I got the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator a while back and I've only just started getting ROMs for it. So this got me thinking about those great arcade games I used to play "down the mugs" and on the old Atari ST.
Apologies if this thread's been done before (or even to death!) but nostalgia's not what it used to be...
(in no particular order)
- RAINBOW ISLANDS -
This I completed back in about '92 on the ST: totally addictive, simplistic gameplay, insanely catchy music (the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" remix), bright colours - absolute classic.
- ROLLING THUNDER -
I must've searched for weeks for this game - I was one googlin' mo'fo' - then, one day, moaning to my flatmate's girlfriend about the fact I couldn't find it I tapped it into Google and the very first link was the ROM! I couldn't believe it! Anyways, you should remember this game: you play a secret agent in red polo neck and black flares and you make your way right-to-left blasting these strange colourful KKK-looking alien ninjas. I had it on the Spectrum (and never passed the first level) and then my school (Princes Risborough - Kam should know of it :P ) got the arcade machine installed in the Fifth-form common room! Another classic!
- EDWARD RANDY, THE CLIFFHANGER -
I've not yet found this one for MAME yet, but I've read it's out there. I only ever played this once - on the Grand Pier in Weston. It's a fighter in the Double Dragon vein but the hero (as far as I could remember) was like a stuntman/Indiana Jones. An intelligent control system meant that daring leaps and set-pieces could be attempted. Classic moment: beating the crap out of bad guys while walking the wings of a bi-plane.
Please feel free to share you arcade memories (it might even give me some good ideas as to what MAME ROMs to look for:xyx )
I got the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator a while back and I've only just started getting ROMs for it. So this got me thinking about those great arcade games I used to play "down the mugs" and on the old Atari ST.
Apologies if this thread's been done before (or even to death!) but nostalgia's not what it used to be...
(in no particular order)
- RAINBOW ISLANDS -
This I completed back in about '92 on the ST: totally addictive, simplistic gameplay, insanely catchy music (the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" remix), bright colours - absolute classic.
- ROLLING THUNDER -
I must've searched for weeks for this game - I was one googlin' mo'fo' - then, one day, moaning to my flatmate's girlfriend about the fact I couldn't find it I tapped it into Google and the very first link was the ROM! I couldn't believe it! Anyways, you should remember this game: you play a secret agent in red polo neck and black flares and you make your way right-to-left blasting these strange colourful KKK-looking alien ninjas. I had it on the Spectrum (and never passed the first level) and then my school (Princes Risborough - Kam should know of it :P ) got the arcade machine installed in the Fifth-form common room! Another classic!
- EDWARD RANDY, THE CLIFFHANGER -
I've not yet found this one for MAME yet, but I've read it's out there. I only ever played this once - on the Grand Pier in Weston. It's a fighter in the Double Dragon vein but the hero (as far as I could remember) was like a stuntman/Indiana Jones. An intelligent control system meant that daring leaps and set-pieces could be attempted. Classic moment: beating the crap out of bad guys while walking the wings of a bi-plane.
Please feel free to share you arcade memories (it might even give me some good ideas as to what MAME ROMs to look for:xyx )