When Street Fighter II: The World Warrior hit the scene in 1991 and changed everything, it proved that the fighting game genre was the perfect fixture for the arcade. Between the endless player vs. player challenges and the multiple endings for those going solo, fighters had the perfect amount of replay value for hanging out at the arcade. Then these games hit consoles. You could play against a friend for hours, but if you were alone, you were left playing through arcade mode with everyone, beating the final boss again and again just to watch ending cutscenes of differing quality.
