Popular Nostalgia

Aaah its 6.30 its the late 90’s its channel 2….its time for Heartbreak High. dont remember much other than Drazick was a Badass and they played a lot of pool. This post was submitted by Adam Walker.

The Sega Megadrive was the first games console that I first properly got given – I had used the Atari, but that had been my older brother’s console. It was known as the SEGA Genesis in America, I believe, and my parents somehow managed to get a Japanese version that played both Japanese and European […]

Anyone remember bread in a stripy red,yellow,orange and black packet? Every time my mum wheeled the trolley past it in the supermarket I used to sing “I’m a Tiger” by Lulu. This post was submitted by Barb.

This track,and this movie, bring to mind the lazy hazy feelings of summer time for many people – and we get to enjoy the light hearted banter of Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the video clip above. Share your memories of Cliff and the Shadows “Summer Holiday” using the comments box below. We’re all […]

Thundercats has near legendary status in my mind, as it was perhaps my favourite TV show growing up, and certainly the best cartoon. I remember getting a lion-o jumper for my birthday one year and wearing it probably every day for a month. I also remember those two kids on flying surf-boards, who, when you […]

Danny, Champion of the World, was both a book by Roald Dahl, and a movie. Both of which I loved as a child, involving the perennial class war between a boy and his father, and the local lord of the manor. Danny and his dad play a great trick on the local rich folk by […]

Don’t you open that Trap Door. There’s something down there. This was on children’s TV when I was growing up, and I can remember only the intro, which is in the video above, and the fact that there was a talking skull. The start bit went like this: Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, […]

Fun House with Pat Sharp ran for an amazing decade, despite not really having much more to it than a few messy games, a really slow grand prix in go karts that seemed to have been turned right down to minimum, and an end bit with lots of great prizes like a trip to bognor […]