In my younger days I tried more for western-made strategy/sim type games. Sim City 2000 and Civilization 1 were awesome. Even if I never bothered to learn the higher difficulty levels or advanced features. I'd surely also dabbled in Lords of the Realm 2, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Risk (C64), Colonization, Sim City SNES... Now I'm just apathetic. Probably wouldn't be that difficult to get back into some titles if I cared to.
Lum fan.
Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 back in the day I don't know how much I spent at the local 7/11 but it was a shit load. Now I try and play them and they just suck ASS!!! Guess it must have been the blood and guts.
Glossed over the thread and didn't see anyone mention Goldeneye for N64. I think that game might have the biggest difference in how it was looked at then versus today.
You know, it's funny how people thought Rare's N64 games were the shit back in the day (Banjo-Kazooie, DK64, etc.) and then later on realized they were just Mario 64 clones with more of an emphasis on collect-a-thon hoarding.
Also: a couple people have mentioned how the older Mortal Kombat games weren't really that great when you go back to them. I think that while the gameplay is pretty bad compared to other fighting games, there's still a bizarre charm to the old MKs. For some reason, I enjoy them in spite of their overall mediocrity, or perhaps because of it.
Lego Island (PC)
As a kid, I played this game to death; I did pretty much everything you could possibly do short of stop the Brickster from destroying the island (Something I've never manged to pull off), and enjoyed it. Now, I can't get over the fact that the island feels pretty empty; it seems big, but there just isn't much to do at all
Castlevania 64. I always loved Castlevania and when this game came out, I thought it was so deep and so atmospheric. I mean, let's be honest, the gardener pouring blood out of a watering can was pretty epic and took the haunted Castlevania vibe up a few notches. (In fact, I wish they went more in the creepy, dark, gothic vibe and vastly improved Castlevania 64 instead of either Metroidvania or God of Castlevania). But anyway, I thought the game was so cool and so amazing. Playing it now, I understand why I died so much... clunky controls, stiff turns, bad camera angles (which is a staple in early 3D, but still worth mentioning), and at some points (carrying the bomb) just frustrating gameplay. I bet if you put Castlevania in the hands of Retro Studios (responsible for Metriod Prime series and Donkey Kong Country Returns), the series would be in proper 3D... But that's a rant for another day. So... yeah, Castlevania 64 for me.
I can't be the only one?
I *adored* this game when I first rented it in '92/'93. Replayed it 5 years ago and wow... not very good to say the least, lol.
Ah, the bliss of being 8 or 9 and not knowing any better...
Sonic Adventure, not so much the game, but the cut scenes that last for about six-weeks each.
Mortal Kombat 1. I tried replaying it maybe a year ago and boy was it bad. It gave me about 5 minutes of entertainment and then it has been shelved forever since.
WTB Clayfighter Sculptor's Cut Manual Only... PM ME!!
Altered Beast. I wasn't infatuated with it like a lot of people were, but I did get roped in with the presentation and the whole "WISE FWOM YO GWAVE" thing. Plus, it was the only Genesis game I had when I got the system.
I played it a couple years ago on the Genesis collection for the 360. What a piece of shit. It's not even playable. It's so cheap that it's impossible to develop any kind of technique to keep you from getting whacked repeatedly. It's such a turd in terms of gameplay, and it's just shocking that it got ported to EVERYTHING!
The Genesis version of Golden Axe is something I loved back in the 90's. Now I find it so obnoxiously frustrating I can't take it after a couple minutes. If an enemy gets a few swipes in, you're dead. It's so unfair. The arcade version is probably just as bad, but at least it's more colorful and sounds better.
Oh man, don't mention Half-Life to me. I'll never understand the acclaim it's received. I played it for about 10 hours and encountered a total of three gamebreaking glitches. These were moments I had to end my game and reload another checkpoint to be able to continue. I just got stuck and couldn't do anything.Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes
Selling gaming accessories. Click
for me its bart vs the space mutants i loved that game as a kid but i played it a few months ago and god its terrible some of the worst controls ever
I feel same way. And here I thought I had done something wrong when I couldn't advance in the game, I think I was glitching out. I never understood what all of the hype was about either.
Snoopy and the Red Baron for the 2600. I loved it back then, and could play for hours without dying - in fact, I wouldn't die if I didn't want to. Now I think it gets boring after some time.
Blowing on cartridges since 1987
To be fair, Half-Life really DOES become a "what the hell am I supposed to do now?" kind of game at times. It might not have been glitching necessarily... just you missed some detail or overlooked something because the environments are too good and cause things that should stand out to blend in.
I wound up having to download the latest patch, to be honest.
Like you, I rented it at the time and thought it was fantastic. I remember seeing the digitized lion statue on the one background and being blown away at them using that technique.
Now, meh. It's not horrible by any means but it's just extremely, extremely shallow. But, it has some interesting character designs to balance out the lame ones, and the music still rocks.
It's posts like this where I realize I've forgotten the names of so many games, but here it goes..
Days of Thunder for NES -- This game started a years-long obsession about racing games where you had to pit. Picked it up a few years ago for a song and found out why it's so cheap. Even for a NES racing game this sucks.
Mario is Missing -- For some reason I loved this shitpile as well. They did a nice job with the graphics, looked like a SNES game. Of course they were able to get away with that since the gameplay doesn't really exist.
Bubsy -- Still not sure what I ever saw in this . . .
