Your favorite games

[daweinst]

Hey guys,

I have tons of MAME games from the 80s and 90s on my machine now, almost too many. There are so many I've never heard of, I was curious if there was a good resource where Mame games are rated. Or just some way of figuring out which games are generally considered good (besides the obvious pac-man, donkey kong, etc.)

Also, is there any way to see global statistics of the games the GameEx community is playing? Since GameEx keeps statistics on how many times and how long we each play different games, is it possible to conglomerate that info into global statistics info? Wouldn't it be cool to see what games we are all playing the most, and what games are put in the favorites list the most often?

Dan

[mightypeniz]

Look in the Setup Wizard, under "Advanced MAME Settings" - on page 3, there's a series of categories. The one you're after is "Show MAME Golden Era". If you want to prune the list of games, just turn on/off those categories.

I'm dead against collecting statistics, because the world would know what an utter tragic I am at my favourite games, "Terra Cresta", "Image Fight", etc.

[daweinst]

Look in the Setup Wizard, under "Advanced MAME Settings" - on page 3, there's a series of categories. The one you're after is "Show MAME Golden Era". If you want to prune the list of games, just turn on/off those categories.

I'm dead against collecting statistics, because the world would know what an utter tragic I am at my favourite games, "Terra Cresta", "Image Fight", etc.

Thanks. I'm not sure I can prune it based on categories. I like the golden era (80s) games, just not all of them. Does anyone know of a good list of the best 25-50 arcade games of each decade?

Thanks

[shaunopp]

Thanks. I'm not sure I can prune it based on categories. I like the golden era (80s) games, just not all of them. Does anyone know of a good list of the best 25-50 arcade games of each decade?

Thanks

How about the MAWS database? Tons of info for every mame game along with ratings and a Hall of Fame section.

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

I'm not sure after you turn on the Golden Era section in GameEx if you can manually delete what you don't want. I'm sure there's a file in the GameEx directory somewhere that populates what those Golden Era Games are by default, you may be able to mod that instead of manually deleting.

[emphatic]

It would be easier if you could tell us what kind of games you already love. I'm a shooter and adventure fan myself mostly, so my top games include Rygar, Black Tiger, Flying Shark, Twin Cobra, ESP Ra. De. , Do Donpachi, Raiden Fighters 2, Solomon's Key and Metal Slug 1/X/3.

Emph

[Tempest]

1. Tempest

2. Loderunner (Any one suprised I had a #2?)

3. Mr. Do!

Those are probably the three I play the most....

[daweinst]

How about the MAWS database? Tons of info for every mame game along with ratings and a Hall of Fame section.

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

I'm not sure after you turn on the Golden Era section in GameEx if you can manually delete what you don't want. I'm sure there's a file in the GameEx directory somewhere that populates what those Golden Era Games are by default, you may be able to mod that instead of manually deleting.

Oooh. Thanks. This is what I was thinking of. And of course after poking around more, I figured out that like almost every other feature I can think of, GameEx already supports it.

Under Advanced MAME Mame Settings (4) there is an option to "Show Live Online Lists" where GameEx will create 2 lists, 1 of the MAWS Hall of Fame, and 1 of the most played by the GameEx community as collected by Game Extender. And the lists are dynamically updated. Pretty damn awesome.

I also found this thread on the forum that with an .ini file that categorizes games based on how well they work and how fun they are to play. I'm not sure exactly how to utilize it with GameEx, but I know it's possible, because Tom posted a list specifically for GameEx. I'll study it and try to figure it out.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?sh...762&hl=MAWS

Thanks for listing your favorite games. I'm pretty open to any style, just trying to avoid the duds.

[greatflash]

1. Asteroids Deluxe / Tempest (Arcade)

2. Radiant Silvergun / Ikuruga (Saturn/Dreamcast)

3. Willow (Arcade)

4. Virtua Racing (Arcade/32x/Saturn)

5. Dungeon Explorer (PC Engine)

6. Strikers 1945 (Saturn)

7. Tir Na Nog (Spectrum)

8. Warhawk (C64 - Co-writer)

9. 3D Monster Maze (ZX81)

10. Boulderdash (C64)

They are some of my faves.

[night]

i was blessed enough to be part of the golden age the good old Commodore 64 and after the amiga age and it was imho a great ara

i played in the arcade as well but only one game really hooked me and costed me alot of coins was "StarWars" the vector game else i prefered games mostly with more depth in

but here is my favs its not a top 10 just the ten i loved and still go back to :

01).Eye Of the Beholder 1+2 (amiga)

02).Bards Tale series (amiga)

03).HeroQuest (amiga)

04).Summer Games II (c64)

05).Moonstone (amiga)

06).Robin Of The Wood (c64)

07).Castle of terror (c64)

08).Psi 5 Trading Company (c64)

09).Enigma Force (c64)

10).The Hobbit (c64 2Disk version)

Night

[shaunopp]

i was blessed enough to be part of the golden age the good old Commodore 64 and after the amiga age and it was imho a great ara

i played in the arcade as well but only one game really hooked me and costed me alot of coins was "StarWars" the vector game else i prefered games mostly with more depth in

but here is my favs its not a top 10 just the ten i loved and still go back to :

01).Eye Of the Beholder 1+2 (amiga)

02).Bards Tale series (amiga)

03).HeroQuest (amiga)

04).Summer Games II (c64)

05).Moonstone (amiga)

06).Robin Of The Wood (c64)

07).Castle of terror (c64)

08).Psi 5 Trading Company (c64)

09).Enigma Force (c64)

10).The Hobbit (c64 2Disk version)

Night

Hey what abuot Speedball II:Brutal Deluxe for the Amiga! I loved that game! Icecream....Icecream. What the hell kind of a taunt is Icecream!? I don't know but it cracks me up and it was a great game!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/speedb...2-brutal-deluxe

[OT] The Amiga 500 was one of my first computers and I went 'crazy' and bought the 20MB (that right kids, MB, NOT GB) hard drive that attached to the side of it. I remember thinking it was overkill and what would I ever use a whole 20Mb of storage for. Good times.

[night]

Hey what abuot Speedball II:Brutal Deluxe for the Amiga! I loved that game! Icecream....Icecream. What the hell kind of a taunt is Icecream!? I don't know but it cracks me up and it was a great game!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/speedb...2-brutal-deluxe

[OT] The Amiga 500 was one of my first computers and I went 'crazy' and bought the 20MB (that right kids, MB, NOT GB) hard drive that attached to the side of it. I remember thinking it was overkill and what would I ever use a whole 20Mb of storage for. Good times.

yea i remmeber Speed Ball 2 (I didnt like the first one tho.) but the second was great

but you had to injury a oppent to hear the "ICE CREAM ICE CREAM" really nasty hehe

and in fact i bought a 20mb hhd for my amiga 500 (yes 20mb) what rocked I had kickstart 1.2 and guess what i had to

use a hdd-boot-disk i couldnt just boot up on my hdd and 90% of all disk games couldnt be installed on a hdd at that time but i didnt care WTF

later i found out that kickstart 1.3 and above did solve that so i could boot up from my amazin 20mb hhd oh and you could insert ram in the hdd case i had 2mb what worked as systems memery not as today cache

ahhhh the good old days

Night