Top 50 Arcade Games of All Time - Explored

[@kushviper]

The footage of Contra you used was from the NES version.

[@jacob-spring]

this threw me off as well lol

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

It's an Ai made video. The computer doesn't know the difference. lol

[@JoshuaBerke-nu2om]

I noticed this for several of the games as well

[@mathew3267]

Sega Rally was Saturn version.

[@JetteroHeller83]

Donkey Kong was the nes version.

[@O.G.Trashboat]

Killer Instinct was a great 2D fighter. I will never forget the 1st time i heard "COMBO BREAKER" in an arcade and looked and half the arcade was waiting for their turn to drop a quarter.

[@quantumfx2677]

I've never played killer Instinct, was it good with the controls and fun ? What would you compare the game play to in other fighting games. Worse fighting game I didn't care for was primal Instinct , I had the arcade & sold it hopefully killer Instinct doesn't play like that as I wouldn't mind owning the arcade if the play is good!

[@O.G.Trashboat]

@@quantumfx2677 Do you mean Primal Rage? I have never heard of a game called Primal Instinct?

[@quantumfx2677]

@@O.G.Trashboat Yes! Lol

[@quantumfx2677]

@@O.G.Trashboat Yes, controls were not good! And never cared for the gameplay. Killer instinct hopefully is much better.

[@O.G.Trashboat]

@@quantumfx2677 I believe it's they are both from the same Dev Studio.

[@PCFix411TechGamer]

My all time favorite back at the arcade was Daytona USA. I love sitting in those chairs and driving those cars.

[@SuperZippyzippy]

I remember playing mortal kombat for the first time in an arcade room at a waterpark. I miss those days

[@perfectsplit5515]

Fighting Shang Tsung was actually easier than fighting in the endurance fights, because Tsung had only 1 life bar you had to deplete.

[@EightiesJames]

Walmart.. And this kid pulled SubZero's fatality on Sonya.. 😮

[@kleinworld2915]

Girl in thumbnail? Where is that picture from or who she is. Thank you for awesome video

[@dhall888]

Hahaha, that helped me click this video too..

[@rsuriyop]

Looks like a young Nelly Furtado

[@howardthompson4613]

No it looks like Bobby Lee's ex girlfriend 😂😂😂

[@yuppiecake9097]

That butt in those shorts compelled me to click on this video.

[@Rogerioapsandrade]

The Contra gameplay sequence is from the home NES version . Contra arcade has a different visual style, speed and sounds ( although the gameplay is similar ) Still, nice video. It was a fun watch and a great nostalgia travel

[@roberthunter479]

Was about to post the same thing.

[@sird2333]

The NES game. I remember one night in grade school having some friends over and we played the hell outta Contra. Got to the final level and the main boss looked like a big dick with a mouth! I’m cracking up remembering our reaction!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Benj-p5w]

Complete rubbish ranking.. either yoi didnt care or you dont know nothing about video games.. or both

[@roberthunter479]

@@Benj-p5w I don't agree with the ranking either but that's okay. It's their opinion. It's not as though this list of theirs is the final word. I do question them using the NES port of Contra for an arcade "greats" list. That fact alone does cause me to question whether somebody under 25 picked these games or not.

[@Haywood-Jablomie]

It's made by an ai bot.

[@laurentd9465]

Great video! What about Choplifter, Daytona USA, Out Run, Space Harrier, Dragon’s Lair…?

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome video 😊

[@JordanDilla]

No Narc, After Burner, Operation Wolf, Driver. This list needs more love. Correction: Driver is a console game. Hard Drivin is the one I mean.

[@luisreyes1963]

Wasn't Driver a PS1 game?

[@JordanDilla]

@@luisreyes1963 you are right. I meant Hard Drivin

[@EFreD-ed4ds]

No Wonder Boy, Arkanoid, 1942, Track & Field, Paper Boy, Q-Bert, Burger Time, Mr. Do, Bomb Jack...

[@O.G.Trashboat]

@JOrdanDilla I use to love playing Operation Wolf in arcades!

[@psterud]

At least it has Mario Bruss.

[@Lauren_Tyler]

No Pole Position? You gotta be kidding me!

[@acharat6]

Even more important in my opinion : no Outrun. Many glaring omissions actually, while some obscure games like Dynamite Duke are included. Also, weird choices like having both Mortal Kombat and MK 2 in the list, while no entries from other (and better) popular fighting games (Tekken, Neo Geo KoF, Samurai Shodown) are present. Very poor selection of Sega games also. Virtua Fighter 2 should be there instead of the first one. No Space Harrier, Hang On, Wonder Boy, Monster Land, Shinobi, Virtua Cop, After Burner II. All of those games were more historically important/succesful/better than some on this list. No offense, but this list needs to be reworked.

