Top Arcade Games of all time

[Ash Housewares]

don't have a link or an article, just was thinking about this, what are your favorite arcade games of all time? I'll throw together a little list of my own to kick things off.

10)Mercs
9)Soul Calibur
8)Lethal Enforcers
7)Tetris
6)Mortal Kombat 2
5)Raiden
4)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3)Virtua Racing
2)Bust-A-Move
1)Frogger

Honorable Mentions: Pac Man, Street Fighter 2, Smash TV, Galaga, The Simpsons

so, what do y'all think? where did you waste your quarters and adolescent years?

[skihard]

If by arcade you mean ones you have to drop quarters into then there was one called track and field that was awsome to play. There was also the now clasic Gauntlet that had 6 people in it at once and always a line at it, if you ran out of quarters there was someone that would jump in and take your guy till they ran out of quarters. Fun times I'm so glad I can now play my game while sitting in a nice high back chair.

[Ash Housewares]

If by arcade you mean ones you have to drop quarters into then there was one called track and field that was awsome to play. There was also the now clasic Gauntlet that had 6 people in it at once and always a line at it, if you ran out of quarters there was someone that would jump in and take your guy till they ran out of quarters. Fun times I'm so glad I can now play my game while sitting in a nice high back chair.

gauntlet is another classic, and go red wings! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Silvermyst]

Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Time Crisis, and Gunblade.

[Jimmeh]

King of fighters 98 (Currently unbeatable)
King of fighters 2k1 (Currently unbeatable)
Time crisis (all of them, too easy though :/ )
Double Dragon
METAL SLUG (all are pro, duno why its not been mentioned ;o )
Mortal Combat
Fatal Fury (Currently unbeatable)
Chuck Rock
Tekken 3 (nobody can beat me at Tekken 3 tbh)
Tekken 4


Btw i would like to know WTF has happened to all the classic arcades around England, its all the new stuff now and its too easy :/

[masterazn]

I can't believe you left out Space Invaders...

[Jimmeh]

I can't believe you left out Space Invaders...

i was too young for that ;D

[masterazn]

I bet I'm younger than you, and i know space invaders.

YOU HAVE NO RESPECT!!!

[tarnok]

Golden Axe
The Simpsons*
Area 51*
Virtual On
War
D&D

* games I actually wasted the time/money to beat

[Deathwing]

As Gauntlet was a 4 player game, and the machine only had controls for 4 people, 6 player Gauntlet must have been a bit cramped.

Street Fighter 2 was good.

[Silvermyst]

Golden Axe
The Simpsons*
Area 51*
Virtual On
War
D&D

* games I actually wasted the time/money to beat

omfg, I had Golden Axe on my old 286. Greatest damn game I ever played.

[masterazn]

no way, the very first street fighter is still the best.

[Silvermyst]

Yeah, but then again, there's waaaaaaaay too many "best games ever"

No human should be able to choose just one.

[skihard]

As Gauntlet was a 4 player game, and the machine only had controls for 4 people, 6 player Gauntlet must have been a bit cramped.

Street Fighter 2 was good.

was it really only 4 people? It's been forever since I've seen the game so I have to believe you, I guess i'm think ing aboput something different but gaulntleat was still a good game

[Intolerance]

Time Pilot
Gauntlet (the original had 4 players- Valkyrie, Warrior, Elf, and Wizard)
Elevator Action
Donkey Kong
Dragon's Lair
Space Ace

and a little later...

Mortal Kombat
Dragon's Lair 2
MK 2 and 3
Tekken 2 and 3

even later still...

Gauntlet Legends (I spent a lot of time in the arcade playing this one)

[spiral55]

I remember the games, but not all the titles. My memory for names is terrible.

10) Commando
9) Crossbow
8) Tekken 3
7) Punch-Out
6) I can't remember the name of this one, but it's a Star Wars game where you sit in a cockpit-like chair and fly X-Wings, Snowspeeders, and Speederbikes, as well as have duels with Boba Fett and Darth Vader and fight your way on foot through the ruined Rebel base on Hoth to get Leia to the Millenium Falcon. The X-wing segments are so fast and furious that you can easily wear yourself out playing them.
5) Gauntlet
4) Twilight Zone (pinball)
3) The Main Event (I think, at least. A tag-team wrestling game.)
2) WWF Royal Rumble (Don't laugh, wrestling games double as good fighting games.)
1) Tekken 2

[pedro11]

10)Kung Fu
9)Arkanoid
8)Super Breakout
7)1942
6)Raiden
5)Defender
4)Galaga
3)Space Invaders
2)Frogger
1)Pong

After looking at my list, I'm thinking I might be damn old

[memememe173]

The Simpsons (I, too spent the money to beat it) Captain America & The Avengars...the earliest Street Fighter that didn't have the stretchy dude, he was too cheap, X-Men, TMNT

[Ash Housewares]

whats with the Dhalsim hate?

