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

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BurgerTime

DOS19823.8/5 Data East
Battlezone

DOS19834.3/5 Atari
Defender

DOS19834.2/5 Williams Entertainment
Dig Dug

DOS19833.8/5 Namco
Donkey Kong

DOS19834.1/5 Nintendo
Frogger

DOS19834.2/5 Konami
Galaxian

DOS19834/5 Namco
IBM Centipede

DOS19833.6/5 IBM
Moon Patrol

DOS19834.1/5 Irem Software Engineering
Ms. Pac-Man

DOS19833.8/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Robotron 2084

DOS19833.9/5 Williams Entertainment
Stargate

DOS19833.5/5 Williams Entertainment
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.
Q*Bert

DOS19844.1/5 Parker Brothers
Tapper

DOS19843.9/5
Zaxxon

DOS19843.8/5 Sega
Spacewar

DOS19854.1/5
Gauntlet

DOS19864.1/5 Mindscape
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.
Arkanoid

DOS19884.1/5 Taito
Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

DOS1988protected4.1/5 Data East
Double Dragon

DOS19883.9/5 Technos Japan
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...
Rampage

DOS19884.2/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
Star Wars

DOS19884.1/5 Atari
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.
Dragon's Lair

DOS1989protected3.7/5 Sullivan Bluth Interactive Media
Operation Wolf

DOS19894.3/5 Taito
OutRun

DOS19894.2/5 Sega
Qix

DOS19894/5 Taito