Shit you liked as a kid, does it hold up? - Ineveitably the answer is no

I watched a shitload of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as a kid. Probably too much. That show's one of the reasons I have such an insanely dark sense of humor.

Last year I binged on a bunch of episodes, and I was surprised at how much the show held up. In fact, I probably enjoyed them more since I could appreciate the surreal black comedy and utter insanity of the episodes. It really is an Adult Swim show just without the blood (mostly) and profanity. This show literally contains an extremely subtle reference to the rape scene in A Clockwork Orange, something no kid would ever get, which should speak to how much it can appeal to adults as well.
 
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It's mainly some of the Disney movies that hold up well for me. In fact, movies like Pinocchio and Lion King are more enjoyable now.

Gaming as a whole has aged well too.
 
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch holds up. I can still watch that show and enjoy it. In Living Color also still holds up above a lot of the other comedy shows from that time. I would have said Mad TV held up but the later seasons were horrible.
Nickelodeon's Legends Of the Hidden Temple is still a fun game show so I'd say that held up.

The Wonder Years still holds up tbh and is one of the best shows to come out from that time. Rocko's Modern Life also holds up in my opinion. A lot of the Nickelodeon cartoons from the 90's are still pretty good.
 
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I watched a shitload of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as a kid. Probably too much. That show's one of the reasons I have such an insanely dark sense of humor.

Last year I binged on a bunch of episodes, and I was surprised at how much the show held up. In fact, I probably enjoyed them more since I could appreciate the surreal black comedy and utter insanity of the episodes. It really is an Adult Swim show just without the blood (mostly) and profanity. This show literally contains an extremely subtle reference to the rape scene in A Clockwork Orange, something no kid would ever get, which should speak to how much it can appeal to adults as well.
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The show even said menopause in one ep lol
 
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Elfen lied was like so deep at 14, as an adult it blows

Spawn. I thought it was the pinnacle of art when i was 8. Its not really though.
The live action movie aged horribly.

Pokemon is pretty gay as an adult.


I still think stuff like skating, metal, martial arts and edgy 90s manime are cool . Most of the stuff i liked as a kid and teenager doesn't make me cringe at all, even the ones i mentioned.
 
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LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] said:
Elfen lied was like so deep at 14, as an adult it blows

Spawn. I thought it was the pinnacle of art when i was 8. Its not really though.
The live action movie aged horribly.

Pokemon is pretty gay as an adult.


I still think stuff like skating, metal, martial arts and edgy 90s manime are cool . Most of the stuff i liked as a kid and teenager doesn't make me cringe at all, even the ones i mentioned.
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Even when I was a teenager I remember thinking that Pokemon was the dumbest thing ever, when it first came out.
 
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Even when I was a teenager I remember thinking that Pokemon was the dumbest thing ever, when it first came out.
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i was into it for a hot minute, i was like 8, it was the trendy thing and i feel into the hype. I had Pokemon Blue and enjoyed it alright, but the anime seemed retarded.

Pokemon used to play before Rurouni Kenshin, DBZ, Saint Seiya and Evangelion on the local channel, so imagine how gay it looked by comparison. By the time Pokemon Yellow came out i had already gotten over the fad and thought it was too childish for my mature 5th grade taste.
 
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Some of the old stuff holds up. but I don't like this trend of making remakes that are ultra diverse and cynical, with so little in common with the source material that it is like the producer took a random script from his golf-buddy's niece or nephew and slapped on the name of a childhood favourite that had a passing resemblance to it.
 
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I try not to go back and revisit things I enjoyed as a kid. One because almost always my old ass will either find it too boring or childish to enjoy as an adult, or I will go back and check it out only to feel it sucks and wonder what the hell I was thinking to enjoy it in the first place.

There are a few exceptions. I’ll always have a soft spot for Looney Tunes. The Secret of NIMH still remains one of my all time favorite movies. I think it’s god-awful now but I adored ALF as a kid and look back on it with bemusement more than anything
 
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Things that held up well:
Zelda Wind Waker - Honestly an amazing game to me. I wouldn't say it's perfect but it comes damn near pretty close to perfect. Can't really complain about much, other than a few of the late game objectives were ehh. Makes me sad to hear it got so much backlash when it first came out though. I think tards were just pissy about the Cel-shaded cartoon graphics, but those have aged like a fine wine and look beautiful even today.

The Timesplitters series of games is another example of something that has held up very well for me. Great humor, awesome music, and a surprisingly good story for the third one. There is an insane amount of variety even for the time. The amount of content and things to do in those games is wild compared to anything that comes out today. I spent probably 2000 hours on the Mapmaker.

Things that HAVE NOT held up well:
The Sonic Adventure series of games. I fucking loved these as a kid. Played them for hours on end each day just grinding the chao gardens and replaying the levels from the story once you finished it. Thought it was the most epic shit ever.

Replaying them as an adult though? Yeah they're fucking bad. Awful camera system, shit voice acting, nonsensical storyline. Any of the Non-Sonic stages are flat out unfun to play through, the gameplay for Eggman, Tails and Knuckles are just poopy watered down versions of better games in the industry at the time. The music is a hit or miss. Some of it is pretty good, some of the other ones are just embarrassing. I replayed Adventure 2 for as an adult for like 3 hours and was like, yyyeeeahhh, this is not good. Never touched it again. The First Sonic Adventure holds up better, though it's also still pretty mediocre.

The first two Halo games have also not aged particularly well in my opinion. The story in Combat Evolved is really bland, and the second half of the game is just a fucking DRAG to play though. Copy and pasted levels, bullshit enemy types. The thematical reveal for the flood was excellent, as is the music. But, it's just a very dated game. Halo 2 holds up even poorer IMO. You can really feel the development hell playing through it. The harder difficulties are unbalanced as fuck, and there's a lot of leftover content from cut features in the game, which break the overall experience. The story is also dated and you can really feel it was made during that 2004, War on Terror patriotism during the Bush era.

Halo 3 was a masterpiece in every regard though. Completely superior to the first two games. Story and gameplay improved leagues above them. Reach was great as well. The first two ones are just not worth going back to IMO.
 
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Pizza Rolls don't seem as good to me anymore. I'm not sure what it was. I think it might have been something about the texture. Maybe the changed the recipe since the last time I had them. I don't hate them but they didn't seem the same.
 
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