Lego Star Wars - Recommended for 2-player cabinet

[Skadar]

Wow, it's been a long time since I've last posted.  But I just had to pass on a recommendation for Lego Star Wars on a cabinet.

I just discovered Lego Star Wars ($20 at CompUSA) even though the game is about a year old.  Being a heavy PC gamer and knowing that Lego games have traditionally been pretty poor, I was incredibly surprised by Lego Star Wars!  Top quality all the way.  This game was obviously a labor of love by the developers.

I can sum up the gameplay by simply saying that Lego Stars Wars is a modern, more complex version of Mario64.  It basically takes you through the Episodes I to III, and is in fact, much more enjoyable than the actual movies.  Hah!

I've been playing LSW at home on my PC using a GameCube controller adapter and it plays wonderfully.  After realizing that the game was 100% playable with the keyboard, and that it has a great 2-player cooperative mode, I decided to install it on my Aladdin's Castle MAME cabinet.  The only "tweak" it needed was to be told to run in 640x480.  Other than that, it runs and plays perfectly.

Just FYI, here is a list of PC games that I run and enjoy on my cabinet:

Star Monkey (Small Rockets)
Ultra Assault (Small Rockets)
Mutant Storm (Pom-Pom)
Space Tripper (Pom-Pom)
Lego Star Wars (Eidos)

Cheers!
Skadar

[Lilwolf]

great game for sure!

to bad it requires DirectX9 and the video card on my cab just can't hang with it.

but a GREAT game and works GREAT with a standard cabinet setup.

[JonnyBoy]

My brother's friend was the director of the animation department that did the textures for that game. It's a great game for sure.

[mccoy178]

My cousins best friend knows a guy who bought the first copy at our local Walmart.  The game definitely rocks!

[AE35]

lol !

[Taborious]

Dark Helmet - "I am your Father's cousin's brother's former roomate. What's that make us? Nothing!"

Sorry couldn't resist... 

[JonnyBoy]

Oh, you guys are just sillllly...

[gord]

haha 
how many buttons do you need to play this game to it's fullest?  With 6 buttons I'm not going to be missing any features am I?

[Space Fractal]

You can try the game, and download the Lego Starwars demo. I remember it diddent use more than 6 buttons.

[Sensei]

haha 
how many buttons do you need to play this game to it's fullest?  With 6 buttons I'm not going to be missing any features am I?

You'll miss nothing and the game looses nothing since by default its configured to run just using a few keyboard controls.
(Plus you  can easily remap all the controls in the setup)

I agree this one is great!

I've had many people over and they play a few arcade games and they think it's cool.  Then one of my kids yells, "When can I play Lego Star Wars".
Once it fires up that's when I get the most "oohs" and "ahhs" and "this is cool" comments.

Sadly yes, it requires a video card that can run the full features of DirectX9.
(I had an older video card in my cab computer and swapped it out for the sole purpose of running Lego Star Wars).

Just my $0.02 worth.

[markb]

Its either 4 or 5 buttons per player if I remember.

The game itself is excellent but very easy (Well it is aimed at kids) however the graphics card is generally the problem as it requires pixel shader 1.1 it also requires windows XP.

So far the lowest card I have had the game running on was a geforce fx5200 ultra while a geforce mx440 would not work.

[southpaw13]

How did you get it running at 640x480?  Was it an in-game menu?

[Sensei]

How did you get it running at 640x480?  Was it an in-game menu?

Yes, the only way I know of to change the resolution was from within the game itself.

[tkuper05]

Dude........build the cab out of LEGOS!!!!!! 

[feeras]

Hi,

Thanks for the list of PC games for the arcade cabinet (with a 15Khz monitor). I've also realised there are some good games that work quite well in my cab. I don't think there's such a list out there but I've only started trying these games on the cab

So far i have:

Raiden 3
Guilty Gear XX Reload

Both work really well and look reall good. For anyone interested, I'm using GameEx as my frontend.

I'm hoping to add these soon:

Shikigami no Shiro 1 & 2
Guilty Gear Isuka 
TMNT 1, 2, & 3
 
Cheers,
feeras