Favorite Not so well known arcade game

[javeryh]

Chicken Shift makes my brain hurt... but I love it.

[NIVO]

Roc N Rope was a great one, loved the music ditties in it

[tba]

Splatterhouse. i don't think it every got a wide distribution, but a possessed hockey mask and tons of alien "guts" made it it a classic to me > i can still almost hear the "thock" sound that everything made when you hit it with the baseball bat ... excuse me i am going to go boot up my cab!

[theCoder]

Ripoff - Best 2 player game of it's time.  Pretty boring by yourself, but really fun with 2. 

Starcastle - Many a quarter in my day...

Oddly enough, both came from the same small, long since defunct company Cinematronics.  I've tried, but can't track down anyone who claims to own the copyrights to these games.

[ChadTower]

u can get on the xbox live arcade you know for around £4

Didn't know that... but without the spring loaded joystick it wouldn't be the same.  Plus I don't have a 360.

[davieboynj]

nightmare in the dark
mr driller g

both may be well known, but i never see anyone mention them...  so i'll plug them again. 

[JimmyU]

Time Soldiers.

Yeah rotary joysticks.

[javeryh]

Mr. Driller doesn't run at full speed on either of my cabs...  

[Kremmit]

I never saw a Quantum back in the day, so it's a recent discovery for me.  Best trackball game ever!

Other games I never saw back when but love now:

Blueprint- what a bizarre game.  Build a machine to stop the alien that chases the girl, but stop every so often to drop a bomb in a hole.   

Anteater-  I don't know why this is fun, but it is.

Without a doubt Robotron 2084. I also love Mutant Storm which is a modern day version of Robotron.

New version of Mutant Storm is hitting Xbox 360 Oct. 31.

[TheDriver]

Rod-land, very cutesy looking till they bash the enemy sprites!!! Knew a guy that worked for the sales curve when they ported it to the amiga,which is what got me playing this.

Other's:

Alien syndrome,
aliens,
cabal,
xenophobe,
Toki,
Xybot's

Regards.

[ChadTower]

I never saw a Quantum back in the day, so it's a recent discovery for me.  Best trackball game ever!

It is definitely a great little known game... I've always been tempted to create a VectorMAME based Quantum bartop.

[lordtodd75]

hippodrome
forgotten worlds
guardian(get star)
mat mania
roc n rope
klax

edit: almost forgot kid niki radical ninja and chiller

[shardian]

Anteater-  I don't know why this is fun, but it is.

No doubt.  That game is very fun and challenging.

[javeryh]

Blueprint- what a bizarre game.  Build a machine to stop the alien that chases the girl, but stop every so often to drop a bomb in a hole.   

Blueprint is awesome.  I love how when you build the machine you launch basketballs at the eggplant/purple sausage thing chasing your girlfriend.  I had this for my Atari 5200 way back in the day but never had a chance to play it in the arecade... until now, I guess.   

[HaRuMaN]

Don't know how well known it was (or not) but one of my favorite games is Virtual On. 

[ChadTower]

That wasn't too obscure... especially the Saturn version, though the Saturn version wasn't nearly as much fun unless you got the expensive controller. 

[ahofle]

Mr. Driller doesn't run at full speed on either of my cabs... 

Try the Zinc emulator.

[nipsmg]

Wow I can't believe it but I have some nobody mentioned

Timber - I don't know why this is so addicting to me, it just is.  It's by whoever made Tapper.  It's fun.

The Glob - I never saw this in the arcade, but it's insanely fun

Super Dodge Ball (NeoGeo) -- This was already mentioned, but I think I went a week straight battling my friend on this.  Great graphics, special moves, strategy (using players who are out to nail in-game players, etc), GREAT game.