Ultimate Vertical Gamelist (4-Way, 1 Button). GO!

[javeryh]

OK, here is the "unofficial" list:

- Donkey Kong
- Donkey Kong II
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Donkey Kong 3
- Pac-man
- Ms. Pac-man
- Jr. Pac-man
- Super Pac-man
- Pac & Pal
- Pac-man Plus
- Frogger
- Dig Dug
- Mr. Do!
- Mr. Do!'s Castle
- Galaxian
- Galaga
- Galaga '88
- Crush Roller
- Space Invaders
- Ladybug
- Burger Time
- Mappy
- Pengo
- Journey
- Circus Charlie
- Tetris (cocktail)
- Tapper (horizontal)

EDIT: List updated

[Benevolance]

Joust?

[javeryh]

Joust?

Joust is Horizontal... but the controls work.  What do you guys think - should I include a few horizontal games in a vertical cab that work with the controls?  Tapper and Tetris are others I love.  I could also configure Chicken Shift to work by pressing Left and Right on the joystick...

[severdhed]

return of the invaders
amidar

looks like a pretty good list..and thanks for making it..i'm hoping to end up with a 4way vertical classics cabinet before too long here as well


to benevolance...

Joust does not have a vertical oriented monitor.  Joust 2 does, but it requires 2 buttons

[NOP]

romlister to the rescue:

this is a 2way/4way, vertical, 1 or 0 buttons query, no clones.

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Ali Baba and 40 Thieves
Alpha Fighter / Head On
Alpine Ski (set 1)
Amidar
Anteater
Astro Fighter (set 1)
Astro Invader
Attack Ufo
Balloon Bomber
Big Bucks
Black Hole
Bomb Bee
Borderline
Burger Time (Data East set 1)
Cannon Ball (Crazy Climber hardware)
Car Jamboree
Carnival (upright)
Cat and Mouse (set 1)
Cheeky Mouse
Chewing Gum
Circus Charlie (Selectable level set 1)
Congo Bongo
Cosmic Alien
Cosmic Guerilla
Cosmo
Crazy Kong (set 1)
Crush Roller (Kural Samno)
Cutie Q
Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO
Demoneye-X
Devil Zone
Dig Dug (rev 2)
Disco No.1
Dog Fight (Thunderbolt)
Dommy
Donkey Kong (US set 1)
Donkey Kong 3 (US)
Donkey Kong Junior (US)
Dr. Micro
Drakton
Dream Shopper
Eggor
Eyes (Digitrex Techstar)
Faster, Harder, More Challenging Q*bert (prototype)
Field Goal
Frogger
Galaga (Namco rev. B)
Galaxian (Namco set 1)
Galaxy Wars (Universal set 1)
Gals Panic (set 1)
Gee Bee
Ghostmuncher Galaxian (bootleg)
Guzzler
Indian Battle
Invader's Revenge
Invinco
Invinco / Head On 2
IPM Invader
Jolly Jogger
Jr. Pac-Man
Jungler
Kaitei Takara Sagashi
Karate Champ (US)
King & Balloon (US)
Lady Bug
Lock'n'Chase
Loco-Motion
Lucky Today
Lunar Rescue
Lupin III
Magical Spot
Magical Spot II
Mahjong Satsujin Jiken (Japan 881017)
Mappy (US)
Merlins Money Maze
Minky Monkey
Monster Bash
Moon Alien Part 2
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)
Moon Quasar
Mr. Do!
Mr. Do's Castle (set 1)
Mr. Jong (Japan)
Mr. Kougar
Mr. TNT
Ms. Pac-Man
MTV Rock-N-Roll Trivia (Part 2)
Naughty Boy
Naughty Mouse (set 1)
Navarone
Net Wars
New York New York
Oli-Boo-Chu
Ozma Wars (set 1)
Ozon I
Pac & Pal
Pac-Man Plus
Peggle (Joystick, v1.0)
Pengo (set 1 rev c)
Perestroika Girls
Pig Newton (version C)
Pisces
PlayBall! (prototype)
Pooyan
Pop Flamer (protected)
Portraits (set 1)
PuckMan (Japan set 1, Probably Bootleg)
Pulsar
Q*bert (US set 1)
Q*bert's Qubes
Radar Scope
Red Alert
Return of the Invaders
Rolling Crash / Moon Base
Route 16
Safari Rally (Japan)
Samurai
Sasuke vs. Commander
Scrambled Egg
Shuttle Invader
Sindbad Mystery
Sky Chuter
SOS
Space Attack (upright set 1)
Space Beam
Space Chaser
Space Cruiser
Space Fever (set 1)
Space Fever High Splitter (set 1)
Space Intruder
Space Invaders
Space Invaders II (Midway, cocktail)
Space Invaders Part II (Taito)
Space King 2
Space Laser
Space Launcher
Space Raider
Space Stranger
Space Stranger 2
Speak & Rescue
Speed Coin (prototype)
Spiders (set 1)
Straight Flush
Streaking
Sundance
Super Casino
Super Invader Attack
Super Pac-Man
Super Qix (set 1)
Tank Battalion
Telephone Mahjong (Japan 890111)
The Amazing Adventures of Mr. F. Lea
The Electric Yo-Yo (set 1)
The End
Time Limit
Tomahawk 777 (Revision 1)
Tower of Druaga (New Ver.)
Tranquilizer Gun
Triple Punch
Tugboat
UniWar S
Van-Van Car
Warp & Warp
Wiping
Woodpecker (set 1)
Yosaku To Donbei (set 1)
Zig Zag (Galaxian hardware, set 1)
Zzyzzyxx (set 1)


