Play Arcade Games Online

The arcade, back in your browser

Before consoles caught up, the best games lived in arcade cabinets: four buttons, one joystick and a crowd behind you waiting for their turn. This site collects the three genres that ruled those arcades and lets you play them online again – free, with no download, on a PC or a phone.

Fighting games are the heart of the collection. The King of Fighters series is here from KOF '94 to KOF 2003, next to the Street Fighter games that started the genre and SNK classics like Samurai Shodown II and The Last Blade. Browse them all on the fighting games page.

Run and gun and shooting games are the second pillar. Metal Slug brings the hand-drawn explosions and the rescued prisoners, Contra brings the Konami code and the hardest co-op of the 80s, and our shoot 'em up collection covers Raiden, 1945 and Aero Fighters. Everything is grouped on the shooting games page.

Beat 'em ups complete the line-up: Capcom's brawlers such as Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Knights of the Round and Final Fight, plus Double Dragon, Golden Axe and the Turtles. Start with the beat 'em up games page.

Play online with a friend

Arcade games were made for two players, so we put online play first. Every game marked 2P supports Net Play: start the game, create a room and send the link to a friend. It is the closest thing to standing next to each other at the cabinet. The 2 player games page lists every game you can play together online.

Guides from players

Each series has its own hub with the games in release order, advice on where to start and guides such as the King of Fighters characters list, the KOF 2002 move list and combos and every Metal Slug game in order.