What is your favorite arcade game?

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abc3643 · Accepted Answer

ARCADE is the operative word.

As I wrote elsewhere yesterday, it's Asteroids.
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That said, years later, I got hooked on three more video games that collected a lot of my quarters.

The first one is Operation: Wolf. I got so good at that, I believe I could play the entire story on one quarter. What helped is that, if you were good enough, you'd kill so fast that the graphics would slow down because the software couldn't keep up and so you could actually become an even better killer.

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The next one is Assault from 1988. I think I could get to the end on 1 quarter also. This was an excellent game with TWO joysticks needed. One thing that was cool was pulling the joysticks apart would cause your tank to perform a wheelie and launch a long-range missile. You could also ROLL your tank!! Unbelievably distinctive and excellent game.

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This last one was expensive... It cost $50 to play. I started playing it after work at my college's arcade in 1996ish. It was called Gunblade: NY. It came out in 1995 but was about a terrorist attack in NYC in 2005. (Sort of creepy when you think about 9/11.) This game was addictive because it was an unbelievable visual experience and very immersive because the gun you had to use is one you actually held AND that had recoil!

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I was about 32 and 33 when I played this. My life had reached a low point, but I finally got a decent job to give me hope. So, I unloaded at nights playing Gunblade.

Circushowcowboy · Accepted Answer

I always enjoy the fighting games like tekken. I also like ski ball and the basketball shooting games

Nikki1989 · Accepted Answer

My husband has vintage pinball machines. They can be fun for 5 minutes on a good day.

7Phoenix7 · Accepted Answer

The fighting games and pacman

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

Ah, arcade games bring back so many nostalgic memories! My favorite has to be the classic Pac-Man. There's something so satisfying about navigating the maze and outsmarting those colorful ghosts. It’s a timeless game that offers fun and challenge, perfect for a bit of retro entertainment. 🕹️👾

MrOracle · Answer

As someone who grew up with the dawn of video games (though, "arcade games" in mechanical and electro-mechanical forms certainly existed for decades before I was born), it's very difficult to pick a single favorite, so I'll name a few of my all-time favorites.

Tail Gunner was one of a number of vector graphics games, and definitely my favorite. You played as the tail gunner of a space ship, and your job was to prevent enemy fighters from getting past you to where they could damage your ship. Three fighters would appear on the screen and try to evade your guns and get past you. You had shields which could prevent them from getting past you, but they were very limited and once gone, that was it - there was no recharging them. Once three ships get past you, the game is over.

Omega Race was another vector graphics favorite. It was somewhat similar to Asteroids except you were confined to the screen by walls and a center island, which if you hit, you would bounce off kind of like a pinball machine bumper.

TRON was a big breakthrough game that was released alongside the movie back in 1982. I went to Disneyland back in '82 just after the movie and video game was released, when few arcades had a TRON machine, and the arcade in Tomorrowland had an entire wall of those blue glowing machines. For its day, the graphics, gameplay, and the music were all top-notch, and it remains a huge favorite.

I think my very favorite arcade game of all time was not a video game, but a pinball game. Released in late 1991, not long after the 1991 Addams Family movie, this pinball game was absolutely loaded with dialog, music, and sound-effects from the movie - especially Raul Julia's Gomez Addams - and the game-play was fantastic and so well integrated with the themes from the movie. This game won Pinball Of The Year, and later Pinball Of The Decade, and went on to become the highest-production pinball machine of all time (well over 20,000 units, when a "successful" game typically has a run of about 5,000).

I played this game enough that to this day, I can absolutely RUN it and I have left machines with 20+ free games on them from a single play. If you ever see one of these in the wild, and you have any interest at all in pinball, this is the machine to play.

Still-alive · Answer

The usuals: Pac-man and Donkey kong. Also liked Frogger, and space invaders

DJB72 · Answer

There was a Formula 1 game a few years back so realistic in it's depiction of the tracks one pro driver played it so he could learn them because he'd come from Indy cars. It was an extremely good game

AviatorTom · Answer

Can't beat the classic pinball.

Xawyx-2 · Answer

Tekken and Street Fighter are my favorites.

Graptemys79 · Answer

There was a Star Trek game back in the day that I used to enjoy as a kid.

NathanDavis · Answer

it is called Snow Brows 2...

Miah06 · Answer

I always went to the basketball machines

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Punching machine

Erron_Black · Answer

tekken

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