ARCADE GAMES AT NQ64
From classic arcade machines like Pac-Man and Ice Cold Beer to modern ones like cult Japanese rhyme game Maimai. We’ve got ’em all, with each bar hosting a range of different machines.
GAMES
Altered Beast
Category: Fighting
Step into the world of ancient Greece in this classic beat ‘em up where you rise from the grave as a resurrected warrior. Battle mythological creatures, transform into powerful beasts, and fight your way through hordes of enemies to rescue Zeus’ daughter. Power up and unleash the beast within!
Release Date: 14/06/1988
Console: Arcade
Popeye
Category: Classic
Join Popeye the Sailor as he races against the clock to save Olive Oyl! Collect hearts, musical notes, and more while avoiding the crafty Bluto, flying objects, and other tricky obstacles. With its charming cartoon style and fast-paced gameplay, this arcade classic will have you hooked from the first spinach-powered punch!
Release Date: 18/11/1982
Console: Arcade
Mortal Kombat 4
Category: Fighting
Enter the brutal world of Mortal Kombat, where only the strongest survive! With intense 3D battles, new deadly weapons, and the iconic roster of fighters, Mortal Kombat 4 takes the tournament to the next level. Unleash devastating combos and finish your opponents with brutal fatalities in this legendary fighting game. Test your might!
Release Date: 11/09/1997
Console: Arcade
Manx TT Super Bike
Category: Driver
Get ready for the thrill of high-speed motorcycle racing in this arcade classic! Inspired by the real-life Isle of Man TT race, Manx TT Superbike lets you feel the rush as you lean into every turn and zoom down the track. Choose your bike, master the twists and turns, and race against the clock or a friend for the ultimate road-racing glory!
Release Date: 01/11/1995
Console: Arcade
CarnEvil
Category: Shooter
Step right up to the most twisted carnival you’ll ever encounter! In this spooky rail shooter, you’ll blast your way through a nightmarish world filled with creepy clowns, undead freaks, and haunted attractions. Armed with an arsenal of quirky weapons, fight your way through grotesque bosses and survive the horrors of CarnEvil.
Release Date: 31/10/1998
Console: Arcade
Maimai
Category: Classic Other
Dive into the colourful, rhythm-packed world of maimai! This arcade music game challenges you to tap, slide, and spin to the beat of a variety of catchy tunes. With its circular touch screen and upbeat visuals, maimai brings fun and energetic gameplay, letting you show off your rhythm skills while enjoying a vibrant Japanese soundtrack.
Release Date: 13/12/2018
Console: Arcade
NBA Hoops Basketball
Category: Classic
Step onto the court and show off your shooting skills in NBA Hoops! This fast-paced arcade game lets you sink as many baskets as possible within the time limit. Challenge your friends or go solo as you aim for the high score, shooting hoops just like the pros.
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Godzilla
Category: Pinball
Release Date: 01/01/2021
Console: Pinball
Avengers
Category: Pinball
Release Date: 01/01/2012
Console: Pinball
Spider-man
Category: Pinball
Spidey gets his own pinball! Based on the smash-hit trilogy, Spider Man pinball unites enemies & scenes from all 3 films: from catastrophic fusion malfunction in Spider Man 2 to the Unity Day Festival in the original film. Bring villains to justice to begin the ‘Battle Royale’.
Release Date: 01/01/2007
Console: Pinball
Family Guy
Category: Pinball
This machine has sounds & quotes from characters & introduces a cool new element which is ‘Stewie’s mini playfield’. In the upper right corner of the machine is a mini pinball game that is controlled by the main buttons.
Release Date: 01/01/2007
Console: Pinball
Iron Man
Category: Pinball
Join billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., as Iron Man, the metallic super hero, on a thrilling action-packed adventure as he battles his enemies up and down the pinball machine.
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Console: Pinball
Star Trek
Category: Pinball
This pinball game is great fun for Star Trek fans, pinball fans and entertainment seekers alike with immersive game play, fun missions, and voice clips by the actors of the original cast.
Release Date: 01/01/1993
Console: Pinball
AC/DC
Category: Pinball
This AC/DC pinball machine features 12 classic AC/DC anthems, including Back in Black and Highway to Hell, that you can pinball along to.
Release Date: 01/01/2012
Console: Pinball
Attack from Mars
Category: Pinball
Fight those pesky aliens on our Attack From Mars pinball machine. It’s got loads of cool little features like light up flying saucers.
