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System 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 74809	after getting Mame awhile back, I decided to revisit some old arcade classics like QBert, Centipede, Galaga, Galaxian, Phoenix, Donkey Kong Jr., Burgertime, Joust, Mr. Do!, Discs of Tron, Popeye, and those cool gun games such as Chiller, Combat, and Crossbow. Is it just me, or are some of those earliest games some of the most innovative, challenging, fun, interesting, and weird games there is?? Not to mention the sound effects are just amazing to games like QBert, Galaxian, Joust, and Combat. Walking into an arcade during those days with all of the sound effects and music from these games was amazing. These games will never die. Too bad those types of games had such a small window of time.

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System 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 74809	Yep, and here's a list of must-own MAME, CAPCOM & NEOGEO roms: MAME ==== 1942 1943 - The Battle of Midway 1944 - The Loop Master Air Buster Air Gallet Ajax Alien Syndrome Aliens Altered Beast Arabian Magic Arkanoid Arkanoid - Revenge of DoH Arm Wrestling Armed Formation ASO - Armored Scrum Object Asterix Asteroids Astyanax Athena Avengers Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja Batman Battle Toads Big Karnak Black Tiger Blade Master Boxy Boy Bubble Bobble2 Burger Time Cadash Cameltry Caveman Ninja Centipede Chase HQ Chopper I Circus Charlie Columns Combatribes Commando Contra Crime City Crime Fighters Crystal Castles Dark Seal Dark Tower Defender Dig Dug Dig Dug2 Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Jr Donkey Kong3 Double Dragon Double Dragon2 Dragon Breed Dragon Saber Dragon Spirit Dungeon Magic Duraku Tenshi - The Fallen Angels Dynamite Duke Elevator Action Elevator Action Returns Flicky Gaia Crusaders Galaga Galaxian Gang Wars Gaplus Gauntlet Gauntlet2 Ghosts'n Goblins Golden Axe Golden Axe - The Revenge of Death Adder Gradius3 Growl Gun & Frontier Gun Smoke Gunforce GunForce2 Guwange Gyruss Heavy Barrel Hook Ikari Warriors In the Hunt Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road Jackal Joust Jr Pac-Man Karate Blazers Karate Champ Ken-Go Kid Niki - Radical Ninja Kung-Fu Master Lady Bug Legend of Silkroad Legendary Wings Mania Challenge Mario Bros Millipede Missile Command Moon Patrol Mr Do Ms Pac-Man Nastar Nemesis Nibbler Ninja Baseball Batman Ninja Spirit OutRun Pac-Man Pepper2 Phoenix Pirates Pitfall2 - The Lost Caverns Pocket Gal Popeye POW - Prisoners of War Psycho-Nics Oscar Punch-Out Q-bert R-Type R-Type Leo R-Type2 Raiden Rastan Real Ghostbusters Riot City RoboCop Roc'n Rope Rolling Thunder Rolling Thunder2 Rygar Saint Dragon Salamander Samurai Aces Shadow Dancer Shinobi Simpsons Skull & Crossbones Snow Bros2 Sol Divide - The Sword of Darkness Special Criminal Investigation Splatter House Spy Hunter SS Mission Stone Ball Sunset Riders Super Contra Super Cup Finals Super Pac-Man Super Punch-Out Super Space Invaders '91 Super Spacefortress Macross2 Superman Taito Power Goal Tank Force Tengai Thunder Dragon2 Thunder Fox Thundercade ThunderJaws Time Killers TMNT Trojan Truxton2 Turbo Turbo Force Twin Cobra Twin Eagle Twin Hawk UN Squadron Undercover Cops Vasara Vendetta Venture Vigilante Vulcan Venture Warrior Blade Wild West COW - Boys of Moo Mesa Wizard Fire Wonder Boy Yie Ar Kung-Fu Zero Wing Zero Zone CAPCOM ====== 1941 - Counter Attack Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Captain Commando Dungeons & Dragons - Shadow over Mystara Dungeons & Dragons - Tower of Doom Final Fight Ghouls'n Ghosts King of Dragons Knights of the Round Table Magic Sword - Heroic Fantasy Marvel Super Heroes Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter Marvel vs Capcom - Clash of Super Heroes Mercs Street Fighter Alpha2 Street Fighter Alpha3 Street Fighter2 - Champion Edition Strider Super Street Fighter2 - The New Challengers Vampire Savior - The Lord of the Vampire Varth - Operation Thunderstorm Warriors of Fate Willow NEOGEO ===== Baseball Stars2 Breakers Revenge Garou - Mark of the Wolves King of Fighters '96 King of Fighters '97 King of Fighters '98 King of Fighters '99 King of Fighters 2001 King of Fighters 2002 Last Blade Last Blade2 Metal Slug Metal Slug2 Metal Slug3 Metal Slug4 Metal Slug5 Metal SlugX Ninja Master's Power Instinct Matrimelee Rage of the Dragons Real Bout Fatal Fury2 Samurai Shodown Samurai Shodown2 Samurai Shodown3 Samurai Shodown4 Samurai Shodown5 Samurai Shodown5 Special Shock Troopers Shock Troopers2 SNK vs Capcom Plus

