The best arcade classic games

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

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Bomb Jack

DOS19844.5/5 Tecmo

Bomb Jack is a classic arcade platform game developed and published by Tecmo in 1984. The goal of the game is to collect bombs while avoiding enemies; the whole game takes place in a fixed screen. Bomb Jack for DOS is a conversion from the arcade original version. The arcade and the conversions were a huge commercial success.
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).
Operation Wolf

DOS19894.3/5 Taito
Joust VGA

DOS1990remake4.3/5
Battlezone

DOS19834.3/5 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.
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
Bubble Bobble

DOS19894.2/5 Taito

Bubble Bobble is perhaps one of the most popular (and cute!) platform arcade games of all times. The goal of Bubble Bobble is simple: clear each screen from various monsters and reach the final stage. In order to get rid of enemies, dinosaurs Bub and Bob can spit bubbles to trap them, then pop the bubbles to kill them.
OutRun

DOS19894.2/5 Sega
Defender

DOS19834.2/5 Williams Entertainment
Frogger

DOS19834.2/5 Konami
Rampage

DOS19884.2/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Ghosts 'n Goblins remake

Windows XP/98/952004freewareremake4.1/5
Donkey Kong

DOS19834.1/5 Nintendo
Star Wars

DOS19884.1/5 Atari
Gauntlet

DOS19864.1/5 Mindscape
Bomberman

DOS19924.1/5 Hudson soft
Moon Patrol

DOS19834.1/5 Irem Software Engineering
Arkanoid

DOS19884.1/5 Taito
Taito's Super Space Invaders

DOS19914.1/5 Taito
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...
Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

DOS1988protected4.1/5 Data East
CHAMP Kong

DOS1996remake4.1/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Q*Bert

DOS19844.1/5 Parker Brothers
Spacewar

DOS19854.1/5
Qix

DOS19894/5 Taito
R-Type

DOS19894/5 Irem Software Engineering
CHAMP Ms. Pac-man

DOS1994remake4/5 ChamProgramming corp.
Space Invaders

DOS1995remake4/5