Streets of Rage is a window to nostalgia, I wasn't allowed to own video games back in my early childhood, so no Sega or Nintendo for me. BUT I was allowed to rent a console every now and then. Streets of Rage was my first game I ever really played and fell in love with at a young age.
The soundtrack rules the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hikFCwduCIQ