oh mercy look at my nintendo account name lol im obsessed with metroid 1 i beat ridley the first time ive played him in the WHOLE series, thats right all 4 games,there is a total of 9 metroid games, there is actually ten different carts for the US because of the classic NES series, and mother brain in 1986 is almost as hard as it gets. And let me tell ya, Metroids Suck.

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Beyond Good & Evil.

Best.Game.Evar.

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I've been playing games for so many years that it's nearly impossible to narrow it down to one. Though Animal Crossing, Rad Racer and A Link to the Past are teetering neer the number one position, after a full ten minutes of careful thought, I would have to say that my favorite game of all time is:

Ghosts N' Goblins.

I've got so many warm, fuzzy memories of the game from my childhood. My Dad would take me, my brother and my little sister out to breakfast every Sunday morning so my Mom could get some extra sleep. Afterwards, we'd go to a little rental place called Doc's Video and pick up a video and a game. The video was almost always one of the WWF Coliseum Videos that came in the gigantic boxes (or in the case of Wrestlemania IV, an even MORE gigantic box). The game was more often than not Ghost N' Goblins. It was just so freakin' hard, it needed to be rented many, many times.

Still love that game.

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Goldeneye. This is more based on personal memories, not so much because it a better game than any ever made. I've just enjoyed this one more than any other.

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Super Mario Bros. 3, no question.

Notable mentions: Super Mario World, Sonic 2, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Halo 1, and Ninja Gaiden (Xbox).

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Like KennyBreadsticks, I've played too many games over the years to make naming one an easy task. But I'm going to try anyway.

The Secret of Monkey Island.

There will always be a soft spot in my heart for Guybrush Threepwood. To this day the game (and its sequel) offers me hours of enjoyment, and I can quote every line and play through it with my eyes closed. Ron Gilbert is a genius.

On a console, gaming bliss doesn't get much better than Sonic the Hedgehog. The first game. I was mesmerized by it. Still a ton of fun today. Super Mario Bros. 3 deserves a mention as well. I'd better stop before I add even more games to the list. So yeah, those are my top 3.

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StarFox 64. It introduced the rumble pack, and is just an awesome game. Multiple paths, and it is still fun to play today. This is almost tied with Pokemon Yellow however, my first Pokemon game... and the first game I spent over 150 hours playing.

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Shenmue for the Dreamcast - just WoW

Also getting close to the Number One for me are:
Zelda - Link's Awakening (GB); Final Fantasy VII (Playstation); Soul Calibur (Dreamcast); Half Life and all it's spinoffs (PC)

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I really can't pick one, it's just too hard. But it would probably be between these:

Mario Kart DS, Super Mario World, Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, Super Street Fighter 2, Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, International Superstar Soccer 64.

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Only one game has caused me more joy and more pain at the same time and that game is Final Fantasy 7. I would get up at 6:00 am for class sit down for a quick game of FF7 and end up playing non-stop until 2am the next day. I had to drop two classes that semester, my girlfriend broke up with me shortly after that, and I almost lost my job all due to this terribly awesome game. But I enjoyed every minute of it. I lauged at the cross dressing mission, cried at Aris death, trembled in fear when facing Sephroth.

That was a great game.

Runners up in no paticular order
The Adverntures of Bayou Billy (at the time it was great)
The first Zelda
Kings Quest 4
Elite Beat Agents
Warcraft 3

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Super Smash Bros

This is without a doubt the best fighting game to date. You can talk about your Virtua Fighter or Tekken, Mortal Kombat, and stuff with all their random combos and special attacks and physics engines for realistic movement and damage, but smash bros still beats them all for it's sheer honest skill and strategy requirements.

