Author Topic: Great games (Read 4616 times)

Smittydc · « **on:** March 06, 2003, 09:58:10 am »

Just when you think you've played them all -- I recently dug up some classics that I had literally forgotten about until I heard the opening tunes and was transported back to the stinky arcade rooms I used to play them in...

Bank Panic
Rastan
Rally X
Robotron (ok, hadn't forgotten about this one - just forgot how damn much fun it was!)

All of these have amazingly addictive gameplay...

Now does anyone remember the name of that driving game where you could earn either angel or devil points by dodging or running over pedestrians? It was back in the rally x days...

Lilwolf · « **Reply #1 on:** March 06, 2003, 10:22:09 am »

It's funny how different games really take over.

Timepilot I can play daily. I want to buy a happs super just to play it (compititions now... what rounded for some games).

194x series. Kids like it!

But my big suprise was all the new games. I was always a classic freak and didn't like many of the new games that came out. So I never played them. Now I find a lot of time looking at games I've never heard about and trying them (and liking them). Sometimes I do a dir roms\a*.zip /od just to find the biggest file for each name and trying them.

Dont' forget (non-mame) that DL and SpaceAce are GREAT also!

Chris · « **Reply #2 on:** March 06, 2003, 10:25:44 am »

I had forgotten how addictive Sharpshooter can be... 'course, that requires an Act-Labs gun....

Going the other direction, I used to be completely addicted to Space Wars, Warrior and Rip-Off, but I just can't get into them anymore...

--Chris

atog · « **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2003, 10:37:54 am »

There are two games that I play every single day after I get home from work. First I play about 4 games of Robotron. Always trying to get a high score, always trying to make it by the brain wave with the little kids as the people.

Second I play a game that I discovered after I upgraded my cab OS to WinXP. It's called Spider Solitaire and it's absolutely the best card game I have ever played. It's incredibly addicting and it is wife friendly as well. I put my fiance on it the other night, and she sat there for 2 straight hours playing. I kept coming in and saying "honey, do you want to quit and spend some time together?" and she would just reply "in a minute, just one more game...".

Smittydc · « **Reply #4 on:** March 06, 2003, 11:14:10 am »

Time pilot has been an ongoing battle in my house... though now that the high score is up around 290,000 it takes too long to get your name back on top.

I have to confess that I got ---my bottom--- handed to me so harshly by Robotron that I went and turned down the difficulty settings...

(and this is the ONLY game I've done this for. In general, I refuse to make the games easier/ increase number of men/etc)

Back on the classic games topic, I was bummed when I found out Biplane will probably never be emulated -- that was one of the best 2-player games ever.

_Iz- · « **Reply #5 on:** March 06, 2003, 12:16:14 pm »

My oldest daughter and I are big Hypersports freaks! Great game!

Odonadon · « **Reply #6 on:** March 06, 2003, 12:49:33 pm »

Galaga. Can't get enough of Galaga. Play that daily. I totally suck, but I love it.

Dig Dug is awesome too.

Odonadon

Chris · « **Reply #7 on:** March 06, 2003, 12:50:50 pm »

Quote from: _Iz- on March 06, 2003, 12:16:14 pm

We have my oldest daughter and I are big Hypersports freaks! Great game!

My daughter and I play a lot of Track and Field and Hyper Sports. Not fond of '88 Games, though. I wish there was a Winter Olympics version...

--Chris

anthony691 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2003, 06:23:42 am »

Daughters? Wives? Damnit! You guys are making me feel like a two year old (okay, so maybe I am a freshmen in high school) I don't have too many friends that can appreciate my MAME cab; so unfortunatly I usually wind up playing my favorite game of Super Puzzle Fighter 2X Turbo: Japan by myself for hours on end. I also really like Moon Patrol too which is often overlooked as a classic.

ErikRuud · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2003, 08:37:07 am »

Chris,

I have never seen anyone else mention Warrior.

I really love almost all the old Vector games, but Warrior and Tail Gunner were to of the first I ever saw back in 1979, and are still big favorites of mine.

DaveStall · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2003, 08:56:27 am »

Since I got back into the MAME thing, I discovered the entire Neo Geo/SNK line of games. I had seen one or two in the arcade before (Metal Slug for one), but I never knew much about the platform. There are a ton of great games there, and they have been taking most of my spare time recently.

Otherwise, Karate Champ, Gyruss, Time Pilot and Robotron seem to be the games I keep going back to.

Dave

Brax · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2003, 10:11:31 am »

Quote from: Chris on March 06, 2003, 12:50:50 pm

Quote from: _Iz- on March 06, 2003, 12:16:14 pm
We have my oldest daughter and I are big Hypersports freaks! Great game!
My daughter and I play a lot of Track and Field and Hyper Sports. Not fond of '88 Games, though. I wish there was a Winter Olympics version...

--Chris

Try a c64 emulator and play winter olympics on it! Oo, i loved that game!

Chris · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2003, 10:18:11 am »

The problem with running a C64 emulator in my cab is the lack of a keyboard...

I had considered ripping the sprites and sounds from Track and Field and HyperSports and writing a winter olympics game that looked and felt like a Konami game of that vintage would have... but I'm not sure many Winter Olympics games would work well with the three-button control scheme...

--Chris

MilitiaMan · « **Reply #13 on:** March 07, 2003, 01:46:01 pm »

I could play Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. every day and never get sick of it.

Something about breaking that 100,000 point barrier is sooooo pleasing ....

The wife ... she is a Frogger Fanatic and the neighbors all want to play Ms. Pac-Man.

