5 Games I Love Enough to Let Them Go

The games I loved when I played them but suspect I may not enjoy so much today.  I'll keep the memories rose-tinted.
 
To work out how old I was when these games were released, subtract 1988 from the release date given on the wiki pages.   Naïvity probably had some hand in my enjoyment of Sonic and Tresspasser at least.
 
Honourable mention:  Lemmings (the PC version).  That is the first memory I have of gaming so I haven't the heart to include it.  It probably holds up better as well.

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  1. Shenmue II

  I loved this game with a full awareness of it's faults. I am and was at the time a karateka, as is Ryo, and the martial artistry discussion in this game taught me a move or two and made sense (apart from the bit where you close your eyes and use the force). The setting was vibrant and interesting because of its alien quality.<br><br>Now the graphics are less impressive and I suspect the voice acting (which I always hated) would annoy me prohibitively.

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  2. Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

  My Doom. The game that made me love shooters. I remember playing multiplayer by typing in my friend's phone number, sometimes hearing a robotized voice over the modem when his mum answered.

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  3. Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith

  I can remember more of the expansion though: the opening defense of the rebel base, rescuing Kyle from the Dark Side...<br><br>I recently tried to get these two working on Vista but failed. The FPS has evolved so much that I expect they're now dinosaurs.

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  4. Trespasser: Jurassic Park

  At the time this was mindblowing. Imagine Far Cry with dinosaurs. There's a massive island with indifferent herbivores and hungry meaty-o-sauruses that you must sneak past, shoot or otherwise avoid. The physics puzzles (box stacking and see-saws) were unlike anything I'd played before. The dinosaurs were a wonder to watch, especially if you stumbled across a fight.<br><br>Oh yeah, but your lady can only shoot as well as you can position her right arm by manually rotating, tilting and waving it about.

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  5. Sonic the Hedgehog 2

  Sega have kept Sonic and friends on life support for so long that I can play 2D Sonic on any post-Dreamcast platform, so I've grown up with him while he hasn't changed much. This has destroyed most of the nostalgia for me. The last time I played a Sonic game was last week, and it involved me running from the left of the screen to the signpost at the far end of the level in less than a minute. The music is the only charm the old Mega Drive games have and the mechanics were best enjoyed by five-year-old me.