Since when was this total shit?!?!?!

[David Bray]

Nostalgia *****. Literal meaning 'the pain from an old wound'

 

[Racthoh]

Never cared for graphics so nope. My Wii's virtual console sees more play than my 360 for a reason.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I tend to enjoy all my old games.... Yeah... They're all still fun.

 

[Furioso]

The: Army Men Sarges Heroes games for the N64, I wasted hours on that game with my friends only to return to it many years later with them and we all simulatiously discovered how broken it was, oh the green, plastic horror!

 

[Caligulove]

I fucking loved Pilotwings 64 when it came out- now though... there's just so many better games for that feeling. I did feel like it was this free-world, open to do what I wanted (even if it was only FLY TO X WITH Y) and I would just play through the level a few times to just dick around after I completed whatever the objective was.

Now though, I play it and I just can't get over how horrible the characters look. And since I sold most of my N64 games, when I found my current copy in a bargain bin- I had no idea that it was somehow the Japanese version, so I can't tell what I'm supposed to do after a few islands

 

[Judgement101]

Castlevaina: SotN, seriously, it was fun for about 30 mins, then you realise it's unnessisarily difficult and has the most cheap deaths ever.

 

[occrats]

Since Ive been playing games since I was about three I play the Rayman games on the N64 and say how could I not beat this level?

 

[nightowl195]

Considering that I grew up on the NES and SNES, I would say no. And yes I have gone back and played quite a few of my childhood favorites and I like them as much now as I did then if not more so.

 

[ilspooner]

I remember playing Mario Kart 64 when I was a kid, but yet it is still good. I have had one experience of this though, Super Smash Bros.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Not usually on games, this doesn't happen very often (or at all so far).
However, TV shows = BIG HONKIN YES... Case in point: Thundercats.... I loved it as a kid, then years later after the fog of memory cleared I watched it again, and find myself thinking I was a wee bit retarded for even liking that show... horrible writing, animation was sub-par (not as bad as Speed Racer, but then I never watched that show).

 

[Space Spoons]

When I was a kid, there was this dingy old supermarket around the corner from our house. We never really shopped there because it was kind of run down and always smelled like smoke, but there was a Final Fight arcade machine there, so I'd hang around there a lot. I swear, I must have sunk a hundred bucks into that old arcade cabinet (and that's saying something, as it was set to 25 cents a play).

I recently played Final Fight on an arcade emulator. The nostalgia of it keeps me from hating the game entirely, but boy howdy that is one awful game. Apart from the fact that it's pretty much designed from the ground up to suck quarters from your pockets (it's ridiculously unfair at times), it's extremely monotonous and boring. Just walk-and-punch, walk-and-punch. I don't know why I loved it so much.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

No, I had the opposite, just rebought an N64 with GoldenEye and Doom, I cant stop playing, Im also thinking about rebuying a Genesis as well

 

[SirDoom]

Some games age well, some don't. Most mario games are fun no matter what, for example.

Goldeneye 007... not so much. Lasttime I tried to play it on my good ol' N64...

Me- "Hmm... the graphics are a lot blockier than I remember. Oh well, it'll still be fun!"



"How the hell do I play this with only one control stick?"

 

[Xeohelios]

I remember having fun with "Killer Instinct" in Super Nintendo. And for 64 Turok i remember getting scare as hell and turning it off then after a day or two tried again.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Never had that problem, but I think that's a result of usually being too cynical for nostalgia. I do still occasionally play old games, but they're pretty much what I expect based on my memories. Point in case, I recently got StarTropics for NES. I started it up, remembering full well that it was a merciless pain in the ass, but fun and quirky.

Although, there is a very good reason I haven't replayed either Xenogears or the first Parasite Eve in about 6 years. Pretty sure they would disappoint me now.

xenogears still holds up for me though. but this is coming from a guy who loves games like that.

Well, Xenogears was my favourite videogame for several years after its release. That's precisely why I'm afraid to replay it. We're talking 4 playthroughs during age 12-16 here and, let's face it, most things that seem great when you're a teenager seem pretty terrible later on. Maybe someday, when I'm spectacularly bored, I'll try it again and there will be either joyous laughter or solemn weeping.

 

[Irridium]

people compain that this gen has been the worst, but if you try to go back to playing previous gen games, you'll appreciate that this gen has actually been pretty good overall.

I don't care what anyone says. Checkpoints are a godsend.

 

[AvsJoe]

GoldenEye 64 isn't as good as it was back then but it's still an enjoyable experience. Other then that, this has yet to happen to me.

 

[Shockolate]

I looked up some videos on Tau Fire Warrior last week and, Wow, was I surprised.

I remembered it being a lot better.

 

[arabidflea]

Battle Toads was and still is, Da Boom!

 

[02y211]

Yea playing old games is hard. Some games just don't seem to age for me though - I am looking at you System Shock 2, Deus Ex and Diablo 2.

But some time ago at a LAN I tried Mario Kart 64(or whatever the Mario Kart for the Nintendo 64 was called) and I found it to be terribly awful. The old 2d Mario games are still fun though, but not as fun as I remembered them to be.