[notthisagain]

I grew up in the 80s and I get nostalgic for the old games, toys and candy that we used to have back then. Well, I decided I wanted some board games and went to the store. The modern versions are just awful! The makers made them way too easy and it takes the fun out of them. I also picked up some Cracker Jacks and Bazooka Joe bubble gum. They took the Bazooka Joe comics out! And the prize in the Cracker Jacks is just some code that you have to use your smart phone for.

What do you think? Do you prefer the "new and improved" version of products? Or do you prefer the original?

[lizardlady]

No toy in the Cracker Jacks!?!?!? That's just wrong!

[NSNW1218]

I feel the same way about the 70's

[notthisagain]

Originally Posted by lizardlady

No toy in the Cracker Jacks!?!?!? That's just wrong!

They might have been cheesy, but at least they were toys. I miss the temporary tattoos and the little games where you has to get the little balls in the holes. Now everything has to have people tied to their smartphones. Even the prizes in boxes of cereal. And Bazooka Joe comics - same thing. You have to go online to get the comic. Newer isn't always better.

[LadyShadow]

Prefer the old all the way! I think its lazy for them to include codes for smartphones. That and trying to save money by not giving us the toys!

[Nihil]

I would say modern video games are a lot better than the old ones simply because there's much more variety, and the old ones were fairly restricted and not so open-ended, in a lot of cases.

[Takeshi]

This is sorta open topic, right?

The newest and latest are always bad for me, it's not tested, I suspect lots of market gimmicks are involved, I'll just wait or go for the older models, styles what have you, that way I pay less for almost the same technology, the fun is still there 'cos anything's new to me for the first time, nostalgia, sure that's another reason to find treasure in older things.

I already knew about the Cracker Jacks, cereal box and toys, yeah, I don't remember if it was a figurine or a toy car, something was in there.

Oh, I'm recalling now what I wanted to talk about. A music players or a digital camera, I'm all for good quality digital sounds but I don't know what, if they are copy right protections or just proprietary restrictions, the last time I checked about a Walkman, that just not gonna work with my Linux system.

I've never needed or been able to afford a touch phone, a pad with 3G or 4G, and I don't know how to use texting on my dumb phone. There seems to be lots of formats and softwares, I just wanna do simple things in a simple way and the supposed new and improved stuff doesn't do crap for me.

New and improved claims get repeated time and time again and that just gets old. The improvement and restoration of human achievement goes together, at the end of the day, it's about the quality, add a dash of longevity and things become legendary.

We should visit museum more often. .Let me think about other things, eBooks, audio books, I only own few of them, and I like this new format of books. Are they EMP proof though?

What else's new?

[Angelique67]

Originally Posted by notthisagain

I grew up in the 80s and I get nostalgic for the old games, toys and candy that we used to have back then. Well, I decided I wanted some board games and went to the store. The modern versions are just awful! The makers made them way too easy and it takes the fun out of them. I also picked up some Cracker Jacks and Bazooka Joe bubble gum. They took the Bazooka Joe comics out! And the prize in the Cracker Jacks is just some code that you have to use your smart phone for.

What do you think? Do you prefer the "new and improved" version of products? Or do you prefer the original?

They ruined the Bazooka Joe bubble gum. I can still remember how it tasted. But no comic - that destroys the experience! And no toy in cracker jacks! I didn't know that either. I remember just delighting in the toys and games in that, and in cereal boxes. Now I feel sad. :/

Agree. Although I don't like Cracker Jack. I miss the cereal box toys. Even toys I bought as a kid are different because they were a "choking hazard"...(no disrespect intended...I get the reasoning, I just miss them).

[notthisagain]

Originally Posted by sophiesmom

Agree. Although I don't like Cracker Jack. I miss the cereal box toys. Even toys I bought as a kid are different because they were a "choking hazard"...(no disrespect intended...I get the reasoning, I just miss them).

I get it too, but generations of us have had those toys and we survived. I used to have this See N Say when I was a kid. It was this plastic toy that had an arrow in the middle and farm animals around it. You pulled the string and as it retracted, if it pointed to the cow, it said "The cow goes 'Moo'". I figured out if I held the string as it was going in I could get the cow to say 'Quack' and other stuff. I would sit there and laugh my *ss off. They replaced the string with a lever so now you can't do that anymore.

I also understand that companies want to appeal to today's kids, but, and maybe I am being an old fart, but there is something about being able to have fun without the use of a video console or a smartphone. Can't they have the comics in the Bazooka Joe AND a code, maybe? A lousy sticker or a temporary tattoo in Cracker Jacks? They have like two peanuts in it too.

I did find the actual board games that I wanted on Amazon and I should be getting them today. The new ones, I cannot see them being any fun for anyone over the age of 5. I do think that these companies are in some way alienating their older customers by making these stupid changes.

I love board games.

Pente, Outwit, Monopoly, Careers....

[88Butterfly88]

It depends on the product for me. While I appreciate modern technology to an extent, I'm also kind of old fashioned. I think there should be a toy in the Cracker Jacks too. Also, more of a 90s to early 2000s thing, but I used to like that at one point some cereal came with computer games and that General Mills had a cool game site called Millsberry. I don't see that anymore. They put little silly prizes in cereal boxes sometimes but it's not the same for kids today, at least I don't think, as I don't normally buy children's cereal.