Form your own arcade

[MKB]

If you had a pile of money to spend to buy some arcade cabinets, pinball machines, air hockey, VR shooters, etc... and you could only use 10 games... which ones would you pick?

For me:

1. Dome Hockey (USA VS USSR)
2. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 2 - the hacked and improved version (you knew that was coming)
3. TMNT: The Arcade Game
4. Super Street Fighter II Turbo
5. Cruis'n World
6. Tekken 3
7. The Simpsons
8. Area 51
9. Pac-Man
10. Nintendo Player's Choice (contains 10 NES games of my choosing)

 

[Mikemetroid]

1. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 2
2. Splatterhouse
3. DDR
4. CvS2
5. Discs of Tron
6. Dig-Dug
7. NBA Jam
8. Tetris
9. Time Crisis 2
10. House of The Dead 2

 

[nwo]

1. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
2. San Francisco Rush: The Rock Alcatraz Edition (dual cabinets in linked mode)
3. Sega Super GT (dual cabinets in linked mode)
4. Daytona USA (dual cabinets in linked mode)
5. Burger Time
6. Ms. Pac-Man
7. Time Crisis
8. Virtua Fighter 3
9. Nintendo Player's Choice (Mike Tyson's Punch-out)
10. Mortal Kombat 2

There's more, I'm sure I'm forgetting something ridiculous. Honorable mentions: Hydro Thunder, Virtua Fighter 2, Virtua Cop 2, Cruisn' USA, and more.

 

[shaowebb]

1. NeoGeo Battle Coliseum (Tag Style SNK wet dream. Game is fucking amazing)
   
2. Capcom vs SNK 2 (Nuff said. Super balanced, great roster, great fun)
3. Tank! Tank! Tank! (insane arcade game with shaking chairs, tank fighting in arenas, and wild OP power ups!)
   
4. Mushihimesama Futari (hardest bullethell ever made because I fucking love CAVE)
   
5. Senko no Ronde Duo (Competitive arena Bullethell. What Acceleration of Suguri wished it was... this thing has TOURNIES in Korea )
   
6. DOA5 Ultimate (so I can finally play a certain Tengu. Plus its a pretty good all levels game to go to.)
   
7. Medieval Madness Pinball Machine (I swear the Excalibur table on Pinball FX2 is based off it. Consistently voted best pinball machine ever made.)
   
8. Marvel VS Capcom 2 (nuff said)
9. King of Fighters 11 (Best SNK roster in a single game ever)
10. Hydro Thunder (fucking arcade legend)
    

 

[shaowebb]

For the record this was a hard list to make and DOA5 still keeps looking at me saying "why am I here?"

The list goes on and on for shmups I'd like to put on there like Raiden Fighters Jet, Espgaluda 2, Muchi Muchi Pork, Pink Sweets, Deathsmiles 2x, and Crimzon Clover and for fighters there are still things like Sengoku Basara X, Hokuto No Ken (yes it had a fighting game), Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Mario Kart Arcade, and other shit like Skee Ball and Gangaride.

Arcades are hard to stop building once you start.

 

[VenomX-90]

1. UMK3
2. Killer Instinct
3. House of the Dead 2
4. Initial D
5. CVS2
6. Rush
7. Contra
8. X-Men the arcade game
9. Dimahoo
10. NBA Jam

 

[TKB]

1. Guilty Gear X
2. CVS2
3. MVC2
4. KOF XI
5. Area 51
6. Silent Scope
7. Time Crisis 2
8. Sega Rally 2
9. SF Third Strike
10. UMK3

No particular order.

 

[shaowebb]

1. Guilty Gear X
2. CVS2
3. MVC2
4. KOF XI
5. Area 51
6. Silent Scope
7. Time Crisis 2
8. Sega Rally 2
9. SF Third Strike
10. UMK3

No particular order.

We are now bros.

Also good on ya telekineticbeing for putting X-men Arcade. It was gonna hit my list but since it launched for XBLA with both the US and Japanese versions I've already had it setup arcadey style before. Otherwise it'd be on mine too. As is...I already got it. Its a helluva wakeup realizing that the japanese version actually had power up drops!

 

[TKB]

We are now bros.

Also good on ya telekineticbeing for putting X-men Arcade. It was gonna hit my list but since it launched for XBLA with both the US and Japanese versions I've already had it setup arcadey style before. Otherwise it'd be on mine too. As is...I already got it. Its a helluva wakeup realizing that the japanese version actually had power up drops!

X-men Arcade is a great game but KOF XI stands for King Of Fighters XI lol.

Another game I just realized that I should have put on my list.... Ikaruga. MASSIVE cool points to anyone who knows what I'm talking about

 

[shaowebb]

X-men Arcade is a great game but KOF XI stands for King Of Fighters XI lol.

