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

[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!

[Lister of Smeg]

@dankcushions
'i did find the non-linear setup of repton 2 to be impenetrable, though. maybe i should try it again.'

definitely!
save states are your best friend - something we didn't have in the 80s ;p

[Emulatre71]

@dodonpachi I did not play Melty Blood Actress Again long enough for a verdict, it was more of me testing that one out with Flycast to emulate. Atomiswave and Sega Naomi is a bit underrated and not discussed often which is a bummer. I was going to list "The Rumble Fish 2" (Atomiswave)(Fighting). If Retropie had EasyRPG for RPG Maker 2003 & 2000 games I would have listed one.

@Lister-of-Smeg How about the way Save States were done in the Nintendo Wii U, I kinda liked it but I can not remember if it allowed for more than 1 save state for a game.

[Lister of Smeg]

@emulatre71
I haven't actually played a Wii U, but I remember being surprised that the original Wii created a save state for VC games so you could start where you left off (maybe not so good if you rage quit) - a feature I hadn't really seen before with a console

[hawkes_84]

1. Cannon Fodder (megadrive) - just a great war game
2. Flashback (megadrive) classic game and this is the best port IMO
3. Super Mario Bros (nes) had plans to be a master speed runner at this game but it's insane. Needless to say it didn't pan out
4. Goldeneye 007 (n64) have played so often the first 3/4 levels I find very therapeutic to just glide through
5. Impossible Mission II (zx spectrum) remember loving this game as a kid. The game box shows a man with a huge 44 Magnum Revolver and yet they let you do somersaults in the game!