Hold onto your Pizza Planet cups, folks - the Toy Story games are getting the remaster treatment. According to Kotaku, the classic Toy Story games that absolutely destroyed your SNES and PlayStation controllers back in the day are being polished up and re-released for modern platforms.
Yes, that includes Toy Story 3, which is also getting the remaster treatment alongside its older siblings. If you somehow forgot, Toy Story 3 The Video Game was genuinely one of the most criminally underrated movie tie-in games ever made - a bold claim in a genre that gave us such legendary disasters as E.T. for the Atari 2600.
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The original Toy Story games were notoriously punishing - we're talking Dark Souls levels of frustration packed into a colorful kid-friendly wrapper. That infamous Toy Story SNES game had difficulty so brutal it could make a grown adult throw their controller into the sun, so here's hoping the remasters come with some kind of mercy mode for those of us whose reflexes have degraded since the 90s.
Toy Story 3's open-world Woody's Roundup mode was basically a proto-GTA set in a toy-filled sandbox, and it slapped harder than most full-price titles released that year. Getting to revisit that in a remastered package feels like pulling a rare loot drop from a nostalgia chest.
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The timing here is no accident. Disney and Pixar have clearly noticed that millennials with disposable income and a weakness for childhood memories are an extremely exploitable demographic. And honestly? Take our coins. We are powerless.
No specific release dates or platforms have been confirmed yet, so manage your hype bars accordingly and don't blow all your gold on a pre-order just yet. But the prospect of experiencing these classics with updated visuals and (hopefully) saved game functionality that doesn't rely on a dying battery is genuinely exciting.
Whether you're a returning veteran or a new player curious about what gaming looked like when Pixar was just hitting its stride, these remasters look like a worthy side quest. Just maybe stretch your fingers before attempting the original Toy Story SNES levels - you have been warned.
