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Nice. This makes me want to play a number of games as the bad guy.

dgently7 18d ago
agree there are probably a bunch that would be fun. packman, play as a ghost and need to multi task to get all the ghosts in a spot to trap pacman donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.
- razorbeamz 18d ago
  Nintendo and Namco made a multiplayer Pac-Man for GameCube where three players play as ghosts on Game Boy Advances and can see the whole map, while one player plays as Pac-Man with a limited view.
itomato 18d ago
Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”
appplication 18d ago
Space invaders but you’re the invaders would be fun. And I have to assume it’s already been done. On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.
- invader 18d ago
  Yes, like Destroy All Humans, Alien Hominid... Not arcades, though.
- Steve16384 18d ago
  I created a reverse Space Invaders a few months ago, but I struggled to get it to be a fun game as you just move left and right avoiding the players bullets. (I'd post a gif, but it looks exactly like Space Invaders to watch).
pmontra 18d ago
The Wizard of Yendor.
- fho 18d ago
  Rogue Like Celebration is _now_. Great video coverage on YouTube
thih9 18d ago
You likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.
dguest 18d ago
Sim City: you're the disasters.
- dguest 18d ago
  Sim City was already a "you are the bad guys" game! The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it. So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims". [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay
  - philipallstar 18d ago
    > Creative Computing in 1984 said that the game "push[es] the animation capabilities of the Commodore 64 to their very limits". The magazine concluded that it would become "one of the all-time great computer games". Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
    - dguest 18d ago
      There's still plenty of time for a successor!
    - egypturnash 18d ago
      Smooth full-screen scrolling on the c64 was hard. In the years since 1984 people discovered ways to use unintended behavior in the c64's video chips to move a lot more of the screen around seamlessly, but ROBB's fast omnidirectional scrolling was pretty slick for a game from the same year the c64 came out. Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
- kwarcode 17d ago
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fainpul 18d ago
CARRION - a reverse horror game https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/
- RobotToaster 18d ago
  DRM free (and cheaper) on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion
latexr 18d ago
I second (from another comment) the suggestion for CARRION. Think of it like those 80’s movies where an amorphous creature is captured/created and stuck in a lab. You play as the creature, trying to get out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one. https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.
RobotToaster 18d ago
In board games there's "kill doctor lucky" which is reverse cluedo/clue.
doctorhandshake 18d ago
Crawl is a great one. Rouguelike where when you die you inhabit the dungeon.

agree there are probably a bunch that would be fun. packman, play as a ghost and need to multi task to get all the ghosts in a spot to trap pacman donkey kong, play as donkey and try to time barrel throws to hit mario galaga, play as the fleet, control left right of the whole fleet and have the 3-4 different "attacks" you could send out.

razorbeamz 18d ago
Nintendo and Namco made a multiplayer Pac-Man for GameCube where three players play as ghosts on Game Boy Advances and can see the whole map, while one player plays as Pac-Man with a limited view.

itomato 18d ago

Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”

appplication 18d ago

Space invaders but you’re the invaders would be fun. And I have to assume it’s already been done. On a different note, Rampage was a great game where you’re the bad guy. I had a blast playing this as a kid.

invader 18d ago
Yes, like Destroy All Humans, Alien Hominid... Not arcades, though.
Steve16384 18d ago
I created a reverse Space Invaders a few months ago, but I struggled to get it to be a fun game as you just move left and right avoiding the players bullets. (I'd post a gif, but it looks exactly like Space Invaders to watch).

pmontra 18d ago

The Wizard of Yendor.

fho 18d ago
Rogue Like Celebration is _now_. Great video coverage on YouTube

thih9 18d ago

You likely know this but in case not: Dungeon Keeper series.

dguest 18d ago

Sim City: you're the disasters.

dguest 18d ago
Sim City was already a "you are the bad guys" game! The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so much fun developing the civilization that he decided to make a game of it. So maybe we just need a "Raid on Bungling Bay Redux: Massacre of The Sims". [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Bungeling_Bay
- philipallstar 18d ago
  > Creative Computing in 1984 said that the game "push[es] the animation capabilities of the Commodore 64 to their very limits". The magazine concluded that it would become "one of the all-time great computer games". Gaming journalism didn't only recently become ridiculous, it turns out.
  - dguest 18d ago
    There's still plenty of time for a successor!
  - egypturnash 18d ago
    Smooth full-screen scrolling on the c64 was hard. In the years since 1984 people discovered ways to use unintended behavior in the c64's video chips to move a lot more of the screen around seamlessly, but ROBB's fast omnidirectional scrolling was pretty slick for a game from the same year the c64 came out. Raid Over Bungelling Bay grew into Sim City, which had remakes over two decades and spawned an entire genre of "city builders", I think there is indeed an argument that it became an "all-time great".
kwarcode 17d ago
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fainpul 18d ago

CARRION - a reverse horror game https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/

RobotToaster 18d ago
DRM free (and cheaper) on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion

latexr 18d ago

I second (from another comment) the suggestion for CARRION. Think of it like those 80’s movies where an amorphous creature is captured/created and stuck in a lab. You play as the creature, trying to get out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/953490/CARRION/ Also, not exactly playing as the bad guy but Enemy Mind is a fun tangential concept where instead of having your own ammo and life, you’re constantly possessing enemy ships and using their resources, before discarding them for the next one. https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ Coincidentally it’s now with 60% discount and it’s worth it at that price. If I recall (it’s been many years since I played it) the game was short and didn’t have a lot going for it outside the gimmick.

RobotToaster 18d ago

In board games there's "kill doctor lucky" which is reverse cluedo/clue.

doctorhandshake 18d ago

Crawl is a great one. Rouguelike where when you die you inhabit the dungeon.