/vr/ - Retro Games

Big 3 of the Golden Age:
Namco, Taito, Nintendo
Big 3 of the Silver Age:
Sega, Capcom, Konami

>>6956080
Strictly arcade? Capcom, Konami, Namco, Taito, Sega

>>6956080
Going just by arcade
Sega, Capcom, Konami, Namco, Taito, Data East

>>6956080
1. Capcom
Too hard to choose: Namco Taito Sega
5. Konami

Taito deserves a special place because they had the best Engrish.

>>6956080
Midway > all

>>6956102
Also, that's worst to best.

Uncontested top 1: SEGA
Runner up: Capcom
3d runner up: Namco
4th place: Konami
Way below the top 4: Taito

1-Sega
2-Capcom
3-Konami
4-Taito
5-Namco

>>6956148
Nice CRT filter on the poster, SEGA was ahead of its time.

>>6956131
Not to me and I actually hung out in arcades

>>6956265
opinion of someone who puts sega below any of the other 4 when it comes to arcade games is worth nothing, hope you realize that

>>6956270
Depends on what genres you're into really.

>>6956127
LMAO

God Tier:
Sega

High Tier:
Capcom

Mid Tier:
Konami

Low Tier:
Taito

Shit Tier:
Namco

>>6956080
Sega > Capcom > Namco > Taito > Konami

>>6956270
>frogger
>outrun
>golden axe
>virtua fighter
Thus ends the list of Sega games available in most arcades in the late 80s early 90s. Maybe you could find super hang on, not that you'd want to. I'm sure they have great stuff on your emulator but that ain't real life.

>>6956770
I definitely ran into Afterburner 2 in multiple locations. It was the most intense game I'd ever played as a little kid in the early 90s. My mind was blown when I later found out it was made in the mid 80s.

>>6956770
What was available in your backwater rural arcade is irrelevant, Sega's body of games is much larger than that.

>>6956770
You didn't have Virtual On at your arcade? I remember it being the coolest thing there when it first came out.

>>6956787
*Oops, missed the part where you said "early" 90s. Virtual On was 95.

>>6956770
Liar liar, there is no kid around the 80s that didn't cream their pants to TopGun the game Afterburner

>>6956080
k the BIG FIVE:

5) namco
4) Data East
3) SEGA
2) SNK
1) CAPCOM

>>6956080
konami nosedived so hard that now i look back at the games i used to like and cringe
taito made a handful of good stuff and a lot of shovelware
and most of the good stuff sega and capcom made was for home consoles
namco reigns supreme for me, not even the nefarious influence of bandai managed to ruin it

>>6956937
>namco reigns supreme for me, not even the nefarious influence of bandai managed to ruin it
>Ridge Racer down the toilet
Yeah ok.

>>6956938
the only good racing game ever made is burnout 3 anyway.

Sega > Taito = Capcom > Namco > Konami

Niggas don't know about Darius being the king of shmups.

Capcom was the best in the genres that matter.

>>6956546
p good list
i'd put taito into a hit or miss tier though

1) Namco 8-bit kang 32-bit contender
2) Capcom 16-bit kang
3) Sega 32-bit contender
4) Taito shmups
5) Konami silent scope is silent

>>6956080
#1 SNK

>>6957157
t. beaner

>>6957204
the only beaners I knew played smash and marvel vs capcom 2 all day every day

>>6956770
I'm sorry your podunk ghetto arcade was too poor to afford Space Harrier, Zaxxon, Daytona USA, or Revenge of Death Adder.

>>6957396
He thinks Frogger was Sega's. I doubt that kid was even alive during the 80's or 90's.

>>6956787
Wish they had that at my arcade I never knew a arcade version existed.

1 SEGA
2 Namco
3 Taito
4 Capcom
5 Konami

>>6957451
Sega did distribute Frogger cabs in some regions, iirc

>>6956080
I love them all

>>6956105
>>6956919
plus I love Data East

>>6956080
Capcom should be replaced with IREM, they're older and more important.

Sega
SNK
Namco
Williams/ Bally
Data East

>>6957770
>plus I love Data East
They deserve more love. Especially around here.

