Remember These Classic Games? They’re Long Overdue for Glorious Revivals

Take a stroll down the video game aisle of your local big box store.  You’ll see a lot of first-person shooters, multi-player action games and shit from comics franchises. Most of these games will have film quality graphics, sophisticated storylines, and complicated gameplay.

A lot of these games feel exactly like other games you’ve already played. But what about the stuff you grew up on? The franchises that made you fall in love with gaming in the first place? Polish they may not have, but they’ve always been entertaining AF.

Here are the best classic video game franchises you forgot about that deserve fresh revivals.

Monkey Island

For 20 years, we were able to experience the swashbuckling fun that was the Monkey Island franchise. It lives up to every expectation you could have from a Disney video game originally released in 1990, in that it’s basically like playing through the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

But with Disney’s sole focus lately seeming to be anything and everything Marvel-related, something like a Monkey Island reboot looks to be a little low on the docket. Maybe a Johnny Depp cameo would help.

Earthbound

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This 1994 sequel to Mother was created specifically for non-gamers, in that it was actually goofy AF. Players battle against piles of vomit and the like throughout their travels, which include swaps and a zombie-infested village.

And as they go, they meet others who eventually join their party, including a ponytailed martial artist named Poo. Why wouldn’t we want Earthbound revived?

Jet Set Radio

Originally released by Sega for the Dreamcast in 2000, Jet Set Radio is everything perfect and wonderful about the early ‘00s. As one of a gang of graffiti artists, the player’s goal is to rollerblade (see?) around Tokyo, tagging graffiti spots and evading authorities before a timer runs out.

Game mechanics are pretty easy — nothing quite as complex as the Tony Hawk franchise — but it was never about mechanics. It’s about sticking it to the man.

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Psi-Ops isn’t your average third-person shooter. There’s a psychic aspect to the game that makes it stand out. Sure, you go through a series of levels, kill some bad guys, face off against a few bosses. But you do it with the help of skills like telekinesis.

Psi-Ops ends with a cut to black and a “To Be Continued” title card, but it never was continued. 15 years isn’t so long to wait for a sequel though, is it?