Not many people on here probably played it but the Buffy the Vampire Slayer game exclusive to OG Xbox was pretty good 3d brawler for the time. It came out in 2002.
This is after Shenmue 1/2 but 3 years before Yakuza started.
It had decent combos ,decent camera, and had a good variety of extra weapons like crossbows, a super soaker that shoot hellfire or holy water.
Except for Buffy herself,most of the characters were voiced by the show actors.
Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage (1994) SNES
Good graphics and controls and fun if straight forward.
The Looney Tunes SNES games like Daffy Duck Marvin Missions and Road Runner Death Valley Rally had slippery controls.
Virtua Cop is one of my all time favorite gun games. Unfortunately those games are virtually impossible to find in working condition in the arcade scene. And then they use some special Sega hardware so they are not compatible with standard JAMMA cabinets. I donāt even know if you can convert them to JAMMA, I would guess you can somehow though since I believe itās just different pinouts. I donāt know about the guns though if mine would work with it or not. And I know at some point Sega gun games used different technology than standard light gun. They used IR which is not compatible with the cabinet I have as itās using different tech.
As for Die Hard Arcade, I have seen quite a few of those dedicated cabinets for sale in the past few months for fairly cheap prices.
EDIT:
Just did quick google search and Virtua Cop 1 and 2 would work with my guns (same with HOTD1) however they use medium res monitor and mine is standard. Plus they are Sega Model 2 and not JAMMA and itās quite a bit of work to convert em.
Winback was great! I remember we had a blast with the 4 player deathmatch stuff, but I was also really really young so it might just be optimistic memories.
One of those gems I missed out on when I had an N64 I guess. Those games were expensive as fuck back then so I couldnāt take too many chances cuz moms wasnāt buying another for awhile lol
Running in Syphon Filter was amazing at the time where the upper body moved independently of the lower body. If you look at it now it looks hilariously bad.
That shit I read about Syphon Filter connecting to a current Gen game blew my mind. Some jackass spoiled it but I still need to play that particular game
Drill Dozer on GBA is a game Iāve only ever heard 2 or 3 people ever talk about, Pertho being one of them. This game is fucking awesome and incredibly charming.
A PSP game more people need to play is Gurumin. Itās kinda like Zelda but you play a girl with a drill spear (Drill theme so farā¦lol)
Another GBA game more people need to play is Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure. This is my favorite Dragon Ball game easily, itās very fun.
Maximo on PS2. Only real knock against it is no camera control. That causes some issues but if you can get past that itās brilliantly challenging.
Can someone remind me of the name of the game dev who committed suicide not too long ago because of the twitter accusations? My google fu is failing me.
Yeah, some of the magazines and maybe websites were initially pushing it as a Metal Gear competition on the N64. And while the story was similar featuring you playing a hero taking down terrorists in a remote location practically by yourself, it was less stealth, although there was some, and more cover based shooting. Which was surprisingly good given it was a Koei Tecmo joint and I donāt remember them doing anything like this in the N64.
