PS1

Vib Ribbon Delightful animation. The music generated tracks turns your CD collection into a game, and the on-disc J pop is glorious.

RType Delta Lovely big pixelly polys are thrown around at speed but the game is still 2D. Great version of RType - pushes Final for best ever.

Bishi Bashi Special Out weirds Wario Ware. 

Kurushi/Kurishi Final Splendid block rolling puzzle/action game. Wonderful , unique presentation with minimalist graphics and epic orchestral soundtrack.

Turn About Ultra basic puzzle game - rotate the entire level and make coloured gems slide about and disappear when they collide if the same colour. Fiendish level design that cranks up in difficulty quickly is further bolstered by a level editor.

In The Hunt Metal Slug in a submarine. Lovely detailed 2D artwork. It's a slow paced STG but is manic at the same time.

Wipeout 3SE Lovely graphical upgrade and loads of tracks.

Power Diggerz Weird but wonderful JCB arcade "sim". The control scheme uses both sticks and every button on the PS1 controller but still manages to feel natural. The game starts off with basic stuff like loading sand onto a lorry and ends up having you dish up giant curries.

Puchi Carat Home version of a Taito arcade game which is a fusion of Breakout and Bust-a-Move. More than a straight port though - it has some extra modes and the special edition comes with a paddle controller.

Castlevania Chronicles Late release - this is a redux of an obscure Japanese only Sharp computer version of Castlevania. Excellent old school linear game - features a straight port and an arrange mode with touched up graphics and a slightly more generous difficulty level. Complete the game to unlock an addictive time attack mode.

Atari 2600

Kaboom! Ultimate twitch game using paddle control. Catch the bombs in the buckets - brutally simple, but the life system which sees each life loss move you up the screen, and the brutal speed (this game has to be played at 60Hz) elevate this to greatness.

Warlords or Medieval Mayhem(homebrew) Another paddle game. Four players deflect and aim fireballs to break down each other's castle wall to score a kill. Incredibly competitive. The homebrew version 1ups the original with better graphics more fireballs and more options.

Maze Craze An early game so the graphics are blocks , and you need 2 players, but the mazes are generated by algorithm so it's a different maze every time and there are over 200 ways to play the basic first-out-of-the-maze gameplay. Among the options are enemies to avoid, enemies to catch, invisible sections and fake walls , all making for great variety.

Megamania Proper old school vertical STG with graphics that still pass muster. 8 levels to defeat but subsequent loops introduce more speed and more challenging patterns with a target of 1m points to beat the game.

Super Breakout As close to a perfect game as you can be. The 4 modes deliver all the variations on basic brick breaking you could need and they make Arkanoid look like it's trying too hard. Super smooth paddle control rewards high levels of skill and concentration. The challenge, to beat 10,000 points in each mode will only be achieved by the few, and may well be impossible in the sweat inducing progressive mode with its advancing walls.

Demon Attack A seemingly straightforward vertical STG but it has a certain something. You gain a 1UP for each wave you defeat without a life loss. Later levels with splitting demons and tracer bullets soon pare away at the stock you build up  and the way your new ship appears with no regard for bullet location doesn't help either. There are some 2 player modes in which control switches every few seconds which gives rise to some interesting tactics. Looks and sounds are timeless.

Jr Pacman  Last and best of the pacman series on the Atari. This is painfully hard with large scrolling mazes, high speed play and aggressive ghosts. Just clearing one level feels like an achievement. A really solid port - great control, decent graphics and good use of sound complete the arcade feel.

Solar Fox Really solid port of an old arcade game. Based on clearing different grid layouts while avoiding enemy shots and firing back. Highly compulsive.

Thrust High quality homebrew that is a technical miracle. The Gravitar inspired home game gets a flawless port to the old 2600 with no compromises in graphics, sound or challenge.

Combat The original 2 player versus game. Control tanks in mazes or biplanes and jets in single screen wraparound arenas and try to hit your opponent more times than he or she hits you in 2 and a half minutes. Highly competitive and some great variations ; particularly the tank games with bullets that bounce off the maze walls.

