30 items
A finished console is the ideal thing to work through, because the library will never grow and completion is genuinely possible. Draw a title, play it for an evening, and decide honestly whether it holds up. Roughly half do, and predicting which half is harder than people expect. Thirty games covering the platformers, the shooters, the racing and the four-player couch era that this machine arguably perfected. Nostalgia is doing some work here, but not all of it.
All 30 entries that will load into your picker
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