The List of Games to be Played Before You Die.

(Yes, now!)

Short description. Play these as soon as possible.

Earthbound - SNES

Earthbound Zero - NES (ROM form only)

Magician Lord -Neo Geo

Crash 'N The Boys Street Challenge - NES

Sweet Home -NES (English ROM for full effect if you can't read katakana)

Venus Wars/Venus Senki - NES (English ROM for full effect if you can't read katakana)

Metal Slug Series - Neo Geo

All the Final Fantasy Games Including 2, 3, and 5 from Japan (available in translated ROMs)

Seiken Densetsu 3/Secret of Mana 2 (yep, another translated ROM)

SNK vs. Capcom: Match Of The Millenium - Neo Geo Pocket Color

Blazing Star -Neo Geo

Maniac Mansion - NES, others are 'uncensored' (but the NES version is considered the best.)

Gunstar Heroes - Genesis

Samurai Shodown - Neo Geo

King of Fighters Series - Neo Geo, some were ported to PSX.

River City Ransom - NES

Perfect Dark - N64

Pong - Atarii 2600, several others including arcade

Darkstalkers series - Arcade, 32-bit consoles

Megaman series, ignoring GB variants - NES, SNES, PSX Saturn

Metriod series- NES, SNES, GB

Streets of Rage series - Genesis (The only games to get it right)

Legend of Zelda 1-3, 5, 7-8 - NES(1,2), SNES(3), N64(5) GBC(7-8) (Majora's Mask was kinda lame, like an addon pack)

Phantasy Star series -    SMS, Genesis (Try them all.. people like all different combinations of the series, like I hate ##1 )

Sinistar - Arcade

Elevator Action - Arcade

Shinobi - Arcade, Genesis

Altered Beast - Arcade, Genesis