Tempest was it for me. Spent tons of money on that game.

gauntlet delivered and afterburner ruled

Final Fight!

Donkey Kong and Q-bert by far...but Dragon's Lair was pretty fucking cool when it first came out :winkwink:

In the old days:

Kung Fu.
Galaga
PacMan

later on:

Street fighter 2
Mortal Kombat (Finish him)
And all the stuff by SNK and Taito (http://neo-geo.com)

And I'm still a sucker for pinball machines

Blood Brothers
Merc
Space Harrier

Galaga and Punch Out

Spy hunter :thumbsup

Man, no one mentioned the best racing game of all time.
Super Sprint

To me the ultimate coin-op game was Donkey Kong. I also loved Galaxians which was better than Space Invaders. The there was Gorf and Pole Position. There was also another game which involved driving with a black background and the track was just vertical lines which were like small posts, may have been called Night Driver or something similar, now that was old school.

The Spyhunters, Paperboys and the like were newer and by then I was more into my Commodore 64.

Fiddy trips down memory lane.

I second that, and i have a original full sized Punch Out in my Studio

I dropped a ton of money in Rampage, Rampart, and Altered Beast. latr on it was Xmen the side scroller as well as the fightng game. i guess i did alot of Killer instinct and motal kombat as well

LOL altered Beast!! I remember the Oville arcade had that one and i played it like fucking CRAZY!!

Also NBA Jam (the origional) and the 4 player wrestling haha!

DH

i like the xmen 6player game damn i miss those!!

I spent a lot on Punch-Out ( way before Nintendo had it) and also on Double Dragon.

Galaga
Ninja Warrior
Bad Dudes
Double Dragon

There are many others but I don't even remember the titles. Had lots of fun with those - so many quarters spent. Sometimes I wish I still liked video games but at some time during adolesence they just lost the magic for me.

Centipede :)

I even bought one of the arcade sized machines. I ended up giving it away during a move, but I can still kick total ass playing it ;)

i built an AWESOME mame cabinet like Mr. PHeers last summer. The cabinet was a mortal kombat converted into an Area51, but its all black and super sleek now with a huge control panel designed to play pretty much everything out there, including two player SmashTV - which we finished in one sitting on the first play. :)

Goood stuff.


But my favorites from growing up are:
1)Tempest
2)Dig Dug
3)Tron
4)Galaga
5)Ateroids
6)Spy Hunter
and to a lesser degree: Dragon's Lair and Space Ace

Then from teen years -
NARC
Gauntlet
Area 51
Road Blasters (why? I have no idea)
19XX


The newer games at $0.75 - $1.50 per play just don't stack up. I miss the old school game play, so I rarely go to arcades anymore. Just sit in my basement and drink and play with my fat bald buddies.

pac man
ms. pac man
donkey kong jr.
phoenix
galaga
rambo game was pretty cool
missle command

I used to love to go to the arcade and play

Frogger
Mortal Kombat
Galagar
Blitz

Space Invaders!!!

Pole Position
SpyHunter
Tron
Dragon's Lair
Centipede
Ms. Pacman
Galaga

Tempest
Robotron
Super Pacman

back in the days when ALL arcade games were a quarter...hehe

Space Invaders... Pac Man. I was in highschool in the 80's.

Street Fighter II
Dragon's Lair
MK and MK II

I didn't go to the actual arcade as much as I would have liked to but when I did I liked Donkey Kong jr and things like the variety of female pacman games.

I love video games

streetfighter and mortal combat

Galaga, and StarGate!

Dig Dug
RBI
Street Fighter

I used to play Major Havoc every day after school at the 7-11.


B

My Uncle owned Dig-Dug and Galaga machines - so I played those until I got sick of 'em.

Bubble Bobble
Street Fighter
World of Heroes
Gladiator
Mortal Kombat
Gauntlet

Anyone mention Ninja Gaiden yet?

A lot of these have become available on Xbox360 Live Arcade. Russian Attack (renamed Rush N Attack to be politically correct), TMNT, Double Dragon, etc, have all came out in the last couple months.

I'm still waiting for Gauntlet 2. Apparently that is out on PS3 now.

cool, thats what I did too

double dragon and 720 are my favs

Arcades rule :)

Double Dragon (DA SHIT!)
Ghosts and Goblins
1942
KungFu
Bomb Jack
I hated Frogger cos I sucked at it haha

How much do the games in arcades cost now? I remember in the late 80's I started seeing some for 50 cents! Are they like a dollar per play now? lol

I was The MASTER! THE MASTER I SAY! 25 cents and over an hour of DESTRUCTION! :thumbsup *12 years old and a hustler was born*
I was taking lunch money and setting high scores all over Detroit!

http://arcadecontrols.com/images/New...6-defender.jpg

Also, once you got past the 5th Key, it was the same pattern for hours, of "Dot Muchin'" Fun!

http://discover-net.net/~dmkeil/coco/images/pacman.gif