8 Video Games You Shouldn't Play As An Adult
6. LEGO Studios Backlot
I could have given this slot to the certainly critically superior and more popular open-world game Lego Island but I’ve gone ahead and put the spotlight on Lego Studios Backlot instead because that’s the game I tried to go back to this year and realised sometimes you can’t go home again.
The 2001 adventure platformer put you in the little brick shoes of a newbie quickly put to work at Lego Studios and given a variety of tasks.
In retrospect, this bitesize chunk of nostalgia is riddled with all the adventure of helping Johnny Thunder find his gear and standing in as a stuntman wherein you have to shoot yourself out of a cannon. In reality, as soon as you’re told to use the ‘Z’ key to run and ‘Control’ to talk, that should have been the sign that this one was better left in your memory.
As one of the healthy handful of browser-based games that dominated the years of those who grew up in the 90s and early 2000s, Lego Backlot Studios is a prime example of a game that, should you play it as an adult, you’ll quickly realise is much worse than you remember it being.
Ignorance is bliss on this one.