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"ROM Surfing?"
BeBoxer:
--- Quote from: jdjuggler on April 04, 2003, 11:18:25 am ---I found 2 very interesting games called Darius and Darius II.
This is basically a defender style game, but the cool thing is that the screen is in a super widescreen format. So your field of view is huge compared to something like defender. Check it out, let me know what you think.
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Yeah, I played a lot of Darius of college. They had one in the basement of the Student Union. The original cab was a monster. Two players with three monitors. Two up top, and one sunk down in the cab which was reflected off of a mirror. It's a lot of fun, even though I never got very good at it. Tried playing it on the TV the other night. Kinda painful. You can't really see anything. Just little blurs on the screen. :-\
I don't think I would call this a Defender-type game, though. I'm pretty sure that the first game of this type was Scramble. Check it out if you haven't. It's an oldie, but you'll recognize that the gameplay is about 99% identical.
powerslave:
I too am fond of the claassics.. But the game that raelly got me goin was ASTRON BELT.. But,i havent seen it for mame.. Is there a conversion of it??
CitznFish:
--- Quote from: powerslave on April 09, 2003, 05:09:49 pm ---I too am fond of the claassics.. But the game that raelly got me goin was ASTRON BELT.. But,i havent seen it for mame.. Is there a conversion of it??
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Astron belt was a Laser Disc game so you won't see it in MAME. Check out Daphne for emulating laser Disc games...
here si info on the original
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=A&game_id=6951
anthony691:
Also I love Mars Matrix 8)
skirge66:
I actualy really loved playing wacko in the arcade, unfortunately the mame version just doesn't quite make it (maybe a trackball will help), but hey these guys do fantastic work, and far be it for me to complain about one little game, another off the wall game i use to play frequently was monster bash