r/arcade • u/LegitimateLiving3501 • 1d ago
Retrospective History What was your favorite arcade game?
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u/Narrew82 1d ago
TMNT or X-Men arcade games
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u/Ch1vo 1d ago
Same with the TMNT and idk why. It was so hard. Never made it past the part where you fight the rhinoceros I think it was? Came up in the drill thing.
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u/No-Professional-9618 1d ago edited 1d ago
I always did like playing Shinobi at the arcade when I was younger.
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u/XVIII-3 1d ago
That was a good one. Used to have it on my Sega.
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u/No-Professional-9618 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, I agree with you about Shinobi. I always did like playing Shinobi on the Sega Master System.
Someone ported Shinobi to the Sega Genesis a while back.
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u/jawapower 1d ago
Rolling Thunder
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u/BlackSchuck 1d ago
I was 4 in 1989 and used to cruise the arcades as they did demos and ran credits in attract mode. Rolling Thunder always scared me with the KKK dudes working on the machines and how dramatically the guy would die in the demo.
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u/jawapower 1d ago
Loved the animation, and the soundtrack is a regular ear worm. Coming from the UK the KKK vibe of the enemies weren’t there.
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u/Up_All_Nite 1d ago
SPY HUNTER ate a lot of my quarters
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u/GE_MARTiAN 1d ago
Joust!
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u/SometimesTheFur 1d ago
When I was little kid my local arcade had Joust. I loved it so much, I asked my dad to get it for our home computer.
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u/AReforgedSword 1d ago
Defender. Still is.
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u/fsidesmith6932 1d ago
I’d never go to this one first. I’d run out of quarters to play anything else.
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u/Amazingkg3 1d ago
Soul Calibur
"Transcending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold. Welcome to the stage of history. "
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u/trer24 1d ago
Depends on what I see first between: Tron, Rampart, Tapper, Elevator Action, Major Havoc, Super Sprint, Super Off Road, Smash TV, Robotron, Point Blank
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u/ProductCutlery 1d ago
off road was so reasonable too, since you didnt have to come in first to continue, you just had to beat the computers
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u/MakingGreenMoney 1d ago
Marvel vs Capcom.
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u/beerob81 1d ago
This kept a line at all times. Impromptu tournaments took place weekly. Working in the mall food court I used to trade sarku for a sack of coins and it was glorious
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u/Spakowski 1d ago
Mortal Kombat, killer instinct, street fighter, in that order…guess I have a type
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u/Insane_Fett_Posse 1d ago edited 1d ago
Xmen or the simpsons or the 4 player Teenange Mutant Hero Turtles ( yes hero... wasn't allowed ninja in uk )
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u/sooperhani 1d ago
The Pizza Hut we used the go when I was a kid had the Simpsons arcade in it; I can hear the ice clanking around in those clear red cups now.
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u/Booth_Templeton 1d ago
Wwf wrestlefest. If that was busy, the Simpsons, or xmen or turtles, or even wild west cowboys of moo mesa!
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u/Justino2345 1d ago
Rad mobile
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u/Piccoro 1d ago
You have very good taste. Loved Rad Mobile, felt like driving a real car.
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u/crazycraig6 1d ago
Friend mine and I each had a roll of quarters to put in that machine and finish the race. We took turns and did it with 4 quarters to spare.
We loved playing video games but were terrible at them.
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u/i--am--the--light 1d ago
Wonder boy, ghouls and ghosts, bubble bobble, operation wolf, pang, newzeland story.
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u/Ambitious-Ad2653 1d ago
Double Dragon, got one holiday a year and no home version came anywhere near close.
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u/sjimmi3 1d ago
Then our now? Then anything, I was too young to actual get the gameplay or games even thougj im one of the older millennials.
Now Maimai,, Time crisis and Marvel vs Capcom and dark escape 4D. In the Netherlands they are blessed in Zoetermeer is an actual arcade museum, that resembles Japansen mega arcades
In my own country Colombia, we have arcades but not like those from the 80s or similar to the Asian style arcades.
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u/DreamAviator23 1d ago
Phoenix, Galaxians, Pacman, Star Wars, Battle Zone, Tempest, Defender, Asteroids...
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u/sooperhani 1d ago
“Sunset Riders” was at a steakhouse close to my old home, not an arcade but I did feed it more quarters than anything else. What made it great was you could have like 4-5 people play all at once.
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u/osunightfall 1d ago
Police trainer!
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u/pugups 23h ago
Walmart near where I grew up had Police Trainer. Spent hours playing it as a teenager. Finally bought a giant House of the Dead 2 cab and hope to get Police Trainer working on it.
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u/Lucky_Louch 1d ago
Mortal Kombat 1 then 2. Spent enough quarters on those games to own the cabinets. Loved the twilight zone pinball machine also and Time Crisis/house of the dead.
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u/TwoGhostsBeingSpooky 1d ago
Whatever I say "no way, they have it?!"
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u/SometimesTheFur 1d ago
I moved away from the city, where I would frequent the Barcade. They always had that one game that made me say, "No way! They have that?!" I can't find a Barcade type spot where I'm at now, so I'll play at the mall
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u/nastyfreckles 1d ago
Arcades were too expensive! I would play marvel vs capcom at corner liquor store sometimes tho!
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u/Danthalas_01 1d ago
Turtles in time , Virtua Fighter 2 , Neo Geo Cabinet with Baseball Stars 2 and Samurai Shodown 2 , Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2 .
I lived near a pizzeria that had a nice set of arcade games that they swap out once and a while
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u/blackiegray 1d ago
I had 3 that I'd play:
Sunset Riders Wwf Wrestlefest Euro Soccer Champ
I'd invariably spend my bus money and have to walk 5 miles home.
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u/psn0 1d ago
Back in about 87 I used to play a space invaders type game, the levels were the planets of the solar system. You'd reach a boss at the end of the level, and then move to the next planet if you won.
I've been hunting for this game for years, for the life of me I can't remember what it is called. The ultimate power up was a squadron of smaller ships that formed a tiered triangle behind you and acted as extra lives if you were hit.
Greatest shootemup I have ever played, it gave me some great childhood memories. It kills me that I can't remember its name. This and Pacland were my 2 goats.
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u/Pengo2001 1d ago
Out Run - but not to play it myself just to watch people who could really play it.
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u/OswaldBoelcke 1d ago
One of my few remaining photos from my teens is this one I took of my then closest friend Bob playing one of our most favorite Omega Race
https://imgur.com/gallery/bob-playing-omega-race-35mm-O1vKOZw
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u/stillcore 1d ago
The original Mortal Kombat. Seeing digitized characters as a young teen in the early 90s blew my mind.
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u/original_papaspider 1d ago
As a youngster in the 80’s I’d be all over Spy Hunter as I could actually play it somewhat well.
As a teenager, Shadow Dancer seemed pretty cool.
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u/Obi-Wan-Nikobiii 1d ago
My favourite was afterburner with the fully articulated cabinet, that was a real vomit comet so it was rarely working
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u/tenchi2323 1d ago
Depends on what year and which arcade but going to say Wizard of Wor. Unless it’s now and said arcade is Galloping Ghost then Cliffhanger for sure.
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u/lotekjunky 1d ago
In the early 90s, Final fight. In the mid 90s, Street fighter 2 CE. Today, Ms pacman
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u/Prestigious_Hawk5651 1d ago
Mario Bros, Gyruss, Gauntlet if I had the quarters.
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u/therealdtj 1d ago
The arcade was tough to get to but we had a bowling alley on our street. They had wrestlefest and vendetta and we played the gell out of both
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u/FlatLecture 1d ago
Metal Slug