Best of the Best. New & Old?

What games from the past, now and future releases would you put on the top of your videogame shelf. I'm not talking about the fads, I'm talking about games that were well thought out, had great characters and were, are (or will be) ahead of their time. In other words, The Best of the Best!!!

 

Moving this to general. Junky's Jungle is for virtua fighter discussion, general for everything else that isn't VF.

PS:
Super Dodgeball.

 

Orginal Shinobi and the new Shinobi. Man the new one looks great his scarf (wich is very very long) fallows him around. You can make decoys of yourself and walk on walls, sweet............

 

A highly condensed list: Blazing Star, Alien Soldier, Metal Slug series, Panzer Dragoon series, FV2, JSR, Rocket Knight Adventures, Sonic CD. I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch but all those spring to the top of my head.

 

Alien soldier? Maan, it was all about Alien Syndrone. Yeah Yeah! I'd like to see more sega reincarnation titles. Bring Alex Kidd back or Wonder boy. That woulda been a 3D Zelda killer. BUT, my favorite game ever of old school is Space Harrier.. Thats my move!

 

Oh almost forgot. Contra 3 and hopefully the new one. Also the the first VF it revolutionized fighting games.

 

Super Dodge ball is the best ever. 1pt for Creed

 

Here's my list in no particular order of like or chronology:

Metroid
Rastan (Arcade)
Contra (all of 'em -- except that turd Saturn release)
Dracula X
JSR/JSRF
Shenmue I/II
Keio Yugekitai
Panzer Dragoon Series
Space Harrier
Alien Syndrome
Phantasy Star Series (Except III)

 

My list: (in no particular order),

Link to the Past
Castlevania 4
Axelay
Secret of Mana
Mega Man X
Yoshi's Island
Super Metroid
Super Ghoul's n' Ghosts

Damn! I'm such a SNES slut!

 

Best of the best?
hum... ok this is what I have on the top of my head, not an exhaustive list:

Dracula X
Shenmue series
Shining Force 3
All VFs (of course) /versus/images/icons/grin.gif

 

Dude -- I forgot about Yoshi's Island. That's a great game. Need to get that SNES emulator for PS2. /versus/images/icons/smile.gif

 

You can't emulate something as holy as Yoshi's Island. You gotta play that shit on a snes. /versus/images/icons/smirk.gif

 

Play yoshi's island on the snes or get it on the gameboy advance. Btw, dude, are you practicing puzzle league?

My games that I have enjoyed since they first came out.

Killer instinct
tetris attack
goldeneye
turok rage wars
star tropics
double dragon series
goemon series
river city randsom

 

After going through my collection of old games a fell on some more great games!

Chrono Trigger
F-Zero
Michal Jordan Vs. Larry Bird (Im probably the only one who likes it)
Final Fantasy 3
and finally Teenage Mutant Nija Turtels... not sure of the name but it was on the snes and had them going through time......

 

Yoshi's Island is out on the GBA? Dude -- sign me up!

 

River City Ransom was one of my favorite NES games! I could play that for hours on end. My favorite series of all time, though, would have to be Metal Gear.

Other ones I like:
Castlevania: SotN
Ape Escape
Super Metroid
VF4
Resident Evil 1 through Code: Veronica
Silent Hill 1 & 2
Sonic 1 through Sonic and Knuckles

 

Double Dragon
SF2:T
Mortal Kombat 2
Metal Gear Solid 2: SOL
VF4
Tekken Tag Tournament
Grand Theft Auto 3

EDIT: add the whole super Mario series up to Super Mario World - then it sucked afterwards.

 

They are in no particular order.

Spy Hunter
Shenmue 2
Pole Position
Metal Gear Solid 2
Sonic the Hedgehog series
Lunar series

 

Final Fantasy 1-10
Virtua fighter 1-4
Resident Evil 1-code:veronica
All of the Duke nukems