What are the best Daphne games?

[DanteBK]

I'm thinking about getting Daphne for my cabinet, so besides the obvious --Dragon's Lair 1 and 2, Space Ace-- are there any other Daphne games worth buying at $5 a pop?

I'm penny pinching wherever I can, and I've never heard of any these weird games before . . . I mean Us vs Them? Esh's Aurunmilla? Could these possibly be good games?

[Lilwolf]

why are you buying them?  

From someone burning them?  

There are other free ways if you have a fast connection (newsgroups are a good start... alt.binaries.emulation.misc I think has them every so often)

[atog]

Did you play them as a kid?  I did, so I had a pseudo emotional attachment/memory of them, and that is why I wanted them all.  Once I got them actually installed, and started playing them, I quickly realized that the reality of them is not nearly as good as the memory.

Some of the games are downright horrible.  The only ones that I might ever fire up and play again would be Astron Belt and Dragons Lair.  

[DanteBK]

why are you buying them?  

From someone burning them?  

There are other free ways if you have a fast connection (newsgroups are a good start... alt.binaries.emulation.misc I think has them every so often)

I don't know how much detail I'm allowed to go into based on the rules of this site, but suffice to say it's $5 each or $30 for all of them. I'm buying them because the computer I'm using for the cabinet does not and will not have an internet connection, and I don't have a DVD burner on my internet computer.

As for atog's question -- I didn't play any of the laserdisc games as a kid. I guess I'm caught up in the hype, as everyone and the grandmother seems to say Dragon's Lair 1 & 2 and Space Ace are the ultimate things to have. Far be it from me to not have the ultimate things.

I did love this SEGA CD game that was just like Dragon's Lair, only driving in car and having to dodge other cars and guns and boats and stuff. Road Blaster? Road Avenger? Something like that. I played that as a kid. I'm only 22.

[Teknique]

buy DL 1 and Space Ace.  Unless you really want to work at it, DL 2 for all intents and purposes will not work (the emu dosnt support it yet, but there were some people working on a work-around).  Esh's Aurunmilla and Super Don-Quixote are the only other ones Id really recommend at all.  They are all fun to play at least once, but not really worth playing for extended periods.

Tek
 

[atog]

If you didn't play these as a kid, you aren't going to enjoy them.  In 1983 they were cutting age technology, but poor game play.  Today it's 20 year old technology AND poor game play.

I do get a kick out of Astron belt, just because it's funny to look at it now and think that when I was 13, I actually thought those were cool looking space ships.  

[RetroBorg]

Grab them all!

[Howard_Casto]

Dragon's Lair 2 works just find in the wip builds of daphne, the scoreboard just isn't implimented.  

I would suggest if you are paying real money for them NOT to purchase space ace, dl and dl2 from ths place.  You can obtain them legally by ripping from the dvds (which you can get for a similar price from ebay, just be careful and make sure you get a "rippable" version as instructed on the daphne forums).  

Imho you should NEVER pay for something that is illegal to begin with.  But if you must, make sure you can't obtain them a more proper way first.  

[Mr. Dude]

My personal favorite was BadLands.... I don't think it's fully emulated for Daphne though.

[killbill]

DL1, DL 2, Space Ace, Cliff Hanger, and Super Don Quixote are the BEST.  Astron Belt is good because it's a different kind of Laser Game than the others listed above, and it's fun.

These are the 6 I would buy.

By the way, the Sega CD game you liked was called Road Avenger.  There were game like that for Segsa CD: Road Avenger, Time Gal, and Revenge of the Ninja.  These games are very fun, and can be emulated using Gens, if you have the ISOs and MP3 files

[somunny]

I picked up DL 1 & 2 and Space Ace dvd-roms on ebay over the last two weeks.  Total cost was about $12.  Haven't had time to extract the files yet, though.  

You want the dvd-roms, not the cd-roms or plain dvd (console) versions.   Lots of cd-rom versions listed, but you need to be patient to find the dvd-roms.

Coop

[Rocky]

I guess I'm the only Thayer's Quest fan. Man, I spent a lot of time and $$$ in front of that machine (either playing or watching someone else).  I still remember the first time I played it completely through. I had a huge crowd gathered behind me.  Ahh...... those days are gone forever.

[btoddkelley]

I thought thayers quest was never finished in the arcade version, only on PC?

Todd

[Howard_Casto]

Thayer's quest was broken up into a trilogy, much like lord of the rings.  Unfortunately, only the first chapter was released due to time constraints and lack of interest from the general public.  There is a definate ending, but the pc versions (which are called something different, like journey)  are longer.  

[Rocky]

Thayer's Quest told about 5 kingdoms, but the game only was written to do 3 of them. They planned to to a Thayer's Quest II, but the company crapped out. The game ends (it actually restarted without any fanfare) when you cross the bridge into the 4th Kingdom.

The game was rewritten for PC with Thayer becoming Lathan and all the voices and characters changed.

Reaches - a redo of Thayer's Quest arcade game
Shadoan - the sequel which completes the game

[btoddkelley]

thanks for the info guys!


Todd