[RyoriNoTetsujin]

Something wrong there: Karate Champ (US) is on that list.  Karate Champ is 2 4-way sticks.

[NOP]

yes, some grains of salt are required.
romlister is merely a data mining (search engine) tool and:

         <control name="Dual 4-way Joysticks">
            <constant name="doublejoy4way"/>
         </control>

matches
         <control name="4-way Joystick">
            <constant name="joy4way"/>
         </control>

when you're just searching for "joy4way"

I'm just about to release a new version of romlister; I'll modify the default search criteria for that.  thanks for bringing that to my attention.

[javeryh]

Thanks NOP.  Romlister is great.  I guess the question I really want to ask is what out of this list am I missing on mine that is FUN and worth having on a cab (it will actually get played)??  I supposed I could add these marginally OK games:

- Circus Charlie (Selectable level set 1)
- Congo Bongo
- Gals Panic (doubtful - this is for the kids!)
- Lock'n'Chase
- Radar Scope
- Space Invaders Part II
- Super Qix (don't you need 2 buttons for this?)

Thoughts???

[NOP]

I think loco-motion is fun. 
Pandora's Palace is also a great game.  Oddly enough, i don't see it in the list I generated, and that's a little scary to me-need to investigate why that got dropped.


Sometimes i like adding games that are more of a wtf? than fun to play, streaking and disco #1 certainly qualify there.

super qix does claim to be 1 button, according to controls.dat

There are also some horizontal games that work pretty well in vertical mode on a true arcade monitor.  You just have to find games that while horizontal, have a square enough resolution to be workable on a vertical.
Perhaps trying any of these as well:

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Arm Wrestling
Avalanche
Blasto
Blockade
Blue Shark
Canyon Bomber
Chameleon
Clowns (rev. 2)
Comotion
D-Day
Dead Eye
Diamond Run
Don Den Mahjong [BET] (Japan)
Flicky (128k Ver.)
Flyball
Frogs
Guided Missile
Gun Fight
Gypsy Juggler
Hana Awase (Flower Matching)
Hang-On Jr.
Head On (2 players)
Head On 2
Hustle
Idol Janshi Su-Chi-Pie Special
Lovely Cards
Mahjong
Mahjong Channel Zoom In
Mahjong Derringer (Japan)
Mahjong Diplomat [BET] (Japan)
Mahjong Friday (Japan)
Mahjong Kakumei
Mahjong Kakumei 2 - Princess League
Mahjong Studio 101 [BET] (Japan)
Mario Bros. (US)
Megatack
Minesweeper
Minesweeper (4-Player)
Minivader
NATO Defense
Ojanko Club (Japan)
Pastel Gal (Japan 851224)
Penguin-Kun Wars (US)
Pirate Ship Higemaru
Raiders5
River Patrol (bootleg)
Royal Mahjong (Japan)
Sea Wolf
Space Encounters
Star Fire (set 1)
Star Fire 2
Street Football
Thief
Time Tunnel
Tonton [BET] (Japan)
Truco-Tron
Warlords
Zoo Keeper (set 1)


edit: here's the pandora's palace issue:
         <control name="4-way Joystick">
            <constant name="joy4way"/>
         </control>

