What is your favorite arcade game of all time, and which one do you play most frequently right now?

My favorite arcade game of all time is probably Virtual On. There was an arcade in a hotel at least a good hour away from me that had Virtual On, and I used to go up there all the time to play it. I have it for the PS2, but it's just not the same.

The only game I play much in arcades right now is Soul Calibur II. That's partly because there isn't much of a selection at the local arcade, and partly because it's fun to watch Merl get all pouty after he gets owned. Any arcade game I can school people in generally becomes a favorite.

The only reason for me to go to the arcade is to play shooting games. That is pretty much the only type of game that cannot be simulated well at home.

So my favorite would have to be Time Crisis 3.

I personally like any arcade fighting game..... BUT if we just took them out of the subject, I like to play beatmania IIDX, Time Crisis 3 or Virtua Cop 3.

dude, all of you suck. you don't play arcade games and stuff.

Mostly shooting type games, or racing. I especially liked that little Police 911 shooting arcade, what with the body movement and all generating responses in the game.

Not too into the fighting arcades, mainly because whenever I try one to try to get a feel for it, and win one round against the computer, some jerk that has every move and glitch in the arcade memorized comes along and pwnz me so he and a friend can play each other on it (casual arcade gamers, that is, to kill time or whatever, need not apply, I guess).

But any flight/driving simulator/arcade, or shooting arcade, I own.

I don't know the name of my FAVORITE arcade game and it is a very techincal and complicated game so I won't get into it but my other favs would have to be the one where you skateboard, Cruisin whatever games and the infamous Star Wars!!!!

Would you count prize grabbers?
If not probably Area 51.

dude, all of you suck. you don't play arcade games and stuff.

I do. I just suck at coming up with favorites for anything. I've never really got all that behind a particular arcade game. King of Fighters is my favorite fighting game series, but that may be because I'm so used to it.

Space Harrier is awesome.

Worthing Pier. 1990s. The original Teenage Mutant Hero / Ninja Turtles Coin-op. Twenty pence per play. Those were the days. Selecting Raphael and getting my ass kicked before the first boss. God I used to suck at games.

And then there was The Simpsons game as well. That was just as great.

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I forgot one arcade game that was so bad ass, it drove me to lose tons to quarters in Vegas.

That game was Sunsetriders... SUCH a GREAT GAME! ;-;

The old side scrolling beat em ups are the best,i can only plat them using mame.But i have classics like Vendetta and Metamorphic force.great stuff.

Yeah I forgot about a few (Area 51, The Simpsons) but then there is the one that I forgot about that is better than ALL of yours. ARKANOID!!!!!!!!!!!

Wasted many coins on Bubble Bobble, Mortal Kombat II, all the Virtua Fighter incarnations and various SNK games in the arcades.

Oh, and of course all the Street Fighter games (except maybe StreetFighter: The Movie).

The early to mid 90's were the best time for the arcades in my opinion. I haven't set foot in an arcade in years though now, the consoles are too powerful to bother going anywhere and spending huge amounts of money to get practiced on a game. Got sick of being beaten by teenagers who have too much time and money on their hands who have been playing the games non-stop for weeks.

Long live MAME!!

Marvel Vs Capcom 2... very very addictive once you know how to use Cable...

I forgot all about the old Simpsons arcade game. God, that was great.

I'm a big Neo-Geo/Jamma man, owning a collection of, er, 16 or so games at the moment, including FINAL FIGHT! YEAH!

My favourite of them is probably Last Blade 2, or Metal Slug 5, though KoF2k3 = special :p

I think it's called Police 911 . It's a Japanese first person shooting game. When you duck, the game ducks. Then at the end you recive a rating about your intellegence, bravery, reflex, ect. If you go far you can get a bit of a work out.

Originally posted by Jackel
I think it's called Police 911 . It's a Japanese first person shooting game. When you duck, the game ducks. Then at the end you recive a rating about your intellegence, bravery, reflex, ect. If you go far you can get a bit of a work out.

Yeah that game is pretty friggin sweet. It is Police 911, and you stand on the cool little pad... awesome.

didnt like the simpsons game, but i still remember playing it when i went to taco bell.

fave is definitely the tmnt arcade game. is that what it was called? thats how everyone in my family always refer to it as.

right now ive been wasting quarters on a neo geo game at a local motel called magic balloon drop 2 or something liket that. addictive.

