What the heck happened to poor old Hagrid’s face in the PS1 days? Why are we playing as Gilderoy Lockhart, of all people? Which game became a strange, magical third-person shooter? Grab your wands and buckle up for 25 Things In The Harry Potter Video Games That Make No Sense. Most importantly, some have been completely and utterly bizarre. Some have stuck to the plot of the related book, some have veered all the way off. Naturally, there have been games for every novel in the Harry Potter series, released on just about every system in existence (at the time). The Arkham games, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and the like have helped redeem them a bit, but gamers have long memories, and Superman 64 really was just that bad. After all, everyone knows that licensed titles have a bit of a… well, awful reputation. In the gaming world, the Harry Potter franchise has been a bit of a mixed bag. We can truly say that PS1 Hagrid was a character that was so bad he was great Tallis Vale Lover of all things video game, anime, or manga. So are all of the memes, fanfics, and everything else we do when we just cannot let go. PS1 Hagrid is likely to be a character that is not soon forgotten, as long as there are people who still enjoy playing the old video game, new memories will be created and talked about for the next two decades. ![]() The hype around the Fantastic Beasts movies is as strong as ever. Still is, as anyone in the fandom will tell you. There I was back in 2007, though, eagerly waiting to pick up my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, super sad that this was the last one. That was a tough one to see coming, wasn’t it? I sure as heck couldn’t have seen myself lining up outside bookstores at midnight before this series came along, let me tell you. This became a popular image on me_irl and Instagram in the coming months.Ah, the Harry Potter phenomenon. On December 4th, 2016, Twitter user tweeted the same image with the caption, "i feel like PS1 Hagrid all the time lately & i dont know how to fix it" (shown below). In Autumn of 2016, Tumblr user Spazerbeam (account since deleted) posted an image of PS1 Hagrid captioned "Reblog if you agree." The image has gained nearly 72,000 notes as of January 16th, 2017. On September 8th, 2016, WFS12 uploaded the "Arry Porrer" image to me_irl and received 3,265 points. ![]() PS1 Hagrid began to grow in popularity in late 2016 as a relatable character. On June 15th, 2015, French Youtuber and Let's Player Benzaie uploaded his playthrough of Harry Potter A L'Ecole De Sorciers, and in the playthroughs introduction, photoshopped the Hagrid character to appear as a Blobfish, leading to comparisons between the animal and Hagrid. The image and PS1 Hagrid continued to have minor popularity in the coming years, sometimes appearing alongside variations of You're a Wizard, Harry!. ![]() The earliest known instance of the image's use was posted on July 9th, 2012 on GamePlanet Forums by user TheMango in a comment compiling funny pictures from the internet. Images of PS1 Hagrid began circulating online as early as 2012, when a popular image macro paired a frame of Hagrid with an intentionally misspelled caption that reads "Haggord: You dun it nao Arry Porrer" (shown below). The character Hagrid serves as the groundskeeper of the game's setting, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and occasionally sends the player, Harry Potter, on errands and missions (seen at 13:11 in the video below). It was initially developed for the PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Mac OS X. ![]() Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published by EA Games and released in the United States on November 15th, 2001.
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