Best Game I've Never Played?

[paigeoliver]

Up N Down
City Connection
Uo Poko
MegaZone

[captainpotato]

F1 Dream, although the occasional bug is frustrating, especially when the car jumps a wall and ends up off course

[spriggy]

Up N Down
City Connection
Uo Poko
MegaZone

Ahhhhhh!..... 'City Connection'

[pointdablame]

mmmmm...... Uo Poko...... so good

   

[electricd]

Uo Poko!

[RayB]

What controls is Uo Polo supposed to use? Just the one button?

[neuromancer]

Major Havoc. The humor kills me.

Also that train game from the 80s where you move the track around on the screen.

Bob

[Xiaou2]

"rescue"  is pretty wild.   Dual controls - simular to robotron.  

 Rally Bike - nice top view racer... with some cool suprises

 Assault - best tank game ever

 ninja princess - nice game with cool changes at higher levels

 two tigers
 mad planets

[GGKoul]

Here's a master list of all "Game Lists" that have been posted on the forums.

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=17208

[APFelon]

Tube It. Great puzzle game.

The afore mentioned train game is called Loco Motion, I believe. Also fun.

APf

[skid_68]

A game i've been playin lately is Pipedream.  it's a great fast thinking puzzle game.

For something that's out of the box, and something completly different... you should try Cameltry.  I have no idea what it has to do with camels, but it's a good game none the less.  I'd suggest a spinner for it though.

that is the only game ever that gives me motion sickness.  it just screws with my head

My friends and I stumbled across that game one night. Man it got pretty crazy after that. lol, we had a lot of fun.

[tapnout]

blacktiger is a good game.

[Xiaou2]

Hmm,  was watching 'The Last Starfighter'  tonight on HBO.

 I noticed a line in the movie where Centari said that he 'designed and built the game'

  Which made me think...  Centari = Centuri  ?  Heh   Maybe a even combination of centuri and atari?  heh

  So I fired up mame and looked under Centuri's games for kicks.  I noticed a game that I had never played:
 
 "Aztarac"

  An interesting Vector game.

  I tried to work it... but couldnt get the controls.   Did a few searches, and found some california extreme control panel pics.   It used a tron style joystick - but looks to use an optical interface.  Basically,  and analog stick that didnt seem to use a centering mechanism.  The other control was a spinner... and a few buttons.

 Even after finding out what controls the game used... it was tricky to make the mame32 varient assign the correct values.   I had to keep trying the same things over and over untill it liked me : )   Finally, I got to play : )

  Use an analog stick or analog gamepad control to move your ship (you may have to reverse some of the axis as well).   You use the mouse/spinner to aim your laser turret.
 
 You must protect 4 bases from enemy crashes.   Once you clear enough enemies.. you can move into the center of the bases to warp to another level.

 The game is trippy - esp the title screen.  Looks pretty cool... but I couldnt play it too well, as I was trying to use a mouse as the spinner... and the game moves way to fast for that! : )  

 Ohh, and one other interestic thing... its front plexi that sits over the monitor - was a half dome (convex - pointed twords you).   That must have made the thing look even more trippy.

[thumbninja]

I'll have to check it out again to be sure (I was young), but I had some great times when I rented Home Alone for the NES. You picked up traps and laid them as you ran around the house as the 2 burglars chased you. Think of it as a G-rated Tecmo's Deception

[neuromancer]

Hmm,  was watching 'The Last Starfighter'  tonight on HBO.

 I noticed a line in the movie where Centari said that he 'designed and built the game'

Someone has way too much free time.

Thanks for sharing though! I printed out your post so I can check out the game later -- sounds complicated.

Bob

[telengard]

What is the best game, that odds are good, I've never played. A rare find that many do not know about, but is your little treasure? Your favorite game that others often miss? Mine would be twin tigers, a fun game that reminds me of my youth. Whats yours?

No doubt about it, Reactor.  Never had seen it in an arcade and it is just an amazing game.

[telengard]

I've been taking a liking to Krull lately.  Dual joystick game like Robotron and Splat!.  Different missions per level, reminds me a little of Tron in some weird way.  It's not a game I would own, but fun to play on occasion.

I'd have to 2nd this one.  The arcade I grew up near had this game and I would play it all the time.  If I remember correctly the 2 joysticks were bat handles.  I think the sound effects are great too.

[Dexter]

I was a big fan of the Nemesis and salamander as a kid, if it wasn't for mame I would never have had the oppertunity to play gradius 3.

Give Star Castle a whirl if you haven't before.

Dexter

[Lilwolf]

For me, its all the newer games.

I was a video kid croney.  I played almost all of the classics in the arcade.  So none of them hit the "Best game I've Never Played".

BUT...  I stopped playing after college.  And I always heard that the arcade scene died out... I assumed that ment games too.

So my votes are all of the amazing and fun vertical shooters.

19xx
Tomato one (captain tomato?)
ALL the psikyos!

These are all the ones that really shine when playing with a real joystick and buttons also.

