PixlBit

Actually a lot of those games you mentioned are from Atari, not Midway or Williams.  But they are on arcade collections by Midway, so I can see why you'd think that.  I enjoyed a lot of the games on your list, like Rampage, Gauntlet, Joust, and Marble Madness.  But one game not on your list is Spy Hunter. That was a must-play game at the Pizza Inn near my house when I was little, and my brother Jeff just LOVED it on the home arcade collections. 

I liked Super Mario 3-D Land because they kept things simple.  Stages aren't overly complicated and feel like 3-D versions of stages from Mario 3.  I also like the light difficulty because it means that kids and novice players can feel like they accomplished something.  Best of all, when you finish the first 8 worlds, a new set of 8 worlds opens up that are way more challenging for expert players!

Right now I'm up to nearly stage 50 and have caught more than 30 Pokemon and I haven't run into that trouble yet.  But I do know what you mean.  A lot of free-to-play tablet games make it impossible to progress unless you spend money.  Luckily I haven't gotten to that point in Shuffle yet, so for a free game, I've gotten my money's worth out of it and am still enjoying it in short bursts.

SNK makes more than just fighting games, silly!  Crush Roller is really old, like early 80's.

I played a demo of that Looney Tunes game.  I wasn't impressed.  I haven't played any really good Looney Tunes games.  There was a Duck Dodgers game on the SNES I kinda liked, and Duck Amuck on the DS was somewhat amusing, but that's it.

And Namco Museum Remix wasn't THAT bad!

I dno't think Pokemon Shuffle is that bad at all.  I've been enjoying it.  At least it's not as bad as some of the free-to-play stuff on the iPad.  In May, Nintendo is releaseing Puzzle & Dragon Z in the US, which is a very similar game.  It'll be a cartridge, and they're including a special Mario version on it, too!

I got my PS3 a few years after it was released, mainly so I could have a Blu-Ray player in the living room (and it was only 50 bucks more than a regular Blu-Ray player).  One game that I enjoyed on it that I don't see on your list is 3-D Dot Game Heroes.  It's really good, and probably the closest thing to a LEGO Zelda that we'll ever get.

I saw Hugo on Netflix and really liked it.  Only problem was it was a little too long.

For some reason, it makes me think of Make Trax/Crush Roller (one of SNK's first arcade games).

I think you should write about the most happiest, cheeriest, most colorful and cutest games of all time!