8 Video Games That Just Aren't As Good As You Remember

It truly makes me feel like a dirty dog to effectively put the verbal bullet in the head of Parappa The Rapper Ol' Yellla style, but if I'm being truly honest to myself this PS1 is a bit of a mutt under the scope of the modern era.

While its soundtrack is infectious and its art style utterly timeless, there is a huge problem with the title that everyone seems to gloss over when fusing the nostalgia goggles to their face, and that's that Parappa The Rappa is a rhythm-action game with input lag.

Oh, you don't agree? Well, tell you what fire the game back up and let me know how that goes for you once you reach Stage 4, where the timing is so out of synch that you need to actually rap off-beat, which in case you hadn't noticed is something that we're almost hard-wired not to do.

Things only get worse if you play the game through a modern LCD TV or indeed on the PSP where the timing windows were made smaller for some ungodly reason!

Even the remastered version of both Parappa The Rapper 1+2 suffers from this problem, meaning that while you might breeze through the first one or two stages, you're going to have your fond memories covered in a large helping of dog faeces come the later sections.