When I did my first steps insto the world of gaming, I had no english skills, seeing as us born outside of english speaking countries don`t learn it before we hit tha age of 8-9, at least where I come from, so I really only had fancy music and explosions to judge with
I mostly played whatever games my big brother had, but I never made it far, and since I couldn`t understand anything, I usually never even finished the first level XD
Alltough my favorite game of all time has to be Ape Escape (the original). Not only was it the first game I ever finished, I just loved the graphics and gameplay, and even if I couldn`t read all the obvious hints and had to figure out everything by trial and error -even the tutorials- I enjoyed it, and it would be a great nostalgia shock to play it again.
On second place I would put Spyro 2, I never liked the original, but I loved the way the sequel played out, and I enjoyed the games that followed, that is, untill Insomniac sold the awesome little dragon and had him end up in a hack`n slash game =(.
Thereafter come the 3 first Ratchet and Clank games, and I have cleared them completely... Twice now.
Well, I guess this is big enough of a wall for my childhood, hope you guys cared enough to read it all the way trough.