Game nostalgia: which were your favorite arcade games?

[weemadando]

Some machine gun game where you were ina helicopter and the gun shook a lot (made my arms ache for an hour when I was 7).

GUNBLADE. Awesome.

My favorite game was Aliens Vs Predator, followed closely by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

AvP was an awesome brawler.

My favourites?

Air Hockey - seriously it took this long to come up?

AvP
Die Hard Arcade
Soul Blade
Virtua Fighter 2/3
Sega Rally
Virtua On
Star Wars Arcade
T2
Gunblade
NBA Jam
Simpsons Arcade
TMNT
Street Fighter 2
Mortal Kombat
Pinball cabinets - my favourites being Dr Who, T2 and The X-Files.
Afterburner
G-LOC

And some awesome driving/shooting one where you had a car mock-up, with driver and passenger, each of whom had a pistol. You just did awesome car chase sequences missed with classic arcade light-gun stuff. It was brilliant.

Yeah, those are pretty much the ones that ate my time/money.

[Solauren]

Bubble Bobble (WHAT?)

Gauntlet (Note; Does anyone know where to get screen shot maps for those games, or even scans of a magazine or something. Hell, tell me what magazine they were in so I can ebay it!)

X-men (Arcade Game)

WWF WrestleFest
Street Fighter 2
Mortal Kombat 1 - 3 (never played #4)
Fatal Fury

[Jade Falcon]

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Double Dragon
Shao-Lins Road
Gorf
Afterburner
Paperboy

[Andrew_Fireborn]

DEATH, could it be LA Machine Guns? Played that one a few times myself, and it involves a big old gun strapped to the cabinet. While the action generally takes place from a copter.

I think he means Gunblade NY, which LA Machineguns was the sequel to.

It's likely either way. Knew there was a NY version, though I couldn't find it on a quick search, so I went with the one I remembered.

[Ryan Thunder]

Time Crisis

[Jade Falcon]

Rare though it was over here, the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arcade machine.

There was also a Laserdisc arcade game, but I can't remember the name of it, you could either play a fighter and get an Afterburner style view, or a bomber and get a top down view. Does it ring any bells with anyone.

Oh, and two other Xevious and Ikari Warriors.

[Guardsman Bass]

Time Crisis

I'll second that. I remember going to a nickelcade (nickel arcade) and beating that game from start to finish.

I'll also add

Mortal Kombat 3 - I spent an assload of hours on this game.

Gauntlet Legends - Same as with MK3. My brother and some of my friends would go to the nickel arcade just to play this game (I remember playing an entire 4 hour, non-stop stretch on it). It spawned a number of inside jokes, including "Blue Warrior, your life force is running out!"

Prop Cycle- This was a game where you rode a bike (you had to pedal on the game) while flying a pedal-driven glider. I spent a helluva lot of coins on this game, and I was supremely non-plussed that it was taken out of the local arcade before I had a chance to beat it and save Solitar.

[Chardok]

PFF. TRUE Warriors are red. Wizards are blue, Valkyries yellow and Archers green.

Filthy heathen.

[houser2112]

PFF. TRUE Warriors are red. Wizards are blue, Valkyries yellow and Archers green.

Filthy heathen.

You have the wizard and valkyrie backwards.

[Batman]

Three-way tie between Double Dragon, Green Beret and Exciting Hour. Honorable mentions to International Karate, Paperboy, Ghosts'n'Goblins and Yie Ar Kung Fu.