What is your favorite game that nobody has played?
Zanox
best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
My favorite is definitely Anteater.
Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)
> 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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lob
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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.
Alaska. The greatest arcade game of all time.
http://www.tombstones.org.uk/~lob/alaska.html
lob
Andreas Kohlbach
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.
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Mark McDougall
> 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.
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Mark McDougall
> 1942 & Flicky.
Oh and Arkanoid too!
Martin M. S. Pedersen
> 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
lob
$15891$edfa...@dtext01.news.tele.dk:
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.
lob
corky
"Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
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)
corky
"Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
Andreas Kohlbach
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 Kohlbach
>
> 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.
Yep, who would had known them without MAME outside of Japan.
jonceramic
Best one vitually no one knows of? SWAT. You have to use a joystick
to play it well (tough on the keyboard). But, it's fast and fun and I
love it. It makes no sense until you figure out what's going on. You
shoot the guys trying to get to the other side, but they're in tunnels
of blocks. You have to get beside the blocks, and push them (sorta
like pengo?). You can use those pushes as weapons. You can blow up
the guy chasing you with bombs. If they make a tunnel to the other
side, you have fire dagger things that come out and shoot you.
Yup, makes NO sense But, start playing it, get the hang of it, and
it's ADDICTING.
Ones I never heard of but that I play a TON now.... (Some of these
are much more modern than from when I was a kid...)
Quiz and Dragons - Trivia, Dragons, what's not to like? LOL
Bank Panic - 3 buttons of cowboy shooting joy. Pure twitch
excitement.
B.C. Story - Good button masher kinda like track n field, only with a
Racquel Welch hot cavegirl runner.
Go Go Mile Smile- Somewhere between pacman and anteater.
PuLiRuLa - Fun beat-em-up
Puzzli - Connect 4 with fish?
Prehistoric Isle in 1930 - Indiana Jones meets Jurrasic Park
Rompers - Deceptively simple yet challenging game. You push over
walls on the monsters. Sounds stupid right? Just try it, it's
awesome.
Zunzunkyou No Yabou - Kinda like Galga and the spider scene from Tron.
And for the record, I must have been a complete arcade dork, or you
guys are young.... 1942? Arkanoid? Exerion? Elevator Action?
Devil's Hollow? All personal faves. I once almost missed a youth
group tour bus halfway between Fargo and Washington DC because I was
on my best ever 1942 game. That was circa 1986 I think. Good thing
they did a head count, or I'd still be whoring for quarters at a truck
stop in Minnesota.
J
Andreas Kohlbach
>
> "Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2f8c1f14-cf71-41f1...@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>> 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
Dame here.
> 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.
Sinistar?
> Devil's hollow, but too hard for a little kid.
Satan's Hollow?
[...]
Andreas Kohlbach
>
> Best one vitually no one knows of? SWAT. You have to use a joystick
> to play it well (tough on the keyboard). But, it's fast and fun and I
> love it. It makes no sense until you figure out what's going on. You
> shoot the guys trying to get to the other side, but they're in tunnels
> of blocks. You have to get beside the blocks, and push them (sorta
> like pengo?). You can use those pushes as weapons. You can blow up
> the guy chasing you with bombs. If they make a tunnel to the other
> side, you have fire dagger things that come out and shoot you.
>
> Yup, makes NO sense But, start playing it, get the hang of it, and
> it's ADDICTING.
Sounds fun, I should give SWAT a try.
[...]
> And for the record, I must have been a complete arcade dork, or you
> guys are young.... 1942? Arkanoid? Exerion? Elevator Action?
> Devil's Hollow? All personal faves. I once almost missed a youth
> group tour bus halfway between Fargo and Washington DC because I was
> on my best ever 1942 game. That was circa 1986 I think. Good thing
> they did a head count, or I'd still be whoring for quarters at a truck
> stop in Minnesota.
Didn't we all miss something back then? Like when I was on a UK visit in
Brighton or somewhere at the sea side. While the rest of the class
enjoyed them self at the beach, I discovered (yet another) Arcade in a
tent-like environment.
