Heh, heh, heh. The RetroN 3. I bought mine without the assistance of my girlfriend, and mine finally came in the mail yesterday. I have it still wrapped up in its box and packaging, and today I take it out, and hook it up. I am so stoked.

Good choice.

Emerald_Warrior did a bang-up job mentioning must-have titles, and the guy after him did a great job amending the RPGs he omitted from the SNES (guess he's not an RPG fan), but there are still a few awesome titles none of you have mentioned.

NES:

The Adventures of Lolo 1-3

Archon

Double Dragon II: The Revenge

Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!

Shadowgate

SNES:

Super Bomberman 2

Super Double Dragon

Super Mario Kart

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

And Emerald Weapon's selection of Sega Genesis titles is unbeatable. Sure, there's still dozens of great games for each console, especially the Genesis, but as far as the essential ones go, his can't be beat, exceeeeept ...

Genesis:

Toejam & Earl

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Without it, FF7 would not have been what it is; and FF7 owes a lot to a few Squaresoft games that came before it: notably Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, and Final Fantasy IV.

And funny enough, every title mentioned here is better than FF7.

I got bored, and frustrated, playing the game, and I am NOT one of the people that disliked it.

The reason is because the game's battle system, and rules in general, are COMPLEX AS FUDGE! I mean, JESUS! There's a book in itself all about how the battle system works. There is so much depth in it, and in the story, too. I've heard it's a short game, but has more depth than most JRPGs that span four discs, and I've found this to be pretty true so far.

I am STILL trying to figure out how to play the game, though, even though I've had the game since 2007, and have yet to really move far past the dragon boss. I've had to come back to the game on repeated occaisions, because I stop at a point, and don't come back until way too late for me to even still be involved in the story. The last time I played, I had the most fun -- a LOT of fun -- and the game, even thought it's short, and I haven't done much with it in YEARS, I still hold cherished memories of the game.

Anyway, yeah. Once I learn it, I'm going to love it. I mean to go back to that game. It was worth every penny to find that rare gem in near mint condition at that outstanding game store that closed down. It's definitely a deep game, with a compelling, mature story, and all of your complaints are very feeble, baseless, and misinformed. It's definitely not a game for your average Joe Gamer who really isn't too bright, and can't really appreciate true gaming art; and you don't really sound like you'd enjoy this game -- so yeah, I'd "steer clear of it."

One of Sqix's best games, hands-down, no doubt.

Oh ... GOD -- look at this idiot:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Panzer-Dragoon-Saga-SEGA-Saturn-Factory-Sealed-NEW-/180542220020?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2a0927a6f4

I just bought panzer dragoon saga.

At first I was going to stop playing with the grainy graphics but after a while the game became immensly fun.
If you can find it then buy it..

Kcube

HEY! If you don't want it, GIVE IT TO ME! LOL

dude you are so lucky.ive been looking for one of those for a while now.

janson2185

Man, good luck trying to find GOOD games at a decent price. Most of the games listed here are hard to find in used game stores and very expensive if you go on ebay. By the way, now would be a good time for someone to prove me wrong and point me in the right direction to add Saturn games to my collection.

KPAXMAN

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i remember my uncle used to play D on that thing all the time

KillerJuan77

congrats, its a great system to have , what games did you get for it?

Darkman2007

This ...... thread has increased since I was last here, and failed to submit a reply due to GameSpot's terrible message board functionality. I want to reply to so much, but I can't do it in one post, because it always says my HTML is fudged up, when I know it isn't.

i remember my uncle used to play D on that thing all the time

spawnassasin

NOTE: Since the time I first wrote this, I have bought D. I haven't played it yet.