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Title: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: paulscade on November 04, 2008, 02:23:09 pm
I saw Visitor Q post his CP design/graphics and it made me think....

What MAME game do you think has the best attract mode graphics/sound?

I'll typically load up one of the Metal Slug games (so that one gets my vote)... but I'm sure that out of the 7000-something ROMs that are available in MAME, there are likely plenty of good ones that I've missed.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: meany on November 04, 2008, 02:24:01 pm
Marvel VS Capcon
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Visitor Q on November 04, 2008, 02:59:57 pm
+1 on Marvel vs Capcom

Mortal Kombat Series is another good one.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on November 04, 2008, 03:35:29 pm
Several of the SNK fighting games (example: Last Blade 2).
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: nox771 on November 04, 2008, 10:44:58 pm
1944: The Loop Master

Not sure about the sound, but I like the intro.  Once at work, just before the holidays we were all working late and hooked that up to the conference projector - on that screen the intro animation was huge and it looked great (imagine an 8ft wide P-38).   In between "working" we let the intro run - definitely one of my all time favorites.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Malenko on November 04, 2008, 11:24:47 pm
SamuraiShodown2
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Bleagh on November 05, 2008, 12:40:30 am
Street Fighter the Movie.

You can basically watch the whole movie.  JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME  , haha, cracks me up when his name takes up the WHOLE screen.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Malenko on November 05, 2008, 07:23:09 am
Street Fighter the Movie.

You can basically watch the whole movie.  JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME  , haha, cracks me up when his name takes up the WHOLE screen.

hit start while fighting in the command center, and it plays a video clip of him flexing on the background screens
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: ultrageek on November 05, 2008, 10:53:31 am
Quantum.

You can basically play the game for free in attract mode (within extreme limits)
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: paulscade on November 05, 2008, 11:37:35 am
These are really good...  :applaud:
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on November 05, 2008, 12:04:39 pm
Though the art could've been better, I thought the X-Men attract sequence was pretty cool. Simpsons and TNMT as well.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: thatitalian on November 05, 2008, 12:48:29 pm
I really like the X-Men, Simpsons and TNMT too, but Marvel vs Capcom is pretty darn cool! :afro:

(I was looking for an excuse to use cool and and afro man in the same sentence...... :laugh2:)
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: ahofle on November 05, 2008, 03:07:50 pm
Stargate and Robotron have great attract modes.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: HaRuMaN on November 05, 2008, 03:10:43 pm
I really like the X-Men, Simpsons and TNMT too, but Marvel vs Capcom is pretty darn cool! :afro:

(I was looking for an excuse to use cool and and afro man in the same sentence...... :laugh2:)

You mean Afroman?

Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Haze on November 06, 2008, 04:21:01 pm
Taisen Hot Gimmick 3 Digital Surfing (Japan)

yes, it's a mahjong game, but the attract sequence is entertaining
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: BASS! on November 06, 2008, 07:18:48 pm
I just set maximus arcade to randomly pick avi files from my emumovies folder. That way you can have tons!
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: protokatie on November 06, 2008, 08:20:32 pm
Final Fight. Good little story montage, and the music kicks butt.  ;D
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Ummon on November 06, 2008, 09:07:15 pm
It comes to mind that early games didn't often have sound(s) playing during attract mode, and it was a precarious thing, though in a way it made sense because it told you the game was ready to play. Indeed in the early days, if there was too much going on we would watch often as we'd play, at least until the attract was familiar. Definitely by the late 80s this had changed, because it was more attracting I guess to the younger generation who were used to more noise in general, and by the 90s I'm betting that no sound meant (at least to the kiddies) that something was wrong with the game, which was probably often so in such case.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: paulscade on November 07, 2008, 12:45:18 pm
I'm keeping a list of the games mentioned in this thread... my plan is to create a list in Maximus Arcade so I can easily pick one.  Actually... I think that I can configure MA to use this list as a list to go through as a screensaver. (similar, I suppose, to uprightbass360's suggestion of pointing MA to the avi's folder).... but I only want the best ones for my attract mode.   ;D
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: Turnarcades on November 07, 2008, 09:39:44 pm
Don't know about best attract mode visuals (all used to entice me as a kid - flashy flashy!), but without a doubt, Killer Instinct had the best attract music and sounds hands down.

...and I mean proper Killer Instinct, not that abomination they called a sequel.

Sorry people, I hated it.
Title: Re: Best Attract Mode Graphics?
Post by: HaRuMaN on November 07, 2008, 11:28:52 pm
...and I mean proper Killer Instinct, not that abomination they called a sequel.
Sorry people, I hated it.

I agree...  KI1 was much better.