Best Coin Op Arcade Game??

[Smirko]

Following on from today's quiz, what are your best 5 coin-op arcade games?

Only requisite is that it had to appear in an arcade - no console emulators etc!

In no particular order -

Galaxian - just a classic game and sound of the bullets still gets me,
Carnival - those dive bombing ducks still get me,
Gorf - great gameplay
Gauntlet - best multi play and a complete bun fight when the food appears, every man or elf, wizard etc for himself

and of course the one that started it all - Space Invaders .

If enough interest will start a world cup style poll to find NSC's best voted Coin Op

 

[crasher]

Battlezone

 

[Prettyboyshaw]

Decathlon and gauntlet no competition.

 

[daveybgtt]

Decathlon and gauntlet no competition.

4 player teenage mutant ninja turtles.

 

[daveybgtt]

Cowabunga!

 

[Mackenzie]

Out Run........(magical sound shower on the radio)
1942

 

[thekinglives]

Golden Axe
Double Dragon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Out Run
Final Fight

 

[daveybgtt]

Star wars 3-d with the awesome sound effects and cockpit!

 

[dannyboy]

only one .... defender ... rock hard

 

[thekinglives]

Thinking about it, I remember spending a lot of money on the time crisis and silent scope arcades too...

 

[Rowdey]

Bomb Jack - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/Bombjackarc.png

Daytona - (4 player version was awesome)

In fact, i just seen that i can burn a grand on a two player

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sega-Daytona-1-Arcade-Machine-Sensible-Offers-Invited-Please-/331340316056?pt=UK_Video_Games_Coin_Operated_MJ&hash=item4d256bfd98

 

[daveybgtt]

Thinking about it, I remember spending a lot of money on the time crisis and silent scope arcades too...

Go back to the mid-late 90's! The demise of the arcade.

 

[bWize]

Track & Field
Ghosts & Goblins
Bubble Bobble
Street Fighter II
Gauntlet

 

[Brighthelmstone]

4 player teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Winner!

 

[Man of Harveys]

My personal Family Fun favourites:

Ten Yard Fight - simple American Football sim. But you could make a game last for 5-10 minutes, an age in those days
Asteroids - BOM...BOM...BOM... Tense. "Get the spaceship!"
Spy Hunter - fairly dull but again, your 10p lasted a while.
Scramble - difficult but great: never once made it past the fireballs
Star Wars - never since seen a version of this once very popular game BITD: you were flying around shooting towers, then destroying the Death Star, the usual stuff.

A game of Defender could literally be over in less than a minute if you weren't careful. Well mine were.

 

[beorhthelm]

daytona probably cause bunch of mates could all play. Turtles was good too. operation wolf some mates and I must have pumped hundreds of £ into.

i'd like to say outrun, i played it loads, but was utter shite and dont think i ever got to level 3.

 

[crasher]

My personal Family Fun favourites:

Ten Yard Fight - simple American Football sim. .

God - I'd forgotten that one, that was great. (Many a wasted hour in the Crystal Rooms, West Street)

 

[1066familyman]

Track & Field
Paperboy
Tron
Galaxian
Defender

 

[brakespear]

Side Arms - great music
Nemesis/Gradius - first of the 'option' type of game I came across
Gauntlet II - blue wizard shot the magic potion
Xevious - again, great music
Phoenix - one of the first games with a boss level
Ladybug - like Pacman, only harder, and I was terrible at Pacman.
The football game they used to have in one of the arcades in West Street that proclaimed 'IN GOAL!!!!' when you scored.
Defender - pure arcade game, once again I was terrible at it due to TOO MANY BUTTONS!!!!

edit: oh and I forgot Space Harrier And then there's all the pinball machines such as Haunted House.

 

[Man of Harveys]

If enough interest will start a world cup style poll to find NSC's best voted Coin Op

Oh I think there's interest all right. I'm hoping that people a lot clever than me could post online versions of some of these classics, if they exist out there at all.