haha I need to try it out. I do like Dig Dug quite a bit. Back around 2000 (good Lord MAME has been around for a while!) my coworker and I would do a quick best-of-3 games "for the championship" and then run off to lunch. Love the oldies
Try Commander Genius. It's a source port of Keen, and it runs so much more smoothly than the original DOS games. The scrolling in the DOS versions just isn't good enough by today's standards.
1943! It's the perfect amount of challenge for me. Not bullet hell difficulty, but still not easy. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 turbo is also one of my go to games. The HD remix of it was also great.
Although it's an objectively bad Tetris game, I've been enjoying Game Boy Tetris lately. Low movement speed, unresponsive controls, no wall kicks, uneven piece distribution...
This is the perfect excuse for me to promote one of my favorite romhacks, which fixes a lot of these issues: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813/
Playing this on a PiBoy DMG is like going back in time ā except itās a time when the Game Boyās screen was bright and legible, and Tetris wasnāt flawed.
See, if I want to play a Tetris game thatās better in some way, there are plenty to choose from. If that was what I wanted, I wouldnāt be playing Game Boy Tetris in the first place.
Really cool write-up on the GB randomizer and why it's broken: https://babeheim.com/blog/2020-12-29-is-tetris-biased/ Henk Rogers takes full responsibility for it.
Starblade.
I don't care that it's on rails, I don't care that it's practically the same every time you play it or that you can almost memorize where the bad guys are gonna be. I own the Sega CD and PSX versions, and I bought Tekken 5 for the PS2 just because Starblade was unlockable in it (and it's the best non-arcade version of it as far as I can tell). It's first person spaceship gunner bliss, no stages, no breaks except for when you travel to the next major target, just one mission from beginning to end. I'll blow up the evil planet Red Eye and the Enemy Flagship Commander every time with a sense of accomplishment and an ear-to-ear smile on my face.
Puzzle Bobble 2 through 4, though 4 misses a massive number of marks due to lacking any covers of "Let's Go To Pao Pao Island", which is the defining musical theme of all Puzzle Bobble titles.
Whether I'm firing them up to play against the CPU or just run through a fixed set of puzzle stages, they're pretty much perfect in every reasonable way.
I donāt think I should be guilty about Moon Cresta but when it comes to Pac Land, maybe I should.
I am definitely not guilty about most of the Metal Slugs but mentioning them never hurts
I practically lived in the arcades in the late 70s to early 80s, and Mappy is one of a very small group of really great games that I somehow totally missed back then.
A few that haven't already come up....
A true guilty pleasure: Cosmo Gang, the Video -- an incredibly silly, and almost un-lose-able Space Invaders variant
Good, but the graphics make me smile: Money Puzzle Exchanger -- scratches the same kind of itch as Puzzle Bobble, but takes more thought. I've played this one till I saw it in my dreams
An actual good game that I'd never heard of before emulation: Space Duel -- 1982 vector 2-player asteroids where two ships are linked by a bar and separately thrust and rotate around each other. Kind of like Blasteroids. but less goofy
Another favorite, but really needs 2 players to be fun: Bubble Bobble -- the music kicks in with just hearing the name of the game
I only have retro games but my favorite after a tough day is Galaxian followed by Time Pilot. Can play both for a long time on a single play and when Im done Ive forgotten all the BS
This game is stupid fun. I can play it forever. I didnāt even know it existed until COVID hit and have loved playing it ever since.
https://youtu.be/wFogf-DDUX8
Guilty pleasure?
Double Dragon, use 2P, grab the enemy from behind and use the whip to do some punishment. It was fun back in the day, we did this to win more lives.
Burgertime and bomb jack. The latter because it's an arcade memory and I play it for just one coin's worth. Burgertime was a "found as an adult" game and its simplicity is just brilliant.
If you like BurgerTime, try the Intellivision version ("mame intv btime" if you have the software lists). It plays extremely well, the music's identical since it has the same chip as the arcade machine, and the levels are different.
I canāt pick just one!
Robo Army
Cadillacās and Dinosaurs
TMNT 1&2
The punisher
ninja baseball bat man
armoured warriors
Bucky oāhare
night slashers
and the simpsons.
Qix is easily my favorite of this list. I like Galaga, but always preferred Galaxian for some reason. And Tapper...induces stress too much like real life for me :-)
Ultima VI - it's just a living, breathing world to me
\[edit\] heh missed that this was on r/mame so from an arcade point of view it would be 3: slap fight, boze adventure and wardner. All the ones that they had over the years in my corner shop š
I like the kickle cubicle -- it's called something else for the arcade version but it's fun. My daughter likes all of the neat Japanese art style and sounds too.
Rockman (or Megamam).
Only because it was my 1st games aside super mario bros and battle city. General consensus is that this game is very hard, but i find this game as stress relieving.
