<Arcade> The Unregarded.

[F-ZeroOne]

“The Speed Rumbler” also has an alternate title, “Rush and Crash”, if you’re having trouble finding it.

[F-ZeroOne]

Now this one is possibly the most obscure one I've ever played in my experience - "Vanguard II", apparently a follow-up to "Vanguard" though rather different in gameplay. For those of you who remember the early Epic games shareware title "Zone 66", its plays a bit like it:



Only ever encountered it once at a holiday camp we stayed at, never saw it anywhere again after that week other than when I tried to recall what it was and went looking for it on the internet.

[F-ZeroOne]

I'm not sure this one is as unregarded as some of the others mentioned, but it was always a bit of an uncommon one for me - Konamis "Road Fighter". Also one of the few games I ever saw running on a MSX home computer.

[F-ZeroOne]

Another two that very occasionally get a mention but rarely in any depth, but which I always seemed to find in arcades - "Rabio Lepus" and "Atomic Robo-Kid":

[grue]

Another two that very occasionally get a mention but rarely in any depth, but which I always seemed to find in arcades - "Rabio Lepus" and "Atomic Robo-Kid":

Atomic Robo Kid was quite famous on the Amiga. I never knew it was an arcade conversion.

[F-ZeroOne]

I very vaguely remember that now you've mentioned it (maybe I saw it advertised). I had a ST, I'm not sure if it was converted to that?

Heres one that, like a previous poster, I'm haunted by memories of - description will be vague as I only saw it a couple of times and don't think I ever got to play it. Main character stood on a kind of "rocket sled", like the one Flash uses towards the end of "Flash Gordon". Art style was similar to "Gladiator" or "Blandia", it was such a distinctive look it may have been a game from the same company. Any ideas?

[F-ZeroOne]

I think I've found it! "Shooter Scooter". Not exactly as I recall it, but possibly in my head it was getting mixed up with other titles:



This guys playlist covers a lot of the "Unregarded":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... CR-9bKR04s

[merman]

There’s a feature from Paul Drury (DRS) in the new Retro Gamer Issue 235 (on sale Thursday) about scrolling through MAME. Among the games mentioned...
Dingo
Field Day
Levers
Pulirula
Qwak prototype
Agent Super Bond
Moustache Boy
Uncle Poo

[Whiteball]

There’s a feature from Paul Drury (DRS) in the new Retro Gamer Issue 235 (on sale Thursday) about scrolling through MAME. Among the games mentioned...
Dingo
Field Day
Levers
Pulirula
Qwak prototype
Agent Super Bond
Moustache Boy
Uncle Poo

I always get Retro Gamer, lovely magazine with great content.

[F-ZeroOne]

Yeah, just got that issue yesterday. Between that and the playlist I linked to above, it does make me curious a) how some of these games got made and why and b) how many actually got out into the wild.

[Deckard]

I see one of these is on Switch today although it reminds me of Buck Rodgers a lot....mixed with Space Harrier and Star Wars.

Thunder Ceptor - Never ever saw it in the arcades =

[F-ZeroOne]

Here a couple more that may not be overly obscure - the second one seemed to be pretty common in my experience - but which don't seem to get covered much. First, "Roc' N Rope":



And next "Pleiades":

[Whiteball]

Loved Roc' N Rope even if I was no good at it.
Was an ever present in the arcade we frequented on our yearly holiday when kids.

There is two early Taito games I vaguley remeber seeing somewhere but can't recall names.

One was like that Atari 2600 game where you have fixed guns and defend a city below from the planes/alien craft bombing it.

The other was an octagon shape that you moved around rooms and left via doors (gaps in the border) at the cardinal points. I think you shot at things. Was all line based graphics, but not vectors.

[pyroxian]

There is two early Taito games I vaguley remeber seeing somewhere but can't recall names.

One was like that Atari 2600 game where you have fixed guns and defend a city below from the planes/alien craft bombing it.

Colony 7?

I managed to get that one onto Taito Legends

The other was an octagon shape that you moved around rooms and left via doors (gaps in the border) at the cardinal points. I think you shot at things. Was all line based graphics, but not vectors.

Sounds like Space Dungeon

[Whiteball]

There is two early Taito games I vaguley remeber seeing somewhere but can't recall names.

One was like that Atari 2600 game where you have fixed guns and defend a city below from the planes/alien craft bombing it.

Colony 7?

I managed to get that one onto Taito Legends

The other was an octagon shape that you moved around rooms and left via doors (gaps in the border) at the cardinal points. I think you shot at things. Was all line based graphics, but not vectors.

Sounds like Space Dungeon

Absolutely perfect. That's both of them, thanks.

I do love the sound effects in Space Dungeon too.
Will look into getting them on my mini retro cab soon