What Games Would You Recommend For A Computer Used As An Arcade Machine?

[The Fifth Horseman]

To cut a long story short, a friend has got a small arcade with various games... now, here in the office we've got a more-or-less functional 486 DX4/80 which the boss has agreed to donate for that arcade.

What games would you suggest to set up on that computer?
Note: the kids don't pay anything for playing on those machines - apparently, the buiness is partially being funded by some donations from the city and partially by income from selling snacks and soft drinks to the visitors. ^_^

[velik_m]

Cyberdogs 1&2 and Liero

[Geezer]

Keyboard, joystick or gamepad?

Tyrian is a good one. There are a few good pinball games.

Joe and Mac is a lot of fun and so is Cool Spot. Cool Spot might help them sell soft drinks. :)

[JJXB]

i'd say test the waters with cps1 and older games first. that way you have a solid idea of what works before you go onto testing the cps2/neogeo games on there.
a couple of cps1 games to try first:
Final Fight
Megaman: The Power Battle.
if you want to try cps2 games go for:
Marvel Super Heroes
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Super Puzzle Fighter 2
NeoGeo:
Metal Slug: Super Vehicle 001
Shock Troopers 2
Garou: Mark of the wolves.

this is from my experience of testing so i know what my computer is capable of.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Keyboard, joystick or gamepad?[/b]
Keyboard. Joystick is an option.

[nace]

"Street Hoop"
"Metal Slug" - everything that you can find
"Cadilacs & Dinosaurs"
"Final Fight"
"Shadow Dancer"

you will not be dissapointed of these games

[The Bard]

Try X-Men: Children of the Atom, and Marvel vs. Capcom, or even Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom.

[Dave]

Alien vs Predator (really similar to Cadillac & Dinosaurs)
Metal Slug
Dungeoun & Dragons
Mortal Kombat II

PAC MAN! :ok:

[JJXB]

i'd recommend against any of the metal slugs after 2 since they are 60-80mb big plus their a little harder on your system than the first 2. and MKII for the same reason. the main concern with some of the suggested roms is the filesize since i don't know how much HD space this old machine has. for example my roms folder is about 1.34GB.
just a little snippet of my rom folder:
26/04/2007 17:42 13,168,115 mslug.zip (metal slug)
26/04/2007 17:41 17,512,812 mslug2.zip (metal slug 2)
26/04/2007 18:32 80,617,739 mslug3.zip (metal slug 3)
26/04/2007 18:08 63,395,174 mslug4.zip (metal slug 4)
26/04/2007 19:41 81,070,649 mslug5.zip (metal slug 5)
26/04/2007 20:12 28,562,505 mslugx.zip (metal slug X)
26/04/2007 13:30 22,695,484 mvsc.zip (Marvel Vs Capcom)[/b]
just a word of warning

[The Fifth Horseman]

For some reason, you think this machine is going to run MAME or some other console emulator.

Nope. Just good old PC games for it. :P

[Mighty Midget]

Archade type games on a 486? Pinball, some of those top-down car racing games, pac-man, donkey kong, pong, snake, tower of hanoi, a fancy chess-ish game and backgammon for two players... simple games that won't demand a whole afternoon for one game only. Quick games that allow more than one kid a day, you get my point.

[STFM]

there was a pc port of street fighter 2 but it sucked.

If you could source some more 486's / pentiums set up a basic network and run multiplayer doom or C&C - thats the most fun! I mean you gotta be able to source some more machines of that age, they are just thrown away now!

[Frodo]

PHOENIX!!!

That's probably one of the best arcade games EVER, and there is a pc version available. :brain:

Also, what about trying:
A Break-Out \ Batty game
A Dizzy game
Q-Bert

:ok:

[The Spider Mastermind]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(STFM @ May 10 2007, 02:06 PM) 289824</div>
there was a pc port of street fighter 2 but it sucked.
[/b]

I didn't see much wrong with it.

I think I might still have it actually, now that I think of it...

[Dave]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ May 7 2007, 01:13 PM) 289497</div>
For some reason, you think this machine is going to run MAME or some other console emulator.

Nope. Just good old PC games for it. :P
[/b]

ops! Sorry LOL

Pinball fantasies is great and never boring (or other pinball games)
You could also choose some calssic games like tetris, pac man, arkanoid or Bubble Bobble! :ok:

[gregor]

prehistoric 2 :D

[Sathanas]

I'd say new games are better (Some of them, hardly all), but the old games have the nostalgic value as well.

[TheGiantMidgit]

Ha ha, I turned my old PC into a cabinet, built an arcade console for it and everything. Basically, it just served to play Metal Slug, a ton of old arcade staples and a really screwily controlled Half Life.

http://www.citizenwii.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/hugearcadecontroller.jpg

sort of looks like this

[guesst]

Okay, you gots a 486. Well it just so happens that when 486s were the thing I was plaing games on them. What was I playing?
1. Star Control (http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/143/StarControl1.htm)
2. Captian Comic (http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/857/AdventuresofCaptainComic.htm) and Captian Comic 2 (http://www.abandonia.com/games/861/CaptainComicII-FracturedReality)
3. Star Goose (http://www.abandonia.com/games/246/download/StarGoose.htm)
4. Rampage (http://www.abandonia.com/games/167/download/Rampage.htm)
5. OMF 2059 (http://www.abandonia.com/games/94/download/OneMustFall2097.htm)
6. Doom (http://www.abandonia.com/games/6/download/Doom2HellonEarth.htm)
7.Alien Carnage/Haloween Harry (http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/203/AlienCarnageHalloweenHarry.htm)
8. Heck, anything released by Apogee.
9. Ugh (http://www.abandonia.com/games/26/download/Ugh.htm)
10. Oh yea, Descent. How'd I forget that one?

There's a small list to get you started. Let me know if you need more. Or better yet, feel free to browse the Arcade (http://www.abandonia.com/genre.php?genre=arcade&page=0) or Action (http://www.abandonia.com/genre.php?genre=action&page=0) tabs on Abandonia's main site.

[Dave]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TheGiantMidgit @ May 28 2007, 02:29 AM) 291608</div>
Ha ha, I turned my old PC into a cabinet, built an arcade console for it and everything. Basically, it just served to play Metal Slug, a ton of old arcade staples and a really screwily controlled Half Life.
sort of looks like this
[/b]


Damn!! Fantastic! :w00t:

[Mighty Midget]

TheGiantMidgit: Wanna marry? It's ok, you can have your divorce and I'll get to keep that. Absolutely genious.

[The Fifth Horseman]

TheGiantMidgit, your machine looks almost the same as one I saw in "Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine". Congrats.

Did you hook the controls to a pre-made device or hacked a keyboard?

[gufu1992]

Wait - here are two midgets here, briliant! >_>

[Dave]

Could you share us your secrets? :rolleyes: