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Zobeid:
Singapura already started a thread ( over here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=79831.0 ) asking what old games we have fond memories of.  So, I want to turn that idea on its head. . .

What great old classic games have you only discovered recently -- through MAME or otherwise -- that you never saw or never got a chance to play Way Back When?

I was very much into space shooters, so. . . . .

Bosconian!  I don't know why I never stumbled across a Bosconian machine in any of the arcades, I'm pretty sure it's not a really rare game.  When I finally discovered this game, my feeling was:  THIS is exactly the sort of thing I would have gone nuts over (and still is pretty fun today).

Zektor. . .   More interesting than Space Fury -- and I liked Space Fury pretty well.

Major Havoc.  I only heard about this game when people started calling on Jeff Minter to create Major Havoc 2000 (he never did).  I didn't know what they were talking about.

Black Widow.  Hmm, there were a lot of vector games that I never encountered.  I wonder why?

ColecoVision games:  I had Venture, Lady Bug, Carnival and Cosmic Avenger on my CV.  I never saw a Lady Bug machine, and I only saw a Cosmic Avenger machine one time (and didn't get a chance to play it).

Blaster!  I never heard of this game until Jeff Minter wrote on his website about it -- and his own surprise at discovering a forgotten Williams treasure.

Other Williams games. . .    Bubbles.  Never heard of it until it came out in the Williams games pack.  I also recently stumbled across Mystic Marathon.  I don't think either of these would have been favorites for me, if I'd seen them back in the 1980s, but I would have given them a spin.  (Heck, I'd even play Dig Dug if nothing else was available.  I drew the line at Mr. Do though.)

As I move forward into the late 80s and on into the 90s, the arcades were closing up around here and games were disappearing from convenience stores, and there are a lot of games that I basically know only from emulation, or from very brief encounters.  There's Rastan and Rygar. . .  (I know Rygar from the excellent Atari Lynx port.)  Truxton and Vindicators were both games I loved at first sight, but only saw them one time, while traveling.

Nostalgia for old favorites is a fine thing, but it's also fascinating to dig through the whole history of video games and see all the stuff that I missed before.

Jdurg:
I didn't start playing Street Fighter 2 until the Turbo edition came out.  By then, the peak popularity of it had JUST passed.   :(
GAJoe:
I didn't discover Mr. Do! until 2004.  It was installed at a local pool room, and I gave it a chance.  Before I knew it I was laying out of work to play.  It was a machine that supported the 255 lives trick, so I could go for hours on one quarter.  It's probably the classic arcade game I've spent the most hours of my life on.
severdhed:
Centipede.  i had heard of the game, even seen a few cabinets, but i never played them.  It wasn't until about a month ago, when i helped my boss get his control panel built (no progress has been made on the cabinet since then).  Once we installed his trackball, he introduced me to Centipede.  I am amazed at how much fun this game is.  Now, when we are at work, we stop 2 or 3 times a day to go play a few rounds of centipede.  right now, i hold the high score, which drives him nuts...so we end up playing a little more often when my name is at the top of the list...  i removed my trackball from my control panel a while back because i just didn't use it very much, and i figured it would look less cluttered if it wasn't there..but now i am going to be putting it back in because I am hooked on Centipede.  It is a little funny too, he built this gigantic 4 player panel with a spinner, trackball, and dedicated 4 way, but i think centipede is the only game that gets played.


danny_galaga:
almost all of them  :-[

easier to list the games i DID play (even if just once) probably about ten of them.

favourites i discovered through mame:

commando
galaga (ironic i call myself danny galaga, eh  ;D)
street fighters
pang
exerion
juno first
gyruss (i might have played it once, but im not sure now- gettin old...)
king of fighters- in fact all of the fighting games
zero wing
xevious
centipede

etc, etc...
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