Favorite 80s-90s arcade games

[Perseus]

Which arcade games were your favorites from the 80s-90s?
Here are some of my favorites in no particular order:

1. Altered Beast
2. Out Run
3. P.O.W. Prisoners of War
4. Pac Man
5. Double Dragon (arcade version of course, NES was cool too!)
6. Pole Position
7. Street Fighter II (does anyone remember Street Fighter I? )
8. Terminator 2
9. Raiden
10. Burgertime
11. X-Men
12. TMNT
13. Marvel vs. Capcom
14. 1942
15. Arkanoid
16. Captain Commando
17. Elevator Action
18. Final Fight
19. Gauntlet
20. Rampage

this is just a small list

[Randman]

Gee, the funnest arcade game was Track & Field. The one where 4 people raced together and you got carpal tunnel hitting the speed buttons. Used to have hours of fun against a bunch of friends.
Donkey Kong was great too. In high school, there was a arcade/deli/ You could get a couple of super cheap cheese dogs, a root beer and eat them while playing DK.
Console games, it would be the Madden NFL series against my father.
Mac game would have to be Marathon. After work (at midnight or so), a group would stay after and frag till dawn on the newspapers' suped-up Macs.
These days, I must admit that the game I play almost daily is Scrabble on my pda. I play at least a handful of games a day against it.

[Arden]

I didn't play much during the 80's, since I spent the first 5 years of my life there and I wasn't into computers yet. Some of the games I enjoy are Space Invaders, breakout games, stuff like that. This is early 90's, right? Because Unreal Tournament and Starcraft were both released in the late 90's, but those probably don't count.

[Satcomer]

I was in the prime age (early teens) in the early eighties for video arcades. I miss the arcades. But by far the coolest thing was playing one of the first truly stereo arcade games. DEFENDER!

The cool thing was you could still put a quarter in the jukebox and get 3 songs. The owner of my favorite home arcade would also tweak the sound up and he had some real good speakers through the joint. He also sold pizza and soda. Playing Defender with great tunes streaming out (but not too load) was cool. Too bad the place went out of business when his ex sued his pants off. It was great when it lasted.

[Arden]

Why'd she do that? That was awfully inconsiderate to all you geeky kids who wanted to come spend your money on arcade games.

Was this an arcade with food, or a pizza parlor with games? Because there is a difference.

[habilis]

you forgot, in no particular order,
1. A-jax
2. Ikari Warriors
3. Ninja Gaiden
4. Galaxy Force
5. Rastan
6. Ghost's n Goblins
7. Ghouls n Ghosts
8. Golden Axe
9. Smash TV
10. Heavy Barrel
11. Time Soldiers
12. original Street Fighter

There was also that one robot football game with 2 screens so you could play your friend at the same time. Gauntlet was 100% Kick Ass, especially when the announcer said "Wizard needs food badly".

[Cat]

My all time favorites:

1) Cadash
2) Midnight Wanderers
3) Dungeons & Dragons (Tower of Doom)
4) Metal Slug 2
5) Bomberman
6) Off-Road
7) Blood Bros
8) Mortal Kombat I
9) Final Fight
10) Street Fighter 2

[Pardus]

OMG -- you guys forgot some major ones.

Galaga
Donkey Kong
centipede
frogger
Super mario Bros
Qbert
720º
Dragon's Lair