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Title: Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Syxx on July 03, 2003, 01:51:04 am
just currious what everones favorite "hidden treasure" was, post here what your favorite
non popular Mame/NeoGeo game is, or better yet post your top 5 favorites of both popular ones, and non
popular "hidden treasures"

i'll have to think about mine, but i will post them shortly.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Hoagie_one on July 03, 2003, 08:36:49 am
Always loved Rastan
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Happy_Dude on July 03, 2003, 01:22:21 pm
it depends what you mean by popular...Now or then ?

My fave is I,Robot ;D
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: F|end on July 03, 2003, 01:46:38 pm
Pooyan!


\m/

 ;D
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Minwah on July 03, 2003, 02:14:56 pm
Butasan & Penguin Kun Wars are two that spring to mind :)
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 03, 2003, 03:50:41 pm
splatterhouse.... the game that every modern horror game developer ripped off
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: EggZilla on July 04, 2003, 05:23:35 pm
Man, I loved Splatterhouse as well. Interestingly, I was recently told that, in the Japanese version of the game, you were a masked killer trying to hunt down and kill the damsel in distress, not rescue her. Makes more sense, actually. What hottie in the world looks at a guy in tattered clothes and a hockey mask and says "Oh yeah. THAT's my man!"

Oh. Anyhow, I don't know what it says about my character, but I've taken a liking to a shooter called GUWANGE. It's not that impressive technically, but the setting is unreal. You play as a flying human in feudal Japan, and you're blowing up ox carts and things, and there's blood everywhere ... truly a unique atmosphere.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Odonadon on July 05, 2003, 02:27:42 am
R-Type.  

And the sequels.

Not exactly popular in NA (at least, not in my town) but apparently quite popular in Japan.  So I guess that sort of counts :)

Odonadon
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Syxx on July 05, 2003, 04:48:24 am
finaly i post heh

right now im diggin these games, of coarse it will likely change soon:
King of Boxers
Rampage World tour [ok its pretty popular but awesome]
88 Games [im sure it was popular in its day]
Arlington Horse Racing
Danny Sullivans Indy Heat

as for more well known right now i like:
Bucky-O-Hare
Baseball Stars 2
Battle Toads
Macross Plus
and of coarse the great fighters like KI, Street Fighter Series, and Ultimate MK3
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: BillyJack on July 05, 2003, 11:16:57 am
Well, i've not yet seen this mentioned since I've started lurking / posting on these boards, but I love Soloman's Key.  I think I love it because I first played it as a kid and the manager of the Pizza place taught me how to get free credits (by reaching in and hitting the coin switch of course) but it's stuck with me... and was one of the reasons I got into MAME in the first place.  That and Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters (which plays like crap so it's not a fav. anymore.)

BillyJack
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Paul Olson on July 06, 2003, 03:27:25 am
Not sure how popular they were, but I liked Yie Ar Kung-Fu, and Legend of Kage.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: RetroBorg on July 06, 2003, 05:12:56 am
Juno First the best shoot 'em up game of all time, it's like Defender on steroids.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: gavkiwi on July 06, 2003, 10:12:39 am
My top 5 Popular/Non Popular

Popular:

TMNT
Marvel VS Capcom
Metal Slug 1-3 & X
Bubble Bobble
Pac-Mania


Non Popular:

Flicky
WWF Superstars
Chase H.Q
Continental Circus
WEC Lemans

Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: paigeoliver on July 08, 2003, 12:12:18 am
Favorite unpopular games

Pac-Man Plus
Peter Packrat
Up N' Down
City Connection (extremely rare game in real life, I used to have a boardset for it, but it didn't work right).
Galaxy Wars (my favorite Space Invadersesque game).

Favorite "popular" GAMES

Pac-Man
Dig Dug
Mr. Do!
Star Wars
Ghostmuncher Galaxian (just kidding).  ;D
Galaga
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Cooper on July 08, 2003, 05:07:22 pm
Favorite "popular" games:

Galaga
Robotron
Joust
Defender
Tempest


Favorite "un-popular" games:

Gigawing
Great 1000 Mile Rally
Super Dodge Ball
Baseball Stars 2
Jungle King
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: AlanS17 on July 08, 2003, 05:42:47 pm
Ooooh Super Dodgeball is a fun one.

But I'm thinkinghere, what guages popularity? Different games are popular for different people and different places. And do we mean unpopular in the arcade or unpopular in MAME?

I love Super Puzzle Fighter 2 and so do alot of people here, but I don't think a whole lot ever played it on the arcade. Seems to be pretty populat in MAME, though.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Syxx on July 08, 2003, 06:03:26 pm
as far as popularity i guess moreless weather its well known allround by most ppl, for example:
Street Fighter II would be popular
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Grasshopper on July 08, 2003, 06:13:26 pm
Rastan (brilliant music) and Trojan.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: jakejake28 on July 08, 2003, 09:14:48 pm
I love Super Puzzle Fighter 2 and so do alot of people here, but I don't think a whole lot ever played it on the arcade. Seems to be pretty populat in MAME, though.

yea, i never heard of it before MAME. i was searching for pocket fighter, and saw that lil gem. havent played qix or columns since
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: anthony691 on July 08, 2003, 10:10:42 pm
I love Super Puzzle Fighter 2 and so do alot of people here, but I don't think a whole lot ever played it on the arcade. Seems to be pretty populat in MAME, though.

yea, i never heard of it before MAME. i was searching for pocket fighter, and saw that lil gem. havent played qix or columns since

Gotta love it :) I have played it on GBA, Dreamcast, and the actual arcade version... I knew about it before I knew about MAME...
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: GamingGreg on July 21, 2003, 04:00:28 pm
Trog!   (I don't think it was that popular).  I still get a kick out of getting the pineapples, turning into a T-Rex, and then eating the cavemen!  ;D
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Xochi on July 21, 2003, 04:04:35 pm
For Old School Games:

Omega Race
Vanguard
Venture
Lock-n-Chase
Rip-Off (with two players)

Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Thenasty on July 21, 2003, 04:12:03 pm
IMHO the hardest game i stunble on MAME is "Chicken Shift"
This is make your brain split in half. I use the Flipper buttons for this game. Try it and you will get a headache around the 4th or 5th round.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: abrannan on July 23, 2003, 12:45:51 pm
My favorite "Hidden Gem" is Great Swordsman.  Simple gameplay, but suprisingly deep.

Guwange is also very good.  
Not sure of how it ranks popularity-wsie, but Food Fight is one of my all-time faves as well.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: said7 on July 23, 2003, 12:53:58 pm
A real Hidden Gem is...

WindJammers

Very fun sports game especially good with 2 players. I encourage all to give it a whirl.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: SirPoonga on July 23, 2003, 02:08:35 pm
non-popular, hmmm, that rules out alot.  I'd have to say Arabian.  I played it as a kid in a local bar all the time.
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: HeadRusch on July 24, 2003, 02:33:49 pm
Is Puzzle Loop popular?

That game is like crack...
Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: slug54 on July 24, 2003, 10:42:11 pm
I don't know if it was ever popular or not  but I can't stop playing Pepper II .
This game is driving me mad!
It's kind of Pacman meets QIX and it's extremely addicting.

                       Slug54

Title: Re:Your Favorite non popular Mame Games
Post by: Brax on July 25, 2003, 05:25:41 pm
I played it as a kid in a local bar all the time.
kid...... bar!? That explains alot!  ;D


The game I'd have to choose is Sky Kid. Cute, cartoony graphics, catchy music, and challenging. I always enjoy that one.