What was the best Arcade Machine you've tried?

[FlameSpice]

I've been going to arcades every 2 weeks or so, isn't so fun to play alone so I bring friends or family with me. Some machines seem impossible to beat like that one where you try to catch different bulls and you keep tapping the button in the middle to catch it. And the racing ones are too hard for me Lol. My favorite one is House of the Dead 4, it's fun shooting down Zombies And getting chased by a gigantic one I've beaten this game several times and haven't gotten bored of it. What about you? What's your favorite?

 

[Prism_Red]

Most House of the Dead are my fav, on the contrary I don't like playing with people so I always play Akimbo.

 

[Jon-Patrick-S]

Probably the Time Crisis games for me, the home versions are enjoyable but it's not quite the same without the pedal action of the arcade machine.

 

[freebie#47]

Marvel vs Capcom 2...and if they had Street Fighter 2, would play that too.

 

[Tonberry]

I haven't played many at all (because there weren't many available where I live and the ones who were around when I was a kid had a 16+ rating to use), but I had an amazing time playing the Theatrhythm arcade cabinet at a con several years ago.

There was a short lived "adventure place" kind of a building here that had stuff like bowling, go-karts, escape rooms and such, and it had a small arcade section where you could play stuff like House of the Dead and a bunch of others, but I mainly played the mame machine with some friends because it had a bunch of fighting games.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Definitely those with a big gun, shooting monsters and aliens stuff

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

As the "whole arcade experience" I love those cabinets with moving parts like After burner or Hang-on.
Also light gun games with more active mechanics like the Police 911 series or the Jurassic Park one(The Lost world)

 

[Lainon]

Typing of the Dead arcade cabinet at a local arcade. Was really cool to be able to play it like that.

Between Time Crisis II and Kong, I almost always will go to those first if there's one at an arcade.

 

[DeadVoivod]

Pengo

 

[bjork]

Probably the time I played a Gals Panic machine and kept getting Showtime DX so a kid who was off to the side playing air hockey with his dad, could see the naked cartoon ladies

If that doesn't count, then either Bemani stuff like Pop'n Music or Beatmania just due to the size of the hardware, or the 3-screen F355 Challenge machine, or the Hokuto No Ken one where you hit the pads on the sides of the screen. Part of me really feels like I had a go at an R360, but it's fuzzy enough of a memory that maybe it's from a dream.

 

[PlayerJuan]

Gotta be something that can't be easily replicated at home!