Arcade Games, Ranked

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