The great games of yesteryears. Here's a few of my favourites:

Sega Mega Drive: Golden Axe (!), Streets of rage (!!), Sonic
N64: The obvious GOLDEN EYE, Quake 64
Amiga: Lemmings
PS1: MGS(!)

What about you guys?

Soul Reaver,Command and Conquer,and of course, Crash Bandicoot B)

I'm so sorry. I don't know how I forgot about Crash. I wouldn't be able to count the number of weeks I've spent playing that even if I tried. Quality, quality game.

SNES:
Seiken Densetsu 3
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Shadowrun
Killer Instinct
ISS Deluxe

Sega Mega Drive:
Shadowrun

N64:
GoldenEye
Perfect Dark

Playstation 1:
Metal Gear Solid

PC:
Jagged Alliance
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
Jagged Alliance 2
XCOM
Baldur's Gate + Tales of the Sword Coast
Icewind Dale
Fallout
Fallout 2
System Shock
System Shock 2
Blood
Blood 2
WarCraft II
StarCraft
Master of Magic
Master of Orion II

Oh yea man, perfect dark. Freakin' nwoice.

I'll go through all my consoles and my favorite games of them:

Sega Genesis:
Sonic 2
Vectorman
Aladdin

Sega Saturn:
Virtua Fighter 2
Nights into Dreams
Mr. Bones

PS1:
Spyro
MGS
Test Drive 5
Driver 2
Worms

Gameboy (original):
Mega Man 2
Tetris Blast
Pokemon Blue Version

Old-School Computer:
Myth 2
Diablo
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Sonic CD
Sonic R
Simpsons Cartoon Studio

Oh yes, worms is definitely up there, on whatever platform.m.

I do remember going to PC world as a youngster and playing Aladdin. That was a great game from what I remember.

Hogs of War! Has anyone played this? This is a classic in my opinion.

Master System:

• Sonic the Hedgehog

Mega Drive:

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Sonic and Knuckles
• Robocop Versus The Terminator
• Aliens Versus Predator
• Golden Axe
• The Punisher

PS1:

• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
• MediEvil
• Crash Bandicoot 2
• Blade

PC:

• Aliens Vs. Predator and it's related expansion packs
• Aliens vs. Predator 2 and it's related expansion packs

Helikaon, golden Axe has to be one of my all time favourite games. When you are camping out for the night and then those little pixies or leprechauns come so you can beat the living crap out of them... man... good times, good stuff.

NES:
Super Mario Bros.
Kirby
Metriod

SNES:
Aladdin
Super Mario World
Chrono Trigger

Master System:
Sonic
Batman Returns

Mega Drive:
Golden Axe
Streets of Rage

GameBoy:
Pokemon

N64:
Oot
Mario 64
Goldeneye
Banjo Kazooie

PS1:
FFVII
FFVIII
FFIX
MGS1
Crash Bandicoot
Gran Turismo
Worms
Breath of Fire IV
Legend of Dragoon
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
Tekken 1, 2 and 3

NES:
faxandu
duck hunt
teenage mutant ninja turtles

Mega Drive:
Sonic 2 (the only REALLY good one)
streets of rage
james bond: The Dual!
james pond
The Aquatic games
FlashBack

GameBoy:
Zelda: Links awakining (hardest game ever.. anyone?)
Mario world: The Six Golden Rings
Pokemon Blue (due to the fact blastoise is the best pokemon full stop)
Pokemon Yellow
Darkwing duck
Kirbys dreamland

PS1:
MGS
CB: Wrath of Cortex
Final Fantasy VII
Medal of honour/Medal of honour-underground
Dino crisis 1/2
Mortal Kombat Trilogy

HAHA i love this, reminds me of all the kick ass games i used to play, well WE all used to play, good call on this JC55

Sonic 2... "The only really good one?" Oh, have you forgot?

Yeah, sometime after Sonic 2 came out, they made the Sonic and Knuckles game with the cartridge that could interlock with other cartridges. That way you could play the other Sonic games with Knuckles, which, as I recall, made them all about 50% cooler.

haha good point, but even so.. it was still only sonic 2 that was cool with knuckles.... personally i didnt like the other games, they got all like messy looking and stuff, sonic 2 was nice, big and colourful. The only thing that sucked about it was the emerald mini levals, like running with tails down that tunnel avoiding the bombs, with an attempt at 3d-ness, i didnt like that, much prefered sonic 1's approach to collecting all the chaos emeralds, shame u couldnt get super sonic on number 1 tho! it was so much harder to get the emeralds in 2 ...... sigh...

- MSX: Metal gear, penguin adventure (FYI kojima was a producer on it lol), Graduis AKA Nemesis, knight mare, kung fu.

- SEGA Megadrive/Genesis: Sonic the hedgehog, Contra: hard corps, Streets of rage, Altered beast, forgotten worlds, desert strike.

