The best book on democracy and the best book on America, Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, is pretty much a handbook
on that kind of nostalgia.
I finally have Super Mario Advance 4 out of my system, but I'm still
on kind of a nostalgia kick.
Not exact matches
Almost like a warm drink or a bowl full
of chilly, these stories alight a
kind of nostalgia boarding
on memory.
Isn't it a whole different
kind of blinkered
nostalgia to imagine that the youth
of 2045 will still be hung up
on «Stayin» Alive» and Atari and, well, Spielberg movies?
It's the
kind of movie that will make some critics instantly want to go and write a long essay — but then we too are probably caught up in our own
nostalgia for the 80s and the golden age
of theorizing
on the wonders
of post-modernism.
As you and editorial plot out what
kinds of new series you'll launch, do you sometimes look for new series that capitalize
on things like
nostalgia, or grass roots interest in properties that haven't been around in a while?
I believe the
nostalgia wheel is turning to the
kinds of video games I was playing when I was young and had too much time
on my hands, evidenced by the strong impression made by Stardew Valley.
Maybe as some
kind of postmodern commentary
on the
nostalgia we, the longtime players
of video games, hold for the admittedly simplistic and sometimes overly revered beat -»em - up genre, Lucha Fury is an effective tool.
The Duplo-esque production design evokes just the right
kind of simple
nostalgia, the blocky characters and solid trees calling to mind a time when we could just sit
on the carpet and build societies out
of disparate toys.
Much like the protagonist
of each series entry, Apprentice
of Arland exhibits the
kind of development able to nurture feelings
of nostalgia as one reflects
on the progress
of Rorona, Totori, Meruru, and Gust.
Kind of like the modern Doctor Who, it draws
on an old property for
nostalgia and great jokes but makes it into something that feels modern and fresh.
We're nearly to a point where we can count two separate brands
of Final Fantasy VII
nostalgia: the
kind which centers
on the original game and...
Ironically, time hasn't necessarily been
kind to these ports - if you have a burning
nostalgia for those games, you're probably better off playing them
on the Genesis or the Saturn, which had the
kind of processing grunt to carry them off more faithfully.
On top
of that there's a melancholy music track behind the pictures that evokes, for me at least, a
kind of nostalgia for things that never were.