Matt's personal favorite games for each system
This is simply a quickly thought up list of my personal favorite games for each system.
They are not for sale unless listed on the main for sale page, and about half of them are very hard to find (being that shooters are my favorite genre, and that's the hardest to find genre on out of print systems)
I probably forgot about some of my favorites when typing up the list, and there are many great games that aren't listed since I never actually got around to playing them yet (Tengai Makyou 2 for PC-E, Lunar 2 for Saturn or PSX, etc)
Listed in this order (for no real reason):
DS, PSP, PC-Engine hucard, PC-Engine CD,Saturn, Dreamcast, Wonderswan, Gameboy Advance, Playstation, Playstation 2,Playstation 3, Super Famicom, Famicom, Neo Geo, FM Towns / Marty, Mega Drive / Mega CD, Xbox, Xbox 360, Japanese Windows
9-17-09: Updated the list. Added Famicom games, and the X360 list went through a complete revamping, but most retro systems haven't changed too much. As painful as it was, forced myself to a limit of 10 games per system, only cheating a bit by still listing PCE hucards and CDs in separate lists. Also added an overall top 10
Overall top 10:
1) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G ('Freedom Unite') (PSP)
2) Ys Book 1 and 2 Complete (PC-Engine CD)
3) Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)
4) Monster Hunter 3 (Wii)
5) Eliminate Down (Mega Drive)
6) Macross: Scramble Valkyrie (Super Famicom)
7) Thunder Force V (Saturn)
8) Ys: Oath in Felghana (Japanese Windows)
9) Culdcept (series, various systems, oddly, my #1 game on 3 systems)
10) Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys (PC-Engine SCD)
Nintendo Wii:
1) Monster Hunter 3
2) Monster Hunter G
3) House of the Dead 2&3 Return
Nintendo DS:
1) Game Center CX 2
2) Ketsui: Death Label
3) Game Cener CX
4) Etrian Odyssey 2 (Sekaiju no Meikyuu 2)
5) Etrian Odyssey (Sekaiju no Meikyuu)
6) Dragon Quest IV
7) Dragon Quest V
8) Ouendan
9) Ouendan 2
10) PowerProKun (series)
Sony PSP:
1) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G ('Freedom Unite')
2) Hatsune Miku: Project Diva
3) Goku Makaimura Kai (Ultimate Ghouls N Ghosts Kai, but 'Kai' version is JPN only)
4) Dracula X
5) Rockman Rockman (Megaman Powered Up)
6) Wipeout Pure
7) Gurumin
8) N+ (US; not released in Japan)
PC-Engine hucard:
1) Devil Crash (Devil's Crush)
2) Super Star Soldier
3) Aeroblasters
4) Aldynes (Supergrafx)
5) GranZort (Supergrafx)
6) Makyou Densetsu (Legendary Axe)
7) Bomberman '94
8) Galaga '88 (Galaga '90)
9) Parodius Da!
10) Power Drift
PC-Engine CD
1) Ys Book 1 and 2
2) Ys 4
3) Winds (Lords) of Thunder
4) Super Darius
5) Rayxanber 2
6) Sapphire
7) Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys
8) Neo Nectaris
9) Gate of Thunder
10) Seirei Senshi Spriggan
Saturn
1) Thunder Force V
2) Idol Janshi Suchie Pai 2
3) Langrisser IV
4) Culdcept
5) Digital Pinball: Necronomicon
6) Sokyugurentai
7) Darius Gaiden
8) Puyo Puyo Sun
9) Langrisser V
10) Keio Yuugekitai: Katsugekihen
Dreamcast:
1) Culdcept II ('Second')
2) Sorcerian (note: not recommended for everyone.It's just a personal favorite, the flaws don't bug me)
3) Ikaruga
4) Border Down
5) Trigger Heart Exelica
6) Zero Gunner 2
7) Last Hope
8) Under Defeat
9) Crazy Taxi (series)
10) Blue Submarine No.6: Time and Tide
Wonderswan: (Note, Wonderwitch games not included, though actually many would make the list)
