Games you're ashamed to have enjoyed as a child

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Moonlight Butterfly

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Moonlight Butterfly said:
I can't really remember any that were super terrible. Mind you I had an Atari 2600 as my first console so you just kind of played whatever you got given back in those days. xD

The King's Quest games by Sierra were kind of embarrassing. Especially the one with the princess.
King's Quest 4 with Rosella as the main character?
I thought that game was actually one of the better titles of the classic old Sierra adventure games (or basicly anything before Gabriel Knight and KQ6).
Some of the puzzles were ok I think.

My manliness can handle a little KQ4 without shame.
I don't know hehe, it just felt incredibly cheesy playing them. :p You are right though the puzzles were good.
 

Overusedname

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The "Putt-Putt Does Menial Tasks" Series. They really were the worst of Humungous game's lineup.

I am NOT ashamed of the hours spent on Spy Fox, however, that was a genuinely creative and funny adventure game.
 

MASTACHIEFPWN

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I'm not ashamed of liking any game from when I was a kid. I'd be ashamed if I still liked some of those games now.
Jersey Devil
Controls were god awful as shit, but I, for some reason, still loved that game.
 

Shoggoth2588

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Dangit2019 said:
What games did you like as a kid that you hate in hindsight now, Escapists?
I just wanted to say that I like your avatar.

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While I'm not ashamed of it, I really, REALLY love Mystic Quest: Final Fantasy USA. There were also some Sesame Street games on the NES that I would play but Sesame Street kicks ass and I plan on buying those again when I find them. Ya know what I'm actually ashamed of though? I've never played the NES Ducktale's games. For those of you who don't know, it's the game which features this:


edit about the capcha: Allstate sells chocolate penises
 

Dangit2019

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Overusedname said:
I am NOT ashamed of the hours spent on Spy Fox, however, that was a genuinely creative and funny adventure game.
You just totally brought a nostalgia wave. I had completely forgotten about them until you mentioned them. They really WERE awesome.
 

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ProtoChimp said:
The Harry Potter quiditch game. Fuck me its just... appalling.
I actually liked that game only because I could pretend that I was finally good at a sport due to the AI that ran on the programming equivalent of dog crap and crack. Here's a recap of how every game goes:

1. Get ball (or whatever it's called)

2. Fly past dipshit AI

3. Throw ball through goal

4. Wait for AI to throw ball to opposing team

5. Press "Take ball button"

6. Repeat steps 2-5.
 

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The Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom game.
I like Spongebob even now - to a lesser extent and on another level than as a kid - but Jesus fucking Christ, it was mediocre.
Whatever you say man, in my mind that is the best game ever made and Portal and Ocarina of Time can both suck it. Also I should mention the Spongebob Squarepants Movie tie-in which some would call "copypasted", but I would call a "spiritual successor".
 

ProtoChimp

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Dangit2019 said:
ProtoChimp said:
The Harry Potter quiditch game. Fuck me its just... appalling.
I actually liked that game only because I could pretend that I was finally good at a sport due to the AI that ran on the programming equivalent of dog crap and crack. Here's a recap of how every game goes:

1. Get ball (or whatever it's called)

2. Fly past dipshit AI

3. Throw ball through goal

4. Wait for AI to throw ball to opposing team

5. Press "Take ball button"

6. Repeat steps 2-5.
Thats why I hated it.
 

Dangit2019

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ProtoChimp said:
Dangit2019 said:
ProtoChimp said:
The Harry Potter quiditch game. Fuck me its just... appalling.
I actually liked that game only because I could pretend that I was finally good at a sport due to the AI that ran on the programming equivalent of dog crap and crack. Here's a recap of how every game goes:

1. Get ball (or whatever it's called)

2. Fly past dipshit AI

3. Throw ball through goal

4. Wait for AI to throw ball to opposing team

5. Press "Take ball button"

6. Repeat steps 2-5.
Thats why I hated it.
Well, it did make 9 year old me feel like I was the wizard version of Michael Jordan because I didn't understand what "bad AI" even meant.
 