Golden Axe is a classic, I just played it on console more than anything else and tend to think of it in those terms

I love 1942 too, nice one

pedro knows what he's talkin bout

[pedro11]

pedro knows what he's talkin bout

that's what I've been telling myself for years

[Mecal]

Area 51*


YEAH! i was gonna mention that!

best game ever.

[memememe173]

Golden Axe sounds fimilar...is it something like a cross between Gauntlet and He-Man?

[Death Merchant]

Robotron 2084..... I wasn't very good at it, but it got fast and furious real quick.

Hey Spiral, it was called "Star Wars Trilogy." Made by Sega. I think it's the best Star wars arcade game ever.

[Jigga-Scrooge]

x-men thing.

[bigD72]

Golden Axe
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Time Crisis
Area 51

[AeroJonesy]

Since no one mentioned it yet...Final Fight.

[mullenman]

Some of my favorites:

Marval vs capcom 2
Soul Caliber
Dance Dance revolution
Pump It Up
Beatmania IIDX
Pop'n music
House of the dead



Hmm i think there were more i like but im not so good in the memory

department so ill try to think of them and post em later.

[Panders]

Golden Axe was definately the good stuff. =) Also, I can't recall the name (Sprint Racing/er?) where there were about 4 steering wheels, with a topdown view of a dirt track. The controls were pretty iffy, but once you figured it out you could basically just give the wheel a fast spin and then grab it just right to turn the corner perfectly. I used to love playing that.

[tarnok]

x-men thing.

Oh yeah, X-Men. Another one I spent the money on.

[memememe173]

Oh yeah, X-Men. Another one I spent the money on.
I went about 3/4 of the way and then I ran out of money :(

[piff]

Dudes and dudettes, you are forgetting the staple of arcades! Pinball! Where would the world of gaming be without it?!

Also good ones are/were Galega(sp?), Centipede, and (not totally sure on the title) Seven Monsters of the Seven Seas or something like that. It's a two player game where you sit in a booth with these odd gun things, like scuba lamps, I suppose, and you fight sea monsters in each of the seven seas. Such a great game.

EDIT: Gah! I nearly forgot about Joust!

[Ringworm125]

Did anybody else lose all feeling in their hands from playing The Simpsons for five consecutive hours? I know I wasn't the only one...

[memememe173]

Dudes and dudettes, you are forgetting the staple of arcades! Pinball! Where would the world of gaming be without it?!

Also good ones are/were Galega(sp?), Centipede, and (not totally sure on the title) Seven Monsters of the Seven Seas or something like that. It's a two player game where you sit in a booth with these odd gun things, like scuba lamps, I suppose, and you fight sea monsters in each of the seven seas. Such a great game.

EDIT: Gah! I nearly forgot about Joust!
joust pwn j00 teh 1337 g4me

[zoop]

Good ones Pedro. I dropped a lot of quarters into Defender. Some others that were good: Tempest, Phoenix (if you can tune out the noises), Asteroids, and maybe Joust. I remember when Tron came out how cutting edge it was....lol.

[MagiusTheGrey]

NBA Jam
Area 51
and Marvel vs Capcom

[Painman]

I can't believe no one has mentioned the most awesomest coin-op ever, Burgertime :rant:

Other notables from my arcade heyday: Tempest, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Elevator Action, Joust, Roadblasters, Galaga, Star Wars, Centipede, Millipede, Arkanoid, and lots more that I've forgotten.

Shameless pinball plug: PinBot, High Speed, Jokerz, Earthshaker! :drool:

[Ash Housewares]

Did anybody else lose all feeling in their hands from playing The Simpsons for five consecutive hours? I know I wasn't the only one...

*attempts to raise hand in response*

[Painman]

I played Q*bert for 7 hours in one game once, but that was 21 years ago, my wrist feels better now.

[Canadia142]

Time Crisis 2, I've spent more money on this game than any other arcade game combined
Area 51

[Avalon]

Rush. And later on, Rush 2049.
Then there was the Time Crisis series. And Gauntlet Legends. Area 51.... There was this side-scroller Streets of Rage knock-off that we jammed up so that we got free plays way back when. It pwned quite much. DDR every once in a while. Oh... Blitz. And later, Blitz 2001.

We'd (we being my friends and I) would spend hours at the Student Center playing, or at the Airtight Garage, this arcade in the Sony Metreon complex. We pwned.

[adamfgt78]

Street Fighter 2 is just good, but not worthy of the top ten???? Blasphemy! I've never seen any other game reguarly attract crowds of 10-20 kids gathered around a single machine in 7-11.

And for all you Simpsons fanboys :), that's was just a re-graphiced TMNT. TMNT was a way cool game though. I remember making trips to the game shop with friends exclusively to play that game. Another cool game in that genre was X-men. It could have 6 players if I recall correctly.

