Links to pretty cool software to play on cabinet

[SaiNRuB]

I found a modern tempest clone with sweet 3d candy.


Its shareware and its $15 and they tease you good but its fun while it lasts.


Juno Nemesis

[Mr. Dude]

Thanks for the link SainRuB!  Juno Nemesis is awesome, I bought the full $15 version and it's totally worth it IMO.

[SaiNRuB]

Hey no problem Mr. Dude.  


These two side scroller shmups are in development now but keep an eye for their official release. There is a playbel demo for Doves, Its very good.

Jets N Guns V2.0
Dovez

[nipsmg]

A kinda Monkey Ball clone for PC. It's called Hamsterball and it's only 8mbs. I've played it and it's perfect! I cannot remember a game so addictive since the Lemmings! Beautiful simple graphics, great circuits, perfect control and playability and lotsa fun! It's not and original idea but I'm glad that games like this are released for PC. I've heard it's been created by amateur programmers. Congratulations to them!

http://www.raptisoft.com/Hamsterball/index.shtml

For those who don't know (like I didn't)

Monkeyball is basically a marble madness clone.  

Hamsterball is a GREAT GREAT GREAT marble madness remake.  Replace the marble with a ball with a 3d hamster in it, it doesn't at all change the gameplay..

This game is GREAT. I played the demo, and bought the full version.  If you're a marble madness fan I can't recommend this enough.

[IG-88]

Hey no problem Mr. Dude.  


These two side scroller shmups are in development now but keep an eye for their official release. There is a playbel demo for Doves, Its very good.

Jets N Guns V2.0
Dovez

You'l have to keep us informed as to when that demo for jets & guns is released. Looks awesome!

By the way the dovez demo is freakin' huge! Dang near 97MB! Jeeze!

[Shieldwolf]

is there anyway to change the controls on tetris 4000

[KombatTuna]

Ermm.. for who doesnt know subspace yet.. an asteroid remake at the online sauce.. I wonder if it would play good with an arcade controller.. best way to know is try it I guess

http://www.subspacedownloads.com/

[IG-88]

Ermm.. for who doesnt know subspace yet.. an asteroid remake at the online sauce.. I wonder if it would play good with an arcade controller.. best way to know is try it I guess

http://www.subspacedownloads.com/

I guess I'm getting old and out of touch but what exactly is an "online sauce"......?

[JoyMonkey]

I guess I'm getting old and out of touch but what exactly is an "online sauce"......?

I'm thinking he means there's a tasty helping of online play options included. The site features an "online population graph". Deee-licious!

[KombatTuna]

Yea exactly people generally play it with the keyboard but ey.. its still based on asteroid D:

[betacrash]

I have not posted here in months.

A really good and FREE bust a move clone is Frozen Bubble. The graphics and sound are excellent. Very much arcade style.

http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

[KombatTuna]

Oh yea I got this one.. called icy tower, a kind of ice climbing remake on snes. Its simple but can be really adictive

http://www.freelunchdesign.com/games.shtml

[Howard_Casto]

I have not posted here in months.

A really good and FREE bust a move clone is Frozen Bubble. The graphics and sound are excellent. Very much arcade style.

http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

I appreciate the addition to the list, but this is a horrible game for cabinets.  

First off, although there is a fullscreen checkbox, you can't run it fullscreen.  (At least in the windows version, but that's probably the only version 99.9% of the poeple around here care about.)

Secondly, the font is very hard to read on an arcade monitor or tv.

Lastly and most importantly, the developers are very anti-mac os and very anti-microsoft.  I know this is just my opinion, but specifically saying not to use commerical software of any kind is going against capatalism.  Going against that is going against the american way.  Going against that is going against democracy.   Long story short, the price we pay for true freedom is that you are rewarded for hard work and rewarded less for less work. (For those of you who aren't following, democracy means you have to pay for stuff and get paid for doing stuff.)

The more I think about it, the more it angers me.  I'm uninstalling this particular one on principal.  Well that and the fact that it's like every other linux game..... a very poorly designed rip-off of a classic with annoying penguins replacing the main characters.  

[betacrash]

Ok. Well heres another http://www.hyperbowl.com Hyperbowl is a really good Arcade game if you use a trackball. I hope this game does not offend. I do believe that the people that make this game are fun loving democratic capitalists. There is also a limited version of this that comes with XP plus! The game costs 15.00 I have only played the XP Plus! version.

