Calling all Retro Game Fans (and hunters!)

I've given them a list of 222 games thanks to all of your help!

Here are some of my favorites:

- ToeJam & Earl (rumored to soon be released on the PSN) (GENESIS)

- Sunset Riders (GENESIS)

- Mickey mouse World Of Illusion (GENESIS)

- Alien Storm (GENESIS)

- Road Rash (GENESIS)

- Rocket Knight Adventures (GENESIS)

- Spot Goes to Hollywood (GENESIS)

- Tiny Toons Adventures - Buster's Hidden Treasure (GENESIS)

- Toy Story (GENESIS)

- F-Zero (SNES)

- Jurassic Park (SNES)

- Super Mario Kart (SNES)

Ikaruga (DC or GameCube edition)

Vagrant Story (PSX)

Power Stone (DC)

Front Mission 3 (PSX)

Otogi (XBOX)

Bushido Blade (PSX)

Hogs of War (PSX)

X-Men 2 Clone Wars (Sega Gen)

Buring Rangers (SATURN)

Elemental Gimmick Gear (DC)

I keep seeing Toe Jam & Earl on people's lists.

Man, I want to play Toe Jam & Earl Again.

I remember when a friend of mine rented it and asked me to play. I remember thinking, and actually vocalizing, how stupid the game looked. Then we played it for the next 6 hours. I don't know why it's fun, but it is.

This sounds great I love retro games.

I will think of others but for now I would love to see

Star Raiders (Atari 2600)
P.O.W. (NES)
Thundercade (NES)

You all need to play:

Otogi: Myth of Demons- It is one of my favorite videogames of all time. It's on the Xbox, released in 2003 to pretty good praise. It's the series that came before the Souls games, and it is one of the finest videogames I have ever played. It also has an excellent sequel in Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors. Few people mention these games but they are SPECTACULAR!!

The fight between Raikoh and The Crimson King still stands as the single greatest one-on-one showdown I have ever seen in a videogame. Simply amazing. The snow falling gently in the cemetary as the two meet for their confrontation. Each hit causing craters in the floor and destroying headstones. Absolutely brilliant!

Two of my other favorite games, though they're more popular so they may have been mentioned already, are Chrono Trigger and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Both are truly spectacular masterpieces.

I'd also recommend the Jet Set Radio games as they are some of the coolest platformers around. And for the hell of it, let's see some Einhander and Radiant Silvergun. I haven't played either one, but according to the shmup community at large they are arguably the two best games in the genre. And it'll be cool to see a SquareSoft shmup from the PS1 era shown off.

But above all else, I'd like to see Panzer Dragoon Saga. I love the Panzer Dragoon series so much and it makes me so sad that I may never get the chance to play Saga. If you only pick one games off of my list (you should pick them all), please pick Panzer Dragoon Saga. I just want to see this series get more love. In fact, do a whole Panzer Dragoon episode. The original is excellent all the way to the newest entry in 2003 on Xbox with Orta. Panzer Dragoon forever man, Panzer Dragoon forever....

To reiterate:

Otogi: Myth of Demons
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
Chrono Trigger
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Jet Grind Radio (original DC version please)
Jet Set Radio Future (original Xbox version please)
Einhander
Radiant Silvergun
Panzer Dragoon
Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Panzer Dragoon Orta

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time?

Ooh, Super Metroid.

OOH, Gradius!

I'm guessing you already thought of the more popular games, so I'll list some games that are more under-the-radar:

Ristar (Gen)

Sonic 3D Blast (Gen, Saturn)

Mr. Nutz (SNES)

High Seas Havoc (Gen)

Thunderforce/Lightening Force (Gen)

Blazing Dragons (Playstation)

Speed Devils (Dreamcast)

I can think of more if needed.

dog64

These games are good! Thanks for the list! :)

Here's some more suggestions:

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (N64)

Star Wars: Episode I Racer (I played on N64, but also on Dreamcast)

Star Wars: Racer Revenge (PS2)

007: The World is Not Enough (N64 version)

Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage (I played the SNES version, but it's also on Genesis)

TimeSplitters 2 (I played the GameCube version, but also on PS2 and XBOX)

Soul Calibur II (is there a possibility that all three console versions, GameCube, PS2, XBOX can be looked at based on the guest stars alone?)

