Basically NES, Genesis and SNES. Those systems, more than any other, never get old for me. I could play them forever.

Street Fighter 2!

Replayed Kid Icarus again. Then, a couple of days later, the Game Boy sequel dropped on NSO, so I played through that. I've played through both games many times and my next Youtube/Twitch livestreams will likely be of these games.

I also play a lot of old arcade games, a lot of old Atari 8-bit games, things like that.

I have played through Starfox SNES and N64 hundreds of times since childhood, as you can finish a run in under and hour and score chasing promotes replays.

These days, Vampire Survivors and Ball x Pit are my go-to for short bursts of fun.

I don't tend to replay short games. Instead, I keep coming back to games that don't have an end. Currently my main game like that is Cities: Skylines II (and the first game before that), and for a long time, osu! was one. It's still one, but nowadays I play it fairly rarely. Still, it's easy to pick up and play for a while.

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That's an easy one for me.

It's simple.....I play Twisted Metal 2 (NY level) and Toejam & Earl to this very day. Kudos also to Sonic 1 and 2

Fighting games I guess. Really good in short bursts with friends. A lot of them are timeless too, can enjoy them no matter which era they came from.

Contra NES.

Best game in the entire series.

Any mainline Mario or Sonic game with a few exceptions (NSMB1 & 2; Forces and Shadow ‘05)

The Trials games, Dirt Rally daily races, GTA5 online racing, Thief fan missions.