Throughout time numerous inventions have become obsolete. People are (usually) no longer executed with a guillotine. Trains have fallen to semi-trucks, and airplanes. A lot of inventions have simply lost their usefulness in our modern age. But there are tools invented long ago that are still every bit as important to our world as the computer, the automobile, or any of the various complex machines we depend upon today. Just imagine what life would be like without the wheel, or screws. Planes wouldn't fly, and cars wouldn't go. In the same sense that wheels, and screws laid the groundwork for more complex inventions, there are video games that laid the groundwork for what we play today. Also in the same sense that there are ancient tools that have endured the test of time enough to stand tall with even the most complex inventions, there are older video games which can stand toe to toe with modern games. A few games out there are so popular that they have been repackaged and sold multiple times, to multiple generations of gamers, on multiple game systems. The following is a list of games that have all three qualities mentioned above. Anybody that is even casually interested in games should play these.

The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time: Wii Virtual Console 2006, Gamecube 2003, N64 1998. Final Fantasy VI: (also known as FF3 on the SNES). SNES 1994, Playstation (part of a compilation called Final Fantasy Collection) 1997, GBA 2006. Chrono Trigger: SNES 1995, Playstation (same compilation as above) 1997. Chrono Cross: Playstation

Super Metroid: SNES 1992, Wii VC 2007. Super Mario Bros. 3: NES 1990, SNES (part of super mario all stars compilation), GBA (known as Super Mario Advance 4).

Castlevania Symphony of the Night: Playstation 1997, Xbox 360 2006, PSP (Known as Dracula X).

Final Fantasy Tactics: Playstation, GBA, and PSP. Mortal Kombat II: Too many to list here lol. Super Street Fighter II Turbo: See above lol. Super Mario 64: N64 1996, Nintendo DS 2004, Wii VC 2006.

Poke'Mon (preferably Fire Red or Leaf Green): All Nintendo Handhelds.

The following is a list of games that are not quite old enough to be considered classics but are still very very good. Ninja Gaiden Black, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, GTA4, Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Halo Combat Evolved, Devil May Cry 3, Dragonquest VIII, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl, and Advance Wars Dual Strike.