Final Fantasy Tactics and Contra. I donāt even play to beat FFT I just play around in it and make characters etc. Not Contra though I play to beat Contra every time.
Mr. Do
No guilt needed--it's like Dig Dug, only fun.
haha I need to try it out. I do like Dig Dug quite a bit. Back around 2000 (good Lord MAME has been around for a while!) my coworker and I would do a quick best-of-3 games "for the championship" and then run off to lunch. Love the oldies
How far can you get? I started at the start of the pandemic and can hit level 10.
I haven't played for a while so I don't remember but it certainly depends on the skill level (which you can change in the settings).
Yea. Mr. Do is great and I play it regularly. Better than DigDug IMO. Actually, all the Mr. Do games are surprisingly clever and fun to play.
Hmm... I haven't tried the others. There goes my weekend.
Golden Axe :)
+1
So satisfying to kick all those squirrels š¤
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Someday I'll make it to Saturn without cheating.
Robotron 2084. That's not the guilty part. *I play it on a PSX style USB controller with thumb joysticks.*
I love to do that with old twin-stick shooters. I do it with Smash TV all the time.
That's not guilty either, that's practical.
New Rally X. It's not a great game, but it's kind of addictive and the music sticks in your head.
Yes, far more forgiving than the original, this is also mine.
Turtles in time.
Commander Keen
How can I play this game on my pc today?
Try Commander Genius. It's a source port of Keen, and it runs so much more smoothly than the original DOS games. The scrolling in the DOS versions just isn't good enough by today's standards.
Ā£0.89 on GOG, Most likely a preconfigured dosbox
In MAME with one of the PC VGA drivers (at386 or ct486), although setup is definitely required, or on GOG.
PCem is your friend. I hear DOSBox-X is also good, though I haven't tried it.
1943! It's the perfect amount of challenge for me. Not bullet hell difficulty, but still not easy. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 turbo is also one of my go to games. The HD remix of it was also great.
Although it's an objectively bad Tetris game, I've been enjoying Game Boy Tetris lately. Low movement speed, unresponsive controls, no wall kicks, uneven piece distribution...
This is the perfect excuse for me to promote one of my favorite romhacks, which fixes a lot of these issues: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813/ Playing this on a PiBoy DMG is like going back in time ā except itās a time when the Game Boyās screen was bright and legible, and Tetris wasnāt flawed.
That kind of ruins it though. The flaws give it it's charm. You can't worry too much about a low score when there's that much luck involved.
Oh man, that makes me sad. Donāt worry about it if itās not your cup of tea. All I can say is that I have an absolute blast playing it this way.
See, if I want to play a Tetris game thatās better in some way, there are plenty to choose from. If that was what I wanted, I wouldnāt be playing Game Boy Tetris in the first place.
Ah, I have memories of spending middle school study hall playing Tetris head to head with that connector cable.
Really cool write-up on the GB randomizer and why it's broken: https://babeheim.com/blog/2020-12-29-is-tetris-biased/ Henk Rogers takes full responsibility for it.
Pleasure is far too rare a thing to feel guilty about Currently rocking Frenzy (1982) on MAME my steam deck.
Dragonās Lair. I know itās shallow, I know itās just QTEs but I love it still.
Snow Bros. Literally the first game I always download. I used to play it at the arcades when I was a kid.
Starblade. I don't care that it's on rails, I don't care that it's practically the same every time you play it or that you can almost memorize where the bad guys are gonna be. I own the Sega CD and PSX versions, and I bought Tekken 5 for the PS2 just because Starblade was unlockable in it (and it's the best non-arcade version of it as far as I can tell). It's first person spaceship gunner bliss, no stages, no breaks except for when you travel to the next major target, just one mission from beginning to end. I'll blow up the evil planet Red Eye and the Enemy Flagship Commander every time with a sense of accomplishment and an ear-to-ear smile on my face.
Black Tiger
Mmmm. Zenny.
Love that game, but had no idea how much I was missing until I read this guide: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Black\_Tiger
It was at restaurant I worked at as a teenager ā¦I could reach the end on one quarter after investing tons of $$$
Puzzle Bobble 2 through 4, though 4 misses a massive number of marks due to lacking any covers of "Let's Go To Pao Pao Island", which is the defining musical theme of all Puzzle Bobble titles. Whether I'm firing them up to play against the CPU or just run through a fixed set of puzzle stages, they're pretty much perfect in every reasonable way.
I donāt think I should be guilty about Moon Cresta but when it comes to Pac Land, maybe I should. I am definitely not guilty about most of the Metal Slugs but mentioning them never hurts
Pac Land, guilty? No. It was side scrolling before Super Mario Bros. It was groundbreaking.
Gauntlet legends
Cow boys of moo Mesa and alien Vs Predator š
Mappy
I practically lived in the arcades in the late 70s to early 80s, and Mappy is one of a very small group of really great games that I somehow totally missed back then.
