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.

We had Buccaneer - I loved collecting the jewels. But it always descended into a fight with my two brothers who cheated shamelessly.

I used to love the Borrowers as a child. Read it with my son recently and it was 'meh' at best. Thankfully, the Narnia series and The Hobbit have stood the test of time.

Viennetta. Total let down.

I have to disagree there - I thought it stood the test of time. However, I do like cheap, fake chocolate.

DH plays that about once every 10 years!

Oh my goodness, I didn't know this game in particular but absolutely loved "adventure games" of that kind... that picture literally just gave me that fluttery anticipation feeling in my stomach 10-year old me used to get at the thought of a long afternoon exploring, trying out commands and sketching maps!

I loved bubble bobble as a kid! I guess technology has moved on so much the computer games are all so much better that it puts the ones from the 90s/00s to shame. I used to love micro chips and they’ve held up ok but changed the name of them. And sun lollies! They are tricky to get hold of now but I loved them so much.

i am enjoying revisiting Toy Story with my own children though, they’ve aged well! I loved bullseye as a kid and I never got one, so I saw a bullseye plush recently and bought him home!

I'm afraid I've had that feeling of disappointment even when rereading old children's books with DC - even (maybe shocking to some?) the classics like Roald Dahl, AA Milne and the Mr Men. They often have the feel of being made up as they go along, like bedtime stories, especially in comparison to the best among more modern books.

PP is correct that the more literary ones e.g. Narnia still hold up, though.

Scampi and Lemon NikNaks were my ultimate favourite crisp in the late 80s early 90s. I’d love to try them again but can never find them anywhere.

Maybe for the best, I’d hate to spoil that every Friday night for years memory.

You can play monkey island online. I have done in recent years.

PS - "You fight like a dairy farmer" 😂

I’ll have to give those a go!

Nice n Spicy NikNaks are definitely not what they used to be, they must have got rid of the E numbers or something.

Classy child that I was, I used to love Bernard Matthew’s Mini Kievs, a round ball filled with lovely sauce. I’m sure if I went back to them they’d be disappointing.

On the plus side, I do have a ‘I beat the Sword Master of Melee Island and all I got was this lousy T-shirt’ T-shirt that I wear for the gym - sounds like more people would recognise it than I thought!

I was obsessed with the board game Guess Who. Played it as an adult. Absolute dog shit.

Wotsits Crunchy Sweet n Spicy are a bloody good dupe of Nik Naks.

I also loved Bubble Bobble! And there was a game for an Amiga computer called The New Zealand Story; I spent hours playing that when I was 11/12. I don’t want to search for either as I just want to remember both as they were at that point in time.

I had a Tomy Lights Alive back in the 80s, and thought it was beautiful, especially when the light rotated. I’m quite sure it was nowhere near as amazing as seven or eight year-old me thought, and I wouldn’t want to ever touch another Lights Alive, as in my memory it is simply a thing of beauty.

The flip side of this.... I watched Five at the O2 last November and had the time of my life. I was right back to my preteens

Agree !
do not revisit any childhood tv 📺

Ha, I’ve been there - was given the ZX Spectrum by an older relative, had it re-furbished, bought the Dizzy game on eBay 🤣.

Then, Meh.

Yes to Dizzy - it was so shit but I spent hours on it. Wizball and Bubble Bobble were classics though and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.

Atari ST all the way!

I re-read Noel Streatfeild's books over the lockdown and discovered they were even better than I remembered. Ditto Susan Cooper. Alan Garner, however...

I loved Harlequin (Amiga/Atari game) when I was a kid and have watched the occasional long play YouTube video of the whole thing, I could never get past a certain level which was only about a quarter of the game. It tickles the nostalgia bone for me well, but am sure there’s loads of stuff which would be disappointing.

actually McDonald’s is one of them. We only went about once a year (and I had to really beg) when I was young as there wasn’t one nearby, and when I moved to a city I thought I’d eat there loads 🤢

This is the one I was going to say too. There was a kids comedy/drama show that I used to find hilarious in the 90s. Found some episodes on Youtube at sat through it entirely poker faced.

Equally that Byker Grove scene of Dec's Duncan's reaction to Ant PJ getting accidentally blinded "he canne see man, he canne see" which at the time seemed so horrific and hard hitting now never fails to make me laugh because the acting is so very bad!

I still love loads of children's books that I read in the 80s. I think many are miles better than children's books today, which often seem to sacrifice having a good plot to make some kind of obvious "be kind" (or similar) type point.

I also still love Dogtanian and 80 Days Around the World. DC is less impressed though. Some films I loved as a teen I now see are awful, but tbh they were always awful but they spoke to me at the time of life I was at.

Food is impossible to compare because usually the recipe has changed for the worse.

I prefer the old computer games! Modern ones are too whizzy.

I did once revisit a place I loved as a child. It was a lot smaller than I remembered with a lot of litter. Sad.

Ooh, I absolutely loved the adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which was serialised on TV! Cutting edge effects for the time. I watched that again as an adult and it was indeed disappointing.

I used to love a bit of Horace Goes Skiing on the ZX, cant imagine how terrible it must look now!

I used to love the Mysteries of Old Peking boardgame too. As an adult, I realise it's basically Cluedo but racist.