The BYOAC Top 100 (Updated - 10/04)

[Knoxximus]

This is great!  It really helps narrow the list on what's hot and what's not on a list of games that's some 4,500 or so titles deep.

[FoX]

1. SmashTV                                               11. Super Sprint
2. Joust                                                     12. Metal Slug X
3. Mortal Kombat                                       13. NBA Jam
4. Samurai Showdown                              14. Rampage
5. King of the Monsters                             15. Iron Man Stewarts Super Off Road
6. Star Wars                                              16. Asteroids
7. Gauntlet                                                 17. 1943
8. TMNT                                                      18. Ikari Warriors
9. XMen                                                      19. Alien vs Predator
10. Street Fighter II                                   20. Galaga

Honorables:
Total Carnage
Simpsons
Bomberman World
Cabal
Operation Wolf
Rampart
WWF Wrestlefest
Xenophobe

[maraxle]

I am not gonna list mide cuase its already been listed by all of you but, I am adding this to my list cause seems like you guys all forgot the most Quarter Sucking games ever made.

A. Space Invaders
B. Pong

I can't belive none of you have this in your list...SHAME..SHAME...ahh what a SHAME....  

They may be "classics", but I wouldn't consider either particularly fun.

Personally, my biggest surprise is seeing Smash TV listed so many times...

[hyiu]

Ohhh !!!... yes...

Please add

Pang3

to the honorable list !!!...

I like playing the continuous falling mode !!!....
 

as for space invader.... I do play it once in a while...
but its not "as fun".... I think galaga / gaplus / pheonix... a "more fun" game....

[Thenasty]

I am not gonna list mide cuase its already been listed by all of you but, I am adding this to my list cause seems like you guys all forgot the most Quarter Sucking games ever made.

A. Space Invaders
B. Pong

I can't belive none of you have this in your list...SHAME..SHAME...ahh what a SHAME....  

They may be "classics", but I wouldn't consider either particularly fun.

Personally, my biggest surprise is seeing Smash TV listed so many times...

it will get intense once you do the "Wall of Death".

[maraxle]

I am not gonna list mide cuase its already been listed by all of you but, I am adding this to my list cause seems like you guys all forgot the most Quarter Sucking games ever made.

A. Space Invaders
B. Pong

I can't belive none of you have this in your list...SHAME..SHAME...ahh what a SHAME....  

They may be "classics", but I wouldn't consider either particularly fun.

Personally, my biggest surprise is seeing Smash TV listed so many times...

it will get intense once you do the "Wall of Death".

I'm not sure what that means, but if it refers to any of the three games mentioned above, it's really a lost cause for me.  No matter how intense any of the above games get, it won't make them any more fun for me.

[garyh]

1. Galaxian
2. Galaga
3. Scramble

[ChadTower]

I'll have to fill this out as I think about it more, but...

1. Berzerk
2. Ms Pac-Man
3. Star Wars
4. Donkey Kong
5. Virtua Fighter 2
6. Joust
7. Galaga
8. Space Invaders
9. 1943

[Zakk]

/excel script error  


1) pac-man
2) galaga
3) joust
4) asteroids deluxe
5) ms pac
6 gyruss
7) moon patrol
 donkey kong
9)  missile command
10) defender
11) commando
12) spy hunter
13) Tempest
14) dig dug

that's all I can think of at the mo!

[Agent Davis]

Quick Note:  hyiu - The Metal Slug games are unique separate games (except X and 2 which I've combined), so anyone who wants to vote for these games should vote on them separately.  If you love all 3, then vote for all three.  For your top 20 I made MS1 3rd, MS2/X 4th, and MS3 5th and slid every other game down two slots.

On the other hand, I feel that the SFII games are just updates or tweaks of other versions, so the SFII games are counted as the same game.  My logic is this:  I want someone to be able to grab this top 100 list and just plug the 100 games in.  In the case of the Metal Slug games, I feel they are unique enough that someone may want all three.  However, in the case of the SFII games I feel someone is more likely to just find the best of them and play that game, probably never playing the other versions.

[patrickl]

I thought about automating this and it wouldn't be hard to do in HTML/PHP/MySQL, but I think it needs to be done in Java because the game list is so big. I don't do Java though.

[telengard]

Cool topic, tough to say just 20 but here goes:

1.  Defender                             11. Galaga
2.  Robotron                             12. Star Wars
3.  Joust                                  13. Centipede
4.  Space Invaders                    14. Elevator Action
5.  Berzerk                               15. Marble Madness
6.  Asteroids                            16. Time Pilot
7.  Star Castle                          17. Karate Champ
8.  Moon Patrol                        18. Tapper
9.  Tron                                   19. Tempest
10. Missle Command                 20. Rolling Thunder

Honorable Mention

Warlords
Crystal Castles
Gauntlet
Omega Race
Spy Hunter

[FractalWalk]

According to my calcs, here is the top 50 so far:


Rank     Points       Game

[Chris]

When I fire up the cab, it's usually for one of the following:

1 Champion Baseball
2 Gravitar
3 Donkey Kong
4 Battlezone
5 Marble Madness
6 Super Basketball
7 World Class Bowling
8 Krazy Bowl
9 Shuffleshot
10 Sinistar
11 Gorf
12 Centipede
13 Track and Field
14 Sharpshooter
15 Tailgunner
16 Tron
And if my daughter is playing, it's:

17 King Of Fighters '98
18 Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
19 Zero Point
20 Trivial Pursuit

[darktemp]

1.    Raiden (no mentions yet?)                                
2.    Raiden 2                                  
3.    Street Fighter 2                                
4.    Metal Slug 2                              
5.    TMNT                                  
6.    NBA Showtime                                  

These are off the top of my head, I haven't finished my cab yet and it's been a while since I've been to the arcade.              

