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lividtaffy@reddit

I downloaded this exact game a couple weeks ago to relive my childhood and let me tell you OP is a moron, this game plays very well for coming out in 1999. It’s also obviously a children’s game, made by TT before the Lego games.

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hstormsteph@reddit

Where can I download this?? I remember getting stuck at the construction level early on so many times before finally making it through and beating the game

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lividtaffy@reddit

I got it [here](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/disney-pixar-toy-story-2-buzz-lightyear-to-the-rescue-bfq#download), the rip download doesn’t require an emulator or anything. A bunch of comments on there having issues but mine worked fine, I finished the game 100%

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hstormsteph@reddit

Fuckin spectacular find man. This weekend boutta be mondo awesome

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blueponies1@reddit

Yeah I opened this and thought “hell no this game was fun as hell” and realized I haven’t actually played it and there indeed has been old games I’ve played and couldn’t get back into. So glad to see your comment saying otherwise

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knusper_gelee@reddit

>plays very well for coming out in 1999 What do you mean by that? Some of the greatest games of all time were released before 2000. This was the golden age of gaming. Visual fidelity is not up to what we are used to today... But that ist one the biggest criticism of modern gaming - that its all style and no substance. toned-down stylized graphics and good mechanics will always be better than ultra-realistic interactive novels.

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lividtaffy@reddit

I would argue 1999 was before 3rd person 3d platformers had really standardized stuff like camera or movement controls, I would imagine that was the OPs biggest problem with it. This game is a little wonky but far from the worst game I’ve played from the late 90s, mechanically speaking.

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yeetenheimer@reddit

I would argue that 1999 is before 2000*

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icantlurkanymore@reddit

I think that the golden age of gaming was the 00s. PS2 and Gamecube to kick off the decade (along with Halo on Xbox), huge MMOs released in the middle (that are still played by hundreds of thousands today) and then the dawn of online console gaming to round it off with 360 and PS3.

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Marik-X-Bakura@reddit

Controls were shit back then And that was also the golden era of visual novels

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EthernalForADay@reddit

But dat ist one of ze biggezt ckhitizism of das moderkhn gaming, yah?

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BadArtijoke@reddit

Doesnt even have a zendaya skin lmao Where is the shop??

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xRaynex@reddit

The day 'where is the game I paid full price for's shop to give them more money' is a *legitimate* complaint from people... ![gif](giphy|l2Jhv9GPuEf6TaJhe)

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aVarangian@reddit

but how do you unlock cosmetics if there's no microtransaction store?

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maninahat@reddit

In those days, a loot crate was a physical object you had to open with a crowbar, and then fish through the hay for floppy disks and CDs.

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aVarangian@reddit

ah yes, the save icon

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xRaynex@reddit

In game achievements, progression, cheat codes, and mods.

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aVarangian@reddit

but then how do you get a sense of pride and accomplishment if you don't either spend 400 hours grinding it or pay 400$ to skip the grind?

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ThisUsernameis21Char@reddit

Uhhh how do I install mods on my PS5 lol

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toxicgloo@reddit

You have to download the battle pass update from limewire

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Sleazehound@reddit

If i cant play as tung tung tung sahur i aint fucking with it

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kalusklaus@reddit

SIX SEVEN!

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rob6748@reddit

One of my all time favorites. I agree. Very replayable.

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Saaka_Souffle@reddit

For real, this is one of the defining games of my childhood and it definitely still holds up.

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tut_i_tam_comics@reddit

The soundtrack has no reason to be that damn good too.

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SmaugRancor@reddit

Yeah the game is still peak. Anon is gay.

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Aboreric@reddit

Agreed. Also the top comment's description of kids just being less cynical can also apply to adults if they let themselves just have fun with whatever it is rather than trying to be hypercritical and compare everything to everything else. Sometimes something is genuinely bad/rough but even those things can be fun if you let them in their own ways (think like how people enjoy B-movies). Some people set their standards to unconscionably high levels like everything must be the greatest masterpiece of all time or it's shit. If you can pick something up and have a good time who cares. I'm not saying we should never be critical of things, but simultaneously don't go into every game/movie/thing expecting a god tier magnum opus. This is coming from a guy who enjoys almost everything though so I'm kinda the reverse of the hyper-cynical adult so this may just mean nothing to most people and fair enough, but it does drive me nuts when people just dismissively say something is ass because it doesn't immediately meet some standard they went in expecting rather than meeting the art where it is. This also applies greatly for me in this case when people dismiss old video games as being shit, since I'm a huge retro games enthusiast. They are not perfect by no means, and yes many modern innovations are better than tank control cameras as an example, but these flaws do not inherently make them automatically terrible. If anything it's interesting to see how things changed as time went on over the course of game evolution. Sorry for the rant lol.

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SPZ_Ireland@reddit

It's still a lot of fun but that camera is still as ass as it was in 99

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MetallGecko@reddit

Most games from that time have a shitty camera.

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Highfivebuddha@reddit

Seemed like every game review had a section dedicated to whether or not the camera was any good. And so many third person platformers were ass.

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Italian_Devil@reddit

Silent Hill came out the same year, that's PSX 3D for you

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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

The era of tank controls

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notagainrly@reddit

I am pretty sure no one will care but I have a kinda funny story about tank controls My first time interviewing for QA they had a test to see if you actually knew how to play games. it was a tomb raider esque obstacle course on ps2. My first attempt was with tank controls and i couldn't complete the level. I thought the test was to see if you could complete a level with terrible controls... I felt like the biggest dummy ever while 5 dudes were watching me If you guys don't know, there was a button to turn on analog controls...it even has a red light to show that it's on. I never considered that it wouldn't always be on bc that is how we always played games! Anyway I guess I did well enough in the interview portion that they let me try again and with the joysticks it was easy and I ended up getting the job, starting my 20+ year game career!

