What was your favourite arcade machine

Double Dragon II - must have finished that game dozens of times. And at the end you get to fight your co-op player to see who get the kiss from the girl.

Hang On - full sized motorbike to sit on and steer. I had never seen anything like it, apart from....

Outrun - the one where you get to sit in the Ferrari. Loved it.
 
I spent 2 weeks in Blackpool in 1979 pretty much constantly playing the brand new game from Japan: Space Invaders.

But my favourite was in the mid-80s:
Missile Command.
It was built into the table top at the pub I went in. They changed it to 'Defender' and there was an uproar, so they saw sense and brought it back.
 
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At 10p a go, if you were on form, you could complete it with £1. I remember a Michael Jackson game too. Arcades and kiddie Revells on a Friday night were fantastic when you were 15.
 
There was a great one called Gauntlet in the 80s; first one I recall that allowed more than 2 people to play together.

There was also a Japanese-made football game (possibly called Super Sidekicks, but I may be wrong about that). It was clearly made by people who hadn't watched too much football: it was only really possible to score with an overhead kick or a diving header. Anyway, it was ancient by the time I went to uni, but I happened to find it on an old machine there. I did manage to complete it!
 
Frozen Horse said:
There was a great one called Gauntlet in the 80s; first one I recall that allowed more than 2 people to play together.

There was also a Japanese-made football game (possibly called Super Sidekicks, but I may be wrong about that). It was clearly made by people who hadn't watched too much football: it was only really possible to score with an overhead kick or a diving header. Anyway, it was ancient by the time I went to uni, but I happened to find it on an old machine there. I did manage to complete it!
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Definitely Super Sidekicks or Super Sidekicks II, both developed by SNK.
 
Can't remember the name of it but it involved protecting areas from missile attacks. You had a rollerball and put X's in the path of oncoming missiles. This blew them up.
Loved it.
 
Blf said:
That's the one, cheers.
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Can't remember which playground or lunch break I heard it in , but I deffo heard that the US military nuke sites defence corp were trained on this Missile Command coin op . They had to watch War Games multiple times and get good at missile command at least until they could complete to stage 4 almost every go. True that.
 
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