#50) Super Mario 64 (Virtual Console)
Favorite BGM: Koopa's Road
I know that since quite a few of your lists are likely to end with this game sitting at or at least not far from the exact opposite end, it's expected of me to try to justify its low placement on mine. But I don't think that would really be in the spirit of an appreciation thread, would it? Its smooth gameplay and charm managed to hold appeal for me when I first played it after fifteen years had passed from its release date, and bigger and flashier 3D platformers had come and gone. Had it chosen a different approach, many of the other games on my list might not exist in the form they do today. And I appreciate it for that fact.