Whats Your Top 6 Classic Arcade Machines?

[Gundress]

Damn, I miss my childhood....where you always hang out with your friend or family, go out to Arcade Game Room and backyard have go-kart, etc near your hometown. What 6 classic arcade machines would you put in your basement?

Mine:

Marvel vs Capcom 2
NBA Jam
The House Of The Dead
Dayton USA
Pacman
Operation Wolf

[bagelred]

Operation Thunderbolt
Dragon's Lair
Smash TV
Super Pacman
Elevator Action
Galaxian (way back)
Tempest
Defender

Some of the ones addicted too at one time or another in my life. I'm sure there are more not thinking of right now.

[Kensta]

Street Fighter II
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Side Arms
Double Dragon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 players)
Mortal Kombat II

[Lebowsky]

In no order

Street fighter 2
Samurai showdown
King of fighters '98
Metal Slug
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Bomberman

[oh the horror]

Street Fighter II
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Side Arms
Double Dragon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 players)
Mortal Kombat II


I'd also like to add the Simpsons arcade game

X-Men (also 4 players)

Golden Axe

[Patrick Chewing]

Paperboy
720
X-Men
Dungeons and Dragons
Galaga
Daytona USA
Cruisin'

[rezznor]

street fighter 2






tetris
super mario bros
galaga
r-type

[chains5000]

Street Fighter II (best arcade EVER)
Captain America and The Avengers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
NBA Jam
Street Hoop
Some soccer game whose name I can't really remember now (I used to play with Mexico who had the best goalkeeper)

I must be missing more...

[Loneshot]

Pacman
Metal Slug
World Cup Soccer (or Super Kick, forget the name)
King of Fighters (97 or 98 i think)
Bust a Move
Rampage (maybe??)

[chains5000]

Pacman
Metal Slug
World Cup Soccer (or Super Kick, forget the name)
King of Fighters (97 or 98 i think)
Bust a Move
Rampage (maybe??)
How could I forget?
Also, Double Dragon and Final Fight.
And Golden Axe!!!

[B-Low]

http://www.toy-tma.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Simpsons-Arcade-Game-Cabinet.gif

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/konamibeatemups/simpsons-14.png

[PowerGlove]

NBA Jam
Metal Slug
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop
NFL BLITZ

I need to find an arcade:cry:

[Timmy D for MVP]

Tekken 3
NBA Jam
Area 51
Simpson's Arcade Game
Original Donkey Kong
Star Wars Arcade

Those are the ones I played the most but if I'm honest when I hit an arcade I had but one destination:

http://www.texasvideogamerental.com/images/Super-Shot-basketball.jpg

[PowerGlove]

Those are the ones I played the most but if I'm honest when I hit an arcade I had but one destination:

http://www.texasvideogamerental.com/images/Super-Shot-basketball.jpg

You already know.....everytime at dave and busters I'm either on or in line for that!:applause:

They have bigger ones which I like even better...I always get destroyed by some 40 year old mom of three and shit.:facepalm Dropping 35 points on me with kids tugging on her shirt and yelling "Mommy!"....shit she could have breastfed and beat me.:roll: FML.

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

Operation Thunderbolt
Dragon's Lair
Smash TV
Super Pacman
Elevator Action
Galaxian (way back)
Tempest
Defender

Some of the ones addicted too at one time or another in my life. I'm sure there are more not thinking of right now.
Galaxian is my all-time favorite.

[Meticode]

I don't have a top 5 in mind, but the greatest in my mind was Street Fighter II.

[Timmy D for MVP]

You already know.....everytime at dave and busters I'm either on or in line for that!:applause:

They have bigger ones which I like even better...I always get destroyed by some 40 year old mom of three and shit.:facepalm Dropping 35 points on me with kids tugging on her shirt and yelling "Mommy!"....shit she could have breastfed and beat me.:roll: FML.

I can't leave a place unless I own the machine record on one of the hoops. Luckily Super Shot is fairly cheap. :rockon:

[RaininThrees]

http://www.captainwilliams.co.uk/sega/saturn/virtuafighter/images/vf_cabinet1.jpg

[Crystallas]

NARC
Golden Axe
TMNT 2
Pole Position
Tekken

[Take Your Lumps]

My uncle used to own a SHITLOAD of arcade games in the late 80s/early 90s and he would lease them to restaurants and stores. Anything that didn't get leased or was being repaired was at his house in a garage like 2-3 times your normal 2 car garage nowadays....packed to the brim with arcade cabinets. I'm talking about having to climb over games just to get to other games. Free play all day.

