Oh man, VJ2 has awesome music! Ice Edge sticks out due to its creativity and jazziness, as you said (and it's got rock in there too). It's on the edge, which is what the song title means, I suppose.
If you had it, no doubt it would stick out in your mind. After all, it was the best racing game on the N64, and tons of fun!
Good luck with that, there's tons of them! Plus, there are some terrible ones (see my post for Bad Dudes).
Capcom also made some great Disney games: Aladdin and Lion King are standouts on the Super NES.
Gambit is awesome. He was always my favorite x-man as a kid.
X-men arcade is awesome! I actually played that game quite a bit in an arcade placed called "Nickelaplay." Sure, it's repetitive, but it's still tons of fun.
There are some horrendous x-men games, the worst one being Uncanny X-men for NES. The Genesis games were good, but extremely difficult. This one is hard too, but is very much beatable as well, which is nice.
The game is as awesome and fun as the ads proclaimed (for once, right?).
Okay, I pick this one. Dude, I don't know that much about the X-men, but I always enjoyed this game nonetheless. My other recommendations would be Ultimate Spider-Man (GCN or PS2), Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (GCN, PS2), and the X-men Legends games (same systems), which are action rpgs.
Time to remedy that problem, jgusw. Go play the NES version (sure, it's not as good as the arcade version, but it still deserves to be played).
I have Gradius 3 for SNES, and it is an excellent game, but once again, painfully difficult. I'm sure all the games are great, and whichever one is the worst is still probably better than the average shooter out there.
