Arcade classics: the best coin-ops conversions sorted by release date

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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Space Invaders

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Bomberman

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Arcade classic games

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Qix

DOS19894.1/5 Taito
R-Type

DOS19894.1/5 Irem Software Engineering
Joust VGA

DOS1990remake4.3/5
Mario Bros VGA

DOS1990remake4.2/5

Mario Bros VGA is a fan made remake of the original Mario Bros by Nintendo, the game that popularized the character of Mario, the italian plumber first saw in Donkey Kong. Mario Bros VGA is a fixed-screen platform arcade game that truly shines when played in co-op with a friend.
Golden Axe

DOS19914.2/5 Sega
Taito's Super Space Invaders

DOS19914.1/5 Taito
Bomberman

DOS19924.1/5 Hudson soft
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).
CHAMP Centipede

DOS1993remake3.8/5 ChamProgramming corp.
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.
CHAMP Ms. Pac-man

DOS1994remake4/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Space Invaders

DOS1995remake4/5
CHAMP Kong

DOS1996remake4.1/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Konami's Ping Pong

DOS19964/5 Konami
Bust-A-Move

DOS1997freeware4/5 Taito
CHAMP Asteroids

DOS1997remake3.9/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Wizard of Wor 98

DOS1998remake3.5/5
Ghosts 'n Goblins remake

Windows2004freewareremake4.1/5