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30 Pictures That Only Older People Will Find Nostalgic By Rachid Lotf
Ah, the nineties. A time of horrible clothes, even worse hairstyles, and crazy SMS fees. However, for every thing that hasn't aged well, the era has produced a couple of absolute gems. Space Jam and Dragon Ball Z, Game Boy and Tamagotchi, Nirvana's Nevermind and 2Pac's All Eyez on Me... The list goes on and on. And artist Rachid Lotf features all of these timeless classics in his intricate illustrations.
All of his works are so rich with details, it's impossible to quick-scroll through them. All of the nostalgic memorabilia within the images draw you in, helping you remember the things that were-are-will be so dear to you. If you weren't born yesterday, that is.
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Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Mine was fine when I ran. The discman though, sheesh those things were garbage if you moved them from a flat surface.
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Phunny Philosopher 5 years ago
Me too. It's terrifying. I have never been described as "older people". It's a LIE! ALL LIES!!
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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago
THIS IS NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE AND I QUIT .................
Officially, Rachid is a senior graphic designer and concept artist. As you can probably tell from this series, his art has been a manifestation of his personal journey, encouraging people to relive their childhood, cherish their memories, and enjoy their current life as well.
"I was born in 1984 in Agadir, Morocco. I started drawing when I was 15 years old and at first I only drew anime characters," Rachid told Bored Panda. Eventually, Lotf got into graffiti and it captivated him so much, he ended up studying visual art. Then, the studies led him to start his career in silkscreen printing and mobile game design, and the rest is history.
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hobbitly 5 years ago
My Sony mp3-player is also called walkman. I think Sony just names every device which allows you to listen to music while walking a walkman :D
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"I started creating nostalgic wallpapers after I turned 30," he said. "That's when I became nostalgic and started to miss the good old days. When I think back about my childhood, the first things that come to my mind are my bedroom and my video games, hence the aesthetics of retro gaming is the main influence on my work."
The ideas behind all of his artworks are something Rachid experienced as a child. "[The series] is essentially an old memory, but adapted to a different game console."
The artist believes that our memories are what what makes us, our decisions. Rachid believes our past dictates not only how we love, but how we act in general. "We would be nothing without our memories, so I make these works of art for the people who lived at that time, but also for those who did not, especially the children of this generation in which we live, to show them how their parents and perhaps their grandparents lived their childhood," the artist said.
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Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
I still have mine but it won't work, and I can't get rid of it because of nostalgia!
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
Never owned one, but we sold them where I worked. Had to keep the cartridges locked up, put them in the box when the customer bought them.
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Amparo Rodriguez Bogosian 5 years ago
My boyfried plays Doom everyday. He even has a data base with all the WADs ordered per year.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Tomb Raider II, back in the days when they had decent gameplay and were not full of CGI and pointers. We got lost for almost three months in the first Tomb Raider, trying to find the way out of the Lost Valley LOL
Vorknkx 5 years ago
My entire childhood caught in one picture. An era when it didn't matter if you had the latest GPU or unlocked some obscure achievement. And nowadays it's like "Oh no, I can't run this game in 144 FPS on Ultra settings, I'll give it a bad review." The fun is gone from gaming.
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von Funnyname 5 years ago
fun fact: Duck Hunt is a two player game. Put the regular D-pad gaming controller in second player slot, and you can control the ducks!
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
must get the NES out and give that a go. Thanks for the tip Mr von Funnyname
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Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
Duck Hunt was amazing in the arcade, you could actually shoot that annoying laughing dog.
Steve Haigh 5 years ago
and in the VR game Duck Season that dog then hunts you down terrifyingly!
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Lianna Valdez 5 years ago
I would play for hours. I would recline in my desk chair and think i was cool.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
No, up up down down left right left right b a b a select start. If u are talking about 2 player contra 30 lives.
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George Chesterson 5 years ago
Wow. Funny to think that I saw all these movies in an actual movie theater... and definitely while wearing hightops.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Reminds me of the goldbergs. That's a great tv show that sticks true to the eighties.
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danielw 5 years ago
seriously. when wow first came out.... I played on a linux box that made wow think it was a mac. you have no idea how much I respected blizzard for dual-porting games to windows/mac. (OSx was pretty much linux under the covers. so it was pretty easy to emulate.)
