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    Default Cursor gun-shooty "Cabal clones" - a list?

    Finally got around to digging through the games included on this Pandora's Box multi-game arcade board. Managed to find a bunch of really fun games that I had never even heard of or tried before. Among them were several in the "Cabal clones" genre, crosshair driven shooters where you control both your character and the aiming reticule at the same time. In the past I had played some of the more well known titles in this genre like Wild Guns for SNES or Nam '75 for Neo Geo, but through this I discovered some cool obscure entries like Pirates, Spinal Breakers, and Riot.

    This is a very niche genre and the amount of games made in this style isn't very many. I poked around online a bit to see if I could find a definitive list of games like this but couldn't really find anything comprehensive. Just in case there's an awesome one I'm missing out on, would you fine chaps care to chime in with some titles? Those I can think of off the top of my head are:

    Arcade - Cabal, Blood Brothers, Riot, Spinal Breakers, Pirates, Devastators, GI Joe, NAM '75, SWAT

    Genesis - Dynamite Duke (which I think is kind of stretching it)

    SMS - Double Hawk

    NES - Punisher

    SNES - Wild Guns... and that's it?

    I found the SWAT Korean arcade game interesting. The gameplay and enemy placement is very uninspired and unpolished. The fact it's cobbled together with blatently stolen assets from Neo Geo games made it worth a play through just to see what games everthing was ripped from.

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    On SNES, there is The Great Battle V (Japanese). Although I hear it's only part shooter and there's a side-scroller portion as well.

    (The Great Battle series was an anime robots license franchise, with different games in the franchise in different genres. The first was a top-down run-and-shoot, I think the second and definitely the third were beat-em-ups and the fourth was a side-scroller)

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    When I get a chance, I'll dig through my games to see if I can scrounge up any more than your list contains. These games are favorites of mine, and occupy a similar space in my mind as rail shooters like Panzer Dragoon and such.

    I'd question Devastators over Dynamite Duke, though. There's no controllable cursor in Devastators; only the one that automatically shows up on a viable rocket target.

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    I'd question Devastators over Dynamite Duke, though. There's no controllable cursor in Devastators; only the one that automatically shows up on a viable rocket target.
    You're exactly right. I completely forgot the whole thing is based on pressing up to walk forward into the level, which was the same as GI Joe AFAIK.

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    GI joe did have the cursors for everything, so I think it still fits. I've been hunting for a pcb for that one for ages.

    I did think of a couple more arcade games. Hard Times, which is straight up Cabal clone, and arcade Rambo III.

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