Release Date: 01/01/1995
Console: Pinball
Star Wars
Category: Pinball
Battle to restore justice to the galaxy on our Star Wars pinball machine – it’s got speech and footage from the trilogy, colour changing lights and a sculpted TIE fighter.
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Console: Pinball
Batman
Category: Pinball
Challenge the Criminal Masterminds of Gotham City: Do battle against both The Scarecrow and The Joker.
Release Date: 01/01/1991
Console: Pinball
Game of Thrones
Category: Pinball
Choose your Westeros seven house to challenge the other houses and unite them under your rule, then try to survive long enough to rule Westeros.
Release Date: 01/01/2015
Console: Pinball
Ghostbusters
Category: Pinball
No kidding, this is the best pinball in the land. So much going on and the sounds! A real nostalgia throwback with lovely flashing lights.
Release Date: 01/01/2016
Console: Pinball
TRON
Category: Pinball
Battle as Sam Flynn on the Grid against Clu & Rinzler, take on rounds themed on scenes from the film, such as: riding two ramps for Light Cycle battles, defeating the motorised recognizer target bank to expose Rinzler’s spinning Identity Disc, & firing the ball to simulate a Disc War.
Release Date: 01/01/2011
Console: Pinball
Rambo
Category: Shooter
High octane shooting game based on the Sly Stallone films. Use machine guns, bows & arrows and daggers to fight against enemies, helicopters, tanks and hidden targets.
Release Date: 08/09/2008
Console: Arcade
Sega Rally 3 Twin
Category: Driver
In Sega Rally 3 Twin, you’ll race through rugged terrain, drifting around dirt tracks, snowy mountains, and desert dunes. With stunning graphics and intense, wheel-to-wheel competition, this arcade classic delivers all the thrills of rally racing. Buckle up, choose your car, and take on the challenge of mastering the world’s toughest rally courses!
Release Date: 01/01/2008
Console: Arcade
Mr Do
Category: Other
Release Date: 01/01/1982
Console: Arcade
Golden Tee
Category: Other
No need to go to a golf course to play this one. Use a trackball to determine the power, direction and curve of the player’s golf shot.
Release Date: 01/01/1989
Console: Arcade
Dance Dance Revolution
Category: Other
Yes, we’ve got the dance machine! Or you might know it as Dance Dance Revolution. You use the pads under your feet to hit the arrows as the song plays – can get energetic.
Release Date: 19/03/1999
Console: Arcade
Mortal Kombat 3
Category: Fighting
An all-time classic fighting game, mix skill, strategy and combat to defeat your enemies.
Release Date: 15/04/1995
Console: Arcade
Chase HQ
Category: Driver
You’re a taxi driver in the city looking for fares and taking them to their destinations as quickly as possible before the clock runs down.
Release Date: 01/10/1988
Console: Arcade
Virtua Striker
Category: Other
The only soccer game we’ve got, it was the first association football game to use 3D computer graphics and texture mapping. Fancy!
Release Date: 01/01/1994
Console: Arcade
Time Crisis 3
Category: Shooter
A guest favourite! Time Crisis 3 is a shoot em up where you go through levels as special agents to beat enemies.
Release Date: 01/12/2002
Console: Arcade
Time Crisis 2
Category: Shooter
A guest favourite! Time Crisis 2 is a shoot em up where you go through levels as special agents to beat enemies.
Release Date: 01/12/1997
Console: Arcade
Terminator 2
Category: Shooter
Based on the film, Terminator 2 arcade is a shooting game you play as T-800 to protect John Connor from getting assassinated by the T-1000.
Release Date: 01/01/1991
Console: Arcade
Star Wars Trilogy
Category: Shooter
A 3D rail shooter based on the original Star Wars trilogy films, battle to save the galaxy!
Release Date: 01/01/1998
Console: Arcade
Silent Scope
Category: Shooter
You’re a military sniper who’s helping the police find the terrorists who’ve stolen the first family from the White House – features very cool gun that you look down the scope of!
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Console: Arcade
Robocop
Category: Shooter
Robocop arcade game is based on the film and is a ‘beat ’em up’ / shooter where you play as Murphy going through the city killing the bad guys.
Release Date: 01/01/1988
Console: Arcade
Point Blank 3
Category: Shooter
Two player shooter game where you have to pass the missions and levels with Dr Dan and Dr Don. You need to have good hand-eye coordination for this one in order to hit all the targets – but remember not to hit the bombs.
Release Date: 01/01/2000
Console: Arcade
Point Blank 2
Category: Shooter
Two player shooter game where you have to pass the missions and levels with Dr Dan and Dr Don. You need to have good hand-eye coordination for this one in order to hit all the targets – but remember not to hit the bombs.
