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<p>Street Fighter II. Super Turbo is still played by fighting game fans to this day and probably still will be for years, if not decades, to come.</p>
<p>Tecmo Super Bowl. Possibly the only sports game with an active fanbase DECADES after its release. Mike Tyson&#8217;s Punch-Out!! comes close, but it&#8217;s single player so it doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s some stuff that I personally would rank up there, but they&#8217;re mostly super niche games that would only be &#8220;perfect&#8221; to me and a few other people. The above two are really the only other ones I can think of that I&#8217;d objectively call &#8220;perfect games&#8221; based on your criteria.</p>
<p>The only entry on your list that I somewhat disagreed with was TMNT. I would rank Final Fight (arcade version) above those, but I can see where you&#8217;re coming from.</p>
<p>I also think you&#8217;re selling SMB1 short and would put it up there alongside SMB3.</p>
<p>One last game I just thought of: I&#8217;m tempted to say M.U.L.E. is &#8220;perfect&#8221;, but not particularly confident in that statement.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also somewhat surprised that you left off Dr. Mario. Though I guess Tetris does the same job better, so no big deal.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Does Street Fighter 2 have a good <em>single player experience</em> though? The bots get really old fast. Same with Mortal Kombat and Smash Brothers. Brawl had a full fledged single player as if it was trying to be the &#8216;perfect game&#8217;, but I don&#8217;t think Brawl&#8217;s single player experience was that good.</p>
<p>Tecmo Super Bowl? Maybe.</p>
<p>M.U.L.E.? Is it really that fun in single player?</p>
<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m putting Dr. Mario together with Gameboy Tetris.</p>
<p>Some other possibilities might be some racing games like the Burnout series.</p>
<p>Some sports games might fit if they age well. Mario Strikers Charged? Maybe.</p>
<p>If Pac-Man VS had a single player mode, it would be a Perfect Game. Pac-Man is awesome single palyer, VS is awesome multiplayer, and the game doesn&#8217;t age.</p>
<p>Hearthstone might be getting up there since it now offers full fledged single player campaigns. We&#8217;ll see how that game is in five years from now.</p>
<p>Splatoon has that potential but only if people are playing it ten years from now.</p>
<p>Super Dodgeball is a good possibility. I forgot about that one.</p>
<p>Oh man, I forgot one of the best examples of The Perfect Game.</p>
<p><strong>Super Monkey Ball</strong></p>
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<p>The game has a solid, solid single player. It takes time to master the levels. But the multiplayer mode is something else. It isn&#8217;t just turn based single player, they have all those fantastic &#8216;mini-games&#8217; there. These &#8216;mini-games&#8217; like the hang-gliding and the racing are just too much fun. They&#8217;re not mini-games like a bunch of small games thrown in there for the hell of it. It is like they came up with other games around the ball physics.</p>
<p>The game is aging wonderfully. Monkey Ball is a Perfect Game.</p>
<p>Warioware? Maybe.</p>
<p>Wii Sports? It will be if people are still playing it years from now.</p>
<p>Worms? If people are still playing them. I don&#8217;t think the single player is that great in them but oh well.</p>
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