   <input players="2" control="joy8way" buttons="1" coins="3"/>

So controls.dat says it's a 4way, MAME says it's an 8way.  MAME seems to do this a lot.  I think the default controls are 8way, and the devs sometimes forget to update the xml data...

[javeryh]

OK, here is the "unofficial" list:

- Donkey Kong
- Donkey Kong II
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Donkey Kong 3
- Pac-man
- Ms. Pac-man
- Jr. Pac-man
- Super Pac-man
- Pac & Pal
- Pac-man Plus
- Frogger
- Dig Dug
- Mr. Do!
- Mr. Do!'s Castle
- Galaxian
- Galaga
- Galaga '88
- Crush Roller
- Space Invaders
- Ladybug
- Burger Time
- Mappy
- Pengo
- Journey
- Circus Charlie
- Radar Scope

I have also added "Tapper" to the list even though it is a horizontal game... I'm not sure about it but my friends really love this one.  I'm also tempted to add Tetris and Klax and some other 4-way, one button horizontal games.  What are people's thoughts on this?

[Ginsu Victim]

I would think that Gaplus would be playable with a 4-way, even though it's an 8-way game.

[javeryh]

OK, I messed around and updated the list one more time.  The deadline is tonight (party tomorrow) so if anyone has any other input now is the time to share!

- Donkey Kong
- Donkey Kong II
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Donkey Kong 3
- Pac-man
- Ms. Pac-man
- Jr. Pac-man
- Super Pac-man
- Pac & Pal
- Pac-man Plus
- Frogger
- Dig Dug
- Mr. Do!
- Mr. Do!'s Castle
- Galaxian
- Galaga
- Galaga '88
- Crush Roller
- Space Invaders
- Ladybug
- Burger Time
- Mappy
- Pengo
- Journey
- Circus Charlie
- Tetris (cocktail)
- Tapper (horizontal)

I added Tapper because that game rules.  I added the cocktail version of Tetris because it fills the horizontal screen and the playfield is larger than if I put the horizontal version in there.  I also deleted Radar Scope because that game blows.   

[Epyx]

NM

[fargo]

I still enjoy Mario Bros and Alpine Ski.   Classics IMO.

[Malenko]

despite it technically already being in the list, my mom LOVES speedup MsPac, granted she liked the original more, but she thinks the speed up is a blast to play.

[Vebbo]

Didn't see Rally-X on that list 

[Benevolance]

Can I incorrectly suggest Joust one more time?

I don't see why you couldn't install some horizontal games on there. I'd do it. Is it really much different than installing vertical games on a horizontal cab?

[nipsmg]

What about

Timber
The Glob

Not outrageously popular games but I like them both

[Ginsu Victim]

NIBBLER!

[TOK]

Can I incorrectly suggest Joust one more time?

I don't see why you couldn't install some horizontal games on there. I'd do it. Is it really much different than installing vertical games on a horizontal cab?

Joust 2 is vertical, if a vert Joust title really needs to be on there. People say its not as good as Joust. I don't like either one of them, so I can't really give accurate commentary.

[ahofle]

Jumping Jack is pretty fun and very challenging.  It's incorrectly listed as having two buttons.  But it's one button, 4 way, vertical.

[FrizzleFried]

Q*Bert rocks...

So does Juno First...

I also have to 2nd Nibbler...

[severdhed]

what about Gyruss?  MAWS lists it as 8way, but it should only be 2 way, which would work well with your cabinet...plus it is just awesome

[daywane]

KLAX works well on vertical

[Ginsu Victim]

what about Gyruss?  MAWS lists it as 8way, but it should only be 2 way, which would work well with your cabinet...plus it is just awesome

Gyruss IS 8-way.

