Best Roms Of All Time List


Sonistar

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Ive only been intrested in the mega drive emulator and now theres MAME and amiga(never heard of amiga b4) i was wondering if you guys could post your all time favourite Games for all the old school consoles ive never played.

*Post only the names, NO LINKS, no illegal rom links please* ^-^

Ill start off with the mega drive, all i can think of at the moment (more on my gp2x)



Mega Drive / Genesis 16 bit


Alex the Kidd
Columns
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
Ecco the Dolphin
Flicky
Mortal Kombat
Puggsy
Riistar
Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 3 & Knuckles
Streets of Rage
Vectorman 1 & 2
Zombies
 
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Currently occupying my time on my GP2X:

Genesis/ Megadrive-
Beyond Lagoon/ Story of Thor
Landstalker
Gods
Shining in the Dark
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
Crusader of Centy

SNES-
Zelda 3
Tactics Ogre
Lufia 2
Chaos Engine

TG16/PC Engine-
Raiden
Dungeon Explorer
Cadush (sp?)

BTW, the Amiga was (is) a series of computers released by Commodore and featured much better sound and graphics than the PCs of the same time... well worth the time to check out.
 
About the Amiga - you bet, the graphics/audio were well ahead of the PC in 1990. Perhaps the best point of contrast is "War in Middle Earth" - the PC version's music is speaker tones, while the Amiga has a fetching synthesized audio.

However, between 1989 and 1992, a bunch of classic PC/Amiga games were ported to the Sega Genesis by Electronic Arts. The Genesis ports were far and away superior compared with the other platforms. Here's a partial list of games with *amazing* audio and/or graphics on the Genesis/Megadrive compared to the Amiga or PC versions:

-Starflight 1 (if *only* they'd ported Starflight 2 to the Genesis!)
-King's Bounty (precursor of "Heroes of Might and Magic")
-Faery Tale Adventure
-Populous
-Powermonger (although, control easier w/ the Amiga mouse than the Genesis d-pad)
-Budokan (the Amiga version was just a "dojo simulator", the Genesis version added a decent narrative)
-Might and Magic 2
-Might and Magic 3
 
PCENGINE:

Bonk!
Bomberman all the available titles (especially 94)
Raiden
R-type 1 & 2
Wonderboy in monsterland (correct title?)

NES:
Mario World 3
Super Mario Bros.
Tetris (eventhough there are so many versions, this is the one I played first when I was like 7)
Zelda 2
+Snowbros.
+Rainbow Islands (soooo cute!)
Contra
Earthbound Zero
+Iceclimber

SNES:
Actraiser
Chronotrigger
Super Mario World
Zelda 3
Terranigma
Illusion of Gaia (gets boring at the end though)
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
Seiken Densetsu 3 (translated ofcourse)
+Airstrike Patrol
Bust a Move
Breath of Fire 1&2
E.V.O.
Earthbound
Final Fantasy 3 & 5 & Mystic Quest
+Ghoul Patrol
GundamWing endless duel
Harvest Moon
Donkey Kong Country 1,2 and 3
+Pocky and Rocky 2
Soul Blazer

GENESIS:
Sonic 1-3
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic Spinball
Columns 3
Zombies
Ecco2
+Shining Force 1&2
Chuckrock

AMIGA:
+Alien Breed 1&2
Lemmings (duh!)
Cadaver
Lure of the temptress (needs keyboard!!! so no gp2x)
Dune2
Gravity Force
+Gobliiins
+Jurassic Park (this game is amazing... not at all like the snes versions. Think Alien breed but Jurassic Park!!!)
Marble Madness

AMSTRAD:
Lode runner
+Shuffle Puck Cafe
+Sokuban
Arkanoid (whatever title)
boulderdash
deflekto

These are my alltime favourites for these systems... and I could go on for Neogeo and Gameboy but that's just going to take too long and other people will want to post something, too.
I marked the ones that are not so known but that you should definately out with a + !!!
 
Atari 2600
- BMX Air Master
- Berzerk
- Pitfall! (Pitfall 2 doesn't seem to work with stella...)
- Starmaster
- Front Line
- Winter Games
- Bowling
- Adventure
- and a bunch of others... check out the ataritimes.com review section

One good thing about 2600 emulation is the roms are 2-16 kilobytes. So the 45 atari2600 roms I have on my gp2x take up a total space of ~0.35 MB. :D
 
craigix posted on Mar 23 2006 at 02:21 PM said:
It is quite amazing that someone in the UK has never heard of the Amiga before...

I suppose it depends on the age of said person.
I know when I had an Amiga, my younger cuz had a megadrive but had no intrest in my grey/yellow doorstop looking thing!
 
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Sonistar posted on Mar 23 2006 at 11:22 AM said:
Ive only been intrested in the mega drive emulator and now theres MAME and amiga(never heard of amiga b4) i was wondering if you guys could post your all time favourite Games for all the old school consoles ive never played.

*Post only the names, NO LINKS, no illegal rom links please* ^-^

Ill start off with the mega drive, all i can think of at the moment (more on my gp2x)



Mega Drive / Genesis 16 bit


Alex the Kidd
Columns
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
Ecco the Dolphin
Flicky
Mortal Kombat
Puggsy
Riistar
Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 3 & Knuckles
Streets of Rage
Vectorman 1 & 2
Zombies

NO! it is not Alex the kidd! His surname is Kidd. It's Alex kidd :(
I also prefer the master system version to the megadrive one. I just noticed somebody already pointed this out. D'oh!
 
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garteth posted on Mar 23 2006 at 05:22 PM said:
NO! it is not Alex the kidd! His surname is Kidd. It's Alex kidd :(
I also prefer the master system version to the megadrive one

Sonic arguably better on SMS too.
 
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SMS - The Ninja

Megadrive - Flashback, Strider 1+2, Kid Chameleon, Gauntlet 4, Gods

Amiga - Lombard RAC Rally, Robocop 3, Speedball 1+2, Xenon, Ikari Warriors
 
GP32Spain had a Top100 list for the most common consoles. It has been offline since the hack, but you can look at a cached version here
 
vaustein posted on Mar 23 2006 at 06:35 AM said:
-Starflight 1 (if *only* they'd ported Starflight 2 to the Genesis!)
I agree that the Genesis version of Starflight is better than the PC version (and I too wish that Starflight 2 had also been ported), but there are quite a few people who would disagree with it. The crux of their arguement is that there was a LOT changed in the process of porting, so much so that they're essentially different games.

I was also a little disappointed that destroying the Uhlek brainworld on the Genesis version did NOT stop me from being attacked by Uhleks.
 
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WrongEyedJesus posted on Mar 23 2006 at 12:24 PM said:
garteth posted on Mar 23 2006 at 05:22 PM said:
NO! it is not Alex the kidd! His surname is Kidd. It's Alex kidd :(
I also prefer the master system version to the megadrive one

Sonic arguably better on SMS too.
Gotta love jagged graphics!

- Alex
 
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craigix posted on Mar 23 2006 at 02:21 PM said:
It is quite amazing that someone in the UK has never heard of the Amiga before...

Its quite amazing that people still think the amiga which is a home computer like a PC or Mac is still labled a console..

The only rom the amiga ever had was Kick star its OS!

ah the uneducated confused youth of today!

Amiga = computer

CD32 = console (uses amiga technology)

Write out 1000 times :P
 
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