History YMMV / GamingInTheClintonYears

* HePannedItNowHeSucks:
** Go on [=YouTube=] and see how much bitching there is about the rating given to the game.
** Even back when the show was still on the air, viewers were incensed by Wood's unfavorable review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. There's even a video rebuttal where the host responds to the viewers' complaints.
** With decades of hindsight this is now more frequently {{inverted|Trope}}, with people mocking Wood for giving high praise to notorious flops like ''{{VideoGame/Bubsy}}'' and the Platform/VirtualBoy.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApQi0yRpqc One short segment of an episode]] has him mention his high hopes for the Platform/VirtualBoy, going as far as saying that it would beat out the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, and the like. However, other than the Virtual Boy in the top slot, his predictions on how they would do compared to one another were surprisingly accurate: the [=PlayStation=] was the clear-cut winner, with the Saturn doing well enough in at least its native Japan, the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar CD further pushing Atari out of first-party development and the Panasonic M2 never even being released as an actual video game console.

** In his review of ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'', he dismisses the game as being nothing more but "yet another racing joke" and criticizes the game's controls. He ends off the review by stating that "If Sony had spent half the time on the game as they did on the enclosed booklets, Gran Turismo wouldn't be the flop that it is!". Gran Turismo would eventually go on to sell 10.85 million copies, making it the all-time greatest selling game on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, and was universally acclaimed by critics and gamers alike, often being considered as one of the greatest racing games of all time. So much for being a "flop" according to Wood. This take could have even been avoided since, if you had even a tangential knowledge about the [=PlayStation=] at the time, you'd know how much of a KillerApp the game was, and even the quickest peek at any magazine review of the game totally shoots down any possibility he was correct.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApQi0yRpqc One short segment of an episode]] has him mention his high hopes for the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy, going as far as saying that it would beat out the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, and the like. However, other than the Virtual Boy in the top slot, his predictions on how they would do compared to one another were surprisingly accurate: the [=PlayStation=] was the clear-cut winner, with the Saturn doing well enough in at least its native Japan, the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar CD further pushing Atari out of first-party development and the Panasonic M2 never even being released as an actual video game console.

** With decades of hindsight this is now more frequently {{inverted|Trope}}, with people mocking Wood for giving high praise to notorious flops like ''{{VideoGame/Bubsy}}'' and the UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy.