Great Arcade Games That Never Got A Home Port
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Hey whatsup guys OSG here with a video on great arcade games that never got ported to home systems. These are the ones that immediately spring to mind but there may be others.
When I say never made it to home systems I mean the game itself not the name as some of these are available on systems but they aren’t the same
I honestly can’t believe that some of these never made it especially 2 of the racing games in this video
When I say never made it to home systems I mean the game itself not the name as some of these are available on systems but they aren’t the same
I honestly can’t believe that some of these never made it especially 2 of the racing games in this video
Anyway let’s take a look at Great arcade games that never got a home port.
Games in this video :-
Willow @ 00:38
Armed Police Batrider @ 01:23
Scud Race @ 02:08
Aliens @ 02:53
Great 1000 Miles Rally @ 03:38
Major Havoc @ 04:23
Strike Force @ 05:08
Rave Racer @ 05:58
Guardians @ 06:43
Starwars Trilogy @ 07:28
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs @ 08:13
Dolphin Blue @ 09:03
Alien Vs. Predator @ 09:53
Daytona 2 @ 10:43
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22.04.2023
Dolphin blue is good a example of what i consider pinnacle 2D non pixel art graphics. And anything beyond this, going toward more photo realistic grahpics and the charm quickly begins to drop off. So many remakes and remasters lean too heavily into utilizing 100% of the hardware for the art style but thats doesn't necessarily give the most appealing results. Doing so for the amount of content and performance of a game, YES! Art style/visuals, no.
Metal Jesus and radical reggie had a boxed copy of dolphin blue on there channel iirc
I suppose Scud Racer & Daytona 2 reflect the short shelf life of the Dreamcast, so no ports. There are some old games like Round Up, The Hand, and a game with more than one title which I think is also called: Blockbuster, all good games. Slightly later there are a several fantastic playing Sega games, before they got into the mechanical pneumatic beast machines with the 'new' sprite scalping tech. Calorie Kun Morgan; Spatter, and another game that I'll have to look up the title for. Willy Tower is a great platformer, another one with an alternate title, I think there is what I would regard as a spiritual sequel to Dig Dug, not Dig Dug 2 but by Namco that I really enjoy playing too.
I love the Star Wars Trilogy arcade game. Never been good at it, but it's super-fun and I'd definitely buy it if it came to Steam or the Switch.
Great 1000 miles rally reminds me a little bit of RC pro am, and it looks really fun
Rave Racer, one of my faves. They got drifting around corners absolutely right on that one.
Night slashers is the GOAT
Nice to see Major Havoc get a shout.
Star Wars still looks great to me. Never played Dolphin Blue, but it looked brilliant too.
Great video buddy!
Good list, but to be fair, guardians had about 6 years on final fight, plus I feel the player can relate more to final fights storyline
Throughly enjoyable video man, loved every one of those games. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧🦖
Great list, I remember playing Gang wars a lot in the arcades but never saw any ports that I know of.
Sega racers aged like wine. They have a great art direction with creative scenarios, vibrant colors and catchy cheesy music. I would gladly pay for a compilation of them with updated controls for keyboard/joypad.
Willow arcade is one of my all time favs and, like you mentioned OSG, hard as nails. I remember, at a 4 hour arcade lock-in in my youth, I gave it a solid half hour to try and beat it. Wasn’t even close.
Yeah, classic video! This is just the sort I love, absolute class!
Fantastic content as always. I’d happily pay for the content but I refuse to support Patreon or PayPal. If you ever use an alternate service like SubscribeStar I’ll happily sign up.
If you have an Amazon wishlist that might work too 🙂
Yeah pity, some top games here that would've made great ports on the right systems. Love Batrider and SW Trilogy, Daytona 2? yeah I'm one of those what thought it got ported, I'dve bet on it. Great list dude 🙂
this is 10+ examples of why i took an interest in MAME, because there are so many Arcade Games that never got a true port, or they got a port and it was abysmal.