Wii

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

If you missed it on the SNES, now is the time to play one of the most memorable chapters in not just RPG history, but gaming history. Sure it's kind of on the easy side and the graphics look muddy by today's standards, but none of that really matters. Combining the whimsical characters and locales of the Mario series with the gritty storytelling and battling of Final Fantasy, there's still no game that appeals more to both hardcore RPG fans and casual gamers alike than Super Mario RPG. Geno rules!

So it's absolutely undeniable that Super Mario RPG is worth its asking price of only 800 Wii Points, as it's a classic, deep, fun and cult-appealing installment in the Mario series that no Nintendo gamer should go without playing. Nintendo saved itself a winner to take the honor of the "250th Virtual Console Game" title, and you shouldn't hesistate to download it right away -- because in addition to getting yourself a great game for a great price, you also be showing further support for those other seemingly forgotten games that the fans are still crying out to see come to the VC.

With it now readily available to the gaming public, players owe it to themselves to download this sucker onto their Wii. The title is a meager eight bucks, and while it's recommended that players invest in a classic controller (the necessary run and jump buttons are way too far apart from one another on the GameCube controller, which makes playing with one very uncomfortable), the experience this game offers more than warrants the extra purchase. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars achieves some truly remarkable things. The minigames, the musical presentation, the way it transports you to a world full of playful smiles and intoxicating happiness; it's so unique in so many ways, and incorporates ideas and themes that rarely make their way into the RPG formula.