nostalgia blindness

A condition in which fond memories of something cause a failure to perceive it objectively at a later time.

Thanks to my nostalgia blindness, I feel that movie I saw when I was six years old is still great, even though it doesn't hold up anymore.

by Razum Tazum August 20, 2020

Nostalgia Bait

Pulling in old characters/concepts and ideas from classic movies/tv shows and putting them into new media to sucker in their fans and to make them believe something is "good" because the familiar is there.

Person 1: Wow, Star Wars Rogue One is so good. I clapped and cheered when Darth Vader showed up. R2 D2 and C3po also appeared and therefor this is good Star Wars Content.

Person 2: I can't believe you fell for the Nostalgia Bait.

by x2x3yme February 13, 2022

nostalgia nuke

When some one brings something up from your childhood that you completely forgot, and it blows you away like a nuke.

Me: Dude do you remember that show Yu Yu Hakasho or Fighting Foodons?
Friend: Holy crap, You need to stop dropping nostalgia nukes or you're gonna start world war 3.

by jd8896 April 5, 2011

nostalgia goggles

Looking at things with nostalgic light even if it's obviously terrible.Especially when it comes to old flames.

Joe:I miss Alex.
Dave: Take off your nostalgia goggles.
Joe: Why?
Dave: She cheated on you,dumped you for a that quarterback who knock her up.

by ryukage99 December 12, 2014

Nostalgia Coma

A state where upon witnessing something wonderful from your childhood you spend several hours on the internet exploring it.

Dude I found this video on Youtube that was a compilation of 80's cartoon themes! Next time I looked at a clock it was five hours later! What the hell happened?

You must have gone into a severe nostalgia coma

by corsairjoshua March 7, 2011

nostalgia backfire

An event in which someone gets re-acquainted with a favorite song, movie, or other thing from their past, but eventually finds that it only reminds them of the time at which they got back into it.

My junior year of high school, I went up into the attic and found that Super Mario game I used to play when I was, like, 10 years old. But now when I play it all I can think of is how it was the one thing about my high school days that didn't suck. What a total freaking nostalgia backfire.

by OneMileFromGlory December 7, 2011

Nostalgia Filter

There is a tendency for some adults and some teenagers to see the newer material in a medium (be it music, film, animation, or comic books) as inferior to the older classics that they knew in their youth.

Nostalgia filters are usually developed when people are under the age of 30.

by flintlocke314 September 11, 2018