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Oooh, I definitely had the "Want to believe"-poster (didn't like it much, though. It didn't move with me when I went to Uni)
Marley Lennon 5 years ago
The Mario poster on the far right is a current wii mario or something so like do what you will with that information
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Hunter Bradley 5 years ago
this is sooooo me im mean just look at my description and my one and only post
danielw 5 years ago
I'm more of a jedi, myself. slightly grayish. Kinda like Quigon Jin was.
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Erin 4 years ago
I love how Rachid Lotf utilizes sunlight or nighttime in his work. Look at that absolutely gorgeous golden hour! Very nostalgic. Looks like my cousin Jay's bedroom. Probably this painting is set in 1990...Back to the Future 2 (poster on cabinet on right) came out November 1989.
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Malakai 5 years ago
Nothing screams 90s more! ;u; There's even Hit Clips and the eraser with the blue side for erasing ink, holy crow! The only thing missing is a Tamagotchi
tariq zia 2 years ago
A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.
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Anonymous Web User 5 years ago
The Pogs are extremely nostalgic. I remember finding them in crisp packets, though I had no idea what they were for.
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Hunter Bradley 5 years ago
yes galaga fun fact about me i had the galaga high score n three different arcades
Geoffrey Holland 5 years ago
That's pretty cool that you were at all three of those arcades the first day they opened.
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Lisa Chambers 5 years ago
Late 80's. Game rooms and arcades. I still play video games like this at the movie theater. I have beaten Sniper several times while 10 year olds stood by to watch.
George Chesterson 5 years ago
The old days, when if you wanted to play a video game, you had to scrape up some quarters, get on your bike, and ride to an arcade. Joust was the best.
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Daria B 5 years ago
Final Fantasy ♡ (and everything else, but you don't see FF so often referenced in random places)
Roadkill The Brave 5 years ago
I know! I've been play FF since it came to the U.S., all except the online games and I've even played the ones only released in Japan after they got translated for the Emulators.
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Rabia Sare A. 5 years ago
you English speakers are so lucky. when I was a child I couldn't understand the story but drive some car for 3 hours
Daria B 5 years ago
I became fluent in English only when I became a teenager. That didn't stop me from enjoying video games in English. Eventually, it boosted my learning. And I believe same is true for you, so high five! ^_-
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Peter Korpershoek 5 years ago
Linking Park and Korn are Rockstars... I see what you did there:)
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Daria B 5 years ago
Imagine how easy it would be for Sadako to come out of our televisions today. With all the giant screens and stuff.
Christopher Chang Peng Yen 5 years ago
It looks like she is coming out to grab a bite of pizza.
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Wubbleyew 5 years ago (edited)
Ah yes, such fond momories of sitting at my desk with my knife and gun.....
Malakai 5 years ago
It's a reference to Resident Evils 1, 2, and 3, as featured on the desk. The zombie under the desk, the horde outside the windows, the ammo resupply, etc--this image is all about those games
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It all is related to the Resident Evil games. The ammo, the knives and guns, the green plant, the health spray, the zombies outside...
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Resident Evil 2 was the best, I remember it scaring the c**p out of me playing at night.
Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
Still prefer the games on the original Playstation to the ones that came after.
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago (edited)
I need this poster!!! And this made me have to look up this... https://youtu.be/_P0tNAbXvpM
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Here's the good stack. Rosemarys baby, the others, poltergeist the exorcist. Add some vodka and mountain dew and this looks like a good weekend at home.
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Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Pole position I forgot about that game!! Gah I love these pics so many memories
Monty Is Fiennes 5 years ago
God yes.... so many hours... I still remember how the engines sounded...
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Firefly! And also Malcolm in the Middle, but mostly - FIREFLY! <3
Daniel Billingsley 5 years ago
They released crossfire again, you can buy it at target. I absolutely loved it as a kid and had to buy it to play with my kids.
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Charlotte 5 years ago
I had the built-in Alex Kidd in Miracle World edition :)
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ClairaXBelle 5 years ago
Loved my mega drive! Spent so much time on the Sonic games as well as James Pond which I loved! 🥰
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David de Fortier 5 years ago
At last i see a japanese console! Where i grew up, there was no nintendo, but it was famicom, & there was no sega genesis, but it was megadrive. This list is like 99% american
GG 5 years ago (edited)
The same Japanese design was also in Europe. I think you mean, it wasn't the SNES but Super Famicom. Nintendo is the Company.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Yeah. And they definitely shouldn't know enough about GTA to wear a shirt with it.... (Maybe I'm just a grouchy old person...)
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Jane Dorothy Warner 5 years ago
How can those kids watch that? Pyramid Head gave me nightmares as an adult!
