3 arcade games you'd love to see on the Turbo/PCE?

[Dicer]

I was thinking and I wondered what 3 games I'd want on our beloved machine if given the chance to make them a reality.

So, here are mine

Gunsmoke - I put so many quarters into this machine as a kid, and I think it would make a good fit
Black Tiger - Why? Because it's fucking Black Tiger, that's why...
Rolling Thunder, another stealer of my quarters back in the day

Honorable mentions:
Gyruss, take a TG/PCE shooter and make it have a baby with Tempest...and Gyruss is born
Punch Out, arcade punch out...none of this mike tyson nonsense.
Simpsons/TMNT/Xmen aka any multi Konami arcade machine, put that tap to use...

[Otaking]

Off the top of my head

konami TMNT

Last Resort

Viewpoint

might edit and change them

[synbiosfan]

Damn, the system covers a shit ton as it is...

But

Eagle/Moon Cresta/another name I'm forgetting

Ghouls and Ghosts

Asteroids

[bob]

arcade version of ninja gaiden
cabal
a light gun

[esteban]

Mega Zone (Konami) @ forgotten @under-appreciated @ice-rink @fell in love with vertz shooterz

Time Soldiers (SNK) @forgotten @under-appreciated @deli-down-the-block @will never happen because you need dual rotating joysticks

Karnov (Data East) @you want to use all the items you acquire @this is the only Karnov @Famicom/NES port is fantastic, so PCE version should be MAGNIFICENT.

[Otaking]

Ghouls and Ghosts

We got this game, if we hadn't it would definitely of been on my list of top 3 wanted arcade ports we never got.

[Sadler]

TMNT for sure. A turtles game on the PCE would have been so awesome!

Metal Slug. We got some SNK games, but this would have been awesome.

I'm torn in a third choice. T2 with a light gun or maybe mouse support might have been cool. SmashTV would be cool as well.

[SuperDeadite]

Mega Zone (Konami) @ forgotten @under-appreciated @ice-rink @fell in love with vertz shooterz

Time Soldiers (SNK) @forgotten @under-appreciated @deli-down-the-block @will never happen because you need dual rotating joysticks

Karnov (Data East) @you want to use all the items you acquire @this is the only Karnov @Famicom/NES port is fantastic, so PCE version should be MAGNIFICENT.

As an owner of a Battlefield (Time Soliders) pcb, I must say I really don't care for it.  Some good idea, but really flawed execution.  And it's actually an ADK, not SNK game.  However a proper PCE port of Ikari and Victory Road would be pretty damn sweet.

[esteban]

Mega Zone (Konami) @ forgotten @under-appreciated @ice-rink @fell in love with vertz shooterz

Time Soldiers (SNK) @forgotten @under-appreciated @deli-down-the-block @will never happen because you need dual rotating joysticks

Karnov (Data East) @you want to use all the items you acquire @this is the only Karnov @Famicom/NES port is fantastic, so PCE version should be MAGNIFICENT.

As an owner of a Battlefield (Time Soliders) pcb, I must say I really don't care for it.  Some good idea, but really flawed execution.  And it's actually an ADK, not SNK game.  However a proper PCE port of Ikari and Victory Road would be pretty damn sweet.

Wow, it was ADK? My memory sucks. I could have sworn it was SNK.

I haven't really played (arcade cab) since....1988? It was at the local deli...it was a blast to play.

Here's want I liked:

Constant action
Constant changing stages/themes (time periods)
Sweet controls (nicely executed)
Blasting the crap out of everything on the screen, from all directions, was great!

I played with friends frequently, which was really nice (yet another way to enjoy the game...a really nice co-op experience)

Characters moved faster and unloaded weapons faster than Ikari Warriors (another game we played all the time), so Time Soldiers was like MS PAC MAN to Ikari Warriors' PAC MAN (if you get the analogy).

I haven't played arcade Victory Road in a long time (I have NES port)...but I really enjoyed it, too. However, I still maintain that Time Soldoers had a swifter (and dare I say more satisfying!?) feel and flow to it.

Ikari Warrior + Victory Road are great, but the pacing is very different. I appreciate deliberate and controlled pacing...but sometimes you just want adrenaline rush (Time Warriors was released at a time when most of its kin were slower/plodding).

This is why I love Gun.Smoke...swift, solid game. Really refreshing when it came out, and holds up well, even in 2016.

