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Any games you wish you grew up with? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago by savvywolf@pawb.social to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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So I assume many of us have played some games for the first time long after their release date. Like, maybe you didn't have a specific console growing up so we didn't play the "classics" on it, or something.

I'm just wondering how many of you have played an older game and thought "wow, I wish I grew up with this game"?

For example, for me, many years ago I played Super Metroid for the first time and fell in love with the idea of just wandering aimlessly around the game world, occasionally stumbling into new areas. I would have loved to have played it as a kid with childlike wonder without worrying about finishing the game or making progress.

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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, I recently played Earthbound for the first time on the Switch after seeing J.J. McCullough rave about it nostalgically. I can't believe I had a SNES as a kid and missed out on it, but I guess I might have tried it and didn't like it. I was probably a bit too young when it came out.

For the rest, I really wish I had BotW/TOTK as a kid. Even as an adult, the level of Immersiveness that these games have is amazing.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Earthbound is such a great game. I didn’t have a lot of snes games as a kid so this one kind of eluded me at the time but I just recently played it and loved it. I did not like JRPGs as a kid (still don’t but was able to still enjoy it as an adult) so maybe it’s for the best I had to wait to experience it