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

The story in Combat Evolved is really bland, and the second half of the game is just a fucking DRAG to play though [. . .] The first two ones are just not worth going back to IMO
Fuck yuo mane, CE is the best of the whole series lmao. I'm not even old my opinion's just weird like that. Gameplay just fits me more than any other game in the series has I guess. And IDK, the story's alright IMO.

Can agree that H2 is basically the 'worst' of the trilogy, obviously unbalanced lol and the amount of cut features is insanity but I'd also like to sperg for a second and say the original graphics genuinely look shoddier than those of CE, which I honestly think still holds up kinda nicely to this day. Not high-poly at all of course, but it's really crisp.
H2Anniversary is beautiful though.

So yeah, I guess some may find the older games dated and weak in places but "not worth going back to" seems like crazy talk to me lol, apparently triggered my autism at least
 
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I think Garfield and Friends, and Garfield strips from the mid 80s to mid 90s, hold up real nicely as comedy for all ages in honesty.
Garfield and Friends is a legitimately good show. I think I might have even liked the non-Garfield episodes about the farm animals even more than the regular ones.
 
Reboot, the CGI animated series... I even had a Bob action figure.

Glad I was able to find this show on YouTube a few years ago and confirm I was a huge faggot.
 
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I think the best way to find out is to share it with your own children. I'm old and am bored with everything. But when I watch something with my children, or do an activity with them I used too love, more often than not, it's cool again. I'm prepared for this not to be the case when they're teens, but you never know, I always loved my parents favorite things.
 
About the only things I liked as a kid that I legit find hard to go back to are educational games like Sesame Street 123 for the NES. But that's a specific circumstance for a product that served a very niche function, and even then some educational media holds up or even gets better with age--the cartoon Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (the 1990s one) for example.

Do I sometimes revisit stuff I liked as a kid and find its no longer perfect? Yes actually--Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles used to be a huge part of my life but these days I'm not as big a fan (though I still like it). But being less-than-perfect doesn't mean I suddenly hate it. And besides, usually what happens is the position has been filled by something I kinda-sorta knew about but didn't pay attention to as a kid (just for an example, as a kid I didn't like Transformers at all, now I'm a fan of G1 and even kinda like Challenge of the Gobots).

Video games are a funny thing as an adult. As a kid I remember thinking a lot of them were hard, borderline impossible. I imagine a lot of people had this experience because you still to this day hear the myth that NES games were stupid hard.... in reality though, most of them are easy, you were just a stupid kid.

This makes video games weird though. Some of them are legit way better than when I played them as a kid because I actually know what I'm doing and I'm not constantly dying on the first level anymore. Others though are less fun precisely because of this and because I'm aware of the shortcomings--as a kid, having to visit the Transylvania level in Ducktales three times never bugged me, but as an adult I find it a bit repetitive.

.... TL;DR

Growing up didn't result in a "I hate everything I used to like" reaction, it more just resulted in a re-balancing of where I would place things on a tier list.
 
I rewatched Megamind recently, haven't seen that movie in ages.
Still ages like fine wine.
 
Miley Cyrus, and GOD NO. I can't tell if she's a slut or mentally deficient.
 
No, I feel like the quality of turds have gone down after our food supply became less nutritious
 
Going to the beach? Yeah, still great.
 
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Street Sharks are still pretty lit ngl. It's look and dialogue is almost a perfect representation of late 80's early 90's cartoon shows, strictly made to sell toys. It holds up, simply as a time capsule.
 
When I was a kid one of my favorite PC games was this game called Train Town. Replaying it as an adult it really brings back the inner train autist in me. It holds up very well for me. Choo Choo🚂!

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