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Title: Head to head cocktail table games
Post by: deadpool18 on September 23, 2012, 12:45:31 pm

Can someone post a list of vertical cocktail table games that have head to head play? (not just alternating turns).  I know that there is a really fun version of space invaders that allows simultaneous play.  I also play Hat Trick on my cocktail table head to head (I had to reverse player 2's controls to make it work).  That's all I've got so far.  You would think that there would be quite a few games that took advantage of the cocktail table setup.  I could swear there was a football game also, but I can't remember the name of it.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Head to head coctail table games
Post by: Well Fed Games on September 23, 2012, 01:54:46 pm

Yeah, there are surprisingly few. If you have a spinner there are Hot Smash and Off the Wall.

Title: Re: Head to head coctail table games
Post by: jimmy2x2x on September 23, 2012, 02:47:23 pm

Here is a similar thread from a while back

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,113181.msg1201959.html#msg1201959 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,113181.msg1201959.html#msg1201959)

Title: Re: Head to head coctail table games
Post by: popsicle on September 23, 2012, 08:32:06 pm

In addition to Hat Trick, Tetris Cocktail, and Space Invaders II, try Hot Shots Tennis, Lazer Command, Astro Laser, M-4, Power Play

Leave the orientation 'sideways' and remap controls for Armor Battle, Windjammers, Alien Syndrome, Warrior, Blockade, Wizard of Wor, Demolition Derby, Demon, Gauntlet 1 and 2, Ripoff, Tank Force

Sprint, Warlords, Sprint/Championship Sprint, Offroad, Indy Heat, Tournament Table if you have dual spinners.

If you are running a relatively new version of mame, go to video settings within a game and select cocktail mode to get zounds of horizontal simultaneous 2-player games going. 

Title: Re: Head to head coctail table games
Post by: cw on September 23, 2012, 09:00:41 pm

track and field
star castle
atari football


there are setting in games for cocktail mode.. anything that was released in a cocktail.

Title: Re: Head to head coctail table games
Post by: popsicle on September 23, 2012, 09:42:13 pm

Star Castle is simultaneous 2-player?
Atari Football needs two trackballs I think
Track N Field is horizontal orientation

Title: Re: Head to head coctail table games
Post by: Smack on September 24, 2012, 12:44:44 am

Hat Trick is  awesome. You just have to remap the controls relative to your perspective.

Hockey mania, y'all!

Smack

Title: Re: Head to head cocktail table games
Post by: deadpool18 on October 04, 2012, 08:46:08 pm

Thanks for all of the suggestions! I never thought of flipping the controls for Gauntlet!

Hat Trick is the most popular game on my table. It's like it was made for head to head. It's one of the games that I actually remember playing in the arcade when I was young.

Title: Re: Head to head cocktail table games
Post by: Zobeid on October 27, 2012, 11:40:07 pm

On my cocktail cabinet I've got Gauntlet, Joust and Alien Syndrome set up to play with split-screen.  Gauntlet proved particularly popular in this configuration.

Title: Head to head cocktail table games
Post by: juggle50 on October 28, 2012, 02:51:23 pm

Other great head to head split screen games foe the cocktail table:
- simpson's
- Double Dragon
- Teenage mutant ninja turtles