This thread is here to discuss your fondest childhood tv shows, card games, video games, or anything along those lines that has morphed into something that it pains you to see.

For me, it would dffinetly be Yu-Gi-Oh.

As a 5 and 6 year old, one of my favorite things to do was sit and go through all of my Yu-Gi-Oh cards, simply admiring the art and descriptions of the monsters below their image, the descreptions were vauge enough so that I coul put together stories with each of them.

The art was the most amazing thing I had ever seen, so simple and so elegant, it was very diffirent from your typical anime, it had this majestic Medival European touch to it.

I would often draw up my own cards with their own stories, albiet the drawing part I wasn't so great at.

In a lot of ways, it was like my first RPG minus all the "OO MY CHARACTER HAS A DPS OUTPUT OF 112+889 AOE EVERY EIGHT MILLISECONDS!!!".

Call me what you will, but numbers and mathematics don't make or break RPGs for me.

Now a days, the art has evolved into just garbadge, and every card and their grandmother has an effect, the cards no longer had any emotion, they were just a mass of swords and gunswords with a funny sounding name.

Look at this, it is the first American generation of Yu-Gi-OH cards, http://www.toywiz.com/yugenlegofbl.html

And here is the most recent generation of cards, http://www.toywiz.com/hiddenarsenal3.html.

You should be able to tell the mass contrasts simply by looking at the names.

Aside from the actual cards, the early video games amazed me and still do, much more than pokemon or digimon ever did.


Now, if you feel the same way I do about this on some subject, post it here.

EDIT: Here is my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh videogame, http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/strategy/yugiohtheduelistsoftr/index.html

SECOND EDIT: If you wish to view the arts full progression, simply browse through them on the site provided.

Only one thing: The direction they've taken the Looney Toons. I have two words for CN: [censored] you. Those were classics and should have stayed that way, and now there's a new show with Bugs and Daffy as roommates in an apartment who get into teenager dilemmas and make constant pop culture references that serve only to infuriate me. And yes, I realize the old Toons were basically the same thing, just older, but I liked that. I already see enough modern referential comedy as it is. Besides, the slapstick is nowhere near as funny.

Actually, I also hate Disney losing most of its magic. What happened to those amazing animated films with great music, lovable characters, tragic storylines and heartwarming endings? Now all I see is Pixar (Don't get me wrong, I like most of Pixar's films), and don't even get me started on the Disney Channel, which is television I would hesitate even showing to my own child.

This. The new show svcks ass. The best thing about it is Speedy Gonzalez. Reminds me of so many people here.

For a game it would definately be Destroy all Humans. The first was amazing, the newest put the series to shame.

I can't think of one for a show. Most of the shows I used to watch were cartoons, but they ended way back when.

I have a toddler. All of children's television is [censored] up now. It's all computer animated, has a list of PhDs in the credits, talk to my child like she's stupid, and they all ask for her help (and assume she gives the correct answer) and then teach her that solving banol problems is cause for a dance party.

Sesame Street is still basically as I remember it, though it's quite heavily more like "the Elmo show" than anything.

It looked terrible. didnt even like 2 after the first one, I dont know why. Only played the demo, hated it.

Not really ruined, but ALIENS DONT BELONG IN INDIANA JONES. I just hate it, which is oddd becuase they have magic, which im totally ok with. But aliens, god no.

Im also going to say fable, I loved that game, now its going on the kinect. I hate it.
Also cartoon network.

In b4 Spyro. (even though the hate is justified)

Ergh, I hate those as well. When I have kids, they're going on a strict old school Nick, Sesame Street, and Looney Tunes diet, with MLP as icing on the cake.

Same here.

I'm going to say the obvious here and say Pokemon...what do they have now, 800 pokemon?

Yes, I love the Yu Gi Oh series too OP! The Shadow Games saga is my favorite. I watch the series in a marathon run every so often. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles too, I was just watching the first episode the other day. Ah, the memories.

Yeah, its gotten pretty ridiculous, theres a fire pig now.

Scooby Doo

Back in the olden days, it was just one episode of the same old formula: stumble into the mystery, song, traps, expose the thrid character as the baddie.

Now there are over-arching plots, romance between the characters, mushiness, drama, etc. It's something that I don't really want my 7 year old watching. :nope:

That the new sonic games are not good.

Just got through the toddler stage here at home. I agree, and somethign else that irk's me is the grammar. Not that I'm a perfectionist, but you'd think if those cartoons are striving so hard to be educational, they'd use some decent grammar! Dora...:facepalm: At least Backyardigans has some good fun in it!

