Feed woodland animals candy laced with chloroform, kill them in their sleep and wear their skin as clothes in this great cutesy platformer, it's all like the silence of the lambs really (at least thats the way it looks to me)

The best puzzle games usualy have the simplest concepts, and Pipe Dream is no exception, put down piping before the water catches up to you. This game spawned many imitators and became quite influential.

Probably the biggest departure, other than OoT that the series ever made, and the masses weren't happy (at the time) in hindsight the game gets the credit that it was always due as an original and interesting departure for the series.

Part sidescrolling platformer, part top down shooter, this game is always nothing less than stellar.

Cool puzzle based platformer which had an amazing level of detail and animation for it's time.

This was the beginning of Capcom's insane quest to bring out as many Megaman games as possible in as short amount of time as they could. It was a more ambitious game than it's predecesers and had the fantastic, useful skid added to the moves list.

Helped kickstart the whole ninja in video games sub genre, as well as increasing the bar where video game presentation is concerned, with it's great story and cutscenes.

Solid beginning to the Castlevania series, it can be a little generic at times, and the medusa heads were always complete b*stards, but everything was very well put together, with above average presentation.

It's easy to see where Natsume were taking their inspiration from for this Ninja Gaiden alike game, which is why many people dismiss it without giving it the respect it deserves, it's a very fun, fast, fluid, action packed game, with a very impressive sountrack, all good reasons why it should be on this list.

Classic puzzle game that became famous on the C64, with a little bit of a make-over graphics wise.

Another solid RPG for the N.E.S this time made by Nintendo themselves.

Rare's spin on Thrust's gameplay style, fly about shooting the enemies and collecting the things you need for your ship, most of the difficulty was in making sure you didn't crash, addictive and fun.

Another great game in the Gradius series, bigger set-pieces than before but gameplay can unfortunately be a little bit cheap at times, which is why it didn't place higher.

Unique Isometric platformer from Rareware, gameplay consists of eating creatures you find until reaching a set level then getting to the end of the stage, more fun than it sounds and with a good 2-player mode too.

Another great NES puzzle game, in which you can create standing blocks wherever you want, the main point of which is to reach the key item to open the door, and get through the door.

Great shooter in the vein of Forgotten Worlds, though, in my opinion actually better than it's source material (at least where home console versions are concerned)

One of the all-time arcade classics, from a time when developers thought the more difficult the gameplay was the better the game, great fun but very unforgiving.

Classic cartoony boxing game with a really nice charicatured design for all the boxers.

The sheer importance of this game to the platformer and video game industry in general can not be understated, a true milestone in history, and would've been much higher on the list if not for the fact that it hasn't aged well in comparison to some other N.E.S classics.

Multiplayer classic from the 80's, the fact that the core gameplay in all olympics games has remained virtually unchanged up to this day is a testament to it's greatness