gsealock
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Bad Dudes and Bosconian.
What is your most underrated arcade game of all time?
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turbosub2005
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Bank Panic
Hey nice call.. Someone turned me onto this game about a year ago... grabbed a Bank Panic PCB with jamma adapter from Anthony at QuarterArcade.. Haven't had much time to play, but the game looks like a lot of fun 
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TheBasement
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Xevious. I love it. More enemies and different scrolling backgrounds than Galaga. Infectious background music, used in the TV game show Starcade.
Tornadoboy
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I don't know if I'd call it THE underrated game, but Victory by Exidy is very underappreciated.
Arcade74
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Arm Wrestling
RyanRM
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Gravitar, I was just introduced at the Ca extreme.
Arcadenut
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Ambush , would rate as underated , forgotten ,
And at the time , everyone was trying to jiggle the plane down the runway , that was the thing , to be better at launching it than anyone else ,,,,
And what an odd game that is
JamesJH
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Space Dungeon! If played by collecting the jewels (as the instructions indicate) it is a pretty lame game but if played to "visit each room" then it is a fantastic game!
I vote for Rastan. Still trying to figure out how to add this, and Blood Brothers to my collection. I loved these two simple games.
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Kangaroo
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Jumping Jack
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Jumping Jack
Mine is Tin Star! I think it gets overshadowed by Front Line and Wild Western....
CanesFan
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Time Pilot
Mr Do!
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Mr Do!
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MasterFygar
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Tower of Druaga.
It was a huge hit in Japan... but never got a proper release here. The console ports were popular enough to give it a bad rap for no reason. 'You move too slow' is the main reason, usually from people who never got good enough to get to Level 2 and get the speed boots that make the game more than twice as fast! Others complain that it's too hard because you have to do unspecified tasks to make items you need appear... but the game was that way so when it came out and was a hit in Japan, the player base would work together to figure out how to get further into the game. Plus, since a month or so after it came out, there have been countless guides that detail how to get the items, and can be found for free online (more recent ports have them built in). The last beef people have with it is that it's too hard. Oh, boo hoo, I let myself get cornered by the wizards and they zapped me. Oh, boo hoo, I made a mistake and got warped back to the start.
...okay, I admit, a game that is willing to send you back 45 levels if you don't solve an invisible puzzle correctly IS pretty sadistic, but that's what I love about it. It has an end, and true progression, with new stuff happening as you go deeper, but it's difficult enough that very few make it to the end and nobody does it easily. If you clear a floor, you EARN it, and the difficulty of the game makes it one of the most rewarding there is. A friend and I have been going back and forth on scores with the DS port for years now. It's a brutal, sadistic, punishing game... and if you let yourself get good enough at it to play it, there's nothing else like it. I say anyone who hates it just isn't very good at it
It was a huge hit in Japan... but never got a proper release here. The console ports were popular enough to give it a bad rap for no reason. 'You move too slow' is the main reason, usually from people who never got good enough to get to Level 2 and get the speed boots that make the game more than twice as fast! Others complain that it's too hard because you have to do unspecified tasks to make items you need appear... but the game was that way so when it came out and was a hit in Japan, the player base would work together to figure out how to get further into the game. Plus, since a month or so after it came out, there have been countless guides that detail how to get the items, and can be found for free online (more recent ports have them built in). The last beef people have with it is that it's too hard. Oh, boo hoo, I let myself get cornered by the wizards and they zapped me. Oh, boo hoo, I made a mistake and got warped back to the start.
...okay, I admit, a game that is willing to send you back 45 levels if you don't solve an invisible puzzle correctly IS pretty sadistic, but that's what I love about it. It has an end, and true progression, with new stuff happening as you go deeper, but it's difficult enough that very few make it to the end and nobody does it easily. If you clear a floor, you EARN it, and the difficulty of the game makes it one of the most rewarding there is. A friend and I have been going back and forth on scores with the DS port for years now. It's a brutal, sadistic, punishing game... and if you let yourself get good enough at it to play it, there's nothing else like it. I say anyone who hates it just isn't very good at it
Xevious had 3 sequels and was included in a Namco multi-board. With that much success, does it qualify as under rated?
Someone else named Mr. Do. Same situation!
Radiac
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Spikeout.
It was not released in the USA, which is a real shame. It was Sega's take on the side-scrolling beat-em-up. They did it in full 3-D with the ability to link cabinets for up to four player mayhem. The graphics were really advanced for the time, and the game made use of Sega's digital sound board for great music. Awesome game.
It was not released in the USA, which is a real shame. It was Sega's take on the side-scrolling beat-em-up. They did it in full 3-D with the ability to link cabinets for up to four player mayhem. The graphics were really advanced for the time, and the game made use of Sega's digital sound board for great music. Awesome game.
