The Deadspin staff recently moved its office to Times Square, so we’ve been absolutely dying to check out every single frothy tourist trap around us that can sell grilled chicken sandwiches for $25 a pop because it has some sort of cute gimmick. Chief among these is the big bright sports bar that boasts endless rows of arcade games promising to lighten your wallet by multiple large bills. (All bars with arcade games should offer unlimited free play for like five or ten bucks, but that’s a different blog.) This being Deadspin, we started shouting about which games are frauds and which ones kick ass, and, after some very democratic spreadsheet voting, here are the results:
- The Simpsons
- Pop-A-Shot
- Gauntlet
- X-Men
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Rampage
- Golden Axe
- NBA Jam
- Street Fighter 2
- Air Hockey
- Mortal Kombat
- Double Dragon
- Marvel Vs. Capcom
- Pinball
- Skeeball
- Terminator 2
- Tekken
- Time Crisis
- Golden Tee
- NFL Blitz
- House of the Dead
- Pole Position
- Ms. Pac-Man
- Foosball
- Daytona USA
- Dig Dug
- Crazy Taxi
- Joust
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Donkey Kong
- Asteroids
- Galaga
- Star Wars Trilogy
- Dome Hockey
- Frogger
- Space Invaders
- Big Buck Hunter
- Getting hit by a car
- Q*bert