<Arcade> The Unregarded.

[F-ZeroOne]

Heres an interesting one - most I suspect are familiar with Namcos "Rolling Thunder". And they may well be aware of the MegaDrives "Rolling Thunder 2", which I played to death on that console. But how many either knew of, or encountered, a "Rolling Thunder 2" arcade machine? I didn't know myself there was an arcade original until the advent of MAME.



Incidentally, the music for Round 3 - "Across the Tube" - is ingrained on my brain.

[Deckard]

Timely - The Strider sequel I have never heard of ?



Coming to the Switch fairly shortly apparently...

[F-ZeroOne]

"Cannon Dancer" I've heard of, but I'd be surprised if many actually encountered it in the arcades.

[Deckard]

"Cannon Dancer" I've heard of, but I'd be surprised if many actually encountered it in the arcades.

Never ever saw it back in the day.

[F-ZeroOne]

To be fair, I think I only ever saw a "Strider" in the arcade once. It didn't seem to be as common as some others of the time.

[F-ZeroOne]

Another one thats not exactly obscure, but which tends to come up mostly in discussion of games that came after it, like "Side Arms" or "Forbidden Worlds", rather than as its own thing - "Section Z":

[Deckard]

I only ever saw one Food Fight machine in Weston-Super-Mare otherwise it would've been another game I def would have tried to master - As I've said before I was mates with the local Bath arcade owners' son so we had all the Williams game asap even Stargate ! Which again I think I only saw one other of , ever.

[F-ZeroOne]

"Pitfall" is of course a very well known console classic, but how many of you ever encountered a "Pitfall 2" arcade machine (by SEGA) in the wild?

[Deckard]

I only ever saw one of these in the local fair funnily enough -

[Kelloggs]

There was a Star Rider in the arcade on the pier at Colwyn Bay many years ago (may have been broken; can't remember) but sadly when I went to Llandudno this summer ther was no arcade nor pier any more, so no game either. Looking at it now, two thoughts strike me - how incredibly Tron (and within a year of the film's release, hmm...) and how "easy" it would be with today's technology to do without the laserdisc and render the tracks directly.

[MattyP]

I don't know if it's obscure enough but thought Parodius was a great version of the Gradius series completely whacky!

[F-ZeroOne]

There aren't any real "rules" for what counts for an entry here; its for things that tended to get a bit lost to time and hazy memory. "Parodius" as a series isn't overly obscure, but I suspect the actual cabs wasn't encountered that often in the typical UK arcade.

[Whiteball]

Always played the original Bagman when I saw it in an arcade as it was different to a lot of other games at the time.

Never saw the second one though (didn't actually know it was a thing until seeing it in MAME years later).

[F-ZeroOne]

Another that sometimes gets a mention but is rarely covered in details, "Gyruss":



Strange how memory plays tricks. I could have sworn "Gyruss" had a classical music soundtrack, but that doesn't appear to be the case in the videos.

[Kelloggs]

Well, that's Bach's Toccata and Fugue (ish) as the in-game music - you can't really get more Classical than that...