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Mame vs games
« on: June 29, 2009, 05:03:08 pm »
Can you guys recommend good versus games? Excluding fighting games.
some I can think of:
hyper sports, hyper olympics
warlords (it's mixed bag with this one)
tetris
dyna blaster/bomber man
some of the light gun games, like point blank
rampart
a lot of puzzle games, but those I see them as more indirect versus games.
I really can't think of too many.
Maybe a link to an already compiled list of all vs games?

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 05:07:03 pm »
Joust
Original Mario Bros.

Technically those are cooperative games, but I've never seen them played that way.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2009, 05:17:17 pm »
World Class Bowling and Golden Tee (if you have a trackball)

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2009, 05:30:32 pm »
There was some good co-op game suggestions recently in a thread [here] I'm sure you'll find some good ones in there.

They may not all be directly vs but you can alwasy go vs on the score count :)

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2009, 06:11:56 pm »
World Class Bowling and Golden Tee (if you have a trackball)

I should be a little more specific I'm looking for games that are more action oriented, like bomberman. "Hot seat" vs is not gonna do it. Joust probably could be a good choice though.


There was some good co-op game suggestions recently in a thread [here] I'm sure you'll find some good ones in there.

They may not all be directly vs but you can alwasy go vs on the score count :)

I am aware of that other thread, and I'm pretty sure all the games suggested there were co op, and score count vs, just will not cut it.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2009, 08:01:01 pm »
Ultra Tank



Soccer Brawl



Toobin'




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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2009, 08:08:37 pm »
The term you are really looking for is "head-to-head" rather than "vs."

The simplest answer is obviously fighting games and sports games - a million footy games, top semi-serious sports games like NBA Jam and others. If however these are not your cup of tea, try some racers like Out-Runners etc.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2009, 08:36:57 pm »
2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge is another great competitive game. It's very fast paced and supports up to four players.

And have you considered Pong?

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2009, 08:48:42 pm »
And have you considered Pong?

Not been in MAME for a long time, however there is Plasma Pong which I'm gonna revive right here that I first found out about when I joined here years ago...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDjseVmruH8[/youtube]

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2009, 10:35:53 pm »
My friends and I can spend hours playing Hat Trick.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2009, 11:45:31 pm »
The term you are really looking for is "head-to-head" rather than "vs."

The simplest answer is obviously fighting games and sports games - a million footy games, top semi-serious sports games like NBA Jam and others. If however these are not your cup of tea, try some racers like Out-Runners etc.

I don't know if you can call bomberman a "head to head" game. Bomberman would be a template of what I'm looking for. Fast paced action, against each other.
But I wouldn't say no to games like toobin. Something different.

As to pong. I would love that plasma pong, but something tells me that it does not have settings for 2 spinners. It probably is just a pc game for keyboard.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2009, 12:23:51 am »
My favorites are:
Baseballs stars 2
NBA jam series
windjammers
puzzle fighter II

I'd be interested in hearing some more as well!

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2009, 09:14:46 am »
The term you are really looking for is "head-to-head" rather than "vs."

The simplest answer is obviously fighting games and sports games - a million footy games, top semi-serious sports games like NBA Jam and others. If however these are not your cup of tea, try some racers like Out-Runners etc.

I don't know if you can call bomberman a "head to head" game. Bomberman would be a template of what I'm looking for. Fast paced action, against each other.

Might not sound like an accurate description, but it's basically short for 'a competitive simultaneous multi-player game', whatever the layout of the game.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2009, 10:18:27 am »
My friends and I can spend hours playing Hat Trick.

Same.  It is awesome.

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Re: Mame vs games
« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2009, 08:14:32 pm »
Hell, I thought the title of this thread meant you were wondering about Mame versus games - like, game boards. I would've title it something like, 'can you recommend some VS. games?' .
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