Zanox wrote: > Now that we have virtually every arcade game ever made what is the > best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
Adult mahjong? :)
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> Now that we have virtually every arcade game ever made what is the > best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
> My favorite is definitely Anteater.
Mine is Elevator Action (1983). I'm not sure if I ever saw it back then, but as I installed my first MAME in 1998 (pure DOS, because I wanted it that way :-) it was one of the first, next to the otherwise known Galaga, Galaxians and Asteroids I tried. Since then and about 2003 (so five years) I must have played it almost every day, so some 1000-1500 times. Always in the hardest setting but never managed to finish the 5th level. High score about 83,000.
Another I'm sure I never saw in the 80s was Exerion. -- Andreas Old school arcade classics at <http://www.ankman.de/mame/> Tired of Windows malware but fear to try out Linux? Try a CD-live Linux which does not touch your harddisk. Like <http://www.ubuntu.com/> or <http://www.knoppix.com/>. Find out if Linux works for you without any risk.
Zanox wrote: > Now that we have virtually every arcade game ever made what is the > best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
1942 & Flicky.
There's also been a handful of shoot-em-ups (together with platformers, my favourite genre) that I've played occasionally that I've been quite impressed with - some of the Don Pachi ? series come to mind.
A few others, like Puzzle Bobble & Metal Slug, I was aware about in the arcades but never played them until I tried them on a NeoGeo emulator (before MAME could run them satisfactorily). Now they're amongst my favourites!
However, and not surprisingly I suppose, the vast majority of my favourites have been games I've played in the actual arcades.
Mark McDougall wrote: > A few others, like Puzzle Bobble & Metal Slug, I was aware about in the > arcades but never played them until I tried them on a NeoGeo emulator > (before MAME could run them satisfactorily). Now they're amongst my > favourites!
Metal Slug is nice if you don't have to pay for playing it.
"Martin M. S. Pedersen" <traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote in news:486f6242$0 $15891$edfad...@dtext01.news.tele.dk:
> Mark McDougall wrote:
>> A few others, like Puzzle Bobble & Metal Slug, I was aware about in the >> arcades but never played them until I tried them on a NeoGeo emulator >> (before MAME could run them satisfactorily). Now they're amongst my >> favourites!
> Metal Slug is nice if you don't have to pay for playing it.
> /Martin
I thought we were talking about games that *nobody* has played. So far, Alaska seems to be the winner. The greatest arcade games of all time that *nobody* has ever played.
> Now that we have virtually every arcade game ever made what is the > best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
> My favorite is definitely Anteater.
Halley's comet. (80's coin op) Oscar(some mecha-robot scrolling shooter) (late 80's coin op) Us Versus Them (bizarro alien space shooter with hilarious cimematic cutscenes)
> Now that we have virtually every arcade game ever made what is the > best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
> My favorite is definitely Anteater.
Other coin op games on the obscure list(not too much) I liked:
Tailgunner
Can't Remember name but It was a space combat game like Asteroids. A cycloptic brain-alien taunted you. There were powerups that you could choose by docking with them.
Devil's hollow, but too hard for a little kid.
There was another mid 80s that I never saw anywhere but one arcade. It was a scroller kind of like "ghosts n goblins". The graphics were pretty good but cartoonish and cutesy. Your little guy hade a cape and I think was supposed to be a little wizard. He fired little fireballs that fell to the ground in a short arc. The weapon powerups included a flame that surrounded you and did massive aoe and one that shot out a flame beam that moved up and down with your body(so you could jump to make it go over things). No idea of the name. Any help?
> "Martin M. S. Pedersen" <traxpla...@gmail.com> wrote in news:486f6242$0 > $15891$edfad...@dtext01.news.tele.dk:
>> Mark McDougall wrote:
>>> A few others, like Puzzle Bobble & Metal Slug, I was aware about in > the >>> arcades but never played them until I tried them on a NeoGeo emulator >>> (before MAME could run them satisfactorily). Now they're amongst my >>> favourites!
>> Metal Slug is nice if you don't have to pay for playing it.
>> /Martin
> I thought we were talking about games that *nobody* has played. So far, > Alaska seems to be the winner. The greatest arcade games of all time > that *nobody* has ever played.
Mail me the rom please. Then at least one will have it played. Though it looks a lot like Gunship from the C64. *g* -- Andreas Old school arcade classics at <http://www.ankman.de/mame/> Tired of Windows malware but fear to try out Linux? Try a CD-live Linux which does not touch your harddisk. Like <http://www.ubuntu.com/> or <http://www.knoppix.com/>. Find out if Linux works for you without any risk.
>> Now that we have virtually every arcade game ever made what is the >> best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
> 1942 & Flicky.
> There's also been a handful of shoot-em-ups (together with > platformers, my favourite genre) that I've played occasionally that > I've been quite impressed with - some of the Don Pachi ? series come > to mind.
Yep, who would had known them without MAME outside of Japan. -- Andreas Old school arcade classics at <http://www.ankman.de/mame/> Tired of Windows malware but fear to try out Linux? Try a CD-live Linux which does not touch your harddisk. Like <http://www.ubuntu.com/> or <http://www.knoppix.com/>. Find out if Linux works for you without any risk.
