/vr/ - Retro Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGa9LGSfnwA?t=32

http://youtu.be/zGa9LGSfnwA?t=32

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGa9LGSfnwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmOir4G66eM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HheXGkj2OQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQUBNqKVkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5nZHy8atA

This obscure enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEazAdnajUY
Check it out if you like gallery shooters like Wild Guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vauTBM7GEo

Big Fight - Big Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean

One of the best beat 'em ups that no one's heard of. Branching paths, hidden playable characters, and nice movesets plus tons of weapons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeR59D9wcLM

>>3667101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFA2xYIw78

The First Funky Fighter.
In this game you'll massacre sharks and crocodile men with your bare hands.
Possibly one of the raddest games ever.

>>3669616
Does this count as the first FPS?

>>3671043
No. Maybe first arcade FPS.

>>3671285
What would be the first FPS then?

vertexer

>>3671285
>>3673045
Beast Busters is a fucking light gun rail shooter you plebs. Wolf3D was the first FPS, previous games that could retroactively had the term applied to them should be thought of as "proto-FPS"

>>3673160
>meme devs will never emulate this masterpiece because the hardware is too exotic.

Money Puzzle Exchanger.

Probably one of the best two player versus arcade games.

>>3673203
It's not even dumped. Still in the hands of investors. It's just F-Zero on FMV though a Laseractive could do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-lVyYtkgRY

>>3664826
those sick pig fuckers.

Soviet arcade museum, some of the games playable via browser
htt p://15kop.ru/

Polybius

>>3673257
>It's just F-Zero on FMV though a Laseractive could do it.
You are thinking of Star Rider. Vertexer is real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7z25MrF1hk

>>3673164
>Beast Busters
What? The game in question is Taito's Gunbuster, which is an FPS with full, free movement.

>>3673164
No one said anything about Beast Busters.

>>3673748

Biomechanical Toy is a really weird run n gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9zNlOzfpE

>>3673257
Vertexer is realtime sprite scaling. Shoutime is a fucking rich hoarder.

>>3673257
>>3673160
This ever released in arcades?

>>3675810
>hoarders

scum

>>3664816
Nice idea for a thread. Only including games that actually had cabinets?

>>3676485
>>3675810
Someone should become a vigilante/superhero called Dumpman. He would go around and steal undumped roms from hoarders and deliver them to MAME/other emulator devs.

>>3665235
kek

>>3676646
I thought he did dump it? They claimed to dump many of these obscure games but we never see them.

Surprise Attack, a Shinobi clone by Konami of all companies with awesome 80's cyber / mech vibe. Never had any kind of home release to my knowledge. Kick-ass soundtrack, too.
https://youtu.be/wqK8CZ1zMpw

>>3677028

>>3676646
>and deliver them to MAME/other emulator devs.

Those cunts wouldn't deserve it.

>>3671043
>Does this count as the first FPS?

It's a rail shooter lightgun game, so no.
And not even the first; Sega's Line of Fire did the same in 1989. And I'm sure others did it way earlier too.

>>3677547
It's not rail. You can move the camera with lightgun.

>>3664816
ninja baseball bat man
jery get ipad

>>3677532
everytiem

>>3678127
>jery get ipad

wat is this a actual game

>>3675810
I thought shou was trying to get it from rich hoarders and dump it?

>>3681195
well has he dumped all his other prototypes? I would assume he spent a lot of money to acquire them and "perserve" them.

>>3664816
Youkai Douchuuki, an action platformer by namco, their first 16 bit game. It's one of my favorite retro games.


Also, Ninja Kun Ashura No Shou is fun.

>>3677017
He is just a shitposter or an attention whore.

>>3682306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIdW_tgzBI


Forgot the video

>>3682312
what a cool game

>>3682542
I forgot this was a thing, thanks anon.

Osman

Cool Pang clone.

>>3683178
lol

>>3682542
OH SHI-

>>3681195
So is it dumped or not?