Golden Axe
Rayman
Blazing Dragons
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

I can't think of more :// just don't pick a game that is totally mainstream.

NES:

• Airwolf
• Bionic Commando
• Bomber Jack
• Clu Clu Land
• Devil World
• Donkey Kong III
• Final Fantasy series
• Gimmick!
• Totally Rad
• River City Ransom
• Metal Gear
• Monster Party
• Hammering Harry
• Kid Icuras
• Samurai Pizza Cats (jpn import)
• Snake's Revenge
• Sky Fortress
• TMNT series

Gameboy:

• Altered Space: A 3-D Alien Adventure
• Atomic Punk
• Avenging Spirit
• Bonk's Adventure
• Bonk's Revenge
• Bubble Ghost
• Castelian
• Cyraid
• Final Fantasy Adventure
• Final Fantasy Legend series
• Fish Dude
• Fortified Zone
• Great Greed
• Hammering Harry: Ghost Company
• Heiankyo Alien
• Kid Dracula
• Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters
• Kirby's Block Ball
• Kirby's Dream Land
• Kirby's Pinball Land
• Lock n' Chase
• Maru's Mission
• Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge
• Nemesis
• Operation C
• Quarth
• Revenge of the 'Gator
• Rolan's Curse I & II
• Serpent
• Sneaky Snakes
• Solar Striker
• Solomon's Club
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
• Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land
• Tail Gator
• TMNT series
• Trip World
• Trax
• Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!

Super NES:

• Breath of Fire 1-3
• Captain America and the Avengers
• Chrono Trigger
• Final Fantasy III (6)
• Final Fight series
• Kirby's Dream Land 3
• Kirby Superstar
• Knights of the Round
• Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow
• Mega Man 7
• Mega Man X1-X3
• Plok
• Secret of Evermore
• Secret of Mana
• Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety
• Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage
• Super Adventure Island 1 & 2
• Super Bonk 1 & 2
• Super Double Dragon
• Super Game Boy
• Super Mario RPG
• Super Metroid
• TMNT: Turtles in Time
• TMNT: Tournament Fighters
• Vortex
• X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse

Genesis:

• Dynamite Headdy
• Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
• Insector X
• Mega Bomberman
• Ristar
• Sonic series
• Streets of Rage series

Vitual Boy (I double dare you guys :P ):

• Mario's Tennis
• Mario Clash
• Virtual Boy Wario Land

Game Boy Color:

• Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow
• Robopon: Sun Version

PlayStation:

• Akuji the Heartless
• Brave Fencer: Mushasi
• Breath of Fire III
• Castlevania Chronicles
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Chrono Cross
• Colony Wars: Vengeance
• Crash Team Racing
• Croc 1 & 2
• Deathtrap Dungeon
• Dino Crisis 1 & 2
• ECW Anarchy Rulz
• Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Gex 1-3
• Gran Turismo series
• Invasion From Beyond
• Jet Moto series
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
• Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
• Marvel Super Heroes
• Marvel vs. Capcom
• Mega Man 8
• Mega Man Legends 1 & 2, Misadventures of Tron
• Mega Man X4-X6
• Metal Gear Solid
• Monster Rancher
• Mortal Kombat 4
• NFL Blitz
• NFL Xtreme
• Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
• Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
• Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
• One
• Parapper the Rapper
• Primal Rage
• Rouge Trip
• SaGa Frontier
• Shadow Master
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
• Street Fighter Alpha
• Syphon Filter 1, 2, & 3
• Tenchu
• Twisted Metal 1, 2, and 3
• Um Jammer Lammy
• Vigilante 8
• WWF Attitude
• WWF Smackdown! 1 & 2
• WWF War Zone
• WarHawk

Arcade:

• Mega Man: Power Fighters 1 & 2
• Mega Twins
• Primal Rage
• TMNT II
• The Simpsons
• X-Men

Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Phantasy Star - The end of the Millenium (GEN)
Phantasy Star III (GEN)
Shinobi 3 (GEN)
The Adventures of Batman and Robin (GEN)...one of the hardest games I ever played
Mortal Kombat (SNES/GEN)
Mortal Kombat II (SNES/GEN)

GunForce on SNES. I double Dare ya

Or play Super Mario Kart at least, like some real men.

