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--- Quote from: Haze on September 15, 2012, 05:36:52 pm --- I think he's already covered most of the games I'd want to write about :-) Maybe Dommy & Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory, but I think both are quite well known --- End quote --- I agree with the above poster (chillbilly). While people very much into MAME may know these titles, in general they score very low on the known/popular scale. I actually have an obscurity scoring system for all games based on the number of mentions/popularity of the arcade cab and the number of downloads of the roms on sites that track those things. I explain it a little more here.... http://mamezach.blogspot.com/2012/01/game-mame-popularity-and-games-of-day.html That being said, Dommy and Peter Pepper both score very low on this scale and would be new games (and great finds) to many people. In fact I am surprised when I review games that score higher on the popularity scale how many folks still write and tell me that it was new to them. I guess that other than the Top 50 that everyone knows, it's somewhat arbitrary who knows what games. For reference, my scale of non-obscurity (how well known a game is) goes to 16 (Galaga, X-Men, Donkey Kong). The highest I'll review is a 6 (Warlords, Narc, Forgotten Worlds). Many old school games have been completely missed and ignored by anyone under 35. And most MAMErs only download a small set of roms to play. So, my goal isn't to find games that nobody has heard of (impossible) but simply to find games that many people can discover or rediscover and have some fun with. By the way, on my scale of how well known they are, Dommy and Peter Pepper's both score a 1. Rarely mentioned on arcade sites and roms almost never downloaded on emu sites. |
| Woodshop Flunky:
You've created a great resource Zach! Thanks! :cheers: |
| dekar24k:
http://www.joystick.net/zachs-daily-picks-of-the-best-mame-games/ :) |
| cigardude:
Congrats, glad the site is still going strong! |
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