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Looking for a list of popular arcade games, anyone knows a reliable one?
Rick:
--- Quote from: ranma on August 20, 2010, 01:50:22 pm ---With all the "best" lists is the same, there are a lot of popular ones that are not so good to be included in them. Those are the ones I'm missing.
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I can't tell you where to get them, but I have over 3,000 ROMs on my own system. I don't know if it's a complete set, close to a complete set, or what have you. Rather than being reactive, I can be proactive, and whittle the games I don't enjoy out of the list of the ones I have. I might recommend going this route, if you can, or else find an easy way to list the games most of us have. Which might be possible, if someone can answer me this: is there a file (is it the XML file perhaps) with the titles of all installed ROMs that I could 'export' from Maximus Arcade? If so, I'm happy to PM you my list, if it helps.
ranma:
--- Quote from: Rick Elphinstone on August 20, 2010, 01:19:58 pm ---
That's a fantastic idea, and I'm watching the thread because of it. Consider this, though. Are you asking for a specific timeframe? If you're building a cab to look like one from the early 80's, do you want to dedicate those games to the time during which the cab existed? Or, are you asking for a 'definitive list' of the best of the best?
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It doesn't really have to be 80's games or anything, just popular. But on the other hand, I'm not looking for the best, just popular... I know there were many popular games that were not so good, but if someone expects to find it in my cab I would like that to happen. Take for example, the other day someone came home and on my main cab, with almost all MAME games, he could find a game he was looking for (I don't remember which one now) and I didn't even know about it, when I searched the internet, I found it was very popular, had ports to multiple systems, etc.
I do have a complete set of roms, but that's too much, even for me... I'd like to limit my total games to something in the 300 games, with good games, personal favorites and popular classics.
ragnar:
I love wikpiedia. Noticed this a few weeks ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_video_arcade_games#Most_popular_games
Maybe there should be a new thread similar to the high score competition threads. The idea being that people pick random games starting with A and play them and review/rate them. If everyone did just one game a week, one heck of a list could be compiled.
ranma:
--- Quote from: ragnar on August 20, 2010, 01:58:21 pm ---I love wikpiedia. Noticed this a few weeks ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_video_arcade_games#Most_popular_games
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Already have that too, but that only spans 76 - 83...
Maybe I should have started from there, for now I have:
KLOV's top 100 games of all time
KLOV's 10 most popular games
top 25 shmups of all times and honourable mentions according to shmups.system11.org
MAWS golden ranked games
TOP 10 fighters according to multiple sources
WP golden age of videogames list
But none of those lists (and some others) list essential games like those I named: bubble bobble, kung fu master, rainbow islands, metal slug, bomberman, mercs... and those are obvious ones...
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I've suggested this before, but what we need is a Pandora/Last.FM style system for identifying enjoyment trends between games. Does this already exist and I've just never noticed?
A webpage that lets you tick off what you like or dislike in a standardized list games (not just arcade) to track trends between what people enjoy.
Perhaps also a client on the PC that tracks number of times a game is played (mame does this already, right?) and then "scrobbles" them, again similar to Last.FM.
Certainly all video games ever produced is a substantially smaller set than the number of songs tracked on Last.FM.