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Title: Trackball games
Post by: mvolke1 on October 12, 2006, 01:14:03 pm

Hello All,

Just looking for some opinions...

I'm installing my trackball and I'm downloading my ROMS for it. I have a lot of the obvious ones -- millipede, centipede, crystal castles, and a couple bowling and pool games.

Any recommendations for games that use the trackball?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Trackball games
Post by: Noobert on October 12, 2006, 01:26:50 pm

Came across this Wikipedia article a while back.  Most of these I have not tried out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trackball_arcade_games

-Noobert

Title: Re: Trackball games
Post by: mvolke1 on October 12, 2006, 01:32:14 pm

That listed a ton! Thank you so much!

Title: Re: Trackball games
Post by: torez on October 12, 2006, 06:39:01 pm

Mame32 has a folder that has all the trackball games in place.  From the number I see, there are 982 games that can utilize a trackball (some may not be fully working, though).

Title: Re: Trackball games
Post by: jelwell on October 12, 2006, 06:51:03 pm

So I clicked on the first one. Gotcha (1973) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha_%28arcade_game%29).

I checked MAWs and there's a Got-cha Mini Game Festival (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/set/gotcha) but no Gotcha (KLOV) (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=G&game_id=7985).

Neither unmamed (http://unmamed.mame.net/) nor guru's dumping project (http://www.mameworld.net/gurudumps/DumpingProject/wanted.html") list it as wanted.

MAWS only lists 147 including duplicates (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/index.php?src=srch.php%3Fpage%3D1%26control%3D12%26by%3Dname). I have a trackball on my cabinet and I only like about 6 games.
Joseph Elwell.

Title: Re: Trackball games
Post by: ahofle on October 12, 2006, 06:59:10 pm

Quote from: jelwell on October 12, 2006, 06:51:03 pm

So I clicked on the first one. Gotcha (1973) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha_%28arcade_game%29).

I checked MAWs and there's a Got-cha Mini Game Festival (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/set/gotcha) but no Gotcha (KLOV) (http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=G&game_id=7985).

Neither unmamed (http://unmamed.mame.net/) nor guru's dumping project (http://www.mameworld.net/gurudumps/DumpingProject/wanted.html") list it as wanted.

MAWS only lists 147 including duplicates (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/index.php?src=srch.php%3Fpage%3D1%26control%3D12%26by%3Dname). I have a trackball on my cabinet and I only like about 6 games.
Joseph Elwell.

It's probably old enough that it's not a CPU game and therefore not applicable to MAME (like Pong, Space War, etc).  I like the purty pink 'breast' trackballs though LOL.