[Carrot Man]

xenogears-my all time favorite rpg. amazing story with a fun combat system.

contra/heavy barrel-I put them together because as a kid growing up they were among the only multiplayer shooters available. One is top down the other sidescrolling. I honestly like heavy barrel better because of the top down view as opposed to the classic sidescroller.

civilization 2-one of if not the best strategy game out there. Multi facet gameplay that leaves players choices other than war.

legend of zelda 3(link to the past)-Best game on the snes. The whole 2 worlds theme thats become staple in a majority of the future zelda games.

legend of zelda ocarina of time-Took zelda games up a notch by adding another dimension to the gameplay. no longer top down, this iteration of zelda also introduced stronger story elements and lots of side quests(dam biggorn sword...)

marvel vs capcom-Street fighter 2, awesome game. Like pan said, capcom got the fighter formula right. However, this cross franchise fighter bleeds exciting and included the everpopular tag team gameplay.

armored core 2-best mecha title out there. Start off with a weak mech, collect new parts by completing missions and purchasing desired parts. The inclusion of the tournament thing made mech vs mech combat very entertaining.

warlords 3: I can't get it to work anymore but is one of my favorite strategy games out there. Pick one of 8 sides(less on some levels) and you are given one(or more depending on the level) castles and a hero. Your castle can build 1 of 4 units(you can change what units are in that 4 listing) every few turns and you can build hefty stacks of units. Invade other castles to increase unit output and cash available to you. You generally use money to buy new units but occasionally a hero will offer to join your cause for some cash. Hero were able to carry powerful enchanted items and investigate dungeons. Basically just another time consuming game.

freelancer- One of the best space sims you can buy. Freelancer starts you off with a weak space ship and offers you an open ended gameplay experience. In order to make cash, you can do missions, raid cargo ships, make cargo runs, all of which generate cash towrard s the next level fighter/frigate and new weapons. One of the cooler aspects of the game was that each faction had a reputation meter that told whether they liked your or hated you. By killing pirates, various civilized systems would like you more while pirates and their friends would like you less. If you became friendly with certain pirate factions, they would stop attacking you and you would be allowed to dock in their hidden bases. What made the game especially awesome was you could play with online with i think over 100 other players. Very fun game at lan parties.

diablo 2: the best action rpg ever. no question.