Good old school games [+8 rep]

[Blinger1]

Hey everyone,

I'm looking into building an arcade cabinet (it'll be like the minimame cabinet) but I need some good old school games to play. The cabinet will have (haven't decided whether it is 1 or 2 players yet) atleast 1 joystick and 6 buttons per person.

So I will need some suggestions for games, I was thinking of having these emulators: NES, SNES, Neo Geo, MAME, Sega Mega Drive, Turbo Grafx 16 and Atari so a bit of everything really. I may even include GBA roms as well if I want to play those.

P.S, I am serious about this.

+rep to all ideas.

[Black_Apalachi]

what are you making an arcade machine?

[Blinger1]

Yes... But it'll also have other emulators...

[PaulMacC]

NES
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros II
Super Mario Bros III
Kirby's Adventure
Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda II
Battletoads
Double Dragon
Contra
Final Fantasy
Megaman 1-5
Punch Out!
Metroid

SNES
Super Mario All Stars (Inc. World)
Final Fantasy II (4 in Japan at the time)
Final Fantasy III (6 in Japan at the time)
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario Kart
Super Contra
Earthworm Jim
F-Zero
Megaman 6-8
Super Punch Out!
Donkey Kong Country 1-3
Megaman X
Super Metroid
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Castlevania IV

MegaDrive
Sonic 1-3
Sonic & Knuckles
Toejam & Earl
Ristar
Streets of Rage 1-3
Golden Axe
Phantasy Star II
Comix Zone
Gunstar Heroes
Vectorman I and II

[Blinger1]

Thanks Paul. I've +repped you

[Hiro]

SNES:
Star Fox

Mega Drive:
Road Rash

[Jam]

Donkey Kong & Pac-Man.

[FlyingJesus]

The biggest problem is "old school" doesn't by any means correlate with "good" There are really only a few that are still fun to play for more than the 5 minutes of nostalgia.

Mario games and Kirby games if you can be bothered can still be fun, there's a version of one of the Marios that's sped up 50% or something like that - my friend bought a load of ancient consoles and games and managed to get hold of that version, and it's more fun because it doesn't plod along so much as a lot of others do. That's for NES/SNES anyway, and get Duck Hunt if you get a gun for it because that can be a laugh.
For the others I only really know Megadrive, for which you will want Micro Machines (hell yeah) and Streets of Rage 2&3. 1 is kinda crap imo and you don't need to know the story of it for the others really. Earthworm Jim can be good as a platformer and comes on a few of the consoles as far as I know, I had it on Megadrive.

[crazed]

NES
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros II
Super Mario Bros III
Kirby's Adventure
Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda II
Battletoads
Double Dragon
Contra
Final Fantasy
Megaman 1-6
Punch Out!
Metroid

SNES
Super Mario All Stars (Inc. World)
Final Fantasy II (4 in Japan at the time)
Final Fantasy III (6 in Japan at the time)
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario Kart
Super Contra
Earthworm Jim
F-Zero
Megaman 6-8
Super Punch Out!
Donkey Kong Country 1-3
Megaman X
Super Metroid
Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past
Castlevania IV

MegaDrive
Sonic 1-3
Sonic & Knuckles
Toejam & Earl
Ristar
Streets of Rage 1-3
Golden Axe
Phantasy Star II
Comix Zone
Gunstar Heroes
Vectorman I and II

Sums it all up really.

Oh wait, Duck hunt for nes, I loved that game, um, excitebike, donkey kong, ice climber, pac man,

[Blinger1]

Thank you everyone, i've downloaded Pauls suggestions, and I'll get duckhunt, pacman (i think i have one already?) and a few of the others you guys suggested.

+rep