What is your second most favorite arcade game?

​Hey Guys,

I am looking to expand my collection of arcade games and in the meantime I think I have a nice understanding of what the best and greatest games are. I am however interested in understanding what your second most favorite games are. In other words which games are still the hidden gems of arcade games?

Looking forward to your suggestions and it would be great to understand the reasons behind your choice as well.

Regards,

Pieter

It's difficult to give game titles without knowing if you consider them as popular or not (beside the obvious ones such as Daytona USA and Time Crisis II).

Are you talking about dedicated cabinets or JAMMA PCBs?

The easiest is that I list all my favourite arcades games and you pick up what you think are the less known ones:
(in no particular order)
- Daytona USA
- The House of The Dead 2
- Time Crisis II
- Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
- Windjammers
- Starblade
- Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity
- OutRun2 SP - Special Tours
- Elevator Action Returns
- Puzzle Bobble 4
- Soul Calibur III Arcade Edition
- Shadow Dancer
- Bubble Bobble
- DoDonPachi Daioujou Tamashii
- Darius Burst Another Chronicle EX
- Taiko no Tatsujin
- Parodius Da!
- Gokujyou Parodius!
- Sexy Parodius
- Space Invaders '95
- Money Puzzle Exchanger
- Neo Turf Masters
- League Bowling
- Neo Drift Out
- Samurai Shodown IV
- Violent Storm
- Virtua Tennis 2
- Blue's Journey
- Ghost Squad
- Star Wars Battle Pod (Flat Screen Edition)
- Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Arcade
- Ikaruga
- and many others...

Gokujyou Parodius! Everything is great in this game: music, stages, characters, difficulty.

Hey Nomax, I really want to understand your own personal 2nd best favorites in order to find mine

Thanks for the input guys. This helped me a lot to get some inspiration on new games to collect. Throughout the web I received a lot of suggestions next to yours. Below you will find the short list as I had to prune the list substantially to make it manageable. I watched the longplays of the games and selected the following games to be on the list:


Hammerin HarryGuardians / Denjin Makai 2
Deamon BrideMetamorphic Force
In The Hunt
Punisher
Radiant Silvergun
Soukyugurentai / Terra Diver
Elevator Action Returns
Deathsmiles
Dodonpachi Daioujou
Mushihimesama
Double Dragon
Xain'd Sleena
Spy Hunter
Sunset Riders
Shark Attack
Donkey Kong 3
Strider
Breakers Revenge
Air Buster / Aeroblasters
Buta San
Final Star Force
Bubble Bobble
Rainbow Islands
Sprint 2
Parodius Da!
Gokujyou Parodius!
Sexy Parodius
Violent Storm
Bucky O'hare
All Points Bulletin
Time Soldiers
Crackdown
Black Tiger
Black Dragon
Robocop
Smash TV
Shadow Dancer
Shadow Warriors
Point Blank
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Twinkle Star Sprites

And yes this is the short list... ... if you would like to see the whole list just let me know

Are there any games that we still miss?