What was your favorite arcade game?

[PottedMeat]

T2 and Black Tiger (actually used to own both as well).

T2 was fun. i wasted a whole report card worth of free tokens to get ~95% through the game. i remember playing the aerosmith knockoff revolutionx too lol.

i tended to play the games that lasted the longest per quarter - those TMNT games, Aliens Vs Predator scroller, simpsons, NARC.

 

[Slick Mcflicken]

Star Wars & Space Harrier in the 80's, set high score each week as long as they didn't unplug the machine

 

[MWink]

In no particular order, Monkey Climber, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Zoo Keeper, Space Invaders, Asteroids, plus really old pinball games. And, Haunted House (a pinball game). That was rapidly growing to be one of my favorite pinball games, but the guy who set it up allowed for fairly loose play; i.e., it took quite a bit to get it to tilt. After servicing it, he didn't finish the connections for the back. The first time it was played after that, my friend used a little English, and the backboard came crashing down.

I hadn't heard or played that machine until around 2003 at a collectors house. I fell in love with it immediately and promptly got one for myself

In case you're interested, Haunted House is one of the tables available in The Pinball Arcade. Just a word of warning, the default tilt setting is very unforgiving. It seems to be that way on most Gottlieb tables. On the other hand, most Williams tables take a lot of nudging before you tilt.

Also, if anyone's interested, they have a Kickstarter going so they can hopefully do The Addams Family. Link

 

[KeithTalent]

Street Fighter 2 the original version without any doubt. My buddy builds beautiful cabinets so I'll own one once I have a proper place to live.

KT

 

[BrokenVisage]

SF2, Mortal Kombat, Operation Wolf, Time Traveler, Addam's Family Pinball, NBA Jam

 

[JEDI]

Omega race

Gauntlet -> can play for infinite hrs on a single quarter then sell the game to some kid for $1 with like a bazillion health when my curphew was up

baby pac-man -> made the high score the 1st time I played it (500k+). never even broke 100k since then

 

[dank69]

Rampage

 

[Stopsignhank]

Defender

 

[Schmide]

Crazy Climber, Vangard, Stargate, Tapper, Toobin

Honorable best music - Reactor

 

[Ns1]

marvel vs capcom 2

sooooooo many dollars spent

 

[JEDI]

marvel vs capcom 2

sooooooo many dollars spent

meh

button masher > skill

 

[Paladin3]

I met my wife in the mid 80's while working in a theme park arcade back when I was barely 17. Some of my favorite classic arcade games from that time:

I, Robot
Galaga
Gyruss
Star Wars
Gauntlet
Battlezone
Disks of Tron
Karate Champ
Ms. Pacman
10-yard Fight
Hang-on
Dragons Lair
Tempest
Dig-Dug
Track and Field

Later on:
Silent Scope
Virtua Cop
Area-51
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
Gauntlet 2
Virtua Fighter
House of the Dead
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Time Crisis I & II

The fact that I can play most of those with MAME on my own computer kinda rocks, but nothing is like a loud arcade full of pinball and stand up games.

 

[Ns1]

meh

button masher > skill

Only if you don't have skills ^_^

 

[Iron Woode]

I stopped going to arcades back in 1983.

I liked space invaders, gyrus and galaga.

The thing is, I was able to play most arcade games on my C64. So going to an arcade was pointless and wasted money.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Played the hell out of the above at the local chuck e cheese.

Oh, and this one too:

 

[mizzou]

Virtua Fighter and The Simpsons

 

[master_shake_]

Hey op the name of the game you played is called narc.

I like matmania I was undefeated when I was younger also final fight.

 

[master_shake_]

Marvel vs Capcom 2

There was also this monster truck racing game with nitros and other powerups that I can't remember the name of. We used to play it during lunch in middle school (we were allowed out for lunch) at a local pizzeria. That machine ate many, many quarters.

That game is called off road

 

[olds]

Dig Dug
Donkey Kong
Galaga

 

[biostud]

Final Fight

 

[Crono]

That game is called off road

Ooh, you're right! I guess it's off-road vehicles and not really monster trucks. That explains why I had trouble Googling it.

Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW1CQwiGaRo

 

[Paratus]

The three games I spent the most quarters on:

Xevious

Gauntlet

Street Fighter II

 

[master_shake_]

Ooh, you're right! I guess it's off-road vehicles and not really monster trucks. That explains why I had trouble Googling it.

Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW1CQwiGaRo

Used to play it all the time at the arcade in the local mall

 

[Grooveriding]

Probably Double Dragon and Off Road Racing for video games. But pinball was and is better than all those and there have been so many great pinballs.

Notables:

Monster Bash
Monopoly
Terminator 2
Playboy
Cirqus Voltaire

 

[ThinClient]

When I was a kid, I spent a fair number of quarters every weekend down the street at the local one-stop-shop playing Mortal Kombat. It was the only arcade game they had at the entire store and it was in some back-ass never-used entry way. I loved it.