"What the fuck is Assault Rigs?"

Well, you ever have that one super obscure game you had growing up and loved the shit out of? That's this game for me, it's like a bastard child of Battlezone and Spyro the Dragon, it's fun as shit.

THE coolest fucking fighting game ever, fuck Konami.

Only the first Crash Bandicoot! I never played the full versions of it's sequels until later, sans the two spinoff games. I played this way too much with my dad back then, I think the last time I played it I almost 1 life'd it.

The coolest game during the 16-bit era, Star Fox might come close. A little.

The DKC series is like supreme comfort food for me, if I'm feeling down I'll boot up either this one or DKC2 and already feel better.

Sometimes a game doesn't need complex mechanics or a big storyline to keep your interest, all you need is satisfying comfort from killing hordes of soldiers with the coolest fucking music going off.

I think I might've used 300 dollars worth of quarters on this shit throughout my life, it's everywhere but it's such a fucking joy to play. I even own physical copies of every port it got.

Was the next coolest thing after Star Fox back then, Robbit will always be the best Sony character. You can't beat the robo bunny Kratos, sorry.

The PS2 version of this was my first KoF, I already was introduced to SNK characters through Capcom vs SNK and a very brief play of Fatal Fury 2 at a friend's house. The coolest cast of fighting game characters you'll ever find tbfh.

Looney Tunes B-Ball Backloggd 4P when?

My entry into PC gaming was a fun time, I could put Starcraft or even a Command and Conquer game here, but shockingly neither of those are as charming to me as this goofy fantasy castle sim with dumb hero NPCs.

My first Bummerman, I actually never owned it but I played it a ton on Sega Channel back then. I don't care if it's a worse version of Bomberman 94, this rules.

The first game to actually make me give a shit about it's story, it probably helps I played it at the perfect time where I would care but I digress.

If it says anything about just how cool Ninja Gaiden is to me, the fact that it can bumrush it's way into a nostalgia list despite not entering my life until my discovery of emulation speaks volumes.

Of course, well Pokemon. I could've put Blue version here, but B/W are still the peak of the series in terms of the mainline games as far as I'm concerned nostalgia be damned.

I still like Blue version, but I really need to do a write up or something for it.

My childhood, period. That's all I can say.

The peak of how much I could've possibly loved a game, fantastic and just way too charming for it's own good.

This thing was too cool, it obviously bounces right off people these days but it was really something back then. Every time I play it though I feel like I'm experiencing peak presentation, the music and sound effects certainly help that feeling.

My first shmup ever, it's not fantastic at all, but the music is a bop and I at one point wanted to put the sound effects from this game on my phone!

The first 3D fighter that truly gripped me, VF2 showed me it could work but it lacked the charm that T2 would throw at me.

Turok's still cool as shit to me, the platforming shit sucks but it's still satisfying to kill stuff in this game.

Car combat is the coolest fucking genre that lasted a total of like six years maybe, the natural evolution of battle mode from Mario Kart. I want more of this shit dammit.

The Wario Land series in general was a big series for me, just absolutely fantastic from start to finish, Master of Disguise doesn't exist. I already started getting attached to Wario as a character from playing as him in Mario Party, but when I got WL3 and was introduced to his series he became a favorite for life.

Wario was so good he got TWO amazing series of games, Twisted is probably my favorite and it was the only GBA game I went out of my way to keep because emulation couldn't really duplicate it's gimmick well at the time.

I had to put a wrestling game on this list, and honestly it's gotta be this one. It's a wrestling game that knows full well it's a video game, it's single player mode has you going around beating the shit out of construction workers to prevent them from building the WrestleMania arena.

It's fuckin' great.