What makes a 'good' game?

[Ultimecia]

Oh, there are the teleport pipes, breaking bricks with your head (that gotta hurt), the mushrooms to get high---ehr---bigger, the tanuk---sorry, raccoon furry... And save the Damsel in distress from the fearsome giant turtle with spikes on it's back. I'm the first to admit: it IS creative, it was a revolution for it's time. But it never hooked me. I rather playing classic Sonic instead. Or Commander Keen.