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Screenshots and gifs of great unported 80s/90s arcade games
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Teuoxton
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WHAT? I didn't know there were two Little Nemo games!!NEMO
Looking at it today it looks like a SNES game but back in the day I enjoyed it.
Pyrrhus
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Prop Cycle
It had this crazy setup with a rear projection screen and what was essentially an exercise bike.
You have to control tilt and pitch with the handle bars and your body while maintaining speed with your legs in order to use the prop plane/glider to fly through a Miyazaki-like landscape and town popping balloons in a time-attack style game with increasingly harder courses in order to somehow save pieces of your town that have been floated up into the sky with ancient technology.
It was a really awesome presentation back in 1996 with voiced 3D cutscenes and graphics that sort of remind me of Pilotwings and Mega Man Legends smashed together with menu design and music like Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. Here's some video of somebody playing it to completion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiAI3McfRag
It had this crazy setup with a rear projection screen and what was essentially an exercise bike.
You have to control tilt and pitch with the handle bars and your body while maintaining speed with your legs in order to use the prop plane/glider to fly through a Miyazaki-like landscape and town popping balloons in a time-attack style game with increasingly harder courses in order to somehow save pieces of your town that have been floated up into the sky with ancient technology.
It was a really awesome presentation back in 1996 with voiced 3D cutscenes and graphics that sort of remind me of Pilotwings and Mega Man Legends smashed together with menu design and music like Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. Here's some video of somebody playing it to completion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiAI3McfRag
Waddle Dee
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SegaSonic The Hedgehog (1993)
This game actually required you to move your character using a trackball.
The game let you play as Sonic, Mighty (his debut), and Ray. This is the only game Ray is playable in.
The game can be played with up 3 players at once.
The game is really short. There are only a few stages and all of them are over in a couple minutes.
Besides obvious perspective issues, the game is a pain to play on an emulator since nothing can really replicate the trackball controls.
This, Knuckles Chaotix, and Sonic Pocket Adventure are really the only noteworthy Sonic platformers that have yet to be re-released in any shape or form. I think this game would probably control well with touchscreen controls. Shame it's a lost relic, now. It's not great, but it oozes personality and charm.
This game actually required you to move your character using a trackball.
The game let you play as Sonic, Mighty (his debut), and Ray. This is the only game Ray is playable in.
The game can be played with up 3 players at once.
The game is really short. There are only a few stages and all of them are over in a couple minutes.
Besides obvious perspective issues, the game is a pain to play on an emulator since nothing can really replicate the trackball controls.
This, Knuckles Chaotix, and Sonic Pocket Adventure are really the only noteworthy Sonic platformers that have yet to be re-released in any shape or form. I think this game would probably control well with touchscreen controls. Shame it's a lost relic, now. It's not great, but it oozes personality and charm.
Secret Character
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It doesn't help that this game is exceedingly rare. Up until a couple of years ago, there weren't even good screenshots of it because nobody had a board to dump the ROM off of.
Also, this thread is amazing.
My contribution: Windjammers. Easily one of the best Neo-Geo MVS games out there. It only got a home release on AES and Neo CD, so those who didn't spend the big money at the time for a Neo Geo home system didn't get to experience this magic.
Stalactite
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BEAST! Yeah, that's my #1 pick, love this game. When I was a teen, the local arcade had it for about a few weeks, then it was suddenly gone. Apparently someone complained it was promoting Satan or something... (yet they were perfectly fine with seeing a Mortal Kombat II fatality right as you walked in...)
AvP is also another great one. Man, I miss arcades.
QFT. I miss the genre so much.
sixteen-bit
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Wii VC release in Japan as well. Unfortunately it has since been delisted.
Shoutouts to digital distribution.
Secret Character
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Ah yes, that's right. It never hit the Neo-Geo station here. We just got stuck with Magician Lord and other crummy first wave MVS games.
PassiveObserver
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Dead Connection and The Outfoxies are both amazing. Fun pick-up-and-play titles with unique artstyles. Bet both would be as revered as Elevator Action Returns if they had been ported to the Saturn or PSX.
eso76
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One of my favorites.
While we are at it, rave racer, dirt dash, cyber cycles (ever noticed how namco liked to name their racers RR, DD, CC etc ?).
Oh, and I bet most of you haven't seen this
Taito's Vertexer, 1993. a mighty fine f-zero clone with roller coaster like tracks. Like F Zero GX but sprites based.
You won't find much about it, ttbomk it's not yet emulated.
Video !
https://youtu.be/K-lVyYtkgRY
Terrific Soundtrack by Zuntata, too.
Also
Fixeight by the excellent Toaplan
I do prefer it's prequel, Outzone.
Well, it has better pixel art
Time Traveler
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There's a place in LA that has this game and, 25 years later, I still have no clue how to play it or what to do with it. Less that 60 seconds and out of credits I just walked away as annoyed and frustrated as I did when I was 12.
