No 1942? Double Dragon?

Good list none the less anyway :)

What arcade did these guys go to?
Amongst the many greats listed here by other folks, while Tekken MAY have edged out Mortal Kombat (if you combined MK 1-3, Tekken loses, no contest) but I think no quarters were spent more on any of those games in my arcade than on Street Fighter II <championship and Double Dragon before that. There used to be lines at Double Dragon in convenience stores.
As for their list, I can understand Pac-Man (if you're including Ms. PacMan, ie. the "pac-man series") and donkey kong is a no brainer. But After Burner? I mean After Burner was in every arcade, but I rarely saw lines for it. I'd believe Galaga and Dig Dug first. Maybe TMNT 4 player. But Time Crisis? The name in of itself describes the state of the arcades when that game was out. If it's a high seller it's only because it probably cost four quarters and probably was asking you for more quarters after 10-15 seconds. The gotta be kidding me. I even liked Spy Hunter, but come on man, Frogger had to have destroyed their 6-10 alone.
1-5, I can deal with... 6-10... your arcade sucked...

It seems to me that there were a whole load of 70's/80's classic arcade games missings from the list (in no particular order):

Lunar Lander
Asteroids
Defender
Dig Dug
Galaxian
Galaga
Gorf
Arkanoid
Frogger
Joust
Phoenix
Robotron: 2084
Missile Command
Mr. Do
Star Wars
Tempest
Tron
Centipede

Missing out Asteroids and Defender in particular was a crime - both very popular and not similar to previous games (whereas you could argue that, say, Galaxian was a variation of Space Invaders).

No Galaga?

bah, not one mention of outrun or mr do.

Out of all the arcade games ever made he only listed a couple that remain playable. The top arcade game exeriences are 4 or more players:
golden axe
dungeons and dragons
ninja turtles
gauntlet
rampage
aliens vs predator
saturday night slam masters

and co-op games where you can "accidentally" hurt each other like Ikari Warriors and Double Dragon. My list is way better. You would never see pac-man at my house, Ms.Pac-man maybe.