Candace wishes she was ten again, and sometimes so do I. There were so many books and movies that I loved as a kid, but when I've reviewed them as an adult I've been underwhelmed. It may not seem as intellectual, but the same goes for video games.
So, what lost treasures would you like to recapture from your youth? Did anyone else ever read The Three Investigators series, or Encyclopedia Brown? How about Yogi's First Christmas, which I remember watching several times a day as a toddler? A little closer to age 10, there's Monkey Island 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. The Black Cauldron. The Secret of NIMH.
Of course, there are a lot of other things I loved as a kid that are still great, but I wish I could still enjoy them all.
Hmm, 10, eh? Well, the only thing I remember on our TV was the Watergate hearings in grainy black and white, listening to "Delta Dawn" on the largish stereo, taking on the school bully and ending up in a draw, looking outside as the eye of a hurricane passed right over our house, and setting up hot wheels track all the way down the driveway to the curb (a good 40' or so.)
Videos? Not invented yet. Tape was reel to reel and pricey. Playing outside was the order of the day as was walking to school and riding my red Schwinn with the handle-bar tassles.
Ahh, the memories. :)
I bet they had books, even way back then!
Mighty Mouse cartoons. :-)
I loved Three Investigators and Encyclopedia Brown!
Some of my favorite childhood "pop culture" memories were all the Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday Morning shows: H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and of course Land of the Lost.
TV Land reran some of those shows a while back and I taped several episodes of Land of the Lost - my son loves them. Even in today's Jurassic Park/Walking with Dinosaurs world, they still appeal. ;)
I absolutely loved "E.T." when I was ten, I dug everything about it, including the California tract-home neighborhood they lived in.
I tried watching it a while back, and it was unbearably awful. Way too sugary sweet.
Strangely enough, the movie "War Games", which you would think would look dated and phony, I still enjoy , and the subject still has relevance.
also for some strange reason I miss those huge top-loading VCRs, my parents had this monster Sears model (is anything Sears branded anymore?) . This one had cool cold-war era brushed aluminum styling, and a *wired* remote with one button , "pause". How cool is that?
You guys left out "Tron". Even with the cheesy visual compositing, it was still a great flick.
Mike, the only electronics that are Sears branded anymore are the appliances, and even those are made by Whirlpool and Amana for the most part. My Kenmore 26' side-by-side (with ice and water, of course) is made by Amana.
I had an old Sears "SR" branded VCR years back that lasted 10 years. When it finally needed a repair, I found out it was a Hitachi. Go figure.
There's still a Sears near me, in Santa Monica. I never go there.
Mike R., I think my parents had that exact same VCR.
I hate Sears. It's real crappy.