{"id":25413,"date":"2024-01-12T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=25413"},"modified":"2024-01-12T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:48:02","slug":"20240112-25413","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240112-25413\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia for childhood games trends with \u201cI grew up on these streets\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posting screenshots of games from your childhood with the caption \u201cI grew up on these streets\u201d has become popular on X during the last few days. Everyone from official game accounts, developers, influencers and ordinary gamers have been sharing various games from the past.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear exactly what triggered this outpouring of nostalgia but tracing the citations on several posts led back to an account called Retro Tech Dreams, which shares technology-related images from the 1980s through to the 2000s. On January 6, the account posted a screenshot of the neighborhood from the first game in The Sims series with the caption \u201cI grew up on these streets.\u201d\u00a0 This seems to be a humorous reference to the hours they spent as a child designing houses and shaping the lives of their virtual families.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I grew up on these streets <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bd4bRQMG6F\">pic.twitter.com\/bd4bRQMG6F<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Retro Tech Dreams (@RetroTechDreams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RetroTechDreams\/status\/1743340591461642277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The post seems to have struck a chord, leading many people to chime in with screenshots of street and town scenes from beloved old games. Official game accounts also jumped on the \u201cI grew up on these streets\u201d bandwagon. The official Sonic the Hedgehog account uploaded an image of Sonic skating down a large hill in 2001\u2019s Sonic Adventures 2. Meanwhile, the official European account of Nippon Ichi Software America posted a shot of Altair City from The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (2011).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I grew up on these streets. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lfnx6huB15\">pic.twitter.com\/Lfnx6huB15<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sonic the Hedgehog (@sonic_hedgehog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sonic_hedgehog\/status\/1744880791182844095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I grew up on these streets <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k9GG6J8Nws\">pic.twitter.com\/k9GG6J8Nws<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NISAinEurope (@NISAinEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NISAinEurope\/status\/1744717966162194487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The official game accounts\u2019 postings spanned a broad range of genres and decades. The Harvest Moon series\u2019 official account posted a nostalgic image of Forget-me-not Valley, the setting for 2003\u2019s Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. League of Legends uploaded an image of the Summoner\u2019s Rift (an area that was first launched in 2009), while Ubisoft\u2019s UK account went with a still from Rayman 1 (1995).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I grew up on these streets <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9P35tHeAMd\">https:\/\/t.co\/9P35tHeAMd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tJJJipFK6N\">pic.twitter.com\/tJJJipFK6N<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Foxgrove \u2661 (@foxgrove__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxgrove__\/status\/1744483863651389729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i grew up on these streets <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVuUKEULk1\">https:\/\/t.co\/iVuUKEULk1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jVtPyOvBW7\">pic.twitter.com\/jVtPyOvBW7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; kendra \ud83c\udf42 (@kendracrossing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kendracrossing\/status\/1744703391522050151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <font size=\"2\">There were many recollections of Japanese games too.&nbsp;<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI grew up on these streets\u201d seems to have captured the attention of gamers of all ages. Although many individual users posted screenshots of much older games, there were also those who posted relatively new titles. The word \u201cstreet\u201d seems to have been interpreted in a variety of ways. Although many have posted town and street scenes, people also posted stages from side-scrolling games or even illustrations rather than actual screenshots. The simple caption \u201cI grew up on these streets\u201d has prompted users to try guessing what each game is in the comments. Why not check out \u201cI grew up on these streets\u201d posts and add your own gaming memory?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/verity-townsend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Verity Townsend<\/a>\u00a0based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20240110-278572\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article\u00a0<\/a>(original article\u2019s publication date: 2024-01-10 18:30\u00a0JST)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;I grew up on these streets&#8221; has been trending on X, as people recall the nostalgic video game towns that shaped their childhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":25416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-25413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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