# The most successful arcade games in history

Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Street Fighter II, Donkey Kong: the arcade games whose cabinet sales and takings made arcade history. Which one did you feed the most coins?

- 2 votes · 15 items
- Dec 31, 2021 · osakarekishi
- https://even.best/en/l/3623/the-most-successful-arcade-games-in-history

## Top 15

1. **Pac-Man** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Namco, 1980. About 400,000 cabinets by 1982 and an estimated $6 billion in takings.
2. **Space Invaders** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Taito, 1978. The shooter that became a social phenomenon.
3. **Street Fighter II** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Capcom, 1991. The spark of the fighting-game boom.
4. **The King of Fighters '97** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — SNK, 1997. About 150,000 units by 1998.
5. **Donkey Kong** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Nintendo, 1981. Mario's debut.
6. **Ms. Pac-Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Midway, 1982. The Pac-Man sequel that was a huge hit in North America.
7. **Asteroids** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Atari, 1979. The vector-graphics classic.
8. **Defender** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Williams, 1981. A pioneer of side-scrolling shooters.
9. **Print Club (Purikura)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sega/Atlus, 1995. Not a game, but it started the purikura craze.
10. **Centipede** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Atari, 1981. A trackball shooter.
11. **Galaxian** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Namco, 1979. A shooter in full colour.
12. **Virtua Fighter** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sega, 1993. The beginning of 3D fighting games.
13. **Virtua Fighter 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sega, 1994. A phenomenon in Japanese arcades.
14. **Tekken 2** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Namco, 1995. It cemented the Tekken series' popularity.
15. **Hyper Olympic (Track & Field)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Konami, 1983. The button-mashing athletics game.

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