[Yander]

I don't know where to get them but there were to old games I remember. Overkill it was a vertical shooter and Kiloblaster wich was made by epic megagames. They were both pretty fun.


edit: get them here http://www.dosgamesarchive.com
they both were made by epicmegagames

[Grasshopper]

Lastly and most importantly, the developers are very anti-mac os and very anti-microsoft.  I know this is just my opinion, but specifically saying not to use commerical software of any kind is going against capatalism.  Going against that is going against the american way.  Going against that is going against democracy.   Long story short, the price we pay for true freedom is that you are rewarded for hard work and rewarded less for less work. (For those of you who aren't following, democracy means you have to pay for stuff and get paid for doing stuff.)

Eh? What ARE you talking about? I'm not sure what you mean by "The American Way". But I do know that Capitalism and Democracy are not the same thing. I suggest you look the terms up.

Personally I think people who promote and write open source software are admirable and should be supported.

[IG-88]

Oh God, Here we go. PLEASE don't turn this thread into some kind of political tirade. Everyone has different views, we all know that. Just keep this to the subject topic! Please! I was liking this thread!!!  

[Howard_Casto]

People who promote and and write open source software should be commended.  People who disrespect windows and mac os simply because you have to pay for them should be shot.  

If it wasn't for all of this cheap, easily available hardware that these commercial prodcuts made viable to build people wouldn't even have cheap computers to play with their precious free oses with.  Long story short windows (and to a lesser extent mac os) made the pc affordable and availalbe to the masses.  

Democracy and capitalism aren't the same things, but it's been proven that in practical applications you can't have one without the other.  That is unless you think everyone will work for free(or the exact same wage) and people will build things and give them away for free.  They sorta tried that once, it was called communism.  

[Justin]

* Justin disgusted.  Unsubscribes from this thread.  

[Howard_Casto]

ahem

changing the subject gracefully

this is very interesting although it's still not finished

http://www.parkproductions.btinternet.co.uk/robocop.htm

too bad you can't redefine the keys yet

[papaschtroumpf]

Duke Nukem Manhattan Project is on sale for $4.90 at gogamer.com.
Works very well in a cab, see review earlier in this thread.

[MrBond]

This thread is getting kinda cluttered.  Would anyone be willing to setup a website dedicated to this topic?  

Just something with a simple template/database that has:

Screenshot
The game's title
The game's "real" name (If it's a ripoff of a classic.)
A url
The type of software (XP, 9x, Dos, Web Game)
The Liscense (shareware, freeware, demo ect)
If the controls are remappable.
If a mouse is needed.

I'm not willing to make the site, but I would be willing to help fill out some of the data.  

Of course, a big established host would be nice that might have some bandwith reserved for "mirroring" to spare.  (Hint, Hint Saint )

Any takers?

I second this notion- anyone have the webspace available?

[Matt, GoC]

I have some cool games that are free that I will post links to as soon as I remember their names.  If anyone can find the game "Mystic Arts", get it!  I think it's free but I'm not sure.  But since so many are pointing to abandonware, I don't think it matters...
In Mystic Arts, you control this cute little girl who beats the crap outta werewolves and skeletons and such.  What's fun is you can see the whole screen and can bounce the enemies off the sides and juggle them for a long time.  Kinda short but very fun.  I'll try and post more later.

[TimO]

I just got finished making my site http://www.TimOProductions.com and I have made the requested section with all these games listed along with links, screenshots, and other stuff. This site has a lot more stuff too. Check it out, and if you have any questions or anything you would like to say to me you can contact me through the site. Thank you guys for the great idea for making that section.

[Matt, GoC]

I just got finished making my site http://www.TimOProductions.com and I have made the requested section with all these games listed along with links, screenshots, and other stuff.

Umm, I get a not found error  

[TimO]

I just got finished making my site http://www.TimOProductions.com and I have made the requested section with all these games listed along with links, screenshots, and other stuff.

Umm, I get a not found error  

oh really?   Sorry about that. Maybe try, http://www.timoproductions.com/arcade/pcarcadegames.html that should work

[EndTwist]

Wow! Awesome! Finally an organized place for all the games submitted.

