Twitter’s trending topics—subjects or phrases that the social network is buzzing about at any given moment—are sometimes based on big news headlines. Sometimes they spring from live events or tragic catastrophes, as everyone rushes to make the first supremely clever joke about Kim Kardashian. And sometimes they’re just awful memes.
But for the past couple of days, Twitterers have united to wax nostalgic on something quite positive: the video games they grew up playing. For at least the past 24 hours, the hashtag “#VideoGamesIGrewUpWith” has been trending in the United States. Woohoo! Video games!
Some of these tweets make me feel very old:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251314900792643584
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251293434990702593
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251315860436840448
Some of them call back to the classics:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251405195144216576
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251278817199525888
Some of them are a little bizarre:
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251228737193005056
#VideoGamesIGrewUpWith Barbie Race and Ride
— Sam Thorley. (@SpThorley) September 27, 2012
https://twitter.com/embed/status/251101620568457217
Some of them are kind of funny:
#VideoGamesIGrewUpWith Star Wars battlefront. In fact I believe my first erection was when I found out I could play as Jedi in the 2nd one
— Eric Fetter (@efetter) September 27, 2012
#VideoGamesIGrewUpWith "Pretend The Blinking DOS Prompt Is A Game Because All Dad's Christmas Money Was Spent On MIami Dolphins Tickets."
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) September 27, 2012
Even heartless corporations are getting involved:
#VideoGamesIGrewUpWith All of them 😀
— GameStop (@gamestop) September 27, 2012
Your turn. What’d you grow up with?
