list of classic games

[Nefesis]

does anyone have a list of classic games? i'm trying to limit how many roms are put onto my computers because of memory reasons. i have these so far:
1.   Ms. Pacman
2.   Pacman
3.   Joust
4.   Tapper
5.   Star Wars

[mahuti]

These aren't all "classics" but my business partner and I have slowly been whittling down the games that we like to the following

1942
1943
1944
BOWLER
ARMORAR
AOF
BUBBLES
BTIME
CAMELTRY
CANYON
CENTIPED
CSHIFT
CCHASM
CRBALOON
GALAGA88
GALAGA
GALAXIAN
GALPANIC
GHOX
GORF
Gorf
HEXION
OFFROAD
OFFROADT
JOUST
JRPACMAN
LADYKILL
MADDONNA
MPLANETS
MHAVOC2
MARBLE
MSLUG
MSLUG2
MSLUG3
MISSILE
MSPACMAN
OTWALLS
OMEGRACE
PACMAN
SXYREACT
PADDLEMA
Paradise
PHOENIX
PBACTION
PINBO
Pinbo
PBOBBLEN
RTYPE
RAMPAGE
RAMPART
REACTOR
ROBOCOP
SCRAMBLE
SHARKATT
SPLASH
STARTREK
TACSCAN
TEMPEST
SIMPSONS
TIMEPLT
WARLORDS
WARRIOR
WELLTRIS
WFORTUNE
WHODUNIT
WOW
WH2
XMVSF
Zektor (revision B)
ZOOKEEP
DEFENDER
SHUUZ
UOPOKO
PACPLUS

[goofy]

These are great. There were so many cool games that I used to play as a kid that I just can't remember. I see these lists and have an "oh yeah! moment".

I would also recommend going to http://www.mameworld.com/maws and clicking on the Hall of Fame link. This will give you games in order of their rank by users votes. I found it pretty interesting.

What would be really cool is if MAME implemented a voting feature that would shoot votes through the internet and tally them on a server to be downloaded by MAME. Then, be able to list games in their ranked order. Or something to that effect.

But, until then, let's continue these lists of everyone's all-time favorite games.

As for mine, I would add the following great games:

Hyper Sports
Track and Field
Sinistar
Metal Slug (all)
Cyberball 2072
Karate Champ
Tron
Gauntlet

These may not be the greatest of all-time, but I will continue to play them heavily.

[Apollo]

Juno First
Robotron
Berzerk
Stargate
KikiKaiKai
Moon Cresta
Pleiades
Ghosts and Goblins
Golden Axe
Gauntlet
MagMax
Donkey Kong Jr

Just of the top of my head

[Antiriad2097]

Missing a couple of my all time favourites there: Salamander and Green Beret. These are possibly the root of my desire to own a cab.

[SirPoonga]

classics is such a relative term.

[Trimoor]

Arkanoid and Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move

I just love the level start music of Arkanoid, and the Puzzle Bobble music should have a warning label about its addictiveness.

[RayB]

Man, what a question. What is your definiation of "classic"? Famously popular? Or just Old and Fun?

Some of my personal favorites (some old, some not, some popular, some not):

Juno First
Rolling Thunder
Assault
Shinobi
Bubble Bobble
Punch Out
Magical Drop
Hard Drivin'
Nibbler
Joust

 And some notables that were not my all time faves:

Bump n Jump
Zaxxon
Congo Bongo
Burgertime
Cameltry

[Nefesis]

how about old and fun/famously popular 1980's?

[Knoxximus]

Geez...we could do this all YEAR!

I'm too long winded when it comes to this.....I'm gonna hafta pass....

...but I am th3 best Strider player in the world.

Please believe it!

[StephenH]

Some of my favorite arcade classics:

Pac-Man
Galaga
VS Super Mario Bros
Champion Baseball
Gyruss
Knights of the Round
Track and Field
Playchoice-10: RC Pro Am
Excitebike
River Patrol
Bust a Move

[Robopede]

Xevious? Total Carnage?

[rchadd]

add these to the list...

Commando
Timepilot
Pengo
Asteroids (can't believe it hasn't been mentioned it yet!)
Zaxxon

[solfood]

There is a folder in MAME32 that is called Golden Age...I cue that up when we have dinner parties and people go CRAZY..."You have EVERY game I loved when I was a kid!!!"  Yeah...don't even make me fire up the 2600 or NES emulator.

[goofy]

Obviously this topic has a lot of subjectivity, but it's great fun anyway.

I'd think of classics as . . . if you could only have XX number of games (25, 50, 100, whatever) in your MAME cabinet, what would they be?

Then, there's the list of wow that's a fun game to play, or I've never played that before, I just discovered it and it was cool style of games.

Anyway, there's so many great games . . . that's what makes designing a control panel so difficult.

I can't believe Robotron didn't make the first three lists on this post!

[quarterstringer]

Take a look at the lists at KLOV.com especially their Top 100 Game List

[goofy]

A couple of questions:

1) How do you create your own lists of games in MAME32, so I can create my own 'Golden Age'?
2) Would it be worthwhile/demanded/interesting if people could upload there MAME32 lists here for others to download?

Just a thought.

[danny_galaga]

i cant believe Robby Roto and Gridlee arent in anyones list...

[GGKoul]

Mikie is one I like to play from time to time...

[Darkstalker]

"i cant believe Robby Roto and Gridlee arent in anyones list... "

Or Dig-dug...

[Lilwolf]

I vote all adult - non mahjong games also!

don't forget Micheal Jacksons game... classic...

SF2Alpha a true classic.... (no but really... SF2CE is a classic... but i never liked SF1...)

but man... almost every game is a classic in one sense or another...  

[marsmarvin]

"i cant believe Robby Roto and Gridlee arent in anyones list... "

Or Dig-dug...

Dig-dug is awesome - and one I have fond memories playing in the arcade, but I've recently become a big Mr. Do fan.  Similar game play, but more interesting.

[captainpotato]

"i cant believe Robby Roto and Gridlee arent in anyones list... "

What about PolyPlay? Hell, it'd be fun to make a replica PolyPlay machine... don't know if I'd really want to use it afterwards, though

[fredster]

My list of classic favorites changes now with Mame.

I never played robotron until recently.  We have so much fun, it's never the same game twice.  I used to play asteroids mostly in the early 80's, but now I play time pilot, 1943, and Arkanoid all the time.  

I go from Galaga to Burgertime,  Arkanoid to Joust, Joust reminds me of Robotron.  I then jump to Centipede and Then the old Golden tee golf.  After that I blast things in Timepilot, and my friends love to play Arkanoid right now.

There is a list of the "best" video games by year on Klov.  The top 100 list.  

I love mame, it lets me play the games I didn't have the quarters for years ago.