Favourites From Your Collection

DaveyDave

I thought I'd start a thread for people to share some of their favourite games they have, or even gotten rid of and might regret. It could be rare or expensive, a hidden gem or even something that's just easy to pick up and play.

One of my favourites on the Mega Drive is Shinobi 3 Return of the Ninja Master. As much as I love it, I haven't actually finished the bloody thing! It's not as difficult as Revenge of Shinobi in a sense that I can actually get past the second level though :P

It's a fairly long game and the levels are quite varied. The graphics are very unique to each level and it looks really good. The gameplay and controls are spot on and the soundtrack is awesome. I listen to it from time to time.

It's not the cheapest game unfortunately, I believe it goes for €50+ so you might not pick it up window shopping which is a shame as it's definitely worth a try.

CiDeRmAn

Tempest 2000 on the Jaguar is still a fantastic way to spend an hour or two, it's not rare or expensive, but is a cracking game.
Outrun 2006 on the PSP/PS2 is sublime, better in many ways than the original.
And I'd have to give a shout out to Coldwinter, in single player it out-Goldeneye'd Goldeneye, at least it did in the day, that an Metal Arms were pretty great on the PS2.

super_furry

Outrun Online Arcade and Afterburner Climax are the only reason I still have my 360 hooked up.

Shapey Fiend

I've an awful hankering to play Gitaroo Man recently. Maybe a little We Love Katamari as well. Still got my PS2 but all the class games I picked up got misplaced along the way.

safetyboy

Truxton, Ghouls n Ghosts, Wonderboy, Dodonpachi daioujou, Gradius / Nemisis, KikiKaiKai. all re-playable for ever for me.

Tom Mann Centuria

Tetris on the original Gameboy, Rebelstar and Laser Squad on the ZX Spectrum. Still have great fun playing all those.

Retr0gamer

Radiant Silvergun for the Saturn.

Not just one of the finest games ever made but to me it represents the culmination of promising myself I'd one day take a visit to Japan and pick up the game. It took 15 years but I finally made it.

Gunstar Heroes. My favourite game as a child. It's hands down the best game on the megadrive and I'll fight anyone that says otherwise. I lost the game but managed to pick up another copy.

Just the Super Nintendo in general. I was a megadrive kid but always wanted a SNES as the library was just so much better. Finally having the system myself was special.

CiDeRmAn

5/10....

safetyboy

Never really got radiant silvergun, Ikaruga is awesome but by jebus is it a brainstorm.

Los Lobos

Have to say Atari 2600 Boulder dash. Just a phenomenal port and so true to the Commodore version, it's amazing to play on the lowly 2600.

CiDeRmAn

Los Lobos wrote: »

Have to say Atari 2600 Boulder dash. Just a phenomenal port and so true to the Commodore version, it's amazing to play on the lowly 2600.

You had to say Boulder Dash.... Fecks sake....

Skerries

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Tetris on the original Gameboy, Rebelstar and Laser Squad on the ZX Spectrum. Still have great fun playing all those.

Playing Rebelstar II and you are down to the bare 5 players needed to finish the game unarmed as they are carrying the eggs and trying to make it safely back to the dropship, now that is sweat inducing!

o1s1n

Bought an Ibara PCB 5 years ago, and it's never left my cab since!

Same with the Alien Versus Predator and Raiden II boards. They're pretty much permanent fixtures with other boards being mounted in and around them.

I really like some of the odder and obscure bits I've accumulated over the years, have a pretty decent little IGS PGM collection (off the top of my head, Demon Front, Dodonpachi II, Knights of Valour I&II and The Gladiator). Same with the GNet system, I think I've about 5-6 games for that, all original and none of that flash card silliness

Have a load of 'rare' games across a multitude of systems that I can't even begin to start listing off and tbh am half thinking about selling a few of them as they never get played! (they've become more like currency at this stage due to the rising values, it's making me oddly uneasy)

Actually one of my favourite things is the Time Crisis 2 arcade pedal and gun that The Last Bandit hacked into a PS2 guncon for me. Closest I'll get to owning one of those cabs.

I'm also really attached to my MVS collection, which must be about 60-70 carts at this stage? They take up a stupid amount of space...but I can't let them go :eek:

Inviere

Immediate favs in my collection that spring to mind are Zelda 3, Earthbound, & Snatcher CD. The latter two wouldn't be in the collection if they weren't favs!