Fired up
American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, and installed the original
A McG's Alice, which is included as free DLC if you've purchased a new copy of the game.
I'd wanted to play the original for a long time; I've had the PC disc forever, but never got around to it. See also the
Battlezone remakes and the
Blade Runner adventure game for additional cases of my passionate inaction.
Alice has a soundtrack by Tweaker (Chris Vrenna) which is superb.
Sadly, the original game is not particularly playable. I don't think it's one of those "doesn't stand the test of time" problems, as much as it is a PC game with mouselook controls implemented spastically on a controller, so it's difficult to aim and throw the dagger which is Alice's first weapon. Oddly, it is even more difficult to use the dagger in hand-to-hand combat, mainly because there is very little denoting a hit-reaction on the enemies. So, yeah, I waited too long to play this.
The main game seems like a very standard this- or last-gen action/platformer. There's a Shrink ability which grants a Vision Mode, a variation on the ubiquitous Double-Jump, several upgradable weapons, and a set of enemies which are largely boring, but get more interesting or annoying depending on the combinations in which they're used.
The game's world is largely both epic and gorgeous, which serves to point out just how mediocre the character models and animation are.
Bomberman Legacy on PSP. I was a big taco for the old school single player mode Bomberman games. This is a pretty good entry although does not touch my favorites (94, Super 3, Super 5, and Saturn). Decent level structure but the way it handles items is a little weird. Playing it on my Vita.
Friends of mine are enamored of one of the old SNES versions; they played it off some devkit ROM board endlessly, and had a whole culture built up around the perfection of the 4-player game.
Sadly, the only version I've owned is the XBLA edition, developed by Backbone Entertainment. It's not particularly fun, and I'm not sure why. Have you ever tried that one? Or is this a useless question for a fan of the singleplayer game?