Yes absolutely. Honestly, the system I revisit most, is the NES. Those games, for me, just have a timelessness and replay value to them that just has "Something" to it, where you can go back and play them anytime, and still have fun. Whether it's Super Mario Bros., or Kirby, or Metroid, or Mega Man, or Castlevania, or Contra, or TMNT, Double Dragon, Adventure Island, Star Tropics, Mighty Final Fight, Tetris, Yoshi, Crystalis, Ninja Gaiden, etc. etc. etc., a lot of those games are just awesome to me. They just have something to them that I find a lot of modern games lack. SNES/Genesis era would be a close second.
But in general, even for my PS2 or Wii or whatever, sure, there are games I come back to from time to time. It simply matters what kind of game it is. I personally find, that a lot of modern games are made with a story in mind, and/or graphics, over gameplay. Which tends to lead to gamers (myself included) playing through them once to see the story, and then rarely ever touching that game again, or even trading it in. Whereas, obviously, the games that I would come back to over time, have gameplay as the bigger focus, and are thus more fun to play, and thus I come back to play them.
As for the question "how much replay value can a game have?" Honestly, the answer is a shit-ton, depending on the game. I can go back and play old school Pac-Man anytime. No problem. I cannot, however, just pick up, say, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and play it whenever, because it's just not the kind of game you can pick up and play anytime. Not to me anyway.
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