Main > Main Forum
Any Game List Ideas? [Done]
CoryBee:
I would stick with the 200 game cap. That is all.
dgame:
No worries, keep the advice coming. I guess it is time to play test the games and decide what stays.
Some titles like Blades of Steel are nostalgic but I welcome the recommendations. Hat Trick is on the list.
I have no problem adding Metamorphic Force and removing say Toypop but the Sega fans (like me) want their Altered Beast.
POW is also a childhood favorite but I could see giving up MIAs spot.
Which Joust is the best?
The Return of Istar and Prehistoric isle in 1930 could also lose their spots.
The beat em ups will be revised based upon suggestions and play testing.
2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge will be on the next revision. Nice game, thanks.
Action Hollywood, Demon Front, and Rambo III are looking for spots.
Thanks for the suggestions, this is very interesting.
harveybirdman:
--- Quote from: dgame on December 22, 2012, 02:36:10 pm ---Which Joust is the best?
--- End quote ---
At the end of the day, 2 is really just more of the same. It has some nice music and a few graphical enhancements. But the game play is nearly identical, plus chances are your guests are going to remember the original over it's sequel. I'd just have one in this kind of list, although I have both on my cabinet.
Haze:
R-Type 2 and one of the WWF games might be dropable in favor of a bit more variety
The original R-Type is a classic, and memorable game, the sequel I'm not really convinced offers enough new to be worth having as well, it runs on basically the same tech, looks the same, and duplicates 99% of the gameplay without really adding any original twists.
For the WWF games, Superstars is very slow and clunky and doesn't even have very nicely drawn sprites (although admittedly some people might like the characters better) if it came to it I'd probably drop that one, they're mostly remembered because they were WWF games, not because they were fantastic titles in their own right.
Ninja Warriors, cool as it is, is meant for 3 screens, I imagine most people will find it a bit odd, you can just about get away with the dual screen games on a wide-screen monitor without it seeming wrong, but triple is pushing it, on a 4:3 monitor the triple screen games just look like something is broken ;-)
Jungler is certainly a cool little game, yes, cross between nibbler (another classic..) and Head On as you say, always had a soft spot for that.
Arabian Fight isn't traditionally considered a very good game, it's one where they attempted to show off using their new technology, but in the end what you have is a mess of badly scaled sprites, inappropriate blending effects, buggy linescroll effects and frustrating controls. There are far better beat 'em ups, Knights of Valour or it's sequel? If you still want something with some more flashy 'modern' effects there is Crystal of Kings, which a fair few people have a soft spot for, although I find the pre-rendered graphics to look a bit ugly.
Oh, and Penguin Bros, that's a blast, cross between bomberman and bubble bobble, rotating platforms, flipping bombs everywhere, running across ceilings. There are one or two bugs with the original game, but it's one I've always found people to love once they start playing it, especially if you have female guests over.
Cynicaster:
The only lists I have in my front end are for the letters of the alphabet, and it works like a charm.
Most of my friends couldn't name 10 arcade games, so for me, lists based on name recognition are pointless.
I find that the bottomless pit of titles in the full list is actually a big part of the allure of the MAME cab. Last big party I had, I kept seeing people playing random shooters and side scrolling platformers that I'd never played before. I think it's a fallacy to presume that the titles most favored by people who live and breathe MAME have any relation to those that non-gamers would enjoy most.
Plus, the more wound up you get with short lists, the more blinded you get from new discoveries, which for me is still a big part of the fun. I spend hours at a time playing no-namer titles and some nights it's amazing how many of them are actually fun.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version