Top 50 Arcade Games of the 90's - The full countdown with commentary.
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2023
- Welcome to our countdown of the top 50 arcade games of the 1990s! Voted on by many thousands of random internet people across a good few years, so not my personal Top 50 by any means. This decade was a truly exciting time for video gaming and the arcade scene was at the forefront of the revolution. From classic titles to lesser-known gems, the 90s had something for everyone.
In this video, we'll be counting down from 50 to 1, showcasing each game and giving you a taste of what made it so great. All of the gameplay you'll see in this video was recorded on our very own home-built arcade machine, allowing us to bring the authentic arcade experience right to you. We'll take a look at the game play, the graphics, the sound, and anything else that made these games so much fun to play. And of course, we'll talk about the history of each game, who made it, the year it was released, and anything else you need to know about each title.
For those of us who grew up during this time, the arcade was a magical place where we could escape reality and immerse ourselves in a world of virtual adventure. The bright lights, the sound of coins dropping into the machines, and the anticipation of starting a new game all combined to create an unforgettable experience.
One of the great things about the arcade games of the 90s is that they were truly ahead of their time. The technology used to create these games was cutting-edge for the time, and the level of detail and complexity was truly impressive. From the colorful characters and intricate levels to the pulse-pounding soundtracks, these games were designed to be immersive experiences that would keep players coming back for more.
In addition to the great graphics and sound, these games were also known for their innovative gameplay. Many of the games on our list feature co-op multiplayer, allowing players to team up and take on the challenges together. Others offer unique gameplay mechanics that set them apart from the competition. Whether it's battling against other players, exploring vast virtual worlds, or simply trying to achieve the highest score, these games offer a level of excitement and challenge that is hard to find elsewhere.
So sit back, grab your quarters, and get ready for a trip down memory lane as we relive the best arcade games of the 1990s. Whether you're a fan of action games, fighting games, puzzle games, or anything in between, you're sure to find something to love in this video. With so many great games to choose from, it was a difficult task to narrow it down to just 50, but we're confident that you'll enjoy this journey through the best arcade games of the 90s.
So, let's get started! Get ready for some exciting gameplay, insightful commentary, and an overall nostalgic experience as we countdown the top 50 arcade games of the 1990s, all recorded on our very own home-built arcade machine!
Finally, we'd love to hear from you! As we relive these classic arcade games, we want to know what your favorites were from the 1990s. Which games did you spend countless hours playing? Which ones did you always come back to? And, most importantly, which games do you think should have made the cut in our top 50?
Share your thoughts in the comments section below, and don't forget to like and subscribe to our channel for more exciting gaming content. We're passionate about video games and we're always looking for new and interesting ways to celebrate this incredible industry. So, whether you're a die-hard fan or a newcomer to the world of gaming, we hope you'll join us on this journey.
So, sit back, relax, and let's get started with our countdown of the top 50 arcade games of the 1990s!
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Jumping back into the world of ‘Street Fighter III: Third Strike’ really hits different. The way they brought Chun-Li back and expanded the roster, it’s like a love letter to the fans. The depth and strategy with the parry system is just chef’s kiss.
Can't honestly say I've gone in depth with any street fighter games at all, so will have to take your word for it 😀
Well done, you have made my day and brought me right back to that arcade feeling from back in the day. Well presented, and your enthusiasm for retro arcade games comes across perfectly. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for watching thank you for your kind words and really glad you enjoyed it as it was a log of fun creating it. Hopefully will have more retro arcade type productions in the near future.
Some great games there mate, thanks for sharing dude 👍
Thank you and you're most welcome. Was a pleasure creating it for others to see
I was a street fighter and mortal kombat fan back then. Needless to say, i wasted all my time and quarters playing these two franchises.
I wanted to be a street fighter player but on the original arcade game I was terrible. Mortal Kombat not so bad and preferred all the blood and gore lol
What a cool top list video. A breath of fresh air in the sea of screen recorded churning without any commentaries. Good narration, looks like one of your hit videos so far on the channel. Nice one 👍
Thank you so much for your comment. I had watched a few similar genre type vids in the past and they didn't hold my interest so wanted to put my personality and take on things in to it. Taken a while to feel and sound naturally me but makes the difference. Does seem to have taken off but then the 80s video in a similar style is going crazy.
