Super Metroid - snes
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Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Arcade
A timeless masterpiece of 2D fighting with beautiful sprite work and a banger soundtrack. Other fighting games come and go, but we still play this one online and in tournaments 25 years later.
Doom
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
There are better Zelda games. ALTTP is clever, for sure, but the path through the game has too many obtuse moments. I don't know how I would have gotten through it the first time without Nintendo Power magazine. I liked Link's Awakening and Link Between Worlds more, though without Link to the Past, we wouldn't have those games.
Now, the Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer is an incredible achievement and a must-play for people who have finished both original games.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64
Super Metroid - SNES
Metroid 2 - Return of Samus for Gameboy too. I loved it.
Tetris - Gameboy
Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation
Unreal Tournament
Super Mario Bros. - NES
The Legend of Zelda - NES
Diablo (1996?)
Street fighter 2 - hyper fighting edition (arcade).
Played this every day after school for years as did a huge portion of my school.
Warcraft 2
Baldur's Gate, both 1 & 2 on PC (I prefer #1). I had to actively consider whether it had been at least 25 years it came out and...I feel super old now 😅.
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Pokémon Crystal is just shy of your 25 year threshold depending on what month it was released (it came out in 2000 in Japan), so I'll say Pokémon Yellow or Pokémon Gold and Silver. We can sit here and nitpick about which is the best, but Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal were all amazing.
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Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL), PSX, 1996
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
My all-time favorite game. It's peak 2D Mario. SMB3 speedrunning is fun. Glitches are fun. It will challenge you, but almost every level is fair.
NES version really showed off what the MMC3 chip can do. Super Mario All-Stars has a surprisingly deep 2-player Battle Game based on Mario Bros. Wii U/Switch versions of Super Mario Advance 4 contain all 38 e-Reader levels with some wild new gimmicks and combinations.
Final Fantasy 4, SNES.
(Still one of the best games I've ever played.)
Duke Nukem 3D, PC
Pirates!
Elite - BBC Micro Model B originally.
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