With so few good new titles being released these days, especially by major studios, I figured I'd make a thread for everyone to share your favourite classic or older games, especially if they're lesser-known titles that others might have missed at the time.
I'll open with The Saboteur (2009), Mercenaries (2005) and Saints Row 2 ( The 2008 original)
if you dont mind dos stuff and puzzels, check out the incredible machine series... esp the toon machine one. the puzzle editor alone can be tons of fun as is discovering niche physics interactions.
if you dont mind eurojank dos platformers that started on amiga check out trolls and oscar by flair software they're hop n bops as was common in the day but they did have their own power ups and a few that are bad by design. the big show stoper if you will was the yo yo, for the time im sure it was impressive a dual utillity tool of attack and grappling hook. both also had a bounus and an anti bounus level and you will want both as the continues can be found in the anti bonus.
Trolls used to be a really good 3D side-scroller -- I haven't played that game in decades but I remember the graphics being really good back in the day and it had solid controls for the time. One of the big problems back then was 2D side-srollers either had slippery-feet syndrome or mega-friction, so it was always difficult to gauge jumping in those games. I remember having a ton of fun with Trolls, but I'm curious how well it holds up these days.