Release Date: 01/01/1996
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Point Blank
Category: Shooter
Two player shooter game where you have to pass the missions and levels with Dr Dan and Dr Don. You need to have good hand-eye coordination for this one in order to hit all the targets – but remember not to hit the bombs.
Release Date: 01/01/1994
Console: Arcade
Jurassic Park- The Lost World
Category: Shooter
Inteneded to serve as a sequel to The Lost World: Jurassic Park, use the gun to blast your way through dinosaurs that are trying to thwart you!
Release Date: 26/08/1997
Console: Arcade
The House of the Dead 3
Category: Shooter
Upgrade those pistols to shotguns in the third House of the Dead – you’ll need strong arms for this one!
Release Date: 01/06/2002
Console: Arcade
The House of the Dead 2
Category: Shooter
It wouldn’t be an arcade without House of the Dead – a horror themed first person shooter. Pick up the gun and aim at the screen to kill the undead creatures.
Release Date: 01/11/1998
Console: Arcade
The House of the Dead
Category: Shooter
It wouldn’t be an arcade without House of the Dead – a horror themed first person shooter. Pick up the gun and aim at the screen to kill the undead creatures.
Release Date: 13/09/1996
Console: Arcade
Gunblade NY
Category: Shooter
Gunblade is a retro shooter game where the player has to save New York city from robot terrorists.
Release Date: 01/01/1995
Console: Arcade
Ghost Squad
Category: Shooter
Ghost Squad is particularly known for its interactivity with the player – it is one of the first arcade shooters to have interactive fight scenes and a variety of routes to choose in each level, much like in House Of The Dead.
Release Date: 01/01/2016
Console: Arcade
Avatar
Category: Pinball
Based on the hit film Avatar, the pinball machine stays true to the innovative nature of the film, featuring a 3-D backglass and sound effects from the film!
Release Date: 01/01/2010
Console: Pinball
24
Category: Pinball
A pinball machiine of the TV show 24! The machine incorporates action and storyline from the TV show… listen out for the character voices if you can.
Release Date: 01/01/2009
Console: Pinball
X-Men
Category: Other
Choose one of 6 X-Men characters (Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, Dazzler or Nightcrawler) to stop the villain Magneto from wreaking havoc on human civilisation.
Release Date: 12/02/1992
Console: Arcade
WWF WrestleFest
Category: Fighting
WWF classic game, the sequel to WWF Superstars. Fight in the Royal Rumble mode or Saturday Night’s Main Event.
Release Date: 14/07/1991
Console: Arcade
Virtua Tennis
Category: Other
The only tennis game we’ve got – win 5 matches played on different surfaces and venues to win a tournament. If you perform well enough you’re challenged by Master, one of the game’s bosses.
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Console: Arcade
Top Skater
Category: Other
The first high-tech skateboard simulator to hit the street with full body racing action! Perform difficult moves like the pros, without breaking your appendages. Please. No breakages.
Release Date: 01/03/1997
Console: Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Category: Other
You play as teenage turtles going through levels to defeat all the enemies (including Shredder, the Foot Clan and Krang) to rescue April O’Neill.
Release Date: 05/06/1689
Console: Arcade
The Simpsons
Category: Other
A weird ‘beat ’em up’ where you play as characters from the cartoon defeating the bad guys of Springfield in order to rescue kidnapped Maggie. Absolutely brilliant.
Release Date: 01/01/1991
Console: Arcade
Pac-Man Battle Royale
Category: Other
Basically pac-man but up to four players can compete at once.
Release Date: 21/01/2011
Console: Arcade
Guitar Hero
Category: Other
Pick up the guitar and turn into a rock star! Match the notes on the screen by pressing the coordinating buttons when they reach the front and pressing down the fret at the same time. Strangely addictive!
Release Date: 08/11/2005
Console: Arcade
Dancing Stage EuroMix 2
Category: Other
Yes, we’ve got the dance machine! Or you might know it as Dance Dance Revolution. You use the pads under your feet to hit the arrows as the song plays – can get energetic.
Release Date: 06/09/2002
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Virtua Fighter 2
Category: Fighting
A fighting game where you need to knock your opponent out of the ring – you can even make your own character that looks like you on this one!
Release Date: 01/11/1994
Console: Arcade
Tekken 5
Category: Fighting
Tekken picked up where Street Fighter left off in the 90s and upped the ante on arcade fighting games. 3D graphics, cool characters and smooth gameplay makes Tekken a classic for us.
