Top 50 Arcade Games of All Time - Explored
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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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The footage of Contra you used was from the NES version.
@jacob-spring
3 ай бұрын
this threw me off as well lol
@Haywood-Jablomie
2 ай бұрын
It's an Ai made video. The computer doesn't know the difference. lol
@JoshuaBerke-nu2om
2 ай бұрын
I noticed this for several of the games as well
@mathew3267
2 ай бұрын
Sega Rally was Saturn version.
No Pole Position? You gotta be kidding me!
No Narc, After Burner, Operation Wolf, Driver. This list needs more love.
@move_i_got_this5659
2 ай бұрын
Guitar Hero, Killer Instinct
@luisreyes1963
2 ай бұрын
Wasn't Driver a PS1 game?
@JordanDilla
2 ай бұрын
@@luisreyes1963 you are right. I meant Hard Driving
@EFreD-ed4ds
2 ай бұрын
No Wonder Boy, Arkanoid, 1942, Track & Field, Paper Boy, Q-Bert, Burger Time, Mr. Do, Bomb Jack...
@O.G.Trashboat
2 ай бұрын
@JOrdanDilla I use to love playing Operation Wolf in arcades!
I remember playing mortal kombat for the first time in an arcade room at a waterpark. I miss those days
@perfectsplit5515
2 ай бұрын
Fighting Shang Tsung was actually easier than fighting in the endurance fights, because Tsung had only 1 life bar you had to deplete.
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
@roberthunter479
3 ай бұрын
Was about to post the same thing.
@sird2333
2 ай бұрын
The NES game. I remember one night in grade school having some friends over and we played the hell outta Contra. Got to the final level and the main boss looked like a big dick with a mouth! I’m cracking up remembering our reaction!! 😂😂😂😂😂
@benjisurya
2 ай бұрын
Complete rubbish ranking.. either yoi didnt care or you dont know nothing about video games.. or both
@roberthunter479
2 ай бұрын
@@benjisurya I don't agree with the ranking either but that's okay. It's their opinion. It's not as though this list of theirs is the final word. I do question them using the NES port of Contra for an arcade "greats" list. That fact alone does cause me to question whether somebody under 25 picked these games or not.
@Haywood-Jablomie
2 ай бұрын
It's made by an ai bot.
Girl in thumbnail? Where is that picture from or who she is. Thank you for awesome video
@dhall888
2 ай бұрын
Hahaha, that helped me click this video too..
@rsuriyop
2 ай бұрын
Looks like a young Nelly Furtado
@howardthompson4613
2 ай бұрын
No it looks like Bobby Lee's ex girlfriend 😂😂😂
@yuppiecake9097
2 ай бұрын
That butt in those shorts compelled me to click on this video.
NES version of Contra?
@cueball981
2 ай бұрын
Yup..sadly so.
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.
@Agju
5 күн бұрын
Sega Rally Championship is on there tho
sad my favorite arcade is not in this list, I dropped tons of quarters on WWF Wrestlefest.
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.
@quantumfx2677
2 ай бұрын
I've never played killer Instinct, was it good with the controls and fun ? What would you compare the game play to in other fighting games. Worse fighting game I didn't care for was primal Instinct , I had the arcade & sold it hopefully killer Instinct doesn't play like that as I wouldn't mind owning the arcade if the play is good!
@O.G.Trashboat
2 ай бұрын
@@quantumfx2677 Do you mean Primal Rage? I have never heard of a game called Primal Instinct?
@quantumfx2677
2 ай бұрын
@@O.G.Trashboat Yes! Lol
@quantumfx2677
2 ай бұрын
@@O.G.Trashboat Yes, controls were not good! And never cared for the gameplay. Killer instinct hopefully is much better.
@O.G.Trashboat
2 ай бұрын
@@quantumfx2677 I believe it's they are both from the same Dev Studio.
