What are some of your favorite lesser known MAME games?!

[warmachine]

I like War of the Worlds too!

 

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Only problem is the lack of sound samples, but I just renamed the Star Castle sample set WOTWC.zip (I think that's the name) and use that. I did that because I unzipped the Star Castle set and noticed that all the sample names matched the ones in WOTW. Sounds pretty good to me and heck, for all I know, the sounds ARE the same, as WOTW was a conversion kit for SC.

 

also, Cosmic Chasm (much better than the Vectrex version, IMHO)

Demon

QB-3

 

(As you can see, I'm partial to the vector games...)

 

Wow! I just assumed that the game didn't have sound.

I'm going to try that out right now.

Thanks!

[madhatter667]

MAME is an awesome program. When I first downloaded it, I played for hours on end.

My personal favorites are:

TNMT

Wonder Boy

 

I probably wasted more money on those in my younger years than any of the other arcade games.

 

Other notables:

Gauntlet

Joust

the D&D arcade games

Golden Axe... and sequels

[bust3dstr8]

Caveman Ninja

Willow

Indiana Jones Temple Doom

[Technosis]

Wow there's so many, here's a few: Cosmic Avenger, Spiders, Pisces.

 

Ataxx has come up a few times in this thread. This is a neat game, I remember my local arcade used to have one. The sound was cranked up really loud, and it had this cool synth music that would play throughout the attract mode. A simple game concept made fun by neat music, sound effects, and alien opponents.

[yuppicide]

I have never played I, Robot before today. It's REALLY good and it's unique.

 

Here's one I just found that you should try: Neo Geo's The Irritating Maze. I've love to see this in the arcade. It's the first Neo Geo that used a special trackball BIOS. Dedicated cabinets blasted you with air for your mistakes.

 

The object of the game is simple: Guide the metal rod through the maze and don't touch anything.

[ArcadeAction]

I'll keep on promoting Formation Z by Jaleco (released as "Aeroboto" by Williams in the US). I don't know if this counts as a rare game though (as I know next to nothing about arcades), but I believe it is not too well known.

 

I always was a huge Transformers fan and just having a platform game where you can transform from a 'bot to a jet (and vice-versa) by a touch of a button is great .

[ArcadeAction]

Double-post, sorry

 

Let me add that I also love Arch Rivals (by Bally Midway) very, very much. It's my favourite game on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (I only play it with another player though, as a 1-player game I find it a bit boring). Not sure if this is an uncommon game though.

Edited November 5, 2006 by ArcadeAction

[Mark III]

Ninja Baseball Batmen is definately one of the wierder Beat em ups out there, but pretty fun. Also Varth is a really solid top down shoooter, not sure if it was an obscure release or not but I've never seen it in the arcade.

[PressureCooker2600]

I dont use MAME but some of my fav coin-ops are:

Robotron 2084

Steel Gunners

Tron

X-men (the beat-em up...not the fighter)

Time Killers

Galaga

Dig Dug

Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road

[AussieAtari]

I've just started playing Hyper PacMan, was this an official game (licensed by Namco) or a bootleg of some sort?

[Foxsolo2000]

I alwyas liked Ali Baba and the 40 thieves and Snap Jack, probably the weirdest Pac Man clone of them all and lets not forget Dazzler