@@SwobblyDoesStuff HELP! Do you remember a 4 player arcade game that was like bomberman but with wizards or warriors? Each player would orbs that would explode and a chain (or something similar) that you set off orbs attacking the other players.
@@Gooner3066 was it a game called Fracas?
Watched a few of your vids and you got a good thing going. Take my likes and sub.
Thank you, much appreciate the like and very much appreciate the sub as well. Hopefully you'll enjoy a few of things I've got in the pipeline coming soon 😁
great list. thank you!
You're most welcome. Thank you for watching 😀
Good footage of old games with comment👍
Thanks for checking out the video
For those light gun games, I highly recommend using the Wii remote in a plastic gun with the Mayflash dolphinnbar. That is if you can pick up some cheap Wii controllers and gun cases for cheap. I have the pistol, "crossbow", and the Big Buck Hunter rifle cases. Makes all the light gun games really fun. If you can't find all that for cheap, then spend the money to get a really good gun like the Sinden.
There are quite a few options I've found for running lighting games through Batocera. Been watching Batocera Nation regarding use of light guns on it, it's a very strong possibility they will get added at some point this year. Wii remotes seem pretty cheap nowadays but need to see what will work best with my cabinet and set up. Mayflash dominator sounds crazy badass lol
Great timing fella, just got an Evercade VS for these.
Those Evercade's are pretty neat and a great way to get into retro gaming.
Good video. Few RUclipsrs single out 90s arcades games
Seems most only ever do the 80s which was an amazing decade but shaped the start of arcade games. The 90s shaped the future and did things with sprites and 3d lines no one ever thought possible.
@@SwobblyDoesStuff for me born in 1976 I’d say 1985 to 1994 was my arcade era
From being obsessed with Gauntlet when it came out ( hey I was a 80s D&D kid) to MK 2 it was a great time
Subbed!
Was born 1970 but wasn't till about 84 I really experienced arcades, before that it was Atari VCS and Sinclair spectrums. Gauntlet was an absolutely classic game and always drew a crowd when 4 people who knew how to play were there
Thankyou for the sub, much appreciated 👍
im American so i remember the cartoon cadillacs and dinosaurs, good childhood nostalgia
Cant honestly remember the cartoon showing in the UK though I'm sure it would have been on one of the million cable channels that appears over the last 20 years or so.
time crisis 2, wreselfest, final fight, simlaons, punisher, cadilac and dino...what a time. thanks to the godly devs, we have the best thing ever, mame!
Dino and Cadillac I have to admit in saying I'd never heard of the game before researching this, but actually really enjoyed it. Punisher was also another game I found pretty fun to play, but no where near as fun as the WWF game. Now that was unreal. The speed, the action, the moves, the characters. Amazing
@@SwobblyDoesStuff cadilac and dino is a beat em up matserpiece...use to play it a lot in the arcades.
I will never forget how I felt walking into Sears and seeing a gigantic arcade game called Mortal Kombat. Killer Instinct changed the game. Marvel vs Capcom took it to a whole new level
All those games you mention are classics of the genre... Sadly I sucked at all of them 🤣
Daytona USA and Sega Rally were the best racing games!
They were pretty good back in the day. There was one racing game that had multiple machines next to each other, full cockpits, and you raced against each other. Can't remember what it was, but was amazing.
You choose very nice games very good job.
I worked from a list that was voted on by 1000s of gamers so that I could keep it impartial. Thank you for watching.
No outrun???