[FrizzleFried]

what about Gyruss?  MAWS lists it as 8way, but it should only be 2 way, which would work well with your cabinet...plus it is just awesome

Huh?  Gyruss is most assuredly an 8 way game...

[javeryh]

These are great suggestions!

I installed Jumping Jack and played it a few times - I can tell I'm going to like this one.

I also installed Nibbler but it goes like 100 miles an hour.  Does this happen to anyone else or is this just normal?

Popeye is giving me slow-down which is extremely odd.

Juno First is awesome but that is 2 buttons and 8-way if I'm not mistaken.

I put Joust in there too - great game.

[severdhed]

what about Gyruss?  MAWS lists it as 8way, but it should only be 2 way, which would work well with your cabinet...plus it is just awesome

Huh?  Gyruss is most assuredly an 8 way game...

all you do is move in a circle...i just fired up Gyruss on the cabinet here at work, and it plays perfectly fine with the dedicated 4 way stick

[Ginsu Victim]

So then what about your 2-way statement?

[ahofle]

what about Gyruss?  MAWS lists it as 8way, but it should only be 2 way, which would work well with your cabinet...plus it is just awesome

Huh?  Gyruss is most assuredly an 8 way game...

So is Juno First.

[severdhed]

So then what about your 2-way statement?

i'm clearly an idiot


but it is fully playable on a 4 way stick

[Ginsu Victim]

i'm clearly an idiot

Around here it's be expected from time to time. I know that's my answer quite frequently.

[FrizzleFried]

what about Gyruss?  MAWS lists it as 8way, but it should only be 2 way, which would work well with your cabinet...plus it is just awesome

Huh?  Gyruss is most assuredly an 8 way game...

So is Juno First.

D0h... but it can easily be played with a 4-way.  Well.  Maybe not. 

[FrizzleFried]

So then what about your 2-way statement?

i'm clearly an idiot


but it is fully playable on a 4 way stick

Yah... try to get the angles correctly at each stage.  I'd say it's 90% playable... but it's missing "something".  Much like Juno First would be.

[javeryh]

I'll try Gyruss tonight and see for myself assuming I can ever figure out why MAME stopped saving high scores!

[HanoiBoi]

Bagman

Mario Bros. (2way)

I guess Arkanoid could even be done if you were so inclined

[Ginsu Victim]

I guess Arkanoid could even be done if you were so inclined

No. Just no.

[DeLuSioNal29]

Here's what I have on my new Vertical cabinet:

Amidar
Bagman
Bomb Jack (not sure if this is 8-way but it plays fantastically with 4-way - My high score is 76,060)
Burgertime
Burnin Rubber
Carnival
Circus Charlie
Dig Dug
Dig Dug II
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong 3
Donkey Kong Jr.
Faster, Harder, More Challenging Q*Bert
Frogger
Galaga '88
Galaga (Fast Shoot)
Galaga
Galaxian
Galaxian Turbo
Gaplus
Journey
Jr. Pac-Man
Kangaroo
Lady Bug
Mappy
Mr. Do!
Mr. Do's Castle
Ms. Pac-Man
Pac & Pal
Pac-Mania
Pengo
Phoenix
PuckMan
Q*Bert
Qix
Satan's Hollow
Sinistar
Space Invaders
Space Invaders Part II
Super Pac-Man
Super Space Invaders '91
Time Pilot (playable with a 4 way, although it's an 8-way - Hi Score 86,400)

I listed my high scores to prove that the games play just fine with a 4-way and hi scores are indeed achievable.

I just tried Jumping Jack and like it so I will add that to my arcade soon.

DeLuSioNaL29

[Thenasty]

Pooyan
Roller Paint
Speed Coin

[FrizzleFried]

86,000 is a high score on Time Pilot?   With an 8-way I can get close to that in the first 2 levels.   While certainly playable I'd imagine,  it surely isn't as precise as with an 8 way.   Time Pilot would have rocked with a spinner though.