Best old-school arcade game you have ever played (1980-1996)?

yes on both, don't forget the great haunted house gun game, chiller.....



and it's cousin, crossbow, which is just as good :)

Did not know that. I flipped it by getting the 2nd fighter attached and you basically killed everything on their way in. Kinda redundant.

MACH 3 (1983)



NARC (1988)



Hard Drivin (1988)



Aliens VS Predator (1994)

From what I read that seems like an actual bug in the first version that they corrected. It is not good for quarter sales though so corrected.

If I ever get one, it will only be the first version.

Lucky and Wild (1992)



Double Dragon (1989?)



Ninga Gaiden (1988)



Cyber Sled (1993)



And #1

SPY HUNTER (1983)


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Pinball trumps all of the above.

did you say Trump pinball? How did you know?!

I remember that RC game.... loved making tight corners spinning the wheel wild! Always fancied the yellow car, lighting in the arcade was such that the angle of the yellow wheel had the least glare from the neon "pizza" sign not too far away. Shakey's Pizza was the go-to arcade growing up in the 80's in San Angelo TX

Black tiger is my favorite game....I own one.
I also loved frontline, elevator action, Mario brothers, top gunner. Commando. Mainly obscure titles, but fun nonetheless.

X-Men in the arcade, you know? The one with 4 player options...

Quake 1 was the best FPS hands down.

Contra

Super Mario Brothers, duh. Nothing beats it.

Apeiron by Ambrosia

I guess I'm kind of a dork...

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Was not that big into games but earthworm mario bros.

I remember burning ps1 games

Galaga / Golden Axe

I preferred arcade games you could spend an hour on one quarter:

Black Tiger
Rastan
R-Type

This

My dad owned one of the first barcades ever -- He created 2 college funds off just a couple sit-down Pac Man games in the early 80s. They were being played non-stop.

In my time, Mortal Kombat 2 was revolutionary when it came out. People would gather around the machine to watch me play it, so much so that my dad had to have his tech guy add an additional monitor on top of the game so people could see. The "fatalities" made people go nuts! Nobody had ever seen anything like it.

We'd have big tournaments with $500 prizes. There were only two other players in town who matched my MK2 skills, so I'd always place in the top 3.

It's definitely my favorite arcade game of all time.

I hated Mortal Kombat 3 when it came out, since they added that gay run button though.

Final Lap 2 was also one of the greats. It was one of the first games where you could connect up to 6 players (I think) to race each other. That was really fun as a kid, and made my dad tons of money.

Grown adults would get so mad when my little sister and I would beat any adult who challenged us to a race.


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And what happened to those arcade places. These day its all tickets 1000 you win a free crayon 6 pack.
More skilled toy thingy you never can win.
Arcade places was where I spent time shooting pool or billiards not gaming. You think I can shoot pool or billiards now no where. Even pubs don't have them.
Playing snooker or pool is good for the mind.

Did love sega but hate Sega. Can't save you got to high level then had to begin again and underwater always killed me.

Late 90s Nintendo 64 my hubby bought me why have no idea, 150$ never played it so never knew why he bought it had free basketball game. Yeah as if any then or even now played basketball lol the free game.
Still have 64 my original box in shed.. Also collector's I picked up at yard sale. Still have most Nintendo games even have doubles.
All cartridge's you name it controller's several. Got the Nintendo works games were not on-line no mobile phones ringing in background just Nintendo mucic no ambo or siren's vetc

Oh man, I forgot about Hard Drivin!

Great game!

1. Twin Cobra. Way to much money on that one.
2. Star Wars - sit down version.
3. Tempest
4. Track & Field - With a comb or pencil of course.

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