@@nickparsons337 When I play it now it actually feels like I'm flying through the air on my bike with E.T. riding up front in the basket. It's way better than any VR experience available now.
I love E.T. It's an awesome game. I struggled with it throughout the 80's. Then as I got older and thoroughly read the manual I began to understand the game and I was able to beat it.
I can see that's it a hell of a lot more and better game than when I seen and played as a child, I grew up with 2600, well I was born in 82 and had it until 87,but i don't get know emersiveness out of it,but it's not any worse than raiders of the lost ark and we don't cry about that one,I loved that game, me and my brother would play together, he was Indiana, we pretended I was Sallah right off screen to give him his items,it was fun for the 80s
Legend of Zelda. Being a kid from a more urban community(the hood!!!) the idea of wizards and magic never really got me until I played final fantasy 7 and that made me go back and check out all the popular games from my youth that was tailored around this subject and re-discovered the legend of zelda as well as a couple of other cool games.
Quick little story for ya, when I was trying to make the leap to the 5th generation console, I had my heart set on an N64. It seemed revolutionary and my friends all had it. I remember one time I was really talking it up to my Mom. How cool it was, how all the games were 3D now; I was laying it on really thick. Suddenly my Mom broke my rant and said "What about a PlayStation?" (I think she already got wind of the $100 price difference at the time) It verbally stunned me. My older Bros friends had brought one over a couple times and I really saw it as the big kids console. I felt the 64 represented me and my more kiddish age better, but I was just offered the big kid's console. I quickly had to ask myself am I ready for the big kids console? Can I handle it? I decided yes. And just said okay, to my Mom and walked away. I've been rolling with PS ever since. I did eventually get a 64 a few years later (basically for Ocarina of Time) and loved it for what I used it for, which was a small handful of the best of the best, Zelda, Mario 64, StarFox etc. But it was nothing compared to how many PS games I had. That kind of formed the relationship between Sony, Nintendo, and myself ever since. Like I have a PS5 now but looking at that Switch with some loving eyes every once in a while
For me it was the Super Mario Bros ALL OF THEM. I did not like how you stop running & Mario slides a bit & doesn't come to a complete halt. As a kid I remember always sliding into a Goomba. I then got a Game Boy & played Super Mario Land. Mario stopped when you stopped & there was no more sliding. I loved this game & is to this day my all time favorite Mario game ever! As an adult I was gifted a Super Nintendo & it came with Super Mario All Stars & I finally enjoyed the Super Mario games & I'm use to the slide Mario has when trying to stop running.
Intelligent Qube on PS1. Was on the Demo Disc I got with my PS1 Christmas of 1997 as a 6 year old. Seeing a little guy on my tv screen running around escaping these tumbling cubes that were three times the his size on a black screen with background music that sounded like an eerie cross of Indiana Jones and 2001: A Space Odyssey, only to watch the guy fall off the cubes and into darkness screaming, then the ominous monotone voice saying game over. That game gave me nightmares as a kid, but now I think it is one of the most underrated and brilliant puzzle games of all time, and I'm not honestly that big on Puzzle Games. The experience is so unique and the soundtrack fits perfectly to the experience. I highly reccomend it to anyone with a PS1.
This was one of my all-time favorite strategy games. I finally picked up a full copy a couple months ago for a decent price, as opposed to the demo everyone and their mom had back in the day. You're right about the soundtrack, and I definitely recall having a bad dream about being the guy and falling to endless nothing with the ominous voice going, "Again!"
@@blackishjustin Glad you were able to find a real copy too. I looked even back then in the late 90's and couldn't find a copy. (Don't know why I wanted a game that gave me terrible dreams so badly even then, it was just really fascinating) I finally found a copy at one of my retro stores maybe a year or two ago, and I took it to the counter at first sight. But definitely a really good game, I still play my copy at least a few times a month.
When I was a collector in the late 90s/early 2000s the Turbographx was seen as kind of a joke in my region so I wrote it off entirely, even let UNBELIEVABLE deals slip by with a smirk and a " LOL WHO WANTS THAT?! " -- now I see how foolish this was and I love me some Air Zonk hahah
A Link to the Past is a game I hated as a kid, but when I got older I realized how great it is. Also Tetris and bubble ghost for the gameboy. I enjoy both of those games a lot now but I hated seeing them when I was on car rides back in the day.
I can easily imagine a kid not liking Bubble Ghost. You have to be slow and methodological at your movements, while simultanously trying to be as fast as you possible can.
Of course, we change over time as we are exposed to new things and ideas, and this is reflected in our hobbies. I hated JRPGs and shooters when I was a kid, but I love both now (must be a patience thing). Also, the context in which you play a game is very important. Sometimes you just need to play a game in the right moment when you are more receptive to what it has to offer. I can remember a few times where I played a game at one moment and hated it, only to enjoy it later on in another moment.
As an adult I really appreciate and enjoy a well made RPG, when I was a kid the only things I played close to an RPG was Pokemon, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi. I never played a Final Fantasy, Tales of, or a Persona until I was in my early twenties. I quickly found out I was a huge fan of these games I didn't even know existed.
Dude! I'm completely the same way with Strategy RPGs! I only started playing a few here and there within the last couple years, and they scratch an itch I didn't realize I had. Like any RPG before my teen years, the whole concept seemed too daunting to try them out. I got pulled in by the hype of Pokemon and FFVII, but there hasn't really been a Strategy RPG of that caliber to reel many people in. Fire Emblem is what finally did it for me, but I had to get the Sacred Stones for free on the 3DS before giving it a shot.
I play all three of the Fire Emblem GBA games every few years the random level ups are addicting, you never know who is going to randomly carry your run, or possibly die before they are even recruited. Every run is unique in that regard.
I hated the original Resident Evil for PS1 back when it came out i 1996. I was 11 and I really disliked it. Not because it was scary, but I just didn’t get it. I hadn’t played Alone in the Dark or other survival horror games, so I didn’t know what to expect. In my late teenage years I popped it back in for another try, and ended up beating it with both characters in a single weekend. Since then I’ve been a major fan of the game and it’s remake for Gamecube👍
For me, Dragon Warrior fits this question well. There was waaaaay too much reading and waiting around involved for a third grader who just wanted to bust up some monsters and robots.
I was one of those kids always caught up in the console wars favouring Nintendo over the competition. Once I was old enough to earn my own money though I gained a better appreciation for other platforms. Being a fan of one company is fine, but if it causes you to overlook other possibilities you could be missing out on some great games.
I'm kinda thankful that the Virtual Console came up right as I hit my teens. I was always trying Genesis and TG16 games, so the console war mentality never really set in.
@@madspunky I was one of those kids, too, and I mostly disliked Sega outwardly (while inwardly adoring the Sonic franchise) because they were "picking on Nintendo" with their commercials at the time, and to me, that was picking on me, so I didn't want them to have my allowance until Virtua Fighter 2 hit the arcades and overcame my grudge. 😅
I played and beat that game multiple times on the DMG. I recently picked it up again and tried it on my backlit GBC and it's like it's a new game entirely! So I guess my weird reason is that I played it on its original hardware and like it much better on a modern upgrade (though you're right, the Super Game Boy always was an option.)
I can imagine a Metroid game being really frustrating to play on a Game Boy with all the complex platforming and no backlight and such a small display. I even think its remake on the 3DS is much harder on a 3DS than it would be if it were playable on a big screen where my display wasn't also my controller.
@@gargervon8697 You can mod the screen pretty easily nowadays. You don't even have to solder or cut anything if you want to incorporate a backlit screen into a gameboy.
Tomatoes and onions sounds like it would make an "okay" side to a full meal... or work as a garnish for some other part of the meal (think like how apple sauce can work as a "garnish")... but as a garnish it would seem Chutney might be a better way to work stuff
As a survivor of the Genesis/ Super Nintendo wars; I was just salty about those kids who were fortunate enough to own both. I was one of those kids who would rent a Genesis for the weekend from Blockbuster with a game or two before the Super Nintendo was released. All I had at the time was my tried and true NES; but those rental weekends were good times indeed.
Yeah that sucks when we were kids back in the day. It was 1 console & you had to share that with your bros & sisters. Now they buy kids whatever they want and they each have their own.
I wasn't the biggest fan of First person shooters growing up but as I've gotten older I have begun to appreciate them more. Games like Bio shock and KillZone really got me into the genre.
@Ginge5ify I liked Dying light and I thought both Rage 1 and 2 were pretty good. I do also like the Fear series and both new Wolfenstien games were really good.
While not a true grocery shopping game, I feel you would enjoy Dead Rising. It's a zombie game, but it's set in malls where you can loot to your hearts content, use ordinary items you find in the mall as makeshift weapons. Like pick up things like tv's or cd's and toss them at zombies.
