I’d love to hear some recommendations for top 10 games that could be played with a Streetfighter 6 button layout. I’m picking up one with something like thousands of games on mine, and will be curating it down to something a little more manageable per others advice. My top 10 right now are:
1. Galaga
2. NBA Jam
3. Rampart
4. Rampage
5. 1941
6. Street Fighter 2
7. NFL Blitz
8. Gauntlet Legends
9. Dungeons and Dragons
10. Dig Dug
What are some of your favorites?
If you have two 8-way joysticks, Robotron 2084 is a great adrenaline-pumping game!
If you can display Vector graphics properly, Black Widow is also great and has the same controls as Robotron.
Many SHMUPS (Raiden II, Do Don Pachi etc...)
Lots of fighting games...
The only other decent 8-way joystick game that I can think of is...Bubbles... 
Bubbles (resized).jpgCouple we played the other day...
Shuuz. Horseshoe game
Atari 2600: Combat, Indiana Jones, Adventure, Freeway,
Hat Trick. Simple but fun 2player hockey
Kaboom
Castlevania
Black Tiger
Robotron 2084
Buster Bros.
Quiz & Dragons
Willow
D&D - Tower/mysteria
Burger Time
Street Fighter Alpha 2
MK2
... Sure I'm missing a couple
EDIT: Thanks RatShack for reminding me of Magic Sword. Which opens the classic question of Lizard Man or Knight?
Track and Field is always a blast with a friend! I've never played one with a 6 button layout though, but I'm sure you could map it to the upper or lower left/right buttons and it would work ok.
Dino Rex
Trio The Punch
Golden Axe
Space Harrier
The Simpsons
Time Killers
Berzerk
Die Hard Arcade
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Jungle King / Jungle Hunt
and of course...
Chicken Farm
Quoted from RatShack:Dino Rex
...Berzerk...
coin detected in pocket!!
loved walking by that machine and hearing that. LOL
Black Tiger
Joust
Pacman
Donkey Kong
Ghosts and Goblins
Dig dug
Contra
Double Dragon
Robotron 2084
Sinistar
Rampage
Paperboy
R-Type
Galaga
Xybots
Quoted from TheLaw:Nowhere near as good sadly. better with Hyper Sports but still not ideal.
Bummer. One of my favorite games, but I don't know that I would make space for a dedicated T&F cabinet.
Quoted from FatPanda:Bummer. One of my favorite games, but I don't know that I would make space for a dedicated T&F cabinet.
Had a dedicated Hyper Sports for years, loved it but yeah that much space for 1 game is too much for me.
Quoted from gliebig:What isn't good with track and field? I play it on my mame. Seems fine.
Button config is too diff'rent from dedicated in the movement events. Things like Hammer & Skeet Shooting aren't horrible though.
Solomon’s Key
Ghouls n Ghosts
Mortal Kombat 2
Buster Bros
Final Fight
Metal Slug
R-Type
Golden Axe
X-Men
Tiger Road
Shout out to underrated classic Zookeeper. It's fun when you first start to play it, then it gets cheesy, then it gets fun again once you learn the advanced strategies.
TMNT/TMNT2/X-Men/Simpsons
And none of this "give yourself 99 lives and blow through the game" crap. Give yourself a single dollar where 1 quarter equals 3 lives, and see how far you can get. Anyone can just give themselves unlimited quarters, but it takes true skill and learning the computer's patterns to get through these games on limited lives.
Some great ones already listed. I will add Time Pilot, and an addictive sleeper is Funny Bubble. Check it out if you haven't already! Nudie pic if you beat the level, but that's not what makes the game great, it's just a bonus!
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:I’d love to hear some recommendations for top 10 games that could be played with a Streetfighter 6 button layout. I’m picking up one with something like thousands of games on mine, and will be curating it down to something a little more manageable per others advice. My top 10 right now are:
What are some of your favorites?
Try some great games that you probably never heard of before, or at least not tried before...
The Glob (and/or Super Glob)
Bongo
Beezer (really hard game)
Q*bert's Qubes (it's better than Q*bert once you figure out what you're doing)
Popper (if you like Q*bert you might like Popper even better) Note: not the Hard Head bootleg.
Agent X (or Cloak & Dagger, same game different title screen), great intermission between levels screens.
Black Widow (if you like Robotron, you'll like Black Widow)
Canyon Bomber (very simple and great simultaneous two player game)
Turkey Shoot, awesome game, but MAME doesn't do it justice. Need to play the real game, so skip it I guess. Or come play it at my house.
Rampart (need at least 2 players and even better with 3)
Cube Quest (best attract mode sequence EVER, even if you don't play the game, at least watch/listen to that)
Akka Arrhh
Journey
Wacko
Food Fight
I, Robot
Quantum
Major Havoc
Kram
Electric Yo-Yo
Ok, I'll stop now. So many other great obscure games out there.
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Total Carnage
NARC
Tekken Tag
Blitz
Rastan
Ghosts n Goblins
Virtua Fighter 2
Commando
Golden Axe
Rampage
Hat trick = best sports game ever. Ok slight exaggeration but I really love that game. Best Senete game for sure.
Marble madness
Reactor Gottlieb
Cliff Hanger
Elevator Action returns
And all the normal classics
Trog - fun 3 player game
Outrun
Battle zone.
Quoted from oldbaby:Shout out to underrated classic Zookeeper. It's fun when you first start to play it, then it gets cheesy, then it gets fun again once you learn the advanced strategies.
I was waiting to see who said Zookeeper. This is a must play!
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