…well, this thread is going to be a walk down memory lane…
Atari 2600
Yars Revenge
Great gameplay with a simple premises: you are a bug, you need to destroy the Qotile and avoid the Swirl. Many nights of fun…
Bezerk
Beware the bouncing Evil Otto!!!%! :eek:
Commodore 64
The Last Ninja
When I think back now, this game would have been laughed out the gaming store because of the laughingly bad control issues. But at the time this was my personal favourite game: the first one we bought for the 64, and the one I remember most fondly. It too had a great soundtrack, that I can still play in my head nearly twenty years since I last played it.
Impossible Mission
“We have a visitor. Stay a while. Stay…FOREVER!!!”
This game had my all time favourite quotation: was great fun to play, and a real bugger to beat. Fantastic stuff.
Strange Loop
A strange game that I can bearly remember: but I do remember spending many nights searching rooms and finding new things…
Amiga 500
Paradroid 90
How could you not like this one? I mean, Android 883 was a frick’n Dalek!!! How cool is that?
Bitmap Brothers Games
I won’t pick any particular game out: but whenever these guys released a new game I was normally at the head of the line. My personal favourites were “Gods”, a great game with a great soundtrack, Magic Pockets, just plain out fun, Speedball II Brutal Deluxe-manic sports fun…man I miss game designers like these guys in the gaming world today… 
And Gods had my favourite ever “specially written for a game” song, “Into the Wonderful,” by Nation XII. (John Foxx from Ultravox)
Dungeon Master
The first and ( IMHO ) the best of the First Person Real Time Role Playing Games to come out during the the late 80’s early 90’s. Ground breaking stuff. (Eye of Beholder 2 ran a close second in my “favourite” rankings though)
The Killing Game Show
One of the few games from Psygnosis that I actually liked. Plenty to do, manic levels, with great gameplay.
The Playstation
Final Fantasy 7
While this isn’t the favourite of most Final Fantasy fans, it certainly is mine. I started playing it at a time when there was a gap that needed to be filled in my life: and the memory of playing it along with my mates at the time who were playing concurrently are some that will never leave me… (Miss you Gerrard mate, wish I knew where you were now… )
Nintendo 64
Goldeneye 007
My favourite multi player game: and one of my favourite games of all time. Me and my mates took our Goldeneye playing VERY SERIOUSLY: we borrowed a signal splitter from the SkyCity Theatre and proceeded to hook up four large television sets to the one unit, then we taped over the other three players screens so we couldn’t cheat. Consequently, we became PRETTY DAMM GOOD at the game, my mate Kelly was pretty much unbeatable, and I was second only to Kels. I invented a technique called the “Apollo Manoevour” which fooled pretty much everyone I played until my mate figured out what I was doing…
Perfect Dark
Not as good as Goldeneye, but still pretty damm good. The amount of variations to the multi player you could do were amazing. Our favourite two player variation we called “Guided Missile”. We would toss a coin to see who would go first, and then from the weapon spawn spot, we would fire a missile and try to guide it onto the other player…obviously certain levels were better than others, but the game was mighty tense!!!
Other Platforms:
The Half Life Series
Sure, the games were pretty much on rails, but the feeling of immersion was immense. Half Life One has some of my all time favourite moments in games: for example:
[spoiler]the first time I encountered troops, played pretty poorly, and died. Thinking that they would pull the same tactics, when I respawned and went on the charge only to discover that they had moved position, thrown a grenade at me and were acutally flanking me. Or when you are riding the train at the beginning, and suddenly realizing that you could move around and that the game had acutally begun.
Or seeing the g man turn up in various spots and trying to chase him down but failing. Or one of the times on the surface that you encounter the helicopter, and I wasn’t sure if the MG I was carrying could actually take it out: and the extended battle I had with it until it finally came crashing down with me pumping the air with my fist! Or crawling along on a pipe and hearing the guards talking about me!!! Or when you crawled through that tunnel, and suddenly the music started to build up and the light at the end of the tunnel got brighter, and when you finally get through the tunnel you find yourself on a tiny ledge on a cliff face thousands of metres in the air, with jet planes flying by! Boy, this game had a lot of great moments![/spoiler]
Wow. Forgot how much fun I used to have gaming! Gonna go plug the X-box back in…
Fortunately, I’ve limited my platforms.