The legal debate here is actually more nuanced than people are making it out to be. Extracting assets from software you legitimately own for personal use sits in a gray area that courts have not fully settled in most jurisdictions, and the DMCA argument gets complicated when the original...
Some of my favorites are Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye 007, Bomberman, Micro Machines, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. They are still great fun with 4 players even today.
This is such an interesting debate. I think closed systems made sense when developers needed to protect revenue streams, but player behavior has completely changed now.
The modding community has proven time and time again that open access actually extends a game's life. Look at how games like...