Originally posted by: Tulpa
Originally posted by: DefaultGen
Arcade games with weird controllers or necessary cabinets for the experience. Paperboy, 720, Hard Drivin', Tron, most rhythm games. Most of them only live on in collector's basements and home versions can never give you the same experience.
The original After Burner with the tilting sit-down cab springs to mind.
Time Traveler's holographic effects would be another.
Hard to think of any standard arcade game with normal controls that can't be played on Mame, or a console game that can't be emulated somehow.
Time Traveler is a great example.
In terms of "standard games with normal controls"... it stretches the definition a LITTLE BIT, but 6-player XMen was one of the most memorable arcade gaming experiences of the early 90's.
Playing that game shoulder-to-shoulder with 5 other people is NOT the same experience as playing the same game sitting in your living room.
And having played the port/remaster of the Capcom AD&D arcade games, those were also both a much more novel experience on 4-player large screen showpiece cabinets.