Arcade gaming awards
From thecrankyhermit
This is a guide to the best games that were ever made for arcades, year-by-year. No sports games are included.
1976 awards!
- Breakout
1978 awards!
- Space Invaders
1979 awards!
- Asteroids
1980 awards!
Action:
- Pac-Man
1981 awards!
- Defender
- Donkey Kong
- Frogger
- Galaga
- Ms. Pac-Man
1982 awards!
- BurgerTime
- Dig Dug
- Joust
- Moon Patrol
1983 awards!
- Dragon's Lair
- Mario Bros.
- Star Wars
1984 awards!
- 1942
- Marble Madness
- Paperboy
1985 awards!
- Gauntlet
- Ghosts 'N Goblins
- Yie Ar Kung-Fu
1986 awards!
- Bubble Bobble
- OutRun
- Rampage
- Salamander
1987 awards!
- 1943: The Battle of Midway
- Contra
- Double Dragon
- Operation Wolf
- Shinobi
1988 awards!
- Altered Beast
- Double Dragon II: The Revenge
- Ghouls 'N Ghosts
1989 awards!
- Final Fight
- Golden Axe
- Strider
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- U.N. Squadron
1990 awards!
- Columns
- Rampart
- Smash T.V.
1991 awards!
- The Simpsons
- Street Fighter II
- Sunset Riders
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
1992 awards!
- Virtua Racing
1993 awards!
- Mortal Kombat II
- Ridge Racer
- Super Street Fighter II
1994 awards!
- Cruis'n USA
- Killer Instinct
- Tekken
- Virtua Fighter 2
1995 awards!
- Mortal Kombat 3
- Sega Rally Championship
- Street Fighter Alpha
- Tekken 2
- Virtua Cop 2
1996 awards!
- The House of the Dead
- Metal Slug
- Soul Edge
- Street Fighter Alpha 2
1997 awards!
- Tekken 3
1998 awards!
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
- SoulCalibur
- Street Fighter Alpha 3
1999 awards!
- Crazy Taxi
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves
- Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
- Tekken TAG Tournament
2000 awards!
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- Metal Slug 3
- Power Stone 2
2001 awards!
- Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium
- Ikaruga
- Monkey Ball
- Tekken 4
- Virtua Fighter 4
2002 awards!
- SoulCalibur II
2004 awards!
- Tekken 5
2008 awards!
- Street Fighter IV