phillyturbosix said:
Those games brought money but not like the games of the early 80's It was different back then compaired to 90's games. The official crash was around 87 or so. The 90's there was only a few titles that were "big" in the 80's there were tons of games that were lines to play them. That's what I'm talking about. Ms PAc Man today your spending close to a grand. Street Fighters I can buy all day long for 100 bucks. That's also what I'm talking about. All the home games came out and killed all that. I remember walking into an arcade in 1982 and there was 30 Ms Pac Man machines lined up on the back wall and a line to play them! Those 90's games made some nosie but nothing like the games of the 80's did. Another example.. I talked to an operator.. who vended tons of games back then. When Centipede came out.. he followed the money the one machine made. 125K in a year!! That's one game! SF, MK, MKII didn't see those numbers! Plus a Centipede new in 80 was 3K. So in a month they would pay the game off... crazy stuff.,
Believe me when I tell you, I am a total classic video game expert. I have been playing since 1979, have 1,000+ games, 35 different systems, 500+ magazines, got the high score of the week on Tv Pixx! in 1980, at age 7, have been in two national video gam magazines (Electronic Games and Electronic Gaming Monthly), hold a world record in one game (Monster Lair), and constantly study video game history books. Now, with that being said...
I never mentioned Street Fighter I, you did. SFI came out in 1987, and wasn't considered a big hit. However, it has been noted in the history books that 1991's Street Fighter II was the most popular arcade game since 1980's Pac-Man. Whether or not that is true or not, it certainly was very comparable to the late 70's and early 80's smash hits, such as Centipede (1980), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1980), etc. Mortal Kombat (1992) and Mortal Kombat II (1993) waere also huge, with part II said to be running neck and neck with SFII. Some say it even eclipsed it. Remember, MK was so debated for violence, it made the Senate floor, with Sen. Joe Liberman being its main enemy. Other 90's big hits include all the Neo-Geo fighting games (Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, etc.), Marval vs. Capcom, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Cop, House of the Dead, and many others I am too tired to think of now.
Yes, as a whole the 80's had more hits than the 90's. But the early to mid 90's certainly had its own share of big hits. Sadly, in the last several years, the only arcade game that can even be considered a "hit" would be Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). The arcade industry is all but dead now.
video games from the early 80's PacMan, Defender, Digdug, Donkey Kong, Qix, Centipeede, and of course Space Invaders 
