List of Arcade games for Windows (pre-Steam)

[KAI]

Just out of curiosity, I've been trying to find a good list of arcade games ported on Windows, but I haven't found a complete one so far.
This is what I've got using different sources:

Sega Rally Championship
Sega Rally 2
Sega Touring Car Championship
Daytona USA / Daytona USA Evolution
Manx TT Super Bike
Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast (Outrun 2SP)
Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi 3 - High Roller
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter 2
Last Bronx
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop 2
The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead 2
The House of the Dead 3
The Typing of the Dead
Virtua Tennis/Power Smash
Virtua Tennis 3
Sky Target
Get Bass - Sega Bass Fishing
Mr. Driller
Mr. Driller 2
Star Trigon
The King of Fighters '99 Evolution
The King of Fighters 2001 (K0)
Metal Slug 5 (K0)
Ninja Baseball Batman (K0)
Samurai Shodown 2 (JP/US)
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (JP/US)
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha 2
X-Men: Children of the Atom
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code
Guilty Gear X
Guilty Gear XX #Reload
Guilty Gear Isuka
The Tower of Druaga
Dragon Buster
The Return of Ishtar
Yokai Dochuki
Xevious
Dig Dug
Pacman
Elevator Action
Kiki Kaikai
Densha de Go! (JP)
Densha de Go! 2 (JP)
Densha de Go! 2 3000 Bandai (JP)
Densha de Go! 3 Tsuukin Hen Daiya Kaisei (JP)
RC de Go! (JP)
Psychic Force 2012 (JP)
Darius Gaiden (US)
G-Darius (JP)
Rayforce (JP/EU)
Raystorm (JP/EU)
Raycrisis (JP)
Puchi Carat
Pop'n Pop
Puzzle Bobble
Puzzle Bobble 2
Puzzle Bobble 3DX
Puzzle Bobble 4
Bubble Bobble (US)
Shikigami no Shiro EX (JP)
Shikigami no Shiro 2 (JP)
Shikigami no Shiro 3 (JP)
Raiden II (JP/US)
Raiden III
Radirgy Noa (JP)
XII Stag Limited
Puyo Puyo Tsuu '95
Puyo Puyo Sun
Puyo Puyo Fever
Tokimeki Memorial: Taisen Puzzle-Dama (JP)
Tokimeki Memorial Oshiete Your Heart (JP)
Road Blaster (JP)
Thunder Storm (JP)
In the Hunt
Vulgus
Counter-Strike Neo
Half-Life 2: Survivor
Xtom 3D

San Francisco Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition
Hydro Thunder
Maximum Force
Area 51
T-Mek
Taco Bell Atari ports (Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, and Lunar Lander)



Compilations:

Taito Legends (US/EU)
Taito Legends 2 (US/EU)
Space Invaders Anniversary (EU)
Metal Slug Collection PC (EU)
Sengoku Anthology (EU)
Metal Slug Collector's Edition (KO)
Gradius Deluxe Pack (JP)
NAMCO History Vol. 1 (JP)
NAMCO History Vol. 2 (JP)
NAMCO History Vol. 3 (JP)
NAMCO History Vol. 4 (JP)
Sega Memorial Selection (JP)

Microsoft Arcade
Revenge of Arcade
Return of Arcade
Return of Arcade 20th Anniversary
Midway Arcade Treasures
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe
Williams Arcade Classics



Hope you guys can help me if you see it's missing something.

[GaijinPunch]

[I'm an idiot]

[KAI]

Please don't tell me you made one and I completely missed it.

[cave hermit]

Typing of the dead (the original, not overkill) had a port to PC, and I recall that in Korea Ninja Baseball Batman had a PC port.

[EmperorIng]

Taito's Pop'n Pop had a Windows port, though from what I've heard it's not very desirable: cutting one or two characters and gimping some of the animation.

[copy-paster]

Taito Legends 1 and 2.

Wait, does game compilation count in here?

[WelshMegalodon]

Gradius Deluxe Pack isn't listed, so probably not. And weren't the Taito Legends releases emulation? (Except, of course, for G-Darius, which is claimed by some to be a port and others to be emulation. Wikipedia suggests a few other titles were straight ports as well.)

I thought Digital Eclipse's first Williams Arcade Classics release was a porting job, but according to this page, it's also emulation. The similarly titled Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for the SNES is a port, though. (In spite of this, Wikipedia inexplicably presents them as different releases of the same product).

[KAI]

Most of the compilation I've seen so far are Dotemu-tier ports or re-ports of PSX/PS2 games.
The Taito Legend games for example (localized by Empire Oxford) are just ports of the JP PS2 ports (the PC versions even use the same frontend from the orginal Taito Memories).
You also have things like Space Invaders Anniversary (ARC>PS2>PC), Sengoku Anthology (??>PC/PS2) or the Metal Slug compilations (Metal Slug Collection PC in Europe and Metal Slug Collector's Edition in Korea).

I could put those kind of games on a different list in you want.

[BrianC]

The Taito Legend games for example (localized by Empire Oxford) are just ports of the JP PS2 ports (the PC versions even use the same frontend from the orginal Taito Memories).

Only the PS2 version of Taito Legends 2 is based off the JP PS2 ports and uses the Memories menus (though it has some issues unique to the western versions). The PC and Xbox versions of Taito Legends 2 and all versions of Taito Legends 1 use different menus and seem to be based off MAME (they had help from one of the MAME authors).

