Anyone find themselves enjoying games today that they hated back in the day?

[agent57]

I don't know what's happened to my gaming tastes in the last few years but I've recently found myself re-discovering and enjoying some games that I used to passionately HATE 'back in the day'.

Some examples here would be:

Blueprint - I literally despised it since it came out in the arcades, now I can actually play the thing and enjoy it.

Pooyan - same deal.

Donkey Kong III - I thought this game was useless for 20+ years but now realize that there's a decent arcade contest in there.

Anyone else find themselves enjoying games these days that they've hated for the last 20+ years?

[vivaeljason]

As a kid, I hated The Legend of Zelda AND Metroid. I hated the non-linear aspects of the former (and always wound up dying because I never could figure out where to go) and the sheer difficulty of the latter. I also loathed Maniac Mansion for the NES because I didn't like the point-and-click style as an eight year old.

Yeah, I was weird back then.

[AB Positive]

I'll add to the "call me weird" club here...

As a kid and growing up, the ONLY Castlevania I'd play was Simon's Quest.

Yeah. I know.

I still love CV2 but just three days ago I finally gave Castlevania 1 and 3 a real decent shot. Damn. WHAT was I thinking??? These games are AWESOME!

Now I'm totally hooked, and in a weird way makes me appreciate what 2 was trying to do that much more. I really almost want to do a Castlevania 2 remake with proper hints and whatnot as the framework in that game could've made an instant classic... if the translators hadn't mucked it all up...

Still. I need to play more Castlevania now. :D

[joshnickerson]

I hated Adventures of Lolo as a kid, partly because I was expecting an action game, not a puzzle game. Twenty years later, I really dig the series and wish there were more of 'em... c'mon HAL, give us a follow-up on WiiWare or something!

[LiquidPolicenaut]

Not too many but recently I beat Rise of the Dragon and Willy beamish on The sega CD. Not that I hated them, but way back when they were released i sucked at figuring them out and gave up. All these years later I replayed them and finally beat them. That was some satisfaction going on that day :)

I think the only one I can think of was the original Mega Man. I WANTED to like it but it was WAY too hard. Many years later, I retried it, beat it...and love it :)

[grolt]

Games I hated back in the day, like Street Fighter: The Movie or Mortal Kombat Mythologies I still rightfully hate, but genres I avoided back then, like RPGs, are actually the ones I want to play most now that I'm older. Today I feel like I'm killing time with video games if I'm not playing an RPG.

[PC-ENGINE HELL]

Tiger Road on TG16 was one I really did not care for at all back in the 90's, and did not even consider giving the game another chance until awhile back when I sat down and beat my Pc-Engine copy. I feel a lot better about the game now for sure then I did back then.

[DDCecil]

The only one I can think of at the moment is U.N. Squadron. I just didn't like it back then, but have fun playing it now.

[gamesboro]

Zero Tolerance is one I could never get into back in the day on the Genesis, but at the Georgia Genesis Cup playing it 2 players, and each player getting a screen it was intense as hell! I actually had the shakes after playing. I got 2nd place in the game by the way.

The guy who got first place hadn't played it system linked either and we both plan on playing through the entire game this way.

[DigitalSpace]

I hated Tetris when I was a kid. Now I play it quite often.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Ecco the Dolphin came bundled with my genny (along with Sonic 2) when we bought it.
I hated Ecco. Thought it was boring and pointless.
Took me about 10 years, but I grew to love it.

[timewarpgamer]

My answer: No.

Caveat: This is a great topic, and I'm enjoying the responses.

[darkslime]

Tekken 2 for the PS1

[Ackman]

Boogerman, it was pretty good actually, I played the genny version and was like meh, and then years later played it on the snes and had a ball.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Fatal Fury 2 and Special, Samurai Shodown 1 and 2. I played them when I was a kid and didn't get them. Sure they looked pretty but they were hard to play, and the computer cheated. A lot.

But I played them again recently in those PS2 compilations and I started to get the hang of them. I even beat them! Only took me fourteen years, but I did it!

[icest0rm]

Just recently, I started playing Military Madness (TG16) and find it really fun. Back when it was first released, I could care less about strategy games. In fact, I hated them. Now this game has opened a new door for me. I'm now playing Advanced Wars Days of Ruin (DS) and in the hunt for other cool turned-based strategy games.

[Ed Oscuro]

Eh, not so much. Probably the reverse is true, to a small extent.

[DisastrophE]

The only one I can think of is A Boy and His Blob. It's really not as bad as I thought it was. Still hard as hell though lol.

[vivaeljason]

I really hated A Boy and His Blob as a kid. I need to give it another shot.

[j_factor]

I too hated A Boy and His Blob originally. I didn't like how it had jelly beans with colors/flavors -- why doesn't it just say what they do?

I also couldn't stand Psycho Fox as a kid because of the "momentum" jump physics. Now I like it quite a bit.

The other direction -- games I used to like but now don't -- would be a longer list.

[mobiusclimber]

I'll admit it: I hated Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Mostly this is due to not playing it that much, not liking sports games, and not knowing what to do. I'd go over to a friend's house who had a NES (didn't get a game system myself until a few years later w/ the Genny) and play Punch Out w/ him... b/c he loved to play Punch Out. Me, I'd get knocked out by Joe. Yeah, I was that pathetic. Granted, I only played the game maybe twice, so there you go. Now that I've actually sat down and played it on my own, I love it. I can get pretty far too, tho never beat Mike. XD