Opinions Please!!!

thesteve

I have recently received 6 DVD's of MAME ROMs, 4752 working games and I have to choose around 200 or so to go onto the cabinet I'm building.

I don't want to put too many on as the spec of the machine is old enough and I reckon the fewer, the faster it should perform.

Anyway, this is where you guys will hopefully help me out. I started going through ALL of the games, picking out the best of them... I got as far as B... there's just too many.

So what I would like from you guys is your top 3 games of all time (arcade games now ladies and gents, no SNES, MEGADRIVE, N64, etc etc)... or if you feel you must, your top 5, 10 games etc. Try and stray away from car games and games that used a gun, as the cabinet is simply two joysticks and 6 buttons per player.......

I'll then look at these lists and use these ROMs... this way hopefully I'll get a good fistfull of good games without having to comb through them myself!

It's not laziness I swear, this is a project for college and I don't have the time to be going through 4752 games!

Cheers everyone, let the listing begin........

brianon

hmmmm....

You 'gotta' have...
Pacman, Ms. Pacman, Donkey Kong.

Shoot'em Up...
Twin Cobra, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Cyvern, Battle Bakraid.

Platform...
Metal Slug (all if possible), Bubble Bobble.

Puzzle...
Pnickies(very good), Tetris, Puzzle Bobble.

Sport...
Track & Field.

Theres just soooo many

LoGiE

What exactly is the spec? Mortal Kombat etc dont run to well on older machines.

Games you should defo have are...

The New Zealand Story
Pac-Land
Commando
Arkanoid
Bubble Bobble
Bomb Jack
Strider
Double Dragon
Ghouls & Ghosts
RoboCop
Street fighter II

thesteve

cheers guys, many listed are many of my favourites too, but there is a few unfamiliar names....

the spec is P2 550Mhz, 265MB RAM, 10GB HD... pretty sh!t by these days standards

zAbbo

Maybe KnoppiXMame (bootable linux distro + dedicated for mame use) might be useful for you, the ISO is around 100MB. Let us know how u get on?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/knoppixmame/

thesteve

thanks for the link but I am a complete linux retard and have just spent days getting my batch files working, device drivers loaded through DOS, etc, etc... and if I fu*ked it up now, i'd honestly break down in tears!

Retr0gamer

Street Fighter 2 of course.

Scrolling beat em ups are loads of fun with 2 players. Try:

Alien vs. Predator, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, the konami simpsons game, final fight

For shoot em ups the best would be

Hyperduel, R-type 1+2+leo, 19XX, nemesis, salamander, Contra 1 and super contra. can't think of anymore.

thesteve

cheers all, they have all been added

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by brianon
Metal Slug (all if possible)

i downloaded 1, 2, 3 and X and i remember them all from before. they are fantastic games. i wonder how many other games i have forgotten about

superfly

here are some of the ones i love

Double dragon (any version)
Gauntlet (any version)
Golden Axe
Knights of the Round
Major Title (i hate sports games but this is a classic)
Marvel superheroes vs street fighter
Punisher
R-Type
Rolling Thunder
Shadow Warriors
Shinobi
Sly Spy
Strider
Sunset riders (definitely get this)

patch

All of the above and,
Mr Do
Bionic Commando
commado
Snow Bros

Crap, I've forgotten a heap of them..... Kikki kai Kai is one of my all time favorites:
http://caesar.logiqx.com/html/emus/multi/raine/kikikai.shtml

You may have some problems playing a few of the newer neogeo games mentioned above on that set up. Don't forget to put neogeo.zip into your rom folder to play them.

LoGiE

Just cause they haven't been mentioned already..

Bonanza Bros
Rainbow Islands
Rodland
Mercs
Aliens (Side scroller from konami)
Bombjack
Asterix
Green Beret
Klax
Midnight Resistance
Ninja Gaiden
Shadow Dancer
1941
Playchoice Games ie Mario Bros etc
Taito power goal