Arcade Games Online – 4,388 Coin-Op Classics
This is the largest shelf on Past Play: 4,388 arcade games spanning the golden age of Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong and Defender, the fighting-game boom of Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat and The King of Fighters, SNK’s Neo Geo run of Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown, and the scrolling shooters and beat-’em-ups that filled arcades through the 1990s. Every game runs on the original arcade board’s code, emulated in the browser with unlimited credits.
Arcade cabinets each had their own controls, so the keyboard layout is shown under the player for every game: usually arrows to move, with the buttons on Z, X, A and S and a coin on 5 / Start on 1. A gamepad maps automatically. Because these games were designed around a three-minute credit, they are the best fit on the site for a quick session – and the leaderboards and high-score attacks are all still there.
