What are the top 5 games you currently enjoy playing the most on your Pi and why?

[BeldarTheBrave]

1. Super Mario Bros. NES: This is a classic that I always warm up with. When I can plow through the whole game (especially pesky 8-3), then I know I'm ready to attempt harder games.

2. Castlevania NES: I haven't beaten this one in years. It's time to kick Dracula's undead buttocks again before I'm too old to do it.

3. Aria of Sorrow GBA: I love this game. It's about equal with Symphony of The Night in my opinion.

4. Street Fighter Collection 1 and 2 PSX: I always come back to Street Fighter. I used to play in arcade tournaments years ago when SF2 was the current show stopper. I never won a single tournament, but I enjoyed seeing how far I could get.

5. Just Breed Fan Translation NES: This is a very early strategy RPG that I've just started. It's surprisingly fun in it's simplicity. It's kind of like the grandfather of Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem.

[Red_Trev]

1. Fist of The North Star (Atomiswave )... love the animations in this fighting game & the attention to detail in the art work.
2. Blazblue Calamity Trigger (PSP) .... over the top fighting game with gothic Manga style artwork.
3. Dynamite Cop (Dreamcast) ..... great beat em up, the variety of weapons & non stop action has me hooked.
4. Contra 3 (SNES) .... seen this on Gamesmaster as a kid, I cant get past the first level but I am still hooked !
5. Ghouls & Ghosts (Mega Drive) .... used to rent this every few weeks, only got to the 2nd level once haha !

[dragon1sob]

1: Pac-Man Arcade---classic!
2: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
3: Popeye
4: Keystone Kapers
5: Asteroids

[IanDaemon]

@dragon1sob

1. Keystone Kapers (2600) is a classic. Fantastic choice!
2. Popeye (Arcade) is so hard! F it!

[DTEAM]

1 - Dolphin Blue on Atomiswave (working properly since last month with the new lr-flycast update) It's my top 1 on RetroPie Pi4 needed
2 - Chrono Trigger (SNES)
3 - Zelda on Game & Watch ( best LCD old style - MAME/Lr-Mess)
4 - Viper Phase-1 - Lr-fbneo
5 - Wolfenstein 3D - 3DO
6 - All Metroid games
7- Panzer Dragoon 2 (Sega Saturn - lr-Yaba Sanshiro)

a last one ---> Choushin Heiki Zeroigar (english translated) on PCFX

[kisu2012]

Hi,

1- Galaga 88 (Arcade)
2- 4D Warriors (Arcade)
3- Centipede (Atari 7800)
4- Abadox (NES)
5- Turrican II (Amiga)

My five favourite games that I currently enjoy playing in my Pi4 with Retropie. They are simple but fun..

[RamenRaiderY95]

Golden Axe/Revenge of Death Adder
Megaman Power Battles/Power Fighters
TMNT
Galaga
Ms. PacMan

That's actually in no particular order, those just tend to be the five (technically seven) I play most.

[VictimRLSH]

This has changed a bit recently

1 - Star Ocean Blue Planet (GBC, dejap version. It's more like a cross between Tales of Symphonia and a Zelda game than any other Star Ocean game.)
2 - Time Pilot '84 (MAME 2003)
3 - StarBlade (MAME 2003. Requires a hefty overclock to run at full speed on Pi 4)
4 - Cosmo Gangs the Video (MAME 2003. Galaga clone with powerup drops and score multiplier drops)
5 - World of Tanks Blitz (Windows on Raspberry, a free to play Steam version that runs well on low-spec hardware)

[jamrom2]

Bruce Lee (C64)
Red Baron (PC)
BerZerk (Arcade)
Ultima III (Atari 800)
Computer Ambush (C64)

Only 5?? That was hard... lol. A mixed bag of old games that I still enjoy playing.

[VictimRLSH]

@jamrom2 Interesting choice of platform to play Ultima III on, did the Atari version have any extras? I know C128 Ultimas had some improvements such as music.

[Molokkoplus]

1. Mega Turrican (Mega Drive)
2. Decap Attack (Mega Drive)
3. Popful Mail (Sega CD)
4. Outrun (MAME)
5. Wipeout XL (PSX)

[jamrom2]

@victimrlsh no, just purely nostalgia. Once I got the A800 emulator working as it should, and looking correct, it brought back a lot of fun memories.

But I agree, the C64/128 versions of many of these games were a lot better for sound and graphics.

[IanDaemon]

@molokkoplus Popful Mail was one of the very few "RPGs/action RPGs" that I didn't get a chance to play on the Sega CD during its original release. I was a big follower of Working Designs.

[Emulatre71]

@iandaemon There is a ROM hack of Popful Mail which is supposed to fix the changes they made for the USA version.

No particular Order

1. Keio Flying Squadron (horizontal-scrolling shooter) [Sega CD]
2. Mega Man Powerd Up (platformer) [PSP] The Roll dlc for it is neat and was free back then
3. Carrier (survival horror) [Dreamcast]
4. Pocket Fighter (Fighting) (PSX version)
5. Melty Blood Act Cadenza (Fighting) (Sega Naomi) via Flycast

Melty Blood Act Cadenza

Keio Flying Squadron (there is a part 2 on sega saturn)

Pocket Fighter

[IanDaemon]

@emulatre71 I REALLY dig Super Gem Fighters: Mini Mix (Pocket Fighters). The animations for the attacks are hilarious.

[retropieuser555]

Pretty absolutely loving VVVVV recently, it works very nicely on my retroflag gpi/pi zero setup. It fits perfectly on a gameboy type handheld

[Genos98]

1. Mvc2 (Naomi)
2. Tekken 3 (Ps1) (Would have been tekken tag easily if it actually runs well on the p4)
3. FF VII (Ps1)
4. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Mame)
5. Mario 3 (Nes)

[dodonpachi]

@emulatre71 Why Melty Blood Act Cadenza and not Actress Again?

EDIT: To contribute to the topic, it's hard to narrow down 5 but the ones I play the most are, in no particular order:

1. Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label (lr-fbneo)
2. Capcom VS SNK 2 (Naomi, lr-flycast)
3. Blazblue: Continuum Shift Extend (lr-ppsspp)
4. Ketsui (lr-fbneo)
5. Real Bout Fatal Fury Special (lr-fbneo)

[Lister of Smeg]

I spend more time tinkering than actually playing - but

1. Doom Master Edition (PSX) - fan made "This project has the purpose of incorporing the "missing" levels from the PC versions: (Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Master Levels, TNT and PLutonia) according to the PSX limitations."

2. Lords of Thunder (SegaCD) - a little bit easier than the pcengine version

3. Galaga (FBNeo) - who doesn't like galaga??

4. Repton (BBC Micro) - boulderdash with puzzles. Repton 3 is probably the one I play the most, but they're all great

5. MaioKart (N64) - I reserve the right to change to the game cube double dash version some time in the future

[dankcushions]

@lister-of-smeg said in What are the top 5 games you currently enjoy playing the most on your Pi and why?:

4. Repton (BBC Micro) - boulderdash with puzzles. Repton 3 is probably the one I play the most, but they're all great

i love repton! we had a BBC in the house when I was a kid (a key middle class symbol of the 1980s, apparently), and it was one of the first videogames i ever played. more like a puzzle game than a test of skill - it's got a following in the chess community, which makes total sense to me as puzzles often feel like planning chess moves.

i did find the non-linear setup of repton 2 to be impenetrable, though. maybe i should try it again. never tried 3!