What was your favorite Arcade game growing up?

[nes_pimp]

Roadblasters I could play it all day.

[Vectorguy]

Funny, not Red Baron, but one of either two fellow vector games for me: either Tempest or Major Havoc was my favorite

[Arrrhalomynn]

A snackbar nearby had this. It was great.

[Razor Knuckles]

Cruis'n USA and all the other Cruis'n games I really enjoyed.

[Duke.Togo]

For me it was Star Wars. I was lucky enough to be young during the arcade heyday, and played a lot of games and pinball, but I always came back to this one. They had the cockpit version at the roller skating rink I went to all the time.

[wildbil52]

Great thread, long overdue.

Street Fighter II Champion Edition
Mortal Kombat II
Asteroids
Simpsons
TMNT
MTV Drumscape
Police Trainer
X-Men
San Francisco Rush
Hydro Thunder

[singlebanana]

Tempest was my favorite cab to play when growing up. Still love Ms. Pac and Galaga as well.

House of the Dead holds a special place in my heart, since it is the machine where my wife and I bonded over during many a date in college.

Good memories of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat cabs when I was a teen.

...but my most recent favorite cab has to be L.A. Machine Guns (Wii has a nice combo port of this and Gunblade):

[wildbil52]

...but my most recent favorite cab has to be L.A. Machine Guns (Wii has a nice combo port of this and Gunblade):

Love that vibrating platform

[singlebanana]

...but my most recent favorite cab has to be L.A. Machine Guns (Wii has a nice combo port of this and Gunblade):

Love that vibrating platform

Uh, yeah. Imagine the banana, and 3 friends during St. Patrick's Day at a Dave & Busters playing this machine with a fully-stocked bar at our disposal.

[No]

While I played a bunch of arcade games when I was younger, it was always a different game everytime (plus usually I played an arcade game and later got the console port [Daytona, Virtua Cop, Silent Scope 2, Cruis'n USA, Time Crisis 1 & 2, Point Blank, Sega Rally 1 & 2, more recently The Fast and the Furious/Cruis'n and today got the arcade port of OutRun 2 a game that I played in the arcades even though OutRun 2006 is better] but there is one game that stood out.

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, the Sega Model 3 one that came out when the Special Edition Star Wars Trilogy was released in cinemas. It was everything I loved about the original Star Wars Trilogy wrapped around a joystick based light gun shooter [think Operation Wolf mixed with Virtua Cop] and a good form of QTEs at the boss battles. Everytime I saw that I played on it until a couple of years ago when the Spanish arcades that had it closed down and became betting shops. Unlike the others, it was never ported at all. I'm sure the Wii would have done it justice...

[wildbil52]

I loved that trilogy machine. Space battles, ground battles, lightsaber fights, Death Star run.  I always hoped it would make it to the Dreamcast but it never did.  I've seen a few of the stand up models for sale but I really prefer the sit down model. 

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

That was a great game. I played it a little older so I didn't include it, but in the dying days of arcades the Trilogy was a great game.

[Vectorguy]

Wow, I've never seen a site where everyone liked that game!

Whenever I've seen it mentioned on forums people have complained about it  I've always liked it.

[OatBob]

S.T.U.N. Runner



Gosh, I love the primitive polygonal graphics.  The game was fast and smooth, and the shooting element added to gameplay value.

I'm always pleased to see "tube-shooter" games (or at least portions.

I've seen it return in N2O (PS1), Torus Trooper (PC/freeware), and some races in Star Wars ep1 Racer.

[blcklblskt]

While I played a bunch of arcade games when I was younger, it was always a different game everytime (plus usually I played an arcade game and later got the console port [Daytona, Virtua Cop, Silent Scope 2, Cruis'n USA, Time Crisis 1 & 2, Point Blank, Sega Rally 1 & 2, more recently The Fast and the Furious/Cruis'n and today got the arcade port of OutRun 2 a game that I played in the arcades even though OutRun 2006 is better] but there is one game that stood out.

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, the Sega Model 3 one that came out when the Special Edition Star Wars Trilogy was released in cinemas. It was everything I loved about the original Star Wars Trilogy wrapped around a joystick based light gun shooter [think Operation Wolf mixed with Virtua Cop] and a good form of QTEs at the boss battles. Everytime I saw that I played on it until a couple of years ago when the Spanish arcades that had it closed down and became betting shops. Unlike the others, it was never ported at all. I'm sure the Wii would have done it justice...

I forgot about Trilogy! I used to love playing that game.  I'd love to see a port on the Wii/PSMove.