Release Date: 15/11/2004
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Tekken 3
Category: Fighting
Tekken picked up where Street Fighter left off in the 90s and upped the ante on arcade fighting games. 3D graphics, cool characters and smooth gameplay makes Tekken a classic for us.
Release Date: 20/03/1997
Console: Arcade
Tekken 2
Category: Fighting
Tekken picked up where Street Fighter left off in the 90s and upped the ante on arcade fighting games. 3D graphics, cool characters and smooth gameplay makes Tekken a classic for us.
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Console: Arcade
Tekken
Category: Fighting
Tekken picked up where Street Fighter left off in the 90s and upped the ante on arcade fighting games. 3D graphics, cool characters and smooth gameplay makes Tekken a classic for us.
Release Date: 09/12/1994
Console: Arcade
Street Fighter 2
Category: Fighting
Perfect game to play against friends, pick your fighter and use skill, strategy and combat to defeat them with your special moves. Hadouken!
Release Date: 10/06/1987
Console: Arcade
Street Fighter
Category: Fighting
Perfect game to play against friends, pick your fighter and use skill, strategy and combat to defeat them with your special moves. Hadouken!
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Console: Arcade
Punch-Out
Category: Fighting
Play as Little Mac fighting his way up the ranks of the World Video Boxing Association!
Release Date: 01/12/1983
Console: Arcade
Mortal Kombat 2
Category: Fighting
An all-time classic fighting game, mix skill, strategy and combat to defeat your enemies.
Release Date: 01/04/1993
Console: Arcade
Mortal Kombat
Category: Fighting
An all-time classic fighting game, mix skill, strategy and combat to defeat your enemies.
Release Date: 01/01/1992
Console: Arcade
Metal Slug
Category: Fighting
f you’re wondering where in the UK you can play Metal Slug, then look no further. You can play Metal Slug at NQ64 Newcastle.
Release Date: 01/01/1996
Console: Arcade
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Category: Fighting
Just a couple of Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja. Side-scrolling beat ’em up classic.
Release Date: 01/01/1988
Console: Arcade
Mario Kart
Category: Driver
The next level in Mario Karting – sit in the drivers seat, choose your player and drive down Raimbow Road in real time.
Release Date: 14/11/2005
Console: Arcade
OutRun 2 SP
Category: Driver
Drive some sweet wheels in some beautiful settings in this classic driving game.
Release Date: 01/12/2003
Console: Arcade
Crazy Taxi
Category: Driver
You’re a taxi driver in the city looking for fares and taking them to their destinations as quickly as possible before the clock runs down.
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Console: Arcade
Nintendo GameCube
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Gamecube brings Nintendo into the 21st century. A successor to the N64, our favourite way to play is on Super Smash Bros. Melee and Mario Kart (of course).
Release Date: 14/09/2001
Console: Nintendo GameCube
Nintendo 64
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A party machine for up to 4 people, the N64 (64 for 64bit) is a 90s classic that’s waiting for you and your friends to gather round for a game of Mario Kart or Mario Party.
Release Date: 26/09/1996
Console: Nintendo 64
Rampage
Category: Classic
In Rampage you take control of giant monsters trying to survive against the military while you reduce cities to rubble.
Release Date: 01/01/1986
Console: Arcade
NARC
Category: Classic
They call Narc a ‘run and gun’ game, and it was one of the first ‘ultra violent’ video games out there. In Narc you have to defeat drug gangs by taking their money and drugs, then defeat the final level boss, Mr Big. Ask your mum if you can play this one first.
Release Date: 01/01/1988
Console: Arcade
Hyper Sports
Category: Classic
Hypersports is the sequel to Track and Field, the original button basher, and was released to coincide with the 1984 summer Olympics.
Release Date: 01/09/1984
Console: Arcade
Galaxian
Category: Classic
The game that came before Galaga! The player must take control of the Galaxip starfighter in its mission to protect the Earth from waves of aliens, by destroying formations diving down trying to hit them.
Release Date: 01/01/1979
Console: Arcade
Track & Field
Category: Classic
The original button basher – there must be people all over the world who suffered heavily from Track & Field RSI.
Release Date: 01/09/1983
Console: Arcade
Tetris
Category: Classic
A game that needs absolutely no introduction or description – you just have to fit the shapes together while it gets faster and more
Release Date: 06/06/1984
Console: Arcade
Tapper
Category: Classic
The world’s most addictive game! Serve your customers beers before they lose patience, and make sure you don’t drop their glasses!