- SNES: street fighter 2, super mario world, donkey kong country, Megaman X, super star wars, mortal kombat 2, WWF monday night raw, Ranma 1/2, captain tsubasa (turn base ala RPG football friggin awesome).

- AMIGA: flood, zool, Beast, karate championships,

- SEGA CD: snatcher, sonic CD, ecco the dolphin, sega classics (golden axe, columns), Lunar, batman returns, rebel assault.

- 3DO: Road rash, need for speed, super street fighter 2 turbo, alone in the dark, Hell, another world AKA out of this world.

- SEGA SATURN: virtua fighter, sega rally, Nights, guradian heroes, megaman x4, virtua cop, panzer dragoon saga, xmen vs street fighter, marvel super heroes, bug.

- PSX/1: metal gear solid, final fantasy 7, WWF attitude, resident evil, winning eleven 3, thousand arms.

- Dreamcast: shen mue, Marvel vs capcom, resident evil code veronica.

- PC: Doom, C&C Red alert, Star craft, war craft, SW Dark forces, vampire the masquerade, Beavis n butthead: virtual stupidity.

I'm happy to see Final Fantasies floating around here. Is IX of sufficient decrepitude to be considered a classic?

Polls are now closed. The results, Yes.

VII was a jaffer too.

Snes : Chronno Trigger
Final Fantasy 4,5,6
Tales of Phantasia.....

Sega : Streets of Rage 1.....

PS one : MGS1.....

There are too much games.

Of course FFIX can be considered a classic, it was amazing and it came out in the last decade, hence, its a classic :)

Nintendo:
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Megaman
Megaman 2
Megaman 3
Megaman 4
Megaman 5
Megaman 6
Metroid

Super Nintendo:
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Street Fighter 2 The World Warrior
Street Fighter 2 The New Challengers
Mortal Kombat 2
Megaman 7

Arcade:
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter The Third Strike
House of the Dead
House of the Dead 2
House of the Dead 3
House of the Dead 4
Megaman The Power Battle
Megaman 2 The Power Fighters

Playstation:
Megaman 8
Megaman X4
Megaman X5
Megaman X6
Syphon Filter
Syphon Filter 2
Metal Gear Solid VR Missions

One question folks, I've heard that streets of rage is available for download as some form of emulator, for the desktop. Does anyone know where to get their hands on it (website)?

Cheers,

Oh and continue with the posts folks, this makes very interesting reading.

Sorry, but thats illegal.

As far as I know It is only a demo and I'm sure there are no issues with it's legitimacy.

And another classic for the heap: Tekken (3 especially), on the immortal PS1.

My god reading this topic makes me think...either everybody on this site are still young teens...or I'm old as fuck. Cause there is no way whatsoever that I'll ever think of N64, Ps1, or PC games as "Old School"...

I think of Pac Man, and Qbert for those...SNES and Saga would be the latest for me...and even that would be a stretch...

i remember another world, i couldnt get past the first bit! where the lion thing chases u and u gotta lure it into a cave and jump on that rope! i seen it in WHsmith today for £4.24, and on the cover its like "highest rated game EVER! - Gamesmaster" or sumthin like that haha, u think i should splash the cash on it?

At first I wasn't going to do N64 or PS1 games but I went for it but to be honest; for me old school stops being old post 1996.

NES
The Legend Of Zelda
Punchout
Super Mario Bros. 1-3

N64
Banjo Kazooie
Goldeneye
Donkey Kong 64
Super Smash Brothers
Mario Tennis
Mario Kart
The Legend Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time
The Legend Of Zelda Majora's Mask
Rayman 2 The Great Escape

PS1
Shadowman
MGS1
MGS1 VR Missions
Gran Turismo 2

Road rash was legendary and Zelda on the SNES, quite simply immortal.

SolidFox, relax. You're as young as you feel. Stop feeling so old.

*bump*

Well, I'm just going by what I grew up with. I didn't get a PS1 till my mid teens, by which time talk of the PS2 was already a hot topic. As for the Sega Megadrive, I used to go round my mates house to play it all the time.

But yea, the SNES is pretty immortal in that sense.

FF4

FF5

Really cool B)

Unfortunatly...thats not true, since my body has already defined that for me.

But its good to see with the last few post more and more people going back to 'true' old school.

For you maybe foxy, but for me old school is FF7.

Awesome.

Pre Playstation era,

Nes
Mario Bros.
Skate or Die
Dr. Mario
Spy Hunter
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the side-scrolling one)
Some Kung Fu game...

Genesis
Street Fighter 2
Mortal Kombat
VectorMan
Sonic the Hedgehog
Kid Chameleon
Earthworm Jim
Toe Jam and Earl
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
R- Type...something

Oh yea, Earthworm Jim. That was a really feel good game for me.

On a similar note, WORMS has to be a personal favourite of mine also. I was a big fan of Hogs of War when it came out; I'm not sure if many people here have actually played it. Quite entertaining I thought.