SB Recommends Arcade Games

This is a prototype page. Not all of these are emulatable.

Belt Scroll

  • Battletoads
  • Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
    • Loki Laufeyson: A pretty manly beat em up, based on a very manly comic series. Make a T-Rex docile by punching it!
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
  • Dynamite Deka/Die Hard Arcade
  • Dynamite Deka 2/Dynamite Cop
  • Dynamite Dux
  • Ed Randy:The Cliffhanger
  • Gaia Crusader
  • Growl
  • Ninja Baseball Batman
  • PuLiRuLa
    • Sniper Honeyviper: Surrealism and existential terror in beat-em-up land.
    • Loki Laufeyson: A lot of games are surreal, but PuLiRuLa is on a different level>
  • Sunset Riders
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:Turtles in Time
  • Violent Storm
    • TELL ME BABY
  • Warrior Blade
    • Loki Laufeyson: The awesome game that Golden Axe is in your rose-tinted memories, only it's real.

Light Gun

  • Crisis Zone
  • Dragongun
  • Gunmen Wars
  • Jurassic Park:The Lost World
  • L.A.Machineguns
  • Silent Scope (series)

One Screen

  • Bezerk
  • Bogey Manor
  • Bubble Bobble
  • BurgerTime
  • Dead Connection
  • Diet Go! Go!
    • Loki Laufeyson: The spiritual sequel to Tumblepop, that plays a lot faster. The villain is also notable, for his heinous plan of giving cakes and meat to the people of the world to make them overweight.
  • Galaga 88
  • Sinistar
  • Snow Bros
  • Super BurgerTime
  • Tumblepop
    • Rudie: Bubble Bobble, but by Data East.

Platformer

  • Biomechanical Toy
  • Dyna Gears
  • Elevator Action Returns
  • Haunted Castle
  • I'm Sorry
    • Sniper Honeyviper: Still the best political satire game.
  • J.J. Squawkers
    • sharc: It's over too quickly and the randomized weapon drops will inevitably ruin your day, but that aside this is delightful cartoon anarchy and not to be missed.
  • Micheal Jackson's Moonwalker
  • The New Zealand Story
  • Trio The Punch
    • Sniper Honeyviper: Data East's merciless self-parody. ”WIN WIN
  • Thunderfox
  • Wardner no Mori/Wardner/Pyros
    • sharc: Straightforward but servicable genre entry from legendary shmup dev Toaplan. Enjoyably challenging, until the very last stage where it turns into a tedious bullshit trainwreck.

Puzzle

  • Gals Panic S
  • Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
  • Tetris the Absolute The Grand Master 2
  • Logic Pro
    • Loki Laufeyson: One of (if not the only) the few Nonogames that actually turns the concept into a videogame. A time limit is constantly ticking down, and you lose a big chunk of it if you try to fill in the wrong square, and it refills a tiny amount for every correct square filled in.

Racing

  • Battle Gear (series)
  • Drift Out 94
  • Daytona USA
    • Loki Laufeyson: A staple of almost every arcade I've ever been to, for good reason.
  • Emergency Call Ambulance
  • Ferrari F355 Challenge
  • GTI Club (series)
  • Initial D Arcade Stage (series)
  • Ironman Stewart's Off Road
  • Outrun
  • Outrun 2
  • Outrun 2 SP
  • Ridge Racer (series)
  • Rave Racer
  • Sega Rally Championship
  • Sega Rally 2
  • Sega Super GT
  • Special Criminal Investigation
    • Sniper Honeyviper: Sequel to Chase HQ. More of the same great Outrun-like action, except you've got a gun.
  • Super Hang On
  • Thrill Drive (series)
  • Virtua Racing
  • Wangan Midnight:Maximum Tune

Run 'n' Gun

  • Crime City
    • LET'S GO FOR A KILL TIME.
  • G I Joe

Shooting 3D

  • After Burner II
  • After Burner Climax
  • Counter-strike:Neo
  • Galaxy Force II
  • Space Harrier
  • Planet Harriers
  • Star Wars Arcade

STG Horizontal

  • Fantasy Zone
  • Gradius
  • Metal Black
    • Sniper Honeyviper: ”The Earth died, and it was about to enter upon silence times…
  • Pilot Kids
  • Progear
  • R-Type
  • Sol Divide

STG Vertical

  • Air Gallet
  • Armed Police Batrider
  • Battle Garegga
  • Battle Bakraid
  • Dangun Feveron
    • HEAVEN IS HERE INSIDE MY SOUL!
  • DoDonPachi
  • ESP RaDe
  • Gun Frontier
    • Shiren the Launderer: The inspiration for Battle Garegga!
  • Guwange
  • Ikaruga
  • Radiant Silvergun
  • Space Invaders '95
  • Twinkle Star Sprites
  • Viper Phase 1
    • Sniper Honeyviper: Raiden in space with pumped-up weapons. Good stuff.
  • Zero Gunner

Sports

  • Back Street Soccer
  • NBA Jam
  • Stone Ball
  • Hit the Ice
  • Virtua Tennis (series)
  • Windjammers

Versus Fighter

  • Asura Blade
    • Sniper Honeyviper: No-name developer Fuuga shamelessly rips off the Darkstalkers series, with mostly positive results. Not quite as good, but the fantasy-anime setting is nicely imagined, and the archetypal character design is solid. The sequel adds several new characters and sexes up its existing female ones, but it's unfortunately got serious emulation problems as of this writing.
  • Cyber Troopers Virtual-On
  • Outfoxies
    • Sniper Honeyviper: Smash Brothers before there was Smash Brothers. Gorgeous spy-movie aesthetic and screen zooming effects.
  • Rival Schools
  • Tech Romancer
  • Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
    • Sniper Honeyviper: A steaming pile of broken, idiotic, utterly hilarious bullshit. Best played while drunk, and with the arcade version's insane X-shaped button layout.

See Also

 
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