Consensus Best vs Personally Most Underrated Arcade Game by every Genre

In the genre of FPS vector graphic tank games, is Battle Zone under or over-rated?

Is it controversial to prefer Stargate to Defender for side scroller shoot-em-ups?

also what genre is Tron?

other considerations:
maybe Zaxxon for that odd mock-3D perspective (see also QBert & 720) ...

Track & Field for the butter knife/pencil "hack"...

re: Stargate, I may have mis-ID'd it, that was the Defender clone with like 15 buttons plus a up/down joy?

ha that sounds right

720, best skateboarding/trackball thing?

720 soundtrack is great.

ooh if trackball is a genre then marble madness must make an appearance!

re: actual coin-op in an arcade -- i'm afraid my setup will be much closer to this:
https://lokalise.com/blog/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/doc-root/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/arcade_machine_photo2.png.webp

I’m pretty sure the Atari vector Star Wars was terrible, but I loved it for some reason.

Everyone loved it!
https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/06/16/atari-star-wars-arcade-cockpit-development/

Even this guy:
https://missilecommand.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/george-lucas-sw1.jpeg

I didn't realize there was a real sequel to Qix!
https://archive.org/details/arcade_volfied

The most underrated arcade games imo: Klax, Super Hang-On, and most-of-all, Galaga 88, which just rules in every possible way

When I was a kid I got addicted to a Packrat machine but I haven’t ever seen one since I was 10, nor have I attempted to MAME it (so I can keep the positive memory intact)

It seems consensus and cult-classic both that Medieval Madness is the greatest pinball game ever (and is fairly uncommon), I never saw a machine til I was in my 30s and it was as terrific as they said, I found a local machine afterward and played the shit out of it

I think it’s Wreck-It Ralph that very cleverly has a MM machine displayed in the arcade, tipping their hat to all the pinheads

Personal fave = Shinobi
Underrated = 1943, Splatterhouse

I'm going to dissent on galaga88 based on this mame exhibit -- this is an unforgivably hard game!
https://archive.org/details/arcade_galaga88

Maybe there are dipswitches to crank down the difficulty level?