cocktail cabinet games

[edekoning]

I was looking at some cocktail builds in the 'Project Announcements' forum. Most have the 2 sets of controls opposite of each other, and I was wondering what games are actually played on these? I'm asking, because I don't think I've never seen a cocktail cabinet before, let alone played on one.

[NOP]

Typically cocktail machines were from the classic/early era of arcade machines.  Lots of vertical shooters and maze games.

Here's a list that I made with romlister (which was made specifically for this type of task).
This is a list of cocktail games, 2 buttons, 2 way or 4way joystick for each player, vertical monitor orientation. 

IIRC, I've managed to put 135 games on my cocktail machine, and it covers most of the games that I remember playing as a kid.

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Ali Baba and 40 Thieves
Alpine Ski (set 1)
Amidar
Anteater
Armored Car (set 1)
Astro Blaster (version 3)
Astro Fighter (set 1)
Big Bucks
Black Hole
Borderline
Burger Time (Data East set 1)
Cannon Ball (Pacman Hardware)
Catacomb
Cheeky Mouse
Circus Charlie (level select, set 1)
Cosmic Alien
Cosmic Guerilla
Cosmos
Crazy Kong Part II (set 1)
Crazy Rally (set 1)
Crush Roller (Kural Samno)
Dark Warrior
Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO
Devil Zone
Dig Dug (rev 2)
Dig Dug II (New Ver.)
Disco No.1
Dommy
Donkey Kong (US set 1)
Donkey Kong 3 (US)
Donkey Kong Junior (US)
Dorodon (set 1)
Dr. Micro
Drakton (DK conversion)
Dream Shopper
Dynamic Ski
Eggor
Enigma II
Evil Stone
Eyes (Digitrex Techstar)
Faster, Harder, More Challenging Q*bert (prototype)
Frogger
Galaga (Namco rev. B)
Galaxian (Namco set 1)
Ghostmuncher Galaxian (bootleg)
Gun Dealer
Guzzler
Hunchback (set 1)
Jolly Jogger
Jr. Pac-Man
Jumping Jack
Jungler
Kamikaze
Kicker
King & Balloon (US)
Lady Bug
Lady Master of Kungfu
Lasso
Lock'n'Chase
Loco-Motion
Looping (set 1)
Lupin III (set 1)
Magical Spot
Magical Spot II
Mappy (US)
Mikie
Minky Monkey
Monster Bash
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)
Moon Quasar
Mr. Do!
Mr. Do's Castle (set 1)
Mr. Jong (Japan)
Mr. Kougar
Mr. TNT
Ms. Pac-Man
MTV Rock-N-Roll Trivia (Part 2)
Mysterious Stones - Dr. John's Adventure
Naughty Boy
Naughty Mouse (set 1)
Navarone
Net Wars
New York! New York!
Oli-Boo-Chu
Pac & Pal
Pac-Man Plus
Pengo (set 1 rev c)
Perestroika Girls
Phoenix (Amstar)
Pig Newton (version C)
Pisces
Pleiads (Tehkan)
Pooyan
Pop Flamer (protected)
Porky
Pro Baseball Skill Tryout (Japan)
PuckMan (Japan set 1)
Q*bert (US set 1)
Radar Scope
Red Alert
Return of the Invaders
Rock Duck (prototype?)
Route 16 (set 1)
Sasuke vs. Commander
Satan of Saturn (set 1)
Satan's Hollow (set 1)
Scrambled Egg
Shot Rider
Sindbad Mystery
Sky Base
Sky Bumper
SOS
Space Cruiser
Space Fighter Mark II (set 1)
Space Firebird (Nintendo)
Space Force (set 1)
Space Fortress (CVS)
Space Intruder
Space Invaders II (Midway, cocktail)
Space King 2
Space Panic (version E)
Space Raider
Space Stranger
Speak & Rescue
Spiders (set 1)
Streaking
Super Casino
Super Pac-Man
Super Qix (World, Rev 2)
Super Rider
Tactician (set 1)
Tank Battalion
Taxi Driver
Tennis (bootleg of Pro Tennis)
The End
Tomahawk 777 (rev 5)
Tower of Druaga (New Ver.)
Traverse USA / Zippy Race
Triple Punch
Turtles
UniWar S
Van-Van Car
Warp & Warp
Water Ski
Wiping
Woodpecker (set 1)
WW III
Zig Zag (Galaxian hardware, set 1)
Zzyzzyxx (set 1)


[edekoning]

thanks, I'll check out 'romlister' when I get home

[abispac]

Hyperspin has a great selection of vertical themes for a cocktail machine, its worth the efort.

[NOP]

MaLa is also great for a cocktail machine.  I am using a customized (but freely available) version of the retroGUI skin:
http://waste.org/~winkles/winterMAME/pix/winterMALA.jpg

this is running on an arcade monitor.

[dafelandry]

HEY NOP!!!

I dont mean to jack this thread but i would DO ANYTHING to snag your cocktail CFGS!!!

I cannot get "CFG Magician 1.62.exe" to work for the life of me!!!! I dont wanna manually set the dip switches for "cocktail mode"

I have a mamed out Ms. Pacman cabinet and the only time i can get cocktail flipping is manually setting the dips... I have been working on this for 4 hours today with LOTS of frustration (I am remoting into my cab)

If you zip/rared your CFG folder and it works i will 100% send you money for a beer!!!

[NOP]

doing that dipswitch work was one of the best parts of my cabinet build!
Get a friend, a beer (or 3) and spend an afternoon launching each game and testing the controls and flip the cocktail mode dipswitch for each game.
This helped me realize what my cabinet was capable of as well as making sure that each game worked properly.  (for example, there are some games that don't flip properly due to emulation bugs)  Maybe since my cab only has 130 or so games on it it didn't seem like such a big deal...

anyway, PM sent.

[dafelandry]

I ended up biting the bullet and doing EXACTLY what you said... I removed 7 messed up roms and flipped em all to cocktail... Lucky for me my buddy gave me a case of New Castles and a few pinches of "electric cabbage" needless to say i dont need the CFG's anymore... however given your speedy reply i will gladly send u a few bucks for a pint!

 

I will post link to CFG's anyways for the sake of karma and for saving someone time!!

Thanks again!