[ToyMachine78]

arcade version of ninja gaiden
cabal
a light gun

I remember being so let down that the nes port of ninja gaiden was a completely different game and not a beat em up. I loved the arcade game. Played the hell out of it at sportlanes bowling alley.

Now that I'm older, and after revisiting both after years of playing them, I realize what a fantastic game the console port is, and I prefer it.

My three:

Double Dragon 1
Robocop
MERCS

[Otaking]

A better port of Strider would of been amazing, I friggin' love that game.
I want that awesome Super Grafx port we were promised.

Also I remember reading in early 1993 that Konami were working on a Turtles game for the PC Engine. I've always wondered whether it was an arcade port or original game and how far it was developed.

[Digi.k]

Ghost and Goblins
final Fight
Any konami multi player beat em up!

NEC should have dugged in their pockets for a Super Street Fighter II X port

[geise]

Samurai Showdown 1 ACD
Final Fight

Like Otaking said, a better port of Strider.

We got Parasol Stars but I would've loved to see Bubble Bobble.

...and I found this.  Was this ever posted?
PC Engine - Bubble Bobble WIP 20141116

EDIT:  Well I'm slow as balls and live 5 Trillion miles under a rock.  Don't worry.  I won't poke the sleeping bear about this, but now a ton of others probably will. 

[TheClash603]

Because I love light gun games...
Lucky & Wild
Chiller

Because I like multi-player games:
Sunset Riders
Off Road

Yeah I gave 4, so what?

[PukeSter]

Shaolin Road
Goemon
Bonk Arcade

[csgx1]

Would have loved to seen more beat'em ups and run 'n guns.

Final Fight
TMNT
Contra

[SignOfZeta]

Heavy Barrel (with rotating stick which leads to version of Ikari and Victory Road as well).

Arcade version of Ninja Gaiden

Ivan Stewart's Off Road (is there resolution for this?).

You know, I was a HUGE fan of Victory Road back in the day but that game just isn't fun for me anymore. I still love Combat, Space Invaders, Carnival, Pong, whatever. Victory Road is maybe the first game to become "dated" to me. At the time the allure of Victory Road was that it played the same as the first game and it was weird as fuck. Maybe I just need to focus on the weird.

[DeshDildo]

I want to say Contra but I really don't care for the arcade version.

1. Sunset Riders
2. TMNT
3. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (the arcade game not the SEGA CD "sequel".

Basically, any decent run and guns or beat em ups would be awesome as those are both genre's turbo/pce is light in.

[neopolss]

I agree with CrackTiger.  Its apprpriate for the time frame and didnt see a proper home version.  My other choices would be 1943 (hated the nes version and not a fan of kai) and escape from the planet of the robot monsters (atari 1989).  I loved ataris hardware at that time, including the awesome Toobin!

[HailingTheThings]

Little Nemo (Capcom)
Bucky O'Hare (Konami)
Sunset Riders("  ") - Or - Cowboys of Moo Mesa (" ")

[Arkhan Asylum]

Legend of Kage, Gun.Smoke, and maybe like, Magician Lord or something.

[cr8zykuban0]

i would choose
lightning fighters
final fight
mortal kombat

[deubeul]

- KOF 94 or 95
- Dragon Ninja
- Secret Agent

And Snow Bros, Cabal, a complete version of Shinobi...

[SuperDeadite]

Heavy Barrel (with rotating stick which leads to version of Ikari and Victory Road as well).

Arcade version of Ninja Gaiden

Ivan Stewart's Off Road (is there resolution for this?).

You know, I was a HUGE fan of Victory Road back in the day but that game just isn't fun for me anymore. I still love Combat, Space Invaders, Carnival, Pong, whatever. Victory Road is maybe the first game to become "dated" to me. At the time the allure of Victory Road was that it played the same as the first game and it was weird as fuck. Maybe I just need to focus on the weird.

For me the biggest draw of Victory Road is the sheer destruction in the game, pretty much everything blows up.  You can go around the mountains, or blast your way through them.  However the game is all about the sword.  Once you reach the sword, it becomes a very intense game, as you are absolutely fucked without it.

Heavy Barrel is also still fantastic, for roto games, I think SAR: Search and Rescue is easily the best of the genre, but it came out well after the MVS, so it was a rather rare game.  I had never heard of it until just a few years ago, and is the main reason I started to collect roto-game pcbs.

[NecroPhile]

Basically, any decent run and guns or beat em ups would be awesome as those are both genre's turbo/pce is light in.

This.

I'd also love a nice Tetris port.