Great discussion! I didn't care for donkey komg country as a kid. I was so used to the snappy controls from the mario series and just couldn't get passed the delay from the extra animation. But I've grown to enjoy the series, it's one of a handful of games I get to enjoy with my wife
DKC has been one of my favorites of all time my whole life, and I never noticed lag because of extra animation. Either way I'm always happy when other people like my favorite games
I want to say the Nintendo 1st-party back catalogue as a whole I definitely like more as an adult, particularly the Mario and Zelda games. Strange reason being that as an adolescent I probably thought they were too kid-friendly and weren't as cool as M-Rated games like Resident Evil and Doom, thus had less interest in them. It's a little ironic rediscovering Nintendo in your 30s.
I didn't really get Metroid games until I found a copy of Zero Mission in the bargain bin at Target back in like '06. I played it, enjoyed it and immediately got all of the older ones I missed out on and fell in love with the series. I've since gotten all of them on launch day (minus MP3 which I got a few months after it launched) and the series has become one of my top 3 of all time. To think I went almost 18 years and turned my nose up at the series until that fateful day at Target
I remember not liking Rally-X in the arcade because I couldn’t split my attention between driving and the radar. But now almost every driving game has a radar screen, so it’s second nature to quickly glance over to see what’s happening. Now I find that I enjoy the game and I’m actually way better at it as an adult without having to try as hard.
There were several games that I had grown to like as adult. Most of them were Japanese games that I had played on my cousin's place. I remember that when I was a kid, I couldn't understand a single Japanese word and I had to dish it out because I said "I don't know Japanese bro! Where's English?!" But nowadays, I appreciate them even though getting through the game in Japanese is still a bit difficult today. Thankfully, many of them got translated in English but I do hope that one day, I can get to play the game fully in Japanese language. That would really be an accomplishment for me.
That Food Shopping Cart game needs to happen! I remember playing Dead Rising years ago and had the same thought when using a shopping cart as a weapon! For me I share the same sentiment with racing games; only recently starting to like them on the Switch. I particularly love Arcade type racers like Cruisin Blast and Asphalt 9. First person shooters were games I did not like back then; as I always thought it was a lazy way not to program characters in 3rd person and it felt like you were just a floating hand and gun. These days they have become way more detailed where they do end up making great character models that are then made in first person view. Metriod Prime was the first game that felt more immersive than the rest and since then I have grown to like them more (especially on the Switch); even going back and buying games I passed on like the original Doom games.
On a tangent, I hope there's a proper supermarket somewhere in GTA VI for total supermarket mayhem but I suspect that a major reason the only food stores you can enter in GTA games are convenience stores is that Rockstar doesn't feel like filling 10 aisles with fake brand names.
For me, the classic final fantasy games. A little story: I started ff6 and played for 3 hours and didn't know how to save... Never again. Until recently, during lock down a friend of mine decided we would use discord to stream games for each other to keep in touch. Ff6 was one of them and I absolutely loved it. Another one is Super Hydlide. The game is definitely not a great experience but with knowledge of modern games I was able to appreciate all the mechanics they were attempting to encorporate, real time gameplay where you had to rest and worrying about the weight of your gear, and a morality rating. As a kid I liked it but had no concept of rationally balancing my gear out and making sure I slept and ate. 😂
Dragon Quest (Warrior)! The characters and art always appealed to me so much as a kid, but when I got DW 1&2 for GameBoy color I just didn’t understand the gameplay (I was like 6 or 7). I would also annoy the heck outta my mom asking for help with reading all the dialogue. Once I was about 15/16 I rediscovered the series and went back and fell in love with it all over again.
I grew up on rts games, c&c, StarCraft, and enjoyed fire emblem. Today, I cant touch those and returned to enjoy platform games more than I ever did before
I did not like strategy games, puzzle games, or RPG’s, but as I got a little older or during the Super Nintendo era of gaming, games like Final Fantasy III (VI) got me heavily into RPG’s. Games for the Game Boy Advance like Orge Tatics, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Advance Wars, got me into strategy games. Tetris for the Game Boy got me into puzzle games and Brain Age for the Nintendo DS, keep me hooked and entertained.
I was never really into the point and click style mystery games like Deja Vu or Nightshade when I was a kid. I have grown to appreciate these type of games now especially after playing Shadowrun. I still find the chore of collecting clues daunting but I can appreciate games of the variety a bit more.
I don't have a game that I just didn't like as a kid that I suddenly liked as an adult. The best example for this topic for me us probably Legacy of the Wizard. I liked it as a kid, and quite a bit at that. However, it was too difficult for me when it was new. When I came back to it in my late teens in the '90s, I was much better equipped to figure it out. Even though I did like it before, I could then really appreciate the game fully after getting to really absorb it and understand how ahead of its time the game was. I'm surprised no one has really come back to that multiple character metroidvania after all these years. Closest thing I can think of is World to the West, but that was more like A Link to the Past (but was still awesome).
This was a really interesting topic. Kudos to you for doing a video on it. In my youth, new games were rare and I wasn't around too many friends or family that had much variation. If they had games, chances are we all had them. Except for the one friend in high school who had an Atari Jaguar. So if I had it, I played it and appreciated what I had. I didn't beat TMNT 1 until quite recently but I still played a ton of it in my youth. That was the last game I owned as a kid that i hadn't beaten. I guess the closest to this video's topic I come in at would be receiving Dragon warrior 1 free with my Nintendo Power subscription...part of a Christmas present that year. I got a lot of sports games because I played a lot of sports plus high replay value. So Dragon Warrior was way out of what I was even exposed to. It ended up being one of my favorite games. Granted the guides, maps, and placards the game came with made it easier, but I used to love taking those on road trips just to read through. Another example would be Phantasy Star IV. Got that in high school when I bought my friends Genesis collection and system. By this time the N64 was out and that was my next console after the NES lol. Man that is a fun game. One of my top Genesis favorites without question. Knew nothing about it and ended up being an all time favorite. Now do I have a game I used to somewhat like and now loathe? Jammit on the Sega Genesis lol.
I wouldn’t say as a kid but maybe 5 years ago I wasn’t very into shmups. Mostly because I was bad but after some time I’ve gotten better at them. Now I like them a lot. Especially as bite sized gaming sessions.
The different games I'm interested in now is much more varied than when I was a kid. I'm more willing to try new things. I guess back then, I stuck more so with game series I was most familiar with. I still have a lot of those same favorite games now, but I enjoy branching out. For example, Chibi-Robo on Gamecube! I've never played it, but I'd like to try that game sometime!
I didn’t have either of these games as a kid, but I didn’t like Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose or Animaniacs (both on the SNES), years ago. Now, they’ve become some of my favorite games on the console.
In general I didn't try horror games when I was a kid. I was always intrigued about the Resident Evil games in videogame magazines, but never gave them a shot. I guess I thought they'd be too scary. First one I played was resi 5 when I was like 20 and got hooked on the franchise. Another genre was RPGs, but that was because I didn't understand english as a child, so dialog and stats and directions went right over my head. That being said, as I gradually understood more and more I enjoyed them more and more. Now I absolutely love them.
I never had the patience for Zelda as a kid but have been playing them now. All the hard NES games like TMNT, Back to the future, Fester's Quest, etc I enjoy them all now.
Great video as always!! And I try to think a lot of games that I like even more now than as a kid. As a kid that means games for consoles up to N64 and as younger up to GameCube. This is a very very difficult question since I haven't played so much lately, mostly collected. Maybe the answer should be Giana Sisters! I had NES and SNES (but not at the same time) and also those Mario games. And I saw Giana Sisters at a friend that didn't have NES/SNES. I felt... "it's not allowed to copy Mario and this copy is so awful and they swapped brothers to sisters". So I never really liked that game. But now many years later I like that first game much more even if I've never played it. I have watched it on TH-cam and I always feel and pray "please please can someone just bring me that old computer/console with that game so I can play it here and now??". I even think of buying that Giana Sisters for Switch. Should I or should I not? So that's probably my best example. The more I think I can probably come up with more examples. I think I actually got one more example and that's the "black sheep" for Super Mario Bros: the remake of Doki Doku Panic that became Super Mario Bros 2 US. The problem with that game was how different it was. The coins were gone and everything felt so different. I felt "how could they do this to Super Mario???". When the game came out I had no idea that it was a remake of Doki Doki Panic. But now when I know the story and reason behind this remake and after some more years of life experience I like this game even more!
When I was a kid I just couldn't get Chrono Trigger. I like it a lot better now and am playing through it with the goal of finally beating it. The reason I didn't like the game was that I just couldn't wrap my mind around the items. Heal didn't heal you, but tonics did... I just never understood it. I played the game yesterday and my first thought when I used a tonic was how dumb it was that this healed me. Clearly I never got over it, but man is the game fun.
Super Mario RPG is one of those games that I don't think I would have appreciated back in the early 2000s when I first played it. But as an adult I played the heck out of it in 2018/2019.