Tiny Toon Adventures -- My sister and I loved this because of the franchise. It's halfway decent for a licensed platformer, but time has not been good to it.
Congo Bongo (TI99) -- An uncle had a TI99 with this game. We played it all the time. I think what ruined me on this game was when I found out there was an arcade version FAR better. Sigh.
Triple Play '96/NBA Live '96 -- These two are grouped together because I liked them for the same reasons: Customizable players and teams, and the animation was oustanding for 16bit. In baseball you could dive and slide and run into other players and get them injured. And you could changed the team names to things like "Butthole." I'm sure I pissed off at least a few future-renters. Still, these games don't hold up. I think it's just because I suck at them.
Tomb Raider -- Recently picked this up for the Saturn, this game sucks. I can see what made it great, but it's just not satisfying anymore.
See my latest arcade repair at the Holodeck 2 Arcade Repair Blog: http://holodeck2arcade.blogspot.com
When I was younger I thought MYST for the Saturn was an awesome game. Now I can't stand even looking at it on my shelf.
Follow me on twitter at
http://twitter.com/OldSkoolGaming
Checkout my Youtube Videos of Reviews, Collections, and more at www.youtube.com/user/oldskoolbrian
Yeah.
This was kind of the reverse for me. I never got in to this game when I was a kid but gave it another chance recently. Once you learn the right way to play it's actually rather easy but a lot of fun. You have to do a lot of jump-kicks and vertical dodging. They made these techniques a lot harder to pull off in Golden Axe II but you can play co-op which is excellent. Still haven't played Golden Axe III but it's on my list.
Personally I was astounded to find that Mario Kart for SNES is not as much fun as I remembered. I pulled out the old SNES for the first time in years about 6 months ago. Not only was SMK on the boring side but the other 4 or 5 SNES games I had were not doing it for me either and I ended up selling the SNES.
Conversely a few friends and I recently played Mario Kart 64 for the first time in years as well. Fortunately it's still as fun as it ever was and so is Excitebike 64. We also played Goldeneye which I still think is great but does show its age. There are so many great FPS games out there these days it can't really hold up. Everything is so blurry it's amazing that we used to drool over these graphics.
Additionally I completely agree with previous posters on Mortal Kombat 1 - 3. The bad ass graphics and animations are really all there is to this game. It is so much more simplistic than Street Fighter II it's not even funny. While I prefer Street Fighter Alpha 3, the original SFII is a deep game that's still fun to play. Also Fighting Masters was always pretty bad but something about it did used to be fun.
On the whole though, I think most games from the 8-bit and 16-bit age hold up well. For one thing, they offer the type of gameplay that is minimally supported these days. Most of the games from the 32-bit era in the 3D genre have been redone and done better, whether it be a remake or just a similar game. Not so much for 2D games except maybe some shmups, but there aren't that many of these any more.
.
This happened with me on Nes M.U.S.C.L.E.! When I was a kid I liked it alot. Played it all the time. Recently I wanted it for quite some time and found it like 4 months ago. What a piece of garbage that game is. Played it all of 30 seconds. Horrible!
In yo face!
Amen. Same with all the Nes Simpsons titles.
My Gaming Collection (Now at Google Docs!)
Cyborg Justice
It was one of my go-to rentals when I was a kid. I loved how customizable the characters were; and that the game was both a beat 'em up and a fighter all in one.
But the game is absolutely terrible. It's a swift kick in the nostalgic nuts.
Be Attitude For Gains...
Gaming like some films, rely on the times and the era it was created. Some things age well, some do not. That said, I'd nominate...
Driver for PSX. I loved this game. I played the life out of it. I have two full memory cards worth of amazingly awesome car chase scenes. But having gone back 6-10 years later, it's really shown it's age. The driving mechanics and physics I thought were great, feel clunky compared to GTA, Burnout and other car games. But man, the cops in that game never get old. They'll drive through hell to get to you, and the glitches where they fly 100 feet in the air are still funny.
NHL on SNES/Gen. People have hated me for this but maaaan are these horrible. In fact, any classic sports game is pretty dull now.
Bart vs the space mutants. What a hunk of garbage. It was moderately playable as a kid but now, it's just flat out awful.
I can't think of any more at the moment.
I completely support the previous mentions in this topic of Bubsy, Mortal Kombat, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. I have to disagree on Tiny Toon Adventures though. I loved that game as a child, and I think it's still quite good even now.
So far uniquely to me, I must mention Shaq Fu. Yes, I'm talking about that Shaq Fu. I never thought that it was one of best games available, but it seemed to be a decent enough fighter when I was young. It wasn't until I got older and played it again that I realized it really was just about as awful as a game can get.
Secondly, Sonic Blast Man on SNES. Sonic Blast Man is really, really, really slow. Making things worse is that Blast Man's attacks have a very limited range, and the music is not something you'd want to listen to for six or seven minutes at a time. I still love Taito, but the game is just bad.
Finally, this pick may irritate some people, but the NES' Metroid has not held up well at all. All of the 2D Metroid titles that followed were huge improvements, and Metroid: Zero Mission's retcon has made the first game completely irrelevant even for those who are determined to experience the whole story. it was a fine game in its time, but it's no longer enjoyable to play.
^I agree with MK. I never got into them much, I just sorta played them because my friends loved them. I found them as stiff as a board with no difference in characters. They were a shallow gimmick with no depth. I loved Street Fighter as a kid, and I still do now.
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks