What Arcade Games Did You Grow Up With?

[racketboy]

I don't know about you, but growing up, I played more arcade games than console games.

Which arcade games did you play most when you were growing up?
Most of my experiences were based off of what was in my local pizza, bowling and roller-skating places and what cabinets were there.

Here's my most frequently played cabinets growing up:
Age 7-10: Ms-Pac Man, Dig Dug, Road Blasters, Double Dragon, Rampage
Age 10-13: Street Fighter 2 (and variants), TMNT, Simpsons, X-Men, King of Monsters, G-Loc, Road Riot 4X4
Age 13-16: Virtua Fighter, Virtua Fighter 2, Daytona USA, X-Men vs. Street Fighter

[Mozgus]

Zero. There weren't any within walking or biking distance, parents couldn't be bothered to take me, and it just seemed like a safer investment to buy consoles and games.

[marurun]

The arcade games that had the strongest impact on me and that I played the most... Heavy Barrel, Willow, Silkworm, Rastan, Golden Axe, RoboCop, Street Fighter 2, Art of Fighting, Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters '94 (original!), Daytona USA, Metal Slug 2, and Scud Racer.

Those are the arcade games I think I played the most and have the strongest presence in my memory of growing up.Pretty bizarre list, eh?

[Curlypaul]

Scud Racer! I forgot about that one until I saw it at Drayton Manor the other week

It was mainly sega games that got me to the arcade, I remember Virtua Racer been showcased on some kids TV show when I was about 14 and it just blew me away.

Other notables would include Sega Rally, Daytona, Virtua Cop, House of the Dead, Mad Dog Macree, GTI Club, Golden Axe, Time Crisis, Operation Wolf/Thunderbolt, Afterburner, Space Harrier and a top down/isometric racer who's name escapes me (might have been in a neo geo cab). I generally used to go for games that had some kind of unique hardware features, never seemed to make sense paying to play a game that I could play at home

[Reyals]

I don't really remember any specific ones other than the Simpsons game. I wasted so much money on that thing.

[Curlypaul]

Not sure if I remember a Simpsons game, but I wasted a lot of money on the Simpsons pinball machine. I vagually remeber a Mario pinball machine, the first I played with multiball, although I may have imagined that

[marurun]

Darnit, forgot to add Xmen, Simpsons, and TMNT onto my list. :)

[Majors]

Don't count out Crime Fighters!

I grew up on Mr. Do, Tron, Scamble(or some variant), Dragons Lair, Double Dragon. Once SF2 came out, it was over for us...that was all we played, maybe some TMNT or Ninja Gaiden. When all the 3D shit started coming out, Steel Talons, Virtua Racing, Virtua-On, Dataon all got some love. All the Capcom Vs games along with Third Strike are where we remain...not at the acrade though, on console or my apt.

I did get to play After Burner Climax not too long ago, very nice looking action game. Looking forward to the new shooter from Konami, forgot the name.

[racketboy]

Don't count out Crime Fighters!

I grew up on Mr. Do, Tron, Scamble(or some variant), Dragons Lair, Double Dragon. Once SF2 came out, it was over for us...that was all we played, maybe some TMNT or Ninja Gaiden. When all the 3D shit started coming out, Steel Talons, Virtua Racing, Virtua-On, Dataon all got some love. All the Capcom Vs games along with Third Strike are where we remain...not at the acrade though, on console or my apt.

I did get to play After Burner Climax not too long ago, very nice looking action game. Looking forward to the new shooter from Konami, forgot the name.

I've never actually seen Third Strike in the arcades.
I saw the first installment once or twice, but that's it.

[baphomet_irl]

Bad Dudes Vs DragonNinja

Star Wars Arcade (the beautiful vector one)

Street Fighter 2

G Loc

Thunderblade

Out Run

Spy Hunter