RPGs were definitely not my favorite as a kid. However, after I was older I had a friend at work that turned me on to Final Fantasy III/VI. It was a slow burn starting out but then it clicked. Also, as much as I love Link to the Past, I still don't like either of the NES Zelda games.
I thought I was the only one! I've gone through several copies over the decades, I never got the hang of it. Crystalis though - totally different ball game. Star Tropics 1 and 2 were also pretty good, but I gotta get a hold of some copies now. I'm ready to re-play them.
One game I can think of that I didn't like as a kid but like it now as an adult is Duke Nukem 3D. I had it on N64 back then but then traded it to my friend. Then me and my friend would do co-op but he would do all the work. Now I got to play it for myself on switch and I really enjoyed the game a whole lot enough to beat it. Also another game is Turok 2, I always hated that game as a kid!! But since it got remastered on switch, it's just so much more enjoyable and I finished it. I can really appreciate that game now. In general I hated first person shooters back then, but I like them today. But not the modern ones.
As a kid, I loved pretty much every video game I came across because video games are awesome, but if I found myself in an arcade, the last machines I ever considered putting precious quarters into were the shoot 'em ups. As an adult, I'm a complete sucker for them, and they'd be the first machines I'd run towards if arcades still existed.
With Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do to find the contact lenses, so I gave up on the game when it was new. I later picked up the game as a teen (not quite adult but eh, technicality), and cleared the game. Very much enjoyed it more when I could actually progress in it.
Kind of hard for me to say, but I suppose Legend of Zelda. It obviously was something my younger brain could not understand as well as now with all the exploration, puzzles and secrets considering I was more into games franchises like Sonic and Mario. Now, I can definitely get behind playing games from the Zelda series. In a similar fashion, RPGs were definitely something I couldn't understand until I got older. I still may have trouble in some instances with them, but I can definitely understand how to get through them nowadays compared to my adolescent years.
I'm going go ahead and say Resident Evil 3 for this question. As a kid, I always thought it was a weaker game for not having as much content as 2, being only one disc and having only one choice of character. Plus I thought dealing with Nemesis was too hard so I'd play on easy. As an adult, I really noticed just how fun it is to find new paths and make different choices in completing the game. There's so many different ways to do things, giving it tons of replay value. Plus learning to fight Nemesis and get rewards was a blast. Now RE3 is my favorite among the classic RE games.
Gran Turismo. Felt like driving a snail, but one that I couldn't for the life of me keep on the road for the simplest of turns. As an adult I understand the concepts of vehicle dynamics and it's obviously much more fun now.
As a kid I couldn’t get into either Dr. Mario or Tetris. I hated the fast, forced movement and didn’t understand playing a game that couldn’t be finished. Now I love to play both games from time to time.
Currently playing Sonic 1 on my Sega Genesis. I have to devote a chunk of time during one of my days off to play it. Still trying to officially beat it. I am a bit frustrated playing it now as an adult.
Well when I was younger I didn't had a specific genre that I didn't like as I was already happy with every game I could play but I've put away a good amount of games because of language barrier and just not knowing what to do in games because of it. When I finally gotten English classes and me slowly started to understand the language, a whole world started to open up and I could finally beat some games I couldn't as a child, and in some cases its still on my need to (re)play list.
Super Mario 64. What I wanted after Super Mario World was essentially what they eventually did with 3D Land and 3D World latter on. Took until after 3D World for me to be able to see Mario 64 on it's own terms.
Great question (as always). I feel like when I was a kid, I always gravitated to the latest and greatest games and sort of forgot about older games pretty quickly. In that regard, I now am interested almost exclusively in older games (the first game I bought on the Switch was the updated Wonderboy 3). :) I also have more patience and understanding of JRPGs, which I just didn’t get as a kid. And I really wasn’t super open to Genesis games in the early 90s. But now I do appreciate how great many of them were.
I can only really think of one that I didn't like as a child but liked as an adult, and that is Metal Gear on NES, but my reason was at least slightly logical. I didn't like it as a kid because I didn't understand a game where you weren't necessarily supposed to go around beating everything up and breaking down doors. It was about gathering information and sneaking around, but I was very young and had only played action games and Tetris. I never got anywhere treating it like an action game, so it became a "dumb" game and I traded it in for store credit. Hunted it down again as an adult when I realized I was probably mature enough to enjoy it then, and it became one of my favorites.
Riding in the car with Retro bird “ya know what would be cool, if I could run these old ladies down and their shopping carts”. Passenger “yea I’ll get out here please”.
Super Mario 64 and the N64 in general, though I might've mentioned this before... The concept of 3D worlds seemed cool, but the controls were tough to wrap my head around (probably should've used my hands instead). On top of that, my one friend (let's call him Lucas, because that was his name) kept running around and jumping off trees and stuff, and providing funny/annoying commentary throughout. It made the game seem like a neat little sandbox, I guess, but also kind of pointless. Similarly, watching another friend get stuck in the Deku Tree dungeon from Ocarina of Time didn't help my opinion, either! But these days, I really appreciate both of these games, and have a soft spot for both 3D platformers and N64-era games in general.
I have grown to appreciate RPGs as an adult. Specifically turn based JRPGs like Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series. The sprite work and music made me want to like them when I was younger, but I found the gameplay a grind and a bit boring. I also never owned these titles as a kid so I could never complete them. The only way I got to play these games was by renting them or borrowing a game from a friend for the weekend. After revisiting some of these titles as an adult through collecting or buying re releases on more modern consoles I see why people love these games so much.
That's a really good point because being a kid I don't ever remember seeing a kid ever have or play one of the console real time strategy games fact when I was the kid I don't think I knew they existed on consoles I think I thought they were only computer games which turns out looking back most of them were ports of computer games
For me it was the whole dreamcast. Had n64 and just got a ps1(with over 40 games donated to me by various friends)when dreamcast came out. My best friend would always brag about his and whenever I gamed at his house he made sure we play it 1st. I hated the controller and when I left his house I never itched to play more of it. Fast forward I'm trying to look up games I wanna relive but can't remember what system they were for and long behold the majority were from the dreamcast.😂
I used to dislike stealth games. I remember when Metal Gear came out for the NES and I remember just dying repeatedly. My little kid brain didn't appreciate the advantages of slinking away to fight another day, risk vs reward, and having good timing. Fast forward to the PS1 era where MGS's, well, everything really made me feel like a badass undercover agent. From there, I discovered Tenchu, Syphon Filter, Hitman, Splinter Cell, the list goes on. I would say that stealth games are within my top 5 favorite gaming genres....maybe even top 3? To this day, I still have a sliver of hope that Activision will someday revitalize the Tenchu series of games. I rediscovered Mark of the Ninja on a recent PS store sale and really enjoyed it!
I suppose for me it would be Metroid Prime 1 and 2. I borrowed Prime 1 and ended up getting Prime 2 growing up and I tried both those games out a lot, but I just couldn't grasp those games for some reason. I did like them, but it went over my head for whatever reason. I remember talking to a friend who also liked them and saying that I could not figure out where to go or what to do next. So I never got into Metroid...until somewhat recently. I looked at my lone copy of Prime 2 and thought that I should try it again. So I got Prime 1 and ended up loving it since I'm soooooo much better at games now. Now I have most of the series. Yeah, it's also true that a lot of us are likely better at games now than when we were kids. I had a lot of games growing up where I didn't beat them as a kid, but managed to do it later as an adult. That's the cool thing about gaming. It can teach us things about real life and it tests our skills that we have.
Joust. I remember renting it thinking it was about medieval jousting and being totally disappointed. Now that I understand what it is, it’s one of my favorites.
I jumped ship from Street Fighter to Tekken and Virtua Fighter ya know because 3D. I watched many matches of Street Fighter 3 and 3rd Strike, I respected the players and the system. I had limited cash so Tekken 2 and 3. Then many years later watching EVO clips re ignited my interest in Street Fighter 3 the fluid animation, fight system, counters, and the music. Since then I and several friends play through the many compilations avaliable.
When I was a kid I was always lusting after any games on consoles I didn't have. I loved Mario but sonic looked awesome. Super Nintendo was sweet but the sega cd blew my mind.
I like/don't/hate the same games as a kid as an adult. Nothing changed for me. Also when Mario 3 came out, that became my favorite game, and still is to this day. Though there are lots of cartoons I loved as a kid that I find really hard to watch as an adult.
I didn't give the Donkey Kong games (other than the original) a try because my neighbor who was kind of a jerk played them. I started playing Donkey Kong Country after watching one of your snes videos and I regret not trying them earlier.
