Looking for game suggestions

bfenty

Hey! I've finished my retro pie portable build, and it's working great. Now, I just need some good games to play! I'm looking for suggestions and people's favorites for any supported system. I never owned any drag systems growing up, so I don't know any of the good games there. And I missed some of the good ones for Nintendo too. Looking forward to playing some great games!

caver01

@bfenty I am particularly interested in coin-op arcade games, so stuff like Joust, PacMan, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug--it should be easy to find lists of the top arcade games of the 80s.

For Nintendo, you have to play Super Mario Bros, SMB2, 3, and of course, the Zelda series.

bfenty

@caver01 said in Looking for game suggestions:

@bfenty I am particularly interested in coin-op arcade games, so stuff like Joust, PacMan, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug--it should be easy to find lists of the top arcade games of the 80s.

For Nintendo, you have to play Super Mario Bros, SMB2, 3, and of course, the Zelda series.

I've played snes Zelda. Is nes zelda good as well?

caver01

@bfenty Well, it's going to be a step backward in technology, certainly, but it's the original. The gameplay is good and winning the game will take several sessions. I liked the Adventure of Link a little better (both are NES) with the original Zelda played top-down perspective, and Link is a side-scroller for most of the gameplay if I remember correctly.

mattrixk

@bfenty: I'm a big fan of beat 'em ups. Alien vs Predator, Armored Warriors and The Punisher (all for Final Burn Alpha) are some of my favourites. There is also the Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle series on MegaDrive/Genesis.

When it comes to platformers, I don't think anything can beat Alien Soldier on MegaDrive/Genesis.

meleu

@bfenty
NES is my favourite system. Here are my suggestions:

Mega Man 1-6
Castlevania 1 and 3 (the 2nd is a kind of RPG and I didn't play too much)
Contra (don't forget to use the Konami Code!)
Felix The Cat
TMNT2
Little Nemo (pretty hard game)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Ninja Gaiden 1-3 (f@#$%ing hard)
Snow Bros
Kirby's Adventure
Metal Storm
Battletoads (the toughest game of this list, but it's really fun to play)
Micro Machines
Baloon Fight

These are what I remember now...

Don't forget to play with RetroAchievements!! It adds more fun to the playing! ;-)
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroAchievements

dankcushions

@bfenty said in Looking for game suggestions:

@caver01 said in Looking for game suggestions:

@bfenty I am particularly interested in coin-op arcade games, so stuff like Joust, PacMan, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug--it should be easy to find lists of the top arcade games of the 80s.

For Nintendo, you have to play Super Mario Bros, SMB2, 3, and of course, the Zelda series.

I've played snes Zelda. Is nes zelda good as well?

nes zelda was one of the first games i spent a lot of time with on my pi. it rules! it's really hard at points but it's got this sense of exploration and mystery that even the later zelda's miss. i had to draw out a world map on a notepad to work out where to go/where i'd been :)

Alucard

Here we go for a quick list:

On Nes:

Duck Tales
Super Mario The lost levels (one of the hardest plateforme games I haved ever played..)

On Game Boy color:

Zelda a link awakening (one of the bests zelda of all time IMHO)
Zelda Oracle of Age/Season
Wario Land serie

On Game boy advance:

All Castlevania games on this support are good
Golden Sun serie
Mario and Luigi
All metroids

On Snes:

Donkey Kong country 1,2,3
Yoshi's Island
Super Mario World
FF VI
Terranigma
Chrono trigger
Seiken Densetsu 3
Tales of Phantasia
Super Metroid

Megadrive:

All Sonic games
Aladin
Kid Cameleon

Alucard

And the list is not over:

On TuboGrafx 16/PC Engine:

The Soldier serie (especially Soldier Blade: one of the best shmups of all time IMHO)
Bonk Serie

And there are more that I can't think of right now...

Note: sorry for the tow post but with only one it was considered as a spam... :-(

mattrixk

@Alucard I would also add The Lion King to your MegaDrive list.

mediamogul

Cheetahmen II

Some people call it broken. I prefer to think of it as prohibitively winnable.

flop

Man, the greats are:

Pc Engine: Parasol star
Mame: Night slashers (with advmame); Dungeon and dragons, Metal slug, Twinkle star sprites, Puzzle boubble....
SNES: Mario 3 (BUT try the Game boy advance Mario version, its a remake, same Mario 3 with better graphics), Super Bomberman, Donkey kong.
PSP: Flying hamster
PSX: R-Type delta, Diablo I, Rayman 1
N64: Mario Kart

bfenty

wow everyone, thanks for all these suggestions. You've given me a place to start. Feel free to keep them coming-I like having a variety of things to play.

wmcclelion

MAME:
TMNT - all of them
Metal Slug 2
Karnov - if you like to die a lot
Street Fighter II - pick your version

NES:
MegaMan 1 - 4
Dragon Spirit
Guardian Legend

SNES:
F-Zero
Drakken
StarFox
Super Castlevania
Super Contra