Coin-op conversions: from the arcades to your home

Arcades were extremely popular in the 80s and the 90s. Before poker machines and things like that, people used to go to pubs or arcades to play video games called coin ops (coin operated machines). Almost all of them were converted to consoles or home computers.

Most popular coin-op conversion applications

Virtua Cop 2

shooterWindows XP/98/95

Crazy Taxi

racingWindows XP/98/95

PC-Man

actionDOS

Coin-op conversion applications

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Double Dribble

DOS19903.8/5 Novotrade Software
Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected3.7/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp

DOS1990protected4.1/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Dragon's Lair 3: The Curse of Mordread

DOS1992protected3.9/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters

DOS19904/5 Atari
Exterminator

DOS19903.5/5 The Assembly Line
Forgotten Worlds

DOS19914/5 Capcom
Frogger

DOS19834.1/5 Konami
Galaxian

DOS19833.9/5 Namco
Gauntlet

DOS19864.2/5 Mindscape
Gauntlet 2

DOS19894.1/5 Atari
Golden Axe

DOS19914.2/5 Sega
Guerrilla War

DOS19873.5/5 SNK Corporation
Hard Drivin'

DOS19903.7/5 Atari
Heavy Barrel

DOS19893.6/5 Data East
House of the Dead

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Sega

House of the Dead is an old horror-themed rail shooter game, developed and released by Sega in 1998. The whole gameplay can be summarized in a single sentence "a first-person 3D shooting gallery with zombies". House of the Dead runs on older version of Windows, so you may need a virtual machine to play it properly.
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road

DOS19883.6/5 SNK Corporation
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

DOS19893.7/5 Atari
Invaders 78

DOS2000freewareremake3.8/5
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road

DOS19904.2/5 Leland

Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road is an abandoned diagonal-down off-road racing game developed by Leland and released by Virgin Interactive in 1990 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum and a lot of 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. Super Off Road is a classic fixed-screen track-racing similar to S...
Jackal

DOS19894.2/5 Konami
Joe and Mac Cavemen Ninja

DOS19914.5/5 Data East
Joust VGA

DOS1990remake4.3/5
Karnov

DOS19873.3/5 Data East
Kingdom: The Far Reaches

Windows XP/98/95Mac1995protected3.9/5 Virtual Image Productions
Klax

DOS19903.8/5 Atari
Konami's Ping Pong

DOS19964/5 Konami
Magic Johnson's Basketball

DOS19893.3/5 Sculptured Software
Marble Madness

DOS19873.7/5 Atari

Marble Madness is an abandoned isometric action game designed by Mark Cerny and originally published by Atari as a successful and iconic arcade game. It was later converted for many platform in 1986 and for IBM PCs in 1987 by Atari.
Mortal Kombat

DOS1993protected4.3/5 Midway Manufacturing Company

Mortal Kombat is one of the most popular 1 on 1 fighting games. No wonder it spawned many sequels. You can play as one of the seven digitized characters and must fight everyone else to the top. One of the distinctive features of Mortal Kombat is the fatality: a special move to finish off the adversary.