No two player versus battle can compare to the sheer out constant movement that you get in a 4 way smash bros battle. When more than 2 opponents fight, temporary alliances can be formed in an attempt to take down a stronger opponent, and thus part of the stronger opponent's strategy must focus on finding holes in, and picking apart the alliances that form.
The variety of characters and their custom attacks are extensive, yet there are only 2 types of attacks(3 if you include grabs and throws); normal(which can be turned to smash attacks simply by moving the joystick with more speed) and special, which are then modified by 4 directions.
Using different battle arenas actual changes how you have to fight, rather than just changing the scenery, and can often change the outcome of an entire battle.
Yet the one thing that is perhaps the biggest reason why Smash Bros is the best fighting game lies in the rules of victory; rather than a rigid inflexible health bar that declares defeat upon depletion, smash Bros has a percentage meter, which steadily increases with damage taken. Rather than having a set limit to when your character will fall, it simply becomes easier and easier to be thrown from the course as percentage increases. This creates a level of tenacity that no other fighting game has, as you can continuously attempt to make your way back to the stage after being thrown from it, no matter how high your damage is.

All in all, I feel that Super Smash Bros provides the purest and most complete essence of battle that any game has ever been able to come out with, and will likely stay that way until Smash Bros Brawl comes out.

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I'm shocked and appalled that no one here mentioned the mighty Ico. Games are art? Yes. Yes they are.

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Contra on the NES. It was the hardest game when I was a little kid, and now that I'm all grown up I have every soldier and bullet memorized, but its fun to use that complete knowledge of a game so much. I beat it at least once a week. Not too many titles can you sit down for 20-30 mins and beat an entire game these days.

A very close 2nd is Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I could just never take Iron Mike down, and to this day I still can't get it done.

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I go through swings every few months when deciding my top five games of all time, but number one remains constant: Chrono Trigger.

Great story, 2D game play that I can actually comprehend (sorry, my aging brain is having issues with all these darn complex 3D environments), beautiful music, and a fighting system that still hasn't gotten old for me, all add up to my all-time favorite game.

Just don't play the PlayStation re-release included in Final Fantasy Chronicles! The cut scenes are all fine and dandy, but the load times are just unbearable! Get the original SNES cart or, heck, download a ROM. Why isn't this game on Wii's Virtual Console or remade for DS yet?!

Rounding out the top ten, in alphabetical order:
2. Chrono Cross
3. Final Fantasy VII
4. Final Fantasy Tactics
5. Half-Life 2
6. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
7. The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
8. Marvel vs. Capcom 2
9. Ninja Gaiden (Xbox)
10. Super Mario World

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Contra on the NES is just so fun and infinitely replayable.

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I don't even really have to think about this question XD

Terranigma for the SNES has been my favourite game ever since I first started playing it. It's the one game I compare all other rpgs too, and no game has been able to knock Terranigma off of the pedestal I've placed it on yet. So yeah. Lovely game. Love it to bits.

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wow, this is hard mostly because there are some new games that I love completely but I'm not sure yet that they'll stand the test of time and I hve a lot of nostalgia for certain games, but were they really the best? OK here we go:

1. Super Mario Bros. 3

2. Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past

3. SimAnt (played this for hours and hours when I was young)

Animal Crossing deserves an honorable mention as does Ocarina of Time, Phoenix Wright, and Katamari Damacy.

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Lunar Silver Star Story. (gba, PS1, sega cd)

I played Secret of Mana as a kid. A group of friends spent weeks trying to find every ending in Chrono Trigger that we could. This was after having spent weeks with the one friend who had a computer playing Myst as a group. FF7 was the reason I bought a Playstation, and FF8 was the reason I almost got rid of it. So why this game?

It's a simple, beautiful game. The story is easy to follow but the characters are what really sells it. Each one individual and memorable. The music sounded great even on the Playstation version, which was the first version I found. And the ending . . . I won't spoil it. This game proved that not everyone had given up on classic style RPGs.

Other great games:
Legend of Zelda
Super Mario Brothers 3
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Contra
Wonder Project J
Sonic The Hedgehog

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Erm. So hard. So many goodies...

Phantasy Star 4,Xenogears,Sonic 2,Super Mario World...About 20 others.

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1. Secret of Mana (SNES)
2. The World is Not Enough (N64)
3. Halo (XBox)
4. Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1)

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