Share your hidden gems and insider tips

thelostsoul

@VictimRLSH When did this happen?

IanDaemon

@thelostsoul I played some "DoDonPachi: Dai Ou Jou" last night and it looks great, but...wow, it's hard! Maybe I just haven't played it enough.

thelostsoul

@IanDaemon Definitive. Those bullet hell games aren't easy, none of them. The graphics are so cool and the soundtrack also very pulsing. I love to play this game, just for fun. Oh, you talk about an another entry in the series. Need to test this too. :)

VictimRLSH

@thelostsoul That was when I was a kid, about 13 I think.

IanDaemon

@thelostsoul This person's playthrough makes it look easy.

Brigane

Since you guys are talking about shmups I feel like I should mention "Battle Squadron" for the Amiga & Sega Genesis (I prefer the amiga version). I wouldn't exactly call it a hidden gem but it's still quite a lot of fun to play.

thelostsoul

@Brigane An additional comparison page for Amiga and Mega Drive version.
http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/Comparisons-Battle-Squadron.html
The game itself looks fine, I tried the Mega Drive version of it. But I miss the appeal of Amiga sound and music design.

Clyde

@Brigane @thelostsoul Battle Squadron was one of my favourite Amiga games in my teens. I don't know how it compares with all other SMUPS for the Amiga, but I loved its art style, music, playability, and little details like the metallic tick sounds when shots hit an enemy, but didn't destroy it yet.

Clyde

Apropos, another of my favourite Amiga SHMUPS was Hybris:

edit: A nice feature was that upgrades made you bigger as well as more powerful, so you could get hit slightly easier, but the bigger shell also worked as a form of protection, if I recall correctly (I should play it again some time).

Brigane

@Clyde Hybris looks amazing. I should really set up my old Commodore Amiga 1200 for the full retro gaming pleasure when I try this out.

Brigane

A buddy of mine wants me to find a "donkey kong remix" arcade game. Do you guys know anything about that? I've been trying to find it but without succes. I guess my main concern is if it even exists?

thelostsoul

@Brigane It seems to be a fan made game, but I am not sure if it is a romhack or completely new programmed one. Here this could be the original posting?
http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=1417.0
I also found a flash game page to play this game (didn't try to play it). Maybe he is talking about this.
http://www.flasharcade.com/arcade-games/donkey-kong-remix.html
And at least Donkey Kong Remix 2 seems to be included in the Flashpoint collection:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/19455/flashpoint-the-web-game-preservation-project-no-retropie-no-emulation
Full list: http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List

VictimRLSH

@thelostsoul There are quite a few hidden gems lurking within Flashpoint. You CAN play Flash games on the Pi, but I have not been able to get Flashpoint working. Chromium will run them online.

The Epic Battle Fantasy RPG series is well worth playing, as is the Gemcraft series of Tower Defense games. Very rich storyline and complex gameplay for TD games. Both of these have titles still in development too.

Gemcraft Chasing Shadows has hundreds of levels, here is a speedrun video you can hop around in to see what the gameplay is like.

thelostsoul

@VictimRLSH The game looks indeed nice for a tower defense game, but I will most probably not try it out. I have something against browser games as well as mobile (smartphone) games for different reasons. Ironically the best tower defence game I ever played was on mobile and it had 0 story. The gameplay design was very good. It was a iOS exclusive and later got a very nice clone on Android:

ZDefense HD
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.zstudio.avi.full

IanDaemon

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

Mame2003

hook Hook (World)

FBA

boogwing Boogie Wings (Euro v1.5, 92.12.07)

kov Knights of Valour / Sangoku Senki (ver. 117) (needs pgm)

I can verify these are awesome!

VictimRLSH

@thelostsoul I totally get where you are coming from and agree. Streaming games such as browser and moblile games are basically going to rob us of control of our games (as if modern gaming wasn't broken ENOUGH). There will be no more consoles, no more hacks, no more player mods, little or no player produced content, and a LOT more 'shovelware' and '$100 buttons'. Oh, and no more emulation. That is why I think Flashpoint is such a great thing, it basically jailbreaks some great games and puts them back in control of players.

thelostsoul

@IanDaemon Thank you for confirmation. :-) I only listed those games while searching for new old games based on recommendations and some kind of uniqueness. They looked good when I try them for a couple of minutes to ensure the roms are functional. Out of these three titles, I am mostly interested in the shooter Boogie Wings for the interesting concept it have.

@VictimRLSH Me too. While I don't really play or like browser games, it is an important and useful collection of history. That guy who is responsible for Flashpoint earns my respect (as much as the other emulation related people). On a related note, it is possible to save and create and installation media from Android applications/games, together with Android emulation, this is easy to preserve. But for mmo games, it will not be the same without the world wide online player base. And now, they start to stream games, worst case scenario! Btw, I made a meme related to this topic:

(not perfectly edited, but you get the idea, this was in response to ActivisionBlizzard's announcement of Diablo for mobile)

VictimRLSH

@thelostsoul I had always held out hope that someone would make a fan-based server for Battle Pirates, but it never happened. That game went down the toilet quickly. In its early days it was hella fun and free players had no problem at all with raids and whatnot. But the power creep and cash grab have been at stupid level for about 2 years now.

zefolhadela

Ufo / Gnap for ms dos (u can play it on scummvm)
Atomic Runner for Mega Drive/Genesis
Lonney Tunes Collector 1/2 both are amazing. for Gameboy Color
Shinobi for Gamegear (i know the first is good, never played the 2nd)
Tiny Toon Adventures: The Great Beanstalk for Psx

thelostsoul

@zefolhadela I definitely need to setup my ScummVM. Here some notes from me: Atomic Runner for Mega Drive is a remake of Chelnov on the Arcade. It even surpasses the original. I had played the Arcade version for highscores several years back and didn't know the console version, which I would have preferred. The game plays like a side scrolling platform shooter, but the tight controls (and weird face switch to back shooting mode) and auto scrolling levels makes it hard to play. You can also jump on enemies like in Mario! A weird game. The title and story of the original Arcade game is controversial, as it is directly influenced by the Chernobyl catastrophic desaster. The hero gets its super power from this happening and the game came just a few years after this out.