1) Wizardry: Proving Ground of the Mad Overlord
2) Final Fantasy (either)
3) Rainbow Islands: Putty's Party
4) Rockman & Forte
5) Makaimura (Ghosts N Goblins)
6) Langrisser Millenium
7) Macross: True Love Song
8) Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon
Gameboy Advance:
1) Racing Gears Advance
2) PowerProkun Pocket(series, cartoony Konami baseball)
3) Advance Wars
4) Metal Slug Advance
5) Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Playstation
1) Culdcept Expansion Plus
2) Little Princess
3) Valkyrie Profile
4) Nectaris
5) Dracula X Nocturne in the Moonlight
6) Umi Hara Kawase Shun
7) Ghost in the Shell
8) Punch the Monkey Game Edition (Lupin the 3rd music action game)
9) Zanac x Zanac
10) Pepsiman
Playstation 2
1) Culdcept Second Expansion
2) Contra: Shattered Soldier (Shin Contra)
3) Suchie Pai IV
4) Gradius V
5) Chuuka na Janshi Tenhopainyan
6) One-hit Pesticide Hoi-hoi san
7) Metal Slug 3 (could say 'series', but 3 is really the one I like best)
8) Ys I&II Eternal Story
9) Tenshi no Present (Present from Angel, 'Puppet Princess 3')
10) Super Galdelic Hour
Playstation 3:
1) Valkyria Chronicles
2) Oblivion
3) Ridge Racer 7
4) Minna no Golf 5
Super Famicom:
1) Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie
2) Jaki Crush
3) Actraiser 2
4) Area 88 (UN Squadron)
5) Actraiser
6) Umi Hara Kawase
7) Axelay
8) Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania IV)
Famicom:
1) Kai no Bouken
2) Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti
3) Spelunker
4) Holy Diver
5) Urusei Yatsura: Lum's Wedding Bell
6) Mega Man (series)
7) Ninja Gaiden (series)
8) Castlevania (series)
9) Gradius 2
10) Yume Penguin Story
Mega Drive / Mega CD
1) Eliminate Down
2) Thunder Force (series)
3) Volfiev (Ultimate Qix)
4) Contra Hard Corps
5) Gaiares
6) El Viento
7) Silpheed (CD)
8) Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends (CD)
9) Super Fantasy Zone
10) Keio Yuugekitai (Keio Flying Squadron, CD)
X-Box
1) Project Gotham Racing
2) Baldur's Gate (series)
3) DOA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball
4) Morrowind
5) Outrun 2
6) Tekki (Steel Battalion)
7) Shikigami no Shiro
Xbox 360
1) Idolm@ster
2) Deathsmiles
3) Shooting Love 200x
4) Culdcept Saga
5) Raiden IV
6) Oblivion
7) Fallout 3
8) Idolm@ster: Live for You!
9) Otomedius G
10) Beautiful Katamari
Neo Geo
1) Metal Slug 3
2) Metal Slug X
3) Baseball Stars 2
4) Viewpoint
5) Magician Lord
6) Flying Power Disc (aka Windjammers)
7) Sonic Wings 3
8) Fatal Fury Special
FM Towns / Marty:
1) Splatterhouse
2) Rayxanber
3) Words Worth (Towns only, Dungeon RPG by Elf)
4) Rainbow Islands
5) Volfied
6) Marble Madness
7) Tatsujin-Ou (Truxton 2)
8) Tenshinranma (Dungeon RPG by Elf)
9) Raiden Densetsu
10) New Zealand Story
Japanese Windows (yes, mostly older games):
1) Ys: Oath in Felghana
2) Ys 1,2 Complete (Remake of Ys 1 and 2, by Falcom)
3) Idol Janshi Suchie Pai 3 (Part 3 of my favorite mahjongg series)
4) Fancia (cutest game ever, bring up a young catgirl)
5) Words Worth (hentai 3D Dungeon RPG by Elf)
6) Eva to Yuukai na Nakamatachi (aka Eva and Good Friends, Eva and Boon Fellows, hentai mahjongg)
7) Sorcerian Original (side-view Act/RPG by Falcom)
8) Sorcerian Forever (side-view Act/RPG by Falcom)
9) Gunbaru (hentai cute 2d side view shooter with a young witch on a broomstick)
10) Lord Monarch (any of the series, Real time Strategy/Conquer opposing lords game by Falcom)