Did anyone else play that big Ferrari 355 game? It came out about 3-4 years ago. It had a 3 screen panoramic view and cost about $2 to play. It was a simulation racer and actually had a clutch that you had to depress in order to shift. It's probably the closest you can get to experiencing a Ferrari without actually being in one.

I can't believe all the people listing Area 51. It just seemed such a cheesy looking and technically inferior game to me. I must not have seen something about it.

[mullenman]

Street Fighter 2 is just good, but not worthy of the top ten???? Blasphemy! I've never seen any other game reguarly attract crowds of 10-20 kids gathered around a single machine in 7-11.

.



Heh ive seen DDR machines in obscure locations attracting a crowd of

30 or more.

[Xenon[XoA]]

Thunderstrike - it was one of the vertical scrolling airplane -blast the living **** out of everything in your path games - had something like 16 lvls. I'd play it everyday on my way home... and then they took it out! :grrr:

Tmnt, G-Force (or G-wing..dogfight sim), Gauntlet Legends, Pong + space invaders
Yeah, the arcade threw together an old atari package. 1 machine, two games to choose from.

Cant forget SoulEdge (or was it soulblade..) bah! The one with cervantes, siegfried, mitsubishi etc.

[iq144]

Galaga > All.

[memememe173]

I'm pretty sure the X-Men could have 6 at once

[Starfishied]

Gosh, I so love Golden Axe. Played it long before I even was 10 years old. I love playing the little bearded man with green outfit. That's probably the only game I've wasted coins on. It kind of reminds me of "The Lost Vikings".

[Raft Boy]

Cyberball

-Rafty

[Armor_Biff]

Final Fight
Alien vs Predator (3 player version)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (also 3 player version)
Super Street Fighter 2
Star Wars episode 1 racer
Gauntlet
Out Run
Turbo Out Run
Cruisin USA
Sega Rally games
Time Crisis games
T2 the arcade game
Shadow Warriors
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 player version)

[LunarSolaris]

I wasted more money on Street Fighter 2 than I care to mention... by far my all time favorite arcade game.

In honorable mention though, there are several:

Golden Axe (very cool graphics and interface for it's time)
Tempest (a TRUE classic and one of the originals)
Pac Man (I remember when throwing a quarter into one of those machines seemed like a privilege) :teeth:
The Simpsons (played my fair share of that game as well)

[Ash Housewares]

X-Men machines were usually either 4 or 6 IIRC

I liked the Alien V Predator side scroller beat 'em up too

[bigD72]

Man, how could I forget Cruisin' USA?

That game was awesome, then N64 took it and it got cheated.

I blame PS1 and N64 for the down fall of arcades.

*Edit-Oh man and the golf one with the spinny ball in the middle!

[Geeno]

time crisis 2
ms pacman
ski-ball

[Yaboosh]

Golden Tee with a couple of friends at a bar, and a few tall frosted glasses of American beer. Cannot get better than that.

[Ash Housewares]

*Edit-Oh man and the golf one with the spinny ball in the middle!

that one was fun

[VampiroXIII]

Mortal Kombat
Area 51*
House of the Dead 2*
Silent Scope 1* & 2*
Street Fighter 2*
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Punisher
Aliens vs. Predator*
X-Men*


*-games I shelled out the money to finish. House of the Dead 2 was cool because I had a small audience :D

[AeroJonesy]

I should also add Marvel vs. Capcom. But only to brag about how I beat it with just one quarter.

And Soul Calibur. Or did it have a different name in the arcades?

[Pierrot le Fou]

Time Crisis III
House of the Dead III
Soul Calibur II (Conquest Mode)
Medieval Madness
the last Williams Pinball machine, I will save $5k and buy a machine, it's just that good
Super Street Fighter II Hyper
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a commercially legit machine, but a tweaked one, that was just like normal SF2 except you could do stuff in the air and there were all sorts of bugs with that, but it was fun
Mortal Kombat I
My friend had the top score list locked up between him and his brother because they were the only folks in the arcade who knew how to get to Reptile, and you got 10 million points for beating him (back in the day when it was points -- not victories...)
Double Dragon
Obviously the old school throwing people off the edge whack them with bats madness was tremendous for any seven year-old
Bubble Bobble
How could you NOT have liked this game?
Galaga
It was absolutely great to play this game only to get pwned within 30 seconds over and over because games in the 80's were frickin' HARD.
Arkanoid
Because pong was improved upon.

[mullenman]

Another game that ive played quite a bit but never really thought about it

is Carnevil. I know its not a favorite of most people but ive spent

a lot of time at my local arcade playing that game. I remember the first

time i got to fight the TokenTaker i was sooo excited.

[Ash Housewares]

EB games is trying to sell bubble bobble for NES for $20

DAMN THEM!!!

[mullenman]

EB games is trying to sell bubble bobble for NES for $20

DAMN THEM!!!


Heh theres a few old SNES games at my local GameStop for about

$150.00 or around there.

[memememe173]

bubble bobble is great :thumbsup: