Games with a "Portrait Mode" option?

Trj22487

I was playing around in the PS1 Namco Museum games and found the options to turn the games to the Arcade Mode, which requires you to turn your TV on its side to play the game for authentic arcade graphics. My CRT is way too bulky and oddly shaped to pull this off, was wondering



What are some other games that give this option?

What TV's were good for this, or is it basically just for monitors?



The warning screen on Namco Museum is hilarious, it basically tells you theres a good chance the TV is gonna fall over and kill somebody.















I tried looking up other games that allow this, but couldn't really find anything. All I really found was the suggestion to do this with a PC montior for internet view. I am still one of the few that solely uses a PC, I don't game on it, and I've been using my 19" flatscreen monitor in "landscape" mode (as we've always used them) for years. Just today am trying my monitor in "portrait" to give everything an iPhone type look. I must say, now I finally understand why the new NintendoAge design was made. The new site is fantastic in "portrait" mode and the old site looks very bad. I may end up sticking with this look for the most part!

 

snes_collector

This is more commonly known as tate mode, due to your screen "rotating" to a position similar to arcade machine monitors. Many shumps starting in the PSX/Saturn era support this mode, so if you have any for those consoles (or PS2/360) check it out, as that is the way many (especially vertical) were made to play. Basically if you are playing a shump and see black bars on both side it is truly meant to be played that way. I don't know of any other console game that can be played like this, and I did not know about Namco Museum so that is pretty cool. If anything else does I imagine it would be a arcade port of some sort.



Edit: here is a good list, http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/12198/vertical-console-games-screen-rotation

Ozzy_98

I always hear it as just "vertical"



A lot of mamecabs are built with auto-rotating monitor setups:







Old-school ones used rotating CRTs, which are a hell of a lot harder to rotate

kirkasaurus

Ikaruga on the GameCube can do this, probably the dreamcast version as well.