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Favorite game you never played until MAME?
popsicle:
You said game(s) plural, right? I don't remember ever seeing any of these in the wild.
VERTICAL ORIENTATION:
Tail to Nose - simple overhead formula 1 racer. Only needs two buttons and 2 directions.
Astro Blaster - sadly, I never saw this until mame, which is shameful!
Astro Fighter - not as good, but mesmerizing.
Pinball Action - I play this a lot.
Lunar Rescue - addicting
HORIZONTAL:
Tank Force - 2 player overhead tanks
Hat Trick - 2 player overhead hockey
UO Poko - puzzle game
King of Dragons - a 'run to the right' beat em up that I frequently play through all the way with my son. Easy and satisfying.
Quiz and Dragons - fun but terribly dated trivia game with fantasy theme. Fun at parties with 30 somethings. Brush up on your prog rock.
Space Zap - 4 way goodness, reminds me of Cosmik Ark for 2600
compute:
Favorite? Let me get the list . . .
The Outfoxies
Black Widow
Kick / Kickman
Strike Force
Tons of great shooters I can't think off off-hand. I love just about any of the later Japanese bullet-hell shooters.
BoLt:
The big one for me was the Metal Slug series.
Cynicaster:
Good topic. Funny thing about it for me is, aside from some high profile classics (Pac-Man, Missile Command, Asteroids, Frogger, etc.), all of my favorite go-to games these days are ones I discovered in the last few years in MAME. My biggest first-hand arcade experiences were in the mid-late 80's to early 90's--book-ended roughly by Kung-Fu Master on one end and MK2 on the other. For whatever reason, I never have any desire to play the games that were my favorites back then, which is funny, because if somebody would have told me in 1991 that I would one day be able to play WWF Superstars on a cabinet in my basement, I would have had a nerdgasm.
So, for me the "post-MAME favorites" are too many to mention, but DoDonPachi and Black Widow immediately come to mind. Aside from those, I recently posted an article on such a thing, focusing on games that might appeal to non-gamers: http://cynicaster.blogspot.ca/
eds1275:
I only play games I own the original roms for...
no seriously until MAME I had never head of The OutFoxies. What a great game. Salary Man Champ [and all like it - bishi bashi anything] have a big place in my heart as well even though I've been rocking bishi bashi in the arcades since before I knew of mame.