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Author Topic: What games REQUIRE color buttons, or some such (Chicken Shift etc)  (Read 1120 times)

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I wonder if anyone ever made a list of arcade games that required your buttons to be a certain color? Required as in, the game says, "Push the blue button now." And I don't care about square button casino games or mahjong or anything Japanese that is not playable without knowing the language.

Off the top of my head,

Chicken Shift needs a blue and a red button (this would also work nicely for an NES emulator for Gyromite on Player 2's controller)
Trival Pursuit needs a red and green button
Nintendo Vs System should have blue, green, yellow and purple start buttons. Games like Vs SMB say 1P game- blue, 2P game green with no other indicators

anything else??

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Re: What games REQUIRE color buttons, or some such (Chicken Shift etc)
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2013, 05:45:03 pm »
To a degree, Neo Geo. Most of em have button instruction segments that show color coded buttons. Not a huge deal since the buttons also numbered and all in the same order. Red, Yellow Green, Blue.

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Re: What games REQUIRE color buttons, or some such (Chicken Shift etc)
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2013, 05:52:57 pm »
Wheel of Fortune (needs 3 colors, forgot what (Blue, Yellow, Red))

for Chicken Shift, I configured the pinball flipper buttons on the side of the control panel. I find it better gameplay.
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Re: What games REQUIRE color buttons, or some such (Chicken Shift etc)
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2013, 07:18:48 pm »
Thanks guys. That's a good idea for Chicken Shift. For Neo Geo, PlayChoice, Vs System, etc, I will probably just label the buttons, A, B, C, D, etc.

There's no database detailing crazy questions like this is there? Am I crazy or did KLOV (when it still was KLOV) have a better search function than it does now?

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Re: What games REQUIRE color buttons, or some such (Chicken Shift etc)
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2013, 08:08:56 pm »
Mouse Trap (Red, Yellow and Blue doors - Green for the dog).