I like Batman on the NES, but at 12 or 13, I found it incredibly difficult. I got to the third boss and just couldn’t beat it.And I had beat all the Mario games, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!, and many other games prior to playing it.Batman was definitely a fun game back then but it just seemed so frustrating in the third level.Well, I got into my 30s and got real nostalgic for NES games again, and bought Batman, and BEAT it!! Now I absolutely love the game, and I love the challenge, and those wall-jumping mechanics are some of the best in any game. Also, I like Contra 3 WAAAYYY more than I did when I was 13. Maybe I just thought it was way too difficult, I don’t know. Now I view it as a masterpiece.
For me, it was not so much A single game that I disliked as a kid, more so the entire genre of simulation games, like driving and flying simulators. I think as a kid, I found these games to be boring and uneventful, especially when compared to the Mario karts and Pokémons I was used to. However, now I absolutely love them, and a few of them easily rank in my top 10 games of all time list.
The opposite happened to me. When I was a kid, I thought I liked JRPGs and have played most of the popular ones (FFVII-FFIX, Star Ocean, Xenogears, Legend of Mana, Legend of Dragoon, Valkyrie Profile etc.). Then I realized as an adult I don't really enjoyed playing them and never finished a single one...
I find this one really tough to answer. I was exposed to a lot of different stuff from either owning it or a friend or a relative. I remember playing Atari 2600 and 7800 games, NES games, Sega Master System, Genesis, SNES, Turbografx, PS1, N64 and even Atari Jaguar despite back then only owning NES, Genesis and PS1. And then there's the whole PC side from playing at the local library back in the 80s Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego on an Apple 2, to Impossible Mission on Commodore 64, to this local coffee shop in my town in the 90s that had 8 PCs networked together where my friends and I would play 8 player Duke Nuke Em 3D death matches. Then of course Arcades! I was not snobbish in anyway. If I somehow could play something I would. I was exposed to a lot of different genres. I remember playing my first strategy game in 89 when Military Madness came out. A lot of the types of games I enjoyed back then I still enjoy now. Though I suppose if I had to pick something it would be horror games. I mean, I played Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street on NES, and I vividly remember when Resident Evil came out and if you want to classify it as horror probably the last one I played when it was new would be American McGee's Alice in Wonderland pc game, but I didn't play anything for a very long time. Then Dead Space came out and after that I started checking out a lot of game I knew of but had had no interest in: Fatal Frame series, Parasite Eve, and the other Resident Evil titles (I had stopped paying attention after 2) like Code Veronica on the Dreamcast or even a game like Ghouls N Ghost. I've come to appreciate those kinds of games a lot more as an adult.
I remember accidentally trying my first strategy RPG when I was around 9- I bought Dynasty Tactics thinking the box art looked cool but I couldn’t even comprehend how to play the game! After much crying my mother took me back to Best Buy and the benevolent salesperson let me swap it out for Crash Bandicoot. I hope wherever that salesperson is he’s doing well
@@sherrdreamz7232 I should try it again now as an adult, maybe I’ll finally have the patience and reading comprehension skills lol- I did eventually grow to love Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced and Advanced Wars but those just seemed so much more digestible to my little cartoon network brain
The first game that ever truly disappointed me as a kid was Off Road Challenge for the N64. I rented it with my hard earned money and my heart sunk when I played it at how shallow the gameplay was, the crappy graphics and how few tracks there were. I was angry. Before that I didn't even know a video game could be bad! Fast forward to now...I recently bought Off Road Challenge for N64 out of nostalgia for my first disappointment in gaming [and b/c its part of the Cruis'n family of Midway games] and I gotta say its a lot of fun. I have grown to really appreciate wacky arcade goodness that we don't get anymore despite its "shallowness".
Opposite for me in some cases, while I could beat games like battletoads, ghouls n ghosts etc. when aging although I can keep up with many not as good as I used to be, also when now having a huge library of games I'm less patient to stick with it when I get stuck to keep on trying, when so many games are there to play. While back then that game would be all you played as not as much others to play and in the process liking it more back than. Also liked tomato and unions as a kid as they made a great base for a pasta sauce or tomato soup, and unions where great on a burger or baked potatoes, fried rice etc. many of my favourite dishes as a kid.
Definitely Yoshi's Island. Liked it as a kid...but baby mario annoyed me. As an adult, and father, I now can tolerate that noise. And my reward is enjoying a great game.
I played Metal Gear Solid when originally realized, and couldn't get past the initial heliport stance, as I couldn't wrap my head around the stealth concept. I tried it again last year and now the whole series is my favorite in videogames. I probably appreciate playing it as an adult, since most of the philosophical themes would've been lost to me when I was 14 years old. On a completely unrelated note, I thought I was having a stroke until I realized the red spot I saw close to your forehead was a reflection from the shelves red lights. You have a strong light or a shiny head.
First off I would like to thank you for putting my topic on here. Thank you. I pretty much like a lot of side scrollers 8 bit & 16 bit games. Mega man 2 was a game I didn't like as a kid. I didn't like the character, I didn't understand the password system. I didn't like the fact he couldn't duck or why I had to choose different weapons. Then as an adult I understood it & I love Mega Man 2. I remember the Console wars effecting my decission to play the mortal kombat games & Street Fighter 2 games on the Snes because I was a genesis fan. As a kid a video game console is something that is a part of you. When you feel the other kids have a rival console, your 1st thought is to either brag why your console is better or insult their games. As an adult I don't care what systems my friends like.
@@sprint2938 Oh yeah the snes lol. When someone had the nhl 94 game. I was like this is way better on the Genesis. Which it is. I would dis the game really hard and not even play the Snes version. I played it recently a couple of years back. Man it's pretty good for a hockey game.
A game I just picked up is body harvest on the n64, and I’m glad I did because this game is pretty good. Although I didn’t like it when I was a kid because I did not have the patience and focus to play it as i do now as an adult.
Growing up, I never had a chance to play ninja gaiden. One of my friends had it, but when he started playing it to show me the game I felt very uninterested as I had just recently got a SNES. NES games seemed dated and crappy compared to my brand new console. As of beginning of this year I decided to give it a try, mostly because is held as one of the most difficult games to beat that has ever been made. You have no Idea how much I love the game now, I'm still stuck on level 6-1 I think, but I'm enjoying it so much
Having played a lot of 2d Mario games as a wee lad, I wasn't immediately sold on Super Mario 64 when I first played it. The previous experiences were so ingrained in me that I didn't appreciate the exploration aspect of the new Era. Obviously I missed out on a great game at the time. The more recent example is Pokemon games. I thought these were really childish when I was a teenager and didn't ever give them the time of day. Now that Pokemon is as popular as ever and I have kids who enjoy the gen 1 anime, I'll starting to obsess over the games. Even recently purchased the N64 transfer pak, pokemon stadium, and pokemon yellow to experience some of the original experience of the game boy games😁
Super Metroid and Yoshis Island, growing up I was into all the rpg's...Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy so I never gave the other games a shot. Finally had the chance to play them on Snes classic and WOW! Both are top 10 snes games for me now!
For me it was the original ninja Gaiden for nes wow that game was tough.. If you got hit it knocks you back and my luck to my death 😭😭..now as far as tomatoes and onions make an awesome Mexican salsa with chips yummmm..
you're ending song is always the cherry on top
As a kid I hated "E.T." on the Atari 2600 but now as an adult I can appreciate it for the timeless classic that it is.
Please, tell me your comment is dripping with sarcasm.
@@nickparsons337 When I play it now it actually feels like I'm flying through the air on my bike with E.T. riding up front in the basket. It's way better than any VR experience available now.
I love E.T. It's an awesome game. I struggled with it throughout the 80's. Then as I got older and thoroughly read the manual I began to understand the game and I was able to beat it.
I know right the "depth" offered and multifaceted gameplay style is something "special" amidst the sea of more modern games.
I can see that's it a hell of a lot more and better game than when I seen and played as a child, I grew up with 2600, well I was born in 82 and had it until 87,but i don't get know emersiveness out of it,but it's not any worse than raiders of the lost ark and we don't cry about that one,I loved that game, me and my brother would play together, he was Indiana, we pretended I was Sallah right off screen to give him his items,it was fun for the 80s
Legend of Zelda. Being a kid from a more urban community(the hood!!!) the idea of wizards and magic never really got me until I played final fantasy 7 and that made me go back and check out all the popular games from my youth that was tailored around this subject and re-discovered the legend of zelda as well as a couple of other cool games.
