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.

I played Horace on a machine with vintage games last summer and it was still fun!

Totally right OP.

I've been made to look a right plank on a number of occasions when I decided my DC had finally come of age enough for me to justify hunting down some of my own childhood memory games, film, TV shows and food. I was so excited 😅

They were all mostly met by 😶😶😶😴 or 🤢
I was so disappointed. Every time😅

Haunted House board game
Hedgehogs Revenge board game
Super Mario 2 (NES)
Tonytronics
The film Labyrinth (that one really stung and still does!!)
Round the Twist
And same as everyone else - Crispy Pancakes!

There's probably more!! 😅

Haha, how weird! I was playing Treasure Island Dizzy for the first time since I was a kid last night!

And yes, it was clunky, but that's kind've by design I think. They could fit so little on a floppy disk back then that the game would be over in 45 mins if you didn't die all the bloody time.

I did have to work out how to get the emulator I was playing it on to save the game before I tried it seriously though. No way I'm starting from scratch every time just because I've jumped into a fish!

The Banana Splits (TV programme), absolutely terrible. On the other hand, the Clangers (original version) still stands up after all these years and I love it as an adult.

Re PS: if memory serves - "How appropriate - you fight like a cow!"

I love revisiting childhood things and places! But I do notice that it’s not the same, seeing them as an adult. I love watching the old Crystal Maze episodes on YouTube.

I only get really disappointed if they’ve somehow been changed. At Tower Bridge, it used to have a lovely museum explaining the history and engineering of the bridge, explained by Harry the Painter, and a short film of the bridge’s designer (played by Clive Swift) explaining it, who then addressed appeared as a ghost, addressing the audience directly. But more recently, all that was gone - it was the walkways over the river, and nothing else.

I had this experience when they brought back Arctic Roll a few years ago. I think the new version is a rubbish version of the old one and the old one was actually amazing. But I was so disappointed when I bit into the new one 🙁

Don’t look at Angel Delight when you are grocery shopping. Even when my kids were young they sniffed at it with disgust 😂

I’ve had it relatively recently and still really liked it, I have to confess!

I had the opposite to a Proustian moment when I tasted the new Orangina recipe. Those cute little glass bottles were a memory from my childhood.

DH and I have had to resort to importing it from France.

@AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta- this thread has made me want to play JetPack again!

Mr Frosty was rubbish in the 80's too.

@Phineyj orangina here is revolting since they added sweeteners. Glad to hear the French one is still good.

I can't rewatch a number of late 90's to early 00's films that I loved but know I would hate now. Humor often doesn't age well.

Whilst visiting family I took DD to the oasis swimming pool in Swindon as a baby not long before it closed for lockdown and never reopened.
It was so run down, grubby and the flumes were long gone, so sad.
However there are plans to renovate and reopen, so maybe I'll be able to relive my childhood in 21st century style!

I loved that place!

😂Yep....I am rubber, you are glue!

What did your DC think of them? Do you think they were enjoying them like you did as a child or has society just changed too much?

This is why I have never revisited beloved books, eg Narnia.

I once got my children to watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks. That was badly received.

Fries cream bars - the green and orange flavours. The filling has lost its creamy consistency that I remember and is just not the same.

There's a real t shirt for that?!! Where and how did you get it?

Also, my 3 DC love Monkey Island so it's a game that's held up through generations.

I've just finished Matilda with DD.

Now having had a significant amount of counselling and being no contact with my mother for 7 years i realise why it was such a profound and important book for me as a kid.

Press Gang holds up though! They’re showing it on Rewind channel, random episodes totally out of order but fabulous anyway.

Matilda the 90s film still holds up well IMO. Whereas I watched the musical version with Stephen Graham and Emma Thompson at Christmas and hated it.

Another Bubble Bobble fan here, I also loved Tetris and it will never disappoint.

I love Tetris, and atill
sometimes play it on the Switch.

Oh no, I still love Alan Garner! The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of my favourite all time books.

The Owl Service on the other hand, I agree. Feels very dated and odd.

I still re-read my Noel Streatfeild books and The Dark is Rising series; they are fabulous.