Nevertheless, his game was considered a classic of its time, and going back to it these days really lets you understand why Crash is not a very popular guy. He had all the makings of a classic platformer mascot, and while he never failed as hard as Bubsy or Bug, he did not become the hugely successful face of PlayStation that had been expected.

When he first spun his way onto the PlayStation in 1996, Crash Bandicoot hoped to do for Sony what Mario had done for Nintendo or Sonic had done for Sega. These are the games we shall name and shame in this feature, so come with me as we look at a number of “classic” games that did not age well.

They may have been groundbreaking, brilliant titles in their era, but going back to them now reveals a shockingly poor experience that one’s rose-tinted specs have attempted to deny. That said, there are a fair few games looked back on fondly today that have not aged as well as everybody believes they have. Some games have remained ageless due to impressive gameplay that nobody before or since has attempted, a simple graphical style that relies more on artistic beauty than graphical horsepower, or simply being damn good at what they do in ways that modern games can’t even match. To stand the test of time is a rare and special feat in the games industry. Many of today’s great-looking games run the risk of a similar fate. The move from sprite-based gaming to 3D was hailed as a masterpiece, yet most of the PSOne “classics” of the day are regarded as rather sub-par now.

While this means that amazing advances in gameplay and graphics consistently surprise us, it also means that those very same advances are destined to look rustic, quaint or simply atrocious in the short space of a few years. Videogames are a constantly and rapidly evolving medium.

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