10 Video Games You Loved As A Teen (But Should Never Play Again)

2. Tomb Raider

There's no refuting the legacy of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game: it was a pioneering action-adventure title which created one of the most iconic and beloved heroines in the history of the medium, Lara Croft.

And though any self-respecting PS1 (or Sega Saturn) owner had to have Tomb Raider, the game's cumbersome and sluggish tank controls, ineffective camera, awkward platforming and fiddly combat aged rather poorly in the years that followed.

That's to say nothing of Lara's status as a polygonal sex symbol to teenage boys in the late-90s, with her pointy breasts and orgasmic death moans, which seem totally laughable if not downright embarrassing by contemporary standards.

Mercifully, the more recent rebooted Tomb Raider titles have deferred to a less-cartoonish character design that won't embarrass you if your wife/mother/aunt walks in while you're playing it.

Playing the original game is an absolute chore today, no matter its indelible place in gaming history, especially compared to the slickly cinematic style of the reboot trilogy.