pop at a pinch), Johnny Cash (who I listen to when not listening to rock, punk and metal), Cat Stevens (folk-rock), Queen (who basically sang in any style except country and rap, although my favourite song of theirs is possibly "Somebody To Love") and a lot of folk music (a very underrated genre when you actually look at it). Indeed, if pop music didn't sound so blatently dancey (a bit of an irritation considering I don't like disco dancing) and generally samey (beat in the background, as my dad likes to put it), I'd probably listen to a hell of a lot more of it (and, even then, I might tread carefully for fear of Autotune). Having said this, I will still not touch a rap CD unless it is matter of life and death, as I honestly can't stand it after having tried to last through a whole BeastieBoys album. Honestly, music isn't as great as it was, but I'm not going to argue about when it died: if I like it, I'll listen to it and to hell with whether it matches up with your view on good music or not. Besides, music is expressive, so find something that suits you and stop taking the piss out of it just because you don't like the genre someone else does, as this gets up my nose more than people who claim that the only good genre is (insert genre here). Mini rant finished...for now.

This troper can't STAND people who are like this, and I would always have to tell them that there was as much crap in their own time as there are now in entertainment and personally, I believe that if the internet was founded earlier, people would be complaining about shows like "Ren and Stimpy" and Rugrats" as well.

For some reason, this troper seems to have a liking for older windows screensavers.

I'm astounded that I actually thought the third season of ''SailorMoon'' was the most epic story every told. (I apparently forgot every single filler episode in the process.)

This trope is probably the only reason why CardCaptorSakura will remain one of my favorite anime of all time, no matter WHAT anyone says, and Pokemon's first two seasons are the only good ones.

Seconded with the Pokemon. The series just stopped trying to be more than MerchandiseDriven after a while, and there were too many episodes to keep track of at that point anyway. Anyway, I fondly remember ''all'' ''CardCaptorSakura'' in all formats.

For my own, I have to play with this crazily. The 90s were too dramatic when looked at from hindsight, and so were the 2000s to an extent. But here's my take: First, in hindsight animation (from any era, not just the early 2000s) sucked for different reasons. Either the special effects (which I thought back then were awesome) were bland or the plot was too basic. For me video games between 1995 and 2006 is the target for my version. Sure, many newer video games were better (FFXIII actually had better combat than anything before) but it had Unreal Tournament which was awesome (3 was just as good if not better) and of course GTA. Bonus compared to now: Once you get a game, you get the complete game, no upselling for DLC or anything similar, just a $50 game. Of course, video game consoles manufactured then started failing...

My musical tastes are in the early 2000s to present, with some exceptions, averting this trope. If you want to tone down a nostalgia filter, turn on the rap or pop station.

And I found out that once we complain about something in one era, our attention has shifted elsewhere. The 50s, 60s, and into the 70s were racism and nuclear war; the 80s were debt; the 90s, crime; the 2000s, terrorism; and increasingly into today, the environment.

My bet is that when TroperTales gets a new format, there'll be a slight NostalgiaFilter for this format as well, with people screaming "NetworkDecay" bloody murder.

This troper tries to avoid this, mainly since I know my grandchildren will ask me what the 2000's were like; I really don't want to dissapoint them by saying "I have no idea. I was too focused on older media to pay attention to the present."

That's kind of sad, yet kind of awesome at the same time. I wish I were more focused on older media as well.

This troper and his class had a talk about the present time in general. It turned out that almost everybody missed the 80's because, at the time, there was so much more respect, and so much less violence. At one time, I interrupted them and said :"Well, I've just one thing to say : Nostalgia filter ! What 80's do you liked ? The one were we could be wiped out by nuclear war or the one were the givernement lied to us about tchernobyl ? My favorite is the one where we weared horrible fashioned suit, and tried to find some peace in my school between the two gang in my school. Unemployement hitted hard, and there was no racism at the time, because racism was the standard procedure in society. Oh, and yeah, abortion was still a crime in those wonderful day." Awkward silence ensued...and I loved every second of it.

Here's an easy way to test this trope: 1. Go on Youtube 2. Look up a video for any Disney movie made before 2000. 3. Look at the highest rated comments; 9 out of 10 times they'll be comments like "New Disney sucks! Woe is me, I miss old Disney". You get no argument from me about the Disney Channel and the live-action movies nowadays (at least for now), but have these people not seen ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' or ''{{Tangled}}'' yet?

Now that you mention it, that might be an extremely justified example of this trope coming from people in my age group, especially after coming across some complaints about WaltDisney "spinning around in his grave," especially since those same people were easily elated at the announcement of those movies. Therefore, I might be taking a wild guess that children that will boom into this world over the next several years will be forcefully raised on the stuff their parents grew up with now that I've aged into the predominant childbearing range.

Well, those two movies were just as good as the movies from the 90's, so I don't think fans were easily elated over nothing. Bottom line, even after Disney is improving after the 2000's slump, the FanDumb is still going to complain that Disney is dead and their childhoods are RuinedForever.

That's not just true about Disney. That's true about EVERYTHING.

This Troper views the period from the late 80's to early 2000's with the NostalgiaFilter. My reasons for this are down to the belief that humanity entered a renaissance of sorts where everything suddenly started moving on in laps and bounds in quality while technology suddenly started showing us what it was really capable of. Animation gave us shows like Batman, Pixar became known to the world with ToyStory, Nirvana gave us Nevermind, games consoles finally got over the crash of 83 with games like TombRaider, CrashBandicoot and VideoGame/SuperMario64, the internet started filtering it's way into daily life, we got sports stars like Michael Jordan or Michael Schumacher. I'd argue this was the last carefree generation before 9/11 came and changed the dyanmic of the world.

Wow, this might be a logical reasons why there has been a huge swarm of nostalgic complaints across the Internet from people as young as their teens and twenties over the past few years. In other words, living a happy carefree childhood in the 90s has obviously preceded a supposedly traumazing adolescence and early adulthood in the 2000s to the point where it made them feel at least as nostalgic as a crochety old geezer (no offense).

This troper found herself watching the rest of an anime that she loved when she started it on tape years ago (''ThoseWhoHuntElves'') online recently. It just wasn't that good, or maybe watching anime online just isn't my thing?

Hockey legend Ken Dryden (of all people) had an excellent quote "The Golden Age was always when you were a kid." The more time I spend on the internet, the more I realize just how true that is. People who were kids during the 1930s think that was the Golden Age for everything: movies, music, sports, etc..., those who were kids in the 1950s feel that way about their time. I see it that way about people who were kids in the 1990s like me.

This troper feels this way about KingsQuestMaskOfEternity. She knows that it was a disgrace to the rest of the series, but can't really bring herself to hate it because it was such an large part of her childhood.

Sort of played with for this troper. I grew up in TheNineties (I was born in 1990, after all) but missed most of the stuff that other people of my generation seem to look back on fondly (I almost never watched ''{{Pokemon}}'', ''{{Power Rangers}}'', ''{{Rugrats}}'', ''{{Animaniacs}}'', any of the DisneyAfternoon shows, etc.). About the only things I frequently find people on the internet reminisce about that I regularly watched as a kid are ''{{Powerpuff Girls}}'', ''{{Dexters Laboratory}}'', and ''{{Sailor Moon}}''. I recently re-watched some ''Dexter's Lab'' episodes I found on the internet (at cartoonlair.com) and found them to be not quite as good as remembered, but still good. Haven't checked yet with ''Powerpuff Girls'' or ''Sailor Moon''. I'm also nostalgic about ''{{Reboot}}'', but nobody seems to talk about that one anymore.