MAME reccomendations

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:32 pm

Me and some friends are making plans for a mame cabinet this summer (funded all by me, but it stays at my house

) and we're trying to think of good arcade games. heres our current list:

Donkey kong 1-3
super mario
pac-man
qix
The simpsons
TMNT games
Mortal kombat 1-4
street fighter 2&3
marvel vs. capcom 1&2
NARC
tetris
tower of druaga
batman

any others? thanks

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sat May 19, 2007 8:37 am

the samurai showdown games
galaga
metal slug series also

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Sat May 19, 2007 12:11 pm

street fighter 2 and all the variations of it.
Dynamite dux
michael jacksons moonwalker

Lorelis-san · Post by **Lorelis-san** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:21 pm

If you have a trackball, Marble Madness is a good one to at least try out

...And I would recommend the Metal Slugs, but they've been recommended already, no suprise

arfink · Post by **arfink** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:49 pm

Well, ignoring the fact that you probably won't be getting ANY of these games legally, here are my personal fave. arcade picks:

Last Blade series
XMEN (the 4 player variant)
Assault (Cool tank game)
Neo Turf Masters (The voice-overs are sublime "ON THE GWEEN!")
P.O.W.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
and if you like Metal Slug, you need to try In the Hunt, it was made by the same team as Metal Slug before they came off of Irem.

Of course you absolutely must at least try Metal Slug if you have not yet seen it. Believe the hype, the first Metal Slug is so good it's actually worth buying the real arcade cartridge.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:12 pm

Star Wars
Battle Toads

JAY · Post by **JAY** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:18 pm

X-men Vs. Street Fighter
X-men: Children of the Atom
Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter
Marvel Super Heroes
1942
1943
Double Dragon
Final Fight
R-Type
Frogger

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:37 pm

strider, and bionic commando

Bibin · Post by **Bibin** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:25 pm

Don't mix vertical and horizontal games. Ever.

Super Mario is a nes game.
Mario Bros is an arcade game, a horizontal one at that.

Pac-Man, Galaga, DK 1-3, Pengo, Dig Dig, etc. are vertical.

Turtles, Simpsons, and any fighting game are horizontal.

loup · Post by **loup** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:05 am

Bibin wrote:Don't mix vertical and horizontal games. Ever.

I hear this a lot from people, but I've been mixing vertical and horizontal games for a while, I'm just fine with it. A big part of it is the size screen I'm using, but it's also personal preference. One of the joys of MAME is that you don't even have to make a final decision on this until after you've built the cabinet. Stick a bunch of games on there and if one doesn't play right or doesn't look good to you, just pull it off.

Super Mario is a nes game.
Mario Bros is an arcade game, a horizontal one at that.

Super Mario Bros. is/was available as an arcade game as a playchoice 10 game.

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:31 pm

Vs. Super Mario Bros is an arcade game.

The Vs. series is basically NES games on the arcade. Look for almost any famous NES game, but put Vs. in front.

-SCM

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:59 pm

Rally-X!!
Bosconian!!

Fun!

Bibin · Post by **Bibin** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:17 pm

I know about the VS games, but I'm just saying that "Super Mario Bros" by itself is technically a different game.

The VS system was actually NES hardware, but each game had it's own PPU palette, so it is hard to get the games running on a regular NES. It is possible, however.

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:38 pm

loup wrote:
Bibin wrote:
Super Mario is a nes game.
Mario Bros is an arcade game, a horizontal one at that.
Super Mario Bros. is/was available as an arcade game as a playchoice 10 game.

Yep and I own it just for clarification.