Yeah, really fun game. Too bad that the only way to play it is through mame.
I actually never played it. Apparently it's a 6 buttons game and you can possess enemies, changing your look and abilities in the process.
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Screenshots and gifs of great unported 80s/90s arcade games
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Nerdkiller
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Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
Secret Character
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Everybody knows that Sunset Riders is an amazing game, but did any of you play the spiritual sequel?
Mystic Warriors from Konami
Heck, there was a stage where the intro from Sunset Riders played in the background:
Unlike Sunset Riders, there were 5 characters in this game. When there are fewer than four people playing, the game randomly picks one of the unused characters to help drive the story by having them kidnapped. The gameplay is identical to Sunset Riders and goes for a more cyberpunk meets ancient Japan motif.
Edit: Serves me right for not seeing this on the first page. Good taste, Platy.
Mystic Warriors from Konami
Heck, there was a stage where the intro from Sunset Riders played in the background:
Unlike Sunset Riders, there were 5 characters in this game. When there are fewer than four people playing, the game randomly picks one of the unused characters to help drive the story by having them kidnapped. The gameplay is identical to Sunset Riders and goes for a more cyberpunk meets ancient Japan motif.
Edit: Serves me right for not seeing this on the first page. Good taste, Platy.
I did back in the arcades when it was 1st out and loved it. Shame about it never coming to consoles.Everybody knows that Sunset Riders is an amazing game, but did any of you play the spiritual sequel?
Mystic Warriors from Konami
Heck, there was a stage where the intro from Sunset Riders played in the background:
Unlike Sunset Riders, there were 5 characters in this game. When there are fewer than four people playing, the game randomly picks one of the unused characters to help drive the story by having them kidnapped. The gameplay is identical to Sunset Riders and goes for a more cyberpunk meets ancient Japan motif.
Not so! While some versions of Vendetta were censored, others (still bearing the Vendetta name) kept the humping enemies and ABOUT TO DIE warning at low health (which for whatever reason was also removed).
I know this as my old bowling alley had an uncensored Vendetta cab, and I confirmed it with MAME a while back.
Ok, that's news to me. Didn't know, thanks for telling me this.
Ha, ha, wow, that is a strange looking fighting game.This game is legit. No sarcasm.
MrCunningham
Member
Every time i ran into one of those Sega Hologram machines the little wooden blocks were always broken off.
There was also a fighting game that used the same tech, Holosseum
It was super bare bones though, and outside of the novelty wasn't really worth much attention in the days of SF2 and MK2.
I remember when Sega Holossum Time Traveler hit the arcades for the first time. On the first day that it arrived at a local arcade near me, there was a massive line up that was going outside of the arcade of people waiting in line to play it. No joke. But the popularity died down in the span of 2 or 3 days after people released it was a lame FMV game with a lame rear projection holographic gimmick.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I think they were just for looks, probably to help give it the illusion of depth. The ones that were broken it never really seemed to make a difference.
Lol. Well, it was better than Time Killers as well.
Johnny Cage approved. Can't go wrong!
papertoonz
Member
INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGIES
they also made the street fighter the movie arcade game and boy is that game silly
Star Rider.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVcA3l6v3E
Last time I looked there was still no way to play this laserdisk racing game.
A pity because I remember it blowing me away when I first played it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVcA3l6v3E
Last time I looked there was still no way to play this laserdisk racing game.
A pity because I remember it blowing me away when I first played it.
KingpinZero
Member
Uhm, this game has been ported to Sega Genesis. Name's Time Killers.
Time Killers is a completely different game and it's worse. And plays horribly.
KingpinZero
Member
I stand corrected. Time Killers is the prequel, right.
I wanted to like it but it's so clunky to play.
Toki
the saddest part..
they were working on a port for PS3 and X360.. never was released though..
Toki was released on the Amiga.
Ninja Scooter
Member
eso76
Member
Again ?
Nah, there was parallax in the original too, I think Amiga had parallax in one or two spots where the arcade didn't (underwater level) but that's it.
