There's various games I played as a child that have taken on some holy significance, I'd love to play them again but I worry they won't be as good as they are in my memory. Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame is the only game which I even enjoyed watching someone else play it for hours. My sister was brilliant at it (I was dreadful, I rarely even jumped onto the boat near the beginning), but we never knew what to do when we got to the statue of the horse (although we knew he had to jump onto it somehow...).
Riven was brilliant, gorgeous, divine, I used to jump go back and forth in the transports over the air because I loved the videos so much. It was the best feeling when I discovered a new area. Though later when I looked on the Internet, I realised how much of the world I had missed...I really, really want to go back to it, because I barely remember the second half to it. Its definitely the best game in the series though.
When I played Zoombinis: The Logical Journey at my friend's house once, it seemed so brilliant that it stuck in my head for years. I finally bought it again when I was 18. I declare it to be the best educational game ever. Every so often, for no reason at all, I say to myself: "Fleens? You're not fleens! Whatever you are...MAKE ME A PIZZA!"
Futureland 7 is a game which...apparently no one else ever played. I can't find it mentioned anywhere on the Internet. Maybe Ive got the name wrong. It was also an educational game, I think you played a pink dragon with jet packs. There were 5 different games in it: One was a very basic city simulation, but my favourite was the English one. You had to get keys and open doors and answer grammatical questions, but...er...somehow it was great.
Oh! Oh! and The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System and The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body. They were FANTASTIC! God I really want to play them again now. It never really occurred to me that these games were educational, they were just too much fun, loads of brilliant mini games and dashes of humour.