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

[OverRide]

Roadfighter has become one of my favs on my cocktail. I had no idea it existed until then.
Depending on your front end. Have a list generated by romlister that includes all vert games matching your controls. You'll find some gems you never knew where there.
 You can still have a list of your fav games as you main list.

[opt2not]

   
Time Pilot would have rocked with a spinner though.

+1
Once my cocktail wiring is done, I'm going to dig up the old spinner Time Pilot thread and get that added to my gameslist. To me it seems that Time Pilot and spinner controls just makes sense.

[ahofle]

Roadfighter has become one of my favs on my cocktail. I had no idea it existed until then.

Roadfighter is one of the best driving games ever IMO.  Hard to imagine a driving game with a 2 way joystick could be that good.

[javeryh]

Roadfighter is listed as 2 buttons - is that not right?

[DeLuSioNal29]

 

Roadfighter is listed as 2 buttons - is that not right?

No. 2 buttons should be right. Accelerate and Brake.

[javeryh]

I've been tweaking and refining my list today and I'm up to about 40 games.  I added a few more horizontal games - Joust, Asteroids and Chicken Shift and they seem to play pretty good.  Gyruss also works but the turns aren't as smooth around the circle unless you change direction on the 4-way before getting exactly N, S, E or W.  I'll have to play for a while and see if I can live with it. 

Some games had to have their controls tweaked -  Chicken Shift usually uses 2 buttons and no joy so I mapped them to left and right as well as the P2 start button and "jump".  I think I like the buttons better because you can't press both directions simultaneously in a game.  Also, games like Satan's Hollow work but I had to map "Shields" to down on the joystick (since you only move left and right).  It seems OK but now you can't use shields while moving which may or may not have a big impact on the game.  It's playable, but not perfect.  I'll know more in a few weeks after testing...

[XtraSmiley]

I have  a dedicated Super Pacman MAME (vertical monitor, 4 way, 1 button) and these NEED to be on your list:

Pooyan
Qix

[javeryh]

I have  a dedicated Super Pacman MAME (vertical monitor, 4 way, 1 button) and these NEED to be on your list:

Pooyan
Qix

I added Pooyan today but isn't Qix a 2-button game?  One draws blue and the other draws orange, right?

[XtraSmiley]

Not sure about the color, but I play it with use the joystick, slow draw, hold button down, fast draw.  Works fine, but now I may need to test it out on my main MAME machine which has the 1,454,454,677 buttons on it.