Mega Man X 1-3 on SNES

That's awesome...i remember my days on the MSX with: King's Valley, Athletic Land, Zanac.

Other games on other systems like: Dr. Mario, Golden Axe, Donkey Kong...Those were the days when those games looked AWESOME specially when in King's Valley i took a hammer and jumped to chomp off the walls :D

Glad i've experienced gaming from the MSX till now holding an Xbox 360 Controller =)

Conquest (PC). An old PC game, before the makers of Risk could be bothered to create a video game. Conquest, my friends, is from pre-Internet era, when we used to have to pack up our PCs for networking parties. And we had to walk seven miles in the snow. :P

Centurion: Defender of rome;

Beneath a steal sky;

Blackthorn;

The Dig;

Day of the Tentacle;

Monkey Island (1 & 2);

I don't know why, but I love seeing Crash Bandicoot gameplay. I'd love to see either the original or Crash Bandicoot 3.

I don't know if you'll like these, but out of the games I've played, these are definitely my favorite classics. :)

Sega Genesis:

• Sonic the Hedgehogseries (specificallySonic 1 through Sonic & Knuckles)
• Mortal Kombat I, II & III
• WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game

Nintendo Entertainment System:

• Super Mario Bros. series (no duh) :P
• R.C. Pro Am
• Top Gun
• MegaMan series (II and III were the most fun IMO)
• Stealth ATF
• Excitebike

Super NES:

• Super Mario All-Stars (w/ Super Mario World)
• Chrono Trigger
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Donkey Kong Country
• F-Zero

PlayStation:

• Ape Escape
• Spyro the Dragon
• The King of Fighters '98

Arcade/Misc:

• Dig Dug
• Pole Position
• Galaga
• Galaxian
• Ms PacMan
• Mappy
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• PacMan
• Xevious (my most favorite and nostalgic arcade game)

:D

I'd love to see the following-

Metroid

Killer Instinct

Earthworm Jim

Aladdin

Dino Crisis

Road Rash

Command and Conquer

Age of Empires II

I'm not sure about whether the following qualify as retro or not so I'm just going to mention them-

Quake 3

Unreal Tournament '99

If you want to play fun underrated games here are my suggestions! Please give at least one a try.;)

(NES) Kung Fu Heroes, Willow, Demon Soword, Shadow of the Ninja, Dr. Chaos and Metal Storm, Duck Tales and Jackal.

(PS1) Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Wolf Fang, Pop'N Tanks, Rival Schools: United by Fate, Kula World, Suikoden and Speed Power Gunbike.

All of these games are fun, well in my opinion that is.

Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros.3, or GoldenEye 007.

Supaplex, Sega's Outrun, Double Dragon 3, Captain Comic

Sooo many already but two fighting games that I had great fun playing

was

Clayfighters

and

War of the Monsters

:)

Also Tzar was fun

and

Jurrasic Park, Micro Machines and warlock on the mega drive

:)

Toe Jam and Earl, rampage, rad racer, road rash

The original Mortal Kombat of course. Get over here.

Battletoads, Street of Rage, Castlevania, Contra, Mega Man

Sorry if these have been said before, some of these may also be EU names:

Battletoads and Double Dragon (NES)
Bucky O' Hare (NES)
Captain America and the Avengers (GEN)
Earth Worm Jim (GEN)
Splatterhouse 2 (GEN)
Desert Strike (GEN)

By far one of the most popular games has to be Contra (NES). I am 35 years old and I still remember the 30 lives code off the top of my head... from memory:

U U D D L R L R B A START (obviously SELECT then START if you wanted 2 player with 30 lives each).

Of course, also up there is Ikari Warriors (NES)...

