Ready to time-travel back to the days when batteries died faster than your patience, and that tiny green screen felt like a portal to pure happiness? These were the games that glued us to the couch, the backseat, the dentist’s waiting room; anywhere you could sneak in “just one more round” that always became twelve.

Tetris turned us all into brick-stacking masterminds, hearing those falling blocks in our sleep like a sweet mechanical lullaby. Pokémon Red & Blue convinced an entire generation that yes, we could catch ‘em all, even if our GameBoy gave us that suspicious “low battery” blink at the worst possible moment. Dr. Mario had us tossing pills like a psychedelic pharmacist, clearing viruses with the ferocity of someone who really didn’t want to do homework.

These were companions. They were rituals. They were the heartbeat of childhood in an 8-bit shell. Click onward. Let the nostalgia hit like a perfect Tetris line-clear.