What makes you nostalgic?

[Submeg]

For me:

- old games / music I used to play
- smells and sounds
- television shows
- old technology

[Buleste]

For me:

- old games / music I used to play
- smells and sounds
- television shows
- old technology

All of the above plus beers i used to drink and pubs/clubs i used to visit/got so drunk i couldn't stand up.

[Sharingan]

Retro games, and looking through old photo books. Also, visiting places I've not been to in a long, long time. For example, I dropped by my elementary school about a year ago, and that brought back tons of memories.

[J T]

Pssssht, nostalgia ain't what it used to be

[Submeg]

nostalgic about nostalgia?

[Harrison]

The biggest for me is old Magazines. Every time I look through an old Amiga magazine it brings a lot of great memories back. Same with old game boxes and manuals.

Some music too. Remembering the first time I heard something and where I was at the time. Or a song reminding me of a person.

Photographs is another most people get nostalgic over. I found my final school year photo the other week (those big panoramic ones with everyone squeezed onto the shot) and looking through it at all the people I used to know brought back a ton of memories.

TV shows don't always work though as sometimes the great memories I have of them are ruined when I watch them again and realise how dated and bad they have become. That isn't always the case though as there will always be classics that never age. And films never seem to have that negative effect in the same way as many old TV shows do.

And old technology definitely does. Finding something in the loft and having to play around with it again. Or seeing something in a junk/antique shop, or a car boot sale.

Another is seeing a make and model of car you used to own. That always makes me wonder what happened to mine. Is it still being driven and being taken care of or has it been scrapped/crashed. That always makes me then remember how much time and money I spent keeping it looking nice and running well.

[Stephen Coates]

Mostly photographs and music for me.