• B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 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
      8·
      3 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.

    • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Played both as a kid and found them really cool

      0 desire to touch them nowadays and wouldn’t recommend younger people to experience them

      And it’s not like I don’t like the old games I played back then, I play a lot of Super Mario World from time to time (though in fairness exclusively ROMhacks except about every 10 years where I look at the original again). Sonic Adventure for me just didn’t age well.

      But that’s fine, not every game has to be a timeless classic. I have good memories of the games and that’s what’s important

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 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.

  • kryptonidas@lemmings.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 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
    111·
    3 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.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    3 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.

      • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I don’t think I ever had any type of games that taught teaching. I had games like hooked on phonics type stuff and a Land Before Time math game, among a few others.

        Typing was never something formally taught to me, even from a video game. I guess by the 2000s they just didn’t think it was important enough to be taught in elementary school to kids. Yet cursive was deemed something we needed to know.

        • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          We had typing in the 90’s, but that was on electric typewriters, and was in I guess what you would call middle school not elementary.

          Later there was ‘Mavis beacon teaches typing’ as the earliest typing ones that was really popular

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          My parents got my on PC young, used to love the Jump Start games and magic schoolbus games.

          Non edu games I remember fondly from that time, Jazz Jack rabbit, Earthworm Jim, the flying toaster games, pajama Sam, putt putt, Freddy fish.

          My wife said spy fox must be added :D

          • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I remember playing one of the Spy Fox games, the ozone destroying one, sometimes when I would go to speech therapy. It was such a fun game for kid me. Same situation with one of the Pajama Sam games (can’t remember which).

            Cannot recall ever playing any jumpstart or magic schoolbus games, though.

            As for non-edu games I had as a young kid, I remember having one of the first 2 rollercoaster tycoon games (can’t remember which), a few of the classic “1000 In 1” game discs (pretty sure one might have had a full-on casino game that I used to love) almost everyone seemed to have at least one of, and an I-Spy game (cannot remember which one, but I think it was in a quaint small town on an island).

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 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.

    • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 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.

    • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Star fox 64? I can play the shit out of that right now.

      Played this game a lot when it was new, then kind of ditched it completely later. But I often have to think about how good it actually was.