Anyone remember SCORCHED EARTH back from the DOS days?
became the father of all good artillery games today like worms and whatnot.
also like to point out ice hockey and little league baseball from the original nintendo system, still play them today :-P
my modern games though have to be:
Axis and Allies
Sins of a Solar Empire
Empire Total War
Ghost Recon
Battlestations Midway
Assassins Creed
and of course
Freelancer