03-25-2013, 05:37 PM
Sadly all I can think of at the moment are these:
Blood Bros. - Many people these days remember a SNES game called Wild Guns but imagine if the same type of game was made earlier with the same theme. That is pretty much Blood Bros, made by TAD the same company who also made Cabal (earlier but with a military theme). It's a 2 player cursor based shooting game where you must shoot the enemy ranging from cowboys and indianas to a runaway train and some times you get upgrades. I was actually lucky enough to play this in a bar in Spain years ago. Another game similar to this but even more unknown is Alligator Hunt by Spanish arcade developer Gaelco but that is space themed and the player looks like Mighty Max.
The Outfoxies - I think people are more aware of this game now but still worth a mention. It is an inspiration to Super Smash Bros and PlayStation All-Stars but not directly so since the controls are slightly different, two player only and this game is not a "fighter". Basically your goal is to kill all your enemy in an zooming arena with whatever means you have whether it is fist fighting, weapons or taking over a turret in the plane stage. The characters have a range between a man, a woman, a monkey in a suit and a few others (I think a professor is one of them).
Biomechanical Toy - Okay this game isn't known since it was made in Spain (but it is in English), not many machines were made and for the fact that the arcade doesn't seem the right platform for this kind of game since it is an action/platfomer game. Yeah, it this game came out on consoles or even the Amiga it would have been more successful instead of being mostly forgotten. Anyway the game is set in themed stages such as western, train, jungle where you shoot or jump on enemies even cigarette butts (don't ask) while saving other toys giving you power ups and at the end of a stage, there is a huge boss taking up much of the screen. One boss you fight is a computer glitch on a computer desk. The graphics look nice and plays quite well.
These ones are arcade only so the only option would be to play these via MAME unless you are lucky enough to find one in an arcade somewhere. There is also Panic Park, a game that uses two joysticks but that isn't emulated and I have only a very poor memory of the game (it was made by Namco and it was in an arcade in Gran Canaria in the late 90s).
However on the DS, there's Pang: Magical Michael proving that even DS games can be left out since it was only released in Europe by a low key publisher so not many copies were made (probably minimum print run, maybe a tiny bit more) even though it was developed in Japan and it could have been mistaken for the shovelware that the handheld has at the latter stages (seriously there's driving tests, cooking guides/e-books and licensed games based on UK things, the DS games right now have really dropped in quality). It is part of the Pang/Buster Bros. series (popping bubbles/balloons with your weapon with a bit of thought) but replaces the characters with a magician who has some charm. Luckily it plays the same and personally it is more accessable than the previous games in the series but not dumbed down.
Oh and how I found this game was bit a story. Basically Gamestation was closing down last year (2012) and had this game [I think it was barely used, might have been new] cheaply since I was getting Mario vs. Donkey Kong 3 as well since that was reduced. Before that I never saw the game for sale at all.
There's more that I can think of but that will do for now. Oh and I know Kula World, pretty good game.
Blood Bros. - Many people these days remember a SNES game called Wild Guns but imagine if the same type of game was made earlier with the same theme. That is pretty much Blood Bros, made by TAD the same company who also made Cabal (earlier but with a military theme). It's a 2 player cursor based shooting game where you must shoot the enemy ranging from cowboys and indianas to a runaway train and some times you get upgrades. I was actually lucky enough to play this in a bar in Spain years ago. Another game similar to this but even more unknown is Alligator Hunt by Spanish arcade developer Gaelco but that is space themed and the player looks like Mighty Max.
The Outfoxies - I think people are more aware of this game now but still worth a mention. It is an inspiration to Super Smash Bros and PlayStation All-Stars but not directly so since the controls are slightly different, two player only and this game is not a "fighter". Basically your goal is to kill all your enemy in an zooming arena with whatever means you have whether it is fist fighting, weapons or taking over a turret in the plane stage. The characters have a range between a man, a woman, a monkey in a suit and a few others (I think a professor is one of them).
Biomechanical Toy - Okay this game isn't known since it was made in Spain (but it is in English), not many machines were made and for the fact that the arcade doesn't seem the right platform for this kind of game since it is an action/platfomer game. Yeah, it this game came out on consoles or even the Amiga it would have been more successful instead of being mostly forgotten. Anyway the game is set in themed stages such as western, train, jungle where you shoot or jump on enemies even cigarette butts (don't ask) while saving other toys giving you power ups and at the end of a stage, there is a huge boss taking up much of the screen. One boss you fight is a computer glitch on a computer desk. The graphics look nice and plays quite well.
These ones are arcade only so the only option would be to play these via MAME unless you are lucky enough to find one in an arcade somewhere. There is also Panic Park, a game that uses two joysticks but that isn't emulated and I have only a very poor memory of the game (it was made by Namco and it was in an arcade in Gran Canaria in the late 90s).
However on the DS, there's Pang: Magical Michael proving that even DS games can be left out since it was only released in Europe by a low key publisher so not many copies were made (probably minimum print run, maybe a tiny bit more) even though it was developed in Japan and it could have been mistaken for the shovelware that the handheld has at the latter stages (seriously there's driving tests, cooking guides/e-books and licensed games based on UK things, the DS games right now have really dropped in quality). It is part of the Pang/Buster Bros. series (popping bubbles/balloons with your weapon with a bit of thought) but replaces the characters with a magician who has some charm. Luckily it plays the same and personally it is more accessable than the previous games in the series but not dumbed down.
Oh and how I found this game was bit a story. Basically Gamestation was closing down last year (2012) and had this game [I think it was barely used, might have been new] cheaply since I was getting Mario vs. Donkey Kong 3 as well since that was reduced. Before that I never saw the game for sale at all.
There's more that I can think of but that will do for now. Oh and I know Kula World, pretty good game.