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One game that I remember was Toy Story for the original playstation, I haven't played it recently, so have no idea how good or bad it is. I'll naturally assume it's bad though.
If it's anything to do with the Sega Mega Drive game, then it is awesome.
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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Moonlight Butterfly said:
I can't really remember any that were super terrible. Mind you I had an Atari 2600 as my first console so you just kind of played whatever you got given back in those days. xD

The King's Quest games by Sierra were kind of embarrassing. Especially the one with the princess.
King's Quest 4 with Rosella as the main character?
I thought that game was actually one of the better titles of the classic old Sierra adventure games (or basicly anything before Gabriel Knight and KQ6).
Some of the puzzles were ok I think.

My manliness can handle a little KQ4 without shame.
Agreed. I played all of the KQ series but I started with KQ4 and had no qualms whatsoever about playing a hot pixelated blondie. What sucked for me is that I had a CGA monitor and the Graphics were nigh unbearable at the start. Thankfully my father was a computer tech and grabbed me a better monitor a few months down the road.
Sierra 4 Lyfe!
 

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I had to think deeply but the only game I look back upon and think "Why did I enjoy that?!" is Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. The first shooter pre-teen me bought myself and one of the first games I bought for my GameCube. Looking back at it it's probably the worst shooter on my shelf at the moment.
nikki191 said:
its not real gaming unless you could do in with a monitor that displayed only shades of green :D
Or shades of yellow, we had a computer like that.
 

ProtoChimp

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Dangit2019 said:
ProtoChimp said:
Dangit2019 said:
ProtoChimp said:
The Harry Potter quiditch game. Fuck me its just... appalling.
I actually liked that game only because I could pretend that I was finally good at a sport due to the AI that ran on the programming equivalent of dog crap and crack. Here's a recap of how every game goes:

1. Get ball (or whatever it's called)

2. Fly past dipshit AI

3. Throw ball through goal

4. Wait for AI to throw ball to opposing team

5. Press "Take ball button"

6. Repeat steps 2-5.
Thats why I hated it.
Well, it did make 9 year old me feel like I was the wizard version of Michael Jordan because I didn't understand what "bad AI" even meant.
Ok yeah, that I share.
 

Norrdicus

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I'm ashamed of playing hours and hours of DBZ Budokai 1. Granted, the later games had some decent gameplay (Budokai 3 is my favorite though Shin Budokai might be more balanced), but aside from the neat cutscenes, the first Budokai was shit

Burig said:
One game that I remember was Toy Story for the original playstation, I haven't played it recently, so have no idea how good or bad it is. I'll naturally assume it's bad though.
I think it qualifies as bad. The hit detection was awful and the camera was FAR too close to Woody
 

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Kings Field on the playstation 1.

I was so young at the time that I had zero idea what to do and where to go. I played about 2 years ago just for shits and giggles and maybe a bit of nostalgia, but HOLY SHIT is that game hard.

I had to look up a walkthrough to beat the first few enemies.
 

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Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. I can't believe I actually liked that garbage.

Had some amusing bugs though, like being able to swim through the air for as long as I wanted.
 

crazyrabbits

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Of the few games I remember buying as a kid, I do remember some terrible games I wouldn't be caught dead playing today.

I remember I once bought a Reading Rabbit game, and I did at least two full playthroughs of the game.

Phantasmagoria 2. I bought it because I had the Roberta Williams Collection from Sierra, and I liked the demo of the first game. In hindsight, I remembered how corny it was (and the reception it's received in recent years). Same thing with Police Quest 4: Open Season. What can I say - I loved all of the Sierra games, even the later ones.

I bought the infamously bad Blues Brothers game for the SNES from a previously-played bin, and I remember that I couldn't even beat the third level.

Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier (I think that was the title). A horrible Starcraft knockoff with none of the scope or ingenuity that I only played because it was in a two-pack with Star Wars: Behind The Magic (which is, no lie, one of the best pieces of tie-in media I've ever seen created for a franchise).