Quick little story for ya, when I was trying to make the leap to the 5th generation console, I had my heart set on an N64. It seemed revolutionary and my friends all had it. I remember one time I was really talking it up to my Mom. How cool it was, how all the games were 3D now; I was laying it on really thick. Suddenly my Mom broke my rant and said "What about a PlayStation?" (I think she already got wind of the $100 price difference at the time) It verbally stunned me. My older Bros friends had brought one over a couple times and I really saw it as the big kids console. I felt the 64 represented me and my more kiddish age better, but I was just offered the big kid's console. I quickly had to ask myself am I ready for the big kids console? Can I handle it? I decided yes. And just said okay, to my Mom and walked away. I've been rolling with PS ever since. I did eventually get a 64 a few years later (basically for Ocarina of Time) and loved it for what I used it for, which was a small handful of the best of the best, Zelda, Mario 64, StarFox etc. But it was nothing compared to how many PS games I had. That kind of formed the relationship between Sony, Nintendo, and myself ever since. Like I have a PS5 now but looking at that Switch with some loving eyes every once in a while
For me it was the Super Mario Bros ALL OF THEM. I did not like how you stop running & Mario slides a bit & doesn't come to a complete halt. As a kid I remember always sliding into a Goomba.
I then got a Game Boy & played Super Mario Land. Mario stopped when you stopped & there was no more sliding. I loved this game & is to this day my all time favorite Mario game ever!
As an adult I was gifted a Super Nintendo & it came with Super Mario All Stars & I finally enjoyed the Super Mario games & I'm use to the slide Mario has when trying to stop running.
Intelligent Qube on PS1. Was on the Demo Disc I got with my PS1 Christmas of 1997 as a 6 year old. Seeing a little guy on my tv screen running around escaping these tumbling cubes that were three times the his size on a black screen with background music that sounded like an eerie cross of Indiana Jones and 2001: A Space Odyssey, only to watch the guy fall off the cubes and into darkness screaming, then the ominous monotone voice saying game over. That game gave me nightmares as a kid, but now I think it is one of the most underrated and brilliant puzzle games of all time, and I'm not honestly that big on Puzzle Games. The experience is so unique and the soundtrack fits perfectly to the experience. I highly reccomend it to anyone with a PS1.
This was one of my all-time favorite strategy games. I finally picked up a full copy a couple months ago for a decent price, as opposed to the demo everyone and their mom had back in the day. You're right about the soundtrack, and I definitely recall having a bad dream about being the guy and falling to endless nothing with the ominous voice going, "Again!"
@@blackishjustin Glad you were able to find a real copy too. I looked even back then in the late 90's and couldn't find a copy. (Don't know why I wanted a game that gave me terrible dreams so badly even then, it was just really fascinating) I finally found a copy at one of my retro stores maybe a year or two ago, and I took it to the counter at first sight. But definitely a really good game, I still play my copy at least a few times a month.
Tomatoes and onions chopped up on an Italian sub aren’t bad.
Sounds good to me!
Need miracle whip, pepper, and oregano to go with em
Italian dude here, can confirm
When I was a collector in the late 90s/early 2000s the Turbographx was seen as kind of a joke in my region so I wrote it off entirely, even let UNBELIEVABLE deals slip by with a smirk and a " LOL WHO WANTS THAT?! " -- now I see how foolish this was and I love me some Air Zonk hahah
Never gave turn based RPGs a chance as a kid. Now I'm playing catch up.
A Link to the Past is a game I hated as a kid, but when I got older I realized how great it is. Also Tetris and bubble ghost for the gameboy. I enjoy both of those games a lot now but I hated seeing them when I was on car rides back in the day.
Tetris for me too.
I can easily imagine a kid not liking Bubble Ghost. You have to be slow and methodological at your movements, while simultanously trying to be as fast as you possible can.
Of course, we change over time as we are exposed to new things and ideas, and this is reflected in our hobbies. I hated JRPGs and shooters when I was a kid, but I love both now (must be a patience thing). Also, the context in which you play a game is very important. Sometimes you just need to play a game in the right moment when you are more receptive to what it has to offer. I can remember a few times where I played a game at one moment and hated it, only to enjoy it later on in another moment.
As an adult I really appreciate and enjoy a well made RPG, when I was a kid the only things I played close to an RPG was Pokemon, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi. I never played a Final Fantasy, Tales of, or a Persona until I was in my early twenties. I quickly found out I was a huge fan of these games I didn't even know existed.
Dude! I'm completely the same way with Strategy RPGs! I only started playing a few here and there within the last couple years, and they scratch an itch I didn't realize I had. Like any RPG before my teen years, the whole concept seemed too daunting to try them out. I got pulled in by the hype of Pokemon and FFVII, but there hasn't really been a Strategy RPG of that caliber to reel many people in. Fire Emblem is what finally did it for me, but I had to get the Sacred Stones for free on the 3DS before giving it a shot.
I play all three of the Fire Emblem GBA games every few years the random level ups are addicting, you never know who is going to randomly carry your run, or possibly die before they are even recruited. Every run is unique in that regard.
Final Fantasy Tactics is probably the biggest hit in the genre relative to its time... Shining Force 3 is the best. 😉
Yeah, they're great!
I hated the original Resident Evil for PS1 back when it came out i 1996. I was 11 and I really disliked it. Not because it was scary, but I just didn’t get it. I hadn’t played Alone in the Dark or other survival horror games, so I didn’t know what to expect. In my late teenage years I popped it back in for another try, and ended up beating it with both characters in a single weekend. Since then I’ve been a major fan of the game and it’s remake for Gamecube👍
For me, Dragon Warrior fits this question well. There was waaaaay too much reading and waiting around involved for a third grader who just wanted to bust up some monsters and robots.
I was one of those kids always caught up in the console wars favouring Nintendo over the competition. Once I was old enough to earn my own money though I gained a better appreciation for other platforms. Being a fan of one company is fine, but if it causes you to overlook other possibilities you could be missing out on some great games.
Oef, how did you manage 1993 when the Genesis had all those hits? I myself came to enjoy Sega and even preferred the Saturn to the Playstation!
I'm kinda thankful that the Virtual Console came up right as I hit my teens. I was always trying Genesis and TG16 games, so the console war mentality never really set in.
@@madspunky I was one of those kids, too, and I mostly disliked Sega outwardly (while inwardly adoring the Sonic franchise) because they were "picking on Nintendo" with their commercials at the time, and to me, that was picking on me, so I didn't want them to have my allowance until Virtua Fighter 2 hit the arcades and overcame my grudge. 😅
@@gargervon8697 Hah, yeah, I can relate!
Metroid 2. Playing it on a backlit GBC, I feel like my kid self missed out on an amazing experience.
I played and beat that game multiple times on the DMG. I recently picked it up again and tried it on my backlit GBC and it's like it's a new game entirely!
So I guess my weird reason is that I played it on its original hardware and like it much better on a modern upgrade (though you're right, the Super Game Boy always was an option.)
I can imagine a Metroid game being really frustrating to play on a Game Boy with all the complex platforming and no backlight and such a small display. I even think its remake on the 3DS is much harder on a 3DS than it would be if it were playable on a big screen where my display wasn't also my controller.
@@gargervon8697 You can mod the screen pretty easily nowadays. You don't even have to solder or cut anything if you want to incorporate a backlit screen into a gameboy.
Tomatoes and onions sounds like it would make an "okay" side to a full meal... or work as a garnish for some other part of the meal (think like how apple sauce can work as a "garnish")... but as a garnish it would seem Chutney might be a better way to work stuff
As a survivor of the Genesis/ Super Nintendo wars; I was just salty about those kids who were fortunate enough to own both. I was one of those kids who would rent a Genesis for the weekend from Blockbuster with a game or two before the Super Nintendo was released. All I had at the time was my tried and true NES; but those rental weekends were good times indeed.
Yeah that sucks when we were kids back in the day. It was 1 console & you had to share that with your bros & sisters. Now they buy kids whatever they want and they each have their own.
Grocery store simulator is gold! I haven't looked to see if there is one, but if not, someone get on it!
I wasn't the biggest fan of First person shooters growing up but as I've gotten older I have begun to appreciate them more. Games like Bio shock and KillZone really got me into the genre.
@Ginge5ify I mean I liked games like Goldeneye and Doom but I hated most other fps I couldn't really get into them.
@Ginge5ify I liked Dying light and I thought both Rage 1 and 2 were pretty good. I do also like the Fear series and both new Wolfenstien games were really good.
While not a true grocery shopping game, I feel you would enjoy Dead Rising. It's a zombie game, but it's set in malls where you can loot to your hearts content, use ordinary items you find in the mall as makeshift weapons. Like pick up things like tv's or cd's and toss them at zombies.
Great discussion! I didn't care for donkey komg country as a kid. I was so used to the snappy controls from the mario series and just couldn't get passed the delay from the extra animation. But I've grown to enjoy the series, it's one of a handful of games I get to enjoy with my wife
DKC has been one of my favorites of all time my whole life, and I never noticed lag because of extra animation. Either way I'm always happy when other people like my favorite games
I want to say the Nintendo 1st-party back catalogue as a whole I definitely like more as an adult, particularly the Mario and Zelda games. Strange reason being that as an adolescent I probably thought they were too kid-friendly and weren't as cool as M-Rated games like Resident Evil and Doom, thus had less interest in them. It's a little ironic rediscovering Nintendo in your 30s.