[barvaz]

This is a very cool idea. This should be up on a website with an online submit form and results calculated on the fly.

Technically, it isn't very hard to do. The challenge would be to come up with a good UI for submitting games ranking (just choosing 20 games from a list of 5000 isn

[patrickl]

You could look at the wat MAWS does it. That site just lets you give each game a score. Much easier to do than entering a selection of 20 (+added bonus games)

[barvaz]

You could look at the wat MAWS does it. That site just lets you give each game a score. Much easier to do than entering a selection of 20 (+added bonus games)

Ahh...well...duh me. There is already an online ranking table. I didn't know that.  

[patrickl]

You could look at the wat MAWS does it. That site just lets you give each game a score. Much easier to do than entering a selection of 20 (+added bonus games)

Ahh...well...duh me. There is already an online ranking table. I didn't know that.  

He, he, sorry bout that. It was mentioned in the third post of this thread though  

Anyway, I thought the idea was to make a BYOAC ranking page.

[barvaz]

He, he, sorry bout that. It was mentioned in the third post of this thread though  

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[ButeLegz]

1.    Raiden (no mentions yet?)                                

I've got it listed at 8! Good to see this thread isn't dead... Go Galaga!

[Daniel270]

Here's my list...


1) Galaga                                        11) Defender
2) Gyruss                                        12) Roc n' Rope
3) Galaxian                                     13) Ghosts n' Goblins
4) League Bowling                          14) Jr Pac- Man
5) Centipede                                   15) Missile Command
6) Sinistar                                       16) Ms. Pac-Man
7) Asteroids                                    17) Dig Dug
Galaga 3 (GaPlus)                       18) Millipede
9) Frogger                                       19) Pac-Man
10) Star Wars                                 20) Donkey Kong


Honorable Mentions:

Star Trek                                         Donkey Kong Jr
Galaga '88                                      Donkey Kong 3
Cameltry                                         Asteroids Deluxe
Altered Beast                                 Pole Position
Metal Slug 2                                   Phoenix
Tapper

[Richy]

1 Neo Turf Masters        11 Lode Runner
2 Irritating Maze            12 Pitfall 2
3 Galaga                        13 Super Pang
4 Rampart                      14 Cameltry
5 Metal Slug 3                15 Journey
6 Metal Slug 2                16 Peggle
7 Metal Slug 1                17 Donkey Kong
8 Super Puzzle Fighter   18 NBA Hangtime
9 Blood Storm                19 Marble Madness
10 Joust                         20 Tapper

Not really in definative order. A few underdogs though.
Mentions to
Revolution X
Riding Fight
Mr Do's Wild Ride

And for cheesy japanese games I found randomly
Cotocoto Cottong
Sokonuka Taisen Game
Mad Donna (For being the easist adult game where you can see everything)

[FractalWalk]

AgentDavis:

If you end up having to do this in Excel, I've written a macro that will parse the data copied from the webpage into columns by ranking number and game. It will also let you add a member name if you want.

It saves a lot of time trying to manually extract this data from the string.  

Let me know if you want it.


Edit: I've also added functionality to do a fuzzy match on game names so that you can easily change incorrect spellings (missing periods, commas etc.)

[Richy]

This is a better way than ranking each game i think., because some games people either love or hate, and that brings down their averages.

[Agent Davis]

Fractal, please send me this macro.  Once I receive I will update the list and hopefully we can get more submissions.  I don't want this thread to die.

moell.2@<NOSPAM>osu.edu

[microwrx]

1.  Gyruss                          11. Video 8 Ball
2.  Galaga                          12. Scramble
3.  Tetris                            13. Rally-X
4.  Space Invaders II         14. City Connection
5.  Moon Cresta                 15. Gun Dealer
6.  Hyper Olympics             16. Simpsons
7.  Hyper Olympics '84       17. TMNT
8.  Bank Panic                    18. Crush Roller
9.  Moon Patrol                  19. Elevator Action
10.Pacman                         20. Frogger  

[tep0583]

1) SFII                             11) Gauntlet
2) Star Wars                     12) Smash TV
3) Marvel vs. Capcom       13) Battle Zone
4) Star Blade                     14) Avengers
5) Star Castle                   15) Sky Soldiers
6) Indiana Jones               16) Strider
7) Defender                       17) Pac-man
Cruizen Usa                   18) Time Soldiers
9) Virtual On                       19) MACH3
10) Choplifter                      20) Rastan


 
Honerable Mention
Afterburner
SAR
Dig Dug
Galaga
In the Hunt
Contra

[FractalWalk]

AgentDavis:

I'll try to get the macro to in the next few days. I need to write up a quick tutorial on how to use it.