>>3673293

>>3685443
What is that image from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ZpckQIOqo

Surf Planet isn't nearly as obscure as the other games ITT but I still felt it was worth posting because it's fucking garbage and it's a snowboarding game with the word "surf" in the title.

>>3687240
shad

>>3688141
what are you talkin about. that game looks fucking 90s rad.

>>3688381
what the fuck is a shad?

>>3664863
Man, I want to buy one of these machines, that might be the comfiest looking game I've ever seen.

>>3688141
I think Gaelco games are more obscure to most people that the rest of the games in this thread. Like, look at the video. Barely any views. Radikal Bikers is somewhat well known and Smashing Drive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ivg4RvMjM

>>3690329
>dat butt cheek hanging out of her pants on the bike

I don't know about ULTRA but in my lifetime I've only seen this game (One of my faves) twice and I'm almost positive it was the same cabinet both times.

>>3691616
Have you seen Terminator 2 twice, by any chance?

>>3691643
I don't get this reference.

>>3688141
>Surf Planet
>it's a snowboarding game

WHY.jpg

>>3667019
>Jojo but everyone's stand is a fursona

I like the artstyle but that gameplay looks janky as hell

>>3667019
well that is... weird looking

>>3683340
that is legitimately disturbing looking.

>>3697989
Fun movie.

>>3698649
Fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtZLHzI9w4Q
not that obscure, but a rail shooter i like a lot.

>>3698793
Steel Gunner is actually somewhat obscure.

>>3698650
oh shit I didn't notice that before

>>3673397
Vapowave as fuck.

>>3682306
>>3682312
Oh, I remember Arino playing a PC Engine version of this.

This one looks a lot more lively.

>>3698793
Seems pretty obscure and it's a light gun game.

>>3701505
It is, there's more going on and the graphics and sound are much better, also there's an english rom for mame titled "shadowland" if you're interested

>>3698005
>COMPILE

You have my attention.

>>3675810
>Shoutime is a fucking rich hoarder.
Fuck that man Shou has done more than almost anyone ever when it comes to acquiring boards for dumping. He's even got contact with someone who owns one of the 2 dodonpachi campaign version boards.

Vertexer has methods that simply haven't been figured out for a way of emulating yet.

>>3705212
I am thankful if they actually preserve the rom even if emulation doesnt work. Its hard to know someones backstory based on twitter pickup photos. I mostly think people are out for themselves online but some collectors are not bad.

>>3698005
What kind of game is this?

>>3682306
I only played this game for the naked princess scene.

>>3706605
>the naked princess scene

Tell me more.

>>3707624
https://tcrf.net/Youkai_Douchuuki_(TurboGrafx-16)

>>3688908
shadman

>>3706605
>>3707660
>>3707624
see >>3707849

>>3707850
Thanks for this.

Blood Bros aka Wild Guns Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGNoU-dQzNk

>>3711824
>aka Wild Guns Zero
Fuck off.

>>3678127
>ninja baseball bat man
Not obscure anymore since AVGN did a video saying it's amazing, but I played it before that and it's a great example of how instantly badass and eye-catching arcade games can be. I also love the shading style on the protagonists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5ev7O4lRNs

>>3712009
Still obscure to anyone under 30

>>3711824
>Wild Guns Zero

literally no one has ever called it that

Aqua Rush, a very unique and cool puzzle game from Namco. Blocks move down the screen, and you move a 3-wide block left and right. Pressing one of the 3 buttons will add a block to the left/center/right of your piece, allowing you to break through the descending blocks. It's hard to explain, but it's incredibly fun, definitely give it a try.

>>3688962
It goes from comfy to defcon 1 when you get close to a game over though, and nuclear when you lose. Holy shit.

>>3713631
The game is kind of unintuitive though.

>>3712102
not as much as it used to be

if anything his younger audience is more likely to recognize it

>>3677028
Konami made an utterly ludicrous number of side-scrolling action games both on consoles and in arcades and most of them are worth playing.

