Arcade Otaku - アーケード オタク

it is a lot more old school. no chains, not many items, just pure shooting and dodging. there are some lengths in the levels but the pixel art is nice. It is nice to have but not a must.

though the music in dimahoo I like.

Cool, thanks. Sounds good

Darius Gaiden

Picked up a semi-working Irem PCB and managed to fix up the issues.
So now enjoying a good few games of......

Donpachi!!!

Astro: Tetris Plus 2
Astro: Espgaluda
Blast: System 256 + Some Gundam game
Ok Baby: Donpachi
MVS Woodie: Magical Drop 3, Shock Troopers, Metal Slug 2, Last Blade 2, Fatal Fury Special, Andro Dunos.

TGM2+ Still in there.

Mantrox wrote:TGM2+ Still in there.

I would never take that game out of my cab!

I have Vampire Savior on my Aero, trying to relearn Lei Lei

Last night I had the odd coincidence of having R-Type II and Pulstar on MVS in the same cab, and played them both back to back.
Wtf? They are practically the same game design!
I knew they were 'similar' but it hadn't dawned on me just quite how similar / exactly-the-ruddy-same they actually are!

So, who copied who? I'd guess Pulstar is the later one, and it nicks R-Type (1)'s crabs from level 2 as well.

i got a Blast City and it currently runs Final Fight

Sakura Taisen Hanagumi Colums in my Blast

Flinnster wrote:Last night I had the odd coincidence of having R-Type II and Pulstar on MVS in the same cab, and played them both back to back.
Wtf? They are practically the same game design!
I knew they were 'similar' but it hadn't dawned on me just quite how similar / exactly-the-ruddy-same they actually are!

So, who copied who? I'd guess Pulstar is the later one, and it nicks R-Type (1)'s crabs from level 2 as well.

Oh, some big ticket items there.

Boogie Wings on my Aero.

OH, and Snow Bros on the Mark III. YES I LOVE SNOW BROS just about as much as I love Tumblepop.

and In the Hunt on my DIY "Sega" cab.
I REALLY should be giving this game more love.

ESP.RaDe back in again.
Great fun shooter, but quite difficult. I get destroyed in LVL4...

Sunder wrote:Boogie Wings on my Aero.

OH, and Snow Bros on the Mark III. YES I LOVE SNOW BROS just about as much as I love Tumblepop.

and In the Hunt on my DIY "Sega" cab.
I REALLY should be giving this game more love.

I got lucky, R-Type II was definitely 'small ticket' as I bought it faulty, and was able to fix it!

Boogie Wings and In The Hunt - both amazing, wonderful games too

Flinnster wrote:

Sunder wrote:Boogie Wings on my Aero.

OH, and Snow Bros on the Mark III. YES I LOVE SNOW BROS just about as much as I love Tumblepop.

and In the Hunt on my DIY "Sega" cab.
I REALLY should be giving this game more love.

I got lucky, R-Type II was definitely 'small ticket' as I bought it faulty, and was able to fix it!

Boogie Wings and In The Hunt - both amazing, wonderful games too

Man, In the Hunt is freaking hard for me on the last stretch. I don't think I'll be ever 1ccing that anytime soon.

I'd love to score a faulty PCB of that caliber, by the way.

If I understand correctly, 'In The Hunt' was created largely by the same team as the later R-Types, and they went on to make the Metal Slug series afterwards.
As for my PCB, it unfortunately turned out to be a conversion, not the original board.. so not quite as valuable as it could have been, but I'm still chuffed with it!

I don't know if they worked on the later R-Types but they definitely did Gunforce 2 shortly after. That's the original precursor to the Metal Slug series.
That I would love to get my hands on one day as I'm a Metal Slug fiend.
Ah man, well I don't know where we draw the line on what's stock and original and what is a conversion anyway these days.
I mean do we consider those desuicided boards less valuable because it's no longer stock?

Final Fight occupies my JAMMA cabinet right now. Trying to get good at this game

Blast city: Espgaluda
Egret 2: Mushihimesama futari 1.5
New Astro: neogeo battle coliseum