Earthbound, GTA San Andreas, Mario 64, DK64, Gauntlet Legends

SNES - Act Raiser - It's quite literally a mix of RTS and 2d action platforming. You build and manage your villiage while protecting it from monsters. Highly recommend!

N64 - Kirby 64 - Kirby is a game series that lets you eat enemies and gain their power. This one lets you combine powers! You can make fun combos, like rock + fire to make yourself a volcano, or electricity + bombs to make yourself into fireworks. Really fun and easygoing game! Worth playing through at least once.

PS2 - Parappa the Rapper 2 - A fun and weird game, Parappa 2 is a rhythm game where you have to repeat the raps your opponent dishes out using the face and L&R buttons. The setting and story make this game more than worth it, as you'll be saving the town against shrink rays, a mad hairstylist, and a noodle-hungry maniac. It's another fairly short game, you can beat it in two sittings if you're good. There's also a fun vs multiplayer mode.

I enjoy super mario world. Games primo mario action. Super mario RPG is great as well.

OOT and SM64 are great play throughs, and if you're interested in learning some speed run tech it can expand the fun.

PS2, you gotta play some GTA vice city and San Andreas. Shadow of the colossus is great.

You don’t have to limit yourself to old games if you don’t want to. If you’re into Pokemon there are some pretty good Romhacks out there. I liked Unbound a lot and I’m playing Liquid Crystal at the moment.

SNES

• Chrono Trigger
• Super Mario World
• Super Mario RPG
• Metal Warriors
• Secret of Mana
• Donkey Kong Country 2
• Mortal Kombat 2
• TMNT: Turtles in Time

N64

• Paper Mario
• Majoras Mask
• Banjo Kazooie
• Perfect Dark
• Turok Rage Wars
• Turok 1,2,3
• Diddy Kong Racing
• Tony Hawk Proskater 2

PS2

• SOCOM 2: US NAVY SEALS
• Ico
• Silent Hill 2
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Time Splitters: Future Perfect-

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 and 2 on PS2 are excellent action RPGs

Mostly PS2 era JRPGs

• Atelier Iris 3
• Mana Khemia
• Persona 3
• Final Fantasy X

Probably will try Suikoden V

Honestly, I think if a game was good back then, it's still good now. There's just a bit of an adjustment period.

You might find this useful. https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/V/%27s_Recommended_Games_Wiki

Are there any types of games you enjoy in particular? Favourite genres and series?

MSX - Super Rambo Special

I very much enjoyed E.V.O.: Search for Eden when I whipped out a SNES emulator a few years ago, though I have never played it on the original console.

Also, of course, the Donkey Kong games on SNES (almost) never get old.

There was the original Clock Tower game for SNES that had a patched version available somewhere to translate the text to English. No clue where I found it, but that game was great.

I really liked GTA Vice City Stories, Daxter, Burnout Legends, God of War — Ghost of Sparta and Flatout: Head On. All of those are for PSP, PPSSPP is a really good emulator for the console and its saves are cross-platform.

Gran Turismo 4, the PS2 ace combat games (4, 5 and Zero), Def Jam: FFNY, Klonoa 2, FFX International, Scarface, and MOH frontline are a bunch of PS2 games I’ve completed and recommend

Conkers Bad Fur Day

Top Gear

For Ps2 you easily need to try out the Holy Trinity of platformers

Ratchet & Clank 1-4

Jak and Daxter 1-X

Sly Cooper 1-3

All great for different reasons and surprisingly good stories for platformers with Sly being the deepest.

This is a bit of an outlier because it's actually on PS3, but it's a lightweight game so emulation isn't too taxing. I went back and played Tokyo Jungle. Such a wild game and with nothing I've found that compares to this day. You play as animals in a Tokyo that has been reclaimed by nature, you hunt for food, grow stronger and find mates, and try to survive against predators. I love it