Alien Vs Predator (1994) and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1998) (my favorite SF entry)
@perfectsplit5515
2 ай бұрын
In my junior year of college, I played AVP with my best friend form high school in the local arcade. It was bonding experience of teamwork. It was much better suited for team play than Aliens video game in 1990.
Silent scope and ss2 were my jam back in the day. Only needed one credit by the end!
My all time favorite back at the arcade was Daytona USA. I love sitting in those chairs and driving those cars.
Richard is the best narrator
@730indoorsman
3 ай бұрын
it's AI
@user-jx4fe1xt8q
2 ай бұрын
Is Richard a robot?
Gauntlet legends, marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK, ddr there is so many great games that could’ve been mentioned in here
I'm just here for the left side of the thumbnail. I don't even know what the this video is about
@williamwright9079
2 ай бұрын
Yeah juicy as!
Another entertaining video thanks.
Surprised no Commando, Choplifter and Pole Position.
I like who they showed footage of NES contra as an arcade game lol
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
@c.bretmiller6148
2 ай бұрын
Well, I'm glad you said it, as I was about to.
They way he was saying Mario Bros is bothersome... I'm informing the proper authorities 😂
@jppauley9969
2 ай бұрын
Who would that be?
Wait, this has to be your personal top 50 right, not the actual top 50? Because there's no Moon Patrol, no Mr Do, no Dig Dug, no Missile Command etc.
@jdsjr21
2 ай бұрын
Totally forgot about noon patrol! 👏🏼🫡
Beautiful and carving arcade Spirit perfectly :,) focusing above all on brawlers, platformers and shooters.
This sure brings back a lot of great memories 🙂
Love your list of games! Just subscribe to your channel...
Good list.
Great Arcade Great games Masterpiece ❤ Many good times 😊
The way you pronounce Mario Brothers made me laugh!
@maydaymayday4362
2 ай бұрын
Mario Bruhs
Great list however there would be no parallax background scrolling without MoonPatrol. Games like Tempest, HangOn, ThunderBlade, Pole Position, Elevator Action, Gauntlet, Super Sprint, and several others on your list were very popular & wide spread here in Minnesota. Rastan had very loud & awesome soundtrack that really set it apart as well. I was happy to see Tron, Frogger & MrsPac Man. Thanks. Good list but a few really good ones were not mentioned. Q Bert also comes to mind & Zaxxon 3D, Metal Slug, Choplifter & After Burner
How was this list broken down? Where was Star Wars? Dragons Lair? Narc? Games like Strider I never have heard of.
@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472
25 күн бұрын
Strider was pretty popular. Star Wars and Dragon's Lair do need a mention, though.
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.
Imagine watching to see where X-men Arcade and Marvel VS Capcom 2 would be on the list.......
Gallagher? Dear oh dear. I used to play Galaga. This must have been the Scottish release.
Ahh fond memories of playing, mk1,2,3&umk3,virtul fighter 1 &2, tekken1,2&3 ,killer instinct & gold, xmen vs street fighter, marvel vs street fighter,marvel war of the gems( it was a fighting game not the version on snes so i may have the name wrong), street fighter 1,&2+turbos, alpha 1&2 , marvel vs capcom 1&2 , the house of the dead 1&2, area 51, super mario bro, time crisis, pit fighter, final fight,and what was more fun than 4 people playing tmnt or xmen with 4 players and so many more games..thanks for the walk down memory lane. Im glad i was born in the 80s and got to enjoy many great arcades in the 90s.
@O.G.Trashboat
2 ай бұрын
Marvel vs Capcom?
How the hell did Battlezone not make it to this list?
Promoting Billie Mitchel's "Fist full of Quarters" Documentary? I thought it was found he lied about the high score.
@EoR_2B4GOT10
2 ай бұрын
Neither Mitchel or Weeb were the record holder for Donkey Kong at the time of filming. It's mostly propaganda.
