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Screenshots and gifs of great unported 80s/90s arcade games

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retroman

Member
There are a lot of wonderful arcade games that have never been ported to consoles. Let's post screenshots and gifs of the most desired ones!

Golden Axe: The Revenge Of Death Adder
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A.B. Cop
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The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy
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Night Slashers
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The Outfoxies
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Lucky & Wild
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Alien Vs. Predator
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Dead Connection
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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
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7DollarHagane

Banned
Blood Brothers - the "sequel" to cabal. Has a lot in common with Wild guns and I loved this arcade game.It's one of those random ones we had as a kid at my family's business. (restaurant with mini golf/driving range and a small game room)

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Tizoc

Tizoc

Member
I loved AB Cop as a kid. I couldn't beat it but the idea of riding a jet bike as a cop has that whacky 80s sci fi feel you don't get nowadays.
 
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RiZ III

Member
Came in thinking that I'd be very upset if there was no mention of Revenge of Death Adder. OP does not dissapoint.
 
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SAB CA

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Spider-Man The Video Game:
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I used to love playing this, as it was so very Comic Book-like. I thought it had great graphics for a 1991 release, and I always wondered why there was never a home console port...

... This would also be my main frame of reference for Namor and Black Cat for years to come.
 
M

Mahonay

Banned
Man, great thread. I had mostly forgotten about most of these games. Spent a lot of time in arcades as a kid in the early 90's, so I spent some decent time with a number of these. Chicago was a pretty amazing city to live in for arcades around that time.
 
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GearDraxon

Member
I just discovered The Cliffhanger and Boogie Wings a few weeks ago, and both are amazing.

Boogie Wings has this crazy "pick up almost anything with the hook attached to your plane, and then swing it around with weird physics as a weapon" mechanic. Just fantastic.
 
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Platy

Member
Do you Like SUNSET RIDERS ?

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Both Mystic Warriors and Wild West COW BOYS of Moo Mesa are praticaly sequels to that game !

And sice Death Adder and Ninja Baseball Batman was already told ... I give you the last game in the "HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS NOT PORTED TO ANYTHING" Trilogy :

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Battle Circuit !
Crazy creative characters, quarter circle powers with rpg like level ups and everything good in this that was the last Capcom beat em up ever made

Also, games that were ported but insanely different ...

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Moonwalker is an isometric contra like game with pallete swaps Michael Jacksons

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Robocop 2 is a crazy beat em up/shoot em up with coop and cool shooting levels
 
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L Thammy

Member
You've failed me for the last time, GAF. You missed Armored Warriors.

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CPS2 was basically heaven for fighting games and beat-em-ups. Besides having a wide variety of moves in this game, the enemies sometimes leave behind their arms, legs, or guns, which you can switch for your own in order to change up your attacks. Plus, there are levels where you and your buddies combine your robots into a single gigantic one.
 
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SAB CA

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L Thammy said:
You've failed me for the last time, GAF. You missed Armored Warriors.

*****

CPS2 was basically heaven for fighting games and beat-em-ups. Besides having a wide variety of moves in this game, the enemies sometimes leave behind their arms, legs, or guns, which you can switch for your own in order to change up your attacks. Plus, there are levels where you and your buddies combine your robots into a single gigantic one.
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I was sad when I found out that Cyberbots has a prequel I never got to properly play. Especially since I was a big fan of Cyborg Justice on Genesis ( C B B C C A C B for debug mode!), and this seems like the arcade-level version of that game.

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I still think that game had pretty sweet animations. Always thought it'd make a nice older brother-level game to Megaman in concept.
 
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piggychan

Member
Definitely those Vendetta/mystic warrior games should have gotten a port.

I don't know if any of these got a home console port but...


Mystic Riders
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Dragon Breed
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Tye The Czar

Member
Ninja Baseball Bat Man and Dragon Breed are proof that Irem were some of the best sprite artists of the 90's. 😍 😍

Ninja Baseball Bat Man is also hands-down one of the best 2D brawlers ever made. No exaggeration. 😄
 
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Timu

Member
piggychan said:
Definitely those Vendetta/mystic warrior games should have gotten a port.

I don't know if any of these got a home console port but...


Mystic Riders
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Dragon Breed
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They didn't, but Dragon Breed was on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC and AmigaOS.

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That's the one that had the famous HERE COMES THE BOSS call-out, right? Was the Xbox version just a new installment?
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Yes, it was a different game, I own it as well.
 
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RoryDropkick

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Aurail by Sega/Westone, an interesting overhead and first person perspective tank game released on System 16B hardware. I used to play this all the time at a local theater, and now I'm trying to hunt down a board for my cabinet. Cosmo Tank on the Game Boy plays somewhat similar. The game Blood Gear on PC-Engine CD is very, very loosely tied to the game. Hardcore Gaming 101 has done an article discussing this.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/aurail/aurail.htm
 
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RedSwirl

Junior Member
Jesus. Even with this retro drive, no indie developer has been able to do what Sega and Namco were doing in arcades in the late 80's and the 90's.
 
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