Old school classics, just how you remember them.

Capcom has been around for quite a while, and it's easy to lose track of just how many games we grew up with that carried their logo. Capcom Classics Collection Volume I is quite a reminder. No collection is exhaustive, but this one comes close. It carries some very recognizable games and their sequels.

Fans of yesteryear's scrolling shooters will remember 1942 and 1943 from the arcade, and a lot of those same people probably crowded around a Street Fighter II machine. There are three versions of Street Fighter in this collection: II, Hyper Fighting and Champion Edition. All were released a short while back as part of a Street Fighter collection, but their inclusion here is still welcome as part of a more expansive package of the era.

Games like Commando, Final Fight and Ghosts 'N Goblins helped bridge the gap between the arcade and the living room via the NES, and seeing them again is a great reminder of how much games have changed. They were amazingly repetitive and it took forever to get to a point where you saw or did something new. Along the way, you had to get really good at just one or two things (in the case of Ghosts 'N Goblins - jumping and shooting. That's it). Getting back to a level of achievement in Ghosts 'N Goblins - the level you may have been at 15 years ago - may take a lot longer than you think. But it's an entertaining challenge.

It's also refreshing to see these games recreated exactly as remembered. There are no strange things happening to the sound, nothing cut off the top, bottom or sides of the screen. Once you put the game in, you'll quickly forget that it was never made to be played on an Xbox or PS2. There are minor exceptions. Forgotten worlds featured a rotating joystick in the old days, so that mechanic has been changed for console controllers. And the Street Fighter games are just a little different in that you can use characters from all three versions of the game against one another in versus mode. There are also brief load times between matches, which seems a bit silly.

The full list of games in the collection includes: 1942, 1943, 1943 Kai, Street Fighter II, , Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, Street Fighter II Champion Edition, Ghosts 'N Goblins, Ghouls 'N Ghosts, Son Son, Exed Exes, Pirate Ship Higemaru, Vulgus (Capcom's first game ever), Commando, Mercs, Gun Smoke, Section Z, Bionic Commando, Forgotten Worlds, Legendary Wings, Trojan and Final Fight.

This is as good as a nostalgia collection gets. Original games and their sequels, all faithfully recreated, and all for $20. The title includes the term "volume I," so it's at least implied that we'll see more of these collections in the future - and that's good news.