what games to get?!

Parzival

I am building my own arcade cabinet but i don't know what games to get. I want arcade, snes,nes, gameboy , all kinds of games.
I already have frogger, donkey kong, pacman, galaga, galaga 88, black tiger, space invaders, megaman, the mask, castlevania, and others. but i want the best arcade games out there... any suggestions?

caver01

Parzival, you should be ashamed of yourself! :-) You, of all people should know that all of the cool games are described in detail in Anorak's Almanac! Every gunter knows that.

thrussmeister

Every Arcade cabinet must include the legend that is Tapper, who doesn't want to serve beer to Aliens, I'd also have Turtles, Simpsons, Sunset Rider, Mercs my personal favourite Knights of the Round!!!!!! I could go on all day

Don't forget 1942 that's sits up there as one of the best!!! Get neo geo on and go for the Metal slug series.

I will shut up now

PetroRie

I would say all of the NEO-GEO, CPS1 and CPS2 games.

meleu

Did you guys loose your minds?!?! I didn't see any of you say a word about New Rally-X!
It's a must have in any home arcade!
:-)

lilbud

@caver01 I love that book

caver01

@lilbud Yeah, me too. I listened to the audio version as read by none other than Wil Weaton. It was a little strange hearing "Wesley Crusher" for several days on end, but what a fantastic story!

I wonder, how many people are "missing it"? Just in case someone reads this and doesn't have a clue what we are talking about. . .

PEOPLE! If you love retro-gaming, then you must read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

Somebody had to say it.

caver01

@meleu I am not familiar with New Rally-X. I'll give it a look-see.

Of course, no emulation cabinet is complete without Joust. Here's my quick list of must-have classics that I like playing:
asteroids, blasteriods, burger time, centipede, elevator action, frogger, galaga, gauntlet, gauntlet 2, golden tee (all), mortal kombat 1,2,3, moon patrol, mr. do, metal slug series, ms pacman, omega race, pole position, punch out, qix, rampage, robotron, street fighter series, SMASH TV, time pilot, turbo, virtua fighter, vindicators, xenophobe, xevious (are you devious enough to defeat xevious?), zaxxon.

I skipped a bunch. Part of the fun is going through a list of ROMs and discovering long-forgotten memories!

lilbud

The only way I remember playing New Rally-X was on a Jakks-Pacific plug n' play console.

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caver01

@lilbud Neat! That thing looks ripe for an upgrade!

lilbud

@caver01 Oh, I still have one. Along with all of the others I ever bought. Between this and the V-Smile, they were among my first gaming memories.

caver01

@lilbud I have the retro-atari gizmo that came out a few years back. I don't know where it is. Maybe I sold it. But I do have my original NES. It's just hard to justify keeping these up and running when I can emulate so nicely now.

backstander

@Parzival

If you're building a 2 player arcade cabinet, here is my list of some of the best co-op arcade games (note that not all these work with the Raspberry Pi MAME 2003):

Alien Challenge, Alien Storm, Alien Vs Predator, Aliens, Altered Beast, Art of Fighting 1, 2 & 3, Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja, Battletoads, Black Tiger, Blasteroids, Brute Force, Bucky O'Hare, Cadash, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Captain America and the Avengers, Captain Commando, Carrier Air Wing, Contra and Super Contra, Dead Connection, Double Dragon 1, 2 & 3, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom, Elevation Action Returns, Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, EspGaluda 1 & 2, Final Fight, Fire Truck, Galaxy Fight - Universal Warriors, Gauntlet 1 & 2, Golden Axe series, Heavy Barrel, Hook, Ikari Warriors, Jackal, Knights of the Round, Knuckle Bash, The Legend of Silkroad, Lucky & Wild, Magic Sword, Metal Slug series, Mortal Kombat series, Mutation Nation, NARC, Ninja Gaiden, The Ninja Warriors, Pit Fighter, Pu-Li-Ru-La, The Punisherm Raiden series, Rampage, Samurai Aces, Samurai Shodown series, Sengoku 1, 2 & 3, Shock Troopers, Silent Dragon, Silk Worm, The Simpsons, Space Duel, Strike Force, Sunset Riders, Tattoo Assassins, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Three Wonders (NeoGeo), Time Soldiers, Trog, Undercover Cops, Warriors of Fate, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Wizard of Wor, WWF Wrestlemania, Xenophobe and X-Men games.

I compiled this list from several different forums & websites about this subject and yes, they are in alphabet order!

meleu

A funny fact about New Rally-X is that here in Brazil it's known as "the car that farts".

lilbud

@meleu I thought it was called that when I first played the game back 10 years ago or so.

Parzival

@caver01 ofcourse! Im so ashamed of my self! I know all of halliday's fav games but they are so many I cannot keep track of them and my grail diary is gone!

Meneer Jansen

@Parzival I kida like Mappy from the classic arcade games from the eighties (unfortunately I suck at it like I do at all those hard to master classic games). Back in the day I liked Moon Patrol too because I didn't "die" as fast as in Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. Donkey Kong Jr. is a must have too. Same goes for Galaga, Gyruss, Lady Bug and Ms. Pac Man.

Good luck! :-) Which new ones do you play now because we said we like 'm?

P.S. To play Galaga in certain versions of Mame you need the general Namco roms too, named "namco51.zip" and "namco51.zip".

Parzival

@backstander this is a nice list i will make sure to get and try most of them thanks!

Parzival

@Meneer-Jansen I also like Mappy. this was one of the first ones i got because it came in the namco classic collection rom. same with Galaga. (which is one of my top 5 favorite arcade games). I wanna see if i can try the other ones as well.

Parzival

@meleu which one is that? do you have a file name?