Juno

A really esoteric and obscure example I think would be the old numbered Dragon Ball Z games on NES and SNES. They didn't have a series title, but they were a small franchise of extremely primitive deck-building turn-based games with a emphasis on flashy animations and not much else...that's basically what the indie market is nowadays, haha. Another rough example I think is Columbus: The Golden Dawn, also on NES. The game is essentially a career-simulator game and while those weren't rare even back in, it also had emphasis on a surprisingly big and expansive open world, party-building and fairly non-linear plot progression. Not a wonderful game, but a pretty impressive one for the 80s. Hourai High also stuck with me for being pretty ahead of its time in a few aspects. While it's far from the first modern-age style JRPG (the first I'm aware of is a tie between Megami Tensei and SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics in July 1987), it's the first one I know of set in a high school. It's also one of the oldest (if not the oldest) JRPGs that features both black and LGBTQ+ playable characters, which is pretty cool I think. The storyline also feels strangely modern, with several optional, hidden sequences, plot points, characters and satire borderline on nonsense. In a similar vain, Ultima 3 may very well be the first game with non-binary character creation options. Something several games STILL lack.

Pokémon Emerald Rogue, a modded version of Pokemon Emerald that turns it into a roguelike game. It's a fun pick-up-and-play but rough around the edges game. Otherwise I think the last game I've completed was...Yakuza 7...like 2 years ago, oh no.

Since I mostly just play GBA and DS games nowadays, mGBA and MelonDS are my two go-to emulators. For other consoles, growing up in a poor household, emulation was my primary form of gaming so I went through quite a lot. This is mostly based off rough memory. NES - Nestopia I believe was my main. SNES - Being my favorite retro console, I've used a ton. ZSNES was my childhood emulator, and I still like it the most I think. It's rough and hard to navigate, but it's also just so...warm? The dated design and snow graphics are so nice and bring back fuzzy memories. For awhile, I used Snes9x, which is solid but...boring. In recent years, I've taken up Higan to honor its late creator. N64 - 1964 was my main since as a kid, I thought you had to pay to use Project 64 I've barely play N64 games, despite being one of the few 'retro' (pre-PS2/Gamecube/Xbox by my standards) I actually physically grew up with (it, SNES and Atari Jaguar -- seriously), I don't have much fondness for the system, so I barely tried emulating it. Gamecube - Dolphin, but my PC sucks so I've only been able to play a few games on it well. Genesis/MegaDrive/S-CD - KEGA Fusion. Like ZSNES, I'm sure there are better emulators out there, and I've had a fair share of issues with KEGA, but it's also just really warm and fuzzy for me. Noooot sure if they exactly count, but I also had a ton of those SEGA Genesis compilation discs for PS2 growing up and played religiously. GB/GBC/GBA - Aside from mGBA, I grew up on VBA. Still not particularly sure what mGBA does better than VBA and VBA had more quality of life improvements so I might honestly just go back. DS - Aside from MelonDS, DeSmuME was my main growing up. Unlike VBA to mGBA however, DeSmuME is not great and I have no real desire to ever use it again. I've also used no$GBA a few times, mostly to bypass a gamebreaking bug that DeSmuME caused for Digimon World DS. PSX - ePSXe. Could not figure out how to set this up til my mid teens, lol. PS2 - PCSX2. To this day, the only game I could get running reasonably well on this thing was Persona 4, but then Persona 4 got a PC release so it became irrelevant for me once again, haha. PSP - PPSSPP, though I tried (and failed) to use JavaPSP or whatever it was called a few times. WonderSwan - Oswan. Arcade - MAME, thought I've gotten a grand-total one one game running on it. DOS - DOSbox