with the advent of NEOgeo everything changed, Super Side Kick, Goal Goal Goal and other wonderful games, often with a 4 players cabinet!

I'm surprised there haven't been more releases along the lines of Konami's old WE/PES units, which essentially take a console football game and drop it in an arcade cabinet.

I'm not a basketball fan, but I've had some great fun playing arcadey NBA equivalents with friends and colleagues. It's a shame there aren't similar options for football.

I used to love arcade stations when I was young. I remember in one holiday somewhere in a spanish-speaking country (it was either Spain or the canary islands, though naturally the latter is still Spain, but it is quite different to e. g. Barcelona), I played one arcade game a ton, with ninjas; and there was some odd bug where I did not need to insert new coins, but the resulting gameplay also was non-legit aka non-default, it had some weird bugs that you would not see when you paid properly.

These days I am way too old for arcade games and, even more importantly, lack time, but also they kind of died out, which is a bit sad. Smartphones aren't quite the same to big arcade games. It's a very different vibe now and I feel the younger generation has kind of lost something here (even if one could argue they also won more flexibility thanks to smartphones, but the point is that it is different).

I did not get into soccer arcade games though; only played some DOS soccer games. They aren't quite as interesting as combat arcade games IMO.