A semi-procedural generated top-down run'n'gun, which got a PAL exclusive SNES port.

>>3719332
>run'n'gun

Isn't it more like a "multidirectional shoot 'em up"?

>>3683340
CHOTTO MATTE, ANIKI!

>>3722595
been posted >>3698650

>>3723120
Groovy

>ctrl-f
>no Reactor

One of the strangest and best trackball games I've played.

>>3721134
>Isn't it more like a "multidirectional shoot 'em up"?
Yes, a run'n'gun, as I said.

Also, no autoscrolling, no shmup.

>>3724078
>no autoscrolling, no shmup

bullshit

then space invaders wouldn't be a shoot 'em up

>>3675836
I remember seeing this game at my local laundromat (it was an upscale laundromat with gourmet ice cream oddly).

Right next to Pang actually.

>>3723775
That actually looks cool. Thanks for posting that.

>>3705212
Shou is kind of a piece of shit when it comes to *other* people trying to preserve stuff though, considering I have it on good authority he tried to sic his japanese buddy lawyers on the guys who dumped the NESICAxLive stuff but whatever if he wants all the glory to himself then so be it.

>>3688141
>>3694551
It's not that hard to explain anon, in Spanish snowboarding is still called "surfeando". Surf Planet is a game that's made in Spain by a Spanish arcade game dev using the likeness of famous Spanish "surfers" and featuring licensed music from Subterfuge (a Spanish indie label) and it's actually a pretty sick game despite utilizing no buttons, I highly recommend playing it along with Gaelco's other 2 games Radikal Bikers and Speed Up (the latter being a ridge racer type game with a unique "last racer gets left out" style gameplay)

Another mildly interesting thing to note is that they also actually developed their own 3D hardware, the only game company outside of America and Japan to do so.

>>3723775
>had the Atari 2600 version of this as a kid
>never had any clue what the objective was

>>3673257
Interesting, never saw that before. The gameplay seemed really bland though, like something tagged onto a tech demo in an attempt to pass it off as a game.

>>3711824
so Cabal is really Wild Guns Minus One, right?
do I need hashtags in order for you to process insults or I can just call you a dipshit?

>>3724110
thanks

>>3727405
how is the atari port?

Fantastic mech shooter.

For more futuristic arcadey sports games like Speedball, check out Heavy Smash.

>>3731649
soundtrack is eargasm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1oUG-J9dw

>>3732435
looks cool

i'll look into it

thanks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH5g1qkl7n8

>>3731649
actually looks awesome

Fast paced top-down run'n'gun.

>>3735329
Aaargh huh

>>3738191
It's a beat em up, but rather than taking place on a traditional scrolling path, it takes place on grids of floating rocks. You have infinite health and the only way to die is by falling down. Despite that, it is still incredible hard.

Since the vast majority of /vr/ Gundam games are painfully mediocre, Cybattler works wonderfully as a substitute. Has just about everything, like a beam saber, beam shield and even a mega bazooka launcher for one stage!

Pretty much a Gunstar Heroes clone, but it adds fighting game-esque special moves to your arsenal. It's also a bosh rush like Alien Soldier.

>>3727371

that's some deep cut info, thanks anon!

>>3719332
>top-down
No it's not
>run'n'gun
No it's not.
>>3738242
Thanks man this looks interesting.

Was there ever a violent 2D fighting game called Thrill Kill (I'm not thinking of the unreleased PlayStation game) or something like that? I specifically remember playing such a game in an arcade when I was a kid, but I can't find it on the internet. All I remember is that my character got his head chopped off at the end, and I think his head was missing in a post-game portrait.

>>3707782

>>3727371
I am surprised to see another Gaelco fan here. Thanks for the information.

Thunder Hoop is another nice one by them, even if it ain't all that creative. Just a well made action platformer.

>>3701502
Kill yourself.

>>3682303
>>3685376
He dumped Hangzo, which is gonna be playable in the next MAME version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHI0oak1Tas

Dragon Breed is a dragon shmup. What more do you want?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfr0VkasGoc

>>3738446
Tattoo Assassins? Time Killers?

