But maybe you'd regret not having Harmful Park to cheer you up with its crazy design?
I didn’t want two shooters, and as much as I love harmful Park, my three contenders will always be soldier blade, r-type and spriggan. Soldier Blade is just seriously ingrained in to my gaming life though, and is miles ahead of anything else for me at a personal level.
1. Megaman 5 (NES)
2. Street Fighter III 3rd Strike (PS2)
3. Virtua Fighter 4 Evo (PS2)
4. Gradius 5 (PS2)
5. Devil May Cry 3 SE (PS2)
I would swap out SF and VF for the 360 versions of SFIV and VF5 if they're considered retro enough. Either way there's enough here to keep me going for years, and even then I don't think I would be as good at these games as some people are already.
Can we play online? If so then PSO would be all I need.
Assuming we can’t:
Frontier Elite 2 - with an entire universe to explore and a genuine sandbox ‘go anywhere, do anything’ game mechanic, I can’t ever see myself getting bored of this
Tetris - great shout from some of the previous posts. Has to be the GB version, natch.
Shenmue I & II - can I include both as one game? If ever I feel a bit captive by my surroundings, at least these two chapters (I won’t say games else they won’t count as one) will allow me to experience rural Japan and Hong Kong respectively. Plus collecting gotcha gotchas and practising karate moves in an empty car park never gets old.
ESP Ra-De - probably my favourite shmup, and with all that time to kill, why not learn how to play like a pro?
Legends of Valour - this is my left field choice. Wanted an RPG but figured even Chrono Trigger must grow tiresome at some point, so why not go for a Western that has much more replay value. I loved this game BitD as it was truly groundbreaking. I’m sure Bethesda must’ve took inspiration from this and Ultima Underworld.
Actually I'd go for that, but that's for the same reason I'd pick Capcom vs SNK2 over either of them; the sheer wealth of characters and options. I love Third Strike in normal contexts, but not on a desert island
I get the feeling that this desert island is just a sand pit in your back gardens. Any minute now mum or dad will come out and tell you to stop playing your silly games and come back inside for your tea.
[MENTION=2587]samanosuke[/MENTION] good shout on Frontier. Waiting for my furia 68020 accelerator for my A600 then I’m all over this. Only ever played it on a stick A500 back in the day. Looking forward to playing it at 12x the frame rate!
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