Top 50 Arcade Games of All Time - Explored

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Published 2024-02-09
Arcades are where it all began: the birthplace of gaming culture and competition. It’s much like go-karting for somebody who wants to grow up to be a Formula 1 racer. Players of all ages and from all places play with or against each other and establish a sense of brotherhood in the process. Great innovation happens in arcades, not just in terms of the technical side of gaming, but also the business aspect of gaming: the art and science of earning millions of dollars by creating a fun and captivating game. Their cultural impact aside, arcades did not go extinct when home consoles came into the fore just like books didn’t disappear with the advent of video or the Kindle. There has been a recent resurgence of arcade gaming, especially because of the speed-running community and the satisfying sense of fraternity involved in it all. In this Marvelous video, we look at the top 50 arcade games of all time let's go!




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All Comments (21)
  • @kushviper
    The footage of Contra you used was from the NES version.
  • @JordanDilla
    No Narc, After Burner, Operation Wolf, Driver. This list needs more love.
  • @SuperZippyzippy
    I remember playing mortal kombat for the first time in an arcade room at a waterpark. I miss those days
  • @O.G.Trashboat
    Killer Instinct was a great 2D fighter. I will never forget the 1st time i heard "COMBO BREAKER" in an arcade and looked and half the arcade was waiting for their turn to drop a quarter.
  • @rsuriyop
    Solid list. Most of the ones that I thought should be in there actually made it in there. Although I still feel that Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Outrun, and either Sega Rally Championship or Dayton USA would have also felt justified being up there somewhere.
  • @Rogerioapsandrade
    The Contra gameplay sequence is from the home NES version . Contra arcade has a different visual style, speed and sounds ( although the gameplay is similar ) Still, nice video. It was a fun watch and a great nostalgia travel
  • @jamalvargas6146
    Alien Vs Predator (1994) and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1998) (my favorite SF entry)
  • @KenMasters.
    The 3D games and the Golden-Age games (from 1978-1984) both deserve their own Top 50s. There are tons of great 2D arcade games in 1985 and over.
  • @kleinworld2915
    Girl in thumbnail? Where is that picture from or who she is. Thank you for awesome video
  • @PCFix411RetroZone
    My all time favorite back at the arcade was Daytona USA. I love sitting in those chairs and driving those cars.
  • @dhall888
    Silent scope and ss2 were my jam back in the day. Only needed one credit by the end!
  • @MerpTime
    sad my favorite arcade is not in this list, I dropped tons of quarters on WWF Wrestlefest.
  • @di6connected451
    Gauntlet legends, marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK, ddr there is so many great games that could’ve been mentioned in here
  • @terrence6041
    I hate to be the one that points this but Space Invaders was a vertical shooting game. Horizontal is left to right vertical is up-and-down. I don't know what kind of thought processes. Could expose. the fact.
  • @lorenzopignagnoli2268
    Beautiful and carving arcade Spirit perfectly :,) focusing above all on brawlers, platformers and shooters.
  • @StrelokBoggard
    Men you guys are being sloppy,a lot of the footage has been taking from the console versions and I’m not talking about the new modern switch arcade perfect ports, no. Taken from like the graphically inferior original consoles releases, like contra, the contra arcade has better colors, bigger sprites and a different resolution ratio. Sega rally is also the inferior (but still beloved) Saturn version in an emulator,I can tell cause of the net effect where transparencies are suppose to be but the drawing distance is too far off… so emulator. And that’s only two examples, there’s at least 4 that I know for sure the footage is not the arcade version
  • @stewietk
    They way he was saying Mario Bros is bothersome... I'm informing the proper authorities 😂