GameCube:

1. Metroid Prime
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Super Mario Sunshine
4. Zelda Twilight Princess
5. Zelda Wind Waker
6. Viewtiful Joe
7. Killer 7
8. Soul Calibur 2
9. Super Monkey Ball
10. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat

Never got round to playing much of Four Sword Adventures, otherwise that would most probably be in there.

Fuck fuck, Gradius V should be in my PS2 top 10.

Fuck fuck fuck, this isn't working.

@youknowwhoyouare

Top 10 collectors editions?

Kurushi can go to hell.

Outlaw wrote:

Kurushi can go to hell.

Ouch. I love it.

Nice hype list moot.

Top Ten Amiga Demo discs/indie wot I played more than the full games I had.

1. Some Bomberman clone with 5 player
2. Uridium 2
3. Revenge of the Mutant Camels
4. Some mental game in which you played Santa with infinite jump and crazy shit happening
5. Cannon Fodder
6. Lemmings 2
7. Top Banana
8. A puzzle/platformer where you played a slinky on an ice planet
9. A football type game where the ball was a giant ball bearing and the players were rc cars.
10. Deluxe paint 3(?)

Christmas Lemmings should be on a list somewhere.

Gamecube

Super Monkey Ball With Super Breakout and Tetris, this game needs no improvements. The sequels proved the point. Lovely looking, sublime control and a challenge to match all abilities in the main game and the supporting mini-games stoke the value up and could with a little effort almost be full titles themselves.

F-Zero GX It's a bit too hard probably, but the tracks are glorious and Sega has embued an epic feel to the game. Looks and sounds brilliant and the split screen multiplayer is better than it should be for reasons unknown.

Wario Ware inc One of the finest 4 player games I have ever encountered. Hilarious in multi-player while becoming an obsession for the single player.

Mario Kart DD Oft regarded as the poor relation but the Gamecube has the power to render the interactive cartoon that earlier games tried to be. The 2 drivers per kart feature allows for tactical selection of complementary weapons and the co-op mode has more to it than meets the eye as players have to work together to get drift boosts. There's also a LAN mode for the determined that supports up to 16 players in 8 karts in co-op mode.

Kururin Squash A JPN only release which is a shame. This is the big brother of the GBA game. Excellent control and up to 4 players can race and take part in some Monkey Ball inspired mini games.

Castle Shikigami II Another JPN import. This is a beautiful vertical shmup with compulsive gold collecting gameplay and hi-risk bullet scraping to up the firepower and the points. Gorgeous artwork and choice of two soundtracks and an extreme mode for the highly skilled. Character choice extends the replay value as they play very differently.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Safe to say not a lot people played this. It was a late release that uses the bongo controller. The graphics are lovely and the game is designed to be replayed many times due to its score attack nature. The bongo controller works very well and the game is basically a joy to play.

Smash Bros Melee Highly accessible yet chaotic fighting game that appears to be an endlessly deep game for the hardcore. The sheer amount of content on offer is mind boggling. The menu system has entire game styles and modes hidden away and the amount of options that are on offer allow you to create new game types within the main modes. Extremely well presented throughout and is choked with fan service goodies.

Mario Smash Football Mario themed football/soccer game that is one step removed from the usual Mario skinned sports game. The matches are violent and the graphics have a gritty feel to them. Games are end to end and full of action resulting in ridiculous scores but that's part of the fun. The multi player mode is optimal but there is plenty of content for the single player with the usual cup format to play through.

Pacman Vs Miyomoto does Pacman and makes it multi-player. You need at least 3 people and a GBA with linkup cable (and probably wave birds to stop the cables getting tangled). This got Nintendo onto asymmetric gaming but its unlikely they will top this formula. A riot of a game that forces temporary alliances to form and break up as each minute passes.

Feel free to amend your lists. I'll start compiling scores when I get more than 5 for each platform/ snack.
I have tried to fill out the op with badgers top tens, these will change once I start to compile them

@Eric
Loving the op styling

ANOTHER LIST THREAD

I actually like this list thread. I'm not a fan in general but I like the idea of looking at the OP and seeing what games I haven't played on various consoles that I still own.

Up with this sort of thing.