[danny_galaga]

1.   commando               11. bank panic
2.   galaga      12. asterix
3.   defender             13. tetris
4.   raiden      14. simpsons
5.   exciting soccer   15. karnov
6.   dig dug      16. donkey kong 3
7.   centipede      17. burning rubber
8.   berserk      18. burger time
9.   scramble      19. acrobatic dog fight
10.   gyruss      20. stocker

some of them come and go out of the top twenty. exciting soccer is one ive just discovered recently.

[danny_galaga]

MAN, that was hard.....and if you're not playing "The Speed Rumbler", you sure ought too....like, NOW!

just got speed rumbler. thanks for the tip! i dont remember this one but its pretty cool (",)

[FractalWalk]

AgentDavis:

I just sent you the macro. Let me know if you get it.

[Deinonych]

Here's my list.  It's tough to nail it down to just 20.  

1. Stargate           11.  Spy Hunter
2. Tempest           12.  Sinistar
3. Gorf                 13.  Victory Road
4. Qix                  14.  Xenophobe
5. Millipede            15.  NARC
6. Omega Race      16.  Major Havoc
7. Star Castle        17.  Marble Madness
8. Xevious            18.  Ghosts N Goblins
9. Food Fight        19.  Frenzy
10. Gyruss            20.  Rolling Thunder

[REBIRTH]

My top 20 changtes often, but here would be my best shot right now (top 5 would never change)

1. Defender                   11. Stargate
2. Robotron                   12. Smash TV
3. Galaga                       13. Pac-Man
4. Gyruss                       14.  Donkey Kong
5. Asteroids                   15.  Tac/Scan
6. Tempest                     16.  Asteroids Deluxe
7. Joust                          17.  Missile Command
8. Donkey Kong Jr.         19.  Dig Dug
9.  Centipede                 19.  Arkanoid
10.  Mario Bros.              20.  Galaxian

How can Defender be #26 so far... Come on people!  I realize it is my favorite game so I am biased, but that thing was one of the biggest sellers of all time!  Respect the Defender!!!!!

[Zero_Hour]

Great Idea. Here's Mine:

1. Crazy Climber           11. Cyberball2084
2. Time Pilot                  12. Marble Madness
3. Robotron                   13. R-Type
4. Tempest                    14. Super Mario Bros.
5. Puzz Loop                 15. Tron
6. Puzzle Bobble           16. Burgertime
7. Cheyenne                 17. I, Robot
8. Arkanoid                   18. Ms. Pacman
9. Star Wars                 19. Berzerk
10. Shinobi                   20. Time Pilot 84

[krick]

 1. Smash TV                  11. Marble Madness
 2. Total Carnage             12. Tempest
 3. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3  13. Qix
 4. Mortal Kombat 3           14. Tetris
 5. Mortal Kombat II          15. Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-a-move)
 6. Mortal Kombat             16. Ladybug
 7. Centipede                 17. Venture
 8. Mr. Do                    18. Ms. Pac-Man
 9. Robotron                  19. Defender
10. Sinistar                  20. Joust

[Agent Davis]

Updated - 9/24!!  I'm back and ready to keep this post alive!  I've finally gotten around to testing out some macros that FractalWalk sent me, so thanks to his work I'll be able to keep this post updated.  Let's get this thing going again and see some new top 20's.

If you haven't done so, please take a minute to read the first page that has the updated guidelines and new top 100.

[SNAAKE]

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs(still kickin 3 players is just..AWSOME !)

Street fighter alpha 2

Marvel vs capcom

Xmen vs SF

Marvel vs SF

Street fighter alpha 3

Super street fighter 2 turbo(old school !!)

Pocket fighter(mini street fighter..coolness )

The punisher

Mars matrix

Captain comando

19XX

Saturday night slam masters

Busta move neogeo

U.N Squrdon(spelling?)

Carrier air wing

Alien vs predator

Sunset riders(....DRAW !)

Street soccer(this game is weird but fun)

super pool(try it..nice game)



 

[Gunstar Hero]

To "keep it honest" I just took my favorites list (which is a lot of games) and did a most played re-sort on it. Here goes!

1. Shinobi                           11. Kid Niki
2. Killer Instinct                  12. Bubble Memories
3. WWF Wrestlefest           13. Pac-Man
4. Ultimate MK3                  14. Pac-Mania
5. Mortal Kombat                15. TMNT - Turtles in Time
6. Elevator Action               16. Strider
7. Street Fighter Alpha 2    17. WWF Wrestlemania
8. Sonic the Hedgehog       18. Killer Instinct 2
9. Punch-Out!!                    19. Bubble Bobble
10.  Vs. Castlevania            20. Twin Eagle II

[Agent Davis]

Snaake, can you please modify that post and reformat your list, with numbers and capitals in correct places?  Comments are fine, but put them in a paragraph at the end.  I have to plug these lists into excel and if they aren't formatted then its a lot more work.