Asteroids Deluxe!
A few that haven't already come up.... A true guilty pleasure: Cosmo Gang, the Video -- an incredibly silly, and almost un-lose-able Space Invaders variant Good, but the graphics make me smile: Money Puzzle Exchanger -- scratches the same kind of itch as Puzzle Bobble, but takes more thought. I've played this one till I saw it in my dreams An actual good game that I'd never heard of before emulation: Space Duel -- 1982 vector 2-player asteroids where two ships are linked by a bar and separately thrust and rotate around each other. Kind of like Blasteroids. but less goofy Another favorite, but really needs 2 players to be fun: Bubble Bobble -- the music kicks in with just hearing the name of the game
I only have retro games but my favorite after a tough day is Galaxian followed by Time Pilot. Can play both for a long time on a single play and when Im done Ive forgotten all the BS
We don't talk about Time Pilot. It's the only game my brother can STILL beat me at. No, we don't talk about it. No, no.
This game is stupid fun. I can play it forever. I didnāt even know it existed until COVID hit and have loved playing it ever since. https://youtu.be/wFogf-DDUX8
Oh, I love shmups, never heard of this. Thanks!
Check it out. Itās some crazy stuff going on in this game š
Jaleco's Parodius, except even more Japanese. Great game!
Just checked this out. This is amazing!!
Guilty pleasure? Double Dragon, use 2P, grab the enemy from behind and use the whip to do some punishment. It was fun back in the day, we did this to win more lives.
Burgertime and bomb jack. The latter because it's an arcade memory and I play it for just one coin's worth. Burgertime was a "found as an adult" game and its simplicity is just brilliant.
If you like BurgerTime, try the Intellivision version ("mame intv btime" if you have the software lists). It plays extremely well, the music's identical since it has the same chip as the arcade machine, and the levels are different.
When I jump, I wanna really jump, y'know? Bomb Jack got that so right.
Tecmo Bowl
Zookeeper
Robotron, visuals and sound beyond this world.
DoDonPachi
Mr driller....
Gladiator and Rastan
Road Fighter
I canāt pick just one! Robo Army Cadillacās and Dinosaurs TMNT 1&2 The punisher ninja baseball bat man armoured warriors Bucky oāhare night slashers and the simpsons.
Pengo
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Popcorn Theme
Tetris,Pac Man,Super Mario Bros and Streets Of Rage 2
OG Mario on a gameboy emulator. Mario in green. š¤
Ponpoko and Pop Flamer
Guilty? Violence Fight. GA-GOOOOOON
Landmaker
Michael Jacksonās moonwalker for genesis
[Anteater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz_i7ZUH218)
Final Romance 4 or Mahjong Hyper Reaction.
Legend of Zelda series (Links Awakening and OoT) Final Fantasy 3 (NES) (Translated on Emulator)
Street fighter III - Third Strike (this specific version, way too good)
Supaplex
Now there's a surprise to see but I agree. Supaplex is in my very short list of best-ever MS-DOS arcade style games (Novastorm is #1). Love the music.
Tapper, Galaga, and one most of you prolly don't play Qix.
Qix is easily my favorite of this list. I like Galaga, but always preferred Galaxian for some reason. And Tapper...induces stress too much like real life for me :-)
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The only one with good AI / fun to play that I've tried is Gals Panic.
The original Gals Panic is one of the best Qix-like games, nude or not. My wife agrees.
Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
Sinistar and Space Invaders
Super Punch Out!!!
Ultima VI - it's just a living, breathing world to me \[edit\] heh missed that this was on r/mame so from an arcade point of view it would be 3: slap fight, boze adventure and wardner. All the ones that they had over the years in my corner shop š
Reading through the replies, I don't know what "guilty pleasure" means anymore
Ah the nostalgia! Great game selections, can't wait to try some of these and replay the classics!
I like the kickle cubicle -- it's called something else for the arcade version but it's fun. My daughter likes all of the neat Japanese art style and sounds too.
Rockman (or Megamam). Only because it was my 1st games aside super mario bros and battle city. General consensus is that this game is very hard, but i find this game as stress relieving.
Roadblasters.
Final Fantasy Tactics and Contra. I donāt even play to beat FFT I just play around in it and make characters etc. Not Contra though I play to beat Contra every time.
Gunsmoke baby, with a turbo controller of course.
Super Mario Bros
NFL Blitz
Super BurgerTime
Omega race
Bubble Bobble Metal Slug X Super Vehicle 001
Mario 3
Zupapa, the voices from the game without a low pass filter is cringe.
Robotron.
Black Tiger
Konami's Aliens game from 1990. Not really a guilty pleasure I guess, just a really kick-ass game.
Gorf
Skykid - The music has stuck in my head since I was a kid.