A B B A (also from memory)

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What does that say about these games if these codes are burned into by brain???

But really, like Bozanimal said, the names of games people listed here are just simply not "retro" enough. Disregarding my Sears and Robuck PONG game console that only had Pong on it (no kidding), true "old skool" home gaming began with Atari and Intellivision when most games didn't have an ending, you played for a HIGH SCORE -- never ending excitement! LOL. "Fun" retro games there:

Atari 2600:

Combat

Yars Revenge

Defender

Strategy X --personal favorite

Zaxxon --personal favorite

Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space (one of the first "simulator" type games, good luck with that one)

Intellivision:

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Cloudy Mountain -- the absolute BEST game back in the days. --personal favorite, this one had an ending

Burger Time -- build hamburgers while being chased by evil scrambled eggs and bacon, what is more awesome than that??

Auto Racing --fun two player "racing"

...another idea is to have a Retro game show and just acquire every single Atari 2600, 5200 and Intellivision game you can find, while poking respectful fun at all of it of course. NES console and games are a no brainer of course.

If anyone is going to play Sonic games, please let it be Tom McShea, Brendan Sinclair and/or Peter Brown - please.

The Thread is already filled with some great Retro Titles but I'll like to mnetion mine, if they give them any priority :D

Shenmue Games

Any Classic Sonci Games

Metal Gear Games (I guess either you or any other website has done that before)

Chrono Trigger

Battletoads (I wanna gamespot crew getting a beat down :twisted::lol: )

FFVI or FFVIII

Contra

Shinobi

Castlevania

Double Dragon

I gues that's all of the games I remember from my childhood (at least the ones which can classify as Retro) and I do remember tons of Game Over screens too (I guess the joke's on me)

Few retro game to suggest are: Worms, Paperboy, Mario Kart, NBA Jam, Super Bomberman, Splinter Cell, etc.

Great I love retro games as well! :D

Okay let's get down to some humble suggestions of mine:

Panzer Dragoon/Panzer Dragoon Zwei/ Panzer Dragoon Saga ( Sega Saturn )

Shining The Holy Ark ( Sega Saturn )

Shining Force 3( Sega Saturn )

Virtua Fighter 2( Sega Saturn )

Nights into Dreams( Sega Saturn ) PS: To celebrate the HD remake. =D

Fatal Labyrinth ( Sega Genesis )

Phantasy Star IV: End of the Millenium( Sega Genesis )

Beyond Oasis( Sega Genesis )

Streets of Rage 3( Sega Genesis )

Crusader of Centy( Sega Genesis )

Wonder Boy in Monster World III/Monster World IV( Sega Genesis )

Shining Force 2 ( Sega Genesis )

Ogre Battle 64 ( Nintendo 64 )

Conker's Bad Fur Day( Nintendo 64 )

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask( Nintendo 64 )

Donkey Kong 64( Nintendo 64 )

Paper Mario( Nintendo 64 )

Quest 64( Nintendo 64 )

Zelda II: The adventure of Link ( NES )

Gargoyle Quest II( NES )

Duck Hunt( NES )

Kid Icarus( NES )

Punch Out! Featuring Mr. Dream( NES )

Chakan - The Forever Man!!!! I loved this game back then... And any game like metroid or castlevania (metroidvania)

Homeworld and Homeworld 2 on PC, god I will there is a Homeworld 3

retro to me is rock n roll raceing on the NES or Terminator also on NES. theres alot of good suggestions already but if you can get kaboom for the atari 2600 that would be sick now thats old school.:)

Green Dog(GEN)

Aladdin(GEN)

Junglebook(GEN)

Earthworm Jim

Donkey Kong Country

Shenmue 1 and Shenmue 2

Final Fantasy IV,FFVII,FFVIII,FFIX

The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past

Super Mario RPG Legend of the 7 Stars

Urban Strike(GEN)

I forgot one - Claw

Battletoads (NES), Ninja Gaiden (NES), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES), Super Mario Bros. (NES), Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES), Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES), Donkey Kong Country (SNES), Mortal Kombat Triology (SNES), NBA JAM (SNES).