cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/8635192
Where are my fellow Rascal survivors?
Resident Evil 1, Apple Cider Spider (c64), and Glover come to mind…
The only games from my childhood I can ever recall being like that when thinking back would be the edutainment style games I had, obviously.
I don’t think I ever had any type of games that taught teaching. I had games like hooked on phonics type stuff and a Land Before Time math game, among a few others.
Typing was never something formally taught to me, even from a video game. I guess by the 2000s they just didn’t think it was important enough to be taught in elementary school to kids. Yet cursive was deemed something we needed to know.
My parents got my on PC young, used to love the Jump Start games and magic schoolbus games.
Non edu games I remember fondly from that time, Jazz Jack rabbit, Earthworm Jim, the flying toaster games, pajama Sam, putt putt, Freddy fish.
My wife said spy fox must be added :D
Sonic Adventure fans be like:
Played both as a kid and found them really cool
0 desire to touch them nowadays and wouldn’t recommend younger people to experience them
And it’s not like I don’t like the old games I played back then, I play a lot of Super Mario World from time to time (though in fairness exclusively ROMhacks except about every 10 years where I look at the original again). Sonic Adventure for me just didn’t age well.
But that’s fine, not every game has to be a timeless classic. I have good memories of the games and that’s what’s important
Some games were terrible and you made them better in your memory on accident.
Some are still exactly as good as you hoped.
Most had a cool vibe that made you like it but were guilty of multiple atrocities of game design.
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