Forbidden Forest (C64) As a lad I spent days trying to defeat this game. For a budget title, this was a surprisingly addictive fun game, which also had fatalities that predated Mortal Kombat by eons. Giant spiders would maul you, Dragons would set you ablaze, Skeletons would turn you into swiss cheese. The 8-bit EGA pseudo 3d graphics were certainly crude, but it's as fun, and challenging as it ever was. Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) Everyone was gaga over SMB, SMB3, and SMW, more than this game, but I really enjoyed it more. For starters it was single player, so I didn't have to wait for friends to die before my turn, but more importantly it gave the characters different traits, so some stages were easier with some characters than others. In any event I probably used Luigi through 90% of the game. Street Fighter II (SNES, and pretty much everything else) We spent most of our afternoons playing SFII, trying to figure out tactics on how to beat friends who knew special moves, until we learned them ourselves. There was even this one hardcore guy at the local arcade who Ironically dressed a lot like SNK's Terry Bogard, who actually showed a scrawny teenage me a thing or two. I eventually beat the game with every character, and even managed to do it once without continuing using Ken Masters. Oh those were good good days. We were on top of the world. It was one of the few fighting games that inspired you to improve at it. Out of this world (SNES, PC) I had received this one year as a birthday gift, and was unaware that it would be one of the best games to ever come out of left field. No one else had really heard of it until I had mentioned it to the one or two people I actually got along with at school, and a few years later Flashback came out as an almost unoffical sequel. There was an actual Out of this world 2 that appeared on Sega CD, but well I didn't have money for another console then, and most of the kids had an SNES at the time. Congratulations to the 25 out of 735 kids who had a SCD, and more so to the 6 that might have had OOTW2. Sin (PC) I know. Everybody will look at this and say "WTF? SIN!?!? what about Doom II, III, Quake, Half Life, Unreal Tournament, or Painkiller, or Serious SAM!?!?!??!?" But despite it's early flaws that have since been rectified, Sin was an awesome game. One that actually forced me into a long overdue PC replacement in 2000. I found the game at an OfficeMax that Christmas season getting jewel cases, and saw it came bundled for around ten bucks with Heretic II. Both games would eventually prove fun, but Sin was just too much game for my Pentium 200 with integrated graphics, and 16mb of Ram to deal with. But the little I played was impressive, and so a few months later I got a loan from work (I had a sweet job at the time that would be lost four years later due to downsizing) And was shipped a machine with a 1.3Ghz Athlon, with 256MB Ram, and a newfangled Geforce2 Ultra. (Of course my current machine is far more robust but anyhoot) Sin Ran brilliantly, and it's B-Movie like Running, and Gunning was a lot of fun. Later down the line I got Half Life, and it was easy to see why that proved more popular with the masses, but it shouldn't degrade the fun factor of stopping a corrupt CEO. If you glossed over Sin while being too busy looking/waiting for Half Life at the time you missed a pretty good title. Nothing Earth shattering mind you, but a fun R Rated thrill ride reminicsent of those Saturday afternoons spent watching 80's action flicks on TBS. And the new Sin Episodes game (Also fun BTW) includes the original for a mere twenty bucks. Not too shabby.