Wonderful thread! I played quite a few of the ones listed. Favories are just about any shmups and beat-em ups. Sadly I could only play most of the Neo Geo titles via emulation, since I could never afford it in the nineties. Those proces are ridiculous and only saw the KoFs and Kabuki Clash in the Arcades back then.
Host Samurai
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Best of Best
This is a parody fighter worth playing
Hahah gotta love how the 80's/90's got past IP by renaming Hulk Hogan to Hawk. Lots of games had Hogan rip offs...even named Hawk
Ninja Scooter
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Trog
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Trog actually came to NES. As someone who loved the arcade game as a kid, I was disappointed that they even bothered to port it when I rented it. It lost (understandably now that I understand the tech) claymation graphics which were like 100% of the charm of that game.
MrTroubleMaker
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I remember playing some of these at the arcades hopefully they are all getting preserved.
hopefully they are all getting preserved.It also came out on MS-DOS which kept the claymation graphics thankfully.
BattleMonkey
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GI Joe
dreamcastmaster
Banned
Trog
Time Traveler
Double fail, Trog was on NES and Time Traveller on interactive DVD.
nextgeneration
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In people's defense, though, it's hard to keep track of/know which arcade titles have made it onto consoles, especially the more obscure titles/consoles. Speaking of which, anyone know if Lightning Fighters ever made it onto console. That was a great 2d shooter by Konami back in the days.
Google and Wiki helps out with that. It's what I use for all games.
And Lightning Fighters is arcade exclusive, so no console versions.
Time Traveler
I just "played" the dvd player port of this game last night. It actually had a bunch of interviews and local news promo spots featuring the over the top hyperbole of Rick Dyer himself. There was some talk about the Halcyon console as well.
https://youtu.be/6wLG9gFsDUA
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Deleted member 74300
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I'm more of a fan of the hologram fighting game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Nlf9Ndj58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUWt6pu_uIs
If Capcom and Sega made a holo SF2 together it would have been amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Nlf9Ndj58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUWt6pu_uIs
If Capcom and Sega made a holo SF2 together it would have been amazing.
Ninja Scooter
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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.
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.
ChillyBilly
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Hippodrome - Data East 1989
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.
What is the block for?
Nerdkiller
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Sonic Blast Man (no, the SNES side scroller does not count)
It doesn't, but funny enough the arcade's game stages are bonus games in the SNES version.
ultrazilla
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I love this thread! The nostalgia! The good old days of gaming!
This is why I so wanted that Retro game console that was going to be dedicated to old and new 8-32 bit games. So sad that never went anywhere because of the shady stuff behind the scenes.
I still think a new cartridge/thumbstick drive based "Retro" console that is dedicated to the eras of 8-32 bit gaming would be awesome.
This is why I so wanted that Retro game console that was going to be dedicated to old and new 8-32 bit games. So sad that never went anywhere because of the shady stuff behind the scenes.
I still think a new cartridge/thumbstick drive based "Retro" console that is dedicated to the eras of 8-32 bit gaming would be awesome.
joeygreco1985
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Tagging this topic!
Fyi, and others: There is a "Subscribe" button on the top of each thread.
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Nerdkiller
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Huh. Well I'll be damned. Didn't know that.
Still, those stages don't exactly do a good job emulating the experience.
But moving on, how about those Virtuality games back during the first wave of VR?
I can't find many good images of the games designed around these systems, so you'll have to make do with video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60wgPuuDpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP8wSw4bBuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Imyn6QSq9s
Is there any of these still out there and working?
I remember seeing these at Mall of America when it first opened. They were like $20+ to play.
SolidSnakex
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What a frustrating thread to look through. So many unreleased beat 'em ups, and that's one of my favorite genres. Both Capcom and Konami have a fantastic catalog of unreleased BEU's that would be perfect for todays digital markets.
You win. Prop Cycle has always been one of my most wanted arcade ports ever. I think it's viable for the first time with PSVR. Short, replayable, score attack format is well suited to VR. The market is not too crowded, and it could be built on a reasonable budget.
Namco could do the Alpine Racer games, or Rapid River as well. But Prop Cycle first!
Rhazer Fusion
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Denjin Makai 2 / Guardians: My favorite beat em up. Very weird and quite deep gameplay-wise.
Honestly, this was one of the my favorite beat em ups ever. Great game.
Yep, all of these should had been on consoles.
Barkley's Justice
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This thread is amazing. Thank you.
Barkley's Justice
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I JUST tried Supermodel today and was blown away by the progress they've made in recent years.
Barkley's Justice
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Run N Gun 1 and 2.
Still the best pickup and play basketball game ever made.
SNES got NBA Give N Go which was similar but jut not as good. And it sort of evolved into NBA In The Zone I guess but the original is still the king.
This reminds me of Slam N Jam on 3DO which I absolutely loved.
This game looks awesome!!!
Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car
...op said great xD