[@rsuriyop]

Solid list. Most of the ones that I thought should be in there actually made it in there. Although I still feel that Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Outrun, and either Sega Rally Championship or Dayton USA would have also felt justified being up there somewhere.

[@Agju]

Sega Rally Championship is on there tho

[@ramrodbldm9876]

Tardboy sega rally is on here so scram

[@dhall888]

Silent scope and ss2 were my jam back in the day. Only needed one credit by the end!

[@garybenade]

you covered all of my favorites, awesome trip down memory lane

[@RiVer-Parish]

Another entertaining video thanks.

[@di6connected451]

Gauntlet legends, marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK, ddr there is so many great games that could’ve been mentioned in here

[@dougjarvis3824]

Great video

[@MerpTime]

sad my favorite arcade is not in this list, I dropped tons of quarters on WWF Wrestlefest.

[@jamalvargas6146]

Alien Vs Predator (1994) and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1998) (my favorite SF entry)

[@perfectsplit5515]

In my junior year of college, I played AVP with my best friend form high school in the local arcade. It was bonding experience of teamwork. It was much better suited for team play than Aliens video game in 1990.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

​@@perfectsplit5515 no one cares about what you and your bf did together

[@kuma1388]

NES version of Contra?

[@cueball981]

Yup..sadly so.

[@gothamcityarcade]

Love your list of games! Just subscribe to your channel...

[@lorenzopignagnoli2268]

Beautiful and carving arcade Spirit perfectly :,) focusing above all on brawlers, platformers and shooters.

[@ninjaundermyskin]

I'm just here for the left side of the thumbnail. I don't even know what the this video is about

[@williamwright9079]

Yeah juicy as!

[@optimusrhymz2226]

Good list.

[@terrence6041]

I hate to be the one that points this but Space Invaders was a vertical shooting game. Horizontal is left to right vertical is up-and-down. I don't know what kind of thought processes. Could expose. the fact.

[@Spiegal12]

Arcades that I would add to the list: - Daytona USA - X-Men children of Atom - Aliens vs Predators - WWF Wrestlefest - Dungeons and Dragons: Tower of Doom Didn't made the list but I remember those arcades often having queue to play, with good reasons.

[@KenMasters.]

The 3D games and the Golden-Age games (from 1978-1984) both deserve their own Top 50s. There are tons of great 2D arcade games in 1985 and over.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

Ah no, no they don't, if that was what we wanted you would of had a comment agreeing, you didn't even get a like 😂. L take now stfu

[@edwardspencer1967]

Where is Mr Do? cost me a fortune in the 80's :)

[@StrelokBoggard]

Men you guys are being sloppy,a lot of the footage has been taking from the console versions and I’m not talking about the new modern switch arcade perfect ports, no. Taken from like the graphically inferior original consoles releases, like contra, the contra arcade has better colors, bigger sprites and a different resolution ratio. Sega rally is also the inferior (but still beloved) Saturn version in an emulator,I can tell cause of the net effect where transparencies are suppose to be but the drawing distance is too far off… so emulator. And that’s only two examples, there’s at least 4 that I know for sure the footage is not the arcade version

[@c.bretmiller6148]

Well, I'm glad you said it, as I was about to.

[@DerekDavis213]

Agreed. very sloppy with footages, and sometimes no sound from the games. Inexcusable.

[@rollin-kimblecroskey9110]

This sure brings back a lot of great memories 🙂

[@stewietk]

They way he was saying Mario Bros is bothersome... I'm informing the proper authorities 😂

[@jppauley9969]

Who would that be?

[@Ryuujin1078]

I like who they showed footage of NES contra as an arcade game lol

[@Tig3rj]

How was this list broken down? Where was Star Wars? Dragons Lair? Narc? Games like Strider I never have heard of.

[@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472]

Strider was pretty popular. Star Wars and Dragon's Lair do need a mention, though.

[@joshbrekke6374]

Great list however there would be no parallax background scrolling without MoonPatrol. Games like Tempest, HangOn, ThunderBlade, Pole Position, Elevator Action, Gauntlet, Super Sprint, and several others on your list were very popular & wide spread here in Minnesota. Rastan had very loud & awesome soundtrack that really set it apart as well. I was happy to see Tron, Frogger & MrsPac Man. Thanks. Good list but a few really good ones were not mentioned. Q Bert also comes to mind & Zaxxon 3D, Metal Slug, Choplifter & After Burner

[@ricksenske8787]

How the hell did Battlezone not make it to this list?

[@gundamw3490]

Great Arcade Great games Masterpiece ❤ Many good times 😊

[@mercuryman1250]

Richard is the best narrator

[@730indoorsman]

it's AI

[@BryanShuping-z1y]

Is Richard a robot?

[@DerekDavis213]

The narrator call Asteroids *Asteroid* . Huge mistake there.