And as always you you have a given time limit of let's say "We all meet
at the bus in 20 minutes", you have the best game of your life. For me it
was Hyper Olympics or Track And Field, where I usually never made it
through the first round of all events. Not to mention, in Brighton, no
time, I did, and still no end to be seen. So they found me (they knew
where I was to be found ;-) and dragged me to the bus. That was in 1986 I
believe. Aah, good old 80s.
Btw. that year they had a Vanguard (1981) cab on a ferry between France
and UK. It was in a very bad shape, and I was sea sick, so just made the
first level and gave up. Usually I made it to level 8 or 10, one day I
must have passed level 20 after almost 2 hours for one coin.
corky
"Andreas Kohlbach" <a...@spamfence.net> wrote in message
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corky wrote on 05. July 2008:
>
> "Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2f8c1f14-cf71-41f1...@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>> 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
Dame here.
> 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.
>Sinistar?
No, it was older and with raster graphics kinda like Star Castle.
corky
"Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> best game you have come across that you never knew about before?
>
> My favorite is definitely Anteater.
Here is an oldy. I was called Zap. You had to fire in 4 directions with 4
buttons at stuff coming at you, like cosmic arc.
SINNER
> "Andreas Kohlbach" <a...@spamfence.net> wrote in message
[...]
>> 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.
>>Sinistar?
> No, it was older and with raster graphics kinda like Star Castle.
Star Castle is Vector Graphics.
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corky
"SINNER" <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> wrote in message
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Oh ya, been a while. Got my terminology messed up.
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> David
Syfo-Dyas
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?
>
>My favorite is definitely Anteater.
Way back kind of corny but fun a game called Adventure and was made by
company called Roc-Ola... Maybe 1980 or 1981. Anybody heard of that
one?
FSogol
Bosconian is one of the few games that I never saw in the arcade. Great
game.
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Mark McDougall
> Bosconian is one of the few games that I never saw in the arcade. Great
> game.
I never saw it in the arcades, but did play a version on the TRS-80. Only
after I saw it on MAME did I discover that the TRS-80 version was an arcade
port.
Never did think much of it though. :(
Regards,
Mark McDougall
> And for the record, I must have been a complete arcade dork, or you
> guys are young.... 1942? Arkanoid? Exerion? Elevator Action?
> Devil's Hollow?
No, I'm not young, and spent my fair share of time in the arcades around the
mid-eighties whilst skipping tutorials. Not quite sure how 1942 escaped my
attention - and I'm pretty sure I never saw Arkanoid either - or perhaps
those memories have long been obliterated by beer or scotch???
Our uni games room had Elevator Action - I recall that much. Also Juno First
and Xevious - my favourites - which explains my ability to play the former
indefinitely and the latter a few times completely through, whilst achieving
very mediocre scores in my Computer Science degree... ;)
Never missed a bus because of the arcades, but perhaps missed a few job
interviews because of the aforementioned academic performance...
corky
"Mark McDougall" <msmc...@no.spam.iinet> wrote in message
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> FSogol wrote:
>
>> Bosconian is one of the few games that I never saw in the arcade. Great
>> game.
>
> I never saw it in the arcades, but did play a version on the TRS-80. Only
> after I saw it on MAME did I discover that the TRS-80 version was an
> arcade port.
>
> Never did think much of it though. :(
>
> Regards,
One game in that took a chunk out of a college class for me was "Total
Carnage". It was a spoof on the first Iraq war and based on Smash TV. Really
funny, violent game.
The Batt
> "Zanox" <ericwrig...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:2f8c1f14-cf71-41f1...@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> 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.
That game is Space Fury. He used to start off by saying "So a
creature for my amusement...Prepare for battle!"
Tom Zjaba
Arcade After Dark
http://arcadeafterdark.com
corky
"Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
What was the 70's game with vector graphics that you flew a ship around and
tried to destroy another ship inside of a round structure with a strait path
to the inside ship. You had to time the shot up the pathway and the
structure rotated as well. Your controls had a right and left thruster that
propelled and steered your little ship. When you hit the enemy, his fortress
exploded.
Syfo-Dyas
wrote:
I saw and played that many many times the reason being it was my best
friends best game.
Syfo-Dyas
corky
news:39e874h4idgc684lh...@4ax.com...