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AlpacaTraffic@reddit

I have no idea how I did the platform sections as a kid

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lividtaffy@reddit

My dad had to do a bunch of them for me

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WordsMort47@reddit

Pretty sure the OP is ragebait or merely a joke

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scantron2739@reddit

Yea i was about to say, op is dumb, this game still slaps, and it had some awesome levels. All the movie games around this time following this format are low key awesome.

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CaesarWilhelm@reddit

>plays very well for coming out in 1999 So it plays shit

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lividtaffy@reddit

Oh hey OP

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CaesarWilhelm@reddit

If you need to add an qualifier like that i don't have high hopes

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aVarangian@reddit

\* a

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ZubatCountry@reddit

This is a great comment for a bad comment

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gcpizzle23@reddit

Is this the game where you could shoot the chandelier and the lasers would hit all the enemies in the room? I distinctly remember that from a Toy Story game.

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HappyToaster1911@reddit

So OP is a moron because the specific game you played was and still is a banger?

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SokkieJr@reddit

Of all the retro-games to call shit... Toy Story for PS1 is a bonafide classic and plays amazingly well.

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thermal650@reddit

Whats it called? I could swear I remember playing this and just shooting lasers at the wall as buzz

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TOASTisawesome@reddit

Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue

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UpsetPhilosopher4661@reddit

kids are typically less cynical and tend to enjoy things more. building dirt castles isn't that exciting as an adult, but as a kid it's having a blast

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vba77@reddit

Argument me and the cat are growing cat grass from seeds atm. Having a blast. Though I needed to grow a second one in secret cause the cat keeps eating the sprouts and dirt Everytime something pops out lol

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FMC_Speed@reddit

So is blasting ants with a magnifying lens on summer midday, it lost its charm as I grew up …smh

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FilHor2001@reddit

That's why God gave us alcohol. Building a sandcastle with the boys while wasted is actually incredibly entertaining.

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Teknevra@reddit

What about doing it high?

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assasin1598@reddit

IDK how you, I aint building sandcastle, but as deep of a hole as possible. *down and down in to the deep?* *who knows what we'll find beneath~*

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manoliu1001@reddit

You know what'll find: _Rock and stone_

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WordsMort47@reddit

You smoke meth or what?

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assasin1598@reddit

No, Im just [dwarf-pilled](https://youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0)

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oak-williams@reddit

TUCKER

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FearTheSpoonman@reddit

I've found I'm way more inclined to lean into those things when stoned. When chilling with my younger siblings when blazed I would sit and listen to their mad stories and making up silly games with them. As a a stressed adult it's hard to tap into that energy sometimes.

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Lucariowolf2196@reddit

Me going through college, and somehow holding onto that whimsy

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Sabre-Shock@reddit

Don't worry m8, doesn't start to fade till a few years after college age, you got time

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Lucariowolf2196@reddit

I'm 28! Still got it

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ganzgpp1@reddit

I think it's really just that kids don't typically have any "walls" built up yet. But as adults, we've spent years building up those walls, but drugs/alcohol will kick those walls right over.

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MrFanatic123@reddit

just imagine how much fun drunk kids would have!

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FilHor2001@reddit

I don't have to imagine; I'm Eastern European. lmao

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MrBones-Necromancer@reddit

I don't want to have to get fucking drunk to enjoy life. I just want life to be less shit.

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kader91@reddit

Tbh I believe my toddler is drunk most of the time.

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FilHor2001@reddit

Well they're born with a sucking reflex for a reason, aren't they?

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dom_bul@reddit

*Alcohol is God's apology for making us self aware, and it helps shy people have sex*

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notagainrly@reddit

Jesus turned water into wine. I think he was trying to tell us something

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AugustusClaximus@reddit

That was His debut Miracle. First thing he did was say “I’m here to party”

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HamBlamBlam@reddit

He was trying to get with Peter. He also turned a beetle into a roofie.

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_zombie_k@reddit

Bro definitely knew how to party.

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PointOfTheJoke@reddit

Eh. That was his brother. Craig Christ!

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CountQuiffula@reddit

A Stephen Lynch reference in 2026??

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PointOfTheJoke@reddit

There are dozens of us!!

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Kittyhat@reddit

Top 1% commenter by dropping turds like this

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HamBlamBlam@reddit

Don’t be jelly

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olGyub@reddit

I just started watching top gear for the first time like 3 days ago, so I actually recognize this name!

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dom_bul@reddit

The slowest man in history

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UwU-Lemon@reddit

man i'd build a sandcastle with the boys completely sober

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amodsr@reddit

Everything is better with friends.

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Working-Tomato8395@reddit

Me and my buds used to get bored of our small town and I had a family cabin that was almost never used by my family for years at a time. Lads and I would go down to the cheap shit store (our version of Temu at the time) and get some pool noodles, hit up the hardware store for lengths of PVC pipe and glue, make the pool noodles into swords we could smack each other with, and have pool noodle sword fights on the dock with music playing and try to force each other into the water. Then we'd warm up in the hot tub and sauna with some girls, talk politics, drink, and any questions about the sword fights got put in the "you wouldn't understand" bin.

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MindGoblin@reddit

Yeah but God also made it feel really good to pull on your wiener but he doesn't like that.