[@Tomorer]

Wowza! I wonder how many of those old units survive in people's garages??

[@DerekDavis213]

The emulator MAME will run most of these games perfectly on your home PC

[@billcox8870]

I'm in my 50s and I grew up in the arcades

[@aaronking9332]

The left side of the thumbnail got me😂

[@omegalevelnerds777]

Imagine watching to see where X-men Arcade and Marvel VS Capcom 2 would be on the list.......

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Even I chose City Connection as my Honorable Mention.

[@shireknight01]

Wait, this has to be your personal top 50 right, not the actual top 50? Because there's no Moon Patrol, no Mr Do, no Dig Dug, no Missile Command etc.

[@jdsjr21]

Totally forgot about noon patrol! 👏🏼🫡

[@CrazyAboutVinylRecords]

No love for Missile Command???

[@roberthunter479]

Promoting Billie Mitchel's "Fist full of Quarters" Documentary? I thought it was found he lied about the high score.

[@EoR_2B4GOT10]

Neither Mitchel or Weeb were the record holder for Donkey Kong at the time of filming. It's mostly propaganda.

[@4504595]

Good narration, but the script is written, at least in part, by AI 👎

[@kushviper]

Entirely

[@Fluoride_Jones]

A real human isn't narrating the video, either, considering I've heard the exact same voice on other channels that have nothing to do with video games.

[@calebopossum5023]

The Thumbnails look AI generated as well.

[@Fluoride_Jones]

@@calebopossum5023 You're right, Caleb. This whole channel was made by bots. That being said, not a bad video! 😆

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

How does the thumbnail look ai generated? ​@@calebopossum5023

[@shauneburke89]

Surprised no Commando, Choplifter and Pole Position.

[@DerekDavis213]

At 8:10 , that's not the coin-op Donkey Kong game. omg And you didn't play any sound effects from Asteroids? wth

[@andrewpittaway3023]

No Dig Dug ?

[@cueball981]

Its Mario BROTHERS...not Bros.

[@sird2333]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[@nashvillan4lif]

I guess that's what happens when the AI voice simply reads what it says on the marquee and not what the abbreviation means. The marquee does in fact read "Mario Bros.", but yes, when we say it, we say Mario Brothers.

[@dhall888]

I never knew there were mega man arcade games… I was 6 then, but I remember everything… I remember playing the street fighter the movie arcade game at a Pizza Hut when it first came out and could tell then it was not great.., but need to find the mega man one some day

[@thadarkhadou]

Hang on, after burner, T2, revolution X, NFL blitz, king of the monsters, world heroes, ESWAT, killer instinct, king of fighters, wwf wrestlefest, samurai showdown, all the marvel vs capcom games? Damn I'm old.

[@luisreyes1963]

Despite this compilation video being "buggy", at least you gave Bubble Bobble some love.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

You mf are weird

[@simonhamid]

Gallagher? Dear oh dear. I used to play Galaga. This must have been the Scottish release.

[@beermaven2197]

No Gauntlet? I sentence you to arcade jail!

[@bobrogers4387]

The way you pronounce Mario Brothers made me laugh!

[@maydaymayday4362]

Mario Bruhs

[@MrJuggalo909]

My parents were like "ya, my son just ripped his head off."

[@planexshifter]

Dang yo That chick is groovy- Thumbnail be bumpin’

[@ramrodbldm9876]

Wow man you're a literal bozo

[@likilikiki]

My heart warms that Twin Cobra is on this list.

[@JetteroHeller83]

Surprised to see no puzzle bubble, gunbird 1&2, or mvc2.

[@johngraves9237]

OMG the MEMORIES!!!!

[@ssdivizion]

There should be at least 50 more games on this list, make another video

[@MasterChan117]

Please I beg of thee! Thine comment section is begging for the reveal of thy female on the notorious left side of the thumbnail. Grant us the eternal knowledge of the women’s name and my life is yours!

[@danielnicholson6174]

Wow did you even play arcade games in the 80's no Shinobi, Outrun, Space harrier, Rolling thunder?

[@profesa-rsk]

Wow if we got Popeye instead of Donkey Kong, not only DK never exist but neither would Super Mario! 🤯

[@dane_djesssherwood5006]

loooove the video and channel BUT the way your saying mario "bross" hurts my ears!!!! lol Great video tho :)

[@ribenasquash]

8:40 re. The Simpsons Arcade. "The popularity of the game lead to several sequels and other ports." So here, it's shown that this script has been auto generated. So desperate to have words to say, the software has made a safe guess that sequels and ports followed when there were no sequels and it was only ported to MS-DOS and the C64. Which is fairly well known to even the most amateur retro game nerd. The delivery of this simulated person is so dull and dense it almost becomes confusing to pay attention as a barrage of dull dry information is listed off by a robot from a script which was written by a robot. I honestly think media like this cancels out a video made by a human being in the overall cumulative effect of media being published.

