Author Topic: Top 3 games you've never played but really want to (Read 9964 times)

TheSunshineFund · « **on:** June 11, 2018, 05:01:48 am »

Just to make it more open, if you want to include "on a dedicated cabinet, rather than MAME", that's cool too. I don't want this to be exclusively stuff that hasn't been dumped.

1. Planet Harriers
2. Galaxian 3 Theatre
3. Bouncer

Weehawk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 11, 2018, 05:28:52 am »

Never played:

Bouncer
Vampire
Black Widow (Taito)

Played only in MAME:

Slither
Zektor
Turkey Shoot

TheSunshineFund · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2018, 05:58:12 am »

Quote from: Weehawk on June 11, 2018, 05:28:52 am

Never played:

Bouncer
Vampire
Black Widow (Taito)

Played only in MAME:

Slither
Zektor
Turkey Shoot

I didn't realize there was a Taito version of Black Widow, are there major differences?

Weehawk · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2018, 06:43:20 am »

Quote from: TheSunshineFund on June 11, 2018, 05:58:12 am

I didn't realize there was a Taito version of Black Widow, are there major differences?

They were completely different games. The creator of Taito's Kram (which I liked a lot, though that's another one I only played in MAME), Mark Blazczyk, also did Black Widow. When Atari found out Taito also had a game coming out with the same title, they paid them to shelve it.

Mr. Blazczyk reportedly has the hardware for the game, but apparently little interest in making ROMS available for dump. Pictures of the marquee and control panel are linked through the undumped wiki and look pretty cool:

https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Black_Widow

TheSunshineFund · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2018, 07:38:48 am »

Ah that's a shame he doesn't want to submit them. Early 80's Taito is my favorite, I'd love to check it out.

bensweeneyonbass · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2018, 08:10:10 am »

1. Major Havoc
2. Let's Go Jungle
3. Space Tactics

All these have unique controls or environments and I haven't even attempted to work them in MAME. I guess Space Tactics would be the easiest to play in MAME but it still ain't the same.