Capcom Arcade Stadium Arcade Classics, One More Coin

You pilot a fighter over the ocean, dodge dense bullet patterns and trade off who covers which side of the screen. You drop in together from the same couch, no lobbies or matchmaking, and compare your scores on the online leaderboards afterward. Rewind, save states and speed adjustment take the old coin-eater edge off, so a bad run ends with a laugh and a retry rather than another quarter.

The stadium itself is part of the appeal. Games sit as 3D-rendered cabinets in a virtual hall, with scanline filters and customizable display settings to tune the old tube-monitor look. Every game has online leaderboard rankings, plus Japanese and English versions where available. Gameplay rewind, save and load at any time, and speed adjustment let you slow a brutal section down or skip back past a cheap hit. It is retro without the sticky floor.