Street Fighter 2
The first decent
fighting game. It had a choice of characters (variety is the spice of life, and also the reason why Street Fighter itself isn't the great original game here.), most of whom had unique moves and styles of fighting. There were '
circle' fighters and '
charge' fighters, and the ever hated '
360' character,
Zangief. Oh... how the days go by.
Ultima Online
This is the first graphic MMORPG to get a following huge enough to piss off all of it's customers. It was a lot of fun to play, honestly. It was just the people that killed it for me (and now, it wasn't the fact that they were killing me in it that killed it for me).
Joust
Honestly. Never before and hardly ever again would we ride chickens with the flap button and push each other to the phoenix.
River City Ransom
To my knowledge, the only game to mix a side scrolling beat em up game with RPG and adventure elements and have the result be enjoyable (Knights of the Round my ass, you didn't have to find the best seafood, you just 'kinda' went up levels. Basically, you got neet clothes if you killed extra lots of people. In RCR you have to find all the bosses, not to mention eat a lot of steak and oatmeal cookies.) It's also the best game on the NES. It cannot be contested. It's still fun today.