I was a console guy only until recently, so, yeah, haha.
Breath of Fire
Shining Force II
Virtua Fighter 4 -- released in 2001 for arcades..close enough :)
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Altered Beast
Dragon Warrior
Final Fantasy I/VII/VIII
Pokemon RYB
Ogre Battle 64
Parasite Eve
Perfect Dark
Street Fighter Alpha 3
:)

mostly just cheated.

Oh I loved that game! That was the reason I bought a Game Boy. I really liked the SNES and NES versions too.
In Link's Awakening there was a really cool trick (cheat?) where you could quickly move from one screen to the next, and then quickly go back where you came and it would put you on the far side of the screen.
You could use that to jump to areas that were off limits until later parts of the game. I'm pretty sure I beat it prior to using that, but who knows. It was great either way. :)

Well that works. :)

I'm going to say that Fallout hasn't held up that well. It feels very archaic right now, and some design and interface decisions really make you scratch your head.

Ha! Fallout two is the best. Over 300 easter egg special encounters. How can you get bored?!

Yeah it's one of my favourite games ever..I was emulating it earlier today on my 22'' LCD..looks great. :D
I remember the cheat well -- I think there were some other cool tricks too.
For some reason I could never really get into the SNES game, but this one mesmerized me.

Wrong thread.

And you Sir, have the greatest of avatars! :)

I'll add another two games that held up very well:
-> The longest Journey. It still looks great and it's a classic adventure game. Adventure games seem to hold up well over time.
-> Planescape Torment. This game looks awesome. And a unique gameplay I haven't found anywhere else. With the new high resolution patch, the game looks better then ever.
Both games came out at the hight of 2D gaming and still hold up very well.

I used to play Jetpack a lot when I was younger, nevertheless it's not on my list.
Bolo Ball (see screenshot)
Civilization 2 Gold
Commander Keen
Digger (see screenshot)
Fallout 1+2
Isle Wars (see screenshot)
Jagged Alliance 1+2 (mostly 2 though) + add-ons and mods
Monkey Island 1+2
Pacman
Pango (a.k.a. Pengo)
Red Alert 1+2
Tetris
X-COM: UFO Defense

I forgot about Flashback!

Mario games... I have many on the Virtual Console :D

There's a few games I'll always go back to:
- Morrowind - open world, so many freedoms and choices, with a rather deep char advancement system
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - still the best Civ I've played
- Dungeon Master - best dungeon crawler ever, hands down. Now where did I put those handdrawn maps again?
- Thief series, all of them - I'll drop that Fisher guy anytime for one of 'em.
Think movement speed is athletics skill.

there are super boots which increase your speed. The disadvantage is that they blind you.
but if you have resistance against magic you may not be completely blind.
I used those boots as orc for whole game. I could travel from one side of the map to another in matter of minutes. It was fun fighting strong enemies: I hit them in the back. they turn around and try to hit me i just simply run around them and hit them in the back again before they could react. I was frigging FLASH!
not to mention dodging magic attacks. mages were useless against me. at one point four of them were shooting at me magic spells. they all missed, run out of mana and tried to attack me with melee. slaughtered them under five seconds.
Damn. Now i want to replay the game.