Release Date: 01/01/1983
Console: Arcade
Super Mario Brothers
Category: Classic
The OG arcade game that features both Matio & Luigi! Travel to the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue the princess – obviously.
Release Date: 13/09/1983
Console: Arcade
Space Invaders
Category: Classic
The world’s favourite retro arcade game! You can get lost in this one for ages, simple and addictive.
Release Date: 01/01/1978
Console: Arcade
Strikers 1945
Category: Classic
A vertical scrolling shoot ’em up, 1945 (also known as Striker 1945) actually came out in 1995 and is loosely based around the post WWII world. The goal of 1945 is to defeat the mysterious organisation CANY by clearing 8 stages without getting killed.
Release Date: 01/01/1995
Console: Arcade
Operation Wolf
Category: Classic
A little one-player classic where you play as special forces operative Roy Adams, trying to rescue the 5 hostages who are being held captive in enemy territory.
Release Date: 01/11/1987
Console: Arcade
Ms.Pac-Man
Category: Classic
Pacman’s saucy sequel, Ms Pacman is revered by many as being superior to the original Pacman game. She also uses ‘Ms’ which we stan.
Release Date: 03/02/1982
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Galaga
Category: Classic
An arcade from the early 80s, Galaga is a fixed shooter game where you control a starship that has to defeat the Galaga forces while avoiding enemies.
Release Date: 01/01/1981
Console: Arcade
Donkey Kong Junior
Category: Classic
Control Donkey Kong Junior and climb up vines and chains to rescue Donkey Kong from Mario.
Release Date: 01/01/1982
Console: Arcade
Donkey Kong
Category: Classic
The game that gave us Super Mario (but then he was called Jumpman)! Known as the first platform game – rescue the princess and see how high you can go.
Release Date: 01/07/1981
Console: Arcade
Bubble Bobble
Category: Classic
A colourful classic arcade platform game – the main character, Bubblun, captures enemies with bubbles in order to defeat them.
Release Date: 16/06/1986
Console: Arcade
Time Crisis 2
Category: Shooter
A guest favourite! Time Crisis 2 is a shoot em up where you go through levels as special agents to beat enemies.
Release Date: 01/12/1997
Console: Arcade
Pac-Man
Category: Classic
Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America.
Release Date: 22/05/1980
Console: Arcade
Golden Axe
Category: Other
A side-scrolling medieval fantasy ‘beat ’em up’ game where you have to recover the Golden Axe playing as one of three characters – Gillus Thunderhead, Ax Battler and Tyris Flare.
Release Date: 27/01/1989
Console: Arcade
Puzzle Bobble
Category: Classic
Puzzle Bobble, internationally known as Bust-a-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching puzzle arcade game developed and published by Taito. It is based on the 1986 arcade game Bubble Bobble, featuring characters and themes from that game.
Release Date: 01/06/1994
Console: Neo Geo
Double Dragon
Category: Classic
One of the original and best ‘beat ’em up’ video games, you play as Billy Lee or his twin brother Jimmy to fight your way through the Warriors gang to rescue Billy’s girlfriend, Marian.
Release Date: 01/06/1987
Console: Arcade
Jurassic Park
Category: Shooter
A mish mash of the first 3 Jurassic Park films, use the gun to blast your way through dinosaurs that are trying to thwart you!
Release Date: 26/08/1993
Console: Arcade
WallBoy
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Super Nintendo
Super Nintendo or the SNES, as it was once known, this was our first taste of Mario Kart and we’ve never looked back since.
Release Date: 21/11/1990
Xbox
The OG X-Box! Remember this guy? Of course we’ve got Halo on there.
Release Date: 15/11/2001
PlayStation
The OG next level console – PlayStation was everything we dreamed of… and we just played Crash Bandicoot on it every day (come in and re-live those days!)
Release Date: 29/09/1995
MegaDrive
Released in 1990 in the UK, the Mega Drive made us all sit up and listen. No more waiting for tape decks to load slow games – welcome Sonic!
Release Date: 29/10/1988
Nintedo GameCube
Gamecube brings Nintendo into the 21st century. A successor to the N64, our favourite way to play is on Super Smash Bros. Melee and Mario Kart (of course).
Release Date: 14/09/2001
Nintendo 64
A party machine for up to 4 people, the N64 (64 for 64bit) is a 90s classic that’s waiting for you and your friends to gather round for a game of Mario Kart or Mario Party.
Release Date: 23/06/1996