Hay bro. Great stuff. Whilst I have pretty much all these for my cabs I appreciate the work in creating these vids as with other arcade content creators on youtube. I found 1 or 2 to add to my roms. Cheers and have a beer, wine or coffee on me. Are you an Altered Beast fan? Good to see SF2 at number one. SF2 and Galaga are my top faves. i generally build my own cabs from scratch. Cheers from NZ,
A-Dogs
Thanks, a good coffee with a piece of cake will be very much enjoyed. I do enjoy making content and prefer not to copy the masses and do things my own way so your words are very much appreciated. Altered beast for me was one of those games I enjoyed on the mega drive very much but absolutely sucked at it. Did play in the arcade once but didn't last very long at all.
Have a great week dude and thanks again 😀
@@SwobblyDoesStuff cheers mate. Rock on!
Super toöle sammlung jedes dieser spiele würde ich mit meinem sohn spielen genau mein Geschmack
I am sure your son will love them as much as you do
Obviously the graphics in the 90s were far superior to the 80s, but the 80s games seemed to have a lot more variety and character. They were willing to try anything in the 80s, and they came up with so many unique concepts. Maybe the limited hardware and graphics in the 80s forced them to focus on game play.
80s games were more about learning the patterns to beat waves where I think the 90s were purely about getting people to pay. Usually the simplest games that get us addicted to them, like pacman and Galaxians etc. Simple ideas, such fun to play.
@@SwobblyDoesStuff , I agree completely. Thank you for making such great videos!
@@originalfred66 you're very welcome and thank you for joining in the chat. Always enjoy interacting with you guys and gals.
Don't get me wrong, I pumped many quarters into these in the day, but yes, the 90's games, while technically much more advanced, definitely lacked the variety and originality of games from the 80's. Too many Street Fighter and Final Fight clones (not that I didn't like those games). My all time favourite of that era has to be NARC.
@@SwobblyDoesStuff it’s the main reason why most of their virtual console ports come with built in save states. It’s thanks to that and AVGN that I was able to beat Ghosts ‘n Goblins last October.
Great video, for me the order is almost the same but inverting MK with SF
I do prefer MK over SF but not a massive fan of fighting games as I tend to be rubbish at them (you could probably tell in the game clips)
SF 2 was far superior than MK, and continued to be fun to play well into the 00s
I just want to be that person and say that #32 is Samurai Shodown 2, but the video comes from Samurai Shodown 3. Nice work with the list!
There is a very slight chance with a million gameplay saves on my computer at the time that I did manage to muddle 1 or 2 up. Good spot though!! Thanks for watching as well 😁
Primal Rage was a good game…I liked that they used Ray Harryhausen dynamation style for the dinosaurs …I didn’t have a problem with the gameplay or controls
It is a good game, just very clunky compared to how smooth mortal Kombat plays and animates.
I love that you pronounce the number 45...
FOW EEE FIIAAVE
Some numbers were pronounced in totally over the top ways. Trying to find 50 ways of saying a number slightly differently is really hard lol.
Thanks for watching though and hope you enjoy my content 😀
Did I miss wrestlefest?? That should definitely be in top 10 never mind top 50
I didn't pick the top 50 and the list was taken from a highly voted list of games by many thousands of gamers. But totally agree with you, it's a pretty damn good game.
I would of seen WWF Wrestlefest way above WWF Wrestlemania.
A little surprise that none of the DDRs didn't make the list, but maybe that would more likely be on an 00s Arcade list anyway since only DDR 1 and 2 actually released in the 90s (really late 90s at that)
My personal list would have included Police Trainer and Operation 911, but not sure if those ever left the states (well, 911 was Konami so it -probably- was also in Japan)
Absolutely loved DDR games and was actually pretty good at them. Even had the dance mat for the old school Xbox. Used to show the young ones how it was done lol.
Also, not sure I am able to emulate the DDR games as such, though if I could, I'd get slammed for copyright with the tunes anyway so without the sound, it's just arrows lighting up 😂
@@SwobblyDoesStuff Yeah the music makes it hard to share on RUclips. When I featured it in a video I just looped Extreme's menu music and talked about it, but it definitely comes off as "Game sounds good guys trust me. Just trust me ok!" Lol
I'd imagine the old ones could be emulated well enough, although it'll be easy to run the Japanese PS1 games if all you needed was a few seconds of footage. Not the same as playing them with the beefy dancepad though :/
@@MixMasterLar I've seen some mini DDR toys on ali express, small screens with arrow buttons on them. Probably rubbish, but it could be fun. Would love to build my own DDR machine although my DIY skills are not on par with my technical skills. It would fall apart lol. May look into the emulation side and see if it can be doctored to play own turns, as that would be an option to showcase it, just without the original playlist.
