Quote from: Novastar;749688To continue on the awesomeness of MegaMan 2, the first time the dragon showed up, I literally dropped the controller in surprise.

I had a similar reaction to that moment.

I also got the anticipatory chills the first time I reached the last level and it was a creepy music-less, enemy-less tunnel full of dripping slime unlike any other level in the game.

Mainly C64 and Amiga guy here.

Elite
The Sentinel / The Sentry
Paradroid
Head Over Heels
M. U. L. E.
The Lords of Midnight
Seven Cities of Gold
Mercenary
Maniac Mansion
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sim City
Lemmings
Tetris
Prince of Persia
Turrican 2
Captain Blood

Some console faves :
Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Chrono Trigger
A Boy and His Blob
Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Hrm.  Off the top of my head:

C64:

Elite
The Ultima series
Bard's Tale
M.U.L.E.
Seven Cities of Gold
Pirates!
F-15 Strike Eagle

NES:
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
Legend of Zelda

Intellivision:
The Dreadnought Factor

Amiga:
Dungeon Master
Falcon

SNES:
... not actually a ton of "favorite" SNES games on my part.  Huh.

Falcon was excellent,  but it's one of those things I wonder about how it compares with today's games. (My recommendation of Mercenary assumes depth of play still holds interest despite primitive graphics.)

Kind of a threadjack, but fans of 8-bit and 16-bit side-scrolling shooters (and/or 80s/90s action movies) owe it to themselves to immediately stop whatever they're doing and get a copy of Broforce on Steam. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FREEDOM

Quote from: Phillip;762320Falcon was excellent,  but it's one of those things I wonder about how it compares with today's games. (My recommendation of Mercenary assumes depth of play still holds interest despite primitive graphics.)

True, and Mercenary was a good game.

I still don't think I've seen a dynamic campaign done as well as Falcon's, though.  More complex, sure, but not as engaging from a player standpoint.

no recommendations for the sega master system ninja gaiden?? fuck the nes versions, this is the real deal - more than three colours on screen at once and lovely acrobatic gameplay (the best platformer on the system if you ask me)
actually the sms was, in objective terms, much better than the nes (see the port of r-type if you don't believe me - smoother than a baby's bum, and, like, an actual pallette. Or sonic 1 and 2, which retain the speed of the mega drive - and it is called a mega drive, you savages - versions if not the graphical fidelity), and it's a real shame the software support just wasn't there. it was a popular system among lower middle class dorks like me in nz, but by the end of the system's lifespan it was all cheap licenced crap and a few overpriced new old stock classics in the shops. sigh

so yeah:
ninja gaiden
r-type
sonic
sonic II
I guess sonic chaos if you're ok with easy games
fantasy zone
power strike
power strike II
shinobi is kinda old and crusty but what the hell I liked it
astro warrior / pit pot (fuck you they're great, despite pit pot's laughable reputation at my primary school. admittedly mostly caused by me running my mouth before I sat down to play it properly)
that donald duck game where the first level is the yukon. magica de spell steals your nephews, I can't remember the name any more
castle of illusion had a pretty ok port too, speaking of disney stuff

NES
Blades of Steel
Baseball Stars 1
Bases Loaded
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior 1
Legend of Zelda
Adventure of Link (F U Haters)
Desert Commander
Conflict
Genghis Khan (probably all-time favorite for NES)

SNES
Aerobiz Supersonic
A Link to the Past

Genesis
Master of Monsters (probably my all-time favorite console game)
Buck Rogers and the Countdown to Doomsday (liked much more than PC version)

Yay, another SMS fan! Unfortunately a lot of those games were quite rare in USA, and during the end of its cycle here, as 16-bit was in full swing by then. Heard great things about Power Strike, Ninja Gaiden, Sonics, Donald's Great Coin Caper, Mickey's Castle of Illusion, etc. but they were just harder to find as they were not the current hotness. Sucks because many of those are collectable now, esp. things like Golden Axe Warrior, etc.

I have a line on a Master System. Now just to figure out how to get it around my wife ...

Well shit, you guys started a Sega Master System love-in and didn't invite me? Fuck you all. I'm crashing it anyway.

Altered Beast
Assault City*
Cyborg Hunter
Golden Axe Warrior
ESWAT
Kenseiden <== SO AWESOME. IF YOU FIND IT GET IT AT ALL COSTS.
Psycho Fox
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rastan
Shinobi
Operation Wolf*
R-Type
Wonder Boy (fucked if I know which one)

Whoa. Now that was a trip down memory lane.

Ant Attack
Boulder Dash

Like Angry Birds, these are great when you have just a few minutes to play. Ditto many arcade games. I love having on-the-go access to classic games via emulation!

Atari 2600 fave: Yar's Revenge

Populous and Powermonger were great on the Amiga, but maybe there are similar but in some ways improved things today?

Not old, but old school: VVVVVV

Picked up a master system, two controllers, phaser gun and three games.

Quote from: Piestrio;764645Picked up a master system, two controllers, phaser gun and three games.

Model 1 or 2?

If Model 1, now all you need are the 3d glasses.

Quote from: Gabriel2;764655Model 1 or 2?

If Model 1, now all you need are the 3d glasses.