Favorite game you played in an Arcade?

Since arcades are pretty much dead now, I think back to the glory days of the local Arcade shops in town. I am talking about the late 80's to mid 90's. Back when you would see games that were technologically much more advanced then your NES, SNES, and Genesis. Walking around the entire arcade scoping out which games you would sink your precious limited supply of quarters into. Do I play the older games for .25 or do I sink .50 into the new Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2, and Driving USA games?

I know most of us were able to experience the Arcades in their glory days, and now I ask which game did you enjoy the most? Also, how much money did you blow on one game throughout the years? I would say the most amount of money I spent was probably $150 on the Basketball Shoot game. Don't know if that qualifies for an "Arcade" game, but the runner up would be Street Fighter 2 with $60.00 (since one game would cost .50 to play).

I have just too many to pick just one.

I was really mainly an Arcade gamer in the 80's and until the mid/late 90's. I've played them more than my console systems.

I actually have two arcade cabinets and a custom Jamma board monitor set up in my room.

I can't remember its name, but it was a game where you had shooting reticles (not a gun game) and you had to make your way across the Old West. I remember wasting many a quarter on that game.Yagr_Zero

In Order:

1) Wrestlefest

2) Final Fight

3)Street Fighter II

4) X-Men, the dual screen 8 player version

5) 720

top 2

warriors of fate

and

metal slug

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Oh god... I have too many to pick just one...

I pretty much love every capcom arcade game there was... especially fighting games. Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting and Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter comes to mind for a top place.

Konami´s TMNT and Sunset Riders where actually really good games as well.

Blood Bros. maybe?Panzer_Zwei

virtua cop, time crisis, house of dead, any rail shooter really.

Battlezone

Xevious

Tempest

Battlezone

Lord_Daemon

My top 2 games of all time, in any environment, are arcade games.

Neither is any more a favorite than the other, since I played them both at the same time and place (around 1987 at a bowling alley that is no longer around).

One is Black Tiger, the other is Commando, both made by Capcom in the 80's.

Those 2 games were my favorite games then, and they still sit at the top of any favorite game list I post on here. (not involving a specific system/console).

I'm hoping Black Tiger can get some kind of sequel/remake/remix like a lot of Capcom games received within the last 2 years. Commando got a new sequel on XBLA and PSN - Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3, along with updates to Ghosts and Goblins and Mega Man on PSP, Mega Man 9 on all 3 of the current consoles, 1942, Bionic Commando got "rearmed" along with a 3d sequel coming this year, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo got an HD remix.

Die Hard.

Loved that game.

The game I wish I could play but never did was the "Aliens" side scrolling shooter that you could be Ripley, or two other Marines. I saw it in Edmonton, Canada when I was 15 but never saw it in the states ever again. Anyone know what i am talking about or have you seen it around still?Lostboy1224

There is footage of it on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1Qjx39RJU

(This is not a 'rick roll')

probably metal slug X or 3

There weren't many arcade machines where I live but every chance I get i play one

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