Police Trainer defnitely did. A localish arcade in Ayr, Scotland had it. May still have. Hard to find video games in arcades these days.
@@SwobblyDoesStuff The easiest way to play custom songs is to use the DDR clone Stepmania, which "classic" DDR themes (the UI) can easily be found for. Most of the community already has classic video game music prepared for it you can find, or you can always add them yourself.
I'm sure the actual games could be hacked in some way to add/remove music but there's no way it worth the effort when you can just make Stepmania look like Extreme and use that
Was their any doubt as to which game would take the number 1 spot? The game DOMINATED the 1990s.
Some people in the comments would disagree but you're right, it dominated from the day it came out.
Way too fighting centric IMO.
That's because most of the games that came out in the 90s that were the most popular were fighting games. I can't change the past or what were the most popular styles of games that people enjoyed. My personal list would have been way different as I'm not a huge fan of that genre. They may not have been your favourite type of game either as everyone has different tastes in what they like
Seems like the exact *same* game over and over (but w/ different character designs)
The 80s were MUCH better!
Kind of agree, most were fighting games of one type or another. Some were ok, some very weak and a few classics.
Operation wolf thought would’ve been on the list.
Would have been if it didn't come out in 1987 :-p
Hey jason, did you ever find that cab or any other a1ups uncomfortable to play on due to the screw rubbing your palm on the control deck? and fix?
Not sure who Jason is (maybe another commenter here) but have played in one of the arcade 1up machines and totally get where you're coming from, especially if you have large hands. My self built one doesn't suffer that problem at all as made sure I have plenty of space. Especially with a 32" screen inside you can imagine the deck area is pretty spacious.
bro thanks for the reply but youtube is buggy af I meant to comment this on a totally different video my bad@@SwobblyDoesStuff
Got to love a good bug here and there 😂
If you can find it Time Killers is a very fun fighting game.
Not played this on from memory and had to Google it. Does look fun. Will give it a spin 😀
Basketball: For America, maybe Canada too:
Just an FYI:
Basketball was created by a Canadian
The very first professional basketball game played was in Toronto, Canada
Thank you that, made me chuckle. Not being a sport follower I have no clue where things are popular outside of the UK.
@@SwobblyDoesStuff glad it gave you a laugh, and thanks for the video, gave me a few new games to try I haven't played yet.
Sega rally sucks now !!! Er no, I suggest playing it in ps2 with a wheel it’s an awesome game. If you your playing with a joystick 🕹️ then your not playing it properly
My opinion is the game sucks now compared to how it used to play when it was cutting edge. Everyone's view is allowed to be different
We will agree to disagree 😅great video keep up the good work 👍🏼
Best grown up youtuber answer ever lol, thanks for watching. Hopefully some games we agree about on my channel, as always more fun to chat about the games we find awesome 😎
I still play Sega Rally several times a year. It still plays like a dream.
surprised you dont have turtles in time on the list
Wasn't my top 50 as was taken from the most votes for on a gaming website. Thanks for watching though.
What is it with the UK calling fighting games "beat 'em ups"?
What's with USA spelling colour wrong? We're all different, speak slightly different, call things different etc, so let's just celebrate games.
Why don't people call shoot em ups, shooting games?
@@GaryMarshall I mean, where did it start?
As long as we enjoy it all, who cares what its called or how its spelled?
Yeah, dude. Your list, although is solid. It's 75% fighting games that you have absolutely no idea how to play nor use the in game mechanics, to the very least. Kind of makes this list be based on a popularity level, as opposed to each entry's actual merit based on your experiences.