Oh yeah... and ALL the amazing PRoN games out there!  I guess my local arcade growing up wheren't filled (or more like owned) by pervs like me


And for others

Puzzle Loop  <-- GREAT GAME
Gals Panic     <-- Great additions to quix.  Plus a little show and tell

[DanteBK]

Growl!

It's a game where you're a like an animal rights activist cowboy who goes around ripping poachers apart--like literally ripping them apart.

Play through to the end to find out who was behind the "evils of animal poaching."

[darkmavis]

Growl!

It's a game where you're a like an animal rights activist cowboy who goes around ripping poachers apart--like literally ripping them apart.

Play through to the end to find out who was behind the "evils of animal poaching."

i remember playing that with my brother in butlins!!!! brill game,  the whips!! top game.

my faves are


OUTZONE

vertical shooter on foot, pretty standard exept you have an energy bar that depletes constantly and you have to keep topping it up. one of the only games i can complete on one credit. its not easy though.

VENDETTA

1-4 player beat em up, folluw up to crime fighters, really good beat em up. its got a great bonus level where you have to fight all the bosses 2 at once!


GROWL

mentioned above.


AUrmoured WArriors

top game, fighting like caddilacs and dinasours.  great!


BELLS AND WHISTLES

Utterly mad vetical scrolling shooter with the best power up system ever!!!   


i have stacks more but ill post em later

anyone else play these?

[TheGreg]

I've been taking a liking to Krull lately.

[LeedsFan]

I play Cavelon quite a bit. It's very difficult though, yet very simplistic..... just collect all the door parts to escape to the next level. I haven't got past level 3 yet!

I played this game on my ZX Spectrum back in the 80s and I wasn't aware that it was a straight coin-op conversion. But I have to say that the Speccy version was very, very good as the the coin-op itself only differs by having better graphics.

[SNAAKE]

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

The game has it all...

- run around like maniac and beat the living hell out of anyone on your way..you even get to beat up dinosaurs !!
- every single character has their own unique sets of moves.
- get to use handgun,shotgun,uzi,hunting rifle,M16,bazooka,dynamine,hand grenades,knife,club,wood stick,torch,butcher knife,rocks,barrels,etc.
- AWSOME music and graphic(used to be god tier back in the days)
- Drive a cadillac
- VERY cool characters design(heros,bosses,etc)

 

[Sephroth57]

sol divide, very original horizontal shooter

Tant-R & Ichidant-R ,   theyre basicly like mario party, a game with a bunch of mini games, best played with a friend but still fun alone

[Doc-]

Black Widow - has robotron style joystick controls...
Space Duel - two player is a blast

Doc-

[DanteBK]

Found another one: Monster Farm Jump  - bouncing around on a pogo stick in 3D is good clean family surrealist fun.

[apeekaboo]

For those of you who like a good platform game, I can higly recommend Baluba-louk (baluba.zip). There is no end to this game though, it just loops over some 15 levels...
Another good game is Go Go Mile Smile which is more of a maze/snake game thingy.

[Gunstar Hero]

Mr.Heli / Battle Chopper

A recent find. Fantastic!

[telengard]

I have a new one to add

Juno First

It is a very cool game that I had never seen in the arcades also.  Great sound effects!   I'm hooked

[RayB]

I have a new one to add

Juno First

It is a very cool game that I had never seen in the arcades also.

[Will]

Mystic Marathon ,it looks simple but man its hard.
Ninja Spirit,youve played it if your old if your young you may have missed this great game.

[danny_galaga]

lock'n'chase. a bit like pacman but you can close doors behind the baddies or even lock them up for a short while.

regards juno first. i don't think clocking a million points will be a big risk for me

[madness]

Star Trigon !

In the Mr Driller genre... One (1) button only and NO joystick
amazing fun anyway...
Not to much info available on the net so I will take some fotos of the game later...

[madness]

Found this link to Star Trigon... download a couple of movies and judge for yourself

http://www.paleface.net/cgi-bin/gdb/n.pl?c=482

[enchntr]

I think someone here mentioned Shuuz...

I started playing it once I saw it listed and let me tell you...darn addictive.  It went into my favorites listing almost immediately.

[Dartful Dodger]

Krull is one of those movies that I thought kicked ass when I was about 8.

[jck_strw]

This is a good thread that deserves a bump.

My nomination is Solomon's Key.  A great action/puzzle like game. 

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=9617

[sodapopinski]

The combatribes. Bad control, but satisfying violence.

[paigeoliver]

What controls is Uo Poko supposed to use? Just the one button?

For YEARS I thought Uo Poko only used the Start Buttons and down on the joystick. Then I bought a real board and discovered that service mode recognized all joystick directions and all 3 buttons, but the game was still just "down".

That was until about 6 months ago when I was playing Uo Poko (real board, not Mame), and a friend of mine did something I had never seen before, he rolled the joystick around from down to up and was able to adjust the chain back upwards.

I had been playing for years and I had no idea you could do that.

Also, from what I have seen, all recent Japanese jamma boards recognize all the standard Jamma inputs in test mode, even if the game doesn't use them all, Magical Tetris does this, as does Mr. Driller 2 and the aforementioned Uo Poko).