Games that are too "old" and "unplayable" for you?

[AncientBoi]

Lol, This subject sounds like Me

Anyway, I believe it would be Atari™ Games. I don't believe I've heard anyone mentioning them on this site.

 

[Purple_Heart]

Old Resident Evil Games or Silent Hill 1.....the controls nowadays....nah

 

[A2600]

I started playing on the Atari 2600 back in the day but I don’t know if I would have the patience for it today

 

[NewGBAXL]

so thankful for the N64 source ports
(will) make those games look infinitely better

 

[Ligeia]

I played Rolan's Curse for the first time recently and loved it, it's a neat little forgotten action RPG. I still like GB games, but I do tend to have little patience with NES games nowadays. I'm very fond of GB colorizations that breathe new life into these games.

Many PS1 games aged very poorly but I still like to play the ones I loved back then (mostly Toshinden and Tekken)

 

[AdenTheThird]

Personally, I can't get behind the controls for MGS games. I played MGS33D most of the way through five or six years back, and tried playing it again recently. I'm guessing I could play it then because I hadn't played any real dual-stick consoles yet (the New 3DS nub doesn't count) but I found the controls unbearably uncomfortable this time around. Furthermore, playing MGS2 on my Xbox was very difficult, since my FPS muscle memory kept kicking in when MGS doesn't control like other shooters.
I don't know. Maybe it is just highly reinforced muscle memory keeping me from playing Metal Gear Solid. I did play all the way through Jet Force Gemini a few years back without issue, which further adds to the puzzle.

 

[BigOnYa]

The dating game... (I'm too old to date anymore, not mention- my wife would be pissed)

 

[RHOPKINS13]

Really old DOS games. Not just old DOS games, there are quite a few ones I'll still enjoy, like Alone in the Dark, Mario Teaches Typing, Battle Chess, The Lost Vikings, Jill of the Jungle, and more. I can even find enjoyment in some of the old Atari 2600 games, like River Raid or Mario Bros. Or games on the Apple IIe that included Transylvania or Curious George Goes To The Library. But some of the really old DOS games had graphics that were even too basic for me to enjoy.

Good examples are some of the old Pinball games for DOS:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/71/night-mission-pinball-v30/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/67521/moraffs-pinball/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/57078/enchanted-pinball/

Old text games like Zork aren't fun for me either.

Note that Epic Pinball is not included in this list. Epic Pinball was awesome and had GREAT graphics for being a DOS game:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/263/epic-pinball/

 

[chrisrlink]

Many NES titles have a punishing difficulty for no reason that ruins the fun a bit (especially true for many RPGs that end up being total grindfests, like mother 1)

Many Gameboy games are too simplistic to enjoy anymore, although there are still a ton of fun games

PS1 games that went full 3d early on look very bad now (FFVII) and are less enjoyable than their 2d counterparts (FFVI)

TMNT water level dude you'll cry like a baby trying to beat that one freaking level

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Really old DOS games. Not just old DOS games, there are quite a few ones I'll still enjoy, like Alone in the Dark, Mario Teaches Typing, Battle Chess, The Lost Vikings, Jill of the Jungle, and more. I can even find enjoyment in some of the old Atari 2600 games, like River Raid or Mario Bros. Or games on the Apple IIe that included Transylvania or Curious George Goes To The Library. But some of the really old DOS games had graphics that were even too basic for me to enjoy.

Good examples are some of the old Pinball games for DOS:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/71/night-mission-pinball-v30/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/67521/moraffs-pinball/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/57078/enchanted-pinball/

Old text games like Zork aren't fun for me either.

Note that Epic Pinball is not included in this list. Epic Pinball was awesome and had GREAT graphics for being a DOS game:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/263/epic-pinball/

I still enjoy the sierra adventure games of old on scummvm

 

[Xdqwerty]

They need to remake FFVI, instead the next one they're remaking apparently is 9.

the pixel remaster exists

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I have never found a game unplayable strictly because it's too old, but it is jarring sometimes to go back and play early games in a genre when modern controls are more refined; for example, driving controls now using triggers for acceleration and brake in almost every game where applicable is a huge improvement over using face button for these functions. Another example would be first-person shooter games like Goldeneye 007 or Turok, where again, the gamepad/control scheme makes it more difficult to play comfortably when you're used to modern controls.

 

[sarkwalvein]

They need to remake FFVI, instead the next one they're remaking apparently is 9.

FF9 is among the best. If they are really remaking it that's great.
But TBH, both FF9 (PS1 version) and FF6 (SNES version) are already fine as they are, they aged like fine wine.

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Atari 2600 games... well, I still find Pitfall 2 quite playable, and that's it, the only one.

Hmmm... there sure are games I don't enjoy/have the patience to play anymore.
I played Castle Master on the C64, and I enjoyed it back in the day... but I wonder if I could play a game at 3 SPF nowadays (yes, seconds per frame)... I believe NOT. There are many C64 games that I don't find enjoyable anymore, but in the other hand games like Uridium or Nebulus I can enjoy really.

Many games from the PS3/360 era had awful framerates, I mean in the 15's... Of course I enjoyed Stunts (4D Sports Driving for some of you) on my 286 back in the day, and it probably run at 10-12FPS... the memories... but I wouldn't play it like that today, so no Stunts on a 25MHz 80286. I guess I can't stand very low FPS anymore, and TBH previous to the PS360 console generation this was not such a common problem (except on PC when you were poor ... and also on PS2 Shadow of the Colossus, and on XBOX Half Life 2, and probably many others).

Regarding old PC games, I believe graphic adventures have aged well enough, I could play them today....... but pixel hunting haunts me, so perhaps not. Also I don't bare so well with the text input system of old Sierra games (or the nasty controls with their pixel accurate ate alive on the spot by some stupid alien creeper plant I am looking at you Space Quest 2)... so no old Sierra games for me.

There are many NES games I don't enjoy so much. On the one hand I believe platformers for the NES are damn great in general, they've aged fine and they are fun to play... like Megaman 2, any Mario, etc. On the other hand they are some games with cheap kill here and there like Ninja Gaiden that I loved back on the day but I would not like so much today. But regarding "hard games" I still find Battletoads and specially the bike race level a wonderful experience today, I may be a masochist.

I have a similar experience as the OP here with Gameboy; even though I believe I would still enjoy Links awakening in its original black and white glory, for most of the GB library there's something in their games that doesn't click with me anymore.

And regarding games of the SNES era, I have some hardships standing turn based RPGs with a high rate of random encounters that won't let you give four steps in any direction before some fancy mode 7 transition takes you into a new battle. I guess I don't have so much patience for that anymore.