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lazerblam@reddit

If you're a manchild, sure

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Sierra-117-@reddit

In college me and the boys made many snow forts. One of them took like a week of on and off work. But at the end we had a smoke spot that could comfortably fit 4 people with built in cup holders. It lasted several months until it warmed back up.

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Millibyte@reddit

i can do that just fine sober, thank you

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notagainrly@reddit

I've never ever heard of "dirt castles". Did you mean sand castles?

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OliviaAthmara@reddit

It must be what those dirty impoverished rurals have to use instead of sand when they can't afford a beach house! I, too, cannot even conceptualize such poverty

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notagainrly@reddit

Have you conceptualized a sandbox?

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Dravarden@reddit

not rich enough to have a back yard or a park where that exists I've only ever seen that in movies

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AGTS10k@reddit

Sand is hella cheap. If you live in a place where the yard owner(s) haven't bothered to make a small playground for kids and put a sandbox in there, it's on them. Saying this as someone who grew in a small town of an Eastern European post-USSR country, in the 90s (which were hellish times for economy and basically everything in eastern bloc countries).

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Dravarden@reddit

I've literally never lived in a plane with a yard

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shepard_pie@reddit

On top of that, there has been a trend since covid to breakdown negative aspects of games. It's like people generally find reasons why not to like games, complain about it non-stop, and find others to complain with you about the things you find wrong. Look at steam reviews. It's full of people who dig in on small issues (like the Space Marine 2 negative reviews over the admittingly super terrible voice pack DLC or the fact that the free class they released doesn't have customization yet.) We can still just play a game and enjoy it for what it is. You don't have to order a hamburger and tell the world it sucked because you'd rather it come with sweet potato fries.

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RodjaJP@reddit

Jumping on a trampoline is equally less exciting as an adult

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Brendanlendan@reddit

I’m sorry but like have you ever built a sand castle as an adult? Still fun

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SuperSocialMan@reddit

Nah, I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

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Sengfroid@reddit

More intense even; thet hold whole competitions even

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SuperSocialMan@reddit

And you haven't been exposed to as much media, so you can't make the usual comparisons you do as an adult

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LiteBrightKite@reddit

*reads this with plastic shovel in hand*

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aVarangian@reddit

> building dirt castles isn't that exciting as an adult have you tried? sounds like you haven't

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Geno_Warlord@reddit

Dude, they left a huge pile of sand near a tank at my work. When we get some rain, I go out there with a couple cups and still make simple castles.

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WorryingMars384@reddit

Speak for yourself digging in the dirt is awesome

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DarthUgly123@reddit

Building dirt castles is just as exciting even whole sober. Some of you may die! But that's a sacrifice, I'm willing to make

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Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit

Im trying to infuse my boring taste to my 5yo brother :(

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Badgarrr@reddit

You didn't play for nostalgia in your childhood. You played for curiosity and in a way it's you learning to understand a game. Now, when you play an old game, meant for younger audience or with simpler gameplay. You're more easily annoyed or done playing because you already know what's going to happen (systems wise) which makes the gameplay predictable and fetch-quest like.

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PrrrromotionGiven1@reddit

>be kid >play a game >it's mid >drop it and go back to playing other stuff >years later >it's now seen as a gem >try it again >it's still mid Paper Mario TTYD is the most stark example of this for me, but it also holds true for Mario Sunshine, Sonic CD (10/10 soundtrack aside), every Need for Speed game except ProStreet, and the Simpsons Hit & Run.

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Simkin86@reddit

I started super paper mario (wii) yesterday, i love it. The previous versions were really that bad?

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PrrrromotionGiven1@reddit

Like I said, it's widely beloved. All the games I listed are. But they're ones I bounced off as a kid and still don't enjoy today.

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koteshima2nd@reddit

Depends on the game. I replayed Toy Story Racer a few days ago and it's still insanely fun

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ObjectiveSurprise810@reddit

Game clearly needed more micro transactions and a battle pass

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slicesculptor@reddit

Your dopamine receptors don't work like they used to. You've gotten too used to the instant gratification of modern games. And yes, it's a physical difference in how your brain works between then and now. I've noticed it myself since I've started getting into classic consoles. The games just don't hit like they used to.

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hairyballsinmybutt@reddit

I loved Sonic 06 until I found out how much people on the internet hated it and instead of not caring, I jumped on the band wagon and started parroting their received opinions.

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Simbooptendo@reddit

I blame 9/11

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Peen_Round_4371@reddit

Most unrelatable meme I've seen tbh

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CptCaramack@reddit

I used to think I was a genius by beating RC car in the race before unlocking the speed boots by bodyblocking him around the entire track, sure most others did the same

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Jamgull@reddit

Because we were children. We were still so impressed by the technological miracle it represented that the shortcomings didn’t seem to matter as much.

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Vast-Combination4046@reddit

It was made for like n64, it's from when video games were 10 years old. You were 10 years old. Compared to what is on the market it's sophisticated.

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PsychoSwede557@reddit

Dude is surprised the Toy Story tie in is not as good as he remembers.. Honestly, I love replaying old games simply for the novelty of it. Yh the controls are clunky and the story is simplistic or nonexistent but it still have way more fun than with most games today. I recently played the Incredibles on the PS2 and it was just good simple fun (except for Volcanic Eruption. That mission will forever haunt my dreams).

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an_older_meme@reddit

Our brains weren’t anywhere near as developed when we were younger.

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bobopet2@reddit

Whenever I do this, I find the games were literally better, actually... and I always enjoy it

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tomboy_abs_pls_miss@reddit

I will hear no Toy Story 2 (PS1) slander! That game still rocks!

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Templarofsteel@reddit

Games imprive remove bad mechanics, adjust things add quality of life.

