What are your favorite VERTICAL games?

[javeryh]

As my vertical cab nears completion I need to start thinking about the games that will run on it...  I'm looking for suggestions on games other than the classics I guess... I'm working with a mappable Ultimarc 360 and 3 action buttons.  So far I've got:

Pac-man, Ms. Pac-man, Jr. Pac-man, Pac-Man Plus, Pac & Pal, Super Pac-man
Galaga, Galaxian, Gaplus, Space Invaders
Dig Dug, Mr. Do!
Don Pachi, Do Don Pachi, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 19XX, Xevious
Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3
Gun.Smoke, Contra, Commando, Ladybug, Mappy, Burgertime, Qix, Frogger, Q*bert, Zaxxon

I'm sure I'm missing a ton of great ones - this was off the top of my head...

List away!

[Jeff AMN]

Strikers 1945 III is a must.

Hmm, let me think it out and I'll come up with a list.

[blueznl]

1941.

[More Cowbell]

Amidar and Arkanoid.

[(+_+)]

Those as well as Phoenix, Tempest, Sinistar, Satan's Hollow, Nibbler, Gorf and Gyruss. There are just to many that I grew up with. I'm sure were still forgetting some.

[leapinlew]

Qix and the many many adult version of Qix

[Crankshaft]

Joust 2, but I think it's a 2 joystick game.  Then again, I think 1943 is as well.

Brian Z

[Jeff AMN]

Legendary Wings is pretty awesome.

[shardian]

Anteater is a really neat game. My wife sat for hours playing it when she came across it.

[(+_+)]

Qix and the many many adult version of Qix

Qix was cool. I found Volfied similar but better.

[Chris G]

You could play Vanguard with a 1 button handicap.   

[Congui]

I've always like Son of Phoenix   

[NOP]

Scramble, time pilot (84), Tutankham, Dockman, disco #1.

This is by far the best moment in a MAME machine's life: finding out all the ROMs you've never heard of and playing them all

(ok, I'm kidding about dockman and disco #1)

You should use this:

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister

It'll help you hunt down the ones that will work with your criteria of vertical, 3 buttons, 2/4/8way joystick.

-jeff!

[Rocky]

Bombjack is one of my favorites.

[RayB]

JUNO FIRST!!!!!!

[johnm160]

Heavy Barrel

 

[crashwg]

There's a Viper Phase 1 at the Papa Gino's around the corner that I've played a couple times and I think it's pretty cool...

[tetsu96]

Definately depends on your tastes, but here's some of mine:

Esprade and Guwange...  very stylish and good shooters.
Contra - mentioned, one of the best all time shooters.  Is it a bug in MAME that it freezes up on max difficulty in-game?
Ajax - Helicopters and Tomcats?  Sign me up!!!
APB - Don't know why I like this one, but since I gots me a spinner, I love it.
Tempest - nuff said.

[Spaz Monkey]

tokio

[Glaine]

You already mentioned DonPachi, DoDonPachi, etc. Thats my first favs.
Similarly, look up Vasara and Vasara 2, Raiden (1,2,etc), and GunNail.
City Connection is also pretty fun.
And Obviously, Galaga.

[Ken Layton]

Sky Shark

Varth

Twin Eagle

Raiden

[arcadefever]

arkanoid & qix 

[btp2k2]

If you had some nice LS-30s, I would say Time Soldiers.

That was such an awesome game....Anyone have a good control scheme for Time Soldiers without rotary sticks?

[Kremmit]

Somebody mentioned Heavy Barrel, that needs a rotary joy.

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Blue Print
Burgertime
Commando
Donkey Kong Jr.
Kicker-great music & sound

..and I'll second the nomination on Anteater.  It's what I always play on my cellphone when I'm in a waiting room or something.

[Chris G]

Wow, how could I forget Mr. Do's Castle!  Still love that silly game for some reason.

[SithMaster]

Giga wing
mars matrix
macross

[Aurich]

Giga wing
mars matrix

Those aren't vertical games, they just scroll vertically.

[Apollo]

Juno First
Star Force
Donkey Kong Jnr
Galaga
Frogger
Time Pilot
Phoenix
Gyruss
Exerion

[Kremmit]

Oh, Gyruss!  I can't believe I left that off my list. 

Best Vertical Game Ever.