Another game I just realized that I should have put on my list.... Ikaruga. MASSIVE cool points to anyone who knows what I'm talking about

Ikaruga the polarity shifting bullethell shooter whose creator just announced he is doing a new game soon. You should also check out eXceed 2nd Vampire Rex on Steam if you like polarity switching in your bullet hells.

Double bros. You like shmups and you like King of Fighters 11. Fuck yeah playing as Shion , Tizoc, and Oswald. Game was the quintessential best King of Fighters roster. All it needed was Jae Hoon and Lee Pai Long and I'd be set for life. If you ever want bullethell or shmups suggestions hit me up. My collection is fucking huge and I can give you a lot of leads on what games would probably fit what you enjoy or dont enjoy in the genre.

 

[TKB]

Ikaruga the polarity shifting bullethell shooter whose creator just announced he is doing a new game soon. You should also check out eXceed 2nd Vampire Rex on Steam if you like polarity switching in your bullet hells.

Double bros. You like shmups and you like King of Fighters 11. Fuck yeah playing as Shion , Tizoc, and Oswald. Game was the quintessential best King of Fighters roster. All it needed was Jae Hoon and Lee Pai Long and I'd be set for life. If you ever want bullethell or shmups suggestions hit me up. My collection is fucking huge and I can give you a lot of leads on what games would probably fit what you enjoy or dont enjoy in the genre.

I had a feeling you would know about that game Ikaruga is one of my all time favorite games ever.

KOF XI is easily the best one, best roster, an absolute masterpiece.

On your list, the NeoGeo battle coliseum.. Why have I never played this game?! It looks so good

 

[shaowebb]

I had a feeling you would know about that game Ikaruga is one of my all time favorite games ever.

KOF XI is easily the best one, best roster, an absolute masterpiece.

On your list, the NeoGeo battle coliseum.. Why have I never played this game?! It looks so good

Its PS2 but good news...its on XBLA! No PS3 sadly, but its at least there with online. The tag system and cancel system is dope as fuck and the rolls and such involve the usage of meter to perform but if you block within the first few frames and then go into roll its a cancel that costs less meter to perform. Game is fucking godlike. A dreamteam of SNK cast show up. Kaede from Last Blade, Athena from the actual old coin op Athena (not psycho soldiers Athena...someone OLDER in Neogeo history) Lee Pai Long from Art of Fighting, Rock Howard, K', Honzo from World Heroes, Haohmaru from Samurai showdown and a ton more plus not 1, not 2, not 3 but FOUR fucking bosses to fight depending on how well and who you played as. Oh and 2 original characters whose stuff is inspired by NeoGeo games. Hell Yuki turns into Atomic Guy from King of the Monsters and AI uses a NeoGeo Pocket to summon Neo Geo stuff for her attacks.

Buy Buy Buy Buy....Its goood.

 

[TKB]

Its PS2 but good news...its on XBLA! No PS3 sadly, but its at least there with online. The tag system and cancel system is dope as fuck and the rolls and such involve the usage of meter to perform but if you block within the first few frames and then go into roll its a cancel that costs less meter to perform. Game is fucking godlike. A dreamteam of SNK cast show up. Kaede from Last Blade, Athena from the actual old coin op Athena (not psycho soldiers Athena...someone OLDER in Neogeo history) Lee Pai Long from Art of Fighting, Rock Howard, K', Honzo from World Heroes, Haohmaru from Samurai showdown and a ton more plus not 1, not 2, not 3 but FOUR fucking bosses to fight depending on how well and who you played as. Oh and 2 original characters whose stuff is inspired by NeoGeo games. Hell Yuki turns into Atomic Guy from King of the Monsters and AI uses a NeoGeo Pocket to summon Neo Geo stuff for her attacks.

Buy Buy Buy Buy....Its goood.

Omg I wanna play this so bad. Unfortunately I'm only on ps3 and ps4 gigantic sad face

 

[shaowebb]

Omg I wanna play this so bad. Unfortunately I'm only on ps3 and ps4 gigantic sad face

Fuck...if you ever get a 360 tell me though. I will immediately rebuy just so we can play. Its also on PS2 by the way but no online that way (at least you can play it cheap though.)

If you end up with it on 360 PM me. We should jam. Hell if nothing else PM me. We'll talk shmups and SNK.

(brb though...I gotta go to the post office before it closes @_@)
EDIT: and back

 

[RelentlessOhio]

1. Time Crisis 3
2. House of the Dead 2
3. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
4. Rush 2049
5. Hydro Thunder
6. Gauntlet Legends
7. Golden Axe
8. Tekken 3
9. Ferrari F355 Challenge
10. NFL Blitz (or NBA Jam)

Boom.

 

[nwo]

10. NFL Blitz (or NBA Jam)

Oh yeah, NFL Blitz. Can't forget that.

Then you just need a bar, and as long as you have a drink in your hand all the games are set to free play. LOL