To think revisiting things from your childhood is fraught with potential childhood-ruining disappointment

[CarlottaBeans]

I used to play a computer game as a kid called Dizzy Goes to Treasure Island. I have fond memories of it.

I played it as an adult and it was clunky, total crap. Part of my childhood died.

On that basis I’m never revisiting Findus Crispy Pancakes.

Treasure island Dizzy was a masterpiece! I could never get past coming out of the treasure chest onto the beach at the end... Always died. I know now I needed to be holding the cross!

I always found getting past the swooping eagle really difficult.

Used to love a crispy pancake sandwich. I have no doubt, however, that if I ate one now I would be bitterly disappointed so no, YADNBU.

What is annoying is when someone else arranges for you to do something from their childhood (watch a TV show, go on a particular holiday) and then gets cross when you can’t see why it was so special.

To be fair, I think they have probably suffered from shrinkflation and would be tiny little flat traingles with barely any filling now!

I sort of agree with you, OP. There is always that risk. I absolutely loved a board game my friend had, and was desperate to play it every time we were at hers, whereas she was bored with it. It was called Buccaneer and you collected pirate treasure which was exciting and beautiful. I thought it was amazing! Found an (expensive) 1970s game of it on Ebay and bought it for the family and you are right - it was pretty shit.

Food of the Gods from childhood is no longer 'godlike' in many cases. Replaced by palm oil, reduced in size or just 'Americanized' so that it doesn't taste the same.

But childhood books and places still often enchant.

Thanks all.

For balance, I watched some old Doctor Who (which I loved in the 1980s) and I enjoyed it just as much. Also re-reading Roald Dahl with DD and they still stand up.

I’ve got fond memories of family visits to Skegness too, but I can’t see me repeating those.

I used to really like Findus Crispy Pancakes - the beefy ones were the best.

Chicken curry ones for me, but beef mince also good.

Bubble bobble (computer game) was mine. My friend and I used to play it for hours when in our teens. Played it the other day and it was awful.

Ha! Quite agree. I have stopped revisiting childhood things for this very reason.

Whenever I revisit old video games (90s PC etc) I always find them janky and sparse. But then I realise the magic was my imagination all along, which kind of makes them even better somehow, particularly as they were made by such small teams compared to modern sprawling studios 😁

Spot on. They're really small now.

Vesta curry. Totally loved them as a child. Had one a couple of years ago. Totally vile!

This thread just prompted me to search a game I used to play at school - scoop. You were a journalist and had to type commands. Feels so slow and clunky now, but spent many a school lunchtime playing this!

Boyband Blue. Loved them when i was 12/13. I went to see them a few years ago on tour and I couldnt of been more disappointed. They were awful. Truly awful and pretty sure Simon was off his face

@Hatty65 Omg, we played this in Junior School all the time and I could never remember the name of it. This was about 1978... talk about a blast from the past. Thank you for reminding me of the name

I was desperate for Mr Frosty as a child and carried on wanting it my entire life. Bought myself Mr Frosty for my 45th birthday. Biggest disappointment of my life! Plastic crap. It didn’t even turn the ice into slush.

I'd bloody love to have another go at playing The Secret of Monkey Island again as an adult.

Guybrush Threepwood features in my dreams occasionally. That and the millions of floppy discs required to actually play the game.

I remember Nice N Spicy Nik Naks from the 80s being Gods own food. Always got a big pack after my Mum had been shopping amazing. I stopped eating them for various reasons in the 80s/early 90s, but ate one of my DSs the other day. Insipid, colourless, smaller and even less crunchy. Most disappointed.

Rib 'n' Saucy NikNaks are still good!

@MinxyMew You are welcome!

@FoxHedgehogBadger My 30 something DD told me recently that they had a 'Sodastream' and I remember being desperate for one in the 1970s when my DM would not let us have one. She would not buy fizzy drinks like Coca Cola for us as apparently they were 'common' so we were only allowed Robinson's Barley water or milk!

I'm not sure if I can bear to be disappointed next time I visit DD...

It seems alot of old games are now rybbish but just want to put it out there that Zoombinis still awesome

I thought that too until I was reading one of them to my dc, and had to censor myself 😂

Monkey Island is now a game you can play on your phone I think.