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[kristian]

For me today:

 

Xevious Arrangement (in Namco Museum). Damn this is hard... I played to the last Area (16) but gave it up. Too frustrating.

Centipede (you never get tired of this)

Dig Dug (Atari roms)

[xenonph]

Black Tiger...Love this game and can spend hours on 1 quarter. I was actually thinking of adding this games sounds to a pinball table!!

Tempest....Who doesn't love this classic?

Gyruss and Galaga...I always seem to play these two everytime I open MAME.

Another favorite that I wasn't too good at but loved the background music...Elevator Action.

 

Carry on.

[viktory2k1]

Battlezone, Galaga, punch-out. But this is over a year ago

[tcboogiedown]

Burgertime
Elevator action
Karate champ

[BorgDog]

mmm, track and field, robotron, and space zap I believe but it's been a few months

[kristian]

Just played Pole Position II and damn Suzuka and Seaside are tough with a mouse. Has anyone actually completed those tracks on MAME? 

[STV]

Galaxian

Astro Blaster

Defender (JROK board in a real Stargate cab)

[-=Kees=-]

Gyruss, Condor, Scramble, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Hyper olympics and some others...

 

The shooter games and hyper olympics are endless playing with only one credit. No increase of difficulty anymore.

[Slydog43]

Dig dug, pole position, galaga

 

really love the classics

[kristian]

Gyruss, Condor, Scramble, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Hyper olympics and some others...

 

The shooter games and hyper olympics are endless playing with only one credit. No increase of difficulty anymore.

 

Gyruss, Condor, Scramble, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Hyper olympics and some others...

 

The shooter games and hyper olympics are endless playing with only one credit. No increase of difficulty anymore.

 

I sometimes fail in the hammer throw on Hyper Olympics. Great classic but I always use  MAME autofire settings to run. The guy becomes quite fast.  

[Ben Logan]

Great thread...

Donkey Kong
Scramble
Robotron 64

[kristian]

I run old MAME 0.149.2 and it doesn't have Robotron 64. Is the arcade version something like this?

 

[toxie]

arcade version is the original 2D version of this.

but the N64 version is also neat (but not available in MAME/MESS so far).

also nice is the llamatron clone:

[kristian]

Ah... I remember that. Wasn't a great fan of Jeff Minter's games but that Robotron rip was great. I think I played that on DOS. 

[toxie]

I pretty much like all of his stuff, especially Polybius.. It's simply super hectic/insane and very relaxing at the same time when you play it in VR mode.. I still don't understand how this is even possible..

[kristian]

Yeah... great guy, amazing programmer. He was THE guy on C64. I'm just not too crazy about the Llama/Camel theme.

 

When emulation was new he was active with me and Neil Bradley in EMU forum. EMU was the first emulator that emulated Atari vector games. Jeff was really enthusiastic about the project... he loved Tempest and Gravitar just like me... especially Tempest. I guess he made a few homage versions of his own too. Those were the days. I was in my 20's and when I heard about EMU I went straight to computer store and bought a new machine just for it.

 

He also cracked games on C64 with a nick "Yak Society".

 

This was one of the best music themes on C64... actually I don't know if this is Jeff's or Benn Daglish's piece though. This is probably for Amiga or DOS version.

 

Edited by kristian, 09 January 2018 - 12:30 PM.

[The Loafer]

Neil Bradley, there's a name from the past.  I wasn't a programmer so just a fan of the early emu scene but I was present on some of the early forums (all pre-mame 0.1).  I remember Neil Bradley back then and several others, was one of the first to try "Retrocade" when he released it LOL (claim to fame?  Nah just quick on clicking on link LOL)

 

Wow, the internet rabbit hole strikes again. I can't believe JoseQ emuviews website is still kicking around!  Hasn't been updated since 2003 LOL. I used to chat a bit with the Dave's Arcade classics guy.  Wow, his website is still up to, well I think it's his but it sure has changed. One of my fav emulator sites back then was emuviews, died a long time ago but the guy had a very relaxed view on the emulator hobby, was fun to read as a blog, pre-blog era LOL

Edited by The Loafer, 09 January 2018 - 01:33 PM.

[kristian]

Yeah back in those days there were a lot of different emulators. I even bought the standalone Xevious emu. 

 

Then MAME took over, started the emulation tyranny and "killed" the independent small emu guys.  

 

Seriously, it's great to have everything under the same roof. AAE, however, is superior vector game emulator. It's the only thing I use besides MAME.

 

You can have the full package here if you want to take a look (just unRAR and play):

http://www.mediafire...i/aae092808.rar

[The Loafer]

I was a big AAE fan, only way to play vector games IMHO (though Mame have done some improvements in this area a few years ago, AAE last time I checked it was still ahead).  Don't think I had the latest version so appreciated.

​LOL 2008 so maybe I had the latest but checking into it, no idea where I put it!  So once more, thanks!

Edited by The Loafer, 09 January 2018 - 04:47 PM.

[STAT]

Gyruss ( Venus ), Zaxxon, Mr. Do ... Time Pilot ( = my HS: more than 500K )