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    • themazingnessT
      themazingness
      last edited by themazingness

      I am the only person who has reviewed Second Dimension RetroPak Vol. 1 on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1137930/Second_Dimension_RetroPak_Vol_1/ It is a pack of modern NES games. The emulator it is using is Mesen, but I just rename the rom files to .nes and play them how I choose. My favorite game in the pack is Perfect Pair, a Pac-man-esque game where you play as cupid, avoid enemies, and claim territory to bring a couple together. It's actually my favorite NES game now.

      Admittedly, Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 4, and TMNT II the Arcade Game are more substantial titles (other favorites of mine), but I'm a sucker for arcade style games these days.

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      • jamrom2J
        jamrom2 @themazingness
        last edited by

        Wow...old thread still going. I'll toss my hat in the ring on this one....

        I'm 51 now, so I've seen and played in the glory days of Arcade, Console, Home Computer... etc. And what fun it was... I have a few based on the systems I owned.

        [Arcade]
        BerZerk
        Robotron
        Spy Hunter
        Reactor
        Gyruss
        Asteroids Deluxe
        Time Pilot '84
        Front Line
        Moon Cresta

        [Intellivision]
        Bomb Squad
        B-17 Bomber
        Space Battle
        Tron Deadly Discs

        [Atari 2600/VCS]
        Adventure
        Raiders of the Lost Ark

        [Commodore 64]
        Forbidden Forrest
        Impossible Mission
        Racing Destruction Set
        Ultima
        Beach Head
        Raid on Bungling Bay
        Computer Ambush
        Summer/Winter Games
        Grand Prix Circuit
        Telengard (one of my first games on C64)
        A.C.E.
        Gunship
        Flight Simulator II
        Spy vs Spy I and II

        [Amiga 500]
        Eye of the Beholder
        Dog Fight
        Armour-Geddon
        Battle Hawks
        Their Finest Hour
        Birds of Prey
        Gunship 2000
        Hardball II
        Nuclear War
        Wings of Fury
        Knights of the Sky

        [Early PC]
        Indy and the Last Crusade (point and click version)
        Doom
        Duke Nuke'Em
        Mech Warrior 3
        NHL 95
        NHL 96 (menu music is worth it alone)
        Red Baron
        Red Baron 3D
        Indianapolis 500
        Herectic
        Flight Simulator (any version)
        A-10 Tank Killer
        System Shock
        X-Wing
        Dark Forces
        Knights of the Sky

        Can go on forever... but I think that covers all the good stuff pretty well.

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        • ClydeC
          Clyde @jamrom2
          last edited by

          @jamrom2 Nice list, I concur with at least half of it. But most of them were pretty popular, whereas this thread is about â€Ķ

          that gem you played that wasn't as popular, didn't draw a crowd or was just so much fun but only seemed like it was fun to you.

          No offense, just a friendly reminder for everyone still reading here. 😇

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          • jamrom2J
            jamrom2 @Clyde
            last edited by jamrom2

            @clyde hahaha... you're right! hidden gems! I'm sorry... I'll try again.

            Lets see...

            [Aracde]
            Reactor
            Timber
            Space Duel
            Rally-X

            [Intellivision]
            Microsurgeon - play this at the hardest level "critical"
            Biplanes/Tanks (Triple Action)

            [Commodore64]
            Again...Computer Ambush
            Police Cadet
            Kampfgruppe
            Bruce Lee II (homebrew)

            [Atari800]
            Broadsides

            [Amiga]
            Gee-Bee Air Rally
            Persian Gulf Inferno
            Hostages

            [PC] - this one is tough
            Alien Doom
            Syndicate
            Pinball (came with Win98)
            Close Combat (Win95)

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            • ClydeC
              Clyde @jamrom2
              last edited by

              Thanks for taking me not too seriously. 😉 As far as I can tell, that list is more in tune with the TO's request. That said â€Ķ

              @jamrom2 said in What's your "Hidden Gem"? Game discussion:

              [Aracde]
              Reactor

              I knew this for many years only as its Atari 2600 port. I love its abstract otherness that set it apart from other games. The sound of the Atari version gives me goose bumps up until this day.

