Greatest Arcade Game - EVER!!!!

My Favorites in order
1.Discs of Tron( The Best Game of All Time)
2.Tron (Bought this console in '85)
3.Battlezone
4.Firefox
5.Gauntlet(My Two best friends and I spent $40. playing this quarter eater on my 18th birthday)

My favorite 'Classic' arcade game was Donkey Kong. Simply a classic. I must have spent rolls of quarters at a time on this while my Mongoose BMX bike lay just outside the store.

But I always have been and always will be a sports nut.... loved all the Baseball, Basketball and Football games.

There are so many sweet arcade games that come to mind, but I'll list just a few:

1 China Gate
2 Ye Ar Kung Fu
3 Tron
4 Gals Panic
5 Gauntlet
6 Goonies
7 Vigilante
8 Xenophobe
9 Rampage
10 This really kewl game from 10 years ago, the jist was that you drove a motorcycle and could get sidecar add-ons (bigger guns, etc.) to blow up things ahead of you.

Man, the list could go on and on... :D :D :D

Battlezone has to be my all time favorite and only because after over 6 hours of play I scored over 1,000,000. Have the date and actual points wrote down somewhere. Starwars was fun and missle Command was a kick. Loved that big track ball. Pole Position was another that I became quite good at. Centipede was my nemises. I wish I had all my quarters back. There were a number of games that played off an internal CD. They cost 50 cents to play and I think Indiana Jones was one of them. Man did they ever eat my lunch. And how about 007? that was another killer. :cool: :cool: :cool: :D

how about Elevator Action (when I was a kid my parents went bowling on sat. nights, I would spend three hours in front of that game shoving quarters in it) Kung Fu Fighter (I think that is it, you had two joysticks per player and different combinations would do certain moves, to this day I still know the combinations) 1943 (way cool), Spy Hunter (rocked the shiznit, and I believe there is a new version of it coming out for PS2) Ghouls and Goblins, WWF WrestleFest was cool too.

There was this one game I knew and had only seen it at one arcade, You drove this little car back and forth across what appeared to be different steel girders in multiple levels across the board you drove over all of the girders you would advance to a new level with more girders, different desgins, longer jumps between them etc.

Street Fighter 2, all the way baby!!

My all time favorite is Galaga. There have been a whole lot of runner-ups, but I would say Galaga has stood my test of time. Luckily the racade over at the mall next to where I work still has this awesome game. I have spent many a lunch break playing this game off of one quarter (and only quit because of time constraints). I can play Galaga for hours to this day, and only spend 50 cents.

Hey Guys,
First off, EvilKlown, the karate game you are thinging of is Karate CHamp. When I bought my arcade machine, it was in a Karate Champ cabinate. I couldn't believe that someone had ruined it by converting it. As for arcade games,

Classic:
Galaga (check out Midway's Class of 1981, a JAMMA board arcade game with Ms. Pac Man and Galaga)
Tron and Discs of Tron are also great.

Most Unique:
Dance Dance Revolution. An incredible game to play with friends, if you get just get over embarrasment easily

What about Cobra Command and Commando or dare I say it, Time Pilot and of course Golden Axe
talk about quarter magnets......

Battlezone ruled for me...Defender came second then Tempest.

Classic Arcade - Frogger, PacMan

Later - Hard Drivin, Mortal Kombat II, Crusin USA - used to spend WAY too much everyweekend on Cruisin! :)

There were a lot of them but I've must have spent hundreds of dollars in quarters on Spy Hunter and Tron.