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David de Fortier 5 years ago
I was wondering how far down i had to scroll before seeing an arcade. I miss those days
danielw 5 years ago
...they're still around, you know. Also. Space invaders... best... game... ever.
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Wow. These pictures have an AMAZING amount of details...seriously, WOW.
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Peter Korpershoek 5 years ago
I kept watching the in-game movies from Warcraft III... So detailed and beautiful... Adding so much emotion to the storyline!
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bill marsano 5 years ago
This is, frankly, a mediocre, over-stylized effort with too-narrow a focus on just a few bits of obsolete electronica. The real point to note is that until just a few years ago watching TV, watching movies, using e-mail, listening to music, making phone calls, playing video games, making recordings and taking photographs required a separate device for each activity.
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JuJu 5 years ago
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ... The Twilight Zone.
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Elle Malkamäki 5 years ago
Recently got banjo-kazooie & Tooie from Xbox arcade. Decades later, still fills me with joy
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Connor Deans 5 years ago
When this version of gameboy came out with the back light it made playing at night when i wasn't supposed to be so much easier instead of hoping i could get moonlight to see my other gameboy while i played after bed time
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david maier 5 years ago (edited)
Nearly all of the pics had computers or consoles. They came after I grew up. So, a picture of an Etch a sketch or Operation! Game would be Really nostalgic
Tahani 5 years ago (edited)
Pity none of the players are girls... I used to game too back in the ‘80’s.... and had nothing but movie posters all over the place...
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Here we go again. All in for another philosophical discussion. WTF! "...Only Older People Will Find Nostalgic..." Whoa, whaddya mean 'older people'? Older as in older than a teenager? I don't consider myself old and yet I am surely twice as old as most people who'd get a twinge of nostalgia from this yesteryer's technology.
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
To be honest, they don't feel nostalgic to me because they're oversaturated with details. It's still a nice series of homage to the vast pop culture of the past none the less. Just a question: is it my impression, or is FF10 the only Final Fantasy the author had come across? ^_^" (great game, but not the most mainstream one)
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
Nevermind, just noticed at the bottom (maybe elsewhere now) a picture entirely dedicated to the franchise.
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fuzzballseverywhere 5 years ago
53 my kids were in their early teens when that was new...
Load More Replies... Julie Downs 5 years ago
If this photographer is about 13 years old, then maybe I can understand why they think that 30-ish year olds are "older". For TRUE old people there should be photos of records or 8-track tapes and maybe an Atari console - or even older "Pong"!
jknbt jknbt 5 years ago
I still have a desktop with xp operating system in the floor, not hooked up. This is so I can use the dos-based programs that are on there if need be, and also so I have a 3.5 inch floppy drive available if need be... no need for quite some time... some of the dos programs do not have a win-10 equivalent available.
david maier 5 years ago (edited)
Nearly all of the pics had computers or consoles. They came after I grew up. So, a picture of an Etch a sketch or Operation! Game would be Really nostalgic
Tahani 5 years ago (edited)
Pity none of the players are girls... I used to game too back in the ‘80’s.... and had nothing but movie posters all over the place...
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Here we go again. All in for another philosophical discussion. WTF! "...Only Older People Will Find Nostalgic..." Whoa, whaddya mean 'older people'? Older as in older than a teenager? I don't consider myself old and yet I am surely twice as old as most people who'd get a twinge of nostalgia from this yesteryer's technology.
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
To be honest, they don't feel nostalgic to me because they're oversaturated with details. It's still a nice series of homage to the vast pop culture of the past none the less. Just a question: is it my impression, or is FF10 the only Final Fantasy the author had come across? ^_^" (great game, but not the most mainstream one)
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
Nevermind, just noticed at the bottom (maybe elsewhere now) a picture entirely dedicated to the franchise.
Load More Replies... fuzzballseverywhere 5 years ago
53 my kids were in their early teens when that was new...
Load More Replies... Julie Downs 5 years ago
If this photographer is about 13 years old, then maybe I can understand why they think that 30-ish year olds are "older". For TRUE old people there should be photos of records or 8-track tapes and maybe an Atari console - or even older "Pong"!
jknbt jknbt 5 years ago
I still have a desktop with xp operating system in the floor, not hooked up. This is so I can use the dos-based programs that are on there if need be, and also so I have a 3.5 inch floppy drive available if need be... no need for quite some time... some of the dos programs do not have a win-10 equivalent available.
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