But don't worry, in a year or two the joys of the Penguins of Madagascar and Phineas and Ferb will be making things bearable again

Regarding Sesame St. it's chaged greatly since I was a kid. T'was before Elmo and was aimed at 4-5 year olds instead of 3 year olds. A lot less "high pitched cutsieness" back then.

I looked at the new series of Yu-gi-oh cards. Whats important to note is that these newer cards become accessible over seas much faster than over here in North America.

I remember when the fad started out there was this asian corner store that was selling japanese Yu-gi-oh cards that my dad bought for me because he refused to pay retail price for english ones.

My friends thought they were fake and they didn't want to trade me for them. They ended up being released in english a couple of years later.

In terms of the art direction with the cards...its pretty inconsistent. Some of the monsters look like they could've been drawn up with the first batch of cards but others (like the sunflower) look like they belong in a different game.

Inconsistency is better than a totally different theme, though. Pokemon started off with mundane looking creatures and ended up with talking ice cream.

Amazing.

I'm still pretty young, but Dexters Lab and Army Men: Darges Heroes. Mmmmhmmm.

I babysit for money so I'm aware of the [censored] that little kids watch.

In particular, there is this depressingly [censored] Power Rangers spin-off called 'Power Rangers Samurai.' It is THE worst TV show I've ever seen in my life. Monotone acting from every character, really [censored] stories, I wish it was a parody. But it isn't, they're dead [censored] serious.

:rofl: I love how every single episode, they do a four to five minute sequence showing each individual Ranger doing convoluted motions with their arms and transforming. It's just..god awful. :laugh:

Not all of the new-ish Looney Toons stuff is bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpsxfEU-4Is for one. That show was actually pretty good.

But yeah, the Disney channel and their constant attempts to invint new pop-stars... Ugh.

I stopped with Yu-Gi-Oh a long time ago and don't know what to make of the new cards, but I am still trying to beat an old PS1 Yu-Gi-Oh game called Forbidden Memories and I have played Duelists of Roses. I am stuck in a older Yu-Gi-Oh with those games, I guess, and the newer Yu-Gi-Oh stuff is just ignored by me.

Pokemon is something I used to love, but some of the new Pokemon looks too... different, in my opinion. They got rounder and rounder... more baby-ish and more baby-ish... :shakehead:

Finally, I was flipping through the PlayStation magazine a week ago and stumbled upon "Spyro". Three words: What the [censored]?

I can't tolerate a lot of things now that I did when I was a child. Most Nintendo games for one. You care about more things as you age, while as a child you tend to have a blissful indifference for things you like because you don't really have a proper sense of comparison yet. If I was a 10 year old growing up now, I'd probably be all over the games Nintendo has now, which is mostly remakes or reboots of the same stuff we had 10 years ago anyways, except not as good or innovative.

I used to love Pokemon as a child, and back then you had to choose either Pokemon or Digimon. Looking back, I should have gone with Digimon. It was better, for what that's worth. I'd still play the Pokemon games more, if not for the fact that the character design of half of the new Pokemon is terrible. There were enough good ones to tempt me to actually play through Pokemon White, but when I finished the story I refused to deal with any more Shrubbishes or Woobats. Plus, everyone obsesses over the new "features" Black and White have brought to the table, such as animated Pokemon sprites during battles, which is actually capability that has been around for, say, 20 years, maybe a little less because of handheld quality at the time, but still...

Sonic (obvious) and Spyro... oh god, what Activision did to Spyro... I have no words, so I'll just post a couple videos for a comparison and let you see why.

2000:

Spyro: Year of the Dragon, one of the best platformers ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xLjmWr2CFs

2011:

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, WHAT IS THIS CRAP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpFkClI8F0

EDIT: also, on the second video:



That says it all.

Why?!?!?!?!?! :cryvaultboy:


Seriously, why? I've seen what they've done, before, but I still don't know any of the details behind it. My childhood friend mutated into that... thing... Activision must be destroyed.

Pokemon for sure. Pretty soon you're going to see ice cream cones and furniture being considered [censored] Pokemon.



DEAR GOD WHY.

Money, of course. The sole motivation behind everything Activision does. They want to appeal to kids, so they're disguising a glorified microtransaction system with those toys that unlock new characters.

Ugh, things would be so much better if Insomniac hadn't sold off the rights to the series so long ago. I believe I read somewhere that it was because they couldn't think of any new abilities to give Spyro or something. What they failed to realize was that Spyro didn't need new abilities to stay fresh. The charming characters, fantastic level design, and simple elegance of the entire thing kept each game fresh all by themselves.