I’m a kid that grew up in the age of arcades, for gaming. I’ve put many quarters or even tokens into machines to play them and I’m not talking about that Chuck-E-Cheese shit, I’m talking REAL arcades! So putting this list together will be a unique experience.
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- 10 – Was ported to consoles but this version beat that. The guns often were broken by dumb kids, though.
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- 9 – Before we had Soul Calibur, Soul Edge made a huge impact on the scene. So fluid and fun to play.
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- 8 – I’ll admit, I’m not the biggest Street Fighter fan in the world – but at the time, I loved this game.
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- 7 – This is another that ate up many quarters of mine. 4 player made it extra sweet!
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- 6 – While Kintaro was the cheapest boss perhaps ever, this game was a blast.
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- 5 – I don’t even like basketball but this game came out and had everyone playing it! Continued success on consoles, too.
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- 4 – Yep, this cartoon has been around THAT long. The game was good, though, and had a long life at our local arcade.
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- 3 – While many others found more success, this was my personal favorite in the series. It was always LOUD.
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- 2 – Giving us the choice of our favorite X-Men, with powers, while 3 others played was just AWESOME!
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- 1 – I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when this came out. The graphics were great and roster was huge! And it was fun.
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I remember all of these games, even if I didn’t really play NBA Jam. As a kid I never liked Street Fighter 2. I always preferred Mortal Kombat. Now as an adult I understand why… Every character fights the same so its just easier even if the MK arcade games are always more difficult until you lose and pump a quarter in. I liked the T2 Arcade game so much that I still have the home and portable versions. Aw yeah T2 on Game Boy.
Our local ghetto Walmart back in the day had to pull its Mortal Kombat 2 arcade game for starting too many fist fights. It was one of the only places in the area to have MK… even if it was 2 Walmarts away. I didn’t live into the ghetto, just the town next to it :-)
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This rules! We got an MK2 before anyone else in the town I grew up in, at the local arcade…but no fist fights!
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You miss all the ghetto fun! If only it was the 80s there would have been Polybius stories surrounding that machine and its fights.
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