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The Top 7... games that don't deserve nostalgia

Honestly, they were never that great in the first place

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US

 

There are so many games that fit this description they could fill an entire article. Instead we lumped them all together into the number two slot, tons of games that we happily lapped up and told our friends how awesome they were despite them being utter shit. That first Ninja Turtles game? Crap. Way too hard and felt like some other game with the turtles crammed in. Godzilla? Terrible. Hope you like a diminutive, teal-colored Godzilla that gets killed by flying macaroni noodles. Also don't expect to, you know, fight other giant monsters more than once every 20 minutes. Instead, please navigate a hexagonal maze filled with near-identical levels. And when you finally did encounter another monster, it was on a solid black background.



There's a simple way to tell if your favorite childhood title sucked or not: was it made by Capcom and based on Disney properties? Then it was awesome. Neither is true? Probably sucked.

 

The same goes for movie games like Back to the Future and Top Gun - we were so desperate for any game with licensed properties that we were ready and willing to devour the junkiest excuses for video games. You kind of always knew they sucked, but you convinced yourself you were having a good time because you only got a few games a year, right? Yeah this was a good use of allowance, right? Straight As on a report card well spent, right?

Right?

 
7 Comments
key0blade - 2 months 21 days ago
I wish I had FFVII...
tehperson123412 - 1 month 26 days ago
and yet, gr wonders why there are 100 reasons to hate them...
Corsair89 - 1 month 17 days ago
Whatever. I still love FFVII.
ryzuku - 1 month 9 days ago
I thought FFVII was alright, and I love good RPGs, especially ones with good stories. But, I never understood why so many people held it in such high regard. I just didn't really enjoy it that much.
tehperson123412 - 1 month 10 hours ago
never mind my comment. shoulda actually SEEN the 100 reasons to hate gr. but still it's pretty hard to get away with a list like this
Stinger911 - 6 days 5 hours ago
Final Fight?! And then the article writer continues to blaspheme against one of the greatest genres of all time: the beat 'em up! Repent! Repent, blasphemer!
mrbutlertron - 4 days 15 hours ago
Some of those beat 'em ups were hella fun to play with a sibling or friend, but there's a reason Turtles in Time was 25 minutes long. There wasn't a whole lot of variety.
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