20+ years in this and hosting parties. The ONLY requests I have ever gotten are Galaga and more recently Street Fighter 2. No one gives a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- about anything else in my experience.
This is true but add Ms. Pac-Man and Frogger. That's basically all anyone wants to play.
As for console classics - there are too many to list unless you mean the ones that play comfortably on an arcade cabinet and then that list is 0. It's so subjective anyway you are never going to get people to agree. Just in the mainline Mario series alone, you list Super Mario Bros. (a GREAT game) but I think that Super Mario World, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario 64 and Super Mario Odyssey are all much better games. In fact, the most recent game, Super Mario Odyssey, is probably my favorite of all of them. It's so perfect I can't imagine where they can take the series next to innovate.