Our Top 20 Favorite Arcade Games from Childhood — What Was Your Favorite?

It is a sad fact that we are slowing losing all of our arcades here in Tyler. I have great memories from the arcades of my childhood. I had a few favorites, but I loved playing all of the games. So in memory of our lost arcades, I have put together a list of the top 20 arcade games from our childhood. Plus, the Townsquare Media DJs listed there top 3 favorites. Lets take a trip down memory lane. Hours and hours, countless quarters, and gallons of Icee later we are all grown up and out of the arcade. The years of time spent working the pinball machine have almost left us completely. I don't know anyone that didn't spend plenty of afternoons after school in an arcade of some sort. Unfortunately, Tyler is slowly losing all of its arcades. The mall doesn't even have one any more. What kind of world are we living in that the mall doesn't have an arcade?

Instead of worrying about a disappearing piece of our youth, lets remember the games that we couldn't get enough of. Here is a list of the top 20 arcade games of the past.

1. Punch Out!!
2. Spy Hunter
3. Paper Boy
4. Pole Position Raceway
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6.  Street Fighter
7. Mario Brothers
8. Dance, Dance Revolution
9. Dig Dug
10. Pac Man
11. Ms. Pac Man
12. Space Invader
13. Track & Field
14. Whac-A-Mole
15. Mario Cart
16. Donkey Kong
17. Frogger
18. Galaga
19. Tron
20. Battle Zone

Are any of these bringing back memories? Some of these really sent some of your favorite radio personalities into the past. Here is a list of our Townsquare Media DJs' top three favorite arcade games from their childhood, and even now.

Amy Austin (Check her out on air on KNUE 101.5 and online at the station website)
1.  Galaga
2. Pinball
3. Foozball

Buddy Logan (Check out Buddy on Radio Texas Live! or on the KNUE website)
1. Area 51
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
3. Pinball

Lucky Larry (Hear Lucky Larry on Mix 93.1 or online at the station website)
1. Pacman
2. Burger Time
3. Pinball

Baby J (Listen to Hot 107.3 Jamz for more of Baby J or find her on the station website)
1. Pacman
2. Mario Brothers
3. Duck Hunt

Fish (Check out The Rock of East Texas 96X and the website to hear more from Fish)
1. Dig Dug
2. Track & Field
3. Pole Position Raceway

Now that you know all of our favorites, let us know what your favorite arcade game is or was.