For an old-school game being brought in as downloadable, definitely Forgotten Worlds or Strider.  Like Brad said, give it the action of the arcade with the adventure elements of the NES game.

My pipe dream, though, is to see a new Rival Schools/Project Justice. That game had just the right amount of crazy; not as over the top as the vs games, but just enough to keep it different.

Much to the surprise of...nobody, this blurry thing on the screen here is Akuma, all polygon-ed out. His Raging Demon never looked better.

The last arcade in my area has officially closed, and at the worst time possible. I don' t think many people understand how much I was looking forward to going back to my old stomping grounds just to play Street Fighter IV. Seriously, I know I'm in my twenties and I'm talking about this as if I were twelve, but dammit, arcades were like my Christmas; they made me feel like a kid again.
Albeit now a slightly scruffier, drunker kid.
Quite a bit of my childhood was spent in arcades, putting quarters up on the machine and waiting to get my ass kicked kids in their teens when I was in my...sevens. It was all part of the experience. You know how I finally learned how to do Sub-Zero's fatality? The kid next to me told me. What about the time I figured out that Akira was actually the strongest character in Virtua Fighter, and I just sucked with him? The expansion of my vocabulary is also due in part to arcade patrons; button mashing, turtling (get your mind out of the gutter), and buffering all entered my zeitgeist.
I was also introduced to glitches, infinite combos, and chain throws. Those were pretty painful. Not to mention finally finding a King Of Fighters machine and coming to the horrible realization that getting good at those games were going to take a lot more time, effort, and tokens. Good old tokens.
What makes the closing of this arcade even sadder (it's Good Times in Somerville, MA, if anyone in the area is interested) is that it wasn't even considered a "true" (for lack of a better term) arcade. It was basically a bar that held some local concerts, wrestling, and showed PPV events for a cover charge. It just happened to have a very large arcade where parents could drop their kids off while they got to drinking and eating horrible pizza while yelling at the Patriots. It was sleazy, unsafe, and in the worst area it could have possibly been located.
I'm going to miss it.

So, one could say I've about video games for awhile now. I first started when I was really young, sending things I wrote on pen and paper to Gamepro and EGM. Of course they never got it, but hey, at least I tried. When I hit high school, I started reviewing for the school newspaper. This of course led to nothing but ridicule, but I dealt with it the best I could. Now, in college, I've been an Arts and Entertainment editor for every year I've been here, and have won some awards for basically doing nothing but writing about games and editing everyone else's crap about three year old movies and the like.

But blogging has always been something different for me. My usual blog consists of stories of my horrible love life and ridiculous college life. The minute I start writing about games, I notice 99 percent of my friends just stop reading the damn thing, which is a shame, since they used to read it to figure out what the hell they did that past weekend. Ever since this startling conclusion, I've been waiting for a site that will let me have my own game blog where people may actually read it, or at the very least, appreciate it for what it is. I can't be happier with the way the site is laid out and presented; I think it's absolutely perfect and exactly what I was looking for. I found a lot of other sites either way too contrived or, to blunt, way too pretentious. I'm happy to finally have a place where my excitement for a new story arc in the King of Fighters will be appreciated. A place where I can review games nobody cares about anymore. A place I can call home.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the burger forum.