Favorite Art Direction in arcade games.

[Amakuchi]

Personally, I really dig when companies go towards the horror sci-fi art direction, Irem was definitely on top of this but there were some other companies that did this well like SNK.

 

[Segadude113]

Everyone saw Alien and said, " I want to do that in my game."

 

[kuroninneko]

I was just playing that last game on my SNK collection. Really good ideas in that game. If I had to pick a favorite it would probably be low poly 3D games from Sega like Virtua Fighter, Virtua Cop, and House of the Dead.
And of course Capcom and SNK fighting games

 

[RustySK]

There are so many gorgeous arcade games out there with all sorts of different visual styles that it's practically impossible to pick a favourite, but gun to my head I'd probably say 2D sprite art (with a focus on detailed animation) is the most timeless to me.

Either Street Fighter 3: Third Strike or Garou: Mark of the Wolves would be the best examples of this. To this day I think those are some of the best looking games ever made.
Metal Slug is right up there as well though!

I'm also really fond of the visuals in Cave shmups - Mushihimesama, Ibara Kuro and ESP Ra.De. especially.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

Mine personally is the "FUCK IT NCSDSBIUEBDIUFwbu9rbouirsiuaeosiDNOZS)bv9rgb9w3r8e9q3049ejwfjgrv-pw[das>":XAs
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