MAME >

Notes taken from 2006-07-09 through 2006-08-07.

• TODO – split this off into their own pages

  • Don’t forget to make a “new mame game” template.

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MAME >

Notes taken from 2006-07-09 through 2006-08-07.

• TODO – split this off into their own pages

  • Don’t forget to make a “new mame game” template.

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Games which work well ∞

Shooting games ∞

• Three Wonders

  • AWESOME! Multiple-games.

Flying and Shooting ∞

Bottom-Up ∞

• 1943: The Battle Of Midway. Good oldschool.

• 1944: The Loop Master

  • Hold the shot button to charge up. Quite a great balanced game.

• 1945k

  • Great slow-flack game. Can’t switch weapons though. Maybe use different ships?
• 19XX: The War Against Destiny. Great. Can’t see the bottom of the screen though. =/
• Aero Fighters

• Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit

  • Too hectic. One shot kill.

• Air Gallet

  • Great shooter. 1 shot kill. Quite hectic.

• Alpha Mission

  • Simple shooter. A bit odd.

• Andros Dunos

  • Spaceship side-scrolling shoot-em-up. Changable and upgradable weapons. Flack-game, difficult to stay alive.

• Ark Area

  • Cool oldschool shooter thing.

• Armed Formation

  • Oldschool, but pretty neat. Could have been better.

• Armed Police Batrider

  • Same hectic theme.

• ASO – Armored Scrum Object

  • Very cool oldschool game.

• Battle Backraid

  • Fairly lame. To hectic, not paced enough.

• Battle Chopper

  • Hard

• Battle Garegga – Type 2

  • Difficult, very flacky..

• Bells & Whistles

  • Awesome shooter. Nice pace. Kinda annoying at times.

• Cobra-command

  • Oldschool. Fly your helecopter in the jungles of Iran! (?!)

• Darius Gaiden

  • silly, flack.

• Flying Shark

  • Oldschool.

• Giga Wing

  • Great! No weapon changing though. =/
• Gradius

• Gradius III

  • One shot kill. Meh.

• Gunbird

  • Wow!

• Gunbird 2

  • Even better!
  • No weapon changing, it uses different characters. =/
  • Hold the trigger down to use a “special” weapon. =/
  • Different map for the different characters. I like the robot.

• Hellfire

  • Oldschool. Pretty hard, but kindof neat.

Left-Right ∞

• Hyper Dual

• Mystic Riders

  • Pretty simple. Has upgrades, but it’s straightforward. Lots of action, not a long game. Restarts in a harder mode the next time around.

• Sky Wolf

  • Simple oldschool.

Driving and Shooting ∞

• Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

  • Quite oldschool.

• City Bomber

Walking and Shooting ∞

• Act-Fancer Cybernetick Hyper Weapon

  • Too easy to die, and you start over when you do. Might be good if played 2p.

• Aliens

  • GREAT! What a classic.

• Calibre 50

  • needs its controls fixed, then it might be kinda fun.
• Contra

• Crime city

  • 1p
• Demon’s World

• E-Swat

  • Oldschool!

• Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters

  • Controls need fixing, but I recall this was an awesome game!

• Gunforce 1

  • Hard

• Gunforce 2

  • Mayhem! =)

• Soldier Girl Amazon

  • Pretty cheezy. 1 shot kill.

• Blood Brothers

  • Classic wastern shooter.

Misc ∞

• Battlantis

  • Fairly lame gallaga with a twist. Sortof.

• vs battle city

  • oldschool tank game

Fighting ∞

Walking and Fighting ∞

• Altered Beast

  • A classic!
• Arabian Magic
• Bad Dudes
• Battle Circuit
• Battle Toasts

• Batman

  • Fairly lame.
• Black Tiger

• Brute Force

  • 3p!

• Cadash

  • Great RPG-style game. Very long-term. Very good.
• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
• Captain Commando

• Crime Fighters

  • 4p!
• Crossed Swords

• Dungeon Magic

  • Fairly neat.

