My son (bless him he's only 17, hasn't got a scooby on what games are on the Game Elf) just loads up random games. He hits a surprising amount of gold doing this.
I'd never played The Punisher before my boy loaded it up once. Years wasted! That's THE most FUN side-scrolling beat 'em up I've got by far! It smokes Double Dragon, Final Fight, Golden Axe, Turtles et al... well, it does in my house lol.
Anyway, that's isn't my coin-op game of the week. My game of the week was discovered in the same way that we discovered The Punisher. My coin-op game of the week is:
Megatack!
Ugly? Yeah, I'll give you that. Not the quaintest soundtrack? Yeah, you can have that too. Game not fun? Nope, the game is immense fun!
A game designer probably once said "Just have some extra bullets shoot diagonally" and that man was a great man indeed.
This game is good on MAME too. Oh, and it does have an odd interface for entering your initials. If nothing else, it's at least somewhat unique!
maskeddev2016-02-15 14:26:24