Another genre of games Id like to see be ported in some way is the Rail shooters like Jurassic Park and what not.
But I pretty much agree with everything you said. We were so poor that renting games was a huge deal. And the only way to beat an RPG was to just continuously re-rent over and over, which was impossible because people kept reserving them.
Except Super Metroid and the Mega Man X games. Holy **** did we love those.
I was really disappointed at the suck-i-tude of the Turtles in Time remake. Wow did they just butcher it completely.