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Grim47z@reddit

Nope all the games I loved are still awesome I'll play diablo 2, age of empires 2 and 007 golden eye to this day still all 10/10 games

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Noblecheesehead@reddit

this game is great wtf is anon smoking

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aSleepingPanda@reddit

When you've only played 2 video games it's pretty easy to mistake a bad one for a good one. Thought a different way a one toddler who scraps their knee is experiencing the most painful moment of their entire life. Doesn't make it any less painful for them but on a scale of experiences it's trivial.

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alfredo094@reddit

I mean to be fair it's also true that standards where just different, Super Mario 64 was maybe the greatest 3D platformer when released and remain as so for a few years. By today's standards it still is worth playing if you are into the genre IMO but it is definitely not a top-tier platformer. When remembering the past we tend to just remembering the feelings that something caused us. I have revisited games that I played many years ago, including in my teenage years, and sometimes they are MUCH better than what I remember them to be (i.e. Path of Radiance) or more mediocre than what I remembered (Battle for Bikini Bottom).

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Jetstream-Sam@reddit

Also unless you were some rich kid, or as it seems to be for most kids today. games purchases were a very rare thing. They were a birthday and christmas thing, where me and my brother could pick one and a game to share on christmas, and pick two on birthdays. I also saved up my pocket money from my grandma to buy a game, though my (now 350 pound) brother used to just spend his on crisps and sausage rolls and demand to play my stuff. When you're 6 months away from getting a new game and your chosen game turns out to be unfun, bad, or just painfully hard like Rayman, then you knuckle down and power through. Nowadays it seems kids just get what they want though. My same parents both had kids 18 years after I was born and they are currently getting whatever game they want. My mother, who thought games were a massive waste of time, is willing to drop money on a switch 2 and pokopia just to shut my half brother up. Granted he is incredibly annoying and I guess I proved you can play games and achieve your goals, but it still makes her a hypocrite.

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onarainyafternoon@reddit

> (now 350 pound) brother Thank you for clarifying

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Jetstream-Sam@reddit

It's more to mention that his going for instant gratification has persisted into adulthood without mentioning that I can smell that he's just been masturbating every time I go round

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Riskypride@reddit

You each got a game of your own? How did that work? Did you have two consoles?

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Jetstream-Sam@reddit

Nah we shared the consoles but we had a PS2 and a gamecube. It's just it was your game and if the other wanted to play it, you had to ask permission ever since the "pokemon incident" The pokemon incident being I got a paper round at 10, saved up for pokemon emerald and then eventually got it. I played through it, while my brother seethed with jealousy, apparently. One day I booted up my game boy to discover my team wiped and my brother's name on the save file two badges in. He'd been sick from school and apparently decided he was going to play my new game. My mother took his side initially until I explained to my dad about there only being one save file, and how you get attached to pokemon and it's like if he killed my pet fish. I probably oversold that but I was really upset about it, From then on it was clear who owned what and what was shared. To this day, decades later my brother insists he was still in the right and genuinely gets upset about it when it's brought up. But he's weird about grudges. He is still genuinely mad about one time when my dad was looking after us and he accidentally left the pizza in the oven too long. Like it was still edible, I ate mine fine but this is apparently worth remembering and being upset about years on

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notagainrly@reddit

I was lucky enough that my parents bought us consoles but it was always "this is both you and your brother's birthday and Christmas present". We always rented games at blockbuster! Good times thanks mom and dad ☺️

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aSleepingPanda@reddit

Did you also lose quarters to the coin game at the checkout counter? The little acrylic box with filled with water that you drop a quarter into and if it lands in the cup you win.

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notagainrly@reddit

Hahaha yes! Guess what, we never won! 😭

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beepbeepbubblegum@reddit

Your half brother brought the right weaponry for a sword fight and you didn’t, apparently.

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Adorable-Act-3858@reddit

Skill issue. I use to buy my games second hand, or rent them from blockbusters. Damn, I miss blockbusters. Their popcorn was the shit.

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jbm91@reddit

And when the toddler is screaming crying because their skinned knee, it is probably the worst pain they have experienced so far in their life so for them it’s a big deal.

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athan1214@reddit

Toy Story 2 is still pretty good though

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caughtyoulookinn@reddit

Toy story on the snes was so damn hard as a kid still never beat that shit to this day

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ETC3000@reddit

Can't relate, I played peak like Kirby

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MetzgerBoys@reddit

Toy Story 2 was fantastic on the N64 and PS1

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untakenu@reddit

I keep getting recommended youtube shorts of people selling or trying to find old games. The guy will say "oooh, donkey mojo 3, nice" then you look it up and it is the most dogshit thing you've ever seen. Oh, and it sells for $900

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Drnocker@reddit

Why tf is toy story 2 the image, that game was golden, even now

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vivianvixxxen@reddit

I don't know this game, but I'll say what I think about the phenomenon in general. You can't go watch Nosferatu (1922) expecting a Robert Eggers production. You will be disappointed. It will seem like a bad movie. It's not a bad movie. It's a brilliant movie. But you have to go in with the appropriate context in mind. If you play Super Mario Bros expecting Super Mario Galaxy, you're going to be disappointed. You see this mistake in the other direction from older generations all the time. They pick up something modern, hoping it'll be like thing-from-their-childhood, and they hate the modern thing. You have to take any individual piece of art on its own terms, without imposing your expectations on it. Sometimes you're not in the mood to do that, and that's fine. But understand that it was your expectations that ruined the good thing, not the good thing failing on its own.