Anyway, here are the ones that take me right back when I play them at the arcade today:

Outrun (stand-up version)
Track & Field
Shinobi
Galaga
Double Dragon
Tron

[Patrick Chewing]

Am I that old? I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Paperboy yet. That was a hell of a game. I must have spent countless of hours and coins trying to finish that game.

[mcrd101]

Am I that old? I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Paperboy yet. That was a hell of a game. I must have spent countless of hours and coins trying to finish that game.

i had it on Sega Genesis, and on the rare occasion play the flash version of it.

[Take Your Lumps]

Am I that old? I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Paperboy yet. That was a hell of a game. I must have spent countless of hours and coins trying to finish that game.

Mostly played it on the NES. That game was serious business.

[Take Your Lumps]

Oh my god...I can't believe I forgot Gyruss. I ****ing LOVE that game. The music is so god damned epic.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2m7EW9_lM

[kentatm]

Galaga
Mrs. Pac Man
Soul Edge
Cruis'n USA
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Simpsons Arcade Game

[RaininThrees]

i had it on Sega Genesis, and on the rare occasion play the flash version of it.

I had never thought to try and find a flash version of Paperboy.

My night is ruined.

[Dasher]

Street Fighter II Championship Edition
WWF Wrestlefest
Golden Axe
NBA Jam
NBA Run and Gun
Mrs. Pacman

[Gundress]

NBA Jam
Metal Slug
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop
NFL BLITZ

I need to find an arcade:cry:


Oh shit, forgot about Virtua Cop and especially NFL Blitz.....I damn love NFL Blitz :bowdown:

[Gundress]

Am I that old? I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Paperboy yet. That was a hell of a game. I must have spent countless of hours and coins trying to finish that game.


I had that game on nintendo.

[Gundress]

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1604/taitooperationwolf1.jpg (http://img163.imageshack.us/i/taitooperationwolf1.jpg/)


operation wolf was my shit. have anyone played taht game?

[dyna]

Shinobi...

[B-Low]

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1604/taitooperationwolf1.jpg (http://img163.imageshack.us/i/taitooperationwolf1.jpg/)


operation wolf was my shit. have anyone played taht game?


Don't lie you know you went straight for this game

http://www.arcadeandpinballmachines.com/images/products/Monopoly.jpg

[Gundress]

Don't lie you know you went straight for this game

http://www.arcadeandpinballmachines.com/images/products/Monopoly.jpg


:roll: :roll: :roll:

[Timmy D for MVP]

Oh my dad has two pinball machines. I used to play this one almost every single day during one summer and scored into the Professional range. (It had a score range.)

The Galaxy Ranger machine. I can't find any good pics.... it was a fun machine.

[Nevaeh]

Ms. Pac Man: The versions with the "Blue Maze" glitch on the first board were always my favorite.


http://www.isomedia.com/homes/blutz/emurumor/pacblue.gif

Mappy: Seeing it as a kid was awe inspiring. Still give burn to this game almost 30 years later.

http://www.hitecharcaderepair.com/ARCADE/MAPPY.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d4/Mappy_In-Game.png/220px-Mappy_In-Game.png

Outrun (sit-down version) no matter how many times you played it, you knew you were in for a treat.

http://www.retrocpu.com/mame/images/roms/o/out_run_sitdown_upright_rev_b.cabinet.pnghttp://www.fraserking.co.uk/arcade/screenshots/out-run-2.png


AfterBurner: I remember watching a guy playing this in the mall back in 88. was mesmorized at the time.

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X-Men Vs. Street Fighter: This is my favorite out of the whole series and the only version I actually beat at an arcade back in 97'.

http://www.arcadeplaying.com/image/X_Men_vs_Street_Fighter.jpghttp://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/220350-x-men-vs-street-fighter-playstation-screenshot-due-to-rogue.png


Smash TV: 2 joyticks, explosions, a gun that wouldn't shut up, the whole nine yards. Classic game and one of my top 10 '80s games.

http://www.skooldays.com/images/ag1128.jpg

[Riddler]

http://www.gamezone.com/images/gamezone/23/9/28/s23928_gc_18.jpg


I think that would have to be #1.


