Lets see
1) Any Castlevainia game; Aria of Sorrow is the best, but they're re-releaseding in a douple pak with Harmony of Dissonance; Also Classic Nes Series Castlevania's are the old Nes ones
2) Any Megaman Game; Megaman Zero's probably should be played in order; Megaman & Bass and Megaman Aniversery Collection(if they ever finish it) are sepeate games; Some people say avoid a certain latter Megaman Battle Network game(either 3 or 4 I forget)
3) Any Wario game; Yes Wario Land 4 is the platformer while Wario Warez is the other
4) Any Fire Emblem game
5) Any Metroid game except Classic Nes Series Metroid. It's a waste of money as you get the original Metroid with Metroid Zero Mission, when you beat it once.
6) Any Pokemon game that not a pinball or other tack-on; With this said Emerald & Fire Red or Leaf Green should be what your looking at, since Ruby & Saffire are older and Emerald has all of their features plus more
7) Golden Sun 1&2
8) Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga
9) Any Zelda game; although ZeldaLttP & Four Swords is just LttP if you haven't some one else to play with; Classic Nes Series Zelda's are just that; the GBC version of Link's Awakening & Oricale of Season/Ages still work, unless it's a DS or GBAmicro
10) Any Kirby game
11) CIMA: The Enemy
12) Riviera: The Promised Land
13) Any Final Fantasy game; Some peole hate Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, so it might want avoiding.
14) Sword of Mana, it's not Secret of Mana but still a nice remake of Final Fantasy Adventure
15) Any Shining game; the Shining Soul games are quick action dungeon hackers; Shining Force is a remake of the original
16) Any Sonic game; I'm hesitant to list them because I haven't played them and some don't think they live up to the old Sonic Rep
17) Wait two months & go grab Tales of Phantasia
18) Mario vs. Donkey Kong
19) Drill Dozers, that's Nintendo's new odd ball Platformer that should be out
20) Any Treasure game, that's the Gunstar games & Astroboy game.
That's about all I've got here.
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