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cpt_edge@reddit

Terrible example of this. There are however a million flash games and roblox maps that I've replayed for nostalgia and questioned why the fuck I spent so much time on them as a child

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MRbaconfacelol@reddit

parents typically werent informed on what was "good" or "popular" in terms of games, so they usually opted for the cheaper shovelware titles that are based on pieces of media they are already familiar with, usually games based on movies. as kids we didnt have a huge say in what we played so we learned to have fun with what was available.

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DiabeticRhino97@reddit

Yeah no toy story 2 on the n64 is goated Bring back randomly peak licensed games

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neoqueto@reddit

The fuck you mean Toy Story 2 on the PSX is shit? Nah. No, get yourself checked, anon.

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Parkdum@reddit

glad BFBB held up so well that it got a damn remake 🔥

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JamesRWC@reddit

Replaying old Star Wars Battlefront 2 and it's fuckin ass lowkey

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OfficiallySpooky@reddit

I’ve replayed the Ratchet and Clank series I grew up on and they’re still a lot of fun. Skill issue ig

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Dadoxiii@reddit

Yes we had lower standards. Pong was the shit back in the day and that game is basically just 10 pixels moving back and forth on a screen.

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Due-Boss-4354@reddit

Doesn't happrn to me but I'm not like you.

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Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit

This was me with Rampage: World Tour I never realized how repetitive it was as a kid.

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No-Play2726@reddit

That game was actually pretty good

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arkane-the-artisan@reddit

Nah. Me and my buddies still sit down smash beers and play N64 classics.

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high_throughput@reddit

I played the shit out of Goldeneye 64 as a kid, but after 30 years of WASD I can't go back to those controls.

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Dr_Dust@reddit

Wish I could find someone to play Mario Tennis with, these days. So many beers and bong blasts were enjoyed with the N64.

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woodzopwns@reddit

Yes but also kids enjoy anything, everything is new to them

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No-Permission-4671@reddit

We literally DID have lower standards. We were kids.

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diogovk@reddit

I played Megaman X, and Donkey Kong Country from the SNES, and they're just as good as I remember. It's kind of amazing how well they hold up. But yeah, there are many games that were "good" just because we didn't have many options.

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Lunai5444@reddit

Pic unrelated it's a masterpiece

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Sifl-and-Olly@reddit

No, that game looks fun

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Timekeeper98@reddit

Nah, the Toy Story 2 game on PlayStation was legit. My mom and I played it together a ton when I was super young. Best movie tie in game before Spider Man 2

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bemo_10@reddit

>Best movie tie in game Weird, I've never seen *Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game* spelled like that

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Timekeeper98@reddit

I specifically said before Spider-Man 2, which came out in 2004. King Kong came out in 2005.

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Long8D@reddit

Me and my mom would play Donkey Kong. When we were sick we'd play that game all day together. She loved that game. Good times.

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soiboi64@reddit

Based and wholesomefamilyinteractionpilled

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Jtneagle@reddit

This game is still incredible

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amodsr@reddit

I recently started showing my friends who missed out on a bunch of older movies those movies. Made a whole list of movies to show that are really good. I find that a bunch of movies are good for their time but less so when compared to all the other stuff we now have to compare it to. It's not that the game is worse. It is that you have now experienced so many better things you actually want to play that it does not hold up in comparison. Take all the good stuff away and you will be more likely to put it into your top 10 than not.

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Zpalq@reddit

Replayed golden sun recently, a series that I absolutely loved as a kid. Great fucking games, I still want another game after dark dawn.

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alex_shrub@reddit

Game is good and ost slaps, OP is well regarded.

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Sillvaro@reddit

OP is a delay in french

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PioApocalypse@reddit

I used to play 24 The Game for PS2 as a kid (since PEGI is as respected by parents as Geneva's Conventions are respected by you-know-who). I periodically replay it, and not only it was good then - it aged really well in my opinion.

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PixelCrunchX@reddit

The 2nd Alvin and the Shitchunks for the Wii.

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Good_Smile@reddit

Wtf toy story 2 is a good game

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R3XM@reddit

Short answer: yes Long answer: yeeeees

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nyaasgem@reddit

Speak for yourself, I played good games even when I was a kid.

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Rechogui@reddit

Idk what OP is talking about. I replayed this game recently, it is still as great as I remember. https://preview.redd.it/f5guf8ilwesg1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1368a983abb4d9deed89d57e07c84be9debadf6

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WilliShaker@reddit

Wtf is he expecting, it’s a toy story game. ‘’Oh no a game made for 5 years old is not good to my adult ass’’. I played the fucking Ratatouille game, of course it isn’t as good anymore.

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Rechogui@reddit

That depends on the game really. Lego games are very kid friendly but a lot of adults still enjoy them. Hell, I have adult friends who spend their free time playing fucking Hello Kitty Island Adventure

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microwaveableviolin@reddit

This is why I leave all my favorite childhood games and movies in the past, I’d rather look back on them fondly than bring them back and have my nostalgic feelings toward them ruined by my adult standards

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AlexanderTox@reddit

Game isn’t shit, your attitude and pessimism are shit

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Thin_General_8594@reddit

Or it's just old as balls If you are looking for a good car in 2026 you don't recommend a ford model T But if you wanna drive an old car and experience it- you specifically seek out the model T A few old games are more like "classic" cars though- anyone would cboose the old luxury Porsche over the 2026 economy car

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Highfivebuddha@reddit

This is actually a fairly decent platformer. I downloaded it recently and the wide open areas, objectives, and puzzle design still holds up. Good mix of challenging without being frustratingly difficult mechanically.

