Top 50 Arcade Games of All-Time

[burnin_vernon]

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/115/1151159p1.html

Any notables missing? I was a little too young to be good at any of them but I do remember playing some.

[keratosis]

Joust. Wasted a lot of quarters on that game.

[dissentowner]

Notable missing is Pitfall.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by keratosis

Joust. Wasted a lot of quarters on that game.

It was Space Invaders for me.

[Byrns]

Not on the list is Track & Field. That game was always occupied.

[bugsy]

Interesting that they would go for Dungeons and Dragons over Golden Axe for side scrolling sword and sorcery games. The D and D ones were awesome though.

List lacks Strider.

Also an archaic first person shooter where you were gunning down Mafia guys. Forget the name.

[getbak]

Pole Position is missing.

I spent many lunch hours during Jr High playing Elevator Action at the Southland Leisure Centre.

[gottabekd]

Looked for "The Simpsons", found it. That was the arcade game everyone would play (in my time, which would be early 90s).

[woob]

Rally Bike

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Byrns

Not on the list is Track & Field. That game was always occupied.

One of the first game exploits I remember is the popsicle stick trick to create a lever to rapid fire the buttons.

My favorite by far just squeaked onto the list, but was very hard to find in arcades..... Sinistar. If I ever find a mint one, I would definitely buy it.If the game had been more mainstream, I am sure it would be in the top 10.

Close second was Battlezone. I loved those old vector graphic games Atari made. They still have a very cool feel to them if you can find one without a horrible case of screen burn-in.

A buddy of mine has a mint version of Tempest, that looks like it just came out of the crate. I guess the thing sat in a private collectors basement for 30 years, and hadn't been turned on more than a few times. Picked the thing up for $500 at an estate auction. The jerk set it to 50 cents and makes me pay to play it. lol

[Barnet Flame]

How on earth is 'Asteroids' not on that list?!?!?

[Roast Beef]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Notable missing is Pitfall.

If this was a list of console games then I would agree. The arcade translations of the Pitfall games were horrible though.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Roast Beef

If this was a list of console games then I would agree. The arcade translations of the Pitfall games were horrible though.

maybe but the machine was always busy where I lived.

[JohnnyB]

Golden Axe, Rampage & X-Men were the big ones for me.
Rampage was all I ever wanted to play at Chucky Cheese on my birthdays.

[Regulator75]

Nice to see Street Fighter 2 in the top five.

[DownhillGoat]

Cruisin USA and Time Crisis 2.

After looking through that list I have to play some Rampage again.

[burnin_vernon]

I loved Rampage. I remember the console versions being so awful and disappointing.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by burnin_vernon

I loved Rampage. I remember the console versions being so awful and disappointing.

Funny, I never actually played the arcade version until years after the NES one came out.

[CaramonLS]

Knights of the round
Lethal Enforcers
NFL Blitz

Wasted a lot of time on those ones + X-men.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

Lethal Enforcers

Good call.