Arcade classics: the best coin-ops conversions

Back in the day, when going to the "arcades" was a thing, a quite a few exceptional games made video game history. Titles like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong and later games like Bubble Bobble, Street Fighter 2, Dragon's Lair are known both to video game fans and people who never touched a joystick in their lives. These games often spawned licensed conversions, sequels, fan-games and clones.

Most popular arcade classic games

Street Fighter 2

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Golden Axe

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Bubble Bobble

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Arcade classic games

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Operation Wolf

DOS19894.3/5 Taito
OutRun

DOS19894.2/5 Sega
Paperboy

DOS19884.1/5 Atari

Paperboy was one of (if not THE) arcade hit of 1985. It was developed by Atari for the arcades and later published by Mindscape for DOS in 1988. More conversion were made for quite a few other platforms. Paperboy gameplay is peculiar: you control a boy riding a bicycle and your goal is to deliver as many newspapers as you can to a number of ho...
Q*Bert

DOS19844.1/5 Parker Brothers
Qix

DOS19894/5 Taito
R-Type

DOS19894/5 Irem Software Engineering
Rampage

DOS19884.2/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Robotron 2084

DOS19833.9/5 Williams Entertainment
Space Invaders

DOS1995remake4/5
Spacewar

DOS19854.1/5
Star Wars

DOS19884.1/5 Atari
Stargate

DOS19833.5/5 Williams Entertainment
Street Fighter 2

DOS19924.3/5 Capcom

Street Fighter 2 is one of the most popular fighting game ever released in the 90s. Street Fighter 2 was designed by Akira Nishitani and Akira Yasuda, developed and published by Capcom in 1991 for the arcades and then converted for many platforms from Spectrum ZX to DOS (in 1992).
Taito's Super Space Invaders

DOS19914.1/5 Taito
Tapper

DOS19843.9/5
Wizard of Wor 98

DOS1998remake3.5/5
Zaxxon

DOS19843.8/5 Sega