>>6956546
switch Namco and Sega, replace Taito with Midway, and this is accurate

>>6956546
>Shit Tier:
>Namco

>>6957767
They also distributed Nintendo games. That doesn't make them theirs.

>>6958104
I didn't care for anything they did after the 16-bit generation. An interesting observation and quite possibly the reason they fell into obscurity is because they were the first (only?) manufacturer to use ARM CPUs. I had to look up the weird hardware Mitchell was using while playing Osman and Charlie Ninja. Turns out it was on Data East ARM hardware. They probably would have been better off staying on the MVS.

Obvious #1: SEGA, there isn't actually any discussion to be had around this.

then.. Namco, Konami, Capcom, Taito, in that order.

>>6956937
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that in north america, Konami singlehandedly kept arcades relevant for a good few years longer than they would have been if DDR/bemani didn't exist. It was probably the last true arcade thing that was actually somewhat popular and you had to go to the arcade to play it in a way that didn't suck ass, and there was a real community around it, etc. That and Initial D/Wangan Midnight was pretty much the final hurrah for real arcades here (read: NOT "family amusement centers" with bars and bowling alleys and etc)

Sega and Namco are easily the best
Capcom is runner up
Not much love in this thread for Namco, probably because Namco didn’t import many of their arcade games after the Golden Era of Arcades nor did they make too many console ports of them.
Compare that with Capcom who imported most of their arcade titles and ported many of them to consoles, which aids their success in these threads years later

>>6958703
DDR and Silent Scope were legitimately the only 32-bit games of Konami's I ever saw in the arcades. I had to double check to be sure, but they deserve to be at the butt end of this group. Taito would be in this same boat, but they had three spectacular 32-bit shmups in Darius Gaiden, Ray Force, and Ray Storm. They also helped Success, Alfa, Moss, and Takumi distribute Psyvariar, Castle of Shikigami, Raiden III/IV, and Gigawing Generations. Because arcades are dead in the US, I didn't realize they have Capcom, ARC, SNK, Atlus, Square Enix, and flipping Valve making games on their Jap PCs. Sega should give up on their brand of Jap PCs and just use Taitos at this point.

>>6956080
from best to worst:

sega
capcom
SNK
konami
taito
namco

>>6956080
no SNK
>>6956125
SNK Engrish best Engrish

>>6960398
You think so? Taito's Growl/Runark's Engrish comes to mind immediately as a real standout, but I know a lot of their games just have amazing baffling word salads. I can't recall too many SNK games that got really silly.

>all the cumtrarians putting Namco at the bottom

>>6958581
The ARM powered boards are really good. And they werent expensive either.

>>6956080
No snk?

>>6960597
It could have been done on a Neo Geo. This is GBA tier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVMlC8uVjqU

>>6960507
Namco may have lucked out and produced some seminal games early like Pacman, Galga, and The Tower of Druaga, they shifted to the home console later on primarily with NES, Mega Drive and PCE. So going into the 90s, their hit arcade titles dropped off a cliff. The only ones I can come up with during that decade is Ridge Racer and Time Crisis and both aren't as strong as other competing franchises like Daytona USA and Virtua Cop/House of the Dead where Sega was always a step ahead.

>>6962504
Namco still primarily focused on arcade games the entire time lol, with many innovative classics
They just didn’t import most of them to America or port them to consoles until fifth gen
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Namco_games

>>6956080
shouldn't SNK be up there too?

>>6962504
The reason they dropped off wasn't because of the NES. They were the driving force behind 3d in the arcades. They went from 2d during the 8-bit era to 3d using 16-bit parts and DSPs. Air Combat, Starblade, and Cybersled are technically 16-bit games. I'm not sure what happened between system 21 and 22 that made Namco decide they were better off working with Sony. It was enough to make Sega flinch and throw everything they had into 3d.

1) Cave
2) Capcom
3) Raizing
4) SNK
5) Konami

>>6962976
>namco not even in the top 5
is hating on them an american thing i was unaware of?

>>6963062
Segafags hate Namco for supporting the ps1 more than Sega systems during the '90s which helped to kill their company.

>>6963303
good

>>6963465
How are you enjoying your Sony/Microsoft-dominated timeline? Because videogames suck shit now.

>>6957770
>>6958104
Data East is awesome. I love their arcade games so fucking much.