I liked Space Invaders in the pub. I quite liked Myst. That's it. Anything else falls into the 'life's too short' category.

 
I've been seriously addicted to a few of the old arcade games in the past
 
When I had my snooker club, we used to do a good trade with a couple of high-jackpot fruit machines (slots) for the adults, and video games and pintables for everyone.
 
To increase the profitability further, we stopped renting them after a while and started buying them (second-hand) from a firm down in Bristol that reconditioned them. The only benefit we lost by doing this was that we had to learn how to fix them ourselves, although we did manage to... ahem..... 'secure the services' of one of the engineers who worked for the company we'd previously rented from for a small appearance fee!
 
Another bonus of this way of working was that we got our own operators licence and were able to rent out gaming and amusement machines to others, always being careful to undercut the local competition. Plus, once the machines had run their course, we used to sell them back to the reconditioning firm.
 
Pintables always did well, as did the fruit machines, but I remember a couple of arcade games in particular that were real gold mines for a while.
 
First was the multi-cartridge PlayChoice-10. We bought one pre-loaded with Super Mario Bros 1 2 & 3, Dr Mario, Track & Field, Golf, Bowling, Tennis plus a couple of shoot-em-ups as I recall. The beauty of the PlayChoice was that you didn't buy credits by adding coins, you bought time.
 
Our friendly engineer even managed to 'borrow' new cartridges for us every now and then
 

 
The other game we did well with was the original four player Gauntlet. The concept here was even better in that cash was exchanged for 'life force'; when this ran out, your game was over. With four separate coin-slots, one for each player, and with levels allowing players to attack each other (in addition to the game's antagonists), this was a real winner for a while.
 

 
 

My dad had a cafe for a while when I was a kid, and he put two games in there - Asteroids and Battlezone (the tank game with the green wire frame graphics). He would open them up at the back and press something to give my brother and I hundreds of free credits to keep us quiet. I still think Asteroids is one of the greatest all time games. But I remember getting a headache after the 50th game or so.

jamesg1213
I liked Space Invaders in the pub. I quite liked Myst. That's it. Anything else falls into the 'life's too short' category.

I still have MYST... I could never get off the danged island. I guess I'm just not much of a gamer, I can play a mean pinball though!
J

Chess and Clash of Clans (CoC) are my regular go to games on my Android. I always enjoyed playing chess (2-3 min game) against peeps from all over the world. Coc is just the opposite, but has nice graphics.......not much strategy at all and is a relaxing time killer.

A deceptively simple but addictive game is Duet. Only two control options; rotate left or right but can't stop playing.

I'm still hooked on plague inc. I am stuck on two scenarios I leep coming up short on...winning the smallpox scenario on brutal and the necroa virus on brutal. Last time i killed everyone but the wonderful people of madagascar.