Also, it ran at 30/25 fps vs the original's 60 and with fewer colours on screen.
Having said that, it was still a great arcade conversion for the time.
It's still pretty great today. It was one of the very few arcade ports on the Amiga really capable to look like the original game. Rather than the 30fps, or the less rich color palette - pretty negligible shortcomings, to be fair - what bothered me was the reduced screen size. On smaller monitors, it was like playing the game in a window.
runnin_blue
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OMG...I had completely forgotten about this. I played this for hours once as a kid at a free to play session in my local mall...and fucking loved it. Must have been 1989-1992 sometime. I have never thought about it since. It was forgotten from my memory. Until now.Hippodrome - Data East 1989
Thank you.
Spikematic
Member
Unbelievably awesome thread. Thanks so much for sharing all this guys. Feeling super nostalgic now.
Tinkle Pit
it's like a namco-ized version of Mr Do!
Interesting name
Game looks pretty neat though.
Tizoc
Member
This game is legit. No sarcasm.
No lies detected.
KingpinZero
Member
Hippodrome - Data East 1989
Sorry but no, Hyppodrome / Fighting Fantasy doesnt belong here.
It got a port for the PC Engine in '93.
woopWOOP
Member
That's the one with all the crazy secret bosses, right? Like every playground rumor turned reality, lol
Never knew about some of these... and they look great! Subscribed so I can check out some of these at a later point.
There was a game (pretty sure Neo-Geo) I saw as a kid in the arcade. I loved it, but can't remember the name. I hope my description can do it justice, so that someone will know what it is and have screenshots or gifs of it.
It's a side scrolling beat-em up. The 2 players are samurai-like warriors. I assume it takes place in Japan or a Japan-inspired fantasy world. You fight enemies using swords and assorted weapons, pretty typical for a beat-em up.
But you'd gain powerups that would equip you with armor and special moves for your weapons. I remember one of the armor powerups you'd get was samurai armor but your helmet had like deer antlers on it.
Any suggestions? I want to say it had a japanese name similar to something like Suikoden (i know that's a different game, but the name is kinda like that if I recall)
It's a side scrolling beat-em up. The 2 players are samurai-like warriors. I assume it takes place in Japan or a Japan-inspired fantasy world. You fight enemies using swords and assorted weapons, pretty typical for a beat-em up.
But you'd gain powerups that would equip you with armor and special moves for your weapons. I remember one of the armor powerups you'd get was samurai armor but your helmet had like deer antlers on it.
Any suggestions? I want to say it had a japanese name similar to something like Suikoden (i know that's a different game, but the name is kinda like that if I recall)
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
This thread is amazing. There's at least 15 games here I've never even seen before and I'm usually someone who's pretty thorough about trying out obscure arcade games.
Good work guys, thank you.
Good work guys, thank you.
eso76
Member
That's what I meant.
Back then we were used to ports that, at best, vaguely resembled the originals, so Toki on Amiga seemed especially great, pixel perfect even.
Things got better though, western devs finally started putting some real effort in porting arcades to home computers and Amiga's late years did see a decent amount of good conversions.
Back to Toki, I always thought the original was just OK anyway, not sure how it got so popular.
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.
I still think that game had pretty sweet animations. Always thought it'd make a nice older brother-level game to Megaman in concept.
Oh man, Cyborg Justice. I loved that game so much. I want to say I played it at a friend's house, and never actually owned the game myself. I'd kill for a port of it on newer systems. It's a beat-em up classic.
xDUMPWEEDx
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eso76
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More games from Igs:
Demon Front - Blatant, but competent, Metal Slug rip off
The Gladiator
Spectral V Generation
Oriental Legend 2
Alien Challenge
And was Cool Riders - Sega mentioned yet ?
Video Here
these will do for now
Demon Front - Blatant, but competent, Metal Slug rip off
The Gladiator
Spectral V Generation
Oriental Legend
Oriental Legend 2
Alien Challenge
And was Cool Riders - Sega mentioned yet ?
Video Here
these will do for now