I didn't really get Metroid games until I found a copy of Zero Mission in the bargain bin at Target back in like '06. I played it, enjoyed it and immediately got all of the older ones I missed out on and fell in love with the series. I've since gotten all of them on launch day (minus MP3 which I got a few months after it launched) and the series has become one of my top 3 of all time. To think I went almost 18 years and turned my nose up at the series until that fateful day at Target
Even though I never beat it I always loved super ghouls and ghosts. I thought I could beat it as an adult. I was very very wrong.
Hahah :)
I remember not liking Rally-X in the arcade because I couldn’t split my attention between driving and the radar. But now almost every driving game has a radar screen, so it’s second nature to quickly glance over to see what’s happening. Now I find that I enjoy the game and I’m actually way better at it as an adult without having to try as hard.
There were several games that I had grown to like as adult. Most of them were Japanese games that I had played on my cousin's place. I remember that when I was a kid, I couldn't understand a single Japanese word and I had to dish it out because I said "I don't know Japanese bro! Where's English?!"
But nowadays, I appreciate them even though getting through the game in Japanese is still a bit difficult today. Thankfully, many of them got translated in English but I do hope that one day, I can get to play the game fully in Japanese language. That would really be an accomplishment for me.
Horror games for sure, recently in fact. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame. With Crimson Butterfly being a very "wild ride".
That Food Shopping Cart game needs to happen! I remember playing Dead Rising years ago and had the same thought when using a shopping cart as a weapon!
For me I share the same sentiment with racing games; only recently starting to like them on the Switch. I particularly love Arcade type racers like Cruisin Blast and Asphalt 9. First person shooters were games I did not like back then; as I always thought it was a lazy way not to program characters in 3rd person and it felt like you were just a floating hand and gun. These days they have become way more detailed where they do end up making great character models that are then made in first person view. Metriod Prime was the first game that felt more immersive than the rest and since then I have grown to like them more (especially on the Switch); even going back and buying games I passed on like the original Doom games.
On a tangent, I hope there's a proper supermarket somewhere in GTA VI for total supermarket mayhem but I suspect that a major reason the only food stores you can enter in GTA games are convenience stores is that Rockstar doesn't feel like filling 10 aisles with fake brand names.
For me, the classic final fantasy games.
A little story: I started ff6 and played for 3 hours and didn't know how to save... Never again.
Until recently, during lock down a friend of mine decided we would use discord to stream games for each other to keep in touch.
Ff6 was one of them and I absolutely loved it.
Another one is Super Hydlide. The game is definitely not a great experience but with knowledge of modern games I was able to appreciate all the mechanics they were attempting to encorporate, real time gameplay where you had to rest and worrying about the weight of your gear, and a morality rating.
As a kid I liked it but had no concept of rationally balancing my gear out and making sure I slept and ate. 😂
Dragon Quest (Warrior)! The characters and art always appealed to me so much as a kid, but when I got DW 1&2 for GameBoy color I just didn’t understand the gameplay (I was like 6 or 7). I would also annoy the heck outta my mom asking for help with reading all the dialogue.
Once I was about 15/16 I rediscovered the series and went back and fell in love with it all over again.
I grew up on rts games, c&c, StarCraft, and enjoyed fire emblem. Today, I cant touch those and returned to enjoy platform games more than I ever did before
Bird wants "Goat Simulator" except it's him grocery shopping. :D
I did not like strategy games, puzzle games, or RPG’s, but as I got a little older or during the Super Nintendo era of gaming, games like Final Fantasy III (VI) got me heavily into RPG’s. Games for the Game Boy Advance like Orge Tatics, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Advance Wars, got me into strategy games.
Tetris for the Game Boy got me into puzzle games and Brain Age for the Nintendo DS, keep me hooked and entertained.
I was never really into the point and click style mystery games like Deja Vu or Nightshade when I was a kid. I have grown to appreciate these type of games now especially after playing Shadowrun. I still find the chore of collecting clues daunting but I can appreciate games of the variety a bit more.
I don't have a game that I just didn't like as a kid that I suddenly liked as an adult. The best example for this topic for me us probably Legacy of the Wizard. I liked it as a kid, and quite a bit at that. However, it was too difficult for me when it was new. When I came back to it in my late teens in the '90s, I was much better equipped to figure it out. Even though I did like it before, I could then really appreciate the game fully after getting to really absorb it and understand how ahead of its time the game was. I'm surprised no one has really come back to that multiple character metroidvania after all these years. Closest thing I can think of is World to the West, but that was more like A Link to the Past (but was still awesome).
When I was a kid, I didn’t like Pitfall on Atari because the music was too scary when you died.
This was a really interesting topic. Kudos to you for doing a video on it.
In my youth, new games were rare and I wasn't around too many friends or family that had much variation. If they had games, chances are we all had them. Except for the one friend in high school who had an Atari Jaguar. So if I had it, I played it and appreciated what I had. I didn't beat TMNT 1 until quite recently but I still played a ton of it in my youth. That was the last game I owned as a kid that i hadn't beaten. I guess the closest to this video's topic I come in at would be receiving Dragon warrior 1 free with my Nintendo Power subscription...part of a Christmas present that year. I got a lot of sports games because I played a lot of sports plus high replay value. So Dragon Warrior was way out of what I was even exposed to. It ended up being one of my favorite games. Granted the guides, maps, and placards the game came with made it easier, but I used to love taking those on road trips just to read through. Another example would be Phantasy Star IV. Got that in high school when I bought my friends Genesis collection and system. By this time the N64 was out and that was my next console after the NES lol. Man that is a fun game. One of my top Genesis favorites without question. Knew nothing about it and ended up being an all time favorite.
Now do I have a game I used to somewhat like and now loathe? Jammit on the Sega Genesis lol.
I wouldn’t say as a kid but maybe 5 years ago I wasn’t very into shmups. Mostly because I was bad but after some time I’ve gotten better at them. Now I like them a lot. Especially as bite sized gaming sessions.
SHMUPS have become one of my favorite genres as an adult. They are so epic.
I love them too!
The different games I'm interested in now is much more varied than when I was a kid. I'm more willing to try new things. I guess back then, I stuck more so with game series I was most familiar with. I still have a lot of those same favorite games now, but I enjoy branching out. For example, Chibi-Robo on Gamecube! I've never played it, but I'd like to try that game sometime!
I didn’t have either of these games as a kid, but I didn’t like Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose or Animaniacs (both on the SNES), years ago. Now, they’ve become some of my favorite games on the console.
In general I didn't try horror games when I was a kid. I was always intrigued about the Resident Evil games in videogame magazines, but never gave them a shot. I guess I thought they'd be too scary. First one I played was resi 5 when I was like 20 and got hooked on the franchise. Another genre was RPGs, but that was because I didn't understand english as a child, so dialog and stats and directions went right over my head. That being said, as I gradually understood more and more I enjoyed them more and more. Now I absolutely love them.
I never had the patience for Zelda as a kid but have been playing them now. All the hard NES games like TMNT, Back to the future, Fester's Quest, etc I enjoy them all now.
Great video as always!! And I try to think a lot of games that I like even more now than as a kid. As a kid that means games for consoles up to N64 and as younger up to GameCube. This is a very very difficult question since I haven't played so much lately, mostly collected.
Maybe the answer should be Giana Sisters! I had NES and SNES (but not at the same time) and also those Mario games. And I saw Giana Sisters at a friend that didn't have NES/SNES. I felt... "it's not allowed to copy Mario and this copy is so awful and they swapped brothers to sisters". So I never really liked that game. But now many years later I like that first game much more even if I've never played it. I have watched it on TH-cam and I always feel and pray "please please can someone just bring me that old computer/console with that game so I can play it here and now??". I even think of buying that Giana Sisters for Switch. Should I or should I not?
So that's probably my best example. The more I think I can probably come
up with more examples.
I think I actually got one more example and that's the "black sheep" for Super Mario Bros: the remake of Doki Doku Panic that became Super Mario Bros 2 US. The problem with that game was how different it was. The coins were gone and everything felt so different. I felt "how could they do this to Super Mario???". When the game came out I had no idea that it was a remake of Doki Doki Panic. But now when I know the story and reason behind this remake and after some more years of life experience I like this game even more!
When I was a kid I just couldn't get Chrono Trigger. I like it a lot better now and am playing through it with the goal of finally beating it. The reason I didn't like the game was that I just couldn't wrap my mind around the items. Heal didn't heal you, but tonics did... I just never understood it. I played the game yesterday and my first thought when I used a tonic was how dumb it was that this healed me. Clearly I never got over it, but man is the game fun.
Super Mario RPG is one of those games that I don't think I would have appreciated back in the early 2000s when I first played it. But as an adult I played the heck out of it in 2018/2019.
