which arcade game ate most of your quarters?

Mortal Kombat (Original 1992) was definitely the arcade machine I put the most quarters into. A local hangout where many of my friends and I would hang out on fridays had a MK machine that we played the hell out of. The owner of the place was a friend too who I played many many matches against. I kicked everybodys asses but he was the real competition. I think he spent alot of freetime practicing to go against me. And one of these days I'm gonna put my Mortal Kombat boards in a cabinet.

 

Ridge Racer, closely followed by Daytona USA. Rave Racer has to be the best arcade racer ever, IMHO.

 

Many of you complain about virtualy non-existant Arcades, try living in Greece for a change.

Oh how I envy those who have played F-zero AX. Especially London's big hydraulic cabinet with that sweet pilot-seat. Although I m a fairly decent F-zero GX (And X of course) player, I have yet to lay hands on its Arcade version

 

Various Pinball machines
Gauntlet
TMNT 4 player cab
STUN Runner
SFII
Golden Axe

In that order

 

there's a Japanese Hydraulic F-Zero AX outside the movie theatre in the expensive mall (Galería 360) in Guadalajara, so heads up if anyone ever comes to this god-forsaken excuse for a city.

jwhazel:
How could I forget NBA Jam???
Now, about Killer Instinct. Even if the arcade game was absolutely impressive, I really disliked Killer Instinct back in the day. I loved it at the arcade at first and bought the SNES version... and I had friends coming over and using my console for 7 or 8 hours straight (without much of my approval... or participation in the matter) like three times a week for like 3 weeks. That game becomes tiring quite quickly like that.

 

Dang, maybe I'm old here....

Tron
Cyberball
Street Fighter II
Track & Field
Spy Hunter
NARC
720
Galaga/Galaxian

Maybe the worst of all....Dragon's Lair. That would be the most continuations, probably.

 

Likwise Tron.........

Numan Athletics
SF2 & all its brothers (obviously)
Ridge Racer
Daytona (still does, im still crap)
Scud Race/Super GT
GTI Club
Premier Soccer
Siebu Olympic Cup Soccer (best)

Too hard to say was in the arcade all my youth hehe.

 

I haven't seen a F-Zero AX machine and I live in the USA, but it's the mid-west not the coast areas. I imagine there is a chance my local arcade (which is owned by Namco apparently) has one, but I haven't been there lately. Ah poor arcades can no longer compete with all the other entertainment we have. Even if they are the most amazing games with cutting edge technology, they just can't seem to win.

 

are you talking about "ALL TIME QUARTER EATING" ?

because if you are, everybody here MUST say the original Street Fighter II and Street Fighter II champion edition. No other game has taken so much of my money and I belive everyone here should be in the same boat. It had a learning curve with no home system to play on initially. When Street fighter II came out in the arcade the only thing available to practice on at home was "fightingstreet" on turbografx CD and that wasn't even close to the arcade SFII

There were many games I played over the past few decades, but unless were talking late 70's arcade games and much older gamers, nothing comes close to Street Fighter, unless people who have posted so far just were not into SFII when it came out?

 

Yeah apparently the us machine was extremely poor in distribution, though for some reason there seem to be more of namcos latest games as well as king of fighter xi and metal slug 6. Though i must say hous of the dead 4 took about $10 from me (though that was due to its high price, but the hd cab was worth it).

The next would be mvs machines, as a kid id spend tons playing the latest fatal fury or world heroes. Also i remember spending quite a bit on teenage muntant ninja turtles and most definetly the simpsons arcade game.

God i miss the old the days, i think the last big release in the arcades belive it or not was street fighter 3 3rd strike, after that the US arcades sorta slowly dwindeled (after the dc release of marvel vs capcom 2 i believe). For some odd reason 18 wheehler was alot funner in the arcades then on dreamcast.

 

I never actually put a single quarter into a Street Fighter II' machine. I did however play it alot on SNES back in the day, but now I own the actual arcade boards for SF2 not to mention you'd have a hard time finding an arcade with an SF2 machine to sink a quarter into!

That's something I'll never understand. Why did all the arcades always dump out old games for new ones even though many of the old ones were 100 times better than the new crap. Example, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, it sucks. Sorry but it just sucks. It's a decent game but can't live up to the fun factor of the first 2 MK games. But no arcade I've seen in the last 10 years has a single Mortal Kombat or MKII machine. Only UMK3s and maybe MK4s. The only places you find MK machines are in select locations that you don't think of first when you think where would you find an arcade machine. I.E. Pizza parlor, laundry mat, comic shop.

If I had all the resources and the chance to do it, I'd open a real arcade that doesn't throw out older games. I'd want to have the greatest all there, not just what's come out recently. I certainly think it would be funny to have Street Fighter II" > Street Fighter II' CE > Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting > Super Street Fighter II' > Super Street Fighter II' Turbo all in a line next to each other. And put on the Left of that a line of the SFA series, on the right the SF3 series. That would be pretty scary looking.

I have a feeling when I'm older and have more time and more space that is what my house is going to look like.

 

Makes two of us

Didn`t really spend hours in the arcades

My golf club when I was a junior member got "MOON CRESTA" and the guy clocked it with 99 credits, so that kept us going for some time.

When he came a week later to empty it he gave us another 99


The only other one that I used to put money in was at college and was
"Crazy Balloon"

If only I could get a nice sit down of either of these it would be great!

 

Well if it makes japan-games feel any better, I ve spent a small fortune on the original Pac-Man and Donkey Kong machines, as well as on Galaxian

 

You just described one of my greatest dreams, sir. This is what I want to do, almost exactly.

I'd have that classic arcade, with games from the eighties and nineties, with really cool sci-fi murals (all arcades had these in the eighties in Mexico) with a comic/manga/game shop right next to it, maybe with a café-like thing. I know for a fact where the land to make it work is (And it's for sale!), and where to get some of the arcade machines, and who to distribute japanese stuff to me for the shop.

Yet... if I check my pocket, and see my current capital (twenty one pesos and fifty cents) I'm about eight million pesos short from getting to my dream...

...there's always the lottery, I guess.

 

This is hard. When I was a kid, probably one of the two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. As a teenager? Let's say I was happy for two and a half years,thanks to the school being literally surrounded by arcade places filled with Capcom fighting game and some SNK games. There was not a single day during the weekdays that I did not play at the very least once.

 

Gauntlet hands down -- 2 yrs worth of quarters saved up in a big jar, Gone by the end of the night!

 

probably choplifter for me

 

Choplifter I never played at the arcade, but I spent hours and hours and hours on it on the Commodore 64. It was truly an awesome game.

There's a Super Nes sequel, is there not? Is it any good?

 

I've never played a snes version, I know there was a regular nes version that lacked the graphic quality of the arcade but was still every bit of fun minus my lack of a joystick.


edit: there was a sequel for snes, choplifter 3; its been awhile for me