OldBoy

i know some still around, but ones not like "we" remember...

how many quarters did you spend in them and what were favorites?

Mine: (in no particular order)

1. Space Harrier (1985)
2. Time Pilot (1982)
3. Star Wars (1983)...this was probably my most favorite of all time. i've always tried to recreate and i paid on eBay to get that, i think Gamecube preview disc of Rogue something or other that actually had this you could unlock or something along those lines. console couldn't recreate at all and i got twisted all around and was just bad experience. maybe i needed to give it more of a chance. i really can't remember whole story. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_W...983_video_game)


god! i loved that game in the arcades. didn't seem that popular as i always remember getting a machine. blowing up the Death Star over and over never got old!!

4. Tempest (1981)
5. Dig Dug (1982)...for some reason. it was so simple, yet hard.
6. Defender (1981)...to a degree. remember playing a lot, but not loving it too much.
7. Q*Bert (1982)
8. Dragon's Liar (1983)...even though i sucked, but have had all the incarnations on consoles and such just for nostalgia. have on XBOX, but yet to play. really want to, but scared i'm gonna still suck.
9. Spyhunter (1983)
10. Arkanoid...probably my #2. have all incarnations and on iPhone.

Michael Corvin

10 seems like a lot.

#1 Ms. Pac-Man - I finally got my own machine at the beginning of Covid. Had a blast for a few weeks and fucked it up trying to upgrade some ROMs. I finally have a guy coming to look at it Saturday. Hopefully he can get her working again.

The best of the rest that I liked to sink quarters in no order:

Popeye
Super Mario Bros.
Spy Hunter
Pac-Man
TMNT

I obviously played dozens upon dozens of other games but don't recall just sticking with a machine and popping quarter after quarter in like those above.

majorjoe23

Frogger
TMNT
Simpsons
X-Men
Spider-Man
Centipede
Galaga
Sunset Riders
Ms. Pac-Man
NBA Jam

Maxflier

Mortal Kombat II is my favorite. Don’t think I could come up with a whole list of 10 though.

Obi-Wanma

WWF WrestleFest
Double Dragon
Centipede
Space Invaders
Star Wars
Pac-Man
Dig Dug

OldBoy

I did like Popeye too.

E Unit

Older, but I loved playing Tempest a lot. Some others are Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom, Tron, Missile Command, Spy Hunter, Dig Dug, Joust, and Defender.

davidh777

Missile Command
Battlezone
Galaga
Asteroids
Defender
Tempest
Zaxxon
Robotron

Michael Corvin

I'm a huge Joust and Gyruss fan (I guess they could make my list) but rarely did I play them at the arcade as I had those on my Atari 400.

The Questyen

I played arcade games every now and then as a kid but not enough to consider any my favorites. I was always more of a console kid.

Rob V

this is a great list. I would add Burgertime and Yie Ar Kung Fu to round out my list.

ddrknghtrtns

1. Donkey Kong
2. Pac-Man
3. Missile Command
4. Tempest
5. Final Fight
6. TMNT
7. Street Fighter 2
8. X-Men
9. T2
10. Double Dragon

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Texan26

As a kid:
Donkey Kong / Donkey Kong Jr
Pac-Man / Ms Pac-man
Dig Dug
Galaga / Galaxian
Paperboy
Q-Bert
Frogger
Space Invaders
Asteroids
OutRun

As a teen:
Street Fighter II series
Mortal Kombat series
NBA Jam
X-Men
Lethal Enforcers
Terminator 2
The Simpsons
Daytona USA
TMNT
Super High Impact Football

Mike86

There was still an arcade around in the local mall when I was a kid, but I didn’t really go enough to say I had favorites. Technically there is still a little arcade section in the mall, but it really doesn’t have much I’d want to play.

I like some arcade games but didn’t play them in arcades for the most part. I grew up with consoles more.

Norm de Plume

I didn't go to arcades, but there was a great, addictive Rambo-like game called P.O.W. in the corner of a shop near my high school when I was 13. I threw some quarters into it at the time before realizing that it was too hard and a waste of money. I excitedly revisited it in MAME years later and finished it.
I also played After Burner and Ghosts 'n' Goblins a few times around the same time (late-'80s), but after I got the Genesis, I never again spent money on arcade machines.

Obi-Wanma

Burgertime is a good addition. I don't think that I've ever played Yie Ar Kung Fu. I would probably also add Joust.

OldBoy

there was a gun game i played and loved in arcade. Maybe Time Splitters? i know it became console or maybe it was Lethal Enforcers. one of those light gun games i loved or maybe both. i loved light gun games that i got a system i don't even remember which (but after Nintendo, maybe Dreamcast?) that had light gun attachment and i played House of the Dead 1 or 2 and loved the fuck out of it. it got hard, but i think i used a cheat that gave me infinite lives or ammo or something. loved it.

james2025a

Tough one as i loved so many. Going with the first ten that came to mind (so mudt have left a lasting impression). Thinking about it, i did 10, but its too few to hit the inportant ones. Gonna make it 15.

1. Street Fighter 2
2. Strider
3. Operation Wolf
4. Flash Gal
5. Commando
6. Gauntlet
7. Outrun
8. Gradius/Nemesis
9. Double Dragon
10. Outzone
11. Kung Fu Master
12. Time Pilot
13. Final Fight
14. Punch Out
15. Spiderman the Video Game

OldBoy

^ Commando. i wasn't sure if arcade or Nintendo i started loving, but i think it was arcade and got it on Nintendo. love these the Bionic Commando's. but the original, i think i do remember playing a lot in arcade.

asianxcore

1. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)
2. X-Men Vs. Street Fighter (1996)
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time (1991)
4. Top Skater (1997)
5. Marvel Vs. Capcom 2: The New Age of Heroes (2000)
6. Marvel Vs. Capcom (1998)
7. Mortal Kombat III (1995)
8. Mortal Kombat II (1993)
9. Primal Rage (1994)
10. Time Killers (1992)

shizawn

Star Wars was absolutely my favorite. Don't really have a ranking after that, but I greatly enjoyed the following:

Pac Man
Joust
Centipede
Galaga
Asteroids
Yie Ar Kung Fu
Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road

MR Round

When I was a kid my parents owned a comic shop and we got in a Mortal Kombat 2 machine. I had to stand on a chair to reach the controls but everyone would play with me because I had one of those old forks youd stick in to play for free. beyond that I kinda remember playing Galaga and one where you shoot people with a gun. Arcades just weren't really a thing when I was small where i grew up. Alot of the bigger games I played later on as emulators and I love ones like Pac Man, Asteroids, 1942,

nickdawgy

I used to play TMNT at my local pizza place. We went through $20 at a time on it. The Simpsons Arcade Game whenever I saw it was another favorite. Others I played when I saw them in arcades:

Paperboy
Double Dragon
Operation Wolf
Final Fight
1941/42
Ikari Warriors
Gauntlet
Play Choice Ten
NBA Jam
Street Fighter II
Mortal Kombat
Race Drivin’
Chase HQ
Dragon’s Lair
Robocop
King of the Monsters
Rampage
Spy Hunter
WWF Wrestlefest
NARQ

ddrknghtrtns

I was watching the latest AVGN video last night, where he was reviewing Taito Legends for the PS2 and he would not show any game footage from Operation Wolf, because of seizure concerns over the constantly flashing screen.

T-bone22

I was that kid at the Street Fighter II machine that could not be beat. There’d be a line of quarters sitting on the rim of the display from opponents waiting to take me on.