Years / Decades:
70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 8th Generation, 2020
Genres:
2D Platformers, 3D Platformers, 4X, Adventure, Board Games, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, Card, Casual, City/Attraction Builders, Dungeon Crawlers, Fighting, Flash, Handheld, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, MMOs, MOBA, Point and Click , Puzzle, Racing, Real Time Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Rhythm, Roguelikes, RPGs (Action), RPGs (Turn Based), Sandbox, Shooters (1st Person), Shooters (3rd Person), Simulation, Souls-Bourne, Sports, Stealth, Survival, Tabletop RPGs, Text Dungeons, Tower Defense, Turn Based Strategy, Visual Novels, Walking Simulators
Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action, Shoot/beat 'em up, Grand Strategy, and Miscellaneous] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
I will always lose $20 to on rails shooters or pinball machines if I see them. Shout out to House of the Dead and the Terminator on rails shooter.
That one Simpsons arcade game probably has my highest playing time.
Street Fighter is very important to arcade history, along with KoF but everyone kind of sleeps on Virtua Fighter, which set everything up for 3D fighting games. Let's also mention great beat 'em ups like Final Fight, Golden Axe, the X-Men game by Konami that had 6 player support!
but everyone kind of sleeps on Virtua Fighter,
Too hard for the west
Yeah that and VF wasn't as flashy as street fighter or had the fatalities like Mortal Kombat. Best I've seen it explained is that VF is a game about understanding the fighting mechanics rather than big combos.
I used to live near an arcade that used nickels instead of quarters. Got pretty good at it for cheap and beat other people and the final boss regularly, loved that game
pac man is one of the arcade games ever made
actually a lot more fun on an arcade stick/fight stick than on any other controls
Marvel vs Capcom 2! The sole reason I would show up to the arcade near me when I was a kid. I never got any good at it but I played often enough to beat people who had literally no idea what they were doing, which I would do with Roll/Servbot/BB Hood.
Sengoku Taisen, a Japanese game where you collect cards to build an army and play a tactical game with them by moving them around on a board, is what kept me coming to arcades as an adult.
Time Crisis 4! I have no idea what the story is but god damn I love this game. I've played all of the TC's and IMO they just get better with every iteration. I understand that there is also a Time Crisis 5 but somehow I've never seen it.
F-Zero AX, best racing series in the best racing cabinet. It's a shame Nintendo seems intent on pretending that Captain Falcon is exclusively a Smash Bros character, because this game slapped and there should have been at least 3 sequels by now.
Crisis zone (namco) is like a Michael Bay movie come to life https://youtu.be/1VRDPWirhzA?t=11
Virtual On Cybertroopers (sega) has the most amazing looking mecha design and is amazing competitively. Border Break (sega) I wish was on PC as its a 10 vs 10 arcade game.