[sikraiken]

http://www9.plala.or.jp/riversite/classic/pc1.html
This page lists some arcade games (with some console games mixed in). It's far from comprehensive. There are other Ultra series releases not on that page (Golden Axe, Bubbles Bobble, Rainbow Islands, others).

Sega Memorial Selection/Collection has Fantasy Zone, Flicky, and Pengo.

Namco History Vol. 1-4 has a few games:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ナムコヒストリー (copy/paste, [url] doesn't like the link)

[BrianC]

I'm not sure if they are the same, but stand alone ports of Fatal Fury 3 and Samurai Shodown II were released in the US at a budget price. I have them both. They were published by Interplay, if I remember correctly.

[KAI]

Only the PS2 version of Taito Legends 2 is based off the JP PS2 ports and uses the Memories menus

Got confused because of a fake dvd cover, thanks for the correction.

I'm not sure if they are the same, but stand alone ports of Fatal Fury 3 and Samurai Shodown II were released in the US at a budget price. I have them both. They were published by Interplay, if I remember correctly.

You mean these? SS2 FF3

[WelshMegalodon]

It might be worthwhile as a list of collections to avoid.

KAI, your list is missing the (poor) Windows port of Bubble Bobble that also included Rainbow Islands. (Leave it to the idiots at TVTropes to include these on a list of "arcade perfect ports", along with The Raiden Project and freaking MAME. Bunch of kids desperate to contribute anything, as usual.)

[BrianC]

You mean these? SS2 FF3

yes

[SuperDeadite]

Road Blaster and Thunder Storm (Cobra Command) have Windows ports.
They were doujin developed, but officially licensed by G-Mode.

[Gespenst]

There's PC port of RC de Go! by Cyberfront (as always).

Some western/Midway arcade Windows ports:
San Francisco Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition (which has 3dfx Glide support)
Hydro Thunder
Maximum Force
Area 51
Midway Arcade Treasures
Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe

[Mero]

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

[PC Engine Fan X!]

I recall buying a PC port of T-Mek back in the day for use with Win95 platform. A lot of fun...a typical T-Mek enviromental arcade cab had the "Cage" surround sound setup (comprising of a four speaker + subwoofer) for some serious & intense multi-player sessions indeed. The subwoofer was mounted against the player's seat for maximum audio effect/punch.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Gespenst]

Wasn't T-Mek PC port DOS though?

Add to the list:
In the Hunt (listed as Windows 95 I think)
Xtom 3D

[Obiwanshinobi]

Not seeing The House of the Dead 3 listed above yet.
Wkipedia told me once that Vulgus got released as freeware for PC and I think it was for Windows.
While I think the PC release of Ballistics predates its arcade versions, this cab has to count for something. Likewise, let us not forget about Counter-Strike Neo and Half-Life 2: Survivor, somewhat stillborn and never back-ported to PC as both might have been.

[BrianC]

There's also Microsoft Arcade (with Tempest, Battlezone, Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command) and Return of Arcade (with Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Galaxian, and Pole Position), both of which are ports. There's a 3rd pack, Revenge of Arcade (with Ms. Pac-Man, Xevious, Rally-X, Mappy, and Motos), but it seems to be emulation. Not sure if the re-release of Return of Arcade that adds Ms. Pac-Man uses the same ports as the previous version or if it's emulation like Revenge of Arcade.

edit: Found a video of the re-release of Return of Arcade, the games seem to be the same ports from the original Return of Arcade and Revenge of Arcade (Ms. Pac-Man), but the sound seems to be more off in Ms. Pac-Man. The first Microsoft Arcade is for pre-95 windows, so it might not count.

[Goompaolo9500]

So much for SEGA/AM2.
And also, I love the Puyo Puyo Part.

[Austin]

*edit:

Disregard. Would be nice if the damn list was alphabetized.

[BrianC]

There's also those Atari ports that were sold at Taco Bell (which are ports, not emulation like the Atari Anniversary collection and its variants). Asteroids, Breakout (listed as Super Breakout, but based on the original Breakout), Centipede, and Lunar Lander.

[KAI]

Updated.

Microsoft Arcade has Win compatibility according to the package

Still not sure if I should add Ballistics to the list.

[BrianC]

Microsoft Arcade has Win compatibility according to the package

You misunderstood. I didn't say it wasn't windows. I said it was pre-95 Windows. If I remember correctly, Windows 3.x games don't work with Windows versions after 98.

[Gespenst]

Metal Slug 4 has PC port too, Korean only.

Some others:
Exzeus
Crypt Killer/Henry Explorers

[Doctor Butler]

Odd that you listed the (good) port of ST, but not the (terrible) port of Vanilla SFII by legendary purveyors of trash, US Gold.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Still not sure if I should add Ballistics to the list.

Ballistics, Counter-Strike Neo and Half-Life 2: Survivor technically belong to the more exclusive club of computer-to-arcade ports (reportedly BoulderDash went there first, Tetris comes to mind second). My personal reason for namedropping it is THAT cab - so near my idea of a perfect videogaming setup. Now, if I seriously considered collecting cabs, SCUD Race would still be my most chased-after goal (then Monkey Ball), but the sight of Ballistics one appeals to me more than anything I saw out in the wild back when arcades were still up and running. (Well, mounted guns looked, admittedly, sleeker than any toy gun I'd seen bar one.)