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Best Trackball games for MAME?
« on: June 09, 2006, 10:03:08 am »
What- in your opinion- are the best trackball games for MAME? Games that need to be in any arcade lover's short list.
I can only think of Missile Command and Golden Tee golf  :laugh2:
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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2006, 11:00:03 am »

Marble Madness
Centipede
Millipede


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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2006, 11:06:10 am »
I have been getting alot of play out of , Shuffleshot, Shuuz, and Golden Tee.  Good multiplayer games.
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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2006, 11:15:49 am »
IMHO Marble Madness is a must. Other ideas:
Cabal (one of the sets is for trackballs)
Rampart (Trackball)
Centipede
Discs of Tron
Any of the good golf games like the Golden Tee series.
Any of the good bowling games like World Class Bowling.
Lemmings, if you happen to find the port funny.

There are also some shoot-em-ups which make use of the trackball, but can't quite remember any. Bermuda Triangle, maybe. I'm sure there are others. Try to browse MAWS by control, it will give you more ideas.
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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2006, 04:21:39 pm »
no Bowlers in here ? World Class Bowling Baby  ;D
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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2006, 04:59:56 pm »
Oh me like WCB.  And WCB Deluxe. The kids love to bowl.
I also like Sente's Minigolf.


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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2006, 02:56:54 am »
What?  No one has mentioned missle command yet?  A definate must.

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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2006, 05:23:04 am »
Combat school was a trackball game
you can also use a trackball for hyper sports and track and field  :cheers:

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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2006, 01:27:01 am »
SNACKS'N JACKSON BABY!!!!   It's the greatest trackball game of all time!!!

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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2006, 07:50:16 am »
Requires a stick too but Snake Pit is just about my fave trackball game.

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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2006, 11:33:02 pm »
Irritating Maze
Snacks'n Jackson
Snake Pit
Marble Madness
Quantum
Shuuz

All great games...  I could probably be happy if all I had was a trackball.

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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2006, 11:17:30 am »
X's and O's  (Atari's two-player "cocktail" stand-up machine)

Pi: I don't remember Discs of Tron needing a trackball  ???

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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2006, 05:14:52 pm »
Pi: I don't remember Discs of Tron needing a trackball  ???

I thought it was a spinner game, but checked in MAME and it lists it needing a trackball. Maybe it was a spinner in the end?
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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2006, 06:07:28 pm »
Pi: I don't remember Discs of Tron needing a trackball  ???

I thought it was a spinner game, but checked in MAME and it lists it needing a trackball. Maybe it was a spinner in the end?
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Re: Best Trackball games for MAME?
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2006, 01:57:43 am »
I'm assuming that the picture is from a Discs of Tron enviromental.  One of the best games I played.  Dumped $5 into one when I was at Disneyland (when they still had a upstairs/downstairs arcade)