Top 5 arcade machines you pumped most of your pocket change into?

[Jaz]

Elevator Action (own cocktail)

Gauntlet

Heavy Barrel

Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja (own PCB)

Midnight Resistance (own)

[ShadowDancer]

A few obvious ones I missed.

Pac-Land
Double Dragon (which I think was the 1st arcade game I completed on 10p)
Commando

[dataDave]

Super Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter II CE
Street Fighter II

[QualityChimp]

I totally forgot Bad Dudes and Pac-Man!

[gunrock]

1. Mr Do (Trading Post, Dartford)
2. Star Wars - sit down jobby (Trading Post, Dartford)
3. Asteroids (Swimming Baths, Erith)
4. Virtual Fighter 2 (Woolwich, SE18)
5. SEGA Rally (2 way or was it 4? Woolwich, SE18)

[samanosuke]

Super Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter II CE
Street Fighter II

**** me, you actually found a coin operated SFIV machine? Where, pray tell? Hens' teeth...

[Hartley Hare]

Sit down Daytona, hundreds and hundreds.

[BigDeadFreak]

1. Mr Do (Trading Post, Dartford)
2. Star Wars - sit down jobby (Trading Post, Dartford)
3. Asteroids (Swimming Baths, Erith)
4. Virtual Fighter 2 (Woolwich, SE18)
5. SEGA Rally (2 way or was it 4? Woolwich, SE18)

Was that Sega Zone in Woolwich? I went there a few times, they always seemed to have good machines. I remember playing Dead or Alive there and seeing Street Fighter III for the first time. Such a shame all these places have closed now.

[gunrock]

Was that Sega Zone in Woolwich? I went there a few times, they always seemed to have good machines. I remember playing Dead or Alive there and seeing Street Fighter III for the first time. Such a shame all these places have closed now.

Yeah that was it. Half way up (if you're coming from the Calderwood Street end) near the Our Price (also long, long gone!).

[Jay]

Street Fighter 2 - local video rental place in Battersea, arcades in central London, Laser Quest Peckham, arcade in Southend, basically anywhere I saw it
Pac-Man - Devas youth club in Battersea
Yie Ar Kung-Fu - I think I first played this on a school trip to Belgium, then I played it loads in a video rental place in Tooting
Karate Champ - The same place in Tooting
Track & Field - Can't remember where I first played this, but I've been competing with my brother at this game since first playing it. He usually beats me. Last time we played was at the Arcade Barn in Devon a few years ago, which has now shut down, sadly.
Bomb Jack - Various locations, from holidays to chip shops. I last played it at the Heart of Gaming. One of my most loved games of all time.

[charlesr]

Ridge Racer, stand-up version. At least ?500.....

I'm going to mention (again) that I've never seen anyone beat my RR arcade times, based on a sample of a few arcades in London and Amsterdam. Wish I'd taken photos

[Widegoat]

1. Streetfighter 2
2. PowerDrift
3. Outrun
4. Cabal
5. Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars

Special mention to Chase HQ - I can still 1 credit that to this day, but after Streetfighter 2 I think PowerDrift was my favourite arcade game - in my late teens I purchased a 2nd hand cabinet from an arcade long since demised in Farnborough.

[k0pp0]

Yie Ar Kung Fu
Sega Rally
Daytonaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
HOTD1
HOTD2

[Ghost]

Sega Rally
Jurassic Park The Lost World
Star Wars Arcade
Virtual Fighter 4
initial D 4th Stage

[Leon Retro]

1. Sega Rally
2. Ridge Racer
3. Daytona
4. Virtua Racing
5. Scud Race

All '90s racers, because I was a teen and spent a lot of time in London arcades.