• Eight Man

  • Fairly lame.
• Golden Axe

• Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment

  • Kinda cheezy.

• Wonderboy

  • find it.

Fighting + shooting ∞

• Blue’s Journey / Rajuy

  • 1p

• Bubble Bobble 2

  • 2p
• Captain America

• Caveman Ninja

  • 1p
• Charlie Ninja

• vs Castlevania

Street Fighter games ∞

• Aggressors of Dark Kombat / Tsuukai GANGAN Koushinkyoku

  • Simple
• Art of Fighting
• Blood Storm
• Dark Stalkers
• Garou – Mark of the Wolves

• Mibile Suit Gundam EX Revue

  • Lame.

Puzzle-like games ∞

• Big Twin

  • Interesting game, with some bad porn.
• Cuby Bop

• Hatch Catch

Tetris ∞

• Bloxeed

• Cachat

  • Connect water pipes as they fall. Neat.

Other ∞

• Battle Flip Shot

  • Contemporary Pong. =/

• Dharma Doujou

  • Very tough weird-ish game.

• Gunbarich

  • Pinball / whatever-style.

• vs Goonies

Games which need help ∞

• Blasteroids

  • Width, controls.
• Darius I

• Darius II

  • Could be “ok”. Width needs fixing. Pretty lame anyways..

• Mobil Suit Gundam Final Shooting (not a typo)

  • Controller fix.

• Night Striker

  • Controls need fixing.

Driving ∞

• 1000 Miglia: Great 1000 Miles Rally

  • Oldschool. Neat, but not my thing.

Games which suck ∞

• 4 En Raya

  • Connect Four, with a twist.

• A.D. 2083

  • More like B.C. 2083!

• Amidar

  • Wow, the oldschool version of a bunch of games.. neat.

• Appoooh

  • Really cheezy old wrestling game.

• Argus

  • Bottom-up shooter. Kindof neat, mostly lame.

• Assault

  • Cheezy tank game. =/

• B-Wings

  • B-Game! Flying shooter, but too old to be very good.

• Battle K-Road

  • Lame and slow fighter.

• Battle Lane! Vol. 5

  • More like Battle Lame!
  • Bike drive/shoot game.

• Battle of Atlantic

  • Oldschool shooter! Cool and very lame!

• BeatHead

  • WOW! Great.. uh.. no, it’s lame.

• Berzerk

  • So damned lame.
• Birdie King (/2/3)

• Cavelon

  • Barely in colour.

• Challenger

  • looks kindof neat, but way too oldschool to be any good.

• Dark Planet

  • Could be cool if the controls were fixed, but still.. it’s so damned oldschool.

• Devil Fish

  • Weird old lame.

• Dommy

  • Weird, lame.

• Dragon Buster

  • Scroll and fight. And laugh.

• Empire City: 1931

  • Shooter. Lameness!

• Enigma

  • Plane shooter oldschool thingy.

• Eyes

  • Pacman with shooting. Quite lame.

• Fly-Boy

  • Flying thingy. Crap.

• Frisky Tom

  • Not sure what this game is..

• Funky Jet

  • Move around and box stuff. So damned lame.

• Galaxian

  • Oldschool!

• Gigandes

  • Fairly cool, but too hard to continue.

• Gigas

  • Lame pong-thing

• Gigas Mark II

  • Lame pong-thing

• Great Swordsman

  • Fencing! Lame.. and yet slightly playable!

• Grobda

  • Lame tank game.

• Gulf War

  • Passable shooter. Lame topic. Shots which fire to the rear are still pointed forwards. Hah!

• Hot Shocker

  • Weird stupid oldschool game.

• Scrum Try

  • Lame “tape” game. Way too oldschool for me.
• Space Fever High Splitter

• The Final Round

  • Great old boxing game. I don’t like boxing games.