[Dicer]

Legend of Kage, Gun.Smoke, and maybe like, Magician Lord or something.

Make it happen cap'n...

[synbiosfan]

Ghouls and Ghosts

We got this game, if we hadn't it would definitely of been on my list of top 3 wanted arcade ports we never got.

We got that one obviously.  I meant Ghosts and Goblins.

I wish this was the first time I got the two names confused. 

[Otaking]

Ghouls and Ghosts

We got this game, if we hadn't it would definitely of been on my list of top 3 wanted arcade ports we never got.

We got that one obviously.  I meant Ghosts and Goblins.

You mean you got the games mixed up???
You said Ghouls and Ghosts not Ghosts 'n Goblins, they're different games, if you had said you wanted Ghosts 'n Goblins I wouldn't have made that comment.

[synbiosfan]

Yeah, I screwed up..

What's worse is Ghouls and Ghosts is one of the 3 Supergrafx games I own, lol.

[geise]

LOL.  It happens.  At least you own a fantastic game.

[wildfruit]

TMNT
Daytona USA
Dance Dance Revolution

[TheClash603]

TMNT
Daytona USA
Dance Dance Revolution

I never knew I wanted TG16 DDR, until now.

[CrackTiger]

Rhythm games would be good for the 512 pixel wide mode.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Magician Lord ACD
WWF Superstars
Blood Storm

[SignOfZeta]

Pulstar!!!!

I just thought of that. Can someone do some rough math to figure out how possible that would be? Arcade Card required of course.

[Arkhan Asylum]

it's possible.  You'd probably lose some of the layered stuff in favor of keeping all of the high-frame count animated sprites and shit, though.


Not all of the levels had layering anyways, IIRC. 

[HailingTheThings]

Magician Lord ACD
WWF Superstars
Blood Storm

The Time Killers sequel/spin-off/spiritual successor?

[PunkCryborg]

Dragon Breed
X-Multiply
Mutant Night

[Groover]

Willow
TMNT
Contra

[TheClash603]

I have a $500 bounty up for the first guy to code an accurate Primal Rage 2 port.

[esteban]

I have a $500 bounty up for the first guy to code an accurate Primal Rage 2 port.

Nooooooooooo!

I'll pay $1,000 not to port that game.

Disclaimer: If I have ever played Primal Rage, I certainly don't remember doing so. Is this a Paleozoic Fighter?

[SuperDeadite]

Armed Police Unit Gallop

[WoodyXP]

1. NARC
2. Smash TV
3. Roadblasters

[TheClash603]

I have a $500 bounty up for the first guy to code an accurate Primal Rage 2 port.

Nooooooooooo!

I'll pay $1,000 not to port that game.

Disclaimer: If I have ever played Primal Rage, I certainly don't remember doing so. Is this a Paleozoic Fighter?

Primal Rage is a pretty good fighter that had a fairly odd control style.  Primal Rage 2 is an unreleased arcade game that only two exist, one of which is at Galloping Ghost.  I really enjoyed the little bit I played and NOW DEMAND A PORT.

[WoodyXP]

I'd also like to add Golden Axe.  A proper port of the game would be most excellent.

[geise]

2. Smash TV

Holy Shit Yes!
Might only work control wise with a 6ave pad.  ACD version would probably work great.

[GaijinD]

2. Smash TV

Holy Shit Yes!
Might only work control wise with a 6ave pad.  ACD version would probably work great.

The NES and SNES version had an option to use two controllers together to simulate the twin stick setup, so you could do it that way.

As far as not requiring anything but one standard pad, maybe when you press the button you fire in the direction you're facing, and continue firing in that direction as long as you hold the button down. Not ideal, but probably workable.

[Enternal]

Of all the arcade games that I enjoyed there are two games that I felt empty about what we had for ports.

Shinobi
Ninja Gaiden
Rastan Saga

While I was exposed to subpar ports like Final Fight snes even if I was in denial up until I opened it on Christmas morning that it was just single player. At least passable options existed on the Sega CD. The PCE Shinobi while the best port of the time is still lacking a little too much. Same with Rastan Saga, and while Ninja Gaiden on the nes is my favorite nes game, The arcade game was always what I wanted to play as a kid.

[SignOfZeta]

Final Fight isn't even that good in the arcade. Big sprites, whoopie.

[Dicer]

I'd also like to add Golden Axe.  A proper port of the game would be most excellent.

There was a project some time ago, but it's been ages since anything has been mentioned...