Since they announced the remake of Super Mario RPG, I’ve found myself playing the original again.
In fact, I have a few classics that I still play regularly.
- Zelda ALttP
- Super Metroid
- Metroid Prime (Switch remaster is 🔥)
- Kirby Air Ride (City Trial is still my go-to party game with my 30 year old friends)
- Super Mario 64
What about you guys?
Super Mario 3, there is just something into it that I just keep coming back to.
Does Pokemon count? Because that’s forever going to be my jam.
Been playing since Red and Blue. I always go back to the remakes for HGSS. I think they were some of the best. While maybe not retro being remakes, I still say they belong.
Super Mario World will always be my go-to.
honestly, i’m always running so far behind on my backlog that i rarely get to replay games. mario world/mario 64 is what i replay when they get bumped into a new service
- Secret of Mana 1+2
- Terranigma
- Chrono Trigger
- Earthbound
- ALttP
… for the SNES. Those were the games I grew up with and every other year I get the itch to replay one of those. I’ve considered playing the remake of SoM 2 but the demo felt bland and off to me.
On a related note, I would totally buy each of those for the Switch so I could play them on a proper handheld, but the current system with the yearly subscription that basically only rents those games to the end user and forces them to stay online, is something I find off-putting. I’d much rather just pay once and be done, like with every other game in the eShop.
Ocarina of Time, Super Metroid, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz…I’ll probably still be playing these when I’m in a nursing home lol
I’ve never really stopped playing Super Mario World.
Mario World world map is like a Mario Kart track at this point. Every year we take another lap.
Zelda
- Link’s Awakening
- ALttP
- Oracle series
Mario
- Paper Mario
- Super Mario World
Other
- Golden Sun
- Mario Tennis (Gameboy Color)
- Metroid Fusion
- Super Smash Bros 64 / Melee
- Rogue Squadron 2 and 3
If I still had my 64 I’d break out paper mario once a year.
Done this twice since Nintendo put it on the virtual console. Still such a fantastically funny and entertaining game.
Always the classic, I often return to Golden Sun. While it’s great that they’re adding Golden Sun 1 to Switch Online for some new gamers to try out and experience for themselves, I’m hopeful they’ll remaster the three games for Switch. If Advance Wars gets that treatment, I think younger generations should get to experience these games fleshed out on Switch.
For those who haven’t played or heard of GS, it’s a massive cult-classic JRPG that released on Game Boy Advance in 2001. The first 2 games are a beloved series, and they made a third one for the Nintendo DS some time in the mid 2000s.
Mario kart Wii
Pikmin 1
Super Mario galaxy
Super Metroid and Super Marioa64 are masterpieces.
would love to do an OG Zelda playthrough with my kid and then try to beat the second quest
Gotta be Star Fox 64 for me
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Apparently Pikmin 1 if that counts as a classic. Played it first last week, and it’s been amazing. Got the rest of the series straight after.
If that doesn’t count, I still regularly play Super Mario 64, which is one of my all time favorite games period.