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gcpizzle23@reddit

Ok but change the Model T to something that makes more sense with the situation. If someone asked for a good car in 2026 and you suggested a 1999 Toyota Corolla then you would be right.

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AlexanderTox@reddit

In reading your comment, all I can think is that Ford should re-release the Model T with the current safety standards built in. Imagine seeing a resurgence of Model Ts that are just as mechanically modern as today’s cars. I’d buy the fuck out of that.

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Dark_Knight2000@reddit

In terms of the ratio of average worker pay to car cost, the later Model Ts would’ve cost less than $20,000 to buy brand new. If Ford really did release a simple car that was good and reliable for that price it would fly off the showroom floor. The problem is that Ford realized they can make $30000 in profit selling an optioned out F150 instead of making $2000 in profit with a small car, so they push buyers to buy the most expensive thing their credit score can afford.

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crowkk@reddit

off topic, but what the fuck does "experience it" mean in the context of a car? You go from A to B and drop the car at B. Then you finish your stuff on B and fuck back off to A to again drop the car at A. What does "experience it" mean?

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theSurpuppa@reddit

If you have ever driven a few cars you would know

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Bootlegs@reddit

Different cars stick to the road in different ways, they handle differently, accelerate and brake in their own ways and are different tactile experiences when it comes to buttons, dashboard, sticks, radio. Some cars you can literally feel the engine roaring through your bones. They have different materials with their own smell. Some cars are just more fun to drive, more responsive. Some are dirty and angry, others are classy and majestic. Some are relics from another time. All these things are the "experience" But if you just hate driving and see it as a thing you to get from A to B, then yeah I can see how it seems pointiess

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crowkk@reddit

Thank you for the answer (not really sure why people downvoted my question) I don't really drive, never really needed to learn so I've never bothered. The key thing really is your final sentence, i really just see cars as an utility object, same as a knife. Overall, I never really got the "car appeal."

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The_Fett_Man77@reddit

I just played this game for the first time in awhile with my kids. It was great OP

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magically_inclined@reddit

Is it common? Never had it happen. Any game I played as a kid turned out to be a banger when I replayed it as an adult.

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ZeroByter@reddit

I think it's because game development, and game design have evolved over time. Evolved as in, in mostly positive ways. Games run better, are easier to interface and play with, the design is better and easier to pick up on and enjoy, etc.

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speedweed99@reddit

The way you're talking about "evolving" is pretty much the game just "working" which for today standards is even rare and not the norm, it's ridiculous. They don't usually run better the interfaces are cluttered and design leaves a LOT to be desired. You get walking sims heavy on story with shit story... Battle passes everywhere and huge bombs like concord. You get indies yeah but the games being compared from back then aren't. Besides Nintendo being the outlier, for the most part, games have regressed

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schmitzel88@reddit

This is the biggest thing. I had hundreds of hours in GTA:SA as a kid, but the control scheme is so bad by modern standards that it's hard to deal with now.

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Queny@reddit

I have never understood the appeal of retro gaming, particularly anything polygon-based. Pixel art games hold up much much better, but I really can’t play PS1 or N64 games. They just do not hold up at all.

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Nemirel_the_Gemini@reddit

Speak for yourself. I recently downloaded the original Zoo Tycoon from 2001 and it is still fire.

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normie_john@reddit

As a little kid I just assumed any piece of media I consumed was good because adults made it

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Leonhart726@reddit

Be me Replay older games I loved as a kid They're peak Young me had good taste. (Breath of Fire 4, Castlevania SOTN, and Threads of Fate being the main examples of things I went back to play layer in life and became lifetime favorites. Castlevania ive gone back to replay 4 times over as of my most recent replay last year)

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Haydunsparce@reddit

You probably had a cry because you couldn’t beat the rc car

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Jucks@reddit

me_irl when lemmings dont have a battlepass:

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GragasFatAss@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/wc50jlqbhesg1.png?width=577&format=png&auto=webp&s=05e75c0c53bb5835924e2d947e014a5caf893fca

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VladamirK@reddit

I got this game and a Desperados game out of a serial box, absolutely cracking games. Desperados still holds up great.

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Niasny@reddit

I loved the Jak and Dexter games as a kid. I still do. Great games, makes me happy.

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ddg31415@reddit

I've been playing my childhood games from the late 90s-early 00s and they're still awesome.

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LordOmbro@reddit

When you are a child you have experienced less and thus you don't really know enough to have standards Also your tastes just change over time, it's as true for food as it is for anything else

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YellowPlat@reddit

Depends how old the games you played are. As someone born in early 2000's games from Miniclip, Nitrome are still fire. Original Plants vs Zombies also team fortress 2 are goated.

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1TSDELUXESON@reddit

I replay games from my childhood all the time. They're most certainly not shit and I have really high standards. Having a frame of reference, knowing that developers worked some literal magic with the technology available at the time helps.

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MildlySaltedTaterTot@reddit

drop the emulators or composite cables and pick up a CRT if you want to enjoy art on the medium it was meant for.

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SoupCanMasta@reddit

It's been a while, but this toy story game used to be so peak :D

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manny011604@reddit

Replayed champions of norath it’s still goated replayed SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom it’s still goated and replayed DESTROY ALL HUMANS! All peak also a lot of the games are meant for the older tv 📺 so they actually might look worse on modern hardware

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I_am_the_NPC@reddit

Yes and no. Entertainment options are usually more limited in childhood, so the baseline for what's good is lower. However, some games are only good as a novel experience.

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Raleth@reddit

I replayed this like a year ago and had fun. Some of the levels don't really hold up imo but honestly I had more fun with it than some of its contemporaries. Like I think I probably like this game more than Banjo-Kazooie.