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do you know where to find Metal Slug 5???? I LOVE those games.
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JCU 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 355	How I wish we could time travel and be back during the arcade age. For me, the entire 80's and even early 90's always offered an arcade in some fashion or another. Whether it was the back room of the pizza place that had games or the spot in the bowling lanes with a "true" arcade, it was there. Someone mentioned that the sounds really made everything amazing. In addition to the sounds, it was also what you saw, what you smelled, etc.., Some places had the aroma of pizzas being made and others had the clouds of smoke hovering over certain machines. Some had the smell of burgers and fries or the cracking of a ball hitting a pin. The experiences were so wonderful that a mere description doesn't do them justice. Look at the games. While they started in a primitive yet enjoyable state, each year got progressively better. First it was Pac Man or Joust, then it was Paperboy, Rampage, TMNT, etc.., Some of the best memories that I ever had came from playing games at an arcade. That era is unfortunately over but who knows what the future holds. Being that retro is in, maybe arcades will have a rebirth.
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SNAKEeyes001 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 212	You left out Alien vs Predator and Bubble Memories(BubbleBobble 3). Has AirGallet arcade machine ever been released in the U.S.? When I start up the game I think it says its not supposed to be sold in the U.S.
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System 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 74809	SNAKEeyes001 wrote: You left out Alien vs Predator and Bubble Memories(BubbleBobble 3). Has AirGallet arcade machine ever been released in the U.S.? When I start up the game I think it says its not supposed to be sold in the U.S. Yes, there's been a US release but I wasn't able to find it at: http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/mame.html

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System 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 74809	wangho75 wrote: do you know where to find Metal Slug 5???? I LOVE those games. http://www.centralderoms.com/neogeo.htm enable java for download counter

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System 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 74809	mikeyboyz wrote: wangho75 wrote: do you know where to find Metal Slug 5???? I LOVE those games. http://www.centralderoms.com/neogeo.htm enable java for download counter I have the rom and winkawaks 1.55 and it wont show up. What emulator do I need??

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System 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 74809	wangho75 wrote: mikeyboyz wrote: wangho75 wrote: do you know where to find Metal Slug 5???? I LOVE those games. http://www.centralderoms.com/neogeo.htm enable java for download counter I have the rom and winkawaks 1.55 and it wont show up. What emulator do I need?? that'll be NeoRAGEx - EGCG Final Version name = HappyASR code = A220-CC87-5884-0F96 http://alpha.zshare.net/files/211001/neoragex48.zip

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Edymnion 8 years 6 months ago Posts: 2523	wangho75 wrote: Is it just me, or are some of those earliest games some of the most innovative, challenging, fun, interesting, and weird games there is?? Well, thats just it, they had to be. They couldn't rely on flashy graphics, because there were no such thing as flashy graphics back then. Instead, for a game to be good, it had to be GOOD. Good solid gameplay, replayability, innovation, the whole nine yards. The game was make or break by how good the game part of it was, not by how many hookers you could run over or how many chunks the body flies apart in. Ah, the battlecry of the Retro gamer... "There was life before Playstation!!!"

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