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.

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.

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.

Gals Panic S
Qix
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.

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

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

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

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.