Maybe it's because 75% of the games in that decade that were the most popular were fighting games, and if you've watched the video and seen how utterly unskilful I am at them, then you'd probably assume I never really played many fighting games and I never said I was any good at them either.
Thanks for telling the world I suck at fighting games but pretty sure I said that quite a few times in the video lol
One word one game..shinobi or was that 80s
1987 apparently.
When you showed samurai showdown 2 you showed the wrong footage you showed samurai shodown 3
Yes I do believe you're right as a few people have pointed it out to me in the past. Was still a newbie when I made that, errors occur lol
No CyberSled?!? I would easily have that in my top 10! 🙄
Will be honest, never heard of that game lol
so is it your top 50 or you just did gameplay capture of games from some internet list?
I played all the games and captured them and as stated in so many comments, it's taken from the most popular voted list of arcade games from that decade. It really would not be my objective take on games if it was purely my top 50. No one wants to hear how I love every game but then can't play them lol. It's more fun when it's a mixture
@@SwobblyDoesStuff thanks for the answer! subscribed
@@gnus78 appreciate your comment and that you watched my content. I do try and reply to everyone I can (apart from the bots lol) and so really appreciate the sub 😀
Beat ‘em ups and fighting games r two different things bro
They are all fighting games but I get where you're coming from.
Brawlers are what I class the side scrolling punch and kick the crap out of enemies. Fighting games I'd personally say are player A Vs CPU or player B. Different people class different things differently.
Who voted for primal rage?
Someone who needs a slap to bring them back to reality. It was a god awful game.
Bot a bad list. Not sure why there are some of the less interesting games like Primal Rage when more fun games like Lost World:Jurassic Park, Arch Rivals and Star Wars Trilogy were oversll more fun and playable. Did you have those?
As I've said in many comments on here, this isn't my list or my favourite games. It was compiled against games from the decade that were voted on by thousands of people. Arch Rivals were in the 80s :-p.
Yes I have them all, I have about 6TB of games from pretty much every console.
The American and three dee stuff looks inferior to the Japanese pixel art
Gotta love pixel art
@@SwobblyDoesStuff yup polygons are an infringement on society
No Dig Dug? Fail.
Dig dug was released in to the arcades in the 80s so maybe check out my best of the 80s arcade games. Thanks for watching :-)
@SwobblyDoesStuff Sorry! I'm defensive about Dig Dug! Knee jerk reaction!
Hey its all good, we all have games we are passionate about and that is what helps make gaming (especially classic gaming) something close to our hearts
You seriously did another list without the name/publisher/year visible at the bottom of the screen?
Turn the subs on, it's all included in there.
Your list is like 75% fighting games :/ WHat happened to Spy Hunter? Cyberball? TRON, for god's sake?
As with most comments, it's not my list it's one that was voted for by thousands of gamers. I made an extra video with some of the great games that were not in to the top 50
Those games were the 80s which he covers in the video he has done for the 80s. The 90s arcades were probably 75% fighters at least 🤔
No rastan, no Simpson, all fighters even sf2 he didn't like to much at num 1
@@thrjfi5360 Simpsons was released in 1991 and is in my top games of the 90s. As for the other game, not heard of it and no one ever voted that on to the top 50 on any game lists.
smash tv was the biz
Gotta love dual stick shooters
Sega Rally sucks now? This dude is smoking something he shouldn't be. And why would someone put games they don't like on a top 50 list?
It's perfectly fine to disagree with another person's opinion and the reason I didnt choose my own top 50 games is pretty obvious. I wouldn't have remembered 50 games from that period plus there are many lists of games out there that were voted on by thousands of internet users so chose the most popular voted list.
I also stated that I have been spoiled by games like Forza horizon. My views are objective and my personal opinion.
Your showing the 2nd game, not the epic first game of Joe and Mac at 49. It should be in the top ten imo.
Thanks for spotting that and pointing it out to me. Sadly not much I can do about it after the fact. I checked my games and it seems the one shown is labeled how the first one is. Definitely a pretty good game though. The list and order wasn't defined by me as I would have had so many different ones in the list.