Best Game I've Never Played?

[Mr Wilson]

i found boogie wings thats pretty good side way scrolling shooter in a plane with a hook on the back you can pick up cars other planes etc.. spin them round then throw them at the enemy  if you get shot out your plane your on foot and can use all sorts as vehicles tanks,cars,robots animals 

[havic626]

Saturday Night Slammaster, 4 players...........great game, and Vasara 2................samurai showdown, i belive the first one was the best.  i have fond memories of that game, use to be at a pizza parlor, sometimes when i fire it up i still smell the place.

[Zobeid]

i used to spend hours on lunar lander......yet im still not sure why

First time I ever went into an arcade, there was a Lunar Lander machine.  I remember it being really difficult and frustrating to play.  Other obscure games I played there included:  Tailgunner, Radarscope and Blasto.

I remember that I liked Blasto, somewhat inexplicably.  I was hugely impressed by the sit-down Tailgunner machine, though I never really figured out how to play it properly.  (In fact, I'm still not sure.)

One of my favorite almost-unknown games is Zektor.  Apparently it's quite rare, very few of them were produced.  I've never seen a real one, but I think it's a lot of fun.

I was introduced to Lady Bug and Cosmic Avenger through my ColecoVision.  Cosmic Avenger was a huge favorite of mine on the CV.  I only saw an actual Cosmic Avenger machine once, briefly, and didn't get a chance to play it.  It's probably just as well. . .   I've learned it was a lot harder than the CV version.

Addendum. . .  I almost forgot to mention Quasar.  Our local convenience store had a Quasar machine for several weeks, and I liked it pretty well.  I was frustrated that it took so long to bring that game to MAME, it's fairly obscure.

[JKD The Lad]

Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom
great arcade game
well if you play it under the right conditions.
the origonal was well designed with addictive  game play and menacing bosses but had a weak chipset that slowed the game down and made movement "chunky"
the sequel fixed the clunky movement but added as well 3 other unbalanced characters and a hilariously bad storyline.
The best version is actually a port of the first one for the genesis. It has the superior design of the first one and the improved controls of the second.
really the only thing lacking in the gen version is the controller.
Put the gen version in a mame arcade and you have snowball tossing perfection!

[Zobeid]

Oh, I forgot to mention Space Dungeon.

I had an Atari 800XL computer and I downloaded a lot of cracked games from BBS systems.  On my 1200 baud modem.  One that I got was Space Dungeon.  Now, I'm pretty sure Space Dungeon was never released for Atari computers.  What happened is that it came out on cartridge for the Atari 5200, which was basically just an Atari 400 computer with the keyboard taken off and those crummy analog joysticks added.  So, somebody had dumped the Space Dungeon ROM to disk and hacked it to work (much better, I'm sure) with digital joysticks on the Atari 400/800/XL computers.  And it was fantastically fun!  The crazy thing is, I didn't learn until years later that it was a port from an arcade game.  I'd never heard of Space Dungeon, never seen one.

Jr. Pac-man was a similar story.  It was never released for Atari computers, but it came out for the Atari 5200.  I'm sure it must have been brutally frustrating to play with the 5200 controllers, but the hacked version was terrific on my 800XL.  It might have been the best of all the Pacman series, though though difficulty level was pretty high and might have turned people off from it.  Anyhow, I never saw an actual Jr. Pac-man arcade game.

[gnateye]

i love a lot of the games mentioned already but i haven't seen anyone mention:

SpeedCoin


this is the lowest tech, 8bit graphics with one of the best most addicting gameplay schemes in my opinion. just a blast to play.

i'm also a huge fan of shuuz, and galz panic. very nostalgic fun

[DeLuSioNal29]

I was at a retro gaming party over the summer and a friend of mine introduced me to the Puyo Puyo series.  I've been playing it ever since!

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9163

~ DeLuSioNaL

[bboysnj]

This thread RULES!  I've been too busy playing all of these great suggestions to chime in -- but for the record, "BULL FIGHT" -- Sega/Bally Midway it's the shnizzle!!!  You're a MATADOR.  You have a cape and a sword -- what more do you NEED??

My bud from Atlanta was going through "obscure" titles, and found this one -- got me hooked in no time and we've been competing across state borders forever.  Seriously, play a couple times -- you're hooked!

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7231

[DeLuSioNal29]

This thread RULES!  I've been too busy playing all of these great suggestions to chime in -- but for the record, "BULL FIGHT" -- Sega/Bally Midway it's the shnizzle!!!  You're a MATADOR.  You have a cape and a sword -- what more do you NEED??

My bud from Atlanta was going through "obscure" titles, and found this one -- got me hooked in no time and we've been competing across state borders forever.  Seriously, play a couple times -- you're hooked!

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7231

Yes, ha ha ha, I played that once and before I knew it... it was two hours later!  Great game and lots of fun!

~ D