8 Video Games You Shouldn't Play As An Adult

I promise I’m not putting games on this list to hurt you, I’m trying to protect you, and on that, if you haven’t tried to go back and play Rare’s 1997 shooter GoldenEye lately, I recommend you go ahead and keep it that way.

While GoldenEye 007 was celebrated for offering up a cutting edge gaming experience with, and I have to quote, detailed environments, outstanding graphics, realistic animations, and deeply intuitive controls, all of those things were true in 1997 and perhaps even through to the end of the Nintendo 64 lifecycle but by then games had moved on and by now we’ve moved so far on that unless you picked this one up again with expectations properly couched in this being a product of its time, you’d be hard pressed to enjoy it.

Worse still, if you’ve never picked it up and decide now is finally the time, there are probably better ways to spend your time. 

Anyone with experience in modern games will likely find the controls frustratingly dated and, without mods, clunky at best and dare I say literally unplayable at worst. It’s a shame to say it, but even though the game has been rereleased for new consoles, it hasn’t been remade or remastered. Nostalgic? Absolutely. But worth your hard earned dollars? Probably not. If you remember this one being flawless, you’re better off letting it stay that way.