• JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    Some games were terrible and you made them better in your memory on accident.

    Some are still exactly as good as you hoped.

    Most had a cool vibe that made you like it but were guilty of multiple atrocities of game design.

  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    Playing what you had, good or bad, is how it was back then. Everyone has that game which is terrible to most but we love because it’s what we had available.

    • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Back when they still had video rental stores that carried games, and you had to carefully select what game you were stuck with for the weekend lol.

  • kryptonidas@lemmings.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    I hope the Croc: Legend of the Gobbos remaster will be fun to play.

    For me one of the few games I can play (without remaster) to this day, is Age of Empires. And the remasters and remakes have been really great too! And started playing it like 25 years ago!

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    6 days ago

    It isn’t bad. It can seem bad now because every AAA game is psychologically designed to give the biggest possible dopamine response to increase in-game spending. So your brain, being conditioned on such games, will think the older game is bad because it was designed to be fun but also engage your brain and make you think. Since your brain has to work for it, it subconciously thinks the tradeoff is not as good as new games.

    • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I’m so much more competent as an adult. So I’m enjoying some games a lot more as an adult. I also have less time. So some grindier games I am not enjoying as much.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Tonight I got my ass kicked in Rocket League by my daughter. I had to immediately pay OG Super Mario Bros for a pick me up.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    The only games from my childhood I can ever recall being like that when thinking back would be the edutainment style games I had, obviously.

  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    6 days ago

    Nah. Those games weren’t bad at all. Aren’t bad today either. Go play OG Ninja Gaiden, or Mario Kart, or Mario World, or hell BATTLETOADS. Or Metroid.

    Or the original Zelda. God damn games were good. Even damn Tetris is good.

    Unless you grew up on an Atari. Fuck those games were bad.

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Original Ninja Gaiden trilogy is great (I hate Ninja Gaiden II’s stage hazards but still).

      Super Mario Kart… eh, it’s pretty average compare to the kart racers that came after it. It’s not worth playing beyond curiostiy or nostalgia.

      There is nothing wrong with Super Mario World but for some reason it doesn’t quite click with me.

      Battletoads would be a fun game if knew what the fuck it wanted to be.

      Original Metroid? It’s kinda jank and a pain to play without a map, just play Zero Mission.

      Zelda’s overworld can fuck right off, I swear it’s only there to sell strategy guides. Dungeons are fun but if I already dumped 50$ on the game in the 80s only to realize there is no way to get through it without a guide or a magazine I wouldn’t be super jazzed.

      Tetris is a timeless classic.

      Atari was great until 83, I think Activision’s 2600 library hasn’t aged one bit. It’s all downhill from there, computers were the place to be for Western titles back then.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Honestly, as a Metroid series fan, the OG was kinda bad (but tried something that was quite new for the time). Return of Samus was ok, especially considering that it was a Gameboy game. Then Super Metroid absolutely knocked it out of the park. The only thing that feels off when playing it today are the somewhat finicky movements