Was listening to the Easy Allies podcast where Kyle reminisces about how cool he thought Bubsy 3D was when he was younger because it was the first game he got with his Playstation and I got to thinking about similar times I got excited about dumb video game things.
When I was 8 years old, I remember being a huge Pokemon fan and checking and refreshing the Pokemon Colosseum page on Nintendo's website. The Pokemon fever was out of control. However, it was still early 2003 so I needed something else Pokemon to tide me over until then. In comes Pokemon CHANNEL.
I remember begging my dad to buy it when it came out, explaining to him how cool it was that the game was like Hey You Pikachu, a game I rented when I was younger, but that you had a TV now and you could flick through all of these channels. For all the other video games he understood at some level why I would want them, whether it was Super Mario Sunshine or Melee, but this didn't make any sense at all. However, I remember the night he bought it. I was helping him bring stuff he bought from Wal-Mart inside, and when he opened the trunk in his hand he had a copy of Pokemon Channel.
I was so happy and immediately started playing it and...I loved it. Or at least, I forced myself to. I think I played all the way until the end of the Pichu Bros anime that I stopped playing. It was so tedious to do everything whether it was doing requests from different Pokemon, watching the shows all the way through, the mindless quizzes. I kept acting excited to play it, but I realized a while after when I was older I always knew in my heart it was a terrible game.
What's a video game thing that you guys loved as kids that you realize now was awful?
When I was 8 years old, I remember being a huge Pokemon fan and checking and refreshing the Pokemon Colosseum page on Nintendo's website. The Pokemon fever was out of control. However, it was still early 2003 so I needed something else Pokemon to tide me over until then. In comes Pokemon CHANNEL.
I remember begging my dad to buy it when it came out, explaining to him how cool it was that the game was like Hey You Pikachu, a game I rented when I was younger, but that you had a TV now and you could flick through all of these channels. For all the other video games he understood at some level why I would want them, whether it was Super Mario Sunshine or Melee, but this didn't make any sense at all. However, I remember the night he bought it. I was helping him bring stuff he bought from Wal-Mart inside, and when he opened the trunk in his hand he had a copy of Pokemon Channel.
I was so happy and immediately started playing it and...I loved it. Or at least, I forced myself to. I think I played all the way until the end of the Pichu Bros anime that I stopped playing. It was so tedious to do everything whether it was doing requests from different Pokemon, watching the shows all the way through, the mindless quizzes. I kept acting excited to play it, but I realized a while after when I was older I always knew in my heart it was a terrible game.
What's a video game thing that you guys loved as kids that you realize now was awful?