>>3738242
great music too gets me pumped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErEn4seFBQ&list=PL-vD6rIjXrcIjgy8CTuX9sY83MLUis18y&index=9

>>3743696
No its Thrill Kill

>>3742380
And here comes the Jaleco clone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVc9T4SHixc

>>3731649
If anyone plays this and thinks that being able to lock your aim would be nice, try the saturn port.

>>3744472
An arcade game with that name? Are you sure?

Model 2 racer. If you need more Daytona.

>>3746547
Combat racer by Sega. Also Model 2.

>>3746547
>>3746549

>>3746547
Also on Model 2, another great driving game from Jaleco, Super GT 24h.

Very similar to Ridge Racer, with a simple drifting system, long and short course variations, and day/night transitions that change when coming out of tunnels.

Not that obscure, but definitely a great racing game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJES54_4go0

Anyone else ever play Dangerous Curves from Taito?

I only ever saw it once, about 15 years ago. As you can see, it's a driving game where you can race either a car or a motorcycle. Judging by the few pictures and videos I could find of it, It's very obscure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2B79CuTsNk

>>3746547
>>3746549
>>3747716
>>3749594
More games I'll have to try out.

Thanks for posting.

>>3746549
Motor Raid is a fucking sexy game, futuristic cyberpunk road rash at a smooth 60 frames a second

>>3741189
Oh yes, I'm a huge fan of their work even though most of their games are derivative of other popular games of the time, they're just unique enough to make them worth playing on it's own merits

>>3738347
No problem chum!

I dunno if it was recommended yet but I absolutely recommend you all play Biomechanical Toy, a metal slug style side scrolling shooter with awesome Amiga graphics (it was made by Zeus software, previously known for Risky Woods on Amiga). Really sick game and definitely in my top 5 favorite shooters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHx1DpttSw

>>3688962
>that might be the comfiest looking game I've ever seen.

Theres also a sequel mushihimetama which expands on the idea really nicely and adds boss fights.

>>3751381
Unfortunately, I don't think Dangerous Curves is playable in MAME yet, so you would have to find the cabinet. Honestly, you would have an easier time finding Bigfoot.

>>3751403

>Biomechanical Toy, a metal slug style side scrolling shooter with awesome Amiga graphics

So I'm not alone in feeling like the polished graphics looked like for a home videogame.

>>3731649
1ccd this a week ago. awesome game

>>3664816
Good thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rol2gAREjxY

A platformer in which you can rescue animals to fight other animals. As beautiful as hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZH1rYo3NI

>>3664864
knight boat!

>>3755914
Metal Slug on the back of dolphins and underwarter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpWlAOwt8o

>>3755931
Compilation of three games. First two being a run'n'gun and a shmup with a European fantasy look. The third is a puzzle game I don't care about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_7AJS9mJ3Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbqMEK-30AY

bump

>>3757587
Just beat shit up with your guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuHTvPa3qXo

>>3747716
playing this at the moment, its fucking brilliant, so addccitive.holding brake, gas & start will give you the blue pace car btw

>>3741259
its already out:

www mameui info/

psycho-nics oscar is nice

https://mega.nz/#!ow1CHTyJ!RjgxLNiyNdwtA5ZKiiSqjo6LXiLgephrdby09ig_Afw

Tatakae!! Big Fighter got emulated on MAME only a month ago, and it's a fucking great shmup. Wide stages, cool graphics, and you play a transformable mecha ship that has full movement. It's also relatively easy which is either a plus or a minus depending on how you view it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xh5ds2Exh8

>>3761437
Damn. This is pretty neat. Its does look quite forgiving though

Outfoxies is like an early 2D SMASH game. You fight your enemy in a huge area with realistic weaponry while trying to not get yourself killed in the process. Despite lacking the Nintendo flavor and being more realistic in style it is still extremely wacky, with playable characters including a sinister professor in a mechanical wheelchair and a monkey in a tuxedo suit. It was never ported to any consoles, quite a shame since it seems more appropriate as a home console game than an arcade game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhKAAT6zRN8

Great run'n'gun with no lack of variety. Do not know how it managed to hide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCqG6m9jgo

>>3763061
Kinda a like a religious themed Smash TV in which you can only shoot upwards... and you have to defeat the entertainment industriy, because desires are bad. It certainly got the weirdness factor going for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV6LOuVTojU

Oh! and it's by Sega.

