TMNT

Raiden or Area 51

X-Men

Mortal Kombat II

Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder

The House of the Dead 2

Gauntlet Legends

NBA Jam for sure. Boom shakalaka!

You win 😂

Here's a few I remember, in no particular order:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Turtles in Time
Roadblasters
Chase HQ (and its sequel)
Outrun (and its sequel)
Double Dragon / Double Dragon 2
Ghouls & Ghosts
WWF Superstars / WWF WrestleFest
Altered Beast
Golden Axe
Final Fight
Narc
Arch Rivals (predecessor to NBA Jam)
Terminator 2
Super Offroad
Smash TV
X-Men
The Simpsons
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (yes, really)
Sunset Riders
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp
Asterix
Lethal Enforcers

The Simpsons arcade game is a classic.

Going by OPs date range of 1987-1992, Rampage (1986) and Gauntlet (1985) don't qualify.

But to heck with OPs date range, those are great games!

I'll add:

Black Tiger (1987)

Rolling Thunder (1987)

Gain Ground (1988)

Vindicators (1988)

Cadash (1991)

NBA Jam

So many quarters into this game. And it was one of the more popular ones at the arcades I went to.

Dig Dug and Q-Bert were my favorites.

It was very popular and I loved it. It's actually at a local arcade/pinball hall and I pop over and play it every couple of weeks.

I can HEAR the soundtrack and sounds lol. I wonder if there's an emulator out there for it?

I loved this game but was horrible at it and didn’t have enough money to “get good” at it. But I always played it whenever I went to the local pizza parlor (which had a ton of video games!) along with Centipede!

Asteroids was my game. My record was turning it 14x on 1 quarter

PAC man

Donkey Kong

Pong

1. NBA Jam

2. X-Men

3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Robotron

Gyruss

Tron

The Simpsons

2-in-1 Galaga/Ms. Pac-Man

Street Fighter 2 Turbo

Bonus: 1941 Battle of Midway.

1. Double Dragon
2. NBA Jam
3. TMNT

I miss this game

yes, yes it is.

This and Mr. Do! I would try to dig the entire board.

The only older stuff you'll find is probably pinball machines. The entire arcade scene died when Ron died.

You'd be better off to just download Retroarch or Retrobat and grab some MAME dumps.

Raiden. I don’t know where to play it, but that was my favourite in the 90’s.

Tilted turret has some pinball machines

The bar next to On the Links has a couple... Free too.

All things considered, it was actually a really cool game. There were a lot of crappy licensed games during the 90s and this stands out as one of the better ones.

Great game. Went to a classic arcade convention recently and they had a Moonwalker machine. Played it for a few hours.

Still think the Genesis version is better though.

I have a copy of it for the genesis sitting on my MJ shelf

I am not too picky. I do prefer 90s titles though. I really just want an Xtreme cab for each company. Essentially a Capcom cab which is coming, a Midway cab (MK 1-4, NBA Jam, Crusin USA); Konami Cab (Turtles, Sunset Riders, Xmen, Simpsons, Bucky O hare); Sega Cab ( HOTD2, Golden Axe, Daytona etc); Namco, NEO Geo and so on. If you can buy additional licensed game packs for each company on that specific cab like the SF cab is expected to do, it would be awesome. Most of the 2000 and later arcades i played were typically light gun or racing games, those might be harder to pull off. I don’t play a ton of 80s arcade games, but do have a Pac Man XL which is fun. I would consider replacing it if Iconic came out with a version of their own. I think Double Dragon is their next cab, I hated Double Dragon on NES and won’t be picking up that cab. Data East games were weak and dated in my opinion. I would prefer having 3-4 quality Iconic XLT Cabs where i can add games instead of 20-30 A1up cabs

Revival era, for the most part. I do enjoy playing staples from the other eras, but there’s no question that the graphics and programming took a giant step forward in the late 80’s to 90’s.

1990s easily.

90's

Didn't you post something similar to this in the Arcade1Up sub recently?

The breakpoints feel a bit odd, but i voted "decline and recovery" in that poll. But i'd argue the late "recovery" is really tied into the "revival" phase. As the popularity of many late 80s games, and hence revival of arcades in general, were directly responsible to SF2 WW being imported at all.

The earlier period had some great games, many which havent aged well, but ideas were being formed, and so a game quickly got replaced with something "better". There's still things like Bosconian which feel like an older era game, with it's design maybe influencing Sinistar etc.

Later games started to feel very samey, safe, and just (minimal) iterations. I'm not surprised it has the most votes, and would be interested to see each vote option filtered by age (ie: did someone vote for the 3rd one, who wasnt even born in the 70s/80s). Graphically obviously the best, hardware had improved.

But the middle section has stuff which is very playable now: Ghost and Goblins, Elevator Action, R-Type, TMNT, Final Fight. If one could sneak SF2:WW in there, i'd happily ignore the revival era.

Really to give feedback to Iconic arcade, i'd say keeping a variety of games on a single unit is better than theming it entirely around one franchise / type of game (ie: only street fighter).
I'd be far more interested in cross-company games in one unit: give me Taito, Capcom, Atari, Namco all for more variety.

Ooomeef day habla

Aiyaiyai

The best

I was 9 .. it was the cocktail version .. my dad was a carny and we used to drive across the east coast and I remember a hotel we stayed in had this and I must have spent $3 playing it .. thank you for the memory 🙂