Good JAMMA vert games? (other than shmups)

[MmSadda]

Seems to me like there weren't many vertical JAMMA games made aside from shmups after about 1989.... any of you know of any decent vert JAMMA games that're worth picking up other than shmups?

[robivy64]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fQkkmByW_A

[emphatic]

Gals Panic.

[MmSadda]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fQkkmByW_A

Gaiapolis looks pretty sweet! I'm guessing it's somewhat hard to come by?

[MmSadda]

Gals Panic.

LOL. Isn't that the dirty Breakout clone? Does that play with a joystick?

[emphatic]

Gals Panic.

LOL. Isn't that the dirty Breakout clone? Does that play with a joystick?

It's "dirty", but it's also a really fun game. You can get to see a nude girl, or if you get a bad stage clear, something "completely different".

Just look at that lovely "Wonder roulette" that's not even a roulette. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6sycfWKGg

[sven666]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fQkkmByW_A

Gaiapolis looks pretty sweet! I'm guessing it's somewhat hard to come by?

not at all, just check my sales thread in the trading forum

[jonny5]

contra
driftout

[Specineff]

OutZone?

[Dave_K.]

Gunbarich
Nirtoball
Bombjack Twin
Ghox

[robivy64]

Nirtoball

This must be the sequel to Nitroball.

[Limbrooke]

Dash Yarou/Rally Bike and Lethal/Bakuretsu Crash Race are two decent vert racing games.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Another cool tate pinball game is none other than Tecmo's Super Pinball Action PCB. Fellow shmupper Dragon1952 has mentioned that he had a hand in making it.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[neorichieb1971]

I'm offloading Bombjack Twin at the moment.

[Ed Oscuro]

A number of my favorites have been mentioned already. There's a ton of amazingly fun (imo) Konami verts not mentioned, and surprisingly I can name probably more non-shooter verts from Konami than vert shooters. Well, maybe not - a lot of games that play like verts turn out to be horiz, like GI Joe.

Contra! Super Fucking Contra! Devastators (not bad at all, gets frantic in a hurry and you actually feel you've earned the score which counts up by single digits)!

(Cheating now and loading up MAME.)

There's also Gaiapolis (two PCBs have changed hands in the Trading Section recently), Gang Busters, Jackal (though you could vote for it in this year's Top 25), plus some others that should be very close to JAMMA compatible that are fun, like Juno First and Mega Zone.

SNK's classic rotary games might all be JAMMA compatible or very close - TNK III, SAR - Search and Rescue, the Ikari series, Guerrilla War.

From Taito, probably all the Arkanoid games, the newer Space Invaders revisions (including Super SI '91, '95, also I expect the 1985 game is close to JAMMA), Kiki Kaikai.

Capcom - LED / Mad Gear and The Speed Rumbler to name just two. Mercs makes three! Son Son is great fun (no rhyme intended) but should need an adapter at least.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Theres always shock troopers 1 and 2 (1 is best) which is a vert run and gun (i know some ppl will class it as a shmup, but others wont)

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Theres always shock troopers 1 and 2 (1 is best) which is a vert run and gun (i know some ppl will class it as a shmup, but others wont)

Incorrect. These are both on the NEO-GEO that is horizontal.

[BIL]

Son Son is great fun (no rhyme intended) but should need an adapter at least.

Isn't SonSon horizontal?

And yep, great little game.

[JoshF]

Vandyke

[Ed Oscuro]

Son Son is great fun (no rhyme intended) but should need an adapter at least.

Isn't SonSon horizontal?

And yep, great little game.

Doh, you're right. I'd forgotten. It would have worked almost as well as a vert, I suppose. Better as a hori though.