This game is a lot shorter/easier/worse than I remember!

[Damon Plus]

I´m sure this has happened to quite a few of you. After not playing a game for some years, you return to it only to find it a lot shorter/easier/worse than you remembered.

This has happened to me with Castlevania on the Nes. While is not exactly easy, I remember having a hard time on that game to even reach the third level.

Another one was Story of Thor on the Genesis. I tought it was a lenghty game 10 years ago, but when a friend let me borrow it, I beat it in 2:30 hours!

[portnoyd]

Robodemons. Easier and better. I beat the thing back when I was younger... then I get it when I'm older.. blech and my god it's impossible. How did I ever deal with this? :\

[pacmanhat]

This happened to me (similarly, at least) with Super Mario Bros. when I got my top-loader. It was easier than I remembered, and I also had forgotten just hot genuinely good and fun it is. I think as I was growing up I always liked it and felt it was a historically important game...but now I see that it truly is really, really good.

[GameNinja]

After playing Tales of Symphonia for awhile coming back to .hack is painful. The battles are slow and choppy, and the ally AI is annoying.

[The_EniGma]

Vice city, easier.Weirdly after becomming very good at metalslug2

[jdc]

Rare's Jet Force Gemini on the N64....STILL a bitch.

Rare doesn't know the meaning of the term "moderate difficulty". Those guys put the boots to you in EVERY game that they've ever made. THE toughest games that I've ever played are made by Rare.

[The_EniGma]

I forgot to add mk2 is ab itch on ps1, even at lowest difficulty its a real challenge even beating the first guy! :(

[Damon Plus]

Rare's Jet Force Gemini on the N64....STILL a bitch.

Rare doesn't know the meaning of the term "moderate difficulty". Those guys put the boots to you in EVERY game that they've ever made. THE toughest games that I've ever played are made by Rare.

So true.. The only easy game I´ve played from them is Marble Madness. Battletoads is easy after all these years playing it, but I can´t beat Snake Rattle´n Roll.

[Nebagram]

I remember borrowing James Pond 3 for the Megadrive for a week from a friend and loving every second of it. Ten years later, I reacquire it for the MD and realise just how average it was. :( The Easter Bunny died for me that day. :(

[Psycho Mantis]

i remember final fantasy 8 being alot of fun, but i played it recently and it kinda bored me.

[Dobie]

I went back and played F-Zero after not touching it for years, and it suddenly felt very slow. Not quite how I remembered it.

[SoulBlazer]

Most of the Atari 2600 games I had as a kid just are not as fun to me anymore. I guess too much time has passed, say about 20 years. :)

[SoulBlazer]

Most of the Atari 2600 games I had as a kid just are not as fun to me anymore. I guess too much time has passed, say about 20 years. :)

[DragonMaster Sam]

When I first played Battletoads in Battlemaniacs, it was rather hard. But it seemed the more I played the game, the better I got. Soon enough, I got past the first three levels without a game over. Eventually, I managed to beat it.

[kainemaxwell]

Sound slike me at times. Many older games I used to get to high levels easily, now takes me practice to get back into the froove, or I gotta look up the level or something.

[Sotenga]

After finding Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for the N64 again, I figured that it would be damned easy to beat. That's because, long ago, I rented it and beat it in the time I had it, even though I remember having some relative difficulty with the game. I figured, however, that if I could beat it while I was still in grade school, surely I can easily best this game now. My hypothesis proved true, and the only life I lost was against the final boss.

[G4MZ0v3R]

Golden Axe kicked my ass rather badly earlier. I remember being able to finish it with no continues in junior high. :angry:

[Uzi 9mm]

Hmmm... Pokemon blue is much easier/shorter than I remember. It has always been an easy game, but damn... The other day I breezed right through it.

[Dr. Morbis]

I've had this experience with most of the more difficult games for the NES. Many games like Ghosts 'N Goblins, Battletoads, Batman, Bionic Commando etc. I remember renting with friends and getting stuck. When I first played them years later as an adult, I coudn't believe how easy most of these games were to finish. Sure some of them may take a few hours the first time through, but I remember thinking these games were absolutely *IMPOSSIBLE* in my youth.

[Snapple]

Actually, my skills at NES games have greatly diminished. I was a little wiz when I was six, apparently.

I definitely don't remember Mega Man 3 being so hard. After playing through most of the 8-bit Mega Man games again last year, I came to the conclusion that MM3 is the second hardest of the series (obviously behind the original). I remember being able to beat the Needle Man stage without losing a life, and now it takes me like three lives just to GET to Needle Man, wherein he promptly whoops my butt like I'm nothing. Yeah, I stink.

On the other hand, recently I rediscovered Dr. Mario. I remember liking the game of course, but holy cow, it's more awesome than I remember. I dare say, I like it even better than Tetris or Puzzle Fighter or any of the other classic puzzle games that I for so long remembered as being the pinnacle of the genre.

[Gast]

Road Runner for the SNES would be the most extreme - I remember playing through it as a kid, but now I can't even beat the first few levels.

Most games are the opposite though - I can remember how it took me months to finish Yoshis Island, or even a year for Secret of Mana and today they just take a few hours to play through. I also remembered Illusion of Gaia to have a real good long story - it still rocks, but most of the story scenes seem sooo damn short :/

[sabre2922]

A lot of NES games that I used to luv as a kid just are either too easy or too hard now and many are MUCH shorter than I rember.
Many of the 16-bit racing games that I liked so much back in the day just arent that fun anymore for some reason.

Just about any old arcade fighter or especially 8-bit arcade fighter clones like the batman games are torture to play now O_O although Final Fight and Xmen arcade on MAME are still very fun to play.

[RockyRaccoon]

I also remeber Battletoads being HARD AS HECK, but played it recently and made it WAY FATHER than I used to as a kid.

When I was a kid...I got my first few Gameboy games *past* Kirby's Dreamland...One was a obscure RPG called "Great Greed". ANYWAYS, when I first got it..I did'nt understand what the concept of an RPG was. I did'nt touch the game for like three years until I started to get into Final Fantasy and the like. Then I returned to Great Greed..and it was EASY AS HECK to understand what an RPG was about... HIT POINTS AND MANA! I mean..uh Puzzles. Yeah.

Sometimes I wish I did'nt trade GG to Funcoland when I got rid of my GB stuff. :-(

~Rocky

[imanerd0011]

I used to remember Double Dribble as a sweet game in my childhood, but when I play it now I realize it sucks pretty bad. LOL

[DJ_DEEM]

blades of steel and nhl 95 everytime i come back to them i rember that i shouldnt be playing new hockey games, cuz they just cant compare

[djbeatmongrel]

happened to me with vectorman and streets of rage 2. but they are still great, just way easier :^P

[rxdoga]

I tried to play Adventures of Bayou Billy for NES and relive fond memories the other day I must says its a lot harder/frustrating than I remember. How the hell did I finish that game when I was 12?? I also think my gaming skill have greatly diminished over the years. I blame strategy and rpg games. :embarrassed:

[Crush Crawfish]

Monster Party for NES comes to mind...I couldn't even beat the first level as a kid...now it's one of the very few NES games I actually can beat. And I can't even beat the first level of Ducktales! LOL :/

[goatdan]

Almost every non-mainstream (Mario, Zelda, etc.) NES release that I have played in the past five year's I have thought was horrible. I think that a lot of the reason that I liked them was that it was all that I had at the time.