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What are your favorite unported arcade games? Here's mine

VGEsoterica

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Recently I've been compiling a list of my favorite unported arcade games so I can talk about them like I do with rare and obscure hardware (3DO M2, Hyper Neo Geo 64, etc) but I realize "favorites" is always such a subjective topic.

I started with Warrior Blade : Rastan Saga III. I fell in love with it at Village Pizza in Okemo, Vermont. Weirdly the place always had random cabinets in the place, and around 2004 they had Rastan Saga III in the full dual monitor "ultrawide" setup. It was widescreen gaming before widescreens were actually a thing...something Taito used for Darius and would continue to iterate on with their "ultra ultrawide" Darius Burst : Chronicle Savior. It makes perfect sense why this wasn't ported though...an ultrawide game in arcades in 1993 doesn't leave you with a ton to port it to! Still wish Taito would include it in a compilation at some point in time though.

Up next : Maze of the Kings. An absolutely amazing light gun game from Sega that sadly has become pretty damn rare due to the custom light gun that was installed on the cabinet. It was an Anubis head shaped wand. If you can even find one to buy it'll run you upwards of $400 for one. I keep looking though lol

added Planet Harriers : an amazing game from Sega that sadly will eventually be lost to time due to a defect in the pcb design :(

But I am curious what your top unported arcade games are? There are SO many of them, both popular and obscure AF. I may do a second set of ten games, as talking about ten of my personal favorites was a really fun time.

Edit : added Armed Police Batrider and Planet Harriers
 
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VGEsoterica

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So you know what Rastan Saga III actually looks like lol. From now on I'll just use this one thread when I talk about unported stuff

and added Scud Race. I had so much fun with the first ten unported arcade games I did I may do a second ten, so keep your fav unported games coming. Some I’ve heard about, others are brand new to me...which I love
 
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The Bloody-Nine

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VGEsoterica said:
I just genuinely enjoy making and talking about rare and random stuff. If a mod was upset and said something I wouldn't post them. I try to be an active participant on the forums as well. I just want to eat ham and talk Rastan today lol
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I respect the hustle and you seem like a good egg. Just busting your chops. :messenger_grinning:
 
drganon

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I was going to say this light gun game called maximum force. Not my favorite, but good one nonetheless. Turns out though there was a console port for the Saturn and ps1, so I got nothing.
 
deriks

deriks

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Time Crisis series was exclusive to PlayStation consoles, but it's like "this game for that console and that's it". I know that GunCon doesn't work with modern TVs, but hey, you can do some modern shit to work too
 
Old Retro

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First thing that I thought of was Saint Dragon, but apparently they made a PC port

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They also made a Combatribes SNES version!?!?! Holy shit, I am finding this out 30 years later :messenger_hushed:
 
VGEsoterica

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Old Retro said:
First thing that I thought of was Saint Dragon, but apparently they made a PC port

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They also made a Combatribes SNES version!?!?! Holy shit, I am finding this out 30 years later :messenger_hushed:
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isnt it funny when you find something like that out years later? I could have sworn the PS1 version of SF Rush was cancelled. Clearly I’m wrong. I saw it last year and was like “huh”?
 
VGEsoterica

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kunonabi said:
Virtua Fighter 4: Final Tuned
Lucky & Wild
Virtua Cop 3
Samurai Shodown 64
Buriki One
Dancing Eyes

I think those are the big ones.
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Buriki One and Sam Sho 64 are awesome. I have them both in my collection and recently did some videos on them.

Final Tuned would be awesome to get a pcb for. Wonder what that’s going for these days
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best

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Tekken Tag on PS2. Seriously, the leap between this and the arcade version was MASSIVE on a visual scale, even moreso in many ways than Soul Calibur was from arcade to Dreamcast. Here's the arcade Tekken Tag version by comparison:



They're absolutely generations apart visually despite being essentially the same game.

And people are worried about cross-gen XSX games being held back by the previous gen systems :pie_roffles:
 
Miles708

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No mention of Scud Race?


This game missing from the Dreamcast library will be forever filed under the "felony" folder.

Of course Sega hates me so they've done it again in more recent times with R-Tuned, on the Xbox360-based arcade board Lindbergh



But now arcades are no longer the rage so this thing can't happen again, right? Lol think again, Sega done it once again with Sega World Drivers Championship


This is even based on Unreal Engine 4 so not porting it can only mean they want me to suffer, and it is working.
 
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diffusionx

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thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:


Tekken Tag on PS2. Seriously, the leap between this and the arcade version was MASSIVE on a visual scale, even moreso in many ways than Soul Calibur was from arcade to Dreamcast. Here's the arcade Tekken Tag version by comparison:



They're absolutely generations apart visually despite being essentially the same game.

And people are worried about cross-gen XSX games being held back by the previous gen systems :pie_roffles:
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Well, they are generations apart literally, because the arcade version ran on a PS1-derived board.
 
mcjmetroid

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A weird one but I preferred the PS1 version of Bubble Bobble. They fixed a few things about the game. Yes they made it a little easier but the game needed it in parts.