NBA JAM probably ate most of my quarters though.

[Qwyjibo]

I loved X-Men vs Street Fighter. I'd play the hell out of that.

Also some of those unfair coin eating machines like X-Men The Arcade Game and WWF WrestleFest.


http://www.multiplayergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/wrestlefest.jpg

[Riddler]

http://www.arcade-museum.com/images/118/118124213995.jpg

[Tarik One]

Double Dragon


Cool game until you get to the last phase. You know, the one where they're poking spears at you and sections of the wall are popping out. Totally takes away from spirit of the game. Just a cheap gimmick to get you to lose more energy before you get to the final showdown against the machine gun guy.

[Styles p]

area 51
time crisis
house of the dead
san fran rush
police trainer

[Patrick Chewing]

This one brought me a lot of joy too

http://www.flippers.be/images/arcade/lethal_enforcers_1.jpg

http://freesnesroms.info/images/Lethal%20Enforcers%20-%20Free%20SNES%20Rom%20Download.gif http://www.gameclassification.com/files/games/Lethal-Enforcers.png

[Bucket_Nakedz]

:lol what a great thread.

anyway, everybody pretty much covered all the greats but these are some i really enjoyed as well...

- killer instinct

- die hard

- bubble bubble

- fatal fury

- shadow dancer

[Rasheed1]

Space Invaders

Punch Out

Ms Pac-Man

Karate Champ

Ghosts & Ghouls

Spy Hunter

[Take Your Lumps]

I'll throw some more out there...

Ring King
http://www.retrocpu.com/nes/images/games/r/ring_king.png

Road Blasters
http://www.ilovethe80s.com/road_blasters.gif

Bad Dudes
http://www.freeroms.com/roms_screenshot2/mame_bad_dudes_vs._dragonninja_(us)_2.gif

Wonderboy
http://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/wonder_boy.jpg

Jungle Hunt/King
http://www.coolrom.com/screenshots/mame/Jungle%20Hunt%20(US)%20(2).gif

[Nevaeh]

Bump. The other Thread reminded me of this one.

[CelticBaller]

ring king sucked. Punchout is way better

[KevinNYC]

As a soon to be greybeard who was in grade school just as Arcade games burst on the scene, the ones I loved spending my paper route money on were

Asteroids. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSLZmtwJHJw) For me, this was the best first generation game. Much better than Space Invaders and Pac Man. I still remember playing this to the point, that when I went to sleep at night, I would see Asteroids behind my eyelids.

Joust (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BNBQxMnvzs) A forgotten classic. Hard to master. You killed the enemies by flying higher than them, but if you flew too high, you bounced off the top of screen and they would kill you. If you stopped tapping the button to fly, you fell with what seemed like real momentum and it was hard to go from a free fall back to flying. The key was to stay no too high and then quickly go high for the kill. There's a bar near me that has this.

Qix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZt64cECO5g) Super simple graphics, really challenging game play. You had to wall off a majority of the screen without crossing the line you created or getting hit by the Qix, which was just a group of lines that changed shape and position unpredictably.



So what dates me more? The fact I played Asteroids or the fact that I had a paper route?

[Thorpesaurous]

This is my era.

Dragon's Lair
The sit down Spy Hunter.
NBA Jam
Mortal Combat
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Virtua Fighter
Pit Fighter


There were so many weird ones over the years.


When I was a kid I'd spend a couple weeks every summer on Hampton Beach in Vermont which had a great boardwalk littered with arcades. And we had one near where I grew up, the Milford Rec, which was home to more than a few birthday parties over the years. The Milford Rec is still open, but these days it's mostly a laser tag gallery. I have little cousins who don't even comprehend the concept of an arcade.

[Jailblazers7]

My buddies has an arcade machine hooked up to a computer that has hundreds of old games on it. We still play NBA Jams everytime I go over lol.