>>3675781

Rad as fuck, gonna check out.

>>3761437
Thanks for the tip anon.
I just read about the restoration process they went through to dump this game, it's fucking nuts!
http://caps0ff.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/taking-down-45-tatakae-big-fighter.html

>>3761451
I tried to show some /vr/ friendly bros this and they weren't into it.

Yet they fucking love Duck Game which is just Outfoxies with one shot kills, less personality, and less depth.

It hurts how underappreciated this game is. It deserved a 5th gen console port, at least. It's fun to play SP, but until robot waifus with game learning skills come around I'll never play it with anyone.

>>3763778
Dont care for the game. But that was a good read!

>>3763835
I spent lots of cash playing versus in a arcade in my hometown in spain. Greatest game ever, i also play duck game on steam but its not the same.

I wish namco make a remake with online versus... damm a man can dream...

>>3691643

Highly underrated post. God I laughed.

>>3664816
If it's super obscure how come I've seen that pink dinosaur before?

>>3763073
SEEEEGAAAAAA

bump

>>3761437
>1989
>only just got emulated

>>3755914
This looks pretty cool. Will definitely have to try this one out.

>>3765147
Where have you seen that?

>>3763073
Not Sega's best effort, but if you can't get enough of run'n'guns it's worth checking out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MprUV7Y7sXE

>>3772804
For something truly excellent, there is this Toaplan shooter and it's sequel Fixeight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unxtajdI-E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeaVC_JNLbQ

>>3772823
Damn....

Does anyone else have trouble rubbing 3D games in MAME? could it be the version of MAME i'm using, or is my computer just not powerful enough?

>>3772823
OutZone >FixEight imo

>>3772850
3d is extremely slow in MAME. See if it runs in something else, like Zinc, model 2 emu, supermodel, Demul etc.

Asterix isn't all that unique, the biggest difference to the common beat'em up is probably the colorful and bright color palette, but it's definitely a well made game by Konami.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LhEovW4Uqw

>>3775865
Huh. I didnt know they made asterix games back then. There were a bunch on PS2

>>3775935
They've been making asterix games since the 80s

>>3775865
man romans were chumps

>>3776493

bump

Whats the easiest, cleaniest way of upgrading my MAME setup? i was stuck on version .105 for years because i got tired of having to rename or redownload the ROMs with each update.

Now some months ago i upgraded to .173, it was fucking painfull because half of my ROM ollection was worthless since it wasnt on the latest good dump known, i redownloaded all the games one bu one until i got ll of them working.

I had to use some kinky MAME fork its called MAMEUIFx, what fork do you guys recommend? that has graphic interface, icon and snapshot support, and also saves scores?

>>3777794
forgot that it also has to have support for video filters.

>>3667019
Never beat it... yet.

I think zoom scrolling is a weird unlockable. Should be unlocked from the beginning.

There's a fighting game where you only fight bosses, anyone know the name of it?

>>3778021
But if all the enemies are bosses, then none of them are. Especially if it's a fighting game, which would imply it consists entirely of single, probably 1v1, matches.

>>3778021
You mean like a single player fighting game?

>>3777809
Who is this cum summoner?

>>3778024
>>3778025
I found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9MqQs2tL7I

>>3778093
Oh, OK. I've actually heard of/played that one before.

Xexex is the best shooter ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87DmjNh-7w

APB is fun if you can get the controls working

>>3775865
That game is bugged on mame.

Press left. Then press up. Your character will automatically turn to the right.