Good 2D games needed - NES/SNES/PC

[kyogen]

Machinarium and Botanicula are two cool-looking Flash adventures from Amanita Design, a Czech developer. Very cute, very clever, grounded in a stylized "reality."

I don't suppose she'd be interested in roguelikes? Cardinal Quest, Binding of Isaac, etc.? Or there's Cthulhu Saves the World--it's an rpg, but it's not standard fantasy.

 

[Smertnik]

There're plenty of great 2D indie games, most of which come in bundles from time to time and are often featured in Steam sales.

Here're some suggestions (everything on PC, everything 2D, everything indie):

World of Goo (puzzler)
Braid (Super Mario-alike with the ability to control time)
Trine (action-platformer, co-op featured)
And Yet It Moves (platformer with the ability to rotate the world)
Machinarium
Botanicula (both p&c adventures)
Plants vs Zombies (tower defense)
VVVVV (platformer with the ability to switch gravity)
NyxQuest (mouse-based platformer)
Gemini Rue (p&c adventure)
Aquaria (metroidvania-styled game in water)
Aztaka (sort of RPG-platformer)
Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble (story-driven boardgame-alike with various minigames. It's far better than the title and my brief explanation imply )

 

[Volrag]

She could just try flash games on the pc, they tend to be easy on the processer and there are tons of them on the net.

 

[rob_simple]

Can you get Outland on the PC? It has a really simple silhouetted design, looks great and it's a lot of fun.

As for the SNES, my favourite game is Illusion of Gaia but I don't know the general consensus on it other than it being a Zelda rip-off.

 

[thesilentman]

The original Mario games (3 and the original). Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy for the RPGS.
That's all I can think.

 

[Humble Grapefruit]

The Curse of Monkey Island, or any Monkey Island games really. They require Scummvm to play if you have a newish computer but it is a point and click puzzle/adventure game that has very witty humor and is a blast to play.

 

[Able Seacat]

Limbo is pretty great and it has simple controls. There's also lone survivor if she might like horror games.

 

[Nazulu]

Bomberman games are lots of fun on the SNES. Pretty simple, all you do is move around dropping bombs with one button and kicking them with another. It's the timing you have to get used too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6na79PY2P-o - Singleplayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xef0tkXmSp4 - Multiplayer

Also, Super Mario World is a great game to start of gaming, eve though it does become pretty hard at the end.

And I'd personally like to recommend Super Metroid and Link To The Past on the SNES. Both are pretty difficult but bloody awesome, best 2D games I still play.

 

[starwarsgeek]

For the old school, check out the Happy Video Game Nerd and 16-Bit Gems. These guys pick out some great games, some you've probably heard of, but mostly obscure.

Edit: She likes horror, huh? Sweet Home for the Famicon and the original Clock Tower for the Super Famicon. Of course, that's assuming she can read Japanese

 

[Lunar Templar]

ker snippity

NES?
SMB3
Kriby's Adventure
I'd suggest more there >.> but i like 'NES hard' games (some i still haven't beaten)

SNES
Super Mario World
SMW2: Yoshi's Island
Super Metriod if she likes exploring
Mega Man X for reasons i shouldn't have to explane ... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM]
and yeah >.> that's kinda it ... again, same reason as above to.

gimme an idea of her skill level and I'll give some tougher recommendations

also, these are all on the Wii's virtual console as well

 

[bluesession]

I recommend most of the above.
And
Kingdom Rush. It's a game for crome (google's browser). Free. It's a tower defense and it's in 2D.
Personally i love it.

there is also plant vs zombies, not free(though cheap) but extremely easy (which can be a good or a bad)

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Oddworld: Abes Oddysee and Abes Exoddus.



Both are available on Steam and gog.com. There are 2 more Oddworld games, but they aren't 2d (and horribly ported to PC).

I recommend using a controller, though the game is so old it won't recognise triggers. Keyboard works, but its a little clunky.

 

[Berenzen]

Has she ever tried changing the field of view? I know that if a game in first person has a FoV of less than 90 on a PC it gives me motion sickness.

Otherwise, I recommend the games from the D&D Anthology, alongside Final Fantasy 1-6 and the Phantasy Star series.

 

[Auninteligentname]

From the top of my head;

Super metroid , Rayman, Rayman origins, Bastion, Braid, Super Meat Boy.

There is probably a lot else I would recommend, but they weren't at the top of my head.

 

[The_Lost_King]

Yahtzee came out with a game called Poacher. It's kind of fun I guess.

 

[yeti585]

Did you say NES games? the original Castlevania