Share your hidden gems and insider tips

Clyde

@thelostsoul said in Share your hidden gems and insider tips:

POLYBIUS

Probably the most hidden gem ever, if it is true. Unfortunately, there is no rom dump.

Fun fact: The Nine Inch Nails music video Less Than features a modern recreation of this urban legend.

VictimRLSH

@thelostsoul Naughty Boy is one of those arcade games you can 'cheat' at by standing in an area only accessible by one or two ways and continuing to just throw rocks at ghosts without clearing the level. FYI, to get a rock to fly further, hold down the throw button.

This same strategy also works well for Wizard of Wor, but the levels end when you kill everything. On WoW, just make sure the corridor you are in is VERY SHORT. You don't want them shooting you from a distance before you kill them with continuous short range fire.

One of my favorite games had a very steep learning curve, but was probably the best example of combining a gun game with hand-to-hand combat. Dynamite Duke (mame 2003). This game had a great cyberpunk theme, and you could duck, dodge, punch, kick, jump kick, shoot, and bomb enemies. The gunplay is similar to the joystick version of Cabal, but with intense moments of hand-to-hand combat thrown in. Very difficult to learn, but the payoff and sense of accomplishment is worth it.

mediamogul

The Neo Geo puzzle game, 'Money Idol Exchanger' has a boring name, but it caught my attention after being reviewed so highly when it was released on the Switch a few months back. It's a stacking puzzle game similar to 'Puzzle Bobble', but the unique twist is in how you work with the different currency. As the screen drops, smaller denominations are exchanged for higher ones until just two 500 coins remain. Finding the most efficient way to make the exchanges in order to keep out of trouble is challenging and also very satisfying when you begin consolidating large portions of the screen. While I have to question the kawaii anime theme, the game play itself is right up there with other puzzle genre greats.

thelostsoul

@mediamogul Nice find, thats an interesting one. I always search for puzzle game concepts which could someday rival Tetris Attack maybe (that is because it's my favorite). ;-) From the video and the explanation, I am not sure if I got it. Definitely need to try it out.

mediamogul

@thelostsoul said in Share your hidden gems and insider tips:

From the video and the explanation, I am not sure if I got it. Definitely need to try it out.

After reading a few reviews from the Switch release, I didn't get it immediately either. Basically, using dozens of coins, you combine all the smaller denominations to make bigger ones until they're all combined. Doing that as efficiently as possible while your screen is periodically filling up with more coins is the real challenge.

Brigane

I recently stumbled across Gunbarich. This is a Arkanoid similar game. I dont know if I would call it a hidden gem but it seems like an interesting game.
I use advancemame with this since it's not a part of the mame2003 set.

thelostsoul

@brigane I also discovered this game, but unfortunately, it gets reported to have issues with mame and fbalpha. Another reason to install advancemame. The game is nothing ground breaking, but I like the modern style and presentation and combination of two different genres into one. It got a Nintendo Switch port. The original game is made by Psikyo, who also made the shmup Gunbird.

Brigane

@thelostsoul

It seems to run okay on advancemame and it's very entertaining . The only trouble I'm having is the highscore won't save :(

space cadet

Adventure! What a great exploration game on the Atari!

VictimRLSH

@space-cadet Yes, can also be very difficult to win.

space cadet

Amerzone ps1

mediamogul

@space-cadet said in Share your hidden gems and insider tips:

Adventure! What a great exploration game on the Atari!

Definitely a great game. A few days ago I was listening to a podcast with a group who claimed that 'Adventure' was really just a maze game, no different than 'Pac-Man'. The guys had previously proven to be extremely knowledgeable about the third console generation and beyond, but they were speaking about the 2600 like a group of kids wildly theorizing about where babies come from.

space cadet

They just don't know!

mediamogul

I mean we all know they come from sharing a toilet seat right?

VictimRLSH

@mediamogul I thought that is how we get Limp Biskit fans?!?

mediamogul

@victimrlsh

Ah, that's right. I always get those two confused. Babies are the ones with better taste.

VictimRLSH

It appears there is a native port to Rasbian of Ancient Domains of Mystery. A rougealike RPG of intense difficulty that is well worth the tortured screams you will be uttering as your 54th character dies horribly...

https://www.adom.de/home/downloads.html

meleu

@thelostsoul said in Share your hidden gems and insider tips:

POLYBIUS

Probably the most hidden gem ever, if it is true. Unfortunately, there is no rom dump.

check this out: www.sinnesloschen.com/1.php

@mediamogul said in Share your hidden gems and insider tips:

NES: 'Summer Carnival '92: Recca' (Hands down, the best schmup on the NES. A programming miracle)

Hey, this game deserves a set of achievements!!

By the way, "Cocoron" has achievements: https://retroachievements.org/Game/5300

Nice suggestions on this thread, I hope to find sometime to dig some gems here. ;)

mediamogul

@meleu said in Share your hidden gems and insider tips:

Hey, this game deserves a set of achievements!!

It does indeed. I've had a couple of good runs on that game and then several where I barely make it out of space dock. Good to see you back btw and always nice to hear about your work on cheevos. A friend of mine has a kid who's obsessed with them and he always like hearing me talk about about the advancements that you've posted here in the past. Keep up the great work.

VictimRLSH

@mediamogul That kid obsessed with achievements might want to check out Star Ocean 3: 'till the End of Time. It was originally a PS2 game, and runs perfectly on PCSX2, and there is also a PS4 remake with the cheevos in there as well. There are hundreds of achievements, some extremely difficult.