Bubble Bobble is the best arcade game of all time.
 
lock2k

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Miles708 said:
No mention of Scud Race?


This game missing from the Dreamcast library will be forever filed under the "felony" folder.

Of course Sega hates me so they've done it again in more recent times with R-Tuned, on the Xbox360-based arcade board Lindbergh



But now arcades are no longer the rage so this thing can't happen again, right? Lol think again, Sega done it once again with Sega World Drivers Championship


This is even based on Unreal Engine 4 so not porting it can only they want me to suffer and it is working.
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That's Super GT right? I still think it looks impressive 24 years later What an amazing beast of a game.

Also... arcade racers > simulators. Arcade racers are LIFE. Fuck simulators. They can choke on a big cock . lol
 
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kunonabi said:
Virtua Fighter 4: Final Tuned
Lucky & Wild
Virtua Cop 3
Samurai Shodown 64
Buriki One
Dancing Eyes

I think those are the big ones.
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Ill add a few...

World Combat/Warzaid/Wartran Troopers
Rambo
Lethal Enforcers 3
Mocap Boxing
Police 24/7 Part 2
Sogeki - Silent Scope 3
Thrill Drive 2/3
Scud Race

Konami was responsible for most of those (except Scud Race and Rambo) and all could easily be done on consoles as most of them have sequels already ported, or in the case of Mocap Boxing could have been done on the Wii or Kinect easily
 
Faithless83

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Merzbear said:
Yeah Cadillacs and Dinosaurs for fucking real.



When the gyms open back up I need to go on the tread to this.
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First 2 that popped in my head. Excelent choices.

REDRZA MWS said:
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This one is present in Elevator Action Returns on Sega Saturn, at least as an unlockable.
I remember it as the first arcade that I ever saw as a kid. We had an atari 2600 at the time, it blew my mind how much better this was.
Probably it's on something else as well.
 
molasar

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Dazrael said:
Regardless it appeared on the PS2, even the OP opined that it should have appeared on a compilation disc at some point...which it did.
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He did not mention an emulation though. And the game was already emulated on PC before it was done on PS2.
 
VGEsoterica

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thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:


Tekken Tag on PS2. Seriously, the leap between this and the arcade version was MASSIVE on a visual scale, even moreso in many ways than Soul Calibur was from arcade to Dreamcast. Here's the arcade Tekken Tag version by comparison:



They're absolutely generations apart visually despite being essentially the same game.

And people are worried about cross-gen XSX games being held back by the previous gen systems :pie_roffles:
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it is a huge leap in graphical fidelity. It’s almost like the arcade version is its own game in a way
 
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molasar said:
He did not mention an emulation though. And the game was already emulated on PC before it was done on PS2.
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I think you might be grasping at straws here. Games like Revenge of Death Adder and Ninja Baseball Batman apply as they never appeared in the home at all. Warrior Blade did, regardless on whether it’s emulated or a port.

Best ask the OP if he wants to clarify what he means.
 
molasar

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Dazrael said:
I think you might be grasping at straws here. Games like Revenge of Death Adder and Ninja Baseball Batman apply as they never appeared in the home at all. Warrior Blade did, regardless on whether it’s emulated or a port.

Best ask the OP if he wants to clarify what he means.
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The topic of this thread is clear about it i.e. "unported arcade games". Otherwise it should be "unported and unemulated arcade games". There are cases that not all finished versions of ported arcade games were released e.g. Killer Instinct 2 on SNES in 1996.
 
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molasar said:
The topic of this thread is clear about it i.e. "unported arcade games". Otherwise it should be "unported and unemulated arcade games". There are cases that not all finished versions of ported arcade games were released e.g. Killer Instinct 2 on SNES in 1996.
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Then why raise the desire for seeing Warrior Blade on a compilation disc when compilation discs are known to be emulation? I think you might have over complicated a simple question.

The simple answer is that the game was released officially for a home console and is available in a packaged format.
 
VGEsoterica

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I guess, and it’s all relative, to me “unported” is an ease of play situation along with how close to the original it is.

I did another one on Bubble Symphony. It in fact did release as a Korean exclusive PC release. I own a copy but it’s basically unicorn levels of rare. So for the large majority of people it’s locked to arcade

the Taito compilation is expensive, and it’s a Japanese release. So you a) need to drop a lot of $$, and b) either mod your PS2 or buy a Japanese unported one.

similar with Splatterhouse. The PC version and FM Towns version are “near” arcade perfect, but one relies on emulation that’s flawed, and the other isn’t arcade perfect. So I guess the arcade original is “unported”

but a “port” is so subjective.

something like Scud Race is truly “unported”, as it’s either emulation or arcade board.

but honestly it’s super subjective :) some arcade games have home ports that are so bad it’s barely like playing the original.
 
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