My include Commando,Ikari Warriors,Mach 3,Dragon Slayer,Rygar,720(you can rail slide on the half pipe and continue the run.You cant do that in Tony Hawks games,major flaw!!)Double Dragon(elbow punch through the whole game!25 cents lasted almost an hour!)Street Fighter 2,Primal Rage and MOrtal Kombat.They should remake ever arcade game ever made.Maybe add them as random(never know which game you would get)unlockables to current games.Whats your favorites?:D

Man I used to spend hours and a small fortune every week at arcades...

Here are some that took more of my quarters then others:

Super Mario Brothers (the arcade version had levels that were a little different, and was harder then the NES ver, as I recall)

Strider

Tron


Pac-Man

Centipede

Solomon’s Key

Street Fighter II

Mortal Kombat

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Tetris

Donkey Kong

Klax

X-Men

Silkworm

Burger Time

When I get tired of all our new fancy modern games, and feel like a need a little break, I still play these old timers on emulators (MAME is the greatest thing ever)…just something comforting about the old quarter munchers.

Spiderman
Alien Vs Predator
Kizuna Encounter
Super Street Fighter 2.

Aaah, arcade memories.

I didn't play too many but I always liked Rampage :)

TAPPER!! That game was and still is awesome. :D

I also blew a ton of money on TMNT and The Simpsons game.

Street Fighter 2. Blew my college money on it:).

Oooh yes!

Rygar
Ghosts n Goblins
1942
Gyruss

Mine were:

Paperboy
Dig Dug
Galaga
Pac-Man
Ms. Pac-Man
Super Pac-Man (I loved it when you turned big!)
Rampage
Double Dragon
Spy Hunter
Frogger
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bubble Bobble
Tron
Indiana Jones & the Temple Of Doom
Super Off-Road?? I think that was the name of it...You could play with 2 other people, it has 3 steering wheels on it. Cool game!!

Aliens vs. Predator
All of the Marvel vs. Capcom games
most of the Street Fighter games
GIJOE
Revolution X
Time Crisis II and III
Silent Scope
Area 51
Terminator
X-Men
The Simpsons
Bomberman
Puzzle Fighter
Golden Axes I and II
Star Wars(the one with a joystick)
Final Fight
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Speed Racer
Rampage
The Punisher
Spawn
Prisoners of War

Tron
Excite Bike
Spy Hunter
Red Baron
Frontline
Defender
Dragon's Lair
Elevator Action
Empire City
Contra
Galaga
Phoenix
Missile Command
Cobra (another laser-disc game like Dragon's Lair)
Tanks II (2 player tank game - my brother and I used to play it in the late 70s)
Space Invaders
Donkey Kong
Beserk

Heavy Barrel

Star Wars
Street Fighter II
Mortal Kombat II

I loved all the generic fighting games from NEO GEO, there's too many to list! :D

Ah, arcades.... Those were the days when a quarter meant something....

Let's see:

Double Dragon (favorite)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sucked a lot of quarters out of me....)
Bad Dudes
Ninja Gaiden
Shinobi
Simpsons (again, more quarters sucked)
X-men (dang Konami games....)

Joust was a favorite of mine. I also got quite good at Samori Showdown 2. They had it inside the sandwitch shop I worked at when I was 18. Since I was usually working the place by myself or with my buddy, we managed to squeeze in a game here and there. :)

So totally..



GOLDEN AXE

I loved that game and double dragon




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In the arcade, Operation: Wolf, and Roadblaster's.

OH, and I am pretty sure it was called Final Fight. That's the only fighting game I really liked. It was one where you had to rescue a sister or something. AT the end, if you got your tail kicked, they'd show your character tied up with a timebomb, and BOOM!

Oh, and one that is really older, is Buck Rogers. I liked that one.


And, Rush 2049 most recently. I've wasted so much $ on that one, but since it had the memory PIN thing and one could save progress every play, it made it so much more fun!

Super Off-Road?? I think that was the name of it...You could play with 2 other people, it has 3 steering wheels on it. Cool game!!

YES! That one is so much fun!

#1 is Joust
#2 is Moon Patrol
#3 is Gurellia War
#4 is Ms. Pac-Man
#5 is Pit Fighter (the NES version sucked bad!!!)
#6 is Mortal Kombat II

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 1941/1942...

Tanner

Star Wars
Legend of Cage
Time Pilot
Battlezone
Robotron
Sinistar
Tron- probably the best ever


I'm probably dating myself with a couple of these.

Street Fighter II Championship Edition -- best

After Burner the one where you could sit down and it would move with you

Gyrus

Dragon's Lair

I can't believe it took this long for someone to mention the sit-down version of Afterburner. :D
I'm still on the hunt for one of those for home use.

Otherwise my top older games are

Tempest
Zaxxon
Centipede
Elevator Action
Operation: Wolf
Galaga
1942
Tron (want to find one of those too)
Robotron

We need to start another thread for pinball machines. :D

route 16 was the best video game of all time.

i bought one in 1993 and i still play it every week

let's see I rember playing a lot of the mortal kombat series, pole pisition, turtles game, soul blade, and street fighter II