Favourite Arcade Titles/Cabinets...

This may have already been covered, if so my apologies.

Basically, when you went to an Arcade, which Game did you always play on without fail.. was it the game that had you hooked or the cabinet/interaction etc?

For me the following were my all time favourites!

Operation Wolf
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 player!)
Silent Scope
Original - Star Wars
and Super Hang On

 

Area 51 (saved money by buying the arcade board)

 

Funnily enough i forgot about that one.. was looking at a complete cabinet working for that earlier today aswell!

On ebay UK.

 

Daytona USA (8 Player version with 8 people is the pinicle of arcade joy)
Outrun Deluxe (ah that big hunking force feedback moving chair cabinet)
Virtua Racing Deluxe (I love the fact that the sides of the chair moved into your legs as you turned to simulate G force)
Virtua Formula (Virtua Racing but in life like sized F1 like cars on a large projection screen).
Super Monaco GP (I miss this game but the deluxe version with it's air driven seat meant it felt as close to racing as you were going to get).

 

erm, you like driving games by any chance? :110:

 

Metal Slug was a great one. I would play any of the entries in the series if I came across them in an arcade.
Also:
Dungeons and Dragons ARPGs.
Time Crisis 2, 3 if it's not too expensive.
I developed an addiction to one of the Gundam action games when I was in Japan, but I haven't gotten enough motivation to pick up one of the console ports. I've heard they just aren't as good.

 

Mortal Kombat, Metal Slug, and Soul Calibur 1&2 are probably the arcade games I sunk the most money into, with Mortal Kombat leading the pack by a huge margin.

I own a bootleg MK PCB that one of these days I'll put into a cabinet or find a suitable TV/Monitor for it. I also have MK2.

 

MK withteh 'Finish Him' ending was always best! :icon_bigg

 

First cabinet I fell in love with was Star Fire, cuz I was a Star Wars fanatic and it looked like a SW game. First sit-down game I ever played. 50 cents a game with a 60 second time limit per credit back in '79, so I didn't get to play it often.

Years later I liked the rotating joystick on Ikari Warriors and Victory Road, and the tank-like controls of Vindicators and Assault.

But the coolest one had to be the After Burner sit-down version with the tilt 'n tumble cockpit. $1 a credit in '88. It was SWEET!

 

Does anyone rememer the early Virtual Reality units where you put teh head piece on and stood in the centre of a ring and basically walked around like normal?

 

Double Dragon
Splatterhouse
Bubble Bobble
Golden Axe
TMNT

and thats it in terms of games I would always have a few credits on if I saw them. Of course I'd play many others but those 5 would always get my cash wherever I saw them.

One day I hope to own an original dedicated Splatterhouse cab..perhaps in a year or so when I've bought my own place (and have a few £k spare).

 

I sure do. And they had monitors near the setup that let you see what the player was seeing. They were ussually running some kind of terradactile nightmare game or something.

 

Ridge Racer 2
Rave Racer
Time Crisis
Beast Busters
Point Blank
DJ Boy
Golden Axe!
Final Fight
Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Ghosts and Goblins
Daytona USA
Edit: How could I forget Outrun?!
And Space Harrier

In no real order

 

Street fighter III 3rd strike (best)
Metal slug
Time crisis
More capcom fighters
More SNK fighters

 

thats the ones!

I cant seem to find any more info or images out about them though :banghead:

 

Dactyl Nightmare, you're talking about.

 

Found a pic finally!


Thanks for the name of the Game Alchy... helped my search for an image and info of the 'Virtuality' Systems!

 

SW: Sitdown cab
Star Trek: same as SW
Battlezone
Moon Cresta
Discs of Tron: Full cab

tons more of course but those were the biggies

 

You're showing your age there Spot778. Although Star Wars is much better in a Sit Down cabinet (as long as the monitor doesn't fry itself and catch fire....).

 

kof 98!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! start+up/down-left/right-square like crazy! + 2 punches , hell yeah!