              Speaking of strange Atari 2600 games, another all-time favourite of mine is Yar's Revenge. I don't know how popular it was, however.

              [PC] - this one is tough
              Syndicate

              Now that one was very famous, at least here in Germany and, I guess, Europe, coming from Bullfrog and it legendary co-founder Peter Molyneux. 😎

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              • DTEAMD
                DTEAM @Clyde
                last edited by DTEAM

                @clyde said in What's your "Hidden Gem"? Game discussion:

                [PC] - this one is tough
                Syndicate

                not with the cheat code "COOPER TEAM " or "COOPER TEAM TO THE TOP" (as team name) 😎 I don't remember if you need "to the top" or not. It's a very good game.

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                • YFZdudeY
                  YFZdude @DTEAM
                  last edited by

                  @dteam said in What's your "Hidden Gem"? Game discussion:

                  @clyde said in What's your "Hidden Gem"? Game discussion:

                  [PC] - this one is tough
                  Syndicate

                  not with the cheat code "COOPER TEAM " or "COOPER TEAM TO THE TOP" (as team name) 😎 I don't remember if you need "to the top" or not. It's a very good game.

                  It also is much easier when you are playing it in DOSBox and the cpu cycles setting makes it run super fast so you can research new tech in short order.

                  The final mission was a bit crazy the first time without limiting the CPU speed. I had to get good at setting my whole team to max stats so they would 'auto-defend' against the incoming horde of enemy agents.

                  I also played through the SNES version but it wasn't quite as good.

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                  • jamrom2J
                    jamrom2 @Clyde
                    last edited by

                    @clyde No problem at all. It's called RTFM - Read the F'n Manual... which I didn't. hahahah.

                    Yar's revenge was very popular. I didn't have a 2600, my friends did. Dragster was a good one, only with Enduro. Mostly the Activision titles were what I liked most. But I will admit, I play a lot of Human Cannonball on my Retropie set.

                    Syndicate was one of those games that you either really liked, or just didn't understand. The title music was great. I enjoyed that one.

                    Bullfrog made some of the best games...

                    High Octane was a another hidden gem, and a lot of fun to play on PC.

                    Reactor was a hard game to get the hang of, but once you did, it was fun to play. The music you hear on Youtube is nothing compared to the original or playing it on MAME. The cabinet had two boosted 5" speakers with good bass blasting right in your face.

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                    • jamrom2J
                      jamrom2 @YFZdude
                      last edited by

                      @yfzdude yeah Gauss guns flying all over the place.. .you don't last long at all.

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                      • ClydeC
                        Clyde
                        last edited by Clyde

                        @jamrom2 Same with me in only having friends with a 2600. My own console was a Tchibo Tele-Fever, a rebranded Emerson Arcadia 2001. There was only one electronics shop in my whole city (population about 3 million!) that had games for this system after it was discontinued by the coffee roaster chain Tchibo after only some weeks or months. But that fact made the trips to buy a new game kind of a holy pilgrimage. 😆 And it made me actually read their manuals completely on my way home.

                        Yes, Activision made some of the best games of that era. One of my favourites was H.E.R.O. on the C64 which I played through until its "end" when you reached the maximum points the game could display (999,999?) and the score would turn to "!!!!!!" or something similar, I don't remember clearly after all those years. You could then send a photo of the screen to the publisher and get some goodies for it, but I never did that to my deepest regret up until this day. (I actually took the photo but never sent it in.)

                        edit: And I just learned that it only had 20 levels. I never noticed that! ðŸ˜ē ðŸĪŠ

                        I played Syndicate for a long time on my Amiga, it was one of my absolute favourites back then.

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