So I'm writing about the friendship (and possibly more) between characters who are from different eras (some of it might involve time travel. Some of it might involve just the fact that people have age gap relationships). So for example if I have a character that was born in the 80s, I have instinctive knowledge of what that character must have watched, read, or played throughout the different years and at what age. The moment I add a characters born in the 70s or in the 90s, it is a bit different, and I might mess up stuff lightly. So I figured we could all help each other if each writes a bit about our background. Now, countries might not be as helpful because each of us already decided what countries our novels are happening in, and also we all share sort of a universal culture anyway. So anyway, here is something I'd love for a lot of people to fill out. It could help me and also you. I'm mostly looking for people born in the 70s or 90s, or maybe 80s like me, but any other era is welcome. Each form is going to help me, and others, in any novel or short story. It can help because I, for instance, have not watched Barney or Animaniacs, because I was too old and I don't remember exactly how old are the people who did watch it. I can do extensive research, but it's more organic and easier if we all build a roster of the reasonable ages, based on our experience as real people, and not just some list we had from clinically researching imdb. NATURALLY WE CAN ALL WRITE OUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN GENERALITIES. ALSO: Obviously if you were a teenager in the 90s and you watched a 1940s movie, it might not be as helpful as listing a movie that actually came out, unless of course we're talking about something that made a comeback for some reason (like the Star Wars thing). And of course there are reruns in certain eras. These are helpful. Like how The Wonder Years was on Nick at Night throughout the late 90s. This is not an attempt to collect information on individuals or to get people to tell me their exact age. Also, feel free to steal from my list. Decade of birth: Country (optional): First time I went online (year and about how old I was): Stuff I (or others my age) watched as a kid: Stuff I (or others my age) watched as a teenager: Stuff I (or others my age) watched as an adult: Video games from my childhood: Video games from teenage years: Video games from my adulthood: ************************************ Okay, here are mine: Decade of birth: The 80s. Country (optional): Israel. A couple of years in the US. First time I went online (year and about how old I was): Teenager. 1997. Stuff I watched as a kid: Kidd Video (I was a toddler when this one was on most likely) G. I. Joe The Wonder Years Transformers Smurfs Who Framed Roger Rabbit Duck Tales Neverending Story E.T. The A Team Home Alone Stand By Me (not sure if that goes on kid list or teenager list) Star Trek (older than the 80s, but it was on when I was a kid. Shatner and Nemoy) Stuff I watched as a teenager: The Commish Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager. Perhaps TNG should have gone to the kid list. It's right on the border. Predator (came out when I was a kid but I naturally watched int when I was a bit older) Three Men and a Baby (came out same year as Predator) Tales From the Crypt (not sure if it goes here or to the kid list). The X Files Sliders Thunder in Paradise WWF (later changed to WWE) Oz Mad TV The Fifth Element Die Hard (first 3 movies) Millennium Profiler (similar plotline to Millennium) Home & Away (famous Australian show popular in Israel) Keeping Up Appearances (an old British show that had reruns in Israel and the US) Mr. Bean Crocodile Dundy (1 and 2) Law & Order (original show) Stuff I watched as an adult: CSI Vegas (just out of my teens when it came out) Iron Man (and Captain America and all of the stuff that followed) Law & Order (original show, also SVU) The West Wing Die Hard 4 (ugh. Worse than Stand By Me). Suicide Squad (ugh, worse than Die Hard 4) The Shield Breaking Bad Better Call Saul 24 Designated Survivor Manifest Battle Creek Joker Video games from my childhood: Digger Commander Keen Video games from teenage years: Warcraft 1 and 2 GTA 2 Doom (1 or 3) Half Life Video games from my adulthood: GTA 3 and above. RDR2 Fallout 3 and above
Decade of birth: 60s First time I went online (year and about how old I was): adult, 1994 Stuff I (or others my age) watched as a kid: Scooby Doo The Incredible Hulk Looney Toons The Wonderful World of Disney The Justice League Super Friends The Waltons Little House on the Prairie Zoom Mr. Rogers Neighborhood The Electric Company Sesame Street Star Trek:TOS Stuff I (or others my age) watched as a teenager: Dukes of Hazard Get Smart Magnum PI RIP Tide The A Team Simon and Simon Days of Our Lives Laff Olympics Dungeons and Dragons Scooby Doo Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy Emergency Macgyver Whiz Kids Doctor Who MASH Dallas WKRP Animaniacs I love cartoons The Las Unicorn I learned to love reading after a horrible experience in grade school. I read every Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy books I could get my hands on. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn. Every young adult mystery (not the Babysitter's Club, they weren't around) and thriller. Star Trek books. Adventures. A Wrinkle in Time. The World According to Garp. Science fantasy and fiction. Stuff I (or others my age) watched as an adult: Supernatural Forever Knight All the Korean shows (Beyond Evil is awesome) Grace Point Broadchurch Doctor Who Seinfeld Everybody Loves Raymond Newhart The Golden Girls Every stupid SYFY movie All the Zombie movies Asian historical dramas Bad lung fu movies Princess Bride Dora the Explorer Go Diego Go Spongebob Squarepants All the Star Wars and Star Treks While You were Sleeping Video games from my childhood: none Video games from teenage years: none Video games from my adulthood: PacMan Mrs. PacMan Space Invaders Pinball machines Doom (I die a lot) Mario Kart Wii Sports