BUt......bu..b....but what about ARKANOID????:(

Yeah that game is pretty friggin sweet. It is Police 911, and you stand on the cool little pad... awesome.

Yeah, it took me two continues to beat that one, but I completed it. Got a score of 800/1000, I was soo close to getting "Breau Chief" (lol, gotta love the typos in arcade games)on the rank between levels, but beat the game before I got it (No 100 lives for me :( :( )....

when i was younger i use to play killer instict alot.......boy i was so good at that.....

but the original wonderboy game was so addictive its unreal.... god i love those wonderboy games :D

Hey yo!!
Arcade games were amazing, be it the ones where you grap a mate have some guns and shoot the screen wasting god knows how many pounds or the more platform and then came the classics.

Oh i loved playing TMNT on the aracades and there was this X-Men game as well, don't know what it was called but it was amazing.

Too much money into those machines . . .

Well worth it though!!!!

I didn't play arcade games much because I never had the spare change. But my favorite would probably be Pac-Man. That's a classic and I never bought any other Pac-Man games because I think it should stay in the arcade.

I've got a few favourite arcade games.

First being the original Macross arcade machine. Based on the anime of the same name, I used to play this game every chance I could. I loved the anime and I loved this game.

Second, Daytona. This is great fun, especially if you have three others playing against you. Stuff racing against the computer, smash into your friends and see how many times you could smash their car up. Heh, heh, heh...

Third, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. When I was younger, and when TMNT was still fresh, everyone played it. Personally, I always used Raphael. He's my fav.

Fourth, Metal Slug. Now, I'd prefer this to be the version where you can have blood in it, but in most of the arcades around where I live, the Metal Slug arcade consoles have the no blood option turned on. Bloody fascists!

And my personal favourite arcade game... ALIEN VS PREDATOR!!! I really, really, REALLY love this game!! I remember when I had some work experience in the city, during my lunch break I'd go to the store this game was in, and spend my entire break playing this game. I could finish it, just under 45 minutes. Having to choose between a cyborg (Female character) a guy with a robotic arm (Dutch Shaeffer, the name of the character from the original Predator movie, the one Arnold Schwarznegger (SP?) played). If those two weren't enough, there were two different Predators to play as. The warrior from Predator 2 and the Predator Hunter from Predator. I always use the Predator Hunter, because he was more dangerous and had a cool special move.

At the moment, it's gotta be Virtua Cop 4. It's thanx to arcades that I'm so fucking deadly with a gun!

There's this other one -forgot the name- that's pretty sweet. it's a samurai game where you have the handle of a katana and you move the blade around on screen.

Bahamut ZERO: I was/am the exact same with those two classics.

Oh YEAH, that Aliens vs. Predator arcade rocked!

When's the movie coming out, anyway? Gotta be sometime in the next couple months.... That's going to be so cool to see (assuming the don't cheat all the fans of the two series by holding the face-off between the predators and aliens until the last five minutes of the movie).

Originally posted by Odin


When's the movie coming out, anyway? Gotta be sometime in the next couple months....

Not quite... August 6

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'nuff said

Originally posted by Xiahou Dun
I've got a few favourite arcade games.

First being the original Macross arcade machine. Based on the anime of the same name, I used to play this game every chance I could. I loved the anime and I loved this game.


I never even knew they made a Macross arcade game.

I need to track that down.

Are the controls anything like Virtual On's?

The only Macross arcade games I know of are shmups.

One is overhead, and one is sidescrolling.

Originally posted by Fanaticalism
Marvel Vs Capcom 2... very very addictive once you know how to use Cable...


I think that it's a sick game too. But Cable is'nt that good to me. Balckheart got me addicted to it.

Metal Slug was one of the greatest and the granddaddy of all the shooters Time Crisis TMNT and the Simpsons both rocked as did crisis zone whichis like time crisis but you get this sweet ass submachine gun instead of a little pistol

Anyone remember Lethal Enforcers? Anyone remmeber putting in two quarters and playinng John Woo style? Man, that ruled!

Galaxian and Space Invaders!!

Originally posted by Fanaticalism
Marvel Vs Capcom 2... very very addictive once you know how to use Cable...

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