-MM

Lilwolf · « **Reply #14 on:** March 07, 2003, 03:21:52 pm »

Quote from: anthony691 on March 07, 2003, 06:23:42 am

Daughters? Wives? Damnit! You guys are making me feel like a two year old (okay, so maybe I am a freshmen in high school) I don't have too many friends that can appreciate my MAME cab; so unfortunatly I usually wind up playing my favorite game of Super Puzzle Fighter 2X Turbo: Japan by myself for hours on end. I also really like Moon Patrol too which is often overlooked as a classic.

Well... my grandkids liked to play spaceinvaders when it first came to the hotels before arcades exists... But now that I got all those mashong games... I feel all young again!

...

j/k...

just wife and kids here...

TazMan · « **Reply #15 on:** March 07, 2003, 03:32:36 pm »

How 'bout Miss World '96 Nude

like Qix....with a bonus

Odonadon · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2003, 01:08:58 am »

Quote from: DaveStall on March 07, 2003, 08:56:27 am

Since I got back into the MAME thing, I discovered the entire Neo Geo/SNK line of games. I had seen one or two in the arcade before (Metal Slug for one), but I never knew much about the platform. There are a ton of great games there, and they have been taking most of my spare time recently.

Otherwise, Karate Champ, Gyruss, Time Pilot and Robotron seem to be the games I keep going back to.

Dave

I know what you mean. I've seen Metal Slug in the arcades, and have heard the hype everywhere. Didn't look that great to me, so I never did play it. I didn't understand until I played it on the ol MAME cab

. There are a ton of great games from SNK I didn't know about. I always figured them as some second-rate arcade manufacturer, with an expensive as hell video game system back in the day (Neo Geo).

Tons of awesome Capcom games too, then I never knew existed. What a great hobby

Odonadon

Fat-Johnny · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2003, 07:59:33 am »

Quote from: atog on March 06, 2003, 10:37:54 am

Second I play a game that I discovered after I upgraded my cab OS to WinXP. It's called Spider Solitaire and it's absolutely the best card game I have ever played. It's incredibly addicting and it is wife friendly as well.

I just looked for this game, but I do not have it (and I have ALL of the mame .65 ROMs). Are you sure that "Spider Solitaire" is the name? Can you maybe give me the name of the ROM itself??

My wife would probably enjoy something like this. Thanks,
FJ

X-0 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2003, 09:02:47 am »

Spider Solitaire is packaged in with WinXP and maybe WinME. Dunno if you can find it anywhere else, but there's bound to be some other version around if you don't use either OS.

Goat · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2003, 03:37:33 pm »

Spider solitare originated with the win98 plus pack.

It's not in mame.

RetroBorg · « **Reply #20 on:** March 09, 2003, 05:53:31 am »

At my household Track and Field is the game of the moment but due to the blisters, broken nails and physically bleeding after a family championship we have decided to play this game only once a week to allow recovery time.

Other games that have had their moments are Mr. Do!, Galaga, Moon Patrol, Gyrus and Circus Charlie.

A carpenter came over to give us a quote on some work in the kitchen and noticed my MAME machine, he tells me he's a gun at Defender, so when he's finished doing work on my kitchen where having a Defender championship, so anyway I've been playing that pretty hard lately, hoping to get competitive, what a great game, pitty I am goin' get my arse kicked because I suck at Defender! $:-\$

anoon · « **Reply #21 on:** March 12, 2003, 03:02:01 am »

I've been playing:

Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Guwange
DoDon Pachi

and Joust.
Best.Game.Ever.

radiator · « **Reply #22 on:** March 12, 2003, 09:07:49 am »

I'd forgotten how great Smash TV is...

...one of the only games where the end of level boss takes longer to kill than the rest of the level...

Odonadon · « **Reply #23 on:** March 12, 2003, 05:48:48 pm »

Quote from: anoon on March 12, 2003, 03:02:01 am

I've been playing:

Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Guwange
DoDon Pachi

and Joust.
Best.Game.Ever.

The girlfriend is nuts over Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix. Joust is awesome too, but I can't figure out how to get by the "settings have been returned to factory default" screen. Everytime I try and load Defender or Joust. I've had to play Stargate instead, because I can get in that

Odonadon

Birdtales · « **Reply #24 on:** March 12, 2003, 06:25:36 pm »

Quote from: Odonadon on March 12, 2003, 05:48:48 pm

Joust is awesome too, but I can't figure out how to get by the "settings have been returned to factory default" screen. Everytime I try and load Defender or Joust.

Odonadon

Press F2 to get past that screen in Joust.

Cave · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2003, 06:26:11 pm »

I think you have to press F2

Odonadon · « **Reply #26 on:** March 12, 2003, 06:28:44 pm »

Quote from: Cave on March 12, 2003, 06:26:11 pm

I think you have to press F2

Damn. Is F2 shifted by the iPac?

Odonadon

anthony691 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 12, 2003, 08:01:40 pm »

I am pretty sure you only need to do it once!

Distortion · « **Reply #28 on:** March 12, 2003, 09:36:31 pm »

Quote from: anthony691 on March 12, 2003, 08:01:40 pm

I am pretty sure you only need to do it once!

that's right, you only have to do it once and then it skips it by default.

radiator · « **Reply #29 on:** March 13, 2003, 06:20:02 am »

Quote from: TazMan on March 07, 2003, 03:32:36 pm

How 'bout Miss World '96 Nude

like Qix....with a bonus

hehe, I love Qix, that's why I play this game...not for the naked ladies or anything

same with Pachinko Sexy Reaction - it plays like a modern Allwin game (those small wooden boxes, with the metal balls that you flick round into various holes)...but with the added bonus of cute anime girls stripping off and trying on many skimpy outfits for you...


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