What was your favorite Arcade game growing up?

[A8scooter]

We all have that one game we loved to play growing up and would play every time going to the arcade. Here is a place we can share our memories and talk about which ones we loved the most.

For me Outrun would be the go to arcade game for me. One of the few racing games you had to stand  instead of sit for. Which I always thought gave it more character.

[Leynos]

I can't name just one favorite but can say I remember playing TMNT and X-Men with friends the most in arcades growing up.  Man I remember being so blown away by the intro movie for Xmen. Had nothing like that at home. Still not seen that re-released. Ninja turtles was a blast with friends but I always had to play Leo so I was on the corner and had a hard time seeing anything.

[Techie413]

As a young kid, my favorites were Pac-Man, Kung Fu, and Joust.  Later I found myself drawn to TMNT, Off-Road, Virtual Fighter, and Lethal Enforcers.  But there were so many great releases in the last 80's, early 90's.

[Zagnorch]

Every time my day care took a summer bus trip to the local Chuck E. Cheese, I'd haul ass to the sit-down cockpit version of Red Baron. My six-year-old self just dearly loved that WWI fighter sim with the super-slick vector graphics, I tell ya what.

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I'd spend quite some time downing zeppelins and the slower enemy fighters. Sadly, I'd always get shot down from behind. The screen would warn me of an enemy behind me, but by the time I saw the warning, it was too late. Come to think of it, I wasn't particularly good at playing it... but I loved it regardless.

Sadly, I haven't seen a Red Baron arcade machine in over 25 years. And I know they rereleased it for the PC with much more realistic graphics, but... it's just not the same, you know? It was perfect just the way it was originally presented, just like the Star Wars trilogy.

[Zagnorch]

Well, that figures...

...I use Google images to find a pic of the Red Baron arcade machine I put in my previous post, and I discover one of the few video game-based t-shirts I'd actually bother to wear:

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Sadly, it appears these were only made in a limited run three years ago.

Now I'm bummed out. 

[ixtaileddemonfox]

TMNT IV for sure

[blcklblskt]

Rush 2049

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I played this for dozens of hours at Chuck E. Cheese

[Link41]

Rush 2049

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I played this for dozens of hours at Chuck E. Cheese

YES!!!

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

XMEN

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Soul Calibur II and Dance Dance Revolution Extreme as a teenager. Nothing in particular stands out as a kid.

[Am4zingGam3r]

Mr. Do!

[Raidou]

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 if pressed, but I spent a lot of time on Street Fighter Zero 3 and Street Fighter 3.

[Cryptid Collector]

I'd have to say House of the Dead(I loved the lightgun games)

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[Crabmaster2000]

When I was really young the corner store where my dad liked to go buy smokes and sports cards used to have an X-Men arcade cab. I always wanted to go out with him when he left the house so I could play that machine as he stopped at that store almost daily.

When we moved to BC we lived in a town with only one arcade, but it had several machines I spent a lot of time on. Marvel Super Heroes, Area 51 and Bust a Move come to mind right away.

Whenever we were travelling and I got to go to new arcades I always spent most of my money on either Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or The Simpsons games though. I remember having to wait in line for those ones quite a bit as they were always full.

[Addicted]

Galaga. I love it so much I bought a bartop model. Close second would be TMNT.

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