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Post by Big Bang Blitz on Jun 9, 2013 19:00:50 GMT -5
Oh, Alligator Hunt. Whoops!
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Post by 1983parrothead on Jul 27, 2013 9:48:49 GMT -5
East Technology has a handful of obscure arcade games besides the one mentioned by topic creator.
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Post by vetus on Sept 17, 2013 19:51:43 GMT -5
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Post by PooshhMao on Sept 18, 2013 16:22:44 GMT -5
Even though it's not super obscure, I would like to praise Xain'D Sleena, also known as Soldier of Light. Ahead of it's time (released in 1986), it's a sci-fi platform shooter obviously inspired by Star Wars (featuring a Jabba The Hut cameo even) where you have to invade 5 planets in any order you like (perhaps inspiring Rockman?), though it's best to stick to the suggested order since you will need quite a lot of extra lives by the time you get to the dreaded volcano planet. Oh and it pioneered the double jump as well.
It looks and sounds amazing for a game that era, I'm still impressed by the art design today - and the music is awfully catchy too, I hummed every note along flawlessly when I first played it in MAME well over ten years after I last played it in the wild.
Brilliant game - play it.
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Post by Snarboo on Sept 18, 2013 16:43:44 GMT -5
Dragon Buster was the first game with a double jump actually, but I agree, Xain'd Sleena was an awesome game. There's a PC remake of the game floating around that's almost identical to the arcade game.
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Post by PooshhMao on Sept 19, 2013 1:47:34 GMT -5
I played that yeah, good stuff indeed Technos was the shit back then. The coin-op was fairly common back in the day, I encountered it quite often in places such as bowling alleys and carnivals. And seaside arcades I literally screamed of joy when I saw the first screenshots on a MAME news website a long time ago. I tried playing some of the ports it got on home computers yesterday. Ow. The Amstrad CPC version is barely recognisable and runs at about 5fps. Never got past the first level either due to a design flaw (I can almost 1CC the original). Another game I really like is Vigilante. Again, fairly well known, but not often discussed. It's the spiritual sequel to Spartan X/Kung Fu Master and there are plenty of problems with it if you start looking for them, but this game just nails the aesthetics (as Irem games often do) it was going for. The only decent port I know about is the PC Engine one which is almost arcade perfect, save for a slightly reduced colour palette, the inability to bounce off an enemy with a flying kick and do another one (groovy to pull off but usually got you in trouble anyway) and - crucially - the lack of those satisfying sound effects. It has them, it's not that Irem didn't try, but they sound so scratchy it neuters the feel.
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Post by llj on Sept 21, 2013 10:23:10 GMT -5
Played some vertically-progressing platforming games last night:
Psychic 5
Momoko 120%
These were mentioned in a previous arcade thread in here, though.
Another odd and obscure game is Mikie, where you play a troublemaker at school:
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Post by starscream on Sept 21, 2013 13:31:51 GMT -5
I discovered Mikie as a kid on one of my C64 disks. Clueless as I was, I didn't even come out of the first room. I later discovered that it was ported to all major 8bit computer platforms of Europe, + the British BBC Micro and the SG-1000.
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Post by apachacha on Sept 21, 2013 13:43:03 GMT -5
Is Psychis 5 related to Esper Bouken Tai ? Seems really similar.
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Post by llj on Sept 21, 2013 18:11:17 GMT -5
Is Psychis 5 related to Esper Bouken Tai ? Seems really similar. Yes, they seem to be related. I don't know if it's a straight port exactly, because Esper Boukentai looks more like a metroid-styled game, whereas Psychic 5 is broken up into levels.
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Post by akirikasu on Sept 22, 2013 0:40:30 GMT -5
Gun Master (Gunstar Heroes in the arcade, commands for special moves, cool bosses) Holy shit, Gun Master! I knew I wasn't the only one who liked that game. Found it on MAME one day and it was way more fun than I could have ever imagined. Its not actually a "good game", though, since the control is rather unintuitive and the difficulty is really unbalanced. I'm on mobile now, so I can't get any pictures or anything, but there are two arcade puzzle games that I found to be pretty fun. First would be an odd game called Puzzle and Bowling. Its a match-three ball shooter game like puzzle bobble but you can only shoot forward. However, you can apply English to the balls, and make them go at 45 degree angles at any point, so it basically takes the guesswork out of the game. The other puzzle game is a rather shameless Korean rip off of Puyo Puyo. Karious Cross is not good in any ways. Its terribly unbalanced. it is possible to make a chain reaction that will create about ten times more blank tiles than will fit on the playing board. Worse, some characters actually attack from the bottom of the board instead of the top, where it is almost impossible to effectively remove them. The final boss is so incredibly difficult I am sure the game is actually cheating. And for the most part you will need to use a different strategy to defeat him than you did to defeat the earlier foes. Defeating the final boss, after spending infinite quarters, is the finest moment in my gaming career. That's probably why I like the game so much.
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Post by llj on Sept 23, 2013 20:16:47 GMT -5
Crime City is a game that doesn't get mentioned a lot in gaming forums. I don't think it even has its own Wikipedia page.
It's basically like E-Swat in that you walk right (sometimes left) on a single plane and kill bad guys with fists or guns and other weapons. The movement pace is rather deliberate. The level designs in this game are rather basic. There's not a lot of jumping from a higher perch to a lower one, but there's plenty of ducking behind boxes and shooting back, a la Rolling Thunder. And yet, it's not as cheap as E-Swat and I don't think it's quite as difficult as Rolling Thunder. The way the game is set up, it seems quite possible for a casual gamer to eventually one credit the game without being a gaming god, so it gets extra marks for that.
It's not exactly the best obscure game you've ever seen, but it's worth a play at least.
The main characters are the same two guys in Chase HQ, btw.
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Post by vetus on Mar 17, 2014 13:29:10 GMT -5
www.bogleech.com/arcade-chimerabeast.htmlIt's unique, it's spooky, it's bizarre, it's awesome...why Jaleco never released it even thought it was complete? Good thing that the prototype rom exists and it's 100% playable. I learned about it recently when I was reading TvTrope's article about arcade games: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ChimeraBeastI was happily surprised when I found this very likeable 8bit medley with cutified, humoristic 8bit graphics: Damn! Now I want to see a parody fan-made game like that based on Chimera Beast. Reminds me Fantasy Zone and Parodius.
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Post by strizzuth on Mar 18, 2014 14:05:32 GMT -5
Cadash. It's the tits.
Stay away from the horrible Genesis and TG-16 ports, though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2014 14:18:19 GMT -5
Another odd and obscure game is Mikie, where you play a troublemaker at school: Wow, can't believe they got away with that obvious a rip on "A Hard Days Night" by the Beatles.
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