First Tate Game

[DialKnight]

What's the first game that made you flip your screen at home?
Started off Radio Allergy on a flat screen, game over. Best option ever.

[KAI]

Ibara, I still have pics of those times, oh, such great times. rip that tv

[BulletMagnet]

Dodonpachi for the Saturn, on a Commodore monitor.

[Special World]

Mushi Futari. Absolutely glorious. I would lay right up to the TV on the floor and the colors would just flood my field of vision.

[Austin]

Galactic Attack (Layer Section) for the Saturn, on a Commodore monitor. It was awesome but the monitor didn't like it very much.

[trap15]

Raiden II, the first PCB I ever bought. No way to play it without tate like that, so... on the side it goes

[LordHypnos]

Dreamcast Gunbird 2. Everything else felt cheap as fuck. lol.

[mycophobia]

DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou for PS2, like ten years ago. I kinda fucked up my TV a little bit doing it though lol.

[Mark_MSX]

I also flipped my first crt playing the ps2 version of Daioujou. It's funny because at first I thought it was the Tate setting that was changing the color on my tv. Fun fact, if you flip over your monitor and turn it off and then back on, it will often correct the colors.

[Square_Air]

Batsugun. It blew my mind. It blew all my friend's minds too.
I've damaged the wall in my room from propping up my monitor against it over the years.
It was always worth it.

[Xyga]

I'm impressed you guys actually remember. Ugh I feel old for not being able to.

I think my first time must have been sometime in the 90's and maybe only once, I don't know for what game but I have vague memories of my stepbro wanting to do that and I was freaking out that we'd break the TV.

Then nothing until the early 2000's when I caught the shmups fever, and there I can't tell you which was the first machine and game I tated.
EDIT: most likely something available from the DC/PS1-PS2/MAME trio. Saturn and arcade boards came a bit later for me.

[5pectre]

First time I tipped my CRT on the side was with Under Defeat on Dreamcast

[Obiwanshinobi]

Raiden III on PC, as well as MAME stuff (I'm not sure which was technically first).

I also flipped my first crt playing the ps2 version of Daioujou. It's funny because at first I thought it was the Tate setting that was changing the color on my tv. Fun fact, if you flip over your monitor and turn it off and then back on, it will often correct the colors.

Nearly every monitor and TV that I'd used offers the "degauss" option, which usually corrects them immediately. Not a reason to flip one while switched on, of course.

[Perikles]

Still haven't done it - the CRT is too massive for such a stunt, my dinky monitor doesn't support it. Starting to wonder whether that (partially) influences my ineptitude at all things Cave and Psikyo.

[z0mbie90]

Dodonpachi, I remember all my friends that came over to game from time to time asked why I had one of the TV's on the side

[Jeneki]

PS1 Raiden Project. That giant warning screen did not scare me, nor did setting the joystick sideways cause the controls didn't rotate (this was far before the gameshark code).

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

Ikaruga, the wife thought I was mental.

[FRO]

Still haven't done it - the CRT is too massive for such a stunt, my dinky monitor doesn't support it. Starting to wonder whether that (partially) influences my ineptitude at all things Cave and Psikyo.

Same here. All my CRT's I've had have been too big and/or rounded to attempt it. I have a projector now, however, that can rotate the display 90 degrees to put it into a portrait kind of mode, so I might try that. I did that years ago with my Saturn and a projector at my old job, and played a little Galactic Attack that way, but now that I own one, I'll have a much better opportunity to try it.

[davyK]

Layer Section on Saturn with my 25" Panasonic CRT.

Blew.
My.
Mind.


I always make sure the TV has been powered off for some time before rotating it. I read about doing this on a forum thread a long time ago. Haven't had any colour issues doing that.


Saturn DoDonPachi really benefits from TATE. It looks quite ugly otherwise. It's the only way I'll play that game.

[copy-paster]

Can't remember which one, Battle Garegga or Batsugun was my first tate mode.

[DialKnight]

Largest I've gone is 25" wega it's a chore and delight. Got 14" diamond scan from '87 and rigged that tate. Some of the old genesis manuals say it's the perfect size, wish that system had tate shooters.

[Kollision]

This:



20 inch TV set

[Klatrymadon]

Rayforce on the Saturn. I was at university and living with some other students at the time, with friends coming and going etc, so I had the same conversation about what the hell I was doing to the telly almost every day for a year.

[monouchi]

DOJ ps2 on a 29 crt, had to pile up books behind it to not make it fall.

[RockDF]

Mine was Strikers 1945 II, on PS1.

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[Herr Schatten]

I can't remeber exactly. It was either Layer Section or DonPachi, both on Saturn.

[M.Knight]

Karous and Shikigami no Shiro 3 were my first TATE'd shmups.

Still haven't done it - the CRT is too massive for such a stunt, my dinky monitor doesn't support it. Starting to wonder whether that (partially) influences my ineptitude at all things Cave and Psikyo.

I remember the big difference TATE made when I played ESP Ra.De. Some of the Stage 3 park helicopter's patterns looked very difficult to weave through so I unsuccessfully macro-dodged a lot more. With TATE, I felt much more comfortable moving between the bullets in some of those attacks and the boss seemed a lot more manageable.

[OmegaFlareX]

This:



20 inch TV set

This is me as well, but Saturn instead of PS1. Saturn DonPachi's yoko modes sucked ass so this was pretty much mandatory. Eventually I got one of those little Amiga RGB monitors and just left it on its side all the time.

[GaijinPunch]

ESPGaluda PS2

Not too long after that I told the then wife the new policy: "If the TV is on it's side, don't talk to me."

[Shelcoof]

ESPGaluda PS2

Not too long after that I told the then wife the new policy: "If the TV is on it's side, don't talk to me."

LMAFO

I can't remember too well but I think it was Under Defeat on the Dreamcast

Till this day playing Under Defeat HD on the PS3 just doesn't feel the same for some reason.
I don't know what it is but the game just feels completely different to the Dreamcast original.