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Pumpkin_Sushi@reddit

\>Play third game ever Wow! this is the second best game Ive ever played! \>Play 300th game Ugh. That was the 252nd worst game Ive played

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oberstein123@reddit

kids are easily entertained

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wolverineczech@reddit

I've also had the opposite - wanted to play an old game for nostalgia's sake, and actually ended up liking it even more than I expected. It was the original Star Wars: Dark Forces.

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crimsonpowder@reddit

When you’re a kid your imagination fills in the blanks. And everything is new/exciting. Best time of anyone’s life. Ergo why crimes against children are the worst since you’re robbing someone of the best period of their life.

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LostVisage@reddit

I can't get the game to work on modern PCs well, graphics are shit due to modern rendering. This game was fire anon can fk himself.

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Mtnbkr92@reddit

I downloaded it on PS5 and it runs shockingly well. Controls aren’t great though. But they never were…

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brotherofgurnip@reddit

It helped drown out the shouting downstairs 🤷‍♂️

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croptochuck@reddit

I found replaying games on modern gene to be a lot more fun. I tried replaying golden eye on an N64 controller and it was difficult. Replayed it on Xbox with an Xbox controller and I loved it.

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TJ_McWeaksauce@reddit

Yeah, we definitely had lower standards. For example, there have been significant improvements to UI/UX over the past 40 years. I grew up playing adventure games like Space Quest and King's Quest in the 80s and 90s. In the earliest adventure games, you had to type every single action your character could take. "Look inside tree." "Pick up torch." "Open door." Things like that. The next wave of adventure games introduce point-and-click, and you'd have to select from various action buttons or cursors you'd use to interact with the game: Look, Pick-up, Use, Open / Close, Talk, etc. One of the Space Quest sequels even had a Mouth cursor that was separate from Talk, and you only used it to solve like 2 puzzles in the entire game. After that, point-and-click adventure games got rid of the multiple cursors, and you would just use the one, standard mouse cursor to handle all interactions. Point and right click on an object to inspect it, or left click to interact with it. Nowadays, I occasionally download old school adventure games, and I'm annoyed by the controls because I've been spoiled by decades of UI/UX improvement. Another example are horror games. Do you remember when the classic Resident Evil games used tank controls, and the camera often got in your way? We tolerated those weird-ass controls and camera when we were kids, but if we tried to play games like that today we'd be annoyed as hell.

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Hegeric@reddit

The OST from the beginning of Toy Story 2 is engraved in my mind to this day.

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skejl@reddit

Idk i had blast beating ratchet and clank trilogy on ps2 last week

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HungaryFinalBoss@reddit

It hit me 10 years later that Lego worlds is ass

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subnu@reddit

Fuck you

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Rikkushin@reddit

I played KH on release and I played it recently. The combat felt old and janky as fuck, but at the time I remember it was revolutionary. Probably keeping the same type of combat is why KH3 feels bad to play, because from a modern standpoint, it sucks

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Waste-Geologist-9389@reddit

Pic obviously not fucking related because the ts2 game is still unsurpassed

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tadlombre@reddit

The fun of that Toy Story game on n64/ps1 was being able to explore a big world like andy’s house. Prolly doesn’t hold up, but I’m not gonna shatter my nostalgia for it.

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jeff5551@reddit

HOLY SHIT I had no idea people even knew about that game lmao

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ComicBookFanatic97@reddit

Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue was literally the first video game I was ever allowed to play as a child. I was profoundly terrible at it.

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percyman34@reddit

This game ruled though :(

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Hot-Explanation-5751@reddit

Because these games only look nice on a crt tv

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rlaxowns@reddit

I beat this game with a broken controller and no saves (my friend who owned the PS1 didn't have those save cartridges) after spending months practicing and spending an entire Saturday. It is still up there as one of my greatest achievements.

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danieldoria15@reddit

It's probably cause you didn't have much of a frame of reference for Good games yet

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Spezalt4@reddit

Why do I not enjoy a decades old children’s game as an adult? OP is regarded

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Mister_McGreg@reddit

Anyone remember Hulk : Ultimate Destruction? You could use a streetlamp to golf people. That game was amazing.

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Dariosusu@reddit

I remember the rugrats Game for the psx very fondly. Guess i‘ll try it sometime, maybe i‘ll be able to enjoy it. Think it had a rad minigolf game or something

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PeterPorty@reddit

IDK man, I played Final Fantasy X again this year and I loved it just as much as I did back then.

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Hot_Guys_In_My_DMS@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/49s8fu49udsg1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2e94eddc0f5fe39be1d9f8f84f65e1d0404808a Some games age better than others

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GoesByZeke@reddit

Could never relate😤

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30catsinatrenchcoat@reddit

When you're older everything just kind of sucks. Sorry you had to find out this way.

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Need_a_new_new@reddit

I downloaded toy story 3 for my kids and they fucking love it.

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McDelper@reddit

Cant relate

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QRV11_C48_MkII@reddit

It was the standard of that time, obviously it was the greatest thing, even the jumo to 3D models blew peoples minds Today we look at the pores on a characters skin but the game decent at best a lot of times War never changes

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KongoOtto@reddit

Its hard to overestimate the jump from 2D to 3D. It was like black and white to color tv.

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GreenKangaroo3@reddit

Yes

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SpookySpaghetti420@reddit

Joe and Mac on SNES

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deadmanslouching@reddit

Nah. Colin McRae DIRT 2 is still probably the most fun rally game in existence.

