What game at the arcades did you play the most back in the day?

Mine was Mortal Kombat 2.

I think it was The Simpsons game, but maybe Ninja Turtles or Mortal Kombat 2. One of those.

It's crazy to think Konami published both of those awesome arcade games it's so sad how far they have fallen.

It used to be Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, but more people were interested in the tekken at the time.

Street Fighter II

It's hard to say for me because when I'd be in an arcade I wanted to try all the games or at least a lot of them so I wouldnt spend a ton of time with any one machine.

Some that I do remember playing a decent amount of though were Robocop, Aliens, and Alien vs Predator. I didnt play many fighting games at the arcade mostly because we had most of them at home on our SNES or Genesis.

Obviously Street Fighter II in all its sundry versions. Always sucked at it, and still do, but it's one of the most fun games of the era. Obviously, whenever I saw a Neo Geo cabinet, there were always quarters for it. Could never go wrong with the Big Red Machine.

There was also the Taito Superman, which was a strangely fun little game. Hell, it might be the ONLY fun Superman game ever.

Oh I'm an old boy....so where it started with space invaders, I probably spent the most time on games like Moon Cresta, Pengo, Galaxians, Missile Command and Asteroids.

Haha, gotta love the golden oldies. I think everyone above 35 has memories jamming quarters into games like Pac-Man.

I grew up in arcades in the 80's. Any money I didn't spend on comic books got dropped into arcade cabinets. If I had to choose just one, it would probably be Spy Hunter. I dropped a lot of quarters on that game.

Probably the Simpson’s or TMNT game, I also liked Mortal Kombat a lot.

Atari made a great arcade port of Tetris I remember putting a lot of quarters into. They made an unauthorized NES port under the Tengen name - but it was still very good. I’m not entirely sure where the music came from - but Atari’s soundtracks are still used to this day - remixed.

House of the Dead 2 & 3

Dancing Stage / Dance Dance Revolution

There were a few, either at my local 7-11, or bowling alley. All of which I could eventually beat on one quarter. Needless to say, I didn't get any girls before leaving for college lol. Or ....during college.... but I digress.

Street fighter 2

Double dragon (Elbow was OP)

Willow (still a good platformer)

Fatal Fury (super easy to cheese using andy)

Art of fighting 2

@appariti0n:

No way you beat SF2 on 1 quarter

@PSP107: Seriously? I did it repeatedly just trying to get "shen long" to appear, because i fell for the April fools day joke in one of the gaming magazines. Forget which one, but they posted a fake tip, saying he would come out and kill Dictator, and you would face him instead, if you could get there without losing a single round.

Besides that, every character in that game had easily abusable AI once you knew how to break it.

KOF 97 and Metal Slug 2 probably.

Street Fighter II

@warmblur: Galaga and Ms Pacman easy. As a child we had these at the local laundromat, Pole Position was also there too, but it seemed to eat quarters quicker than Ms Pacman and Galaga. We didnt have an arcade near by. The only thing close to it was Showbiz Pizza (Chuck E Cheese) and a roller-skating rink that had way more games to pick from beside Galaga and Ms Pacman.

Maybe not many heard of it but I used to love E-swat arcade, the concept of having destroyable armour was so "WOW" in my eyes, also I played lots of Knights of the round table arcade. Good times

The Simpsons and X-Men

At only 25 cents per play this game was truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Samurai showdown

Point Blank, Silent Scope, Samurai Shodown... one dabbelju...

Mortal Kombat 1/2, Killer Instinct, & Battletoads.

Afterburner with that cockpit and Hot Rod with the 4 player wheel table.

TMNT (the first Arcade game, not Turtles in Time), Rampage, X-Men, Daytona USA, House of the Dead.

There was something magical about seeing a 4-player or 6-player beat'em up and jumping in to play with other kids. It's always why I enjoyed cooperative multiplayer over competitive.