Topic: Which arcade generation do you prefer?

Do you prefer the "golden age" (Pac Man, Space Invaders, etc) or the "modern age" (Tekken, Cruisin', etc)?

I turned 5 in late 1990, so obviously I'm a 90s kid. I've played all the 80s classics, but I've never grown attached to them. I absolutely love the 90s classics.

1980's or the 1990's

I loved the PS1 RPGs and SNES Adventure games. But I think my favorite console was the NES. It had the most creative, and influential games ever. It was a point in time when nothing had been made to be recycled yet, so it was just the developer's imagination and creativity at work. That's when the games were the greatest (in my opinion, that is.)

90's. Even though I wasn't around in the early 90's.

The age when Street Fighter II came out. I played a lot of Turtles in Time and Simpsons (which I think was probably around the same time), too, but Street Fighter was the arcade game. I remember I had a line of challengers waiting to play me at Pizza Hut once. I felt like a superstar.

Ah, the glory days. I hope some day arcades make a come back. I miss the social scene and the kind of games that arcades engendered.

That said, Galaga and Pole Position have eaten just as many quarters, but I have fonder memories of the multiplayer games of the early 90s.

I said arcade games, not video games.

1987 to 1995 is the best period for me.

I prefer the 80's stuff by far.

Early 90s, the days of NEO-GEO and Beat-em-ups.

I'm firmly in the 80s camp, the earlier the better. This was when I first started to be physically able to play games (I could actually reach the controls without standing on a box!) and there was a lot of weird and wonderful games coming from companies long gone or others who later started franchises and largely abandoned trying anything new. There were some great games in the 90s, but by then the genres were pretty well established and you started seeing the same kind of game over and over again with slightly different features - no more room for gems like Domino Man in those dying arcades sadly...

I grew up in the 90s, and I love the arcade games from that time, especially the beat-'em-ups like the TMNT games and the Simpsons. The 80s games are too dull in terms of both graphics and gameplay, in my opinion.

Early '80's.

I grew up in the 90's too, so probably that, but I do love 80's arcade games like Space Harrier and Shinobi, which I've played retroactively on VC.

Late 80's early 90's.

I do not prefer an age as such, what i do prefer is Namco' s outstanding work from the early 80' s till late 90' s. Nothing comes even close to a Pac-Man, Dragon Spirit, Soul Edge or Ridge Racer 2.

The mid nineties for sure. Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Street Fighter Alpha 2. I loved Capcom's fighting games.

Street Fighter II
Cruisin' USA
Mortal Kombat
Tekken
Area 51
Super Off Road

Arcades were still awesome even as video games rose to glory.

I prefer 8-bit and 16-bit arcade games, but new ones are good too though