I'd also jump on the Chrono Trigger bandwagon but everyone's already talked about it.
Why has nobody mentioned Day of the Tentacle. LucasArts made alot of legendary adventure titles for the PC but DotT will always be my favorite because I grew up with it (so perhaps I'm a bit biased, but so is everyone else in this thread). It's got one of the most amusing storlines in the history of games and the characters have more personality than the entire cast of every Final Fantasy game ever. Plenty of little in-jokes and amusing shit to click on, it's pretty much one of the 5 best games the Adventure genre has to offer. The soundtrack is excellent as well, I haven't played it in 5 years (no DOS) and I can still remember those delicious midi tunes.
Another title which quickly comes to mind is Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. I love the over-the-top sci-fi atmosphere mixed with ridiculous humor, beautifully mastered with the best soundtrack ever. Whereas most games suffer from taking themselves too seriously, this game doesn't even have the pretense of seriousness, which is quite refreshing when even fuckiing Starfox tries to be dramatic. The first title had its flaws but the sequel went above and beyond correcting them, making what I consider one of the few perfect games. I would recommend it to anyone, especially fans of the show Futurama (from which I think R&C drew a bit of influence).
Lords of Thunder, like GoldfishX mentioned, is pretty much flawless. The only other shmups I would hold to its caliber are Contra III for the SNES, and perhaps R-Type Final.
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Originally Posted by Borg1982
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Um, okay let me get out my MLA handbook so I can properly cite those quotations for you Mr. 1982.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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