I'm imagining a grocery store version of crazy taxi, I love that lmao
Yeah, that's kind of the idea!
As an adult I like fighting games. I didn't play them much as a kid but I remember getting into soul calibur for Dreamcast and Marvel v Capcom 😊
RPGs were definitely not my favorite as a kid. However, after I was older I had a friend at work that turned me on to Final Fantasy III/VI. It was a slow burn starting out but then it clicked.
Also, as much as I love Link to the Past, I still don't like either of the NES Zelda games.
I thought I was the only one! I've gone through several copies over the decades, I never got the hang of it. Crystalis though - totally different ball game. Star Tropics 1 and 2 were also pretty good, but I gotta get a hold of some copies now. I'm ready to re-play them.
One game I can think of that I didn't like as a kid but like it now as an adult is Duke Nukem 3D. I had it on N64 back then but then traded it to my friend. Then me and my friend would do co-op but he would do all the work. Now I got to play it for myself on switch and I really enjoyed the game a whole lot enough to beat it. Also another game is Turok 2, I always hated that game as a kid!! But since it got remastered on switch, it's just so much more enjoyable and I finished it. I can really appreciate that game now. In general I hated first person shooters back then, but I like them today. But not the modern ones.
As a kid, I loved pretty much every video game I came across because video games are awesome, but if I found myself in an arcade, the last machines I ever considered putting precious quarters into were the shoot 'em ups. As an adult, I'm a complete sucker for them, and they'd be the first machines I'd run towards if arcades still existed.
Strategy and tactic games. Except for Advance Wars 2, which I played a lot, when I was young I always dozed off trying to play them...
With Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do to find the contact lenses, so I gave up on the game when it was new. I later picked up the game as a teen (not quite adult but eh, technicality), and cleared the game. Very much enjoyed it more when I could actually progress in it.
I really like new 3D platforms and collectathons because of my love for them on the N64 back in the day.
Kind of hard for me to say, but I suppose Legend of Zelda. It obviously was something my younger brain could not understand as well as now with all the exploration, puzzles and secrets considering I was more into games franchises like Sonic and Mario. Now, I can definitely get behind playing games from the Zelda series.
In a similar fashion, RPGs were definitely something I couldn't understand until I got older. I still may have trouble in some instances with them, but I can definitely understand how to get through them nowadays compared to my adolescent years.
I'm going go ahead and say Resident Evil 3 for this question. As a kid, I always thought it was a weaker game for not having as much content as 2, being only one disc and having only one choice of character. Plus I thought dealing with Nemesis was too hard so I'd play on easy. As an adult, I really noticed just how fun it is to find new paths and make different choices in completing the game. There's so many different ways to do things, giving it tons of replay value. Plus learning to fight Nemesis and get rewards was a blast. Now RE3 is my favorite among the classic RE games.
Gran Turismo. Felt like driving a snail, but one that I couldn't for the life of me keep on the road for the simplest of turns. As an adult I understand the concepts of vehicle dynamics and it's obviously much more fun now.
As a kid I couldn’t get into either Dr. Mario or Tetris. I hated the fast, forced movement and didn’t understand playing a game that couldn’t be finished. Now I love to play both games from time to time.
Every time I come back to your channel (twice a week) you've gained an impressive amount of subscribers. Great job!
Currently playing Sonic 1 on my Sega Genesis. I have to devote a chunk of time during one of my days off to play it. Still trying to officially beat it. I am a bit frustrated playing it now as an adult.
Are you trying to get the good ending?
Well when I was younger I didn't had a specific genre that I didn't like as I was already happy with every game I could play but I've put away a good amount of games because of language barrier and just not knowing what to do in games because of it. When I finally gotten English classes and me slowly started to understand the language, a whole world started to open up and I could finally beat some games I couldn't as a child, and in some cases its still on my need to (re)play list.
Super Mario 64. What I wanted after Super Mario World was essentially what they eventually did with 3D Land and 3D World latter on. Took until after 3D World for me to be able to see Mario 64 on it's own terms.
Great question (as always). I feel like when I was a kid, I always gravitated to the latest and greatest games and sort of forgot about older games pretty quickly. In that regard, I now am interested almost exclusively in older games (the first game I bought on the Switch was the updated Wonderboy 3). :)
I also have more patience and understanding of JRPGs, which I just didn’t get as a kid.
And I really wasn’t super open to Genesis games in the early 90s. But now I do appreciate how great many of them were.
I can only really think of one that I didn't like as a child but liked as an adult, and that is Metal Gear on NES, but my reason was at least slightly logical. I didn't like it as a kid because I didn't understand a game where you weren't necessarily supposed to go around beating everything up and breaking down doors. It was about gathering information and sneaking around, but I was very young and had only played action games and Tetris. I never got anywhere treating it like an action game, so it became a "dumb" game and I traded it in for store credit. Hunted it down again as an adult when I realized I was probably mature enough to enjoy it then, and it became one of my favorites.
I want to boomerang a bananer at the grocery store now.
Riding in the car with Retro bird “ya know what would be cool, if I could run these old ladies down and their shopping carts”. Passenger “yea I’ll get out here please”.
Not old ladies and not in real life! Hahah
I know, I was playing. Awesome content, keep ‘em coming.
@@stevenewsome5306 Haha and I was playing back. Thank you :)
Super Mario 64 and the N64 in general, though I might've mentioned this before...
The concept of 3D worlds seemed cool, but the controls were tough to wrap my head around (probably should've used my hands instead).
On top of that, my one friend (let's call him Lucas, because that was his name) kept running around and jumping off trees and stuff, and providing funny/annoying commentary throughout.
It made the game seem like a neat little sandbox, I guess, but also kind of pointless.
Similarly, watching another friend get stuck in the Deku Tree dungeon from Ocarina of Time didn't help my opinion, either!
But these days, I really appreciate both of these games, and have a soft spot for both 3D platformers and N64-era games in general.
I have grown to appreciate RPGs as an adult. Specifically turn based JRPGs like Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series. The sprite work and music made me want to like them when I was younger, but I found the gameplay a grind and a bit boring. I also never owned these titles as a kid so I could never complete them. The only way I got to play these games was by renting them or borrowing a game from a friend for the weekend. After revisiting some of these titles as an adult through collecting or buying re releases on more modern consoles I see why people love these games so much.
That's a really good point because being a kid I don't ever remember seeing a kid ever have or play one of the console real time strategy games fact when I was the kid I don't think I knew they existed on consoles I think I thought they were only computer games which turns out looking back most of them were ports of computer games
For me it was the whole dreamcast. Had n64 and just got a ps1(with over 40 games donated to me by various friends)when dreamcast came out. My best friend would always brag about his and whenever I gamed at his house he made sure we play it 1st. I hated the controller and when I left his house I never itched to play more of it. Fast forward I'm trying to look up games I wanna relive but can't remember what system they were for and long behold the majority were from the dreamcast.😂
I used to dislike stealth games. I remember when Metal Gear came out for the NES and I remember just dying repeatedly. My little kid brain didn't appreciate the advantages of slinking away to fight another day, risk vs reward, and having good timing.
Fast forward to the PS1 era where MGS's, well, everything really made me feel like a badass undercover agent. From there, I discovered Tenchu, Syphon Filter, Hitman, Splinter Cell, the list goes on. I would say that stealth games are within my top 5 favorite gaming genres....maybe even top 3?
To this day, I still have a sliver of hope that Activision will someday revitalize the Tenchu series of games. I rediscovered Mark of the Ninja on a recent PS store sale and really enjoyed it!
I suppose for me it would be Metroid Prime 1 and 2. I borrowed Prime 1 and ended up getting Prime 2 growing up and I tried both those games out a lot, but I just couldn't grasp those games for some reason. I did like them, but it went over my head for whatever reason. I remember talking to a friend who also liked them and saying that I could not figure out where to go or what to do next. So I never got into Metroid...until somewhat recently. I looked at my lone copy of Prime 2 and thought that I should try it again. So I got Prime 1 and ended up loving it since I'm soooooo much better at games now. Now I have most of the series.
Yeah, it's also true that a lot of us are likely better at games now than when we were kids. I had a lot of games growing up where I didn't beat them as a kid, but managed to do it later as an adult. That's the cool thing about gaming. It can teach us things about real life and it tests our skills that we have.
Castlevania games, nes, SNES and genesis! Could not stand, now I love ! Strange because I love super meteoroid
Joust. I remember renting it thinking it was about medieval jousting and being totally disappointed. Now that I understand what it is, it’s one of my favorites.
I jumped ship from Street Fighter to Tekken and Virtua Fighter ya know because 3D. I watched many matches of Street Fighter 3 and 3rd Strike, I respected the players and the system. I had limited cash so Tekken 2 and 3. Then many years later watching EVO clips re ignited my interest in Street Fighter 3 the fluid animation, fight system, counters, and the music. Since then I and several friends play through the many compilations avaliable.
