Games that should have been in the arcade

[virtvic]

This is going to be a topic for a future Ten Pence Arcade Podcast...

What games from classic computers and consoles (or even more modern games) should have been or should be in an arcade cab?

I, personally would love to see a version of Geometry Wars done on a colour vector monitor. How utterly cool and mind blowing would that be? The colour vector monitor would probably burst into flames after about 5 minutes, but I can dream

We would love to hear your ideas on this subject - they will be talked about on the podcast.

Alex obviously wants Chuckie Egg to be in the arcade, which is a no brainer really! - it'd be awesome!

 

[Russ J]

I would have liked to have seen Atari do a vector version of The Return Of The Jedi rather than the raster version they released.....

There is a youtube clip of someone who has a WIP vector ROTJ they have programmed themselves and it looks pretty cool imo, way better than Atari's effort

 

[ben76]

Parasol Stars

- Ben

 

[muddymusic]

Stunt car racer would have been great in a cab.

 

[Milky]

Wipeout 2097 in a fully pneumatic cab and Firestarter as the only music track available

 

[cosine]

Parasol Stars

This.

 

[LAZORIAN]

Lol I was just about to say Wipeout then luckily noticed it had been mentioned, loads of potential and a very stylish game back in it's day.

 

[guddler]

The problem with Chuckie Egg is you'd need to put a time limit on it. People seem to be able to play that game round and round and round!!

 

[tb lilley]

Wipeout 2097 in a fully pneumatic cab and Firestarter as the only music track available

This.

 

[frothmeister]

Ooh good one.

How about Speedball, the Amiga Classic? I reckon that would have been a very cool 2 player cab.

Or some of the early ultimate play the game games, like jetpac, pssst and cookie was always a big fave of mine

 

[Retroruss]

Thing on a spring and wizball from the good old Amiga.

God I loved the music to Thing on a spring, going to go on YouTube now and have a listen.

O and what about cauldron?

Great games.

 

[virtvic]

Parasol Stars was already on my my list.
Obviously, some games would have to be toughened up to be viable arcade games.

Others in mind are Super Ghouls n ghosts, Grid runner, Fix it Felix, Trail blazer, Bruce Lee, Axelay, Devil World, R type 3

 

[Alpha1]

Black Lamp
Killing Game Show
Thrust
Treasure Island Dizzy
Sword of Sodan

 

[Nintendo Arcade]

Starship command from the BBC model b

awesome fantastic game
Blake 7 spaceship rocks

 

[samusaran]

Dropzone

 

[muddymusic]

A 4-player Moonstone cab would have been fecking awesome.

 

[Macro]

I second Thrust, and would add elite - both on vector monitor

 

[guddler]

I thought Thrust was a home conversion of Gravitar?

 

[ZuPoint]

ZX spectrum-- Run baby run

 

[Nintendo Arcade]

Death chase
sinclair spectrum

There are so many on the speccy because I think it was the most creative time to make games .