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Mr-pizzapls@reddit

Toy Story 2 for N64 is still actually a great game. Especially for the year it came out in

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pinwroot@reddit

Did you replay it on the original hardware with the original controllers? It can differ your experiences drastically. Ever tried playing Super Mario Kart SNES on anything other than the original hardware? It just feels wrong. Sometimes there’s a certain feeling that can only be captured under the right conditions.

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The_real_bandito@reddit

No, game development got better in most cases.

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s0ftcustomer@reddit

Yoshi's Story

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Saliiim@reddit

I actually played this again a few years ago and it was really fun.

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linuxxen@reddit

I had almost exact same game as anon Toy story 3: The Video Game from DVD that my dad bought me. Downloaded it is easy and fun. But I remembered it as really hard

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Bedsidecargo@reddit

Kids are easier to impress

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avengeds12345@reddit

I remembered very vividly that I enjoyed playing The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction on PS2 as a 7 years-old kid. I tried replaying it again last year and found out it's not as good as I remember it.

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akoOfIxtall@reddit

I remember the toy story game for PS2 being fucking amazing and I just can't find it anywhere, myrient only had a 200 mb download when the game is registered with over 4gbs officially

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Ragfell@reddit

We've developed away from games being viewed as "just kids' stuff" to it being more accepted as an art form a la theatre or cinema. Therefore, our demands are higher. We also have just learned a LOT about good (and shitty) game design over 50 years since the Atari and 30 years since the N64/PS1 era, which was the birth of most modern 3D game ideas.

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platinum92@reddit

Biggest issue with old games tends to be controls. It's so weird going back to older games where all the useful actions are on the face buttons while the analog sticks, shoulders and triggers are barely used beyond basic movement and modifiers to the face buttons.

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EnclaveSquadOmega@reddit

it's been a pretty split 50/50 for me. shit like Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Adventure, etc. from big studios will always be better than the cheap movie-tie-in cash grabs because they were pretty cheap even at the time.

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Tooloco@reddit

I have investigated this issue (myself as the test subject) and I believe it all lies in the wondrous nature of kids. When you don't fully know technical limitations, play area, game rules... Your mind starts to wonder. E.g. I wonder if this toy story game will have me going to the moon or running down the street open world style. In my case this made every game appear huge and as I never completed them I still imagined them like that. Had that happen more recently with hell divers 2 for example. I dove in knowing nothing and started wondering on the scope of it (dunno space based battles, underground hive gameplay...) as soon as I started progressing I could start seeing the limited aspect of a videogame in comparison to what I was imagining. Ruining the 'nostalgia effect' I was running on. Obviously this is compounded by having played more games and having more game knowledge than my 10 year old self. And that's my personal theory.

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Pintsocream@reddit

Toy story 2 on ps1 was sick and I've played it in the last 12 months

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pagingdrsolus@reddit

I downloaded this game and my kids LOVED it.

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Jalato_Boi@reddit

Pic unrelated Platinumed this couple months ago

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culturerush@reddit

I've found going back to 3d games around this period the gameplay still feels as good as it did but it's the cameras that are absolute dogshit As a kid this was the best camera control that had ever come out, now we're used to good camera control it's hard to go back to it

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Overlord_Za_Purge@reddit

idk man i played dinosaur king ds when I was a kid and played it again i still think it's peak

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Loopnova_@reddit

We did have lower standards That being said, burnout still fucks

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crepoef@reddit

>replay old game I played as a kid >it's even more of a masterpiece than I remember it believing it to be as a kid Just have better taste

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emilos260@reddit

Toy Story 2 is a great platformer, tf is OP on?

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TheSexualBrotatoChip@reddit

I just KNOW OP isn't talking about Toy Story 2 because this game was bomb when I last played it two years ago.

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sleepy_eyed@reddit

So one big thing that has changed a lot since childhood for alot of people is something you're not considering. The game is the same, but the resolution of the screen you're viewing it on has gone up dramatically. Unfortunately alot of those older games don't have a way to compensate for this change.

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cincopatio@reddit

OP loved the "Got your nose" game when he was 8 months old, and is shocked he no longer enjoys it at 31 years of age.

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JnRx03@reddit

IDK i play some of these old games, and while i can recognize the limitations they're still very fun. Case in point, Lion King on the Genesis/SNES i can see why it's a pain in the ass, but something about it still conjures joy and whimsy inside of me, especially the soundtrack.

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Wiinterfang@reddit

I was a teen on the N64/PS1 generation and back then it was agreed most 3D where shit and look ugly. I'll argue 3D games didn't started to get really good until the 360/PS3 Generation.

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cokeplusmentos@reddit

People think that the only thing that evolved in these years are the graphics, while user controls, level design, storyboarding and a lot of other invisible stuff grew

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AgentSkidMarks@reddit

I have this game loaded up on my PS5 right now. Shit rules.

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soiboi64@reddit

I fucked around with this game so much as a kid. Rented from Blockbuster a few times.

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applehecc@reddit

My game collection was like 5 games so each of them was special and I also didn't have a $4000 PC to compare it to

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Agasthenes@reddit

Just less things to compare it too.

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An_Draoidh_Uaine@reddit

It was the fucking late nineties, games for kids numbered in the tens, and it was the most realistic thing you'd ever seen on the PS1. Of course going back to it after doing a gremlins 2 killmove as Niki Minaj on Freddy Kruegar in Call of Duty 7 is going to tar your mundane childhood experiences.

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godverdejezushey@reddit

Controls are outdated but this is nowhere near a shit game lol. I still love it

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ayywusgood@reddit

Opposite for me, the nostalgia hits hard

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