[@thebossguide4859]

Donkey kong at 8:40? The clearly human voice in this is talking about other Simpson games not necessarily beat em ups. I think you're complaining too much.

[@ribenasquash]

it's clearly ai and it did not say simply that Simpsons games in general followed. If he had said "in the Simpson's universe" it would not have implied sequels to the game which was being discussed. I'm not complaining too much if the voice is ai after the video creator implies the voice is a human with a name. It should say AI Bob for clarity. Which is obviously is. Let alone a script which was also automatically generated.@@thebossguide4859

[@Hausbrauen]

Valid points. I do enjoy some of the content on this channel, but its videos would certainly increase in quality dramatically if it wasn't so rushed and reliant on AI. It does cause the delivery to ring of soullessness at best, and incredibly inaccurate at worst.

[@Hausbrauen]

@@thebossguide4859 Nah, that's all 100% artificial. Voice-to-text voices are quite good these days -- but having used them myself, it's incredibly easy to tell the difference.

[@SteveNorman]

To each their own and I enjoyed video but the inclusion of home conversion footage is unfortunate.

[@umairalam7693]

no mention of snow bros, Chelnov (atomic runner) and the king of fighters

[@PumpedbyArcade]

Bomb Jack, Galaga, Black Tiger...

[@hpnoticville]

Why did you show Contra for NES?

[@Codename-B]

filthy AI made video

[@ryangardner9683]

That thumbnail pic….oohh weee

[@Biostalker420]

Before I watch this. Better be Altered Beast and Heavy Barrel in da house.

[@glennwelsh9784]

Gallagher? I didn't know he put out an arcade game. Do you earn points by smashing watermelons with a big mallet?

[@TJFreeq]

The chick in the thumbnail looks mad familiar...🧐

[@williamwright9079]

Yeah, where she at?!

[@ricardohuff8774]

There many great arcade games out there, who that lady playing the arcade?

[@DrewCorbin-k5l]

Is Popeyes nemesis Brutis in other countries? It's Bluto in the US

[@hong10ly70]

Cool

[@johnny6610]

Street fighter 2, I’m 11 years old and grown men wanna beat me up for losing to me.

[@oahupc4688]

How come astroids sequel was not called hammerRoids?

[@BryanShuping-z1y]

The third best selling arcade game? What were the first two?

[@dojo2157]

You forgot Rygar, Wonder Boy, Shinobi and rolling thunder.

[@pilouuuu]

Nice thumbnail

[@hong10ly70]

Good games

[@planexshifter]

My friend and o could beat Contra with no deaths, we practiced playing together. Unspoken communication.

[@bradleymcavoy3432]

No RoboTron 2084?!? 🙄🤦‍♂️😳 No Tempest? 🙄 I praise inclusion of Tron but Discs of Tron is in my Top 3 of all Time! 🤨 No Sit Down ‘83 Star Wars!?! Also Loved Gyruss ( One of the Greatest musical soundtracks in a video game Ever! 😎), Donkey Kong 3, Narc, Black Tiger, CyberSled, Smash T.V, Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace, Pole Position 1 & 2 and one of my personal favorites SNK’s Prehistoric Isle in 1930 ( 1989!) 😎🤩🤨

[@Whyteeford]

No Area 51????

[@bratticuss]

Thought Mortal Combat came out in the late 80s

[@dhall888]

No smash tv?, samurai showdown, metal slug?

[@drmoze]

Good choices and range. BUT... you missed Robotron and that is objectively wrong.

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome

[@joakimkarlsson4274]

No Xevious or Choplifter?

[@raggeragnar]

Star wars ? Paper boy ? Missile command ? Scramble ? Really ?

[@ssdivizion]

There should be at least 50 more games

[@jppauley9969]

Ahh Scramble.

[@Realsolution-o1s]

No jungle king?, moon patrol? cmon! ;)

[@Canrugger]

What is mario bras?

[@NickelAntonius]

Where's Operation: WOLF and Space Harrier?

[@Elohdaeh7888]

Whats with the console footage for alot of these games. Half the video isn't even from the arcade games.

[@bradleymcavoy3432]

His name wasn’t Mario in Donkey Kong he was known as “JumpMan” and Mario came later! 🙄

[@robertmagill6005]

Why do people say Ms. Pac-Man is Pac-Man's wife? It's his sister, she's Ms. Pac-Man not Mrs. Pac-Man.

[@JonHeFinesse]

Well they must have an incestuous relationship, the Ms Pac Man cut scenes beg to differ the "brother/sister" narrative.

[@Pooby1000]

Dynamite Duke???? AI is hilarious.