which arcade game ate most of your quarters?

X-men the 6 player one

 

Me too. :110: Haven't seen the big 6 player version in a long time though.

But also:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
OutRun / OutRun 2
Daytona USA
Police 24/7
Time Crisis and Virtua Cop series

 

Probably Star Wars Trilogy arcade, the later Sega one, and Daytona USA. Ive played a bunch of other games, like Time Crisis 4 and Biohazards Gun Survivor, and spent over 10 bucks on each before, so its really hard to say. Having your own arcade machines helps a bit

 

Percussion Master...they have it here at Purdue(they have two arcades here). The game is $1.00 a play, but it's fun when you are with friends.

 

TMNT Arcade
Raiden DX

 

Sega Rally 2, definetely. Bitch all you want, I love the game, even compared to the original!

 

Arcade machines are an endangered species round here (a ferry trip this year was heaven for me as they had machines dotted about everwhere).
Though there is a Soul Edge machine in a local pub which I often play. I spent about £20 on that in one night once.

 

You could probably buy the arcade board for that price

 

I've considered it. Come to think of it an old shop in town recently reopened claiming to be an arcade, though I've heard it's just slot machines.

 

Area 51. By far. I eventually bought the arcade board to save money. :nod:

 

Agreed, arcade machines are virtually non-exsistant where I live. Occasionally you run into them at movie theaters and the like, but the days of the large shopping mall arcades is over.

Street Fighter Three third strike - Even though I have it on dreamcast it's just not the same as the arcade
Saumrai Showdown II - Lots of marathon games back in college.
Time pilot - Over the years I've probably spent a fortune on this one.

 

hmmmm Final Fight, must be the one, I have used most on(many years ago in Silkeborg), but that is because, arcades, where I live are rare like gold. So we have the arcade museum in Storup, and then we have Tivoli, and bakken, but still their arcade machines are very old ones. Heck I played the super system(Super Punch Out was the game I played) about two weeks ago at Bakken. And their newest one must have been either Tekken Tag Tournament, or a Sega arcade board model 3. So
even in Tivoli, there the newest one is Outrun 2 . So I am deeply concerned, that the arcades in Denmark is nowhere anymore, other than in the summer, or in Storup , where ever in Jutland that arcade museum lies in the village. Or perhaps in some of the traveling amusement fairs.

 

I agree.

 

hm.. it must have been tekken 3, metal slug 3 (I think it was 3) and some strange gun game when I was with my old school class in Cyprus and I and a mate found this sweet arcade place. but that was like 4-5 years ago. there isn't much arcade around here in sweden afaik =(

oh yeah. I remember visiting some arcade spot in San Francisco last year too(just can't remember what I played there thought)

 

TMNT
Lethal Enforcers
Sega Rally
SCUD Race
Daytona Usa
Star Wars Arcade (sega)
House Of The Dead 2
Xmen Children Of The Atom
The Simpsons
Rad Mobile

 

Mortal Kombat II. When it first came out, a buddy and I spent every night at the arcade for two weeks straight. That cab was busy all night long during that period. It stayed busy until Super Street Fighter II turbo showed up and then everyone migrated over to that.

Daytona would be a close second due to the fact that even to this day I will make time for a few games if I run across a cab.

Daytona USA= best. game. ever.

 

As a Kid, in the late 80s and early 90s, it was

TMNT, The Simpsons, Xevious, STUN Runner, and some Atari game that had some guys in Red, yellow, and blue uniforms going through a building looking, I think, for aliens. I always wanted to try After Burner II, since that huge arcade (the cooler games were downstairs) was a two floor building. I think there's a pharmacy there, now. The other location of that business is an insurance agency now. (Coincidentally enough, the Anime shop I frequented as a Teenager, where they rented PSX, Saturn and Dreamcast units was right next door to that one)
.... whoa... I just had this massive flashback... being in the arcade, sometime in 1991, ten years old... so vivid I could smell it. Wow.

As a young teenager, Circa 1994, I played a lot of Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, obviously, but I gave everything a good chance, and spent many whole saturdays in the arcade with my friends.
Those days, one would play King of Fighters, World Heroes, and later in the 90's, Metal Slug.

Currently, all those arcades of my youth have disappeared. Coincidentally, the one I went to later in life, the one that was competition to the one I went to as a kid (there were two different arcade chains) has also become a Pharmacy - the competition to the Pharmacy that is housed where the other arcade was.

That chain still exists, though, and they have many retro games, but many are in very bad condition.

Today, I still go to arcades. My ex was really keen on House of the Dead and
Time Crisis (HOTD2 and TC3, more specifically), but we broke up in march and I haven't played a lot of that anymore. I also spent a lot of money playing F-Zero AX. They also have some quirky japanese arcade machines outside of the movie theatre.

Throughout my life, I've also been a fan of Air Hockey, and I play at least once every time I visit an arcade.

 

Whoa... a site full of hardcore gamers and nobody dropped any quarters into a little game called Killer Instinct? Seriously, if I could get back all of the money I spent on this machine I could pay off every one of my student loans and then some.

Being the huge fan of basketball that I was in the early 90's, NBA Jam would have consumed far more of my money if it wouldn't have been for the fact that I saved all of my christmas and birthday money one year and bought it on launch day for SNES. I ended up having the code for 245 consecutive wins before my dog ate the paper I was writing them down on (for reasons unbeknownst to me now, I thought there was some sort of super special secret in this game if you would keep playing up to some point).

I also remember the Simpsons when it came out. Me and friends would casually game on it for awhile. Then one time (I think it was at someones birthday party) random people kept playing and pumping quarters into it. I recall saving it when someone walked away on around the 5th level. We kept handing it off and eventually we beat it in the arcade (when you're 9 years old, this is a HUGE deal). From then on every time I would see someone playing on the same machine I would casially lean up against it like I was hot s**t and utter something like "Yep.. you catch those initials on the high score list... that was us... we beat the game... yep, that was us". Imagine my utter dissappointment 15 years later when I fired this thing up in MAME only to find it takes 10 minutes to beat the first time around.

Demolish Fist. A friend turned me onto this game tucked away in a little bodega in New Jersey. Thank god I was only there for a short time doing contracted work. Unfortunatly now, every time I log into ebay, its usually followed by a quick search for "cheap atomiswave".

 

Midnight Resistance
Snow Bros
Pang / Buster Bros.

My brother and I would play these in the summer together a lot when we were kids. <sigh>

 

my
contra
bad dudes
golden axe
Shadow Dancer (Shinobi)
TMNT
SCUD Race
Daytona Usa
out runner
out run 2
The Simpsons
DJ boys
air buster
neogeo MVS all the games
Altered Beast
Wrestle War
ninja gaiden
Carrier Air Wing / U.S. Navy
Final Fight / Street Fighter '89
Mercs
U.N. Squadron / Area 88
Willow
super contra 2