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[Inky]

Have ye any favorite games in MAME that you've never seen before, in the arcade or otherwise that you find entertaining?

For me, I'm hoplessly addicted to the game Chicken Shift. The way it works is that you have two buttons, a red and a blue one. Eggs roll down a chute towards a egg carton. Every so often there is a pipe whose direction you can 'shift' to allow the egg to pass through on its way to the carton. The object is to make sure no eggs crash to the floor.

It's a fun little puzzler. Check the link above for screenshots.

[bjk7382]

I have played that game a few times, I think it is pretty good, but I still play Joust and robotron, and qix more than chicken shift.

[Room 34]

I haven't made too many discoveries in MAME because I never bother to download ROMs for games I'm not familiar with. But thanks to Midway Arcade Treasures on the GameCube I have discovered the mindless joys of Toobin', a game I had never heard of until mid-2003 when I was hunting through NES titles at a used game store, and at that point didn't even consider buying because it looked so stupid.

Goes to show, I should learn that I like stupid stuff.

[SS]

I’m gonna cheat on this answer slightly and say Camel Try. It showed up in the RAINE emulator a half year or so earlier than it did in MAME but I had never heard of the game until I discovered it in an emulated form. It’s such a great game too. I’d love to have the opportunity to play it on a real machine someday and play it with a spinner. In fact, that game is the whole reason that I finally broke down and got a SNES after saying for years that I had absolutely no interest in one. The US SNES release name is “On The Ball”.

[JB]

I like Sundance.

A Cinematronics game with a short and tragic tale.
The monitors were flawed, so most machines shorted out and died immediatly upon being plugged in, depriving everyone of the game.

[Nukey Shay]

Rampart is one...I didn't even know about the game since it's been a while that we even had arcades around here.

And that split-screen Space Invaders clone whose name escapes me at the moment (2 player with bases at the top/bottom of the screen and invaders charging both).

[killersquirel]

I like the old 70's arcades such as Firetruck, Sky Raider, Orbit, Sky Diver, Canyon Bomber, etc. I love playing the old games that I haven't seen since the late 70's, early 80's.

-mike

[JB]

Nukey Shay said:

Rampart is one...I didn't even know about the game since it's been a while that we even had arcades around here.

And that split-screen Space Invaders clone whose name escapes me at the moment (2 player with bases at the top/bottom of the screen and invaders charging both).

Space Invaders 2. Midway's style.

http://www.klov.com/...r=&game_id=9668

[mojofltr]

@Nukey: I love Rampart!!!! You might want to check out the famicom version of Rampart as it is much different than the other various ports. While the basics are the same, the characters you use are very different. It's been a while, but I think there might be a quest mode in it as well. I sure wish one of the translation groups would pick up on this one! If you are at all interested, PM me... I'll hook you up with the ROM.

There are several games that I am hooked on in Mame that I never saw in the arcade: The Glob, Anteater, and Foodfight to name just a few.

I grew up sheltered. My mother thought that the dark smokey atmosphere of arcades were the devil's playground for child molesters and such. Incidentally, I really don't have many memories of the earlier titles, except for those that I caught a glimpse of on rare occasions when I sneaked in while she wasn't looking. Of those I remember, but never actually played, Dragon's Lair stands especially. The only early arcade games that I have a good memory of were usually found in well lit department stores - Shopko, K-mart and such. Thus, my favorite arcade games growing up were Megaforce (Starforce for others), and High-speed MsPacman, and Q*bert! :-)

[cimerians]

Guzzler is one I discovered on MAME which I love to play:

http://www.klov.com/...=G&game_id=8056

I think your a little bubble filled with water and shoot water at various monster like fire things....


weird but fun

[Inky]

SS said:

I’m gonna cheat on this answer slightly and say Camel Try.  It showed up in the RAINE emulator a half year or so earlier than it did in MAME but I had never heard of the game until I discovered it in an emulated form.  It’s such a great game too.  I’d love to have the opportunity to play it on a real machine someday and play it with a spinner.  In fact, that game is the whole reason that I finally broke down and got a SNES after saying for years that I had absolutely no interest in one.  The US SNES release name is “On The Ball”.

That's another good one. It's reminiscent of the bonus levels in Sonic the Hedgehog 1

[bjk7382]

cimerians said:

Guzzler is one I discovered on MAME which I love to play:

http://www.klov.com/...=G&game_id=8056

I think your a little bubble filled with water and shoot water at various monster like fire things....


weird but fun

I have played this quite a bit, and I think it is a great game.

[Tempest]

Peter Peppers Ice Cream Factory. This sequel to Burger Time was only made for the DECO tape system which I never saw in an arcade. Cool game, but really hard. I always thought it would make good homebrew fodder.

Tempest

[Osmeroid]

Anyone ever play 'Mutant Fighter'? Excellent two-player vs. or team beat 'em-up. I've never seen the ROM to this made available ever

How about Atari's 'Dominoes'

[Inky]

I don't like fighters too much, but when I saw that one was made based upon the old Japanese TV show Ultraman, I had to play it... And it's pretty good!

[Happy_Dude]

I,ROBOT.

[Gamemaster_ca_2003]

my lattest discovery

Taito Plotting

great game sort of on the lines of tetris.

take a look

http://www.klov.com/...=P&game_id=9046

[highinfidelity]

"Scrambled Egg". If you ask me, that's very amusing!

Sometimes I find myself playing "Warp & Warp". Don't know what I find in that game, but it attracts me somehow...

[Scooterb23]

I'm Sorry
Psycho Soldier (although it doesn't work 100% correctly yet)
Jump Coaster (although I don't really know how to play it)
Speed Coin
Numan Athletics (another that doesn't work that great...but what does work is fun)
Journey (yes an arcade game based on the band)
Son Son
Timber
Strength & Skill


A few of my personal oddball favorites

[Inky]

The Atari prototype SPARKZ is pretty good. The Atari Arcade Classics proto is good, too.

[incog]

Motos is a strangely addictive obscure game... kinda like marble madness