Looking for suggestions on old school arcade games for tournament...

[IndyColtsFan]

well, shorty is still banned most of the time, TridenT actually got a job and a life! and Alky ran out of tutus (also banned)

I see Alky posting over at Hardforums occasionally. I wonder if he still lifts, bro?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Arcades to me were in their golden era from the late 70s into the early 80s. It was a game of Space Invaders in 1979 or so that got me hooked and sent me into the realm of engineering and software, never to be seen again. Therefore, I'd pick games from that era. Among them:

Asteroids
Pac Man
Ms Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr
Defender
Stargate (aka Defender 2)
Frogger
Dig Dug
Centipede (if you have a trackball)
Space Invaders
Galaga
Joust
Jungle Hunt

Dig Dug
Tapper
Moon Patrol

This gentleman has good tastes.

 

[CZroe]

I see Puzzle Bobble has already been mentioned (first thing I thought of after reading the OP)

Hmm... Super Off-Road is supposed to have multiple analog wheels but maybe you could make that work. If the original Mario Bros worked as well as the Mario Bros Classic 4-player game in the Super Mario Advance series I'd suggest that but I guess the original version could work. Would the Nintendo Vs series of arcade titles be possible to set up? Vs Super Mario Bros, Vs Excitebike, etc...

 

[Paladin3]

Karate Champ is the only possible answer, but I'm a bit biased. Back in the late 80s, I worked in a theme park arcade and we had an after hours party with a Karate Champ tournament with about 30 participants. You are now reading the incoherent ramblings of the undisputed, two-time, Six Flags Magic Mountain Games Department Karate Champ champ. And I DID sweep the leg, Johnny. 😎

**Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" quietly starts playing in the background**

 

[purbeast0]

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Karate Champ is the only possible answer, but I'm a bit biased. Back in the late 80s, I worked in a theme park arcade and we had an after hours party with a Karate Champ tournament with about 30 participants. You are now reading the incoherent ramblings of the undisputed, two-time, Six Flags Magic Mountain Games Department Karate Champ champ. And I DID sweep the leg, Johnny. 😎

**Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" quietly starts playing in the background**

That is a very good suggestion too.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I'd probably say NFL Blitz before NBA JAM. I think it takes even less skill and is even more random which should even the playing field. Like the game will cause fumbles to try and keep the score closer. I remember a friend was playing and there were like 5 fumbles on one play.

I wouldn't go for most of those old school games as I just don't think they'd really hit off well. A puzzle-ish game could be fun, but could also get boring. Did they ever make Monkey Ball arcade? Something like that could be interesting.

I'd say find some random just over the bizarre as hell Japanese arcade games. There's a beat 'em up where you play as like some robot baseball player. And if you really wanna give those joysticks a workout you could load up Cho Aniki Great Brother. Guess I'm not sure it was ever on arcade but I think SNES Drunk had an arcade game made by the company/developer in a video I watched about weird Japanese arcade games that never made it out of Japan.

 

[JEDI]

I figure this isn't console gaming so I can post it in here.

If anyone has been following my thread in the console forum, I have turned my arcade cabinet into a MAME cabinet.

I'm having people over for a birthday party in a couple of weeks and I wanted to run a tournament on it. But I want to run a tournament on a game that non-gamers can pick up and play. So I don't want to do anything like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat.

I am looking to do something that is head to head if possible because I want to make brackets. I could do score based and have 2 people "face off" against eachother with high scores taking the win.

I was thinking NBA Jam possibly, but I feel that game requires a lot more skill than non-gamers will be able to have fun with. Then I was thinking Pacman too, but again I feel like non-gamers won't stand a chance against gamers. In the end, it may just be that non-gamers will have no chance of winning anything, but I at least want them to have fun, so maybe something like Pacman will work.

Anyone have any suggestions?

the original Gauntlet

*Wizard need food badly*

 

[CZroe]

I'd probably say NFL Blitz before NBA JAM. I think it takes even less skill and is even more random which should even the playing field. Like the game will cause fumbles to try and keep the score closer. I remember a friend was playing and there were like 5 fumbles on one play.

I wouldn't go for most of those old school games as I just don't think they'd really hit off well. A puzzle-ish game could be fun, but could also get boring. Did they ever make Monkey Ball arcade? Something like that could be interesting.

I'd say find some random just over the bizarre as hell Japanese arcade games. There's a beat 'em up where you play as like some robot baseball player. And if you really wanna give those joysticks a workout you could load up Cho Aniki Great Brother. Guess I'm not sure it was ever on arcade but I think SNES Drunk had an arcade game made by the company/developer in a video I watched about weird Japanese arcade games that never made it out of Japan.

LOL! I loaded up Ai Cho Aniki on the PC Engine UperGrafx last time my roommate had his family over. Kids had a blast while everyone else was like "WTF?!" 😉

As I recall from the original GameCube home version, Monkey Ball started as an arcade machine but I think it was Japanese-only.

 

[zinfamous]

Do you have a module on your maim cabinet to add a giant table, so you can play that ridiculous table-flippy game?