Your All-time Favorite Arcade Game

[The Unknown Gamer]

As another posting reminded me of Pac Man. I began to think of what
was my favorite arcade game (thats at the arcade and not at home)
To me the answer was simple Pac Jr. I loved that game, best of all
for me I was very good at it. The layout of the board and the inbetween
animation was great. I still wonder why nobody came out with a home
version other than the 2600 crap was ever released. You know I even
contacted Namco when they were still releasing Namco Museum titles
for the PSX and asked them. No joke, the guy I finally talked to actually
told me that the US crew wanted to release a Pac Man collection at the
same time Pac Man 20th aniversary came out for the PSX. But they were
over rulled by the bosses in Japan. Anyway other than my personal
obsession what is your all-time favorite arcade game. That includes Pong
to present day machines

[NE146]

We've done this a couple times here, but I'll bite again I got a lot of favorite arcade games.. If I had to choose though It would have to be ROBOTRON. My nostalgic favorite is the Taito upright version of Space Invaders Part II. Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to find one of these anywhere in the states.

Lots more arcade games I really like.. too many to mention though

[GaijinPunch]

Rastan by Taito, always holds a special place in my heart, although I've definitely spent the most money on VF4: Evolution... it's a different kind of play though, and money is required for the latter.

[IGotTheDot]

Gyruss rocks the house.

[XpOsUrE]

The original double draggon was like my first aracade love so I would have to go with that bad boy....GOD that game brings back some great memorys .

[buttasuperb]

MK2, I own it.

[Half Japanese]

I'm gonna be extremely cheap n' cheesy here and say the Ultracade! It's that arcade unit that packs in about 40 old arcade games in one convenient cabinet. Oh alright, if I had to pick another it would be a tie between Ms. Pac Man and Robotron.

[Raccoon Lad]

Turbo Outrun in the full rocking cockpit cabinet....

[GrandAmChandler]

The following owned all my quarters as a kid:

Rampage
Pole Position (Sit Down)
Super Pac-Man

[grayrobertos]

Street fighter 2 the very first one, with the two fellas fighting on the street in the opening sequence. Id pay top doller for one of them ahhh.

Its wer I learned my trade.

[The Manimal]

I'll be the second one to name DOUBLE DRAGON.



Street brawlers were 'da bomb'

[scooterb23]

Tempest is my favorite game ever...but any version of DDR is right up there

I actually beat my first 3 foot song a couple days ago

I'm really horrible at the game, but I love it...

[Boboduo]

Blaster Thanks go to whoever brought their standup
to CGE.

[MarioAllStar2600]

I wasn't around for old arcades. So Ill pretend. When I was liek 7 I used to run to the arcade everyday after school to play MS.PACMAN. God I loved that agme, still do! Im so good at it I can play with my chin and beat alot of people I know.

[dan2357]

Yeir Kung-Fu

[WiseSalesman]

DDR 5th Mix

[Kroogah]

Never played IIDX in the arcade, so...Beatmania 5th Mix. KIDDING, kidding....

DDR Extreme. :P

[RJ]

Xevious baby!!!

[NoahsMyBro]

Defender

Close runners-up:
Stargate
Gravitar
Xevious

Old favorites, but not 'the best ever':
Berzerk
Spy Hunter
Star Castle
Marble Madness
Rally X
Elevator Action
Peter Packrat
Outrun
Arkanoid

[oesiii]

I still wonder why nobody came out with a home version other than the 2600 crap was ever released.

That port is one of the best games for the 2600, I think you're too stuck on the arcade version

There were also good ports for the 5200 and the Atari 8bit computers. You can buy a repro of the 5200 game at AtariAge. edit: forgot about the C64 version too, us Atari guys always do that


My favorite arcade games from 20 years ago were Karate Champ and Cinematronics' World Series Baseball. I like the unique controls each of them had for the time. The baseball game had cool analog pitching and batting controls.