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Arcade
Neo Geo, CPS and the cabinets that ate our coins: Metal Slug, Street Fighter II, KOF. The corner arcade, now with no line and no 9pm closing.
3.512 games found
The SFII version that defined competitive versus play worldwide.
1992 · Fighting
The most detailed pixel art ever animated, capped by an alien final boss.
2000 · Run and gun
SNK's dream match: the KOF with legendary balance.
1998 · Fighting
The maximalist crossover that set arcades worldwide on fire.
Four turtles, four players: the perfect arcade party.
1991 · Beat 'em up
Gaming's first pop icon. The eternal waka-waka.
1980 · Arcade
Where Mario was born, and jumps got a name of their own.
1981 · Platformer
The most elegant spaceship shooter of the golden age.
1981 · Shooter
A Ferrari, a blonde, and Magical Sound Shower: driving as pure fantasy.
1986 · Racing
The cult beat 'em up from Latin American arcades.
1993 · Beat 'em up
Taito's 1978 game that de facto invented the formation shooter genre and, legend has it, caused a shortage of hundred-yen coins in Japan.
Shooter
The dungeon descent Atari turned into a four-player simultaneous cooperative phenomenon.
Action-adventure
Konami's arcade decathlon, a direct heir to Track & Field, built to wreck your fingers on the trackball.
Sports
Kaneko's top-down rally: tight hairpins, anime-styled cars, and a pure arcade race against the clock.
Racing
A mid-80s vertical war shooter, the kind that filled arcade rows without asking permission.
American football comes to the arcade courtesy of Irem: one of the genre's earliest sports simulations.
Sports · Japan
The 1985 update to Irem's pioneering arcade football game, with faster matches and finer passing control.
A rally of classic Italian cars with the sprite scaling and rotation that made Video System famous in the mid-90s.
An 18-hole Japanese arcade golf game with the camera and swing controls typical of the genre.
Data East's pioneering golf simulator (1981), which swapped the joystick for a power bar to calculate every swing.
The third entry in Capcom's 1942 saga: a vertical plane shooter over the Pacific, now with the power of the CPS-1 board.
Shooter · World
The vertical shooter that launched Capcom: a single fighter against the Imperial Japanese fleet, burst after burst.
The Japanese sequel to Capcom's 1943: more planes, more vertical screen, the Midway shooter formula pushed to the limit.
Shooter · Japan
The sequel to 1942: Capcom takes the vertical shoot 'em up to the Pacific with more enemy variety and a real-time energy system.
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