[Sprucemoose]

TimO, thanks for hosting that site.  It looks awsome!

[str1der]

Thanks Tim that's great. I've posted this site before but I thought I'd do so again. They have a bunch of new games and these games will work great on the Build Your Own Megatouch that I'm working on.


www.bigfishgames.com

[papaschtroumpf]

great site! thanks for doing this.

[Justin]

What can I say?  EXCELLENT work.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!   Will try one of these every weekend  


BTW, anyone reading this, do yourself a favor and download MUTANT STORM.  One of the best arcade games I have ever played.  And I have played a ton!

[TimO]

Oh wow, I had no idea everyone liked that section that much! lol   I just hope you guys are looking at the rest of the site too!... well ... whats up so far anyway.  And don't be afraid to email me some more games to stick up there in that section. At the rate I'm adding new games, (I added 8 new ones just yesterday!) I'm thinking I might need to do one of two things. Organize them into types of games, or just make "page 2" of the games.

Oh and justin, I think you should try one out everyday! If you do it every weekend, you wont catch up!!  

[SaiNRuB]

TimO, thank you for adding a arcade software section on your site. From the looks of it already it will be a great resource when you complete it.


I just played the demo for Ballance. The demo is one level of the game, and controls are customizable. It is a ball puzzle platform game in the spirit of marble madness. Only drawback I see is not being able to use up/down to enter your name in the highscores. I give the demo a 5 out of 5 but i dont know when the US will get it. Its already released in Great Britain and Germany by the looks of the developers homepage.

http://www.ballance.org/news.htm

[Magnet_Eye]

dont know if it was mentioned, but here is a site that has all kinds of arcade typr games, with info, screenshots, etc!

http://www.arcade-game-download.com/

check out the Pac-Man 3D Shooter!  

[ErikRuud]

Think Tanks is Cool!

Thanks Slug54 for posting it.

www.garagegames.com

www.planetthinktanks.com

[Shieldwolf]

LOL i WAS GOING TO MENTION TINY TANKS.
I know the guys who made that game

[ErikRuud]

I assume you are referring to the Playstation game 'Tiny Tank'.

I thought that the tanks in Think Tanks remended me of the Boppers in the old MicroGame 'Rivets'.  Tiny Tank looks even more like a Bopper.

[bdsjake]

I see the slikstik forums have similar thread:

http://forums.slikstik.com/index.php?showtopic=256

from there I found Alien Shooter which looks interesting:

http://www.bigfishgames.com/downloads/alien/

Also, Kev are Retroblast pointed to a Halflife 2d game available for free:

http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=news&id=108483195775389600

ok, here's the question, maybe I need a new thread, don't know:  but seems like both of these games, and probably others, while cool, are hard to play on standard mame cab.  You really need a keyboard and mouse.  Perhaps if you had a trackball and tron type stick with trigger and two bottons, maybe.  The aiming in these games requires a mouse (or maybe trackball) to play the game properly.  Same with Zuma Deluxe that my wife loves.
http://www.gamezone.com/gamesell/p23389.htm

Anyway, has anyone figured out how to play these on mame cab?  

thanks,

[SaiNRuB]

Check it out....its Space Taxi 2!

Space Taxi 2

Joystick support
Keys remappable


Its pretty fun, just like on the ole Commodore 64 back in the day.

[Howard_Casto]

A quick note to TimO:

I wanted to put your site through it's paces so I did.  Many of the sites links are invalid. Why? Because you are allowing indirect linking to demos.  By that I mean you don't give a link to the homepage of the company, instead you give a link to the bulk downloads area of a game demo site.  Unfortunately game demo sites only keep demos online for about a month or so and then  they are gone.  

The safe bet is to link to the company/game's homepage.  Not a link to the file directly, but just the front page.  Those rarely change.  

Keep up the good work....  

HAC

Edit:

Something that's also of note is that your "needs trackball" status is completely off.  

For example, ball of steel has a completely mouse driven interface, not only that but you can't use keys to navigate either.  So obviously it does require a trackball to be played on an arcade cabinet.  Many of the other games are similar, e.g. they do indeed have remappable controls, but the keys to navigate through the menu to start the game are hard-coded, therefore the keys aren't remappable for all intenvise purposes.  

I'm not trying to rag on ya, I'm just offering some suggestions.