Thinking of buying a standalone arcade game for my apartment

[The DaveR]

What should I buy? I'm strongly in favor of earlier games like Ms Pacman but I can be swayed otherwise.

[gumpzilla]

Ms. Pacman is obviously a pretty solid choice. They make a table-style Ms. Pacman/Galaga combination that would be pretty sweet. Something like Pole Position (or the hard-hitting sequel Pole Position II) would be cool for a while, but would probably get old relatively quickly.

Centipede might be an interesting choice.

[Jiggymike]

Ms Pacman was all the rage in BBV a few months ago. I would prefer some sort of multi-game, though, like one of those SNK machines with Fatal Fight.

[wet work]

I saw a stand alone that was filled with tons of different games. I'd maybe look into one of those, I don't remember how much more it was than a single game unit but I don't remember it being that much more for the huge variety of games it had.

[XXXNoahXXX]

Ehhhh. [censored] it....just get Pacman

[onthebutton]

I've always thought that Street Fighter 2 would be an awesome stand-up to have. I loved that game when I was a kid.

[By-Tor]

I would be looking into an all-in-one type unit that supports game packs

[gumpzilla]

Q-bert would be pretty sweet. Something like Life Force or Gradius could be good choices, as well.

I think a lot of this depends on how much you're looking to entertain others vs. yourself. Ms. Pacman seems like a good generalist's game that everybody can agree on; there are certainly a lot of other options out there that would be more fun, but appeal to a narrower crowd.

[4_2_it]

This one looks pretty sweet.

[DrewDevil]

Konami 12-in-1!

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It features 12 classic arcade hits, including Frogger, Green Beret, Blades of Steel, Contra Gyruss, Castlevania, Hyper Sports, Time Pilot '84, Scramble, and Super Basketball.

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Pretty sweet.

I was also a big fan of Arch Rivals, the basketball game where you can punch the other guy.



I also loved its football companion, Pigskin: