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

7. GoldenEye 007

Goldeneye 007
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If you grew up in the '90s, there's a strong chance you've got fond memories of playing GoldenEye 007's ludicrously entertaining local multiplayer suite.

Between its incredible map design, awesome array of weapons and shameless silliness, Rare's legendary shooter set an almost impossibly high bar for multiplayer console FPS titles.

But if you've revisited the game in recent years, you'll know just how little it holds up to contemporary scrutiny, with the molasses-slow pacing, atrocious framerate and especially the wonky controls by way of the N64's unwieldy controller.

Given how the likes of Timesplitters and Call of Duty refined GoldenEye's undeniably important step forward for the FPS genre on consoles, the game sadly doesn't hold up well at all over 20 years later. It's a stone cold masterpiece of its time, but a chore to play nowadays.

As much as you might think you want a remastered release, it'd need to be a true ground-up remake with major gameplay overhauls to pass muster with today's gamers.

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