I love the first one. It's one of my favorite Saturn games. The 2nd one is really good too and has a lot of diversity in gameplay, like driving vehicles and swimming with sharks in scuba gear. The 3rd one is ok, it's harder than the others, but not in a good way. Revelations and Chronicles are decent, but just more of the same.
I mostly recommend the first two and if you like those maybe check out the others. With that said I can't recommend enough TR Legends, Anniversary and Underworld. They are fantastic and almost as good as the new Tomb Raider. Underworld is particularly excellent.
The only Tomb Raider game you should never play is Angle of Darkness. It's terrible.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is really good too, but so unlike the other games that it really has nothing to do with them other than star Lara Croft.