When I was a kid I was always lusting after any games on consoles I didn't have. I loved Mario but sonic looked awesome. Super Nintendo was sweet but the sega cd blew my mind.
Yup same here.
I like/don't/hate the same games as a kid as an adult. Nothing changed for me. Also when Mario 3 came out, that became my favorite game, and still is to this day. Though there are lots of cartoons I loved as a kid that I find really hard to watch as an adult.
I didn't give the Donkey Kong games (other than the original) a try because my neighbor who was kind of a jerk played them. I started playing Donkey Kong Country after watching one of your snes videos and I regret not trying them earlier.
I like Batman on the NES, but at 12 or 13, I found it incredibly difficult. I got to the third boss and just couldn’t beat it.And I had beat all the Mario games, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!, and many other games prior to playing it.Batman was definitely a fun game back then but it just seemed so frustrating in the third level.Well, I got into my 30s and got real nostalgic for NES games again, and bought Batman, and BEAT it!! Now I absolutely love the game, and I love the challenge, and those wall-jumping mechanics are some of the best in any game. Also, I like Contra 3 WAAAYYY more than I did when I was 13. Maybe I just thought it was way too difficult, I don’t know. Now I view it as a masterpiece.
That shopping mall game idea sounds fantastic lol so funny
For me, it was not so much A single game that I disliked as a kid, more so the entire genre of simulation games, like driving and flying simulators. I think as a kid, I found these games to be boring and uneventful, especially when compared to the Mario karts and Pokémons I was used to. However, now I absolutely love them, and a few of them easily rank in my top 10 games of all time list.
The opposite happened to me. When I was a kid, I thought I liked JRPGs and have played most of the popular ones (FFVII-FFIX, Star Ocean, Xenogears, Legend of Mana, Legend of Dragoon, Valkyrie Profile etc.). Then I realized as an adult I don't really enjoyed playing them and never finished a single one...
I find this one really tough to answer. I was exposed to a lot of different stuff from either owning it or a friend or a relative. I remember playing Atari 2600 and 7800 games, NES games, Sega Master System, Genesis, SNES, Turbografx, PS1, N64 and even Atari Jaguar despite back then only owning NES, Genesis and PS1. And then there's the whole PC side from playing at the local library back in the 80s Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego on an Apple 2, to Impossible Mission on Commodore 64, to this local coffee shop in my town in the 90s that had 8 PCs networked together where my friends and I would play 8 player Duke Nuke Em 3D death matches. Then of course Arcades! I was not snobbish in anyway. If I somehow could play something I would. I was exposed to a lot of different genres. I remember playing my first strategy game in 89 when Military Madness came out. A lot of the types of games I enjoyed back then I still enjoy now.
Though I suppose if I had to pick something it would be horror games. I mean, I played Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street on NES, and I vividly remember when Resident Evil came out and if you want to classify it as horror probably the last one I played when it was new would be American McGee's Alice in Wonderland pc game, but I didn't play anything for a very long time. Then Dead Space came out and after that I started checking out a lot of game I knew of but had had no interest in: Fatal Frame series, Parasite Eve, and the other Resident Evil titles (I had stopped paying attention after 2) like Code Veronica on the Dreamcast or even a game like Ghouls N Ghost. I've come to appreciate those kinds of games a lot more as an adult.
I remember accidentally trying my first strategy RPG when I was around 9- I bought Dynasty Tactics thinking the box art looked cool but I couldn’t even comprehend how to play the game! After much crying my mother took me back to Best Buy and the benevolent salesperson let me swap it out for Crash Bandicoot. I hope wherever that salesperson is he’s doing well
I loved Dynasty Tactics 2 as a kid, I played plenty of SRPG's growing up and that game offered alot of depth and cool mechanics!
@@sherrdreamz7232 I should try it again now as an adult, maybe I’ll finally have the patience and reading comprehension skills lol- I did eventually grow to love Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced and Advanced Wars but those just seemed so much more digestible to my little cartoon network brain
The first game that ever truly disappointed me as a kid was Off Road Challenge for the N64. I rented it with my hard earned money and my heart sunk when I played it at how shallow the gameplay was, the crappy graphics and how few tracks there were. I was angry. Before that I didn't even know a video game could be bad! Fast forward to now...I recently bought Off Road Challenge for N64 out of nostalgia for my first disappointment in gaming [and b/c its part of the Cruis'n family of Midway games] and I gotta say its a lot of fun. I have grown to really appreciate wacky arcade goodness that we don't get anymore despite its "shallowness".
Opposite for me in some cases, while I could beat games like battletoads, ghouls n ghosts etc. when aging although I can keep up with many not as good as I used to be, also when now having a huge library of games I'm less patient to stick with it when I get stuck to keep on trying, when so many games are there to play. While back then that game would be all you played as not as much others to play and in the process liking it more back than. Also liked tomato and unions as a kid as they made a great base for a pasta sauce or tomato soup, and unions where great on a burger or baked potatoes, fried rice etc. many of my favourite dishes as a kid.
Definitely Yoshi's Island. Liked it as a kid...but baby mario annoyed me. As an adult, and father, I now can tolerate that noise. And my reward is enjoying a great game.
I played Metal Gear Solid when originally realized, and couldn't get past the initial heliport stance, as I couldn't wrap my head around the stealth concept. I tried it again last year and now the whole series is my favorite in videogames. I probably appreciate playing it as an adult, since most of the philosophical themes would've been lost to me when I was 14 years old.
On a completely unrelated note, I thought I was having a stroke until I realized the red spot I saw close to your forehead was a reflection from the shelves red lights. You have a strong light or a shiny head.
Yeah, the light really glows haha.
I’m not an adult, not close… but Ocarina of Time is one of those games that I liked better now.
All right! I love that game :)
@@RetroBirdGaming such a good game, and I still replay it every once in awhile, I’m going to get a N64 game for my birthday…what should I get?
@@SirSiegward Golden eye
@@tonyp9313 I’ve never liked Golden Eye, I used to play it with my big brother but now that hes older it just sits pretty upon my small shelf.
@@SirSiegward You should buy Mario Kart 64. You'll love that game.
First off I would like to thank you for putting my topic on here. Thank you. I pretty much like a lot of side scrollers 8 bit & 16 bit games. Mega man 2 was a game I didn't like as a kid. I didn't like the character, I didn't understand the password system. I didn't like the fact he couldn't duck or why I had to choose different weapons. Then as an adult I understood it & I love Mega Man 2. I remember the Console wars effecting my decission to play the mortal kombat games & Street Fighter 2 games on the Snes because I was a genesis fan. As a kid a video game console is something that is a part of you. When you feel the other kids have a rival console, your 1st thought is to either brag why your console is better or insult their games. As an adult I don't care what systems my friends like.
@@sprint2938 Oh yeah the snes lol. When someone had the nhl 94 game. I was like this is way better on the Genesis. Which it is. I would dis the game really hard and not even play the Snes version. I played it recently a couple of years back. Man it's pretty good for a hockey game.
A game I just picked up is body harvest on the n64, and I’m glad I did because this game is pretty good. Although I didn’t like it when I was a kid because I did not have the patience and focus to play it as i do now as an adult.
I had that with Zelda games, I didn't really like them as a kid and now I love them
Growing up, I never had a chance to play ninja gaiden. One of my friends had it, but when he started playing it to show me the game I felt very uninterested as I had just recently got a SNES. NES games seemed dated and crappy compared to my brand new console. As of beginning of this year I decided to give it a try, mostly because is held as one of the most difficult games to beat that has ever been made. You have no Idea how much I love the game now, I'm still stuck on level 6-1 I think, but I'm enjoying it so much
Having played a lot of 2d Mario games as a wee lad, I wasn't immediately sold on Super Mario 64 when I first played it. The previous experiences were so ingrained in me that I didn't appreciate the exploration aspect of the new Era. Obviously I missed out on a great game at the time.
The more recent example is Pokemon games. I thought these were really childish when I was a teenager and didn't ever give them the time of day. Now that Pokemon is as popular as ever and I have kids who enjoy the gen 1 anime, I'll starting to obsess over the games. Even recently purchased the N64 transfer pak, pokemon stadium, and pokemon yellow to experience some of the original experience of the game boy games😁
Super Metroid and Yoshis Island, growing up I was into all the rpg's...Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy so I never gave the other games a shot. Finally had the chance to play them on Snes classic and WOW! Both are top 10 snes games for me now!
Contra Hard Corps I like more now as an adult compared to when I was younger😎
For me it was the original ninja Gaiden for nes wow that game was tough.. If you got hit it knocks you back and my luck to my death 😭😭..now as far as tomatoes and onions make an awesome Mexican salsa with chips yummmm..
ninja gaiden, too dificult, but then I played it again around 2009 and beat it, now is my favorite game on the nes lol