Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
Ahchay wrote:Maybe it's just me, but when I see a list of 50 or 60 games, I just can't cope with the information overload and just sort of don't bother trying anything... I'm much more likely to download and try a smaller (more selective) list iz all. Doesn't have to be definitive, just typical...
Aha, but that's exactly what I want this list to be. A cut down version of the good stuff from what's available.
Take for example the Commodore 64. It's easy to get the current release of Gamebase64 (the definitive collection of all c64 games), but that currently includes 15,800 games. Most of which will probably be garbage, or duplicates in different languages. So a list of even 50-100 recommended games is a way to whittle it down a bit to see what's worth trying...
Same with the SNES. I currently have over 3GB of SNES roms, but I never owned one so I don't know what the fuck to try first.
Same with MAME...
This list will be invaluable for that I think (hope).
Powerstone 1 and 2 (4 way beat em up)
Space channel 5 Part 1 and Part 2 (Rythm action)
Bangaio (Shooter)
Mr Driller (Puzzler)
Soul Calibur (Beat em up)
Capcom VS SNK (Beat em up)
F355 Challange (Racing/Simulation)
Jet Set Radio (umm.. platform game?)
SNES:
Chrono Trigger (RPG)
Pilotwings (err.. flying game?)
Street Fighter II Turbo (Beat em up)
StarFox (Shooter)
Megadive:
Gunstar Heros (Shooter)
Acorn Archimedies: (Did anyone else have one of these?)
Starfighter 3000 (Shooter)
Last edited by Narf on Sat Apr 10, 2004 11:32 am 0, edited 1 time in total.
Ahchay wrote:Maybe it's just me, but when I see a list of 50 or 60 games, I just can't cope with the information overload and just sort of don't bother trying anything... I'm much more likely to download and try a smaller (more selective) list iz all. Doesn't have to be definitive, just typical...
Aha, but that's exactly what I want this list to be. A cut down version of the good stuff from what's available.
Take for example the Commodore 64. It's easy to get the current release of Gamebase64 (the definitive collection of all c64 games), but that currently includes 15,800 games. Most of which will probably be garbage, or duplicates in different languages. So a list of even 50-100 recommended games is a way to whittle it down a bit to see what's worth trying...
Same with the SNES. I currently have over 3GB of SNES roms, but I never owned one so I don't know what the fuck to try first.
Same with MAME...
This list will be invaluable for that I think (hope).
hmm probably gonna hate me for suggesting this but is it worth putting the genre of game down.
I personally didn't suggest powerstone for the dreamcast as I'm not into beat-em ups. I am into shooters however, and if I was trying out an emulator I'd be rather interested in trying out a shooter and not very interested at all in trying out a beat-em up.
Laser Squad/Lords of Chaos (C64)
Thrust (C64)
Navy Seals (C64)
Champions/Death Knights of Krynn (C64)
Alter Ego (C64)
Warlords (2600)
Marble Craze (2600)
Saturday Night Slam Masters (SNES)
Rock n Roll Racing (SNES)
Super Aleste (SNES)
Area 88 (aka UN Squadron) (SNES)
Contra III (SNES)
Legend of the Mystical Ninja [Goeman] (SNES)
Super Smash TV (SNES)
Cybernator (SNES)
TMNT Fighters (SNES)
NBA Jam (SNES)
F-Zero (SNES)
Super Mario RPG (SNES)
I've got one, but good god! Starfighter 3000 (if it's anything like the Saturn version) is terrible!
I really enjoyed it on the Acorn, fantastic graphics (for the time) , shooting things... then again I was young and easily amused when I played it - I'll have to dig it out and give it another whirl
three decent games out of the ten (?) I own isn't a bad success rate...
