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Ranking the best vintage video games (25 years or older)
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Super Mario Bros 3 - NES
This game was huge. People that weren’t around at the time don’t understand how much better it was than previous games.
They made a freaking MOVIE to promote it!
And that stupid glove.
Looking back, boy did they have vision. I get that the Power Glove wasn't all it was cracked up to be but Nintendo really saw early on how we want to interact with our machines.
Then somewhere along the way they realized they could make a lot of money by relicensing the same game over and over again, and suing their most loyal fans out of existence.
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Puyo Puyo Tsu (1994)
sonic 3 and knuckles, Sega Genesis
Shiren the Wanderer II - N64
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Arcade
A timeless masterpiece of 2D fighting with beautiful sprite work and a banger soundtrack. Other fighting games come and go, but we still play this one online and in tournaments 25 years later.
Umihara Kawase - SNES
Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation
Commander Keen (series), PC
ToeJam and Earl - Sega Genesis
Xenogears
Duke Nukem 3D, PC
Wipeout 2097 (Wipeout XL), PSX, 1996
Puyo Puyo - lots of ports
Reskinned as:
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - Mega drive, Master System, Game Gear
- Kirby's Avalanche - SNES
Puyo 1 is the Street Fighter 1 of puzzle games. Historically important, but the sequel is the one that's actually good.
Resident Evil (1996)
Thank you for not saying Resident Evil 2 (or worse: Resident Evil 4). I don't care what anyone says, nothing tops the original. I wish Capcom would hurry up and get off of their asses to work on a proper remake already. The remaster is so old and out of date.
I both agree and disagree.
I agree that RE1 is the best RE, because it is also the only Survival Horror game in the RE series. When RE2 was in development, Capcom changed it to an Action series. By the developers own words, they wanted to mimic "Hollywood Action movies." They did a good job, but Action is exactly opposite of the genre wheel from Survival Horror. Survival Horror depends on a de-emphasis of action and combat, while Action games heavily emphasize action and combat.
I disagree that Capcom needs to remake RE1 again. The RE remake from 2002, which later became RE HD, is perfect. It does not need Capcom further altering the game to take away the qualities that keep it a Survival Horror game. Konami did this to Silent Hill 2 and that still has me pissed.
Additionally, RE1 is vastly more influential to video gaming as a whole than RE2, spawning a big Survival Horror genre boom that did not end until RE4 came out.
I’ll propose Age of Empires 1. That one is my childhood pretty much 😄
Rollercoaster Tycoon
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Unreal Tournament
Star Control II, PC.
What a great game. It made me imagine what it would be like to travel such a wonderfully large universe.
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Final fantasy 8, it is the best, no sarcasm.
I would give a testicle for a proper remake, expand the Laguna story, a more populated world, even more battshitery
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time - Sega Genesis
Super Mario Bros. - NES
Street fighter 2 - hyper fighting edition (arcade).
Played this every day after school for years as did a huge portion of my school.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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