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Hi All

Well, a search for "favorites" and "faves" didn't bring up much, so I thought I'd ask...Was just wondering what games people are enjoying lately, and was hoping someone might share some ideas for new games to try. I was a Sega arcade freak back in the day. Used to make little animations on my Amiga, trying to do my own "Space Harrier" emulation...haha (you had to love Deluxe Paint III with that scaling). Anyway, here's a list of my all-time faves...how bout yours?

720 Degrees
After Burner II
Altered Beast
APB
Bad Dudes
Choplifter
Double Dragon
Elevator Action
Galaga
Gauntlet
Ghouls n Ghosts
Golden Axe
Hydra
Karate Champ
Kung-Fu Master
Mad Planets (I had forgotten this one, loaded by mistake recently, very fun and addictive!)
Major Havoc
NARC
Out Run
Paperboy
Pole Position II
Qix
Road Blasters
Rolling Thunder
Shinobi
Smash TV
Space Harrier
Star Wars
Super Hang-On
The Legend of Kage
Tron

Zaxter

In no particular order here's my 'top 5':

Out Run
Space Harrier
Star Wars
Gauntlet
After Burner

Some games I've really enjoyed, in random order:

Bubble Bobble
Sunset Riders
Snow Bros
Macross 2

Some of my MacMAME faves

SWAT (played tons in the Alladin's castle - took me decades to remember the name/game. Used to search klov one game at a time to try and find!)
Pang/Buster Bros.
BurgerTime
Rompers (Rhett - this would work awesome on your system. Really cool puzzle/action game.)
Amidar

Others in green...
10 yard fight
Astro Invader
Bank Panic
Carnival (played to death in a motel one weekend - will never get tired of it)
Circus Charlie
Cloak and Dagger
Columns
Cabal
Donkey Kong 3
Dragon Breed
Frogger (awesome with arrow keys!)
Go Go! Mile Smile
Gorf
Gyruss
Jail Break (My first full upright purchase! Check out the proud pappa pic on my myspace profile!)
Journey
Kangaroo
LadyBug
Moon Patrol
Mr. Do!
Pooyan
Pop 'n Bounce
Popeye
PuLiRuLa
Puzzli
Qbert
Qix
Quiz & Dragons
Raiden
Rally X
Satan's Hollow (Rhett!)
Sea Wolf
Sky Diver
Syusse Oozumou (Freakin awesome sumo wrestling! Rhett - another one for you!)
Tapper
The Speed Rumbler
Timber
Time Pilot
Time Pilot 84
Wizard of Wor
Xevious
Eyes (Rhettable)
Ponpoko
Dr. Toppel's Adventure (awesome scrolling vertical shooter with a weird dragon breed/gradius following helper system)
Prehistoric Isle in 1930
Rolling Thunder

Phew! That's a lot, and not exclusive. I tried to throw in some that people might not have heard of, and tried to only include the classics I only truly love.

Here's a list of 74 forgotten classics compiled by Nathan, myself, and a few other contributers who frequented this board from a few years ago.

Really into Panic Bomber, Mars Matrix, Blazing Star and Money Exchanger at the moment....some of those vertical puzzle games can keep you going for hours!!!

Yeah, I finally tripped upon your classics page with SWAT about 3 months after I finally found it myself. Coulda saved about 2 years of searching...

And, why you doggin' on Kickman, Nathan? My dad and I used to play that together at Aladdin's Castle (only game he'd play with me - video games were a waste of quarters...). The frantic pace on a real machine with the big 2-way trackball was actually a blast! Got my adrenaline going big time!

Lately, I've really been into....
Space Invaders
the Marvel/Capcom games
Discs Of Tron
PacMan(and Ms. Pacman)
Ghouls N' Ghosts
Ghosts N' Goblins
Quiz & Dragons(I used to spend hours playing this at 7-11)
Dig Dug
Centepede
Gauntlet
Rampage
Burger Time
Donkey Kong

Playing the games that I used to love when I was a kid is really awesome and brings back a lot of great feelings. It's really too bad that there aren't too many arcades like when we were little. What with all the XBoxs, Gamecubes, Nintendo DS, and PSPs, people don't really have to go out to play games anymore. The arcades that ARE still left, usually only have really old, crappy games that no one really wants to play anymore(or never did) or games that people DO want to play but most of which are out of order. Too bad. I really loved going to arcades when I was younger. The sounds of the bells, alarms, games, and people yelling and laughing, etc. The really horrible, garish carpet, the blinking/neon lights made you feel so great.

Arcanoid
Puyo Puyo
Breakers
Puzzle Bobble
Metal Slug Series
Fatal Fury Series
Waku Waku 7
Golden Axe - The Revenge of Death Adder

Everyone, play Zoo Keeper (which is available on Taito Legends). Loads of fun.