I never knew there were mega man arcade games… I was 6 then, but I remember everything… I remember playing the street fighter the movie arcade game at a Pizza Hut when it first came out and could tell then it was not great.., but need to find the mega man one some day
Even I chose City Connection as my Honorable Mention.
No Area 51????
Where is Mr Do? cost me a fortune in the 80's :)
OMG the MEMORIES!!!!
There should be at least 50 more games on this list, make another video
Hang on, after burner, T2, revolution X, NFL blitz, king of the monsters, world heroes, ESWAT, killer instinct, king of fighters, wwf wrestlefest, samurai showdown, all the marvel vs capcom games? Damn I'm old.
No love for Missile Command???
Despite this compilation video being "buggy", at least you gave Bubble Bobble some love.
My parents were like "ya, my son just ripped his head off."
Wow if we got Popeye instead of Donkey Kong, not only DK never exist but neither would Super Mario! 🤯
no mention of snow bros, Chelnov (atomic runner) and the king of fighters
8:40 re. The Simpsons Arcade. "The popularity of the game lead to several sequels and other ports." So here, it's shown that this script has been auto generated. So desperate to have words to say, the software has made a safe guess that sequels and ports followed when there were no sequels and it was only ported to MS-DOS and the C64. Which is fairly well known to even the most amateur retro game nerd. The delivery of this simulated person is so dull and dense it almost becomes confusing to pay attention as a barrage of dull dry information is listed off by a robot from a script which was written by a robot. I honestly think media like this cancels out a video made by a human being in the overall cumulative effect of media being published.
@thebossguide4859
3 ай бұрын
Donkey kong at 8:40? The clearly human voice in this is talking about other Simpson games not necessarily beat em ups. I think you're complaining too much.
@iwanttocomplain
3 ай бұрын
it's clearly ai and it did not say simply that Simpsons games in general followed. If he had said "in the Simpson's universe" it would not have implied sequels to the game which was being discussed. I'm not complaining too much if the voice is ai after the video creator implies the voice is a human with a name. It should say AI Bob for clarity. Which is obviously is. Let alone a script which was also automatically generated.@@thebossguide4859
@Hausbrauen
3 ай бұрын
Valid points. I do enjoy some of the content on this channel, but its videos would certainly increase in quality dramatically if it wasn't so rushed and reliant on AI. It does cause the delivery to ring of soullessness at best, and incredibly inaccurate at worst.
@Hausbrauen
3 ай бұрын
@@thebossguide4859 Nah, that's all 100% artificial. Voice-to-text voices are quite good these days -- but having used them myself, it's incredibly easy to tell the difference.
To each their own and I enjoyed video but the inclusion of home conversion footage is unfortunate.
Its Mario BROTHERS...not Bros.
@sird2333
2 ай бұрын
THANK YOU!!!!!
Before I watch this. Better be Altered Beast and Heavy Barrel in da house.
filthy AI made video
No Dig Dug ?
Good narration, but the script is written, at least in part, by AI 👎
@kushviper
3 ай бұрын
Entirely
@Fluoride_Jones
3 ай бұрын
A real human isn't narrating the video, either, considering I've heard the exact same voice on other channels that have nothing to do with video games.
@calebopossum5023
3 ай бұрын
The Thumbnails look AI generated as well.
@Fluoride_Jones
3 ай бұрын
@@calebopossum5023 You're right, Caleb. This whole channel was made by bots. That being said, not a bad video! 😆
@user-vi4xy1jw7e
3 ай бұрын
How does the thumbnail look ai generated? @@calebopossum5023
I don't know what this list is for. The games that are the most fun? That's extra subjective. The games that were of the greatest impact? That's more measurable. Based on my experience in the arcade, Street Fighter 2 was the most impactful game I ever saw, and we were playing that for years.
Xmen?
Nice thumbnail
My heart warms that Twin Cobra is on this list.
AI clickbait Bullroar
There many great arcade games out there, who that lady playing the arcade?
Dynamite Duke???? AI is hilarious.
How come astroids sequel was not called hammerRoids?
