I used to make sure I had a MAME version ready to play the Street Fighter Alpha & 'II' series; though at some point my installation broke, and I didn't bother to fix it.

The RetroArch Flatpak makes MAME an awful lot more convenient these days, in my experience, and it's nice and easy to add entries for individual games to your system menu/Steam/etc..

Thanks, I should check that out. I hope I haven't thrown out my totally legit Street Fighter ROMs.

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Rimworld with some balancing mods, Transport Fever 1 or 2 and 7 Days to Die. These games I always return to, especially Rimworld, everything else I am done with when I finish the game.

Ooh, good thread! I've got a few games that I'd class in this way, though in some cases they were ports and I've since shifted over to emulating the original console versions because it's a superior experience now that we've got the computing power to do so. They are;

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos, one of the only 3D platformers I ever enjoyed.

Jazz Jackrabbit 2, one of the best 2D platformers ever made.

Sonic CD, another of the best 2D platformers ever made.

There are also a few titles that never had PC ports that I always have ready-to-go via emulation, too, but those are probably outside the scope of this thread! Still, here they are anyway;

Bomberman '94 (PC Engine)
Cosmic Ark (Atari 2600)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Donkey Kong Land (Game Boy)
Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)
Kirby Super Star (SNES)
Klonoa -Door To Phantomile- (PlayStation)
Star Fox (SNES)
Wario Blast Featuring Bomberman! (Game Boy)

As is clear from the age of the games in my previous post, this does NOT happen often, but my always-install list has taken on a couple of new inductees for the first time in decades - one emulated, and one native Linux (which also happens to be the first post-2000 game in my list);

Bomberman Hero (N64), a new addition to the tiny list of 3D platformers that I've ever enjoyed.

Stardew Valley (Native Linux), a relaxing farming-sim full of heart and personality.



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