[ark_ader]

Dig Dug
Mappy
Ms Pacman
Jungle Hunt (yeah I know..)
Phoenix
Time Pilot
Pengo
Mr Do
Mr Do's Castle
Arkinoid
Tempest Tubes
Rock N Rope
Bump N Jump
Krazy Kong

To name a few....

[tommyinajar]

Time Pilot, Tutankham, Donkey Kong, Gyruss (I'm really not sure why must of been the Music)

[TOK]

Rescue by Stern. Pretty unknown game that incorporates Robotron style dual stick play in a vertical layout. You control a helicopter and fight off enemy copters while trying to rescue parachuting soldiers. Corner deli had this game when I was a kid, and I got completely hooked on it. Being able to play it again in MAME blew me away.

[Thenasty]

Tron
SpyHunter
Moon Cresta
Centipede/Millipede
The End
Galaga/Galaxian
Pac Families
Space Invader Series
Q-bert
Congo Bongo
Satan's Hollow
Dkong Series

[shorthair]

Finally, someone said Congo Bongo.  Might help our requester if everyone wouldn't put in repeats of other's games already listed.

[btp2k2]

Juno First
Star Force
Donkey Kong Jnr
Galaga
Frogger
Time Pilot
Phoenix
Gyruss
Exerion

Everytime I see that name, I think horrible software protection/virus

[thennomeking]

Joust 2 is a 2 player game, not a 2 joystick game.  Both players have 2 buttons though - flap and transform.

Tatsujin/Truxton and Arabian get my votes.

[danny_galaga]

yeah, definitely juno first and exerion. also check out pooyan.

[theCoder]

I'm thinking of building a dedicated vertical cab and did a little research.  With about 1 hour of web search for "Mame",  "vertical", "favorite" and/or "best", I compiled the following list.  Items have been included if someone/anyone mentioned them as good or favorite.  A few very modern (year 2000+) Japanese games have been omitted.  I have confirmed through klov.com that all games are vertical.  I'm sure some will not meet my tastes.  Your mileage may vary...

1941
1943
Aero Fighters
Ajax
Anteater
Arabian
Arkanoid
Bagman
Blue Print
Bomb Jack
Bump 'n Jump
Burgertime
Centipede
Commando
Congo Bongo
Contra
Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Eagle
Exerion
Frogger
Galaga
Galaxian
Gorf
GunNail
Gyruss
Heavy Barrel
Joust 2
Juno First
Kicker
Legendary Wings
macross
Mappy
Millipede
Moon Cresta
Mr. Do
Mr. Do's Castle
Ms. Pac-Man
Nibbler
Pac-Man
Pengo
Phoenix
pooyan
Q*bert
Qix
Raiden
Rescue
Roc'n Rope
Satan's Hollow
Scramble
Sinistar
Sky Shark
Son of Phoenix
Space Invaders
Spy Hunter
Star Force
Strikers 1945
Super Zaxxon
Tatsujin
Tempest
The End
Time Pilot
Tron
Truxton
Truxton 2
Tutankham
Twin Eagle
Vanguard
Vanguard II
Varth
Viper Phase 1
Volfied
Xevious
Zaxxon

[leapinlew]

I'm thinking of building a dedicated vertical cab and did a little research.  With about 1 hour of web search for "Mame",  "vertical", "favorite" and/or "best", I compiled the following list.  Items have been included if someone/anyone mentioned them as good or favorite.  A few very modern (year 2000+) Japanese games have been omitted.  I have confirmed through klov.com that all games are vertical.  I'm sure some will not meet my tastes.  Your mileage may vary...

Good work Coder. Did you use the deluxe search option at MAWS at all? Seems like an effective way to get the same information.

[theCoder]

Good work Coder. Did you use the deluxe search option at MAWS at all? Seems like an effective way to get the same information.

No, I used bruit force.  I just checked this out (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/).  Nice resource.  It would definitely have saved me a bit of time, plus the lists are probably more accurate regarding the roms popularity.  Unfortunately, when I use their advanced filter, and filter on "vertical", and "one or more votes", and has an average of "enough votes" (whatever that means), the list contains more than 1400 games.  Oh, but wait...

Just played with it a bit more. (Glad I didn't hit the post button earlier).  Using Deluxe Search, Results = "Hall of Fame", Orientation = "vertical", then Search Button, then clicking on "Votes" heading, gives list ordered by popularity of vertical games.  Instead of posting the results here, I'll leave it up to the reader as a homework assignment.  Thanks, leapinlew, for the info.