Street fighter 2, I’m 11 years old and grown men wanna beat me up for losing to me.
This is AI YT: NBA Jam "is also filled with easter eggs and special features, such as SUPER CLEAN FLOORS." 🤪😬
You forgot Rygar, Wonder Boy, Shinobi and rolling thunder.
Where is THE BEST GAME OF ALL TIMES SHINOBI ????
No Xevious or Choplifter?
It's "Bluto", not "Brutus" for Popeye
Where's Operation: WOLF and Space Harrier?
Star wars ? Paper boy ? Missile command ? Scramble ? Really ?
@ssdivizion
2 ай бұрын
There should be at least 50 more games
@jppauley9969
2 ай бұрын
Ahh Scramble.
Is Popeyes nemesis Brutis in other countries? It's Bluto in the US
samurai showdown,pang..?
this video shows how long videos don't necessarily equate to quality
No smash tv?, samurai showdown, metal slug?
Good choices and range. BUT... you missed Robotron and that is objectively wrong.
The third best selling arcade game? What were the first two?
The chick in the thumbnail looks mad familiar...🧐
@williamwright9079
2 ай бұрын
Yeah, where she at?!
What about Gauntlet?
area 51 didn't make it huh?
AI voice over ..... Brusss
You forgot tekken
Awesome
Im sorry BUT, is knowone going to say anything about the 8:50-8:55 'CLAIM' of the game making 4.4 BILLION dollars? 💵 Like wtf....
Μάλλον δεν ξέρεις τι θα ΠΕΙ ΚΟΡΥΦΑΙΟ ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙ . Το SHINOBI θα 'πρεπε να παίζεται απ'όλους !!
Enjoyed the list but whos the chick in the thumbnail?
You should've not included MK or SF2 or any fighters games because everyone know they are the greatest of all time..
Mario what?
Blocking channel due to AI. A human would have known the contra footage wasn't the arcade.
There is one thing we came here to see… where is she and what have you done to her?
Yay another channel that uses an editor that has no idea about video games therefore making B-roll footage look aweful. Showing footage of MK2 while talking about the orginal MK and showing footage of the NES version of Contra instead of the arcade version. Another point that has to be adressed. The King of Kong documentary has been proven to be nonsense propaganda for the most part. And no I'm not talking about Mitchel cheating his high score. I'm talking about the fact that neither Mitchel or Weeb were the true record holder at Donkey Kong during the filming of the documentary which makes the entire thing almost pointless.
@c.bretmiller6148
2 ай бұрын
Thank you.
doesn't seem like you know what you're talking about
😅What's with the Super Pac Man footage during the Pac Man review? Fucking bots.
smh no tekken
Ms. PAC MAN Speed Hack Arcade Is Way Better The Pac Man
Gorf
This list is kind of a mix bag, many of those games just came and went , and no where as popular. Many important games were left behind, maybe rename the list to "some 50 arcade games", because maybe just half of those are the real 'TOP' others are kind of fillers or just very forgettable, like "megaman :power battle", seriously? , there is actually no cultural impact of this game.. Joust? No one remember that game as being a 'classic', how about karate champ?? Asteroid Delux is Maaaybe impactful for the vector technology. .but not as important as let's 'Yie Ar Kung-Fu' which is pretty much the blue print for Street fighter.. Jurassic park 1997 is not as famous as King of Fitghters... Dynamite Duke???, talk about forgotten games.. maybe use Metal Slug instead??? Rastan 1987? No thanks, maybe poly position 1982 way more impactful, or maybe star wars .. Dragon Spirit?? No.. Rally -X , and so on...
Where's Narc??? A travesty list!! Or smash t.v and karate champ!!!!???? Wtf is this?
outrun, shinobi, rolling thunder. DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT NOW !!!!!!!
"Establish a sense of brotherhood" wtf are you talking about, going on with yourself with your strange interpretation? It's games dude. You're over-egging the pudding.