List Of Freeware PC Arcade Style Games For Your Cab

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I was always long inspired by the thread Non-Mame games for arcade cabs to create a new list of games that would be appropriate for an arcade cab. following the discussion in the Free roms? (Not illegal ones) threads, I felt now would be a good time to kickstart this list.

 I'm hoping this list can serve as a definitive list of PC games that would look and feel appropriate for a mame style arcade cabinet. None of these games are linked with the intention to be some sort of full replacement for mame and the use of roms. I encourage forum members to help by posting links to freeware games.

Beat Em Ups
Kung Fu II: Unofficial sequel to Kung Fu (Master)
Ikari Warriors 2010: Remake of Ikari Warriors using SNK Style sprites. Runs on top of the OPENBOR engine
Ryuko No Ken Nekketsu: beat em up inspired by the Nekkestu (River City Randsom) series.Runs on top of the Beats Of Rage Engine
Fatal Fury REbout: Side Scrolling beat em up inspired by Fatal Fury. Runs on top of the Beats Of Rage Engine
Ultimate Bruce Lee: Remake of the classic Bruce Lee game
 
 
Shoot Em Ups
Friking Shark: Flying Shark 3d Remake
Xeno Fighters Type R: shoot em up game
invaders! Possibly from Space: Space Invaders style game with characters from the Futurama show
Last Out: Z-out remake
Caravan Star II: Shooter with Anime style graphics, cuteness and hilarity
Hydorah: Classically inspired shooter

VS Fighting Games
The Ultra Fighters: 4 player vs fighting game with River City Ransom style graphics
Super Street Fighter II Nes: Super Street Fighter remake with NES graphics. Heavily inspired by the unlicensed street fighter II nes carts. Runs on top of the MUGEN engine
Pocket Dimensional Clash - Battle for universe: Crazy 2D fighting game based on neo geo pocket games and characters from tons of different games
 
 
Action/Adventure
Ragmeg Alleycat: Reverse paperboy with frogger style elements
Loder Runner Retro: Cross platform Lode Runner Remake
Super Donkey Kong: Donkey Kong Remake
Sombrero: Wild West Cowboy shooter simillar to Commando and Ikari Warriors
Hyper Princess Pitch: SmashTV ,Operation Carnage inspired game with a Christmas theme
Cobra Forever: remake of the C64 version of the Stallone movie, Cobra
Super Crate Box: 2d Arena platformer/shooter
Hurrican: Turrican remake complete with level editor
Treasure Adventure: side scrolling treasure hunt game
The Gonnies: Remake of the classic 8-bit Goonies game.
Giddy: Remake of Dizzy
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Remake
Uberleben (1-7 simultaneous player skydiving with retro graphics)
Dangerous World: Hack N Slash style platform game. In Japanese
RetroRaider: Tomb Raider meets Pitfall
Viriax: A game where an antiviral cure must enter the body to fight off viruses and other infections

Maze/Puzzle
PACZ: Unofficial PacMan Worlds sequel
Push Push Penguin: Remake of Pengo
Miner 2049er Again! Remake of Miner 49er
Rolling Madness 3D: Marble Madness remake with full 3D views.

Jump N Run
Gianas Return: Remake of the infamous super mario brothers clone
Ghost N Goblins
Secret Maryo Chronicles: Jump and run game modeled after Super Mario Bros.
OpenSonic: Open source Sonic The Hedgehog game and engine
Stealth Bastard: Stealth Adventure game
Maldita Castilla: Translates roughly to Castle Of The Damned. Great game inspired by Ghost N Goblins.


Racing
Grid Leader: 3D Pole Position remake.
Road Fighter: remake of the MSX classic Road Fighter
Highway Pursuit: 3D SpyHunter style game


game engines
OpenBOR: Open Source side scrolling beat 'em up engine. Tons of games in their repository and forums
Mugen: Open Source 2-D fighting game engine. Tons of games in their repository and forums

[Anpanman]

Good idea.  This should be a sticky. 

[Well Fed Games]

Super Crate Box.... so wonderful, so free...

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Super Crate Box.... so wonderful, so free...

added to the list. Never played it. Hope the description is appropriate.

[Well Fed Games]

Super Crate Box.... so wonderful, so free...

added to the list. Never played it. Hope the description is appropriate.

I would say, 2d Arena platformer/shooter.... it is like Mario Bros (arcade) meets Contra.

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^^ fixed and added more games

[wizkid32]

Good resource.  I know I will be using it!   

[Howard_Casto]

Thanks for this.  These are soem pretty cool games, I wasn't aware of at least half of them.

[Well Fed Games]

Excellent post!
 

Agreed. The indie/freeware scene is putting out a lot of games that draw from the arcade/early console days. Good time to be a fan of games! Thanks for the list!

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thanks everyone. Have lots more to post. just need to come up with good descriptions for all of them. may also separate them in to genres.

Again, if anyone knows of some cool freeware arcade style games. feel free to post them here.

[popsicle]

Check out Spacebirdz (sort of a Phoenix remake), a project that was never finished, but what is there is a lot of fun.

http://www.the2bears.com/?p=605

[popsicle]

Oh, and Highway Pursuit (Spy Hunter remake)

http://www.adamdawes.com/windows/win_hpursuit.html

[popsicle]

Uberleben (1-7 simultaneous player skydiving with retro graphics)

http://teknopants.com/games/uberleben/

[popsicle]

C-Dogs (2 player co-op mission based overhead - oldie reworked for modern systems)

http://lumaki.com/code/cdogs/#code/cdogs/screenshots

[drventure]

Great list!

They might be more patterned after later Arcade games but many of the doujin games work quite nicely on a cab (possibly with the help of AutoHotkey in some cases).

There's are thread about some of them here

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=100506.0

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Check out Spacebirdz (sort of a Phoenix remake), a project that was never finished, but what is there is a lot of fun.

http://www.the2bears.com/?p=605

Big thanks popsicle. I have added all of the games you listed except for Spacebirdz. Unfortunately that link is not the official website and does not contain a download. I did find the official site and unfortunately it has been removed.

Great list!

They might be more patterned after later Arcade games but many of the doujin games work quite nicely on a cab (possibly with the help of AutoHotkey in some cases).

There's are thread about some of them here

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=100506.0

Unfortunately the authors of the doujin games have removed most of the games. The few that are available are now commercial titles.


I have added a few more and separated them in to genres. Not sure if they are all in their appropriate section and/or whether i should make a few more sections there.

[drventure]

Unfortunately the authors of the doujin games have removed most of the games. The few that are available are now commercial titles.

Really, I hadn't gone looking in a year or so. That's unfortunate. Then again, some of those games were almost good enough to be considered commercial (I'd have preferred to see better input support, like for gamepads or sticks, before I'd call them fully commercial grade).

[BadMouth]

Streets of Rage remake: http://www.bombergames.net/sorr_project/

Based on a console game, but I don't see where the gameplay differs from an arcade beat 'em up.

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Streets of Rage remake: http://www.bombergames.net/sorr_project/

Based on a console game, but I don't see where the gameplay differs from an arcade beat 'em up.

Yes I am aware of the SOR remake. Unfortunately they received a takedown notice by sega some time back in september. The game is no longer available.