Bosconian was on a $10 handheld gismo from ToysRUS that had a bunch of games
like dig-dug. Me and a friend had Bosconian tournaments for a while. Good
game that is fun to this day.
Mark McDougall
> Bosconian was on a $10 handheld gismo from ToysRUS that had a bunch of games
> like dig-dug. Me and a friend had Bosconian tournaments for a while. Good
> game that is fun to this day.
<http://www.firebox.com/product/729/Namco-5-in-1-Arcade-Classics>
FSogol
> On Jul 5, 7:41 pm, "corky" <co...@bureauofschmeng.com> wrote:
>> "Zanox" <ericwrig...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:2f8c1f14-cf71-41f1...@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>
>
>> Can't Remember name but It was a space combat game like Asteroids. A
>> cycloptic brain-alien taunted you. There were powerups that you could choose
>> by docking with them.
>
> That game is Space Fury. He used to start off by saying "So a
> creature for my amusement...Prepare for battle!"
>
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SINNER
>
I thought you mentioned that in a previous post?
Message-ID: <hkeck.24$Lz2...@newsfe02.lga>
That was Star Castle.
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/star_castle/
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corky
"SINNER" <arcade...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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This was not star castle but a lot like it.
> --
> David
corky
"Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
Remember Omega Race?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAI4S4-9doA
Andreas Kohlbach
>
> "Zanox" <ericw...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2f8c1f14-cf71-41f1...@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>> 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.
>
> Remember Omega Race?
"In the year 2003 the Omega system developed..." *g*
I was on holiday when that happened (what ever happened) so might have
missed it. *g*
Syfo-Dyas
wrote:
And on my colecovision in 1982
jonceramic
> "Zanox" <ericwrig...@gmail.com> wrote in message
Of course! Loved it. So much that I had the horrid Atari 2600
version with the extra joystick slipover controller. (I actually
still have that.)
I have a custom lapfriendly MAME controller I'm considering building
which would only be a spinner with a Star Trek/Omega Race friendly
layout.
J
Warrior Steve
SINNER
>> That was Star Castle.
>> http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/star_castle/
> Sinistar?
Sinistar is raster graphics and the sisntar isnt a ship within walls.
awesome game though and 1 of my persoanl favs.
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Andreas Kohlbach
>
> * Warrior Steve wrote in alt.games.mame:
>
>> "SINNER" <arcade...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9AD666769E24Dl...@140.99.99.130...
>
>
>>> http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/star_castle/
>
>> Sinistar?
>
> Sinistar is raster graphics and the sisntar isnt a ship within walls.
> awesome game though and 1 of my persoanl favs.
R-Type?
SCNR
PRoToCoL
<a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>SINNER wrote on 23. July 2008:
>>
>> * Warrior Steve wrote in alt.games.mame:
>>
>>> "SINNER" <arcade...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:Xns9AD666769E24Dl...@140.99.99.130...
>>
>>>> That was Star Castle.
>>
>>>> http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/star_castle/
>>
>>> Sinistar?
>>
>> Sinistar is raster graphics and the sisntar isnt a ship within walls.
>> awesome game though and 1 of my persoanl favs.
>
>R-Type?
>
>SCNR
Nice to see this old gag is still running
FSogol
Gag? It really was R-Type this time.
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Syfo-Dyas
SINNER
>>I guess not?
The only Adventure I rememeber was Atari.
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SuperMappy
news:8fapl5x...@news.gates-of-hell.com:
> * Syfo-Dyas wrote in alt.games.mame:
>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:06:25 GMT, Syfo-Dyas <Syfo...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>
>>>On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:14:44 GMT, Syfo-Dyas <Syfo...@gmail.com>
>>>wrote:
>
>>>>On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 05:17:43 -0700 (PDT), Zanox <ericwright1
@gmail.com>
>>>>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?
>
>>>>>My favorite is definitely Anteater.
>
>>>>Way back kind of corny but fun a game called Adventure and was made
by
>>>>company called Roc-Ola... Maybe 1980 or 1981. Anybody heard of that
>>>>one?
>
>>>I guess not?
>
>> This game nobody knows huh???
>
> The only Adventure I rememeber was Atari.
Maybe it's "Venture" but that's by Exidy
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