7. Star Fox 64
Although the first Star Fox blew everyone's collective lids back in 1993 thanks to being in three dimensions and Star Fox Adventures' re-skinning of Rare-original Dinosaur Planet was more like a weird Zelda mod, it was Star Fox 64 that's still the one people point to as one of Nintendo's many untapped franchises in desperate need of a sequel sooner rather than later. Not only were the graphics once again absolutely jaw-dropping for the time and the N64 itself, but the gameplay was instantly engaging and thoroughly rewarding in a perfectly refined way. Luckily like both Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, Nintendo did right be the series and up-ressed it to the 3DS too, reworking the graphics engine and fine-tuning the controls in a way that far, far more developers should take notice of. Oh, and for anyone who's ever heard the "Do a barrel roll" phrase through pop-culture (or typed it into Google and been blown away) then wondered where it came from? Right here.