Games we loved but aged badly

[ryudo]

As for me I had great memories of the first Metroid for NES then years later playing it the game has not aged well (it was good in the 80's) so while I still liked the old NES music but the gameplay is so limited..thankfully GBA in 2004 came out with Metroid Zero mission as a total remake with updated mechanics and visuals and music and even story bits to explain things plus a cool extra mission at the end...was like playing Super metroid combined with the original...which of course is a good thing.


Also the Original Zelda's on NES...they are so boring to me now, go play Crystalis from SNK and it's vastly superior in every way,visuals and gameplay and story and still great while Zelda just is bleck.


Just name some games you had good memories of until you came back later to realize they are not as good as you remember.

[dolson]

While I agree with Zelda (though my comparison would be Neutopia which looked way better and I enjoyed more), my choice would be Super Mario Land for GameBoy... Compare it even to that Golden Coins game, and it was terrible. But at the time, I liked it.

[scoobydiesel]

I have to say alot of the first 3d games that i use to always play have aged bad like the graphics really have come along way.

even like command & conquer, loved the first one sooo much but like that series has had a huge upgrade in graphics over the year, even for an RTS game.

but yeah zelda also aged aot but great games keep coming from our old loves, well for the most part.

[bobafettjm]

For me most of the classic 2-d games I loved are still fun. However there are a number of early PSX and N64 games that are so terrible now that I loved back then.

[gojira]

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say 'loved', but I played the hell out of E.T., Pac-Man and a bunch of other Atari 2600 games that are hardly playable today. There were also a handful of bad NES games I put quite a number of hours into. Super Pitfall and Bart vs. The Space Mutants among others.

[dolson]

I played the hell out of E.T.

Huh... So others like me DO exist.

I actually had 3 or 4 copies of E.T., heh. I didn't know at the time what that game would go on to signify. I had doubles of a few other games too. Ah, nostalgia.

[summx]

i played golden axe recently and it was a bad experience

[lavahot]

Huh... So others like me DO exist.

I actually had 3 or 4 copies of E.T., heh. I didn't know at the time what that game would go on to signify. I had doubles of a few other games too. Ah, nostalgia.

My favorite part of that story is how they manufactured many more cartridges than there were consoles. I want to go out into the Arizona desert on a walkabout and see if I can find the giant landfill full of ET carts.

[stubadub]

Double Dragon. I played that so many times at the arcades. eventually a friend and I went down to the bowling alley with a ziplock bag full of quarters determined to make it to the end. It seems like we spen $15 or so to beat it and thought it was the greatest game on the planet.

I went to play it on Xbox Live Arcade and immediately regretted it. The game is cheap, the controls are horrible, and it wasn't even fun considering nostalgia.

The first Zelda, on the other hand, is still one I like. I've been slowly playing through it on the VC.

[stubadub]

Huh... So others like me DO exist.

I actually had 3 or 4 copies of E.T., heh. I didn't know at the time what that game would go on to signify. I had doubles of a few other games too. Ah, nostalgia.

I loved E.T. as a child, but never came close to beating it. I also played the crap out of the Raiders of the Lost Ark game without ever beating it. I know it must have something to do with falling of the ledge with a parachute and making it into the hole in the rock under the branch, but I could never make it in there. Did anyone here beat that game?

[ceejayreb]

I learned to stay away from games I loved as a kid. There are times where I feel like filling myself with nostalgia by hooking up my NES and playing Punch Out!, but most of the time, there are games that you go "I remember that! That was great" and you end up disappointing yourself when you replay them.

Sometimes games are best left for the memory...

[dolson]

I loved E.T. as a child, but never came close to beating it. I also played the crap out of the Raiders of the Lost Ark game without ever beating it. I know it must have something to do with falling of the ledge with a parachute and making it into the hole in the rock under the branch, but I could never make it in there. Did anyone here beat that game?

I am pretty sure I finished E.T., but not Raiders, nope. Too hard.

I learned to stay away from games I loved as a kid. There are times where I feel like filling myself with nostalgia by hooking up my NES and playing Punch Out!, but most of the time, there are games that you go "I remember that! That was great" and you end up disappointing yourself when you replay them.

Sometimes games are best left for the memory...

I got Punch-Out!! on the Virtual Console, and it held up surprisingly well. :)

[sugarsickness]

No games I loved as a child have aged badly; all are insanely awesome and fun.


Well, except for the NES Batman game.


... why did I love that so much? Why? :(







Oh yeah, the sweet-ass wall jumping B)

[-jedibitch-]

I can't play any old games. I try, but I always get really frustrated.

I can't even play morrowind for xbox anymore. Honestly. That game isn't even that old.

[canadian8703]

Going back to FFXII wasn't as amazing as i remember, then again i was 12...

[lorddust]

Going back to FFXII wasn't as amazing as i remember, then again i was 12...

How old are you now? did you time travel here from the future? XII has only be out like a year or two.

[aerodash84]

A lot of PSX and N64 games seems to not have aged well. I have games like Parasite Eve and some others that I wanted to beat, but couldn't get past how bad they looked. I think they didn't age well. A lot of side scrolling games hold up decently I think because the mechanics were simple, so they looked pretty good. I think my problem is some older games are so frustratingly difficult and no save feature really sucked. I think that's why I used Game Genie when I was younger.

[dolson]

How old are you now? did you time travel here from the future? XII has only be out like a year or two.

Probably they meant VII.. Just my guess. I didn't like that one even back then.