[BurningHammer]

http://images.webmagic.com/klov.com/images/10/1097278893.jpg

[Lebron23]

http://www.gearfuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/xmenarcade.jpg

[Alamo]

Galaga is the best game ever created.

[magic chiongson]

in historical order:

street fighter 2
teenage mutant ninja turtles (4 players)
x-men (4 players)
alien vs predator
x-men: children of the atom
marvel superheroes

i stopped playing arcades after that

[DeuceWallaces]

Ring King was fun. What was the other boxing one from the 90's where you were green vectors and you had to punch with the two handles?

TMNT
X-Men with all yer boys.
Off Road
Pack Rat
Dragon's Lair
P.O.W. Prison of War
Operation Wolf
John Elway's QB Club

[Snoop_Cat]

http://www.toy-tma.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Raiden-II-Screens.png

best game EVER.

[ballup]

Big Buck Hunter
Time Crisis (1 or 2)
Metal Slug
Crazy Taxi
DDR
Simpsons

[DaHeezy]

Street fighter
Street Fighter II
Ghosts and Goblins
Bass Fishing
ninja Gaiden
Double Dragon

[Rake2204]

1. Pop-a-Shot
2. Air Hockey/Bubble Hockey
3. NBA Jam/NBA Jam: Tournament Edition
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
5. The Simpsons
6. Tetris/Lethal Enforcers/Daytona USA

There was a time where the most exciting part about going to Cedar Point was not going on the roller coasters, but playing NBA Jam: Tournament Edition. It was like that. It always seemed like the game's audio was turned up to 11, which in turn made things feel extremely intense. And I always thought it was funny that players would be shoving each other to the floor, setting nets on fire, etc. and it was all more or less overlooked. However, god forbid you goaltend a shot, because at that point the arcade game itself would go into partial meltdown, with the screen flashing red, loud horn blaring, and announcer yelling, "GOALTENDING!?"


I can't leave a place unless I own the machine record on one of the hoops. Luckily Super Shot is fairly cheap. :rockon:
I'm the same exact way. Someday, if our arcade paths ever cross, there's going to be a problem.

A few years ago my little brothers saved up $70 or so and bought a ghetto Pop-a-Shot off the internet. It was at that point I was able to refine my strategy and technique. For me, to be successful at Pop-a-Shot almost requires forgetting everything I know about how to shoot a basketball. Still a tremendous amount of fun though. There's a giant basement arcade in downtown Ann Arbor I frequent every now and again with my brothers or a date, and Pop-a-Shot is always a can't miss stop. That and Tetris.

[Rake2204]

Also, some interesting facts about NBA Jam (via interview with Jam creator Mark Turmell):


Who was your favorite two-man team?
The most interesting one was the team of Gary Payton and Michael Jordan. Payton didn't make the cut to be in the game, and of course, Jordan pulled himself out of the licensing of the NBA, so we had to pull him out of the game. But one day, I got a phone call from a distributor out on the west coast who told me that Gary Payton was willing to pay whatever it cost to get into the game. So we told him what to do in terms of taking photographs, so he sent in photographs of himself and Jordan, saying, "We want to be in the game, hook us up." So we actually did a special version of the game and gave both players all-star, superstar stats. There are only a handful of these machines, but Jordan and Payton did end up being in one version of the game.

Shaq actually bought two machines. He kept one at home and then, if you can believe this, they shipped the game with them on their road trips, setting up the machine in their hotel rooms as they traveled. The players would play, then get someone to pack it up and ship it off to the next city.

Did Scottie Pippen's ratings in the game really drop when he played certain teams?
It's true, but only when the Bulls played the Pistons. If there was a close game and anyone on the Bulls took a last second shot, we wrote special code in the game so that they would average out to be bricks. There was the big competition back in the day between the Pistons and the Bulls, and since I was always a big Pistons fan, that was my opportunity to level the playing field.

What's the rumor we hear about NBA Jam being haunted?
We had already finished making NBA Jam when Drazen Petrovic died. The game had already shipped and he was on the Nets. So we had all of these coin-op machines around, and one night we were playing Mortal Kombat and there was a Jam machine next to it, and all of a sudden the game started calling out "Petrovic!" "Petrovic!" And this only happened after Petrovic had died. Everyone started freaking out. Something weird was going on with the software, and to this day, if you have an original NBA Jam machine every once in a while it will just yell out "Petrovic!" It's wild.

