The Top 10 Arcade Games
There was a time when mastering arcade games was more important than going to your brother’s wedding. Nowadays the majority of people play video games on their console or PC, but a long time ago the passionate game player was overjoyed when he knew that he would be spending the rest of his day in a large cavern filled with arcade games. At any moment he could choose between playing a one on one fighting game, a virtual simulated racing game, a traditional game like Pac-Man, or a co-op multiplayer like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where players would be popping in quarters until the last bit of Shredder was shredded.
The diversity in games is what made the arcade stand out as one of the pinnacle forms of modern entertainment. It wasn’t fun and friendly all the time though. Sometimes gamers would become too passionate and talk down a stranger if they were getting beat in a game, especially in a game like Mortal Kombat. In rare cases, police would have to intervene when the simulated fighting of Street Fighter became a reality right next to the arcade game. What kind of arcade games could evoke this much passion? This is the theme of this next list which we spent sometime laboring over into the late hours of the night (only for the past week though. We really aren’t obsessed.) In this list, we highlight what we think are the 10 best arcade games of all time. We only wish we had the finances to be able to purchase all these coin-op games for ourselves.
10. Burger Time
9. NBA Jam
8. X-Men
7. Mortal Kombat 2
6. Rampage
5. Double Dragon
4. Tetris
3. Street Fighter 2
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (and Turtles in Time)
1. Pac-Man