Here's the full article: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3668922

[Rake2204]

Sorry for killing this thread. I didn't think people would be that put off by NBA Jam fun facts.

[Stuckey]

marvel vs capcom 1
marvel vs capcom 2
marvel vs streetfighter
x men vs streetfighter
initial d

[DaHeezy]

Galaga is the best game ever created.

So you're old enough to appreciate Galaga the arcade version but have a vigil of a teenie bopper?

Pedo bear please...

[tomtucker]

what was the name of that old arcade game where you throw a shield in front of you........?

[QUIZZLE]

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/7666/1692368-digduggameplay_super.gif

[pauk]

1. Sunset Riders (with 4 players... the best game in human history...)
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n329/mfjacob/Jogos/ScrenShots/SunsetRidersArcade.jpg

2. Metal Slug
http://wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/752/752045/metal-slug-anthology-20061220065419558.jpg

3. Art of Fighting
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/artoffighting/aof-11.png

4. King of Fighters
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vAlF85cFdjU/TuhTxq-VfTI/AAAAAAAAC1A/2DPkj-pmU_4/s1600/king-of-fighters-98-ultimate-match-3.jpg

5. Kung Fu
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JYIVvhFu4sk/TnedkThyoRI/AAAAAAAABjk/vcQ3jegk_IM/s1600/Arcade_Kung-Fu_Master_S.PNG

6. Strikers 1945
http://arcade.svatopluk.com/psikyo/strikers_1945_iii/strikers_1999_09.png

[DeuceWallaces]

Sunset Riders and King of Fighters are good ones.

[FatComputerNerd]

http://www.basementarcade.com/arcade/guant/The%20Gauntlet%20in%20the%20Basement%20Arcade.jpg

[glidedrxlr22]

Centipede
Zaxxon
NBA Jam
Afterburner
Golden Axe
Vigilante

[DetroitPiston]

Mortal Kombat 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
X-Men
OutRun
AfterBurner
Crazy Taxi

[AlphaWolf24]

Final Fight...by far the best arcade beat em up game ever
http://www.gamereactor.eu/media/80/finalfight_198042.jpg

a very underated game...must play the arcade version
http://www.pinballzarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/hydro_thunder_twin_video.jpg

Tru classic
http://www.thebasementarcade.com/images/starwarsroadtrip98b.jpg


Hard Drivin..the first open sandbox racing game....the loop was EPIC!
http://www.arcade-history.com/images/cabinetmini160/1083.jpghttp://www.automopedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/harddriving2.JPG


Hang on!
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http://www.gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Arcade/Cabinet/big/Ironman_Ivan_Stewart-s_Super_Off-Road_-_1989_-_Leland_Corp..jpghttp://www.retrocpu.com/mame/images/roms/i/ironman_ivan_stewarts_super_off-road_track-pak.png

[Rake2204]

http://www.gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Arcade/Cabinet/big/Ironman_Ivan_Stewart-s_Super_Off-Road_-_1989_-_Leland_Corp..jpghttp://www.retrocpu.com/mame/images/roms/i/ironman_ivan_stewarts_super_off-road_track-pak.png
Good call on Off Road. That's classic roller rink gaming for me right there.

[Lebron23]

Punisher the arcade game, and teenage ninja turtles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQwzq7j7vU

[Reggie43]

Capcom vs Snk
Street Fighter Alpha III
King of Fighters 95
Wrestlefest
Run and Gun
Captain Commando

[baudkarma]

Hydro Thunder is my all-time favorite. There's a retro arcade just a couple of miles from my house. 11 bucks gets you in the door, 80+ games set to free play, craft beer and cider available at the bar. Never going to D&B or Main Event agian.

[Patrick Chewing]

https://www.joystixgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Terminator-2-Judgement-Day-arcade-game-at-Joystix.jpg

[glidedrxlr22]

Damn.....I posted here 8 years ago. Lemme add another one:

https://static2.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/star-wars-arcade-cabinet.jpg

[DoctorP]